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STRACHEY Lytton
Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning Dr. Arnold Florence Nightingale General Gordon
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering dust jacket. xi 342pp 5pp ads. Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. A tight attractive later printing of #212 the British writer's longest novel first published in this form in 1933 and here undated though binding and .95 jacket price suggest late 1930s/early 1940s. Ownership signature on front flyleaf of academic and literary critic Joseph J. Waldmeir 1923-2013; second ownership signature on front pastedown. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 42022
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HUGHES Richard
A High Wind in Jamaica The Innocent Voyage
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by Isabel Paterson. 12mo. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering price-clipped dust jacket. ix 399pp. Frontispiece 3 illustrations grey decorative endpapers. Very good/very good. Faint jacket edgewear with tiny chips at spine head and tail. A tight attractive later printing of #112 first published in 1932 and here undated though binding and jacket details suggest late 1950s. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 42010
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SCOTT Walter
Rob Roy
London: The Folio Society 2001. Hardcover. Introduction by Allan Massie. Illustrations by George Tute. 8vo. Tan cloth spine with gilt lettering and marbled paper over boards brown paper over boards slipcase. xv 500pp. Frontispiece illustrations. Fine/fine. A tight and pristine first of this edition of the classic triple-decker first published in Edinburgh in 1818. The Folio Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 41053
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O'BRIAN Patrick
Desolation Island
New York: W.W. Norton & Company 1994. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth spine with gilt lettering and pale blue paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. 325pp. Illustration. Fine/fine. A wonderfully tight and bright first American uniform edition. 5th novel in the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series with publisher's "Aubrey/Maturin Novels" bookmark laid in. W.W. Norton & Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 41075 ISBN : 0393037053 9780393037050
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NASHE Thomas
Songs from the Dramatists
Norwich: Martin Kinder 1929. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan paper over boards dust jacket. 18pp. Frontispiece woodcut. Near fine/very good. Jacket age toned about the edges with several tiny edge chips; front and rear flyleaf qiote age toned as always. A tight lovely copy of this slim verse gathering from the prolific pamphleteering poet and playwright 1567-1601. Limited to 250 numbered copies this #206. Martin Kinder hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40626
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CROWQUILL Alfred
Seymour's Humorous Sketches Comprising Eighty-Six Caricature Etchings Illustrated in Prose and Verse. With a Descriptive List of the Plates and a Biographical Notice of Robert Seymour Including an Account of His Connexion with The Pickwick Papers
London: Henry G. Bohn 1871. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter calf spine rebacked in matching brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorative paper over boards. xviii 173pp. All edges gilt. Numerous line drawings. Very good. Faintest of edgewear only; rebacked spine and new endpapers. Tight and handsome "New Edition" of these famed illustrations first published 1834-36 by Robert Seymour 1798-1836 one of the best illustrators of his day and remembered for his caricatures and his work with Charles Dickens. "Crowquill" was the pseudonym of author and illustrator Alfred Henry Forrester 1804-72. A lovely copy. Henry G. Bohn hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40192
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ELIOT George
The Best-Known Novels of George Eliot: Adam Bede The Mill on the Floss Silas Marner Romola
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 1350pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A wonderfully tight and bright undated early printing of number 51 in the "Modern Library Giant" series first published 1940. According to Toledano this rear jacket panel was only in use through 1940 the year this volume was first published though this copy does not bear the usual Modern Library copyright page first edition statement. Uncommon in such a lovely jacket in any case. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40223
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BULFINCH Thomas
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable the Age of Chivalry Legends of Charlemagne
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering pictorial dust jacket. xi 778p. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight and attractive early printing undated but ca. 1940 of Modern Library Giant #G14 first published in 1934. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40250
