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Dusk of Dawn: An Essay toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: DuBois, W.E.B. [William Edward Burghardt]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1980

Seller ID: 2307044

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

An exceptional copy. 1980 Hard Cover. xxxiv, 355 pp. Full navy blue leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Romare Bearden. W.E.B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, ...
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Twenty Years After

By: Dumas, Alexandre; Redman, Ben Ray

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1958

Seller ID: 2261263

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass Number XI:24 laid in. Spine slightly faded, slipcase a bit rubbed (mostly to base). 1958 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 496 pp. Introduction by Ben Ray Redman, illustrations by Edy LeGrand throughout. Twenty Years After is a novel by Alexandre Dumas. This sequel to The Three Musketeers and a book of the so-called D'Artagnan Romances (the third and last book being The Vicomte de Bragelonne, including the famous volume, Man in the Iron Mask) was serialized from January to August, 1845. The novel follows events in France during L...
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Skyscrapers

By: Dupre, Judith; Smith, Adrian

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Black Dog & Leventhal: 1996

Seller ID: 2144917

ISBN: 1884822452

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

First edition. This copy specially bound by Easton Press. 1996 Full-Leather. 160 pp. Black full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, gold ribbon marker bound in. Skyscrapers is a lavish and appropriately soaring celebration of the world's most spectacular buildings. From the ancient Lighthouse at Alexandria to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, from the Empire State Building to the Petronas Towers in Malaysia, the 50 buildings represented in this magnificent book leap off the page in words and more than 200 rich, duotone images. This unique volume includes facts-at...
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The Alexandria Quartet: Justine; Balthazar; Clea; Mountolive

By: Durrell, Lawrence

Price: $750.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1963

Seller ID: 2263961

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

1963 second edition, first printing of Justine, 1960s reprints of first editions of the other three books. Spines slightly faded. We have more books available by this author!. The complete set of four books, finely rebound in two volumes by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Full burgundy morocco, gilt titles, rules, and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The collector who had these rebound included his/her monogram on the front corner: O.C.S. The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A critical and commercial success,...
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History of the War of the Union, Civil, Military & Naval, in Three Volumes

By: Duyckinck, E.A. [Evert Augustus]

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, Johnson, Fry & Company: 1862

Seller ID: 2294653

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

Some binding repair, boards and edges rubbed with some drying of leather, ink name and address on front flyleaf. 1862 Full-Leather. Complete in three volumes, published individually from 1862-1865. ii, 620; 660; 642 pp. 4to. Original dark brown leather, black stamped decorations, gilt titles, all edges gilt Engraved plates from photographs and paintings by Alonzo Chappel throughout. A contemporary account of the American Civil War.
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Image for National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans: Including Orators, Statesmen, Naval and Military Heroes, Jurists, Authors, Etc., Etc., from Original Full Length Paintings, with Biographical and Historical Narratives

National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans: Including Orators, Statesmen, Naval and Military Heroes, Jurists, Authors, Etc., Etc., from Original Full Length Paintings, with Biographical and Historical Narratives

By: Duyckinck, Evert A.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Johnson, Fry & Company: 1862

Seller ID: 2278890

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Scattered light foxing throughout, front hinge of each volume just beginning to weaken, edges a bit rubbed, ink name (Frank Foote) on front flyleaf of each volume. 1862 Full-Leather. vii, [3], 488; iv, [2], 470 pp. 4to. Original dark brown leather, blind-stamped decorations, gilt titles, all edges gilt Engraved portraits throughout. A collection of biographical sketches of important American citizens, with portraits reproduced from paintings by Alonzo Chappel.
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Racing and Steeple-Chasing (The Badminton Library of Stories and Pastimes)

By: Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire; Craven, W.G.; Lawley, F.; Coventry, Arthur; Watson, Alfred E.T.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, Co.: 1889

Seller ID: 2303166

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Third edition. Some pages lightly foxed. 1889 Hard Cover. xii, 419 pp. 8vo. Color frontispiece and woodcut illustrations by J. Sturgess. Two works on horse racing in one, including: Racing; Steeple-Chasing.
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The Mill on the Floss (The Franklin Library)

