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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: The Easton Press: 1980

Edition: Reissue

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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The Undesirable Governess (Illustrated)

By: Crawford, F. Marion

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Macmillan Company: 1910

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2300998

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. No jacket. Binding broken at rear hinge. 1910 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 227 pp. Green boards. Gilt title on spine and on front board. Floral decor on front board. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Francis Marion Crawford (August 2, 1854 – April 9, 1909)[1] was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories.
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The Little City of Hope: A Christmas Story

By: Crawford, F. Marion

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1907

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2287016

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Bookplate on front endpapers, ink name on front paste-down endpaper. 1907 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 209 pp. Illustrated by W. Benda. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: F. Marion Crawford was a prolific American author. He is well known for his many mysterious and weird fiction novels.
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The Heart of Rome: A Tale of the Lost Water

By: Crawford, F. [Francis] Marion

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Macmillan Company: 1903

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 2206149

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. No jacket, front board lightly bumped, pencil marking to rear endpaper. 1903 Hard Cover. 396, [4] pp. Francis Marion Crawford (August 2, 1854 – April 9, 1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories. KEYWORDS: FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD HEART ROME TALE LOST WATER LITERATURE ITALY
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Tales of a Traveller

By: Crayon, Geoffrey [Irving, Washington]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: G.P. Putnam Sons: 1865

Edition: Revised Edition

Seller ID: 2264526

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ink gift note on front endpaper. 1865 Hard Cover. vi, 530, [4] pp. 16mo. The author's revised edition, complete in one volume. Original green cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Engraved title page with illustration precedes printed title page. A collection of short stories by the author of Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, etc. Includes: STRANGE STORIES BY A NERVOUS GENTLEMAN: The Great Unknown; The Hunting-Dinner; The Adventure of My Uncle; The Adventure of My Aunt; The Bold Dragoon, or The Adventure of My Grandfather; The Adventure of the German Student; The Adventure of the My...
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The Gold Diggers and Other Stories (SL 326)

By: Creeley, Robert

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1972

Seller ID: 2263734

ISBN: 0684127245

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Ink name stamp inside wrappers, small sticker on spine base. 1972 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 158, [2] pp. A collection of short stories by the author best known for his poetry, representing Creeley's first foray into prose (these stories were written before his 1962 novel The Island). Creeley is generally associated with the Black Mountain poets, despite his verse displaying a style somewhat different from most members of that group. He was friends with a number of other influential poets of his day, including Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Jo...
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The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1864: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry

By: D. Appleton & Company

Price: $80.00

Publisher: D. Appleton & Company: 1865

Seller ID: 2199366

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

A bit rubbed, lightly foxed throughout but especially on title page. 1865 Full-Leather. 838 pp. 10 x 6 3/4. Gilt titles, marbled endpapers. U.S. Grant portrait frontispiece plus several illustrations & maps. A contemporary account of various events in the news during the Civil War, both within and outside the U.S. Some entries from the Subject Index include: Geographical Explorations and Discoveries, Gun Cotton, British India, Freedom of the Press, Habeas Corpus, Confederate States, Florida, Obituaries, Exchange of Prisoners, Peru, Pneumatic Railway, Spain, Public Documents, etc.
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Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature

By: Dabney, Lewis M.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux: 2005

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2288717

ISBN: 0374113122

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket spine head bumped. Top page ridge lightly foxed. 2005 Hard Cover. xiii, 639 pp. From the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In his own youth a crucial champion of the young Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilson went on to write three classics of literary and intellectual history (Axel's Castle, To the Finland Station, and Patriotic Gore), searching reportage, and criticism that has outlasted many of its subjects. Wilson documented his unruly private life--a formative love affair with ...
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Two Years Before The Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life At Sea (Westvaco's American Classics Series 1992)

By: Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Westvaco Corporation: 1992

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2294312

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase. Edges faintly foxed, slipcase lightly soiled. 1992 Hard Cover. 370, [2] pp. 8vo. Light blue-green cloth spine over cream paper over boards, gilt titles, ribbon marker bound in. Engraved illustration of Boston Harbor, title page illustration details the various sails of the ship, decorated endpapers, small illustrations throughout text. Inspiration for the film starring Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, and William Bendix. Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834 and published ...
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Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab and Arab American Women on Writing

By: Darraj, Susan Muaddi

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Praeger: 2004

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2302516

ISBN: 0275981762

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Bottom edge of front jacket panel bumped. Front board slightly bowed, minor highlighting. 2004 Hard Cover. xv, 159 pp. In a time when it seems that the gap of understanding between the West and the Middle East continues to widen, Scheherazade's Legacy builds a bridge between the two cultures. Collected here are the voices of those who define the genre of Arab Anglophone writing?that literature that describes the cultural experiences of those with Arab identities living, and often writing, in the West. Contributions from such writers as Naomi Shihab Nye, Diana Abu-Jaber, Suheir H...
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The Legend of Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak and Their Adventures Heroical, Joyous, and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere, in Two Volumes

