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Virgil's Æneis, translated into Scottish verse, by The Famous Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld. A new edition. Wherein the many errors of the former are corrected, and the Defects supply'd, from an excellent Manuscript. To which is added a large Glossary by Douglas, Gawin (trans.); Virgil; Ruddiman, Thomas (glossary) - 1710
by Douglas, Gawin (trans.); Virgil; Ruddiman, Thomas (glossary)
Virgil's Æneis, translated into Scottish verse, by The Famous Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld. A new edition. Wherein the many errors of the former are corrected, and the Defects supply'd, from an excellent Manuscript. To which is added a large Glossary
by Douglas, Gawin (trans.); Virgil; Ruddiman, Thomas (glossary)
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The Grizzly Papers in 5 Issues of The Overland Monthly
by Bierce, Ambrose; Harte, Bret et al.
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Wreck of the Glide, with recollections of the Fijiis, and of Wallis Island.
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1848 1ed Wreck of the Glide Fiji & Wallis Islands Native Shipwrecks Dix OliverJames Oliver's wrote a captivating account of his experiences of the impending disaster on the ship 'The Glide' in his book 'Wreck of the Glide'. The ship struck a reef on March 21, 1831, and dragged its anchor for 8 miles until it finally wrecked on the Fijian Island Vanua Levu. This book includes descriptions of life and manners at the Fiji Islands and their peoples.
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Wreck of the Glide, with recollections of the Fijiis, and of Wallis Island.
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The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of la Mancha ... A new edition, with copious notes; and an essay on the life and writings of Cervantes
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1822 Don Quixote Cervantes Chivalry Motteux English Lockhart Notes SCOTTISH 5v"Small wonder if the world received Don Quixote with delight! There was nothing like unto it before: there has been nothing to eclipse it since". – Rius, D. Leopoldo.
A rare, 19th-century English translation of Cervantes' masterpiece – "Don Quixote". This edition, translated by Peter Anthony Motteux, is considered a desirable English translation, which was very popular after its release in 1700. However, this edition was criticized and condemned by later printers for:
· Adopting a frivolous style, rather than a more serious and ironic tone
· Turning Don Quixote and Sancho Panza into buffoons
· Casting the work in a "Franco-Cockney" rather than Spanish culture
This 1822 edition was published in Edinburgh, printed in five volumes, and includes a 'life of Cervantes' by J.G. Lockhart – the first edition to feature Lockhart's essay.
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Timothy McSweeney's. Issue no. 7
by EGGERS, Dave, Editor. Signed by 6 contributors: Dave Eggers, Michael Chabon, A. M. Homes, Heidi Julavits, William T. Vollmann and Chris Ware.
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New York: McSweeney, 2001. Signed by Dave Eggers and dated 10/02/02. Additionally, Michael Chabon has signed his booklet, "Untold Tales of Kavalier & Clay." Chris Ware has signed Chabon's booklet, he designed the cover. Heidi Julavits has signed her booklet, "Little Little Big Man." William T. Vollmann has signed his booklet, "The Old Man: A Case Study From Rising Up and Rising Down." A. M. Homes has signed her Booklet "Do Not Disturb. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, gray printed cardboard boards. Very fine with very fine outer sleeve and jumbo rubberband, as issued. Additional contributions by Kevin Brockmeier, Ann Cummins, Courtney Eldridge, JT Leroy, and Allan Seager.
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The Song of Roland, as Chanted Before the Battle of Hastings, by the Minstrel Taillefer.
by MARSH-CALDWELL, Anne [Transl.]
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1854 1ed Song of Roland Franks Charlemagne Chanson de Geste Medieval Chivalry'The Song of Roland' is the oldest surviving major work of French literature. This famous chanson de geste was originally written in the 11th-century and is based on the Frankish military leader Roland and the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778 during the reign of Charlemagne. This particular work is the 1854 first English edition which was beautifully translated by Anne Marsh-Caldwell from the French translation of Vitet. Masterfully written, this work is a magnificent example of the medieval narrative and literary form of its era.
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MARSH-CALDWELL, Anne [Transl.]
The Song of Roland, as Chanted Before the Battle of Hastings, by the Minstrel Taillefer.
London : Hurst and Blackett, 1854. [First Edition English].
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Scholar Gipsies
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London: John Lane 1896, 1st edition. (Hardcover) 205, [1]pp. plus 16pp. ads. Very good, no dust jacket. The Arcady Library. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title page, plus 4 plates. Decorated tan cloth with gilt decorated brown cloth spine. Head and foot of spine worn with some loss of material, corners lightly worn, light dampstain along lower half of fore-edge of front cover.Inner hinges cracked. 6- line previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper, plus 10 lines of text (on two pages) underlined and bracketed, all in ink. A rare copy of the author's second book. Also writes as Lord Tweedsmuir. Illustrations by D.Y. Cameron. (Fiction, Canadian).
