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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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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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WHITE, TH. T. H.
The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King
Austin: University of Texas Press 1977. Hardcover. Prologue by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Illustrations by Trevor Stubley. Small 4to. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering pictorial dust jacket. xx 137pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket rubbing with spine slightly sunned; circular blind-embossed ownership imprint on title page. A tight and handsome second printing of the true last chapter of "The Once and Future King" published here for the first time. University of Texas Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39080 ISBN : 0292707185 9780292707184
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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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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 1917-2015 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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LARGE, EC. E. C.
Sugar in the Air: A Romance
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1937. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue blind-embossed cloth with gilt lettering and decorations pictorial dust jacket. 447pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn with several tiny edge chips mainly at head and foot of spine. A tight and quite nice first edition in sharp jacket of this classic to cite front flap copy "fantastic satire on modern science in its application to 'big business'." Ernest Charles Large 1902-76 was a chemist and plant scientist turned novelist. Uncommon. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37883
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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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FIELDING, Henry
The Miscellaneous Works of Henry Fielding
New York: Derby & Jackson 1857. Hardcover. Complete 4-volume set. Small 8vo. Quarter calf with raised bands and gilt lettering and marbled paper over boards. 492pp; 443pp; 547pp 4pp ads; 500pp 2pp ads. Frontispiece marbled endpapers and page edges. Very good. Faintest of edgewear. Supremely tight and handsome first of this edition in a superb custom binding with giltstamping bright and internally bright and free of foxing and age toning. Volumes I and II contain "Tom Jones" Volume III "Amelia" and Volume IV "Joseph Andrews" and "Jonathan Wild." 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 dates an inner flyleaf of the first volume in pencil "Aug 31` 70. Derby & Jackson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37641
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WILSON, John, MAGINN, William, LOCKHART, JG., and HOGG, James J. G.
Noctes Ambrosianae
New York: W.J. Widdleton Publisher 1863. Hardcover. Edition revised by R. Shelton Mackenzie. Complete 5-volume set. 8vo. Quarter calf with gilt spine lettering and decorations and paper labels expert contemporary replacements and marbled paper over boards. xxxii 486pp; xxxvi 432pp; xvi 469pp; xxii 468pp; xxxii xii 465pp. Frontispieces marbled endpapers and page edges. Very good. Mild edgewear but internally bright and near fine. Handsome and tight custom-bound set of this series of 71 fictional dialogues first published by "Blackwood's Magazine" between 1822 and 1835. 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 Volumes II IV and V in brown ink dating each "Madison Wis. / 1863. W.J. Widdleton, Publisher hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37654
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CARROLL Paul Vincent
Irish Stories and Plays
New York: The Devin-Adair Company 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. White and black cloth pictorial dust jacket. 278pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear with a few small edge chips; bookplate on front pastedown. Tight and most attractive first edition containing eight short stories three one-act plays and one three-act play by the noted Irish writer 1900--68. The Devin-Adair Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 37069
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SHAKESPEARE, William
Four Great Historical Plays of William Shakespeare
New York: Pocket Books 1951. Hardcover. Edited by William Aldis Wright. Introduction by Henry W. Simon. Illustrations by Louis L. Glanzman. 16mo. Quarter leatherette with gilt lettering and decorations and tan floral paper over boards. x 469pp. Line drawings floral endpapers. Very good. Faint bit of edgewear. Tight and handsome "Collector's Edition" of this compilation of "Henry IV" Parts I and II "Henry V" and "Richard III." Lovely copy of this cute little edition. Pocket Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 36785
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HUGHES, Thomas
Tom Brown's School-Days
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates n.y. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and extensive black decorative stamping. 39pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Small ownership signature on half-title page; mild binding wear at corners. Later undated but circa 1880s "Alta Edition" of this 1857 bestseller -- titled "Tom Brown at Rugby" on spine and front board. Porter & Coates hardcover