By: De Coster, Charles; Atkinson, F.M.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company: 1922

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2272121

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Boards a bit rubbed, ink name and year on front endpaper of each volume. 1922 Hard Cover. 321, [5]; 353, [1] pp. 8vo. Black cloth over paper-covered boards, paper spine labels. Translated from the original French by F.M. Atkinson. First published in 1867, this is a series of allegorical adventures based on the Low German folk hero Till Eulenspiegel. Coster changes the setting to the Reformation era Netherlands.
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Democracy in America (Westvaco's American Classics Series, 1999)

By: de Tocqueville, Alexis; Willkie, Wendell L.; Shattan, Joseph

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Westvaco Corporation: 1999

Seller ID: 2300625

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Includes publisher's slipcase. 1999 Hard Cover. 297, [3] pp. 8vo. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles and fleurs-de-lis, ribbon marker bound in. Color illustrated slipcase, color endpapers, color frontispiece, monochrome illustrations throughout. De Tocqueville's classic study of American politics, in the Henry Reeve translation, with an introduction by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn written specially for this edition. De la démocratie en Amérique (published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville on the United States in the 1830s and i...
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Democracy in America (Westvaco's American Classics Series, 1999)

By: de Tocqueville, Alexis; Willkie, Wendell L.; Shattan, Joseph

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Westvaco Corporation: 1999

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2299177

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Democracy in America (Westvaco's American Classics Series, 1999)

By: de Tocqueville, Alexis; Willkie, Wendell L.; Shattan, Joseph

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Westvaco Corporation: 1999

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2294311

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

How He Made His Fortune (Prize Series, 1889)

By: De Witt, Julia A.W.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society: 1889

Seller ID: 2303167

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Owner bookplate on front endpaper (Julia Bryant Toohy, daughter of author William Cullen Bryant), faint stain to top and bottom marginal edges, rear board lightly soiled. 1889 Hard Cover. 317 pp. 8vo. A story relating to the Molly Maguires, with a good amount of dialect within the dialogue. The Molly Maguires were an Irish 19th-century secret society active in Ireland, Liverpool and parts of the Eastern United States, best known for their activism among Irish-American and Irish immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania. After a series of often violent conflicts, twenty suspected members of the Mol...
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The Awakening of Helena Richie

By: Deland, Margaret; Clark, Walter Appleton

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1906

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2203581

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, pocket to rear paste-down endpaper, address label to front paste-down endpaper. 1906 Hard Cover. 356 pp. The Awakening of Helena Richie is a novel by the American writer Margaret Deland (1857 - 1945) set in the 19th century fictional locale of Old Chester, a Western Pennsylvania rural village just a few miles outside the city of Pittsburgh, then an industrial boomtown.
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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit and American Notes (2-Volume Set)

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press: 1894

Seller ID: 2196660

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes two volumes. Light edge wear. 1894 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised in 1843 and 1844.
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Nicholas Nickleby; Martin Chuzzlewit; American Notes (Vol. 2, The Complete Works of Charles Dickens, Library Edition)

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $15.00

Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1868

Seller ID: 2285880

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Corners rubbed with minor loss. 1868 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Volume 2 of a six-volume set. Includes complete works of Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, American Notes. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations, blind-stamped decorations. Illustrations by George Cruikshank, John Leech, and H.K. [Hablot Knight] Browne, also known as 'Phiz'. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters. Many of ...
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Encounters with Chinese Writers

By: Dillard, Annie

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press: 1984

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2270666

ISBN: 0819551309

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Inscribed without attribution and signed by author on title page ('Merry Christmas, Annie Dillard'). Top page edge lightly foxed. 1984 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. [x], 106, [4] pp. 8vo. By the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. The author describes her experiences as part of a group of American writers meeting with Chinese authors in China and the United States.
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, and The Complete Poetry of William Blake (The Modern Library)

By: Donne, John; Blake, William; Hillyer, Robert Silliman

Price: $12.00

Publisher: The Modern Library: 1941

Seller ID: 2275017

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, rear hinge starting, owner's stamp on front endpaper, half-title page and title page slightly stuck together. 1941 Hard Cover. lv, 1045 pp. ABOUT JOHN DONNE: John Donne (/d?n/ DUN; 22 January 1572[1] – 31 March 1631)[2] was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness...
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South Wind

