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The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, in Two Volumes (The Library of the Presidents)

By: Adams, John; Adams, Charles Francis

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1992

Seller ID: 2305464

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Publisher's Collector's Notes and blank publisher bookplate laid in. An exceptional set. 1992 Full-Leather. Complete in two volumes. ix, [3], 542; [2], 576, [6] pp. 8vo. Original navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of the published works and some manuscript material written by the second President of the United States, John Adams. The writings include biographical information from his time as a private citizen, his role in government and the formation of the United States as an independent nation, and his thoughts on history...
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Inferno

By: Alighieri, Dante; James, Clive

Price: $395.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 2015

Seller ID: 2276356

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Limited edition, #85 of 1200 copies, signed and numbered by illustrator Marc Burckhardt on limitation page. Includes publisher's slipcase, publisher's certificate of authenticity and blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 2015 Full-Leather. 247, [3] pp. 8vo. Original red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color picture plate mounted on slipcase. Translated by Clive James, with tipped in color illustrations by Marc Burckhardt. The first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, in which Virgil provided a guided tour through Hell. Dante Aligh...
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Politics & Poetics (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Aristotle; Jowett, Benjamin & Butcher, S.H.; Kallen, Horace M.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1979

Seller ID: 2285623

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Edges and front and end matter lightly foxed. 1979 Full-Leather. xxi, [5], 331, [1] pp. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated by Benjamin Jowett and S.H. Butcher, with an introduction by Horace M. Kallen and portraits by Leonard Baskin. Aristotle (384 BC 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with...
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The Essayes or Counsels Civill & Moral of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Bacon, Francis; Morley, Christopher; Rosenbach, A.S.W.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1980

Seller ID: 2285627

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Minor loss of gilt from front board. 1980 Full-Leather. ix, [3], 190 pp. Tall 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Introductions by Christopher Morley and A.S.W. Rosenbach. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount of St. Alban, KC (22 January 1561 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophic...
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The Essayes or Counsels Civill & Moral of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Bacon, Francis; Morley, Christopher; Rosenbach, A.S.W.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1980

Seller ID: 2294860

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Light spotting on fore edge, a few minor scuffs. 1980 Full-Leather. ix, [3], 190 pp. Tall 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Introductions by Christopher Morley and A.S.W. Rosenbach. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount of St. Alban, KC (22 January 1561 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as...
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Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest (The Library of the Presidents)

By: Bauer, K. Jack

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1997

Seller ID: 2305457

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Still in original plastic wrap. 1997 Full-Leather. xxiv, [2], 348 pp. 8vo. Full navy blue leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, endpapers decorated with presidential seal, ribbon marker bound in. A biography of the twelfth President of the United States of America, who died after just over a year in office. He had previously distinguished himself as an officer during the Mexican-American War. Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor was and rem...
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Planet of the Apes

By: Boulle, Pierre; Fielding, Xan (Translator)

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 2010

Seller ID: 2268790

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

From the collection of Dr. Virgil R. Trout, Easton bookplate with his name and date (6/8/2010) in black ink on front flyleaf. 248, [4] pp. 8vo. Full brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color frontispiece by Dennis Lyall. Translated from the French by Xan Fielding. Boulle's classic 1963 novel differs in several ways from the 1968 movie and its various spinoffs. While the bare-bones story is familiarastronaut travels to a planet populated by intelligent apes, is captured, fights to prove that he is a thinking creaturethe novel...
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The Poems of Robert Browning (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Browning, Robert; Lewis, C. Day

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1979

Seller ID: 2294866

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

A few minor scuffs, edges of endpapers a bit faded, blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 1979 Full-Leather. xvii, [1], 299, [3] pp. Tall 8vo. A collection of poetry by Robert Browning, selected, edited, and introduced by C. Day Lewis, with woodcut illustrations by Peter Reddick. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 - December 12, 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.
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Roosevelt, in Two Volumes: The Lion and the Fox; The Soldier of Freedom (The Library of the Presidents) [Franklin Delano Roosevelt / FDR]