Bookseller reference : 36776
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FIELDING Henry
The History of Tom Jones a Foundling
New York: Heritage Press 1952. Hardcover. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Illustrations by T.M. Cleland. Small 4to. Tan cloth spine with gilt lettering and marbled paper over boards slipcase. xvi 780pp. Frontispiece color illustrations. Near fine/very good. Slipcase lightly worn but strong. Tight quite attractive copy of this "poor man's Limited Editions Club" edition. Appropriate "Sandglass" newsletter issue laid in. Heritage Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 36702
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ENGLISH COMBATANT
Battle-Fields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; With Sketches of Confederate Commanders and Gossip of the Camps
Alexandria: Time-Life Books 1984. Hardcover. 8vo. Black blind-embossed leather with gilt lettering. xxvii 517pp. All edges gilt. Frontispiece 2 foldout maps marbled endpapers sewn-in red silk page marker. Fine. Tight handsome facsimile reprint of the 1864 John Bradburn first edition a volume in the "Collector's Library of the Civil War" series. James I. Robertson Jr. writes "One of the most consulted of Southern sources for military operations; the author was an Englishman who served briefly in the Confederate army; his rancor and exaggerations offset in part his good observations." NEVINS I 55. Time-Life Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 35983 ISBN : 0809443910 9780809443918
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QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur, and DU MAURIER, Daphne
Castle Dor
Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. 274pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn and rubbed. Tight nice book club edition of this "novel set in the romantic tradition in 19th century Cornwall" -- unfinished by Quiller-Couch at his death in 1941 and completed by Du Maurier in 1960. Doubleday & Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 35607
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NATHAN, George Jean (foreword)
Five Great Modern Irish Plays: The Playboy of the Western World by John M. Synge Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey Riders to the Sea by John M. Synge Spreading the News by Lady Gregory Shadow and Substance by Paul Vincent Carroll
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Grey cloth dust jacket. xiii 332pp 6pp ads. Decorative endpapers. Very good/very good. Jacket slightly edgeworn with small edge chips; miniscule ownership signature on front flyleaf. Later printing of this 1941 Modern Library collection #30. Tight and nice. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 35506
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FIELDING, Henry
The History of Tom Jones a Foundling
New York: Heritage Press 1952. Hardcover. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. Illustrations by T.M. Cleland. Small 4to. Tan cloth spine with gilt lettering and marbled paper over boards slipcase. xvi 780pp. Frontispiece color illustrations. Fine/near fine. A tight handsome copy of this "poor man's Limited Editions Club" edition with the appropriate "Sandglass" issue laid in. Heritage Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 35213
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DEFOE, Daniel
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
New York: The Heritage Press 1942. Hardcover. Illustrations by Reginald Marsh. 8vo. Brown cloth with black and gilt lettering and decorations slipcase. xv 354pp. Frontispiece numerous line drawings. Near fine/very good. Faint toning to endpapers as usual; slipcase only lightly worn. Tight clean and handsome copy of this "poor man's Limited Editions Club" trade edition. The Heritage Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 35212
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SHAKESPEARE, William
Julius Caesar
New York: Simon and Schuster 1975. Paperback. Edited by Maurice Charney. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers pictorial dust jacket. xxvi 195pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Bit of age toning and mild jacket edgewear. First of this edition being side-by-side texts with the original text and a modern rendition -- "The Shakespeare Parallel Text Series." Though the three volumes in this series the others are "Hamlet" and "King Lear" are often seen in a slipcase this unusual copy features a never-before-seen DUST JACKET showing a David Levinesque caricature of Julius Caesar surrounded by plotting advisors and notes "Presented with the compliments of Great Northern Paper. Simon and Schuster paperback
Bookseller reference : 34345
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SHAKESPEARE, William
King Lear
New York: Simon and Schuster 1975. Paperback. Edited by Beatrice Tauss. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers pictorial dust jacket. xxii 265pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Bit of age toning and mild jacket edgewear. First of this edition being side-by-side texts with the original text and a modern rendition -- "The Shakespeare Parallel Text Series." Though the three volumes in this series the others are "Hamlet" and "Julius Caesar" are often seen in a slipcase this unusual copy features a never-before-seen DUST JACKET showing a David Levinesque caricature of a dark glowering Lear and notes "Presented with the compliments of Great Northern Paper. Simon and Schuster paperback
