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New York: Modern Library, 1940. Hardcover. Good/missing. Good book, missing dust jacket. Red cloth binding with gold print in navy boxes on spine; spine is fading. Illustrated end papers, scenes from the novels. (Illustrated end papers are a rarity in Modern Library Giants.) Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is square, tight, and firm. Modern Library Giant hard cover, missing dust jacket; 1940 edition, later printing. Modern library Giant # G49, 591 pages. 8vo (5.5"" x 8.25"") Omnibus of two novels, with a short biographical note: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

New York: Modern Library, 1946. hardcover. Fair/Fair. Paul Galdone. Fair book in like dust jacket. Jacket has chips and tears, and a clipped front flap; now in new removable protective cover. Blue cloth covered boards with gold print on front and spine in red boxes; rated fair because spine has twist and lean. This is Modern Library binding style 8, with Rockwell Kent end papers. Modern Library hard cover with dust jacket, 1946 edition but Fall 1958 printing, Modern Library #206.2, 612 pages, cover art by Paul Galdone. 12mo (4.5"" x 7.25"") Omnibus of two collections, together in one volume.

First US edition. Fine book in fine dust jacket - looks like new. Dust jacket now in new removable protective cover. Illustrated boards. Pages are clean and unmarked, deckle edges. Doubleday hard cover with dust jacket, first US edition (stated), first printing December 1996 (stated), complete number line. ISBN: 9780385475716, 468 pages. 8vo (9.5" x 6.5") First published in 1996 by McClelland & Stewart in Canada, Alias Grace won the Canadian Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Filmed.

Cutchogue, NY: Buccaneer Books. Inc., 1992. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine condition. Burgundy cloth covered boards with silver print on the spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Buccaneer Books hard cover, no dust jacket as issued, ISBN: 9780899669397, 224 pages. 8vo (5.5"" x 8.75"") Sequel to Auntie Mame.

London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1937. Hardcover. Fair. 1937 edition, missing dust jacket. Bue cloth covered boards with gold print on the spine. Pages are clean and unmarked, gilt top edge. Much foxing on page edges and faces, worst near front and back. George Routledge and Sons, LTD hard cover, missing dust jacket. 1937 edition. 746 pages. 8vo (5.5"" x 8.75"") ""Rendered into English from the literal and complete French translation of Dr. J. C. Mardrus by Powys Mathers."" Volume 4 of 4 only. This contains nights 815 to 1001. Among the many marvelous tales here is the Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

Toronto: Musson Book Co., 1927. Hardcover. Good. Harry Russell Ballinger. Vintage hardcover, missing dust jacket. First Canadian edition. Orange cloth covered boards with black illustration and printing on front and spine. Illustration (in silhouette) shows woman on horseback descending into canyon. Boards are worn with bumped corners, and slightly cocked spine. Prior owner's name on front free end paper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrations on glossy paper, tipped-in; all present, are by noted scenic painter and illustrator Harry Russell Ballinger. (Uncredited, but the paintings are signed.) The Musson Book Company hardcover, no dust jacket. 1924 first edition (stated). 291 pages, illustrated by Harry Russell Ballinger. 12mo (5"" x 7.5"") Canadian reprint of Harper & Brothers first edition. This novel tells the story of Glenn Kilbourne, a US Army veteran, who returns from the battlefields of World War I ""shell-shocked and gassed"", and ""otherwise incapacitated"". It is set in the American… Read More

Complete set of three vintage books, missing box. Books have green cloth covered boards, with gold print in black box on the spine. All volumes have frontispiece by N. C. Wyeth, with frontispiece and title page printed in sepia tones. Pages are clean and unmarked. Little, Brown, and Company set of three hardcover books missing box, no dust jackets as issued. Dated 1939, 324 + 323 + 294 pages. 8vo (5.5" x 8.25") The first three books written in the Hornblower series, with many sequels and prequels written later. Filmed with Gregory Peck.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1942. hardcover. Very Good/good. Jan Doubrava. Very good book in good dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with blue print on front and spine. Just jacket shows wear with some chipping, closed tears and stains; now in new removable protective cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Little, Brown hard cover with dust jacket; 1941 edition but later 1942 printing; 344 pages, cover art by Jan Doubrava. 8vo (5.5"" x 8.25"") Written at a time when American merchant shipping is taking heavy losses from the Nazis, Forester presents an American naval hero from an earlier naval war with all the vim and excitement of his Hornblower stories.

