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Novisimo Diamante Divino que Contiene La Santa Misa Meditaciones para la Confesion y Comunion la Semana Santa, Etc. Etc.

By: N/A

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Winterberg, Casa Editorial Catolica, J. Steinbrener: 1921

Seller ID: 2120241

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Linen boards lightly stained, mother-of-pearl decoration on bottom clasp lost. Spanish text. 1921 Small Hard Cover. 256 pp. Bound in linen, with hinged tortoise-shell cover attached at spine. Cover closes with mother-of-pearl-decorated clasps at fore-edge. All edges gilt, gilt decoration with monogram on front cover. Spanish text.
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The Comic History of England

By: A'Beckett, G.A. [Gilbert Abbott]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, Bradbury, Evans, and Co.: 1864

Seller ID: 2283682

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Two books in one volume. Binding repaired, corners a bit rubbed. 1864 Hard Cover. xviii, 320, 304 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Color frontispiece (one of 20 color plates) and reproductions of 200 engravings by John Leech. The classic work by one of the original staff of Punch magazine, the weekly British humor magazine. A'Beckett also wrote the Comic History of Rome (to which John Leech also added illustrations), Comic Blackstone, etc., as well as two operas for which his wife composed the music.
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Helping Himself; or, Grant Thornton's Ambition.

By: Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Porter & Coates: 1886

Seller ID: 2264559

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition (Bennett 79). Hinges reinforced with tape by previous owner, minor loss from spine head and foot, corners exposed, one page loose but included. 1886 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 320, [2] pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth, black titles and decorations, brown endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, three engravings in text. One of many young adult 'rags to riches' stories written by the popular author during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author wh...
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A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath

By: Allen, James Lane

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1900

Seller ID: 2286110

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First thus. Spine faded, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1900 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxxii, 276, [4] pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations similar to those used in the Cranford Series, which began in 1891 and gave us the famous Peacock on Sundial cover design now coveted by collectors. Revised from the 1894 and 1895 originals, this edition includes the full text of A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath, with a new preface by the author, and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. A novel by an important Kentucky author known for incorporating...
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The Doctor's Experiment: The Adventures and Experiences of One of Dr. Reade's Pupils as Narrated by Himself

By: Anonymous

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, The Religious Tract Society: 1894

Seller ID: 2202015

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Undated, ink gift note on front endpaper dated 1894. Three small light spots on back panel. vii, 360 pp. 7 3/8 x 5 5/8. Original grey cloth, beveled edges, gilt, black & red design, fore-edges gilt, floral endpapers.
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The World of Ice, or, The Whaling Cruise of 'The Dolphin' and the Adventures of Her Crew in the Polar Regions (R.M. Ballantyne's Books for Boys)

By: Ballantyne, Robert Michael

Price: $75.00

Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons: 1893

Seller ID: 2139063

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Reissue. Bookplate awarding the book as a first prize to a student in Latin at Ayr Grammar School, spine leans forward slightly. 1893 Hard Cover. viii, 327 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, black & gilt titles & decorations, floral decorated endpapers, chromolithographic frontispiece & title page precede printed title. An arctic adventure designed for younger readers, originally released in 1860, at a time when polar exploration was a hot topic due to the expeditions of men such as John Ross, William Edward Parry, and John Franklin.
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An Orchard Princess

By: Barbour, Ralph Henry

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott and Company: 1905

Seller ID: 2290470

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Second edition. Spine faded, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1905 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 219, [1] pp. 8vo. Four color plates, cameo on front board, and decorative borders by James Montgomery Flagg. An early novel by the author of Kitty of the Roses, who was ultimately best known for his sports-related children's stories, but also wrote romance and adventure novels.
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The Little Minister

By: Barrie, J.M. [James Matthew]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, American Publishers Corporation: 1897