By: Eliot, George

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1981

Seller ID: 2292581

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 536 pp. Green boards with gilt title on spine and decoration on boards. Page ridges gilt. Illustrated by Herbert Tauss. Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, the clash between their expectations and her desires is painfully played out as she finds herself torn between her ...
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Romola, in Two Volumes

By: Eliot, George [Evans, Mary Anne]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Boston / Cambridge, Estes and Lauriat / University Press: John Wilson and Son: 1890

Seller ID: 2303662

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Each volume includes original jacket. Jacket spines faded, ink gift note on front endpaper of each volume date 1908, ink name different than gift note recipient on title page of volume 1, and again on first text page with Christmas 1891 date, volume 1 ribbon marker detached but included. 1890 Hard Cover. vi, 315; vi, 299 pp. 8vo. Cream boards imitating vellum, elaborate gilt and red titles and decorations, top edges gilt, ribbon markers bound in. Monochrome plates from photographs taken throughout Florence. Romola (186263) is a historical novel by George Eliot set in the fifteenth century, and...
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The Mill on the Floss (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Eliot, George [Evans, Mary Anne]; Daiches, David

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1980

Seller ID: 2294864

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Edges of endpapers slightly faded, blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 1980 Full-Leather. xv, [3], 472 pp. 8vo. Orange full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by David Daiches, color plates by Wray Manning. The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the River Floss near the village of St. Oggs in the United Kingdom, evidently in the 1820s after the Napoleonic Wars but prior to the Reform Act of 1832. Both the river and the village are fictional. The novel spans a perio...
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Silas Marner (The Collector's Library of the World's Best-Loved Books)

By: Eliot, George [Evans, Mary Ann]

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1982

Seller ID: 2307079

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

An exceptional copy. 1982 Full-Leather. 225, [1] pp. 8vo. Full green leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, three raised spine bands, decorative endpapers. Illustrations by William Hurd Lawrence. Exiled by superstition and betrayal from Lantern Yard, and cut off from faith and human love, for fifteen years the solitary simple-hearted weaver Silas Marner has plied his loom in Raveloe and devoted himself to the amassing of a hoard of golden guineas. Silas's chance of redemption, when it appears one New Year's Eve, is intimately connected with the fate of Godfrey Cass, son of the v...
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Our Arctic Province: Alaska and the Seal Islands

By: Elliott, Henry E.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1886

Seller ID: 2302237

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1887 printing. Spine faded, edges rubbed with corners slightly exposed, front hinge just beginning to weaken, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1886 Hard Cover. xv, [1], 473, [5] pp. 8vo. Fold-out map follows text, four maps in text, numerous plates and illustrations in text. A 19th century account of the history, geography, peoples, and animals of Alaska.
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Iron Heart, War Chief of the Iroquois (War Chief Series)

By: Ellis, Edward S. [Sylvester]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry T. Coates & Co.: 1899

Seller ID: 2268643

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Boards lightly soiled, tiny spot on page ridge. 1899 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. iv, 386, 10 pp. 8vo. A fictionalized account of the life of an Iroquois chief, written for young readers by the author most popular for his Deerfoot series.
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Image for Nine Plays: Medea; The Trojan Women; Orestes; Electra; Iphigenia in Tauris; The Bacchae; Alcestis; Hippolytus; Heracles (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

Nine Plays: Medea; The Trojan Women; Orestes; Electra; Iphigenia in Tauris; The Bacchae; Alcestis; Hippolytus; Heracles (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

By: Euripides; Warner, Rex; Lattimore, Richmond; Arrowsmith, William; Vermeule, Emily Townsend; Bynner, Witter; Grene, David

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1976

Seller ID: 2307940

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Publisher's Notes from the Editors pamphlet laid in. An exceptional copy. 1976 Full-Leather. 653, [5] pp. 8vo. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of nine plays by the Greek tragedian, released in this limited edition as part of Franklin's '100 Greatest Books of All Time'. Translated by Rex Warner, Richmond Lattimore, William Arrowsmith, Emily Townsend Vermeule, Witter Bynner, and David Grene, with illustrations by Quentin Fiore.
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Scotland - Picturesque and Traditional: A Pilgrimage with Staff and Knapsack