New York: Ballantine, 1984. Mass paperback. fair. Reading copy. Cover and spine are creased. Damp stain on lower corner, extends throughout book. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Ballantine mass paperback, 2nd printing Aug. 1984 (stated), ISBN: 9780345315649, 688 pages. 12mo (7"" x 4.25"") 2nd paperback printing of this novel of gay romance in the circus in the 1940s and 1950s. One of fantasy and science fiction author Marion Zimmer Bradley's few novels outside the genres for which she is famous.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992. First. Hardcover. Good/Good+. Dave Gatti. First edition. Good book in good+ dust jacket, now in new removable protective cover. Jacket has no tears or chips, but has light edge wear and is slightly faded on the spine. Red boards, quarter bound in navy cloth, with gold print on the spine and gold decorations on the front board; spine and corners are bumped. Pages are clean and unmarked, small remainder mark bottom edge near spine. Farrar Straus Giroux hard cover with dust jacket, first edition 1992 (stated), ISBN: 9780374120252, 352 pages. Cover designed by Dave Gatti. 8vo (6.25"" x 9.25"") Stand alone adult novel, not related to any other work by the author.

Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2001. Trade paperback. very good. Near fine book. Very light wear, bumped lower corner. University of Minnesota Press, 2001 edition, 4th printing. ISBN: 9780816638635, 339 pages. 8vo (5.5"" x 8.25"") Originally published in 1976, this memoir covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life - from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Germany and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he moved to America.

London: Arthur Barker, 1936. Hardcover. Fair. Fair book, missing dust jacket. Beige cloth covered boards, with much wear; boards also show stains, and fraying at corners, with cardboard showing; spine is darkened with very frayed head and tail. Prior owner's name in pencil on front free end paper. Endpapers show some foxing. Some soiling to bottom edge of pages. Binding showing at front and rear gutters, but still firm. Dirty fingerprints pg. 30 - 31. Geneology tables folded and bound in at the back. Arthur Barker hard cover, missing dust jacket; second printing of the first cheap edition, Nov. 1936 (stated). (Complete printing history on copyright page.) 575 pages. 8vo (5.5"" x 8"") Sequel to the novel I, Claudius. Filmed as the BBC series (with the first novel) as I, Claudius.

New York: Collier. Hardcover. Very good. Dark brown hard cover with gold print on spine; brick red stamped embossed nautical images on spine and lettering on front. Front boards decorated in embossed ship, with border of ropes tied in sea knots. Part of a uniform set. Pages clean and unmarked, lightly tanning. P. F. Collier hard cover, no dust jacket as issued. Printing not dated. Copyright date of 1945 on copyright page, with BA below it.384 pages.8vo (5.5" x 8.25") This is the fourth Hornblower novel, preceded by Flying Colours, and followed by Lord Hornblower.

London, New York: J. M. Dent / E. P. Dutton & Co., 1950. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good book, missing dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gold print on the spine. Boards are worn and have some stains. Illustrative decorative end papers. Prior owner's name on the front end paper. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Everyman's Library, #489. Published by J. M. Dent & Sons in London, and E. P. Dutton & Co. in New York. 1910 edition, 1950 printing. 642 pages. 12mo (4.5"" x 6.75"") Introduction by Felix E. Schelling, with these plays: Every Man in his Humour (two versions); Every Man out of his Humour; Cynthia's Revels: Or, The Fountain of Self-Love; The Poetaster: Or, His Arraignment; Sejanus: His Fall; Volpone: Or, The Fox; Epicoene: Or, The Silent Woman. There is also an extensive Glossary.