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FIELDING Henry
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams
New York: The Modern Library 1939. Hardcover. Introduction by Howard Mumford Jones. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering dust jacket. xxviii 422pp. Near fine/very good. Faintest of edgewear to a bright sharp jacket. First of #117 Modern Library edition tight and lovely. An exceptionally sharp copy. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40247
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SHAW George Bernard
Four Plays by Bernard Shaw: Candida Caesar and Cleopatra Pygmalion Heartbreak House
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering pictorial dust jacket. xii 473pp 8pp ads. Grey patterned endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket a tad edgeworn. Tight and quite nice later undated but ca. 1957 printing of #19 first published in this form in 1953. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40243
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SHAW George Bernard
Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan Major Barbara Androcles and the Lion
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering pictorial dust jacket. 479pp 9pp ads. Grey patterned endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight attractive later printing undated but ca. 1962 of #294 first published in this form in 1956. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40273
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SHAKESPEARE William
The Tragedies of Shakespeare: Volume Two
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. Red cloth with gilt lettering pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 583-1266pp 8pp ads. Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear with tiny chips at head and tail of spines. A tight and attractive copy of #3 the second volume only of this 2-volume set this edition first published in 1959 and this undated early printing ca. 1960 given binding and jacket style. Includes "Hamlet" "King Lear" "Othello" "Antony and Cleopatra" "Cymbeline" and "Pericles." The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40272
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GOLDSMITH Oliver
The Vicar of Wakefield
London: John C. Nimmo 1886. Hardcover. Prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury. Illustrations by V.A. Poirson. Small 4to. Fall polished green calf with gilt rules compartments gilt spine lettering and decorations inner dentelles. xvi 291pp 23pp ads. All edges gilt. Numerous small color illustrations marbled endpapers. Very good. Spine slightly sunned to a golden color; hinges a tad delicate but holding. First of this illustrated edition. Superb copy of this scarce lovingly illustrated edition -- custom bound with the original brown decorated cloth spine and cloth front and rear panels bound in at rear. John C. Nimmo hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40309
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HUDSON WH. W. H.
The Purple Land
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by William Mcfee. 16mo. Brown limp balloon cloth with gilt lettering. xvi 389pp. Orange decorative endpapers. Very good. Faintest of edgewear. A tight and nice early printing of #24 first published 1927 undated but based on binding style 1930. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40165
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BUTLER Samuel
The Way of All Flesh
New York: Boni and Liveright n.y. Hardcover. 16mo. Brown leatherette with gilt lettering and decoration. 411pp. Pictorial endpapers. Very good. Mild edgewear. A tight and nice early printing this binding style in use from 1919 to 1925 of Modern Library #13 -- first published in this form in 1917. Boni and Liveright hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40159
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JOYCE James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by Herbert Gorman. 12mo. Grey cloth price-clipped dust jacket. xii 299pp 6pp ads. Decorative endpapers. Very good/good plus. Jacket edgeworn with numerous edge chips -- but complete and fairly attractive nonetheless. A tight and attractive later ca. late '40s/early '50s printing of #145 first issued in this form in 1928. Ownership signature on front flyleaf of academic and literary critic Joseph J. Waldmeir 1923-2013 with occasional pencilled margin notes by him and with three 4" X 6" lined index cards laid in filled with his pencilled notes possibly for one of his many published book reviews. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40140
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MULOCK Miss
The Little Lame Prince
New York: H.M. Caldwell Co n.y. Hardcover. 16mo. Green cloth spine with gilt lettering and faux wood-grain paper over boards with gilt lettering and border and color plate on front board. 126pp. Frontispiece illustrations. Very good. Faint edgewear. A tight and cute undated but turn-of-the-century later printing of this 1874 young adult tale by the pseudonymous Miss Mulock English novelist and poet Dinah Craik 1826-87. H.M. Caldwell Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40178
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English M. C.