By: Burns, James MacGregor

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1985

Seller ID: 2305472

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Publisher's Collector's Notes and blank publisher bookplate pamphlets laid in. Minimal cosmetic wear. 1985 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 722 pp. 8vo. Original blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. The Lion and the Fox is [t]he authoritative study of Roosevelt's preparation for and conduct of his first two terms as president, when domestic affairs demanded most of his attention. This remains the definitive book about the most influential American politician of the 20th century, with many penetrating insights in...
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Image for The Arabian Nights Entertainments and the Notes Upon Them [Containing Sixty-Five Stories Told by Shahrazade the Sultaness to Divert Shahryar the Sultan from the Execution of a Vow He Had Made to Avenge the Disloyalty of His First Sultaness; and Containing a Better Account of the Customs, Manners and Religion of the Eastern Nations Than is to Be Met with in Any Edition Hitherto Published; Because the Text is One which Richard Burton Himself Desired to Own: The Definitive and All-Inclusive Burton Translation with the Addition of the Notes Upon the Text Prepared by Those Scholars Who Had Previously Translated the Text into English from the Arabic, Notably Henry Torrens & Edward Lane & John Payne]

The Arabian Nights Entertainments and the Notes Upon Them [Containing Sixty-Five Stories Told by Shahrazade the Sultaness to Divert Shahryar the Sultan from the Execution of a Vow He Had Made to Avenge the Disloyalty of His First Sultaness; and Containing a Better Account of the Customs, Manners and Religion of the Eastern Nations Than is to Be Met with in Any Edition Hitherto Published; Because the Text is One which Richard Burton Himself Desired to Own: The Definitive and All-Inclusive Burton Translation with the Addition of the Notes Upon the Text Prepared by Those Scholars Who Had Previously Translated the Text into English from the Arabic, Notably Henry Torrens & Edward Lane & John Payne]

By: Burton, Richard; Torrens, Henry; Lane, Edward; Payne, John

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1954

Seller ID: 2271630

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Minimal cosmetic wear. 1954 Full-Leather. xi, [3], 674, plus unpaginated notes section. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Comprises several versions of translation and includes illustrations by Arthur Szyk.
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The Way of All Flesh

By: Butler, Samuel; Dreiser, Theodore

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1980

Seller ID: 2205695

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

1980 Full-Leather. xxx, 588 pp. 8vo. Dark green full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, green ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by Theodore Dreiser, illustrations by Robert Ward Johnson. The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. It represents a relaxation from the religious outlook from a Calvinistic approach, which is presented as harsh. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it...
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Lord Jim: A Tale

By: Conrad, Joseph; Monserrat, Nicholas

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1977

Seller ID: 2205690

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Edges of endpapers slightly faded. 1977 Full-Leather. x, [4], 407 pp. 8vo. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Conrad's moving tale of a sailor who is accused of abandoning ship.
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The Pathfinder (Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Cooper, James Fenimore; Spiller, Robert E.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1981

Seller ID: 2207940

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Two minor scuffs to spine bands, gilt page ridges lightly rubbed. 1981 Full-Leather. xvi, 474 pp. 8vo. Full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Richard M. Powers, introduction by Robert E. Spiller. The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is an historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1840. It is the fourth novel featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, and is considered as forming the third chronological episode of the Leatherstocking Tales.
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The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground (Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Cooper, James Fenimore; Winterich, John T.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1963

Seller ID: 2278044

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Minor loss of gilt from top edge of front board, a couple minor scuffs along edges. 1963 Full-Leather. xv, [3], 406 pp. 8vo. Black full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Henry C. Pitz, introduction by John T. Winterich. The action takes place during the American Revolution. The share of historical fact in the story is not large, but the action takes place so near to great events that the characters are all invested with something of the dusky light of heroes, while George Washington moves among them like an unsuspec...
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The Red Badge of Courage (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Crane, Stephen; Van Doren, Carl

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1980

Seller ID: 2294856

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

A few small spots on top edge, a few minor scuffs, endpaper edges slightly faded. 1980 Full-Leather. xiii, [3], 170 pp. 8vo. Full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Crane's famous work on the American Civil War, with an introduction by Carl Van Doren and illustrations by John Steuart Curry.
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James Monroe (The Library of the Presidents)

By: Cresson, W.P.; Howe, M.A. De Wolfe

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1986

Seller ID: 2268777

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Publisher insert laid in. From the collection of Dr. Virgil R. Trout, Easton bookplate with his name and date ('86) in black ink on front endpaper. 1986 Full-Leather. xiv, 577, [3] pp. 8vo. Full navy blue leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, endpapers decorated with presidential seal, ribbon marker bound in. A biography of James Monroe, 5th President of the United States, with an introduction by M.A. De Wolfe Howe.
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De Gaulle (The Library of Great Lives) [DeGaulle]

By: Crozier, Brian; Nixon, Richard

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1990

Seller ID: 2274207

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Publisher insert and bookplate laid in. 1990 Full-Leather. xiii, [3], 726 pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece portrait of De Gaulle. A biography which discusses De Gaulle's dealings with Churchill & Roosevelt, as well as his attitude toward Communism. Crozier records the events of the period and sheds light upon De Gaulle's successes and failures.
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The Tales of Guy de Maupassant (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: De Maupassant, Guy; Hearn, Lafcadio; Artinian, Artine; O'Brien, Justin