Bookseller reference : 34346
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DRINKWATER John
Abraham Lincoln: A Play
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1919. Paperback. Introduction by Arnold Bennett. 12mo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. xii 112pp. Frontispiece 7 full-page illustrations. Very good. Minor edgewear. "Illustrated Souvenir Edition" illustrated with photographs from one of the early productions. Black white orange and tan pictorial front wrapper of a famed portrait of a young unbearded Lincoln is exceptionally nifty. Houghton Mifflin Company paperback
Bookseller reference : 34130
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WARREN, Samuel
Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
New York: Harper & Brothers n.y. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set. 16mo. Original black blind-embossed cloth gilt lettering. xi 352pp; 351pp; 331pp. Very good overall. Mild edgewear and some dampstaining to second volume. Later printing "From the Fifth London Edition" tight and decent of this 1839 Victorian potboiler with a medical setting penned by the English barrister 1807-77 with medical training. Each front pastedown bears the quaint mid-19th century "Ladies' Library Association" of Kalamazoo Michigan plate tipped in. Harper & Brothers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 33664
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PEPYS, Samuel
Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys
New York: The Modern Library 1923. Hardcover. Edited by Richard Le Gallienne. 16mo. Brown cloth. xvi 330pp 699 ads. Decorative endpapers. Very good. Early printing of this early Modern Library tight and clean and handsome. Rather uncommon. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 33436
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EVANS, Nicholas
The Loop
London: Bantam Press 1998. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 434pp. Near fine/very good. Slight bit of minor jacket edgewear. First English edition tight and handsome of this novel set in Hope Montana by the "Horse Whisperer" author signed large and bold by the author in black ink on the title page. Bantam Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 33280 ISBN : 0593040678 9780593040676
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GRIFFIN, Gwyn
Freedom Observed
New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1963. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and brown cloth with white and green lettering pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 349pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a tad spine-sunned and a bit edgeworn with several small edge chips -- but overall tight clean and nice. First edition. Gripping tale of a U.N. secretary's visit to a newly independent African nation. Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover
Bookseller reference : 33202
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FIELDING, Henry
The History of Tom Jones a Foundling
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. Hardcover. Introduction by Wilbur Cross. Complete 2-volume set. 8vo. Burgundy cloth gilt. xxxi 434pp; xv 427pp. Top edges gilt. Very good. Spines a tad worn; bookplate on each front pastedown. First of this "Borzoi Classics" edition limited to 3000 numbered sets this #1479 -- tight clean attractive. Lacks the slipcase. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
Bookseller reference : 32616
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DURRELL, Lawrence
Sauve Qui Peut
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1967. Hardcover. Illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. 8vo. Red cloth spine and purple paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. 82pp. Line drawings. Near fine/very good. Jacket very slightly edgeworn and with spine sunned else a tight and nice first U.S. edition of this slim collection of humorous tales about "life in the diplomatic corps. E.P. Dutton & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 32337
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BUNYAN, John
The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come.; Introduction by Charles M. Sheldon
New York: The Christian Herald 1910. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with black white and gold pictorial giltstamping. 427pp 5pp ads. Frontispiece numerous illustrations. Very good. Spine slightly sunned and with spine giltstamping rather rubbed but overall a tight clean quite handsome copy of the "Red Line Edition" with each text page of course bearing red outline ruled. A lovely copy of this well illustrated edition of the 1678 allegorical tale. The Christian Herald hardcover
Bookseller reference : 32361
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BOYD, William
On the Yankee Station
New York: William Morrow and Company 1984. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth spine and grey paper over boards dust jacket. 217pp. Near fine/near fine. A superb and tight first edition of this collection of fifteen short stories by the prize-winning novelist. A bit uncommon. William Morrow and Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 32460