An Outline of Nigerian History
Nigeria: Longmans of Nigeria. Good. 1966. Paperback. First Nigerian Impression as stated on copyright page 212 pages illustrations and maps throughout has some soiling to the cover and outer page-edges also a crease on the front cover and the former owner's name at the top of the map on the front end-paper the contents are fine a good reading copy . Longmans of Nigeria paperback
Bookseller reference : 040403
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LAWRENCE DH. D. H.
Birds Beasts and Flowers
New York: Thomas Seltzer 1923. Hardcover. 8vo. Salmon cloth with paper spine label. ix 180pp. Very good. Binding and spine label typically lightly age toned. Tight and internally near fine first American edition of this lovely verse collection. Thomas Seltzer hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39939
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LAWRENCE DH. D. H.
The Collected Poems of D.H. Lawrence
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith 1929. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. 232pp 304pp. Very good. Faintest of edgewear; rear endpaper a bit age toned. A tight and attractive first edition of this poetry pair the first volume subtitled "Rhyming Poems" and the second volume "Unrhyming Poems." The most discreet of ex-library with no markings save small number at foot of each spine. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39940
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SHAW George Bernard
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God
New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1933. Hardcover. Illustrations by John Farleigh. 8vo. Black cloth with white lettering. 75pp. Engraved title page engravings engraved endpapers. Very good. A tight and handsome first edition first state of this slim tale of a young African girl's quest for religion featuring Farleigh's powerful illustrations. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39890
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CROFTON Algernon
The Goat's Hoof
New York: Covici Friede 1928. Hardcover. Illustrations by Donald Denton. Small 8vo. Blue cloth. 246pp. Frontispiece line drawings. Very good. A tight and nice second printing of this "guide for husbands wives and lovers" so subtitled on the jacket front panel which is laid in loose by this little-known British author. Racy stuff in its day with edge illustrations to match -- though seemingly tame today. Covici, Friede hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39891
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LAWRENCE DH. D. H.
Sea and Sardinia
New York: Thomas Seltzer 1921. Hardcover. Illustrations by Jan Juta. Small 4to. Yellow cloth spine with paper label and green paper over boards. 355pp. Color frontispiece map 7 full-page tissue-guarded color plates. Good plus. Binding a bit edgeworn with chip at lower right of front board and spine slightly toned; endpapers age toned and rear joint delicate but expertly archivally strengthened thus strong. First U.S. edition first state with the expected inverted text line on page 127 of this travelogue tight and fairly attractive despite wear. Thomas Seltzer hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39938
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WALPOLE Hugh
Maradick at Forty: A Transition
New York: George H. Doran Company n.y. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. 427pp. Very good. Spine lettering dulled else tight clean quite nice. Attractive early printing of this early Walpole fiction first published 1910 signed and inscribed large and bold by Walpole on the front flyleaf: "With best wishes / from Hugh Walpole / Dec: 5 '15." Laid in is a brief amusing undated contemporary note from "Cousin Marcus" presenting this copy "Recently Hugh Walpole inscribed one of his books To Mrs Stevenson a Cornish Woman from Hugh Walpole A Cornish Man It pleased me very much and I got him to autograph one for you.". George H. Doran Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39867
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WALPOLE Hugh
Jeremy and Hamlet
New York: George H. Doran Company 1923. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering dust jacket. 305pp. Very good/good. Spine lettering rubbed else tight clean and attractive nice; jacket quite rubbed and edgeworn with 2�" chip at head of spine and discreet archival strengthening on verso thus complete and overall rather nice. A tight and nice first U.S. edition of Walpole's second "Jeremy" title. George H. Doran Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39869
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WALPOLE Hugh
The Fortress