Good book, missing dust jacket. BOOK IS ENTIRELY IN MIDDLE ENGLISH, apart from editorial additions. Blue cloth covered boards, with gold printing on the spine and gold Oxford logo on front. Pages are clean and unmarked, tight binding. Oxford University Press hard cover, missing dust jacket; 1912 edition but 1947 printing; London. 12mo (5" x 7.25") The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Cressida, The Romaunt of the Rose; and the shorter works and poems.

New York: Modern Library, 1977. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good book with like dust jacket, now in new removable protective cover. Dust jacket shows a bit of wear, scuffs on the back; is price clipped. Brown boards with gold print on spine; boards are worn and bumped. Binding is square, tight, and solid. Prior owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Pencil ticks on some stories in the table of contents, but no marks in the stories - page are clean and unmarked. Modern Library Giant hard cover with dust jacket, 1937 edition but printing date in the range of 1977 - 1987 based on binding and jacket style; ISBN: 9780394604046, Modern Library Giant # G37, 1223 pages. 8vo (5.5"" x 8.5"") Omnibus edition of these novels: Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, and The Marble Faun. Also contains 19 stories from Twice-Told Tales; 11 stories from Mosses From an Old Manse; and 6 stories from The Snow Image.

Complete 25 volume set, in good condition. Green cloth covered boards with gold print on spine. Top edge gilt, and paper edges are rough cut. All volumes show wear - they are over 120 years old - including wear on the spines at the top; bumpsing of corners on boards; some lighter discolorations (spots) on boards. Volume 1 has the most wear, and includes weak hinges, but the binding is firm. Vol. 18 has tear in the fabric at the top of the spine. All volumes have small price tag on rear end paper from used bookstore. All volumes illustrated, with tissue paper protection on the frontispieces. 25 Volume set complete, Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York and London, 1904. Number of pages vary from approx. 250 to 750 per volume. 8vo (5.5" x 8.5) Contents: Vol. 1 and 2: Vanity Fair; Vol. 3 and 4: The Story of Pendennis; Vol. 5 and 6: The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush; The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond, etc.; Vol. 7: The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon; The Fitz-Boodle Papers;… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. first US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First US edition. Dust jacket has some rubs on the front and a tiny chip on the front hinge; minor edge wear esp. at spine. Jacket is not price clipped ($1.50) and is now in new removable protective cover. Black cloth covered boards with silver titles on spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Harcourt Brace and Company hardcover, with dust jacket, first American edition 1939 (stated), first printing. 147 pages. 8vo (8.75"" x 5.75"") Dorothy Sayers' take on the Faust legend. A play first presented at the Festival at Canterbury Cathedral in June 1939.

Garden City: Garden City, 1942. hardcover. fair. Ralph Barton. Missing dust jacket. Beige cloth covered boards with gold botannical design on spine, and gold letters. Spine is somewhat darkened and gold is worn. Boards and spine are bumped. Front hinge is starting, webbing showing. Pages have no markings, but do have the occasional spot or fingerprint. Faint smoke smell. Illustrations are printed double sided on glossy paper and are tipped in. Garden City Publishing hard cover, missing dust jacket; 1942 edition, later printing (print code CL); 291 + 266 pages. Illustrated by Ralph Barton. 8vo (5.75"" x 8.5"") Edited by Ernest Boyd. This is an omnibus reprinting of a two volume edition originally printed by Liveright in 1928. French novelist and playwright Honor de Balzac (1799 -1850) was a founder of realism in European literature. An inspiration to Proust, Dickens, Faulkner, Dostoyevsky, and countless others, Balzac wrote works that were hailed for their multifaceted characters and exquisite… Read More

New York: Lippincott, 1946. hardcover. Good. Good book, missing dust jacket. Maroon cloth covered boards; black rooster on front and black printing on spine; spine faded. Prior owner's name on front free end paper and paste down. Pages clean and unmarked. Lippincott hard cover, missing dust jacket; 19th printing, Sept. 1946; 278 pages. 8vo (5.5"" x 8.25") Classic novel of chicken farming in Washington, filmed with Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert. Source of Ma and Pa Kettle series of films.