By: Eyre-Todd, George

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Glasgow and London, Gowans and Gray, Limited: 1921

Seller ID: 2303830

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Second edition, revised and enlarged. Faint discoloration to spine and corner of front board. 1921 Hard Cover. xv, 361, [7] pp. 8vo. Includes 56 illustrations from recent photographs. Blue cloth, gilt and black titles and decorations.
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Image for The Prince of Glory, or, Story of the Saviour, Being a Full and Captivating Narrative of the Thrilling Scenes and Events in the Life of Christ from Bethlehem to the Cross, Comprising the Birth, Infancy and Early Life of Jesus; His Baptism and Public Ministry; Beautiful Parables and Discourses; Journeys in Galilee and Judea; Wonderful Miracles; Pathetic Scenes of Suffering, and His Sublime Victory Over Death: Including Fascinating Descriptions of the Manners, Customs and Traditions of the Jews. The Whole Forming a Complete and Graphic Record of the History and Teachings of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

The Prince of Glory, or, Story of the Saviour, Being a Full and Captivating Narrative of the Thrilling Scenes and Events in the Life of Christ from Bethlehem to the Cross, Comprising the Birth, Infancy and Early Life of Jesus; His Baptism and Public Ministry; Beautiful Parables and Discourses; Journeys in Galilee and Judea; Wonderful Miracles; Pathetic Scenes of Suffering, and His Sublime Victory Over Death: Including Fascinating Descriptions of the Manners, Customs and Traditions of the Jews. The Whole Forming a Complete and Graphic Record of the History and Teachings of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

By: Farrar, Canon [Frederic W.]

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, W.J. Holland / J.R. Jones: 1890

Seller ID: 2302224

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Edges lightly rubbed, a few scuffs on rear board. 1890 Hard Cover. xvi, 618, [2] pp. Original blue-green cloth, gilt, silver, and black titles and decorations, decorated endpapers. Color presentation page, frontispiece, and four color maps preceding text, engravings throughout text.
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Young Lonigan [The Studs Lonigan Trilogy Book 1]

By: Farrell, James T.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979

Seller ID: 2307026

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Despite the publisher's note on the flyleaf, this copy is NOT signed by the author. 1979 Full-Leather. 238 pp. Full grey leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Mitchell Hooks, with a special preface for this edition by the author. Farrell's trilogy would later be adapted to film and TV. Studs Lonigan is the subject of a trilogy of novels by American author James T. Farrell: Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day. In James T. Farrell's classic novels of Irish life on the South Side of Chicag...
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Selected Letters of William Faulkner (The First Edition Society)

By: Faulkner, William

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1976

Seller ID: 2286128

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Minor blemish on front board. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xxiii, [1], 594 pp. 8vo. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. a collection of letters by the author of Light in August and The Sound and the Fury. William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasiona...
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A Fable (Pulitzer Prize 1955)

By: Faulkner, William

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1976

Seller ID: 2307038

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 462 pp. Full red leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Robert J. Lee. This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. A historical novel of World War I set in France, A Fable was written in 1954, and won Faulkner the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955 (the first novel ever to win both). He spent over a decade on A Fable, and considered it his masterpiece when it was completed. Historicall...
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The Sound and the Fury (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Faulkner, William

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1977

Seller ID: 2307053

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Top corner and top and bottom page edge very lightly abraded. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 337 pp. 8vo. Full black leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Bill Oakes. The Sound and the Fury is a novel written by the American author William Faulkner. It employs a number of narrative styles, including the technique known as stream of consciousness, pioneered by 20th century European novelists such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury was Faulkner'...
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Absalom, Absalom! (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Faulkner, William

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1977

Seller ID: 2307089

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

An exceptional copy. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 367 pp. 8vo. Full brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color frontispiece and plates by Walter Rane. Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Although the novel's complex and fragmented structure poses considerable difficulty to readers, the book's literary merits place it squarely in the ranks of America's finest novels. The story concerns Thomas Sutpen, a poor man who finds wealth and...
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Betty's Beautiful Nights