By: Douglas, Norman

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1939

Seller ID: 2262404

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Includes publisher's slipcase, lacks Sandglass insert. Spine faded, slipcase repaired but split along seam still visible, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1939 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 383 pp. 8vo. Illustrated by Carlotta Petrina. South Wind is a 1917 novel by British author Norman Douglas. It is Douglas' most famous book. It is set on an imaginary island called Nepenthe, located off the coast of Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea, a thinly fictionalized description of Capri's residents and visitors. The novel's discussion of moral and sexual issues caused considera...
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South Wind

By: Douglas, Norman

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Argus Books: 1929

Edition: Fourth Edition

Seller ID: 2130071

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Fourth American edition, illustrated, one of 2000 copies (Woolf A19l), and the only edition to include John Austen's illustrations. Spine & edges toned, boards lightly rubbed. 1929 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 288; 300 pp. 8vo. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles, gilt top page ridge. The author's most famous novel, originally published in 1917. This version includes beautiful full-page color illustrations and 50 chapter headings by John Austen specially commissioned for this edition (the illustrations for the first illustrated edition were done by Valenti Angelo). Austen...
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Sister Carrie (A Modern Library Book, No. 8)

By: Dreiser, Theodore

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Modern Library: 1927

Seller ID: 2205342

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Boards and jacket reverse stained, ink initials to bottom page ridge jacket rubbed, ink name on front jacket flap. 1927 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vii, 557 pp. Author's first novel. Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by embarking on a life of sin rather than by hard work and perseverance. At the time of its first publication, the novel caused a minor scandal and Dreiser had difficulty finding a publisher for it. This was due to the blurred divis...
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The Genius

By: Dreiser, Theodore

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Boni and Liveright: 1923

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2293330

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1923 reissue, following the 1916 withdrawal of the John Lane edition by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. Pencil name on front endpaper, spine and top edge slightly faded. We have more books available by this author!. x, 736 pp. Tall 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles decorations. A controversial novel by the author of An American Tragedy and Sister Carrie.
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An American Tragedy (Masterpieces of American Literature)

By: Dreiser, Theodore; Hansen, Harry

Price: $100.00

Publisher: The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut: 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: 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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A History of Pennsylvania

By: Dunaway, Wayland Fuller

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Prentice-Hall: 1946

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 2200882

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

5th printing. Back corner exposed, ink name on front endpaper, minor pencil underlining on first four pages only. 1946 Hard Cover. xxiii, [1], 828 pp. 8vo. Two-page map inside. CONTENTS: Beginnings; The Founding of Pennsylvania; The Development of Democratic Institutions; The Settlers of Colonial Pennsylvania; The Era of Peaceful Progress; The French and Indian War; The Age of Controversy; Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution; The Rise of the Commonwealth; Population, Land and Labor; Agriculture; Manufacturers; Transportation and Trade; Social Life and Customs; Religion; Education; Arts a...
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Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields.

By: Edmonds, S. Emma E.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: W.S. Williams & Co.: 1865

Seller ID: 2302641

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Spine toned, boards rubbed with corners exposed, front matter lightly stained, a few pages soiled, rear endpaper absent and rear hinge weakening. 1865 Hard Cover. 384 pp. 8vo. Original brown pebbled cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Includes frontispiece and 12 engraved plates, with several of author disguised as a contraband (i.e., emancipated slave). From Publisher's Notice: No apology is necessary for adding one more to the numerous War Books which already fill a large space in American Literature; for, to the general reader, nothing connected with the Rebellion can be more interesting th...
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Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields.

By: Edmonds, S. Emma E.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: W.S. Williams & Co.: 1866

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2292783

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition (Sabin 21869). Spine faded, boards a bit soiled with some loss of gilt (more from spine), corners rubbed, moderately foxed throughout, gift note on front endpaper. 1866 Hard Cover. 384 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles & decorations. Includes more illustrations than listed in contents, with several of author disguised as a contraband (i.e., emancipated slave). From Publisher's Notice: No apology is necessary for adding one more to the numerous War Books which already fill a large space in American Literature; for, to the general reader, nothing connected with the Rebellion can...
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Arctic Heart: Poem Cycle

By: Ehrlich, Gretel; Buckland, David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Capra Press: 1992

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2200748

ISBN: 0884963578

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages toned. 1992 Trade Paperback. 65 pp. Imagery by David Buckland. Poems written by Gretel Ehrlich after a visit to the Canadian High Arctic in May of 1991. Gretel Ehrlich is an American travel writer, poet, and essayist. Born in 1946 in Santa Barbara, California, she studied at Bennington College and UCLA film school. She began to write full-time in 1978, living on a Wyoming ranch, after the death of a loved one. Ehrlich debuted in 1985 with The Solace of Open Spaces, a collection of essays on rural life in Wyoming. Her first novel, also ...
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Keyword:AMERICAN LITERATURE

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