Seller ID: 2077493

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First thus. An exceptional copy. 1897 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxxii, 375, [6] pp. 8vo. Maroon cloth, gilt titles & elaborate gilt decorations, top edge gilt. A new edition revised by the author, with a literary and biographical portrait preceding text, photographic frontispiece, and several engraved plates. A novel by the creator of Peter Pan, and inspiration for the 1934 Katharine Hepburn film, originally 'published in 1891 and dramatized in 1897. The Little Minister is set in Thrums, a Scottish weaving village based on Barries birthplace, and concerns Gavin ...
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Margaret Ogilvy

By: Barrie, J.M. [James Matthew]

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1897

Seller ID: 2104132

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Spine toned, ink name & date on front endpaper. 1897 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 207 pp. Decorative trade binding designed by Amy Richards, with her initials incorporated on the front board design. A novel by the author of Peter Pan.
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The Little Minister, in Two Volumes (The Kirriemuir Edition)

By: Barrie, J.M. [James Matthew]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York / Boston, H.M. Caldwell Company: 1898

Seller ID: 2287165

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Pencil name on front endpaper of each volume. 1898 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Complete in two volumes. xliv, [2], 290, [2]; vi, [4], 326, [2] pp. 8vo. The Kirriemuir Edition, named after the author's birthplace. Red cloth, elaborate gilt decorations, gilt titles and top edge, etchings by G.W.H. Ritchie. This edition also features a literary and biographical portrait of J.M. Barrie. A novel by the creator of Peter Pan, and inspiration for the 1934 Katharine Hepburn film, originally published in 1891 and dramatized in 1897. The Little Minister is set in Thrums, a S...
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Phillips Brooks's Poems

By: Brooks, Phillips

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London / New York, Ernest Nister / E.P. Dutton & Co.: 1886

Seller ID: 2207059

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Illustrated with chromolithographs and etchings. No publisher date (circa late 1800's), binding broken, two-inch tear to front endpaper, ink note to half-title page. 1886 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. Illustrated with chromolithographs and etchings. Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835 January 23, 1893) was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts, and particularly remembered as lyricist of the Christmas hymn, O Little Town of Bethlehem.
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Image for The Doctrine of the Law & Grace Unfolded: or, A Discourse touching the Law and Grace. The Nature of the one, and the Nature of the other: Shewing what they are, as they are the two Covenants; and likewise who they be, and what their Conditions are, that be under either of these two Covenants. Wherein For the better Understanding of the Reader, there is several Questions answered, touching the Law and Grace, very easy to be read, and as easy to be understood, by those that are the Sons of Wisdom, the Children of the second Covenant.

The Doctrine of the Law & Grace Unfolded: or, A Discourse touching the Law and Grace. The Nature of the one, and the Nature of the other: Shewing what they are, as they are the two Covenants; and likewise who they be, and what their Conditions are, that be under either of these two Covenants. Wherein For the better Understanding of the Reader, there is several Questions answered, touching the Law and Grace, very easy to be read, and as easy to be understood, by those that are the Sons of Wisdom, the Children of the second Covenant.

By: Bunyan, John

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Boston, J. Draper for D. Henchman, at his Shop in Cornhil: 1742

Seller ID: 2289845

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fair

Third edition, first state, with 'Cornhil' in imprint (Evans 4905). Boards rubbed, leather drying, light stained with minor transfer throughout, rear board split horizontally but still whole, ink name on endpapers. 1742 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. x, 214, p. 215 mislabeled 115, [1] pp. 12mo. Leather over wooden boards. Originally published in 1659, preceding Bunyan's well-known The Pilgrim's Progress by nearly twenty years.
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Image for The Pilgrim's Progress, From This World to That Which is to Come, Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream [with] A Life of Bunyan by Himself, or Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

The Pilgrim's Progress, From This World to That Which is to Come, Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream [with] A Life of Bunyan by Himself, or Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

By: Bunyan, John; Southey, Robert

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, American Tract Society: 1865

