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Oscar Wilde; Stories; Plays and Poems; Essays and Letters (3 Vols) by Wilde, Oscar (Edited with introduction by Merlin Holland; Illustrations by Ian Archie Beck.)
by Wilde, Oscar (Edited with introduction by Merlin Holland; Illustrations by Ian Archie Beck.)
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Oscar Wilde; Stories; Plays and Poems; Essays and Letters (3 Vols)
by Wilde, Oscar (Edited with introduction by Merlin Holland; Illustrations by Ian Archie Beck.)
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A Complete Collection of English Proverbs. Also the Most Celebrated Proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and Other Languages. The Whole Methodically Digested; And Illustrated with Annotations, and Proper Explications.
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Orationes; Ad Optimorum Librorum Fidem Editae
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Lipsiae: B.G. Teubneri [circa 1846]. (Hardcover set) 361, 358, 329pp. Good to very good. 3 volumes bound in 3 / 4 green leather with marbled boards. There is what appears to be an official stamp dated 13 May 1846 on the back of each title page. The covers are somewhat worn and rubbed, the edges of the pages are spotted and there is some spotting on the pages, there is an owner inscription on the front inner board of each volume, and the inner hinges are cracked. Text in Greek Language. (Classics, Orations).
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London: Hogarth Press 1950, 5th printing. (Hardcover) 196pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. The spine is very lightly faded, the top corner of the back cover is bumped, and the dust jacket has some edgewear and also rubbing on the back panel. Pseudonym of Henry Vincent Yorke. (Fiction, World War 2).
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Oxford: Clarendon Press 1969, 4th edition. (Hardcover) 961pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Green leather decoratively stamped in gilt and green. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon page marker, appendices, tables. The spine is faded. Revised by Dorothy Eagle. (Reference).
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The Complete Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad (4 Volumes)
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New York: Ecco Press 1991, 1st edition. (Hardcover set) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. A previous owner's name, city and date on the front endpaper of each volume. Edited with introduction by Samuel Hynes. (Fiction).
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A Complete Collection of English Proverbs. Also the Most Celebrated Proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and Other Languages. The Whole Methodically Digested; And Illustrated with Annotations, and Proper Explications.
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London: George Cowie and Co. 1813, 5th edition. (Hardcover) 336pp. Good. Contemporary modest 3 / 4 leather rebinding with plain boards. Worn, the endpapers are missing, foxing and notations in faded ink throughout the text, and a previous owner's armorial bookplate on the inside cover. Revised by John Balfour. (Proverbs, Proverbs, Quotations).
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Lipsiae: B.G. Teubneri [circa 1846]. (Hardcover set) 361, 358, 329pp. Good to very good. 3 volumes bound in 3 / 4 green leather with marbled boards. There is what appears to be an official stamp dated 13 May 1846 on the back of each title page. The covers are somewhat worn and rubbed, the edges of the pages are spotted and there is some spotting on the pages, there is an owner inscription on the front inner board of each volume, and the inner hinges are cracked. Text in Greek Language. (Classics, Orations).
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London: Hogarth Press 1950, 5th printing. (Hardcover) 196pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. The spine is very lightly faded, the top corner of the back cover is bumped, and the dust jacket has some edgewear and also rubbing on the back panel. Pseudonym of Henry Vincent Yorke. (Fiction, World War 2).
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Oxford: Clarendon Press 1969, 4th edition. (Hardcover) 961pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Green leather decoratively stamped in gilt and green. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon page marker, appendices, tables. The spine is faded. Revised by Dorothy Eagle. (Reference).
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The Complete Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad (4 Volumes)
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New York: Ecco Press 1991, 1st edition. (Hardcover set) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. A previous owner's name, city and date on the front endpaper of each volume. Edited with introduction by Samuel Hynes. (Fiction).
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Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde : Selected Poems
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Oscar Wilde: Complete Shorter Fiction (World's Classics)
by Wilde, Oscar
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Oscar Wilde: The Worlds' Favourite 100 Quotes: With Photographs and Landmarks
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Oscar Wilde : The Fisherman and His Soul and Other Fairy Tales
by Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde : Selected Poems
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Kane & Abel
by Jeffrey Archer
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New York, 1979. Book Club. Hardcover. Book Club/Has Jacket. Book is a book club edition. Quite a few closed tears, chips, and other signs of wear to the dust jacket. Some bumping to the boards at corners, edges and ends of the spine. Pages are clean.
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Cold Mountain
by Frazier, Charles
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NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .
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The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts
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209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural
by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)
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228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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Red Pottage
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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.
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We Loved Them Once
by Rivers, Ronda
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
by Traven, B
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
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v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf wear, hinges and spine heal moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.
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Dobrodruzstvi Toma Sawyera a Huckleberryho Finna.
by Twain, Mark; Jiri Hejna
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Praha: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury SNKLHU, 1961, hardcover. Apparent first edition in Czech 1961, with the illustrations by Jiri Hejna, of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Translated into CZECH by Frantisk Gel. 393 pages. -- Hardcover. Good used condition (yellow cloth cover some soil) with very good minus dust jacket (spine sunned).
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