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THE FLIGHT OF THE FALCON, a New Novel ,SIGNED on Title Page By Author, Italian Courier Becomes Circumstantially Involved in Murder of Old Peasant Woman in Rome , FICTION, Classic Murder Novel from the Popular Mystery Writer. Gothic Mystery
by DAPHNE DU MAURIER, SIGNED By Famed Writer Daphne Du Maurier Autographed (with Fountain Pen in Blue Ink on Title page) INNER Flap DJ Priceclipped, Autograph GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC, Blank Endpapers,DJ By Larry Lubin
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Doubleday, This is a BOOK CLUB EDITION, 1965 HBDJ, 1965, Early Reprint, 253 PGs, Book VG Condition and Dust Jacket in VG- Condition with minor wear around the edges DJ & Tiny Chips , Light Soil Back DJ , Interior NiCE tight Clean. Beige Grey Cloth Lettered in Black on SPine light Wear, Publishers RedDye Stain on Top Pgs Edges . Gothic Mystery set in both Mediaeval Rome and the present day, which includes the classic elements of the Genre; murder, and haunting from a phantom.. Signed by Author. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
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The Grizzly Papers in 5 Issues of The Overland Monthly
by Bierce, Ambrose; Harte, Bret et al.
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San Francisco: John H. Carmany & Co, 1871. First Edition. Paper Wraps. Very Good. January - June, 1871 (Issues 1-4, 6) of The Overland Monthly. Light wear to wraps. corners bent and a few short tears to edges of issue 2. Rear of issue 6 detached but present. The Grizzly Papers are notably more literary and thoughtful than his journalism of the period. Not in BAL (actually earlier than anything in BAL). Also includes Harte's "Further Language From Truthful James", his sequel to the poem known as The Heathen Chinee. Five issues in a custom clamshell box with morocco label. Faint soiling to blue cloth of box. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Americana; Antiquarian & Rare; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 033008.
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A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, now entitled The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night
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17 volumes with frontispieces, illustrations and indexes. Royal octavo (9 3/4"" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's light green cloth with labels to spine. and gilt head end pages with deckled edges. Bassorah edition, number 129 limited to 1000 copies.Burton's translation was one of two unabridged and unexpurgated English translations done in the 1880s; the first was by John Payne, under the title The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (1882–1884, nine volumes). Burton's ten volume version was published almost immediately afterward with a slightly different title. This, along with the fact that Burton closely advised Payne and partially based his books on Payne's, led later to charges of plagiarism. Owing to the sexual imagery in the source texts (which Burton made a special study of, adding extensive footnotes and appendices on "Oriental" sexual mores) and to the strict Victorian laws on obscene material, both translations were printed as private editions for subscribers only, rather…
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LE MORTE DARTHUR. The history of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table
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Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to The Medici Society Ltd. London. 1920. FIRST 2 VOLUME EDITION. Small Crown 4to. (9.3 x 6.8 inches). xxx, 439; xxii, 531 pp. Originally issued as four slim quarto volumes in a limited edition in 1910-11, this is the first issue in this format and is complete in 2 thicker volumes. Beautifully Illustrated with 36 fine full colour plates by Russell Flint. Publishers green cloth with elaborate blind tooled decoration to the front boards and spines, which are also ruled and lettered in gilt. In the original scarce dustwrappers with colour plates mounted onto the front panels. The cloth boards are a bit dulled and there is a near one-inch tear, without loss, to the top of the spine of volume one, but the gilt is still strong and bright. The dustwrappers are faded to the spines, which have a few very minor chips to the extremities, but are generally in very good condition and sets with them present are uncommon. Overall a very good set of this interesting and beautiful…
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Virgil's Aeneis, Translated into Scottish Verse, by the Famous Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkeld. A new Edition. Wherein The many Errors of the Former are corrected, and the Defects supply'd, from an excellent Manuscript. To which is added A Large Glossary, Explaining the Difficult Words: Which may serve for a Dictionary to the Old Scottish Language. And to the whole is prefix'ed An Exact Account of the Author's Life and Writings, from the best Histories and Records [alt title: Eneados]
by Virgil; Gawin Douglas [trans.]; Thomas Ruddiman [glossary]
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Edinburgh: Printed by Mr. Andrew Symson, and Mr. Robert Freebairn, and sold at their Shops, 1710. Very Good. Edinburgh: Printed by Mr. Andrew Symson, and Mr. Robert Freebairn, and sold at their Shops, 1710. Second Edition. Quarto. [5], 2-19, [iv.], [8], 3 - 486, [96] pp, includes list of subscribers. Bound in full contemporary calf; six raised bands; gilt ruling and spine decoration; edges sprayed red. Wear to edges, corners bumped, general scuffing; split and flaked along joints though boards remain attached, front board a little more loose but overall binding holding, rather crude paper repair along gutter of leaf 5C. Bookplate of Victor Albert George Child Villiers to front pastedown, along with additional recent ownership stamp. Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound. Collated and presumed complete, ESTC noting that "The arrangement of the preliminaries varies from copy to copy." This middle Scots translation of the Aeneid, often called Eneados, was originally completed by the poet and…
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Gypsies
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New York: Crown Publishers. An account of the Gypsy way of life, including its origins, history, traditions, customs, occupations, and the changes that modern living has occasioned. EX LIBRARY/USUAL MARKINGS. Profusely & WONDERFULLY illustrated w/photos, Introduction, Bibliography, Index, 111 clean, crisp & solid pp. Excellent Personal cpy/Reference! . Good. Hardcover. 1977.
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Kane & Abel
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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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Cold Mountain
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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 Treasure Of Sierra Madre
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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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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural
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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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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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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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We Loved Them Once
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NY: Vantage Press, 1954. Pages [135] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Tan boards, black lettering, clean, minor shelf wear. PO's name penned to endpaper. Set in 1950's America. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.
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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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