Seller ID: 2286768

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

3 inch tear along rear joint, minor split to cloth at top of front joint, edges faded, lightly foxed throughout, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1865 Hard Cover. 348, [4] pp. 8vo. Purple cloth, gilt titles and decorations, engraved frontispiece and illustrations. Pilgrim's Progress bound together with A Life of Bunyan. Religious allegory by John Bunyan, at one time second only to the Bible in popularity. It is a symbolic vision of the pilgrimage through life. The first and best-known book, published in 1678, in which the character Christian travels on the road to salvation from the City o...
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Little Lord Fauntleroy

By: Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1887

Seller ID: 2294183

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition, first state (includes DeVinne imprint). Front hinge weakening, ink stamp on front endpaper, light stain to edges of rear endpapers. 1887 Hard Cover. xi, [1], 209, [1] pp, 16 page terminal publisher ad. 8 1/2 x 7. Author's first children's novel. Original brown cloth, red, black, and gold designs on front cover and spine, gilt titles, brown endpapers. Frontispiece and 25 other illustrations by Reginald B. Birch. Little Lord Fauntleroy is the first children's novel written by EnglishAmerican playwright and author Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was originally published as a serial in ...
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Image for The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, in Twelve Volumes (Library Edition) [A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men, and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights]

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, in Twelve Volumes (Library Edition) [A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men, and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights]

By: Burton, R.F. [Richard Francis]; Smithers, Leonard C.

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: London, H.S. Nichols & Co.: 1894

Seller ID: 2282238

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First Smithers edition, also called the Library Edition (Penzer p. 117-123). Minor cosmetic wear, ink name on front endpaper of each volume, front hinge of first volume just beginning to weaken. 1894 Hard Cover. Complete in twelve volumes, a reissue of the 1885 Benares edition (which was printed by the Kamashastra Society for private subscribers only), edited by Leonard C. Smithers. 8vo. According to the preface, In Lady Burton's edition, which was a reprint of the first ten volumes only of the original issue, it was thought advisable to omit no fewer than 215 pages; in this edition, which com...
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Image for A Zigzag [Zig-Zag] Journey in the Sunny South; or, Wonder Tales of Early American History. A Visit to the Scenes and Associations of the Early American Settlements in the Southern States and the West Indies.

A Zigzag [Zig-Zag] Journey in the Sunny South; or, Wonder Tales of Early American History. A Visit to the Scenes and Associations of the Early American Settlements in the Southern States and the West Indies.

By: Butterworth, Hezekiah

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat: 1887

Seller ID: 1864936

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Boards rubbed with loss from spine & corners, front free endpaper removed, hinges loosening. 1887 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 320 pp. Original color-illustrated paper over boards, illustrated endpapers, engravings throughout text. Late 19th century travel writing, part of The Zig-Zag Series, this volume focusing on journeys in the American South and the West Indies.
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Farm Legends

By: Carleton, Will

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1876

Seller ID: 2283876

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Very faint stain along page base, board corners lightly rubbed. 1876 Hard Cover. 131 pp. Blue boards with gilt decorations. 4-page terminal publisher ad. Original green cloth, gilt titles & decorations. Numerous engravings. A collection of poetry with a rural theme. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William McKendree Carleton (21 October 1845 18 December 1912) was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about rural life... What Robert Burns did for the Scottish cotter and the Reverend William Barnes has done for the English farmer, Will Carleton has done for the American-touched with the glamour o...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York and Boston, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. / Norwood Press: 1893

Seller ID: 2308474

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Circa 1900 edition. Edges rubbed and exposed, light dime-sized spot on rear board, ink name and gift note dated Dec. 25 1903 on front endpapers. 1893 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 218 pp. Green cloth spine with gilt titles, pictorial paper over boards. Color frontispiece and black-and-white illustrations by L.J. Bridgman. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, a...
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The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Written by Himself, in Two Volumes

By: Cellini, Benvenuto; Symonds, John Addington; Cortissoz, Royal

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Tudor Publishing Company: 1906