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PARFIT, Cliff , Director English Centre , Japan
EXLIBRIS JAPAN An INTRODUCTORY HANDBOOK to the BOOKPLATES of JAPAN A Study of Japanese Bookplates
TOKYO Japan: NIPPON EXLIBRIS Association 1982 An UNCOMMON title of a subject matter of increasing interest to artists & collectors alike." Meticulous workmanship beautiful handmade paper & careful printing are all part of the Japanese exlibris world; in a country of small - bonsai netsuke & origami - small graphic work has a special appeal to Japanese artists." A study of Japanese bookplates containing an introductory essay on Japanese Exlibris Short bibliography 71 pages of Colour plates showing Bookplates & List of Japanese Exlibris Artists. Unpaginated.240x190mm.Fine/Near Fine Olive boards with gilt titles to book No inscsp. Dust Jacket not clipped very minor rouche to rear base - no tears no creases.100pp. 204x190mm.now in clear easily Removable proprietary protective cover . Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale. NIPPON EXLIBRIS Association hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6317
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LEVER, Charles
Charles O'Malley the Irish Dragoon
New York: George Routledge and Sons n.y. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with extensive black and gilt pictorial and decorative stamping. xii 604pp. Frontispiece decorative endpapers. Very good. Mildest bit of edgewear mainly at head and tail of spine else clean tight and quite handleable. Lever's Preface to this "New Edition" is dated Trieste 1872 the same year he died in his villa there thus this undated edition likely dates from shortly thereafter. Lever 1806-72 was an incredibly popular Irish novelist whose popularity rivaled that of Dickens Thackeray and other giants of his day. George Routledge and Sons hardcover
Bookseller reference : 31827
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WELLS, HG. H. G.
Tono-Bungay.; Introduction by Norman H. Strouse. Illustrations by Lynton Lamb
New York: The Heritage Press 1960. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth slipcase. xiii 395pp. Illustrations some color. Very good/very good. Mild bit of slipcase edgewear; spine slightly sunned. Tight and nice trade edition of the superb limited Limited Editions Club edition -- the "poor man's LEC" -- with appropriate "Sandglass" issue laid in. The Heritage Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 31713
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COMPTON-BURNETT, Ivy
The Present and the Past
New York: Julian Messner Inc 1953. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth spine with black lettering and green patterned paper over boards price-clipped dust jacket. 224pp. Very good/very good. Some edgewear and minor rubbing to jacket with small chips at head and tail of jacket spine. Tight attractive first American edition. Julian Messner Inc hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8639
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BUTLER, Samuel
The Way of All Flesh
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Red cloth pictorial dust jacket. 562pp 6pp ads. Decorative endpapers. Very good/very good. Mild bit of jacket edgewear. Tight attractive later printing of Modern Library #13. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 31121
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CONNOLLY, Cyril
The Rock Pool
New York: Atheneum 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth dust jacket. xii 178pp. Very good/very good. Tight handsome reprint edition. Rather uncommon. YOUNG 769. Atheneum hardcover
Bookseller reference : 9796
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MOORE, George
In Single Strictness
New York: Boni and Liveright 1922. Hardcover. Small 4to. Ivory and pale blue paper over boards. vi 314pp. Partly uncut. Very good. Slight spine darkening else clean and tight and handsome. First edition limited to 1050 signed numbered copies this #740. Boni and Liveright hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2744
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ALDISS, Brian W.
The Hand-Reared Boy
New York: The McCall Publishing Company 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth dust jacket. 189pp. Near fine/very good. First edition of the first title in the Horatio Stubbs trilogy. The McCall Publishing Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 533
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WESTALL, William
A Queer Race: The Story of a Strange People
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co 1900. Hardcover. 12mo. Burgundy cloth with black and red pictorial gilt and color plate tipped to front board. viii 303pp 7pp ads. Very good. Slightest bit of faint edgewear. Tight clean and attractive undated edition of the first novel by the British author 1835-1903 -- first published in England in 1887. A fantasy about an island people with unusual colored skin. Rather uncommon. Henry T. Coates & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30716
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DRINKWATER, John
Robert E. Lee: A Play
London: Sidgwick & Jackson 1923. Hardcover. 12mo. Red cloth with paper spine label. 94pp. Near fine. Tight nice first edition. Sidgwick & Jackson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 11011
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