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1977

Seller ID: 2205669

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Minimal cosmetic wear to corners. 1977 Full-Leather. xii, 472 pp. 8vo. Red full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, gold ribbon marker bound in. Over four dozen short stories (including his famous The Necklace) translated from the original French by Lafcadio Hearn and Artine Artinian, with an introduction by Justin O'Brien and illustrations from watercolors by Gunter Bohmer.
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The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner

By: Defoe, Daniel; Hadden, J. Cuthbert

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1976

Seller ID: 2294867

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

A few minor scuffs, faint spotting on top edge, blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 1976 Full-Leather. xvi, 299, [3] pp. 8vo. Blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. Originally published in 1719, the famous novel of a shipwrecked survivor on a deserted island.
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An American Tragedy (Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Dreiser, Theodore; Hansen, Harry

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1982

Seller ID: 2144217

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

1982 Full-Leather. x, 556 pp. Tall 8vo. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, beige ribbon marker bound in. Dreiser's famous fictionalization of the upstate New York trial of Chester Gillette for the murder of Grace Brown, with an introduction by Harry Hansen and illustrations by Reginald Marsh.
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An American Tragedy (Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Dreiser, Theodore; Hansen, Harry

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1982

Seller ID: 2278052

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

1982 Full-Leather. x, 556 pp. Tall 8vo. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Dreiser's famous fictionalization of the upstate New York trial of Chester Gillette for the murder of Grace Brown, with an introduction by Harry Hansen and illustrations by Reginald Marsh.
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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 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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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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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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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Now Printed from the Manuscript as Franklin Wrote It, and Including His Preliminary Outline (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Franklin, Benjamin; Van Doren, Carl

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1976

Seller ID: 2284247

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Blank publisher's bookplate laid in. Front board scuffed, minimal wear to spine bands. 1976 Full-Leather. xxxiii, [1], 233, [5] pp. Tall 8vo. Maroon full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Reproductions of early maps precede text, color frontispiece portrait of Benjamin Franklin, engraved illustrations in text. Includes introduction by Carl Van Doren. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appe...
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NASA: The Complete Illustrated History

By: Gorn, Michael; Aldrin, Buzz

Price: $500.00

Publisher: London / New York / Norwalk, Connecticut, Merrell / The Easton Press: 2005

Seller ID: 2274856

ISBN: 1858942543

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Signed by Buzz Aldrin on front flyleaf, with certificate of authenticity and blank publisher's bookplate laid in. A couple tiny imperfections to page ridges, otherwise an excellent copy. 2005 Full-Leather. 304 pp. Original full black leather, gilt titles and decorations, photographic plate mounted on front board, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in.
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The Man Without a Country

By: Hale, Edward Everett; Van Doren, Carl

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1979

Seller ID: 2265680

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

A couple faint scuffs to leather. Unused publisher's bookplate laid in. 1979 Full-Leather. ix, [5], 55, [3] pp. 8vo. A short story by American writer Edward Everett Hale, first published anonymously in the Atlantic Monthly in December 1863. The novel is the story of American army lieutenant Philip Nolan, who renounces his country during a trial for treason and is consequently sentenced to spend the rest of his days at sea without so much as a word of news about the United States. Although the story is set in the early 1800s, the story is an allegory about upheaval of the American Civil War and...
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Zachary Taylor: Soldier in the White House (The Library of the Presidents)

By: Hamilton, Holman

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1989

Seller ID: 2305460

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Publisher's Collector's Notes pamphlet and blank publisher bookplate laid in. An exceptional copy. 1989 Full-Leather. 496 pp. 8vo. Full black leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, endpapers decorated with presidential seal, ribbon marker bound in. The second volume of a two-volume biography of the twelfth President of the United States of America, who died after just over a year in office. He had previously distinguished himself as an officer during the Mexican-American War. This volume focuses on his presidency.
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The Return of the Native (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Hardy, Thomas; Winterich, John T.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1978

Seller ID: 2277985

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

1978 Full-Leather. 416 pp. 8vo. Forest green full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, copper ribbon marker bound in. Includes publisher's preface, How This Book Came to Be by John T. Winterich, and illustrations from wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawrence called the real stuff of tragedy. The heath's changing face mirrors the fortunes of the farmers, inn-keepers, sons, mothers, and lovers who populate the n...
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