Seller ID: 2062149

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1934 12th printing. Front hinge of first volume just starting, small internal tear to vol. 1 backstrip. 1906 Hard Cover. xxix, [1], 359, [1]; vii, [1], 386, [1] pp. 8vo. Maroon cloth, gilt titles, decorations, & rules, top edge gilt. Reproductions of forty original portraits and views. The classic autobiography by the Italian Renaissance goldsmith, painter, sculptor, soldier, and musician, still considered the most important memoir of the era.
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Cooper's Novels, in Thirty-Three Volumes (New Edition)

By: Cooper, J. Fenimore

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: New York, Stringer & Townsend: 1854

Seller ID: 1797797

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Corners & spine rubbed with some loss of gilt, front & end matter of a few volumes lightly foxed. Interiors exceptionally well preserved. Spine labels professionally replaced in emulation of original style. An excellent set. 1854 Half-Leather. Complete in thirty-three volumes. 12mo. 65 volumes in 33. Sewn bindings. Butterscotch leather spines & corners over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. An apparent variant of the set referenced in Spiller & Blackburn's bibliography (slightly different ordering of volumes, half-leather instead of cloth). The third American publication of Cooper's collected...
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Cooper's Sea Tales, Comprising: The Pilot; The Red Rover; The Waterwitch; The Sea Lions; The Two Admirals

By: Cooper, James Fenimore

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons: 1880

Seller ID: 2302640

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1880s printing. Corners rubbed, spine and pages lightly toned, rear board lightly foxed. We have more books available by this author!. 166, 186, 184, iv, 185, iv, 192 pp. 8vo. Blue-green cloth, gilt titles, gold, silver, and black stamped decorations, floral decorated endpapers. An engraved frontispiece precedes three stories. A collection of nautical stories for juvenile readers, reprinted from five of Cooper's earlier works. Cooper is best known for his five-volume Leatherstocking Saga (historical fiction featuring Natty Bumpo), but he also wrote a two-volume history of the United States Nav...
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Sandy

By: Crockett, S.R.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1922

Seller ID: 2205715

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

3rd printing. Light smudge on front board. 1922 Hard Cover. vi, 353 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Frontispiece by R. Pearson Lawrence. A novel set in Scotland.
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Boots and Saddles; or, Life in Dakota with General Custer

By: Custer, Elizabeth B.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1885

Seller ID: 2305732

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition, second issue (Howes C-980). Front hinge weakening with first gathering slightly sprung, small circular discoloration on rear board edge, ink owner stamp dated 1899 on front flyleaf, margins of a few pages lightly soiled. 1885 Hard Cover. 312 pp. 8vo. Includes frontispiece portrait of George Armstrong Custer, and single-page 'Outline Map of Portions of Montana & Dakota'. The honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was interrupted in 1864 by his call to duty with the Army of the Potomac. She begged to be allowed to go along, thus setting the pattern of her future ...
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Holland. in Two Volumes.

By: De Amicis, Edmondo; Zimmern, Helen

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Porter & Coates: 1894

Seller ID: 2292774

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes fold-out map following text of second volume. Crayon scribbles on endpapers and one text page of volume 2, hinges just beginning to weaken, corners a bit rubbed. 1894 Hard Cover. 273, [3]; 275, [3] pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edges gilt. A tour of Holland illustrated with photogravures, by the Italian author who also wrote a similar work on Morocco.
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The Chimes

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton / Hasell, Watson & Viney, Ld.: 1913

Seller ID: 2287788

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Spine faded, front and end matter a bit toned, small bookseller ticket on front endpaper. 1913 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. v, [1], 137, [1] pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles, gilt and blind-stamped decorations, grey endpapers with holiday bell (chime) motif. Tipped in color plates by Hugh Thomson. A short holiday novel, published a year after A Christmas Carol, which represents the second in Dickens's five-volume Christmas Books series.
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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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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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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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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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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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