New York: Doubleday Doran & Company 1932. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with silver lettering and pictorial stamping pictorial dust jacket. viii 584pp. Foldout genealogical chart at rear. Very good/very good. Endpapers a tad age toned; mild jacket edgewear. Wonderfully tight and attractive first edition of this fiction that follows the Herries family of London from the time of Waterloo through Queen Victoria's later years. Designer Edward A. Wilson's partly-colored jacket is quite striking. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39670
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WALPOLE Hugh
The Cathedral
New York: George H. Doran Company 1922. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering. x 459pp. Very good. Rear hinge starting but expertly and archivally strengthened thus tight. A nice early printing of this fiction signed large and bold by Walpole on the front flyleaf which he dates 12 January 1927. George H. Doran Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39680
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HARDY Thomas
The Return of the Native
New York: Pocket Books n.y. Hardcover. 16mo. Brown leatherette spine with gilt lettering and decorations and brown floral paper over boards. 463pp 2pp. Matching floral endpapers. Near fine. Wonderfully tight handsome edition a volume in the "Collector's Editions" imprint that Pocket Books marketed as "Fine Books for Everyman-With-A-Dollar" -- undated but circa 1950s. Pocket Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39761
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BRONTE Emily
Wuthering Heights
New York: Pocket Books n.y. Hardcover. 16mo. Black leatherette spine with gilt lettering and decorations and beige decorative paper over boards. 408pp. Matching floral endpapers. Near fine. Small ownership signature on half-title page. A lovely tight and handsome edition of this 1847 classic a volume in the "Collector's Editions" imprint that Pocket Books marketed as "Fine Books for Everyman-With-A-Dollar" -- undated but circa 1950s. Pocket Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39762
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BARRIE James M.
The Little Minister
New York: Street & Smith n.y. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and black decorations. 311pp 7pp ads. Frontispiece illustrations. Very good. Almost but not quite rates "Near fine" as it's tight 'n' bright with just the faintest edgewear; contemporary ownership signature on front flyleaf. Handsome early reprint edition of this fiction with gilt lettering brilliant. Copyright dated 1891 the Lovell edition and this reprint certainly of 1890s vintage. Not in Cutler. Street & Smith hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39600
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SCOTT Walter
Redgauntlet: A Tale of the 18th Century. / The Betrothed: A Tale of the Crusaders. / The Highland Widow: Chronicles of the Canongate
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black 1867. Hardcover. 16mo. Quarter burgundy calf with raised bands and gilt lettering and decorations and marbled paper over boards. 344pp; xvi 368pp. Marbled endpapers. Very good. Mild edgewear and bit of rubbing; some age toning to preliminary leaves only. Tight handsome and thick little volume containing three of the numerous Waverley Novels. Though not so marked this was custom bound for the library of Wisconsin civic leader James M. Lynch died 1882 who served as chief clerk at the Adjutant General's Office during the Civil War and was appointed quartermaster general in 1865. Adam and Charles Black hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39635
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SHAW George Bernard
Four Plays by Bernard Shaw: Candida Caesar and Cleopatra Pygmalion Heartbreak House
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xii 473pp 10pp ads. Tan patterned endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed and edgeworn with chip at tail of spine and a few other tiny edge chips. A tight and attractive later ca. mid-1960s printing of #19 first published in this form in 1953. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39457
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O'BRIAN Patrick
The Hundred Days
New York: W.W. Norton & Company 1998. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth spine with gilt lettering and pale blue paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. 281pp. Illustration. Fine/near fine. Small abrasion at upper right of front flyleaf. First American edition of the 19th novel in the Aubrey/Maturin series -- tight and handsome. W.W. Norton & Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39082 ISBN : 0393046745 9780393046748
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FIELDING Henry
The History of Tom Jones a Foundling
Wesleyan MA: Wesleyan University Press 1975. Hardcover. Edited by Fredson Bowers. Illustrations by Warren Chappell. Introduction by Martin C. Battestin. Small 4to. Tan cloth slipcase. xxx 999pp. Color frontispiece full-page color plates illustrations. Sewn-in burgundy silk page marker. Near fine/near fine. Circular blind-embossed ownership imprint on pp. vii and pp. 75 and single-sentence editorial comment penned on inner flyleaf. Tight and handsome "Wesleyan Edition." Wesleyan University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39011