By: Fenner, Marian Warner Wildman

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1916

Seller ID: 2199327

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Binding repaired, edge wear, nickel-sized ink spot on front cover, pencil marks on several pages. 1916 Hard Cover. 212 pp. 8 3/8 x 6 1/2. Child sleeping on moon on front cover, gilt titles & top page ridge. A scarce collection of twelve nights worth of bedtime stories with illustrations by Clara M. Burd.
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Harry S. Truman: A Life (The Library of the Presidents)

By: Ferrell, Robert H.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1997

Seller ID: 2274923

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Publisher's insert and blank bookplate laid in. 1997 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xii, [2], 501, [5] pp. 8vo. Original red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. Few U.S. presidents have captured the imagination of the American people as has Harry S. Truman, 'the man from Missouri.' In this major new biography, Robert H. Ferrell, widely regarded as an authority on the thirty-third president, challenges the popular characterization of Truman as a man who rarely sought the offices he received, revealing instead a man whow...
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, in Two Volumes (The 25th Anniversary Edition of The Great Books of the Western World)

By: Fielding, Henry

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1981

Seller ID: 2306867

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Includes publisher's Notes from the Editors pamphlet. 1981 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. [xxx], 371; [xi], [372]-746 pp. Full grey leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with engravings by Hubert Francois Gravelot. A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squirethough he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom...
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The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

By: Fielding, Henry

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979

Seller ID: 2306869

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

A few tiny scuffs to gilt edges. 1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. [xxiv], 732 pp. Full green leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squirethough he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged m...
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Three Tales (The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers)

By: Flaubert, Gustave; Ives, George Burnham

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1981

Seller ID: 2307018

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

An exceptional copy. 1981 Full-Leather. 199 pp. Full black leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated into English from the original French by George Burnham Ives. Includes: A Simple Heart; The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller; Herodias. These three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness, and religious experience-together they confirm Flaubert as a master of the short story. 'A Simple Heart' relates the story of Flicit, an uneducated serving-woman who retains her Catholic faith despite a life of deso...
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Madame Bovary

By: Flaubert, Gustave; May, J. Lewis; De Lacretelle, Jacques

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1978

Seller ID: 2205694

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

1978 Full-Leather. xv, [3], 375 pp. 8vo. Blue full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Flaubert's moving tale of a woman living beyond her means. Color frontispiece, engravings in text.
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Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

By: Flaubert, Gustave; Steegmuller, Francis

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1978

Seller ID: 2307051

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

A few tiny blemishes. 1978 Full-Leather. 423, [5] pp. 8vo. Full navy leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, blue ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the French by Francis Steegmuller, with illustrations by Bill Greer. In Madame Bovary, his story of a shallow, deluded, unfaithful, but consistently compelling woman living in the provinces of nineteenth-century France, Gustave Flaubert invented not only the modern novel but also a modern attitude toward human character and human experience that remains with us to this day. One of the rare works of art that it...
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A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford (The Library of the Presidents)

By: Ford, Gerald R.; Kissinger, Henry A.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1987

Seller ID: 2305462

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Signed by Gerald Ford without inscription on front flyleaf. Publisher's pamphlet with special introduction by Henry A. Kissinger laid in, along with blank publisher bookplate. 1987 Full-Leather. [x], 454 pp. 8vo. Original red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. In this intimate self-portrait, Ford speaks candidly about his private life, political battles in Congress, experiences as a Warren Commission member and as House Minority Leader, and attempts to reunite a nation fragmented by Watergate.
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Wanted - A Chaperon

By: Ford, Paul Leicester

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1902

Seller ID: 2284897

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Tiny blemish on rear board, pencil gift note on front flyleaf. 1902 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 109, [3] pp. 8vo. Purple cloth trade binding designed by Margaret Armstrong with her initials incorporated on the front board. A novel by the American author who also wrote biographies of several U.S. presidents. Includes six color plates by Howard Chandler Christy, and decorative borders throughout.
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