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JOYCE James
Ulysses
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. Foreword by Morris L. Ernst. 8vo. Red cloth pictorial dust jacket. xvii 768pp. Very good/very good. Inoffensive stains on bottom page edges; circular blind-embossed ownership imprint on half-title page; faint jacket edgewear. Uncommon Modern Library Giant #G52 in tight handsome condition -- late 1950s vintage. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39063
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JONES Richard
Supper with the Borgias
Boston: Little Brown and Company 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with silver lettering and blue paper over boards dust jacket. 320pp. Fine/very good. Faintest jacket edgewear. A tight handsome first U.S. edition of this author's second novel. Little, Brown and Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38766
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BULFINCH Thomas
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable the Age of Chivalry Legends of Charlemagne
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering pictorial dust jacket. x 778p 2pp ads. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear; ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight handsome later printing of this Modern Library Giant #G14 first published in 1934 and this printing from the late 1950s. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38759
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CERF Bennett A. and CARTMELL Van H. compilers
Sixteen Famous British Plays
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by John Mason Brown. 8vo. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering dust jacket. 383pp. Tan decorative endpapers. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; ownership name/address on front flyleaf and very occasional minor ink underlining and brief margin comments on several pages. A tight and decent later late 1950s printing of Modern Library Giant #63 first published in 1943. Includes plays by J.M. Barrie A.A. Milne Noel Coward Emlyn Williams J.B. Priestley Somerset Maugham Oscar Wilde John Galsworthy Arnold Bennett and others. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38794
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HUDSON Stephen
Richard Myrtle and I.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1962. Hardcover. Edited by Violet Schiff. Essay by Theophilus E.M. Boll. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering dust jacket. 140pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear and bit of age toning. First of this modern edition after the true first edition and first U.S. edition both in 1926. Odd autograph addition: Noted American sculptor Carl Tolpo 1901-76 was commissioned to create a statue of Illinois senator Everett Dirksen and on September 16 1976 this was dedicated on the grounds of the Illinois State Capitol building -- but an inscription on the front pastedown of this book by Tolpo's wife Lily Tolpo born 1917 also a noted sculptor records: "Bght in Harlan's Dept Store in Sterling Ill for 5 cents July 27 1976 on way to Springfield to see the Dirksen statue installed. Lily & Carl Tolpo." The Tolpos underline and margin squiggle several pages in the "Biographical Note." Two months later and about one week after the formal dedication Carl Tolpo died. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the English novelist and translator Sydney Schiff pseudonym Stephen Hudson 1868-1944 popular novelist of the teens '20s and '30s -- but is interesting nonetheless. University of Pennsylvania Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38672
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FIELDING Henry
The History of Tom Jones a Foundling
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth pictorial dust jacket. xxiii 861pp. Near fine/very good. Quite mild jacket edgewear. A superbly tight and attractive early printing ca. 1942 of this Modern Library Giant #G54 first published in 1940. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38349
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LAWRENCE DH. D. H.
The First Lady Chatterley
New York: Shakespeare House 1951. Hardcover. 16mo. Quarter dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and light blue paper over boards with giltstamped Shakespeare portrait dust jacket. 220pp 4pp. Top edge gilt. Sewn-in purple silk page marker. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. First of this edition. Tight handsome copy of this cute diminutive edition of the first draft of "Lady Chatterley's Lover." Shakespeare House hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38160
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LAWRENCE DH. D. H.
Sons and Lovers
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by John Macy. 12mo. Grey cloth pictorial dust jacket. ix 491pp 8pp ads.Decorative endpapers Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear with spine quite sunned. Tight attractive later printing ca. 1950 of #109. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38259
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SWIFT Jonathan
Gulliver's Travels: An Account of the Four Voyages into Several Remote Nations of the World
New York: The Heritage Press 1960. Hardcover. Illustrations by Fritz Eichenberg. Small 4to. Blue cloth pictorial paper over boards slipcase. xvi 330pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Slipcase rather scuffed and shelfworn cut complete and strong. Tight clean attractive copy of this smaller mass-produced version of the Limited Editions Club publication -- known as the "poor man's LEC." Not the regular Heritage Press reprint of 1959 but the "Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf" or "Junior Heritage" edition for younger readers. Laid in is "The Monthly Magazine of the Junior Heritage Club" covering this title. The Heritage Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38021
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PEPYS Samuel
Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. Edited by Richard Le Gallienne. Red cloth with gilt lettering dust jacket. xvi 330pp 6pp ads. Grey decorative endpapers. Good plus/very good. Dampstained along spine extending partly onto boards; jacket lightly edgeworn with spine age toned and couple of edge chips along top. Tight decent later ca. late 1940s printing of #103 in this series first published in 1921. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38018
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CORVO Frederick Baron
A History of the Borgias
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by Shane Leslie. 12mo. Russet cloth with silver lettering price-clipped dust jacket. xxxiii 408pp. Grey decorative endpapers. Very good/very good. Faint jacket edgewear; scribbled out ownership signature on front pastedown. Tight nice later printing of #192 in this series. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37988
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SWIFT Jonathan
Gulliver's Travels; A Tale of a Tub; The Battle of the Books
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering dust jacket. xiii 550pp 8pp ads. 3 illustrations decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild bit of jacket edgewear with spine age toned. Tight handsome later printing of #100 in this series -- despite the "First Modern Library Edition 1947" statement on copyright page the dust jacket price of $2.45 applies to title published between 1965 and 1970. The title page of early London editions of each of these three titles are illustrated. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37967
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BENNETT Arnold
The Old Wives' Tale
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt lettering pictorial dust jacket. xx 817pp 9pp ads. Decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild bit of faint jacket edgewear. A tight and lovely later printing of #184 in this series -- killer front jacket panel illustration. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37970
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THURBER James
The Thurber Carnival
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering pictorial dust jacket. 369pp 9pp ads. Numerous line drawings decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight and attractive later printing of #85 in this series illustrated with Thurber's drawings. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37968
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HUGHES Thomas
School Days at Rugby. / Tom Brown at Oxford: A Sequel to School Days at Rugby
Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1864. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set. Quarter calf with gilt spine decorations and paper labels expert contemporary replacements and red marbled paper over boards. viii 405pp; iv 378pp; viii 430pp. Frontispieces marbled endpapers and page edges. Very good. Faint edgewear and scuffed marbled paper though internally white bright and near fine. A tight quite handsome early printing of this English classic in a classy custom binding of the period; Ticknor and Fields first published "School Days at Rugby" in 1857 and "Tom Brown at Oxford" in 1861. From the library of Wisconsin civic leader JAMES M. LYNCH chief clerk at the Adjutant General's Office during the Civil War appointed quartermaster general in 1865. He boldly signs the inner flyleaf of the first volume in brown ink dating it "Milwaukee Wis. / Oct. 31 1865." Inner flyleaf of the second volume "Part First" of the 2-volume "Tom Brown at Oxford" bears pencilled nonauthorial gift inscription to him though in Lynch's hand! "From Andr. Sexton / To his friend / James M. Lynch / Decbr 25 1865." Ticknor and Fields hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37642
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FIELDING Henry
The History of Tom Jones a Foundling
New York: Random House 1964. Hardcover. Illustrations by Lawrence Beall Smith. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and burgundy paper over boards burgundy paper over boards slipcase with paper label. xxiii 721pp. 9 full-page color plates. Near fine/very good. Minor slipcase wear; small engraved bookplate on front flyleaf and "Compliments of the Author" i.e. publisher card on inner flyleaf. A tight and lovely copy of this superbly-illustrated edition. Random House hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37631
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