Search Results: Literature from Dave Shoots, Bookseller

Boston: Beacon Press, 1978 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Discussion is focused on 18th and 19th Century literature. 88 pp. with index..

London: Navarre Society Book. Illus. by Cruikshank, George. Very Good Minus. Original Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Volumes IX, X, and XI of The Works of Henry Fielding, edited by George Saintsbury, in 12 volumes. Original dark blue cloth, no DJs. Spine lettering gilt. Feet and foredges untrimmed. Minor wear to tops and bottoms of spines. 235, 221, and 236 pp., respectively. Will require extra postage..

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1899 Book. Illus. by Drawings By E. Boyd Smith/B & W Photo. Good Plus. Hardcover. 6 x 8 1/2". Tan cloth on boards with black trim on spine. Top edges gilt. Rough-cut pages. Both volumes are spotted on the spines. The second volume has a dampstain on the spine (not affecting pages), and a 1 1/2" abrasion to the cloth on the back. This set is heavy, and will require extra postage. 349 pp./379 pp..

Middlebury, VT: Joseph C. Doherty, 1954 Book. Good Plus to Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Original black cloth with gilt lettering on boards. A Translation of a Dissertation Presented as a Partial Requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Modern Languages, Middlebury College. The dissertation is typed double-spaced on 8 1/2 x 11 paper. 208 pp..

London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited Book. Illus. by George Cruikshank. Very Good. Hardcover. Deluxe Edition No. 32 of 500. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green cloth on boards. Limited edition. First written in 1845. A friend and competitor of Sir Walter Scott, he opted out of the "rat race" and went on vacation soon after. This book has 499 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage..

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1930 Book. Illus. by Various Artists. Very Good. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue cloth on boards. No writing or damage. Early References in Italy, Dante and the Arthurian Legend, Italian Romances of Merlin, Later Treatment. Appendix. Indexes. 349 pp..

Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1859 Book. Good Plus to Very Good. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original green patterned cloth on boards. Previous owner's name and date (1873). First free endpaper missing. Novel as Literature, Early British Prose Fiction, British Novelists of 18th C., Scott, British Novelists Since Scott. 312 pp. plus ads..

Vancouver: The Caitlin Press, 1987 Book. Illus. by Author. Good Plus to Very Good. Soft cover. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original maroon soft cover with author's self-portrait. Thirteen short stories. Limited edition of 500 copies. 172 pp..

Wolfville, N.S.: Acadia University, 1965 Book. Good Plus to Very Good. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original black cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ edge-worn and strip missing from back. Many pieces from Kirkconnell and others as well. 530 pp..

Boston: D. Lothrop Company Book. Illus. by H.E.. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original dark blue cloth on boards. No writing or damage. Text block tanned. Minor abrasion to head and foot of spine. Miscellaneous Pieces are: No Thoroughfare, Master Humphrey's Clock, The Mudfog Association, Holiday Romance, George Silverman's Explanation, The Wreck of the Golden Mary, Perils of Certain English Prisoners, and The Haunted House. 825 pp..

London: Musson Book. Illus. by Unidentified. Very Good. Full-Leather. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Yes, Virginia ! All three "city" titles in one beautiful old (undated) volume. Padded, black, pebble-grained leather, gilt edges, gilt lettering, 566 pp.(separately-paginated). Christmas, 1928 inscription in ink. OW clean. A prize for Carleton fans !.

London: Archibald Constable, 1908 Book. Very Good. Original Cloth. Third Impression. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Original bright green cloth with gilt lettering in box, no DJ. 143 pp..

Oxford: Voltaire Foundation; Taylor Institution, 1986 Book. Illus. by Plates of Various Pages. Very Good. Card Covers. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. White (blank) softcover. Part of the Complete Works. French and English. 542 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage..

N.Y.: D. Appleton and Co., 1869 Book. Illus. by Front Portrait Engraved By Walter. Very Good. Hardcover. Third American Edition(Talfourd). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original dark green cloth with bright spine lettering on boards. Scarce volume of Victorian reviews and essays. Previous owners' names and one leaf-pressing stain, otherwise fine. Talfourd, 176 pp. Stephen, 158 pp..

N.Y.: Harper & Brothers Book. Good Plus to Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original brown cloth with "George Eliot" printed in script on boards. These two volumes together comprise Volume VIII of Novels of George Eliot. This Vol. I contains four books: The Spoiled Child, Meeting Streams, Maidens Choosing, and Gwendolen Gets Her Choice, on 411 pp. This Vol. II contains four books: Mordecai, Revelations, The Mother and the Son, and Fruit and Seed, on 427 pp. Text block lightly tanned. No other damage or marks..

Philadelphia: Gebbie Publishing Co., Ltd., 1899 Book. Illus. by Frontispiece. Good Plus to Very Good. Hardcover. Library Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original maroon cloth on boards. Translated from the French to English by R.S. Scott. Previous owner's partial bookplate. Top edges gilt. Untrimmed front and foot. In A Daughter of Eve, a countess, happily married, gives in to the urging by her friends to take a lover. She falls in love with a brilliant journalist, who thereby thinks his future is secure. When his life turns sour she rescues him, and then.... Letters of Two Brides is a story of two friends in the convent who leave to continue their friendship in correspondence which lasts 17 years. One marries a commoner, whom she will help to achieve a higher station. A Daughter of Eve was first written in 1838, and Letters of Two Brides, three years later. Shows library card pocket removal. 383 pp..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893 Book. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original tan cloth decorated in red and silver on boards. Previous owner's bookplate. First free endpaper removed. Front hinge cracked. 406 pp. plus catalog..

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1912 Book. Illus. by Frontispiece Portrait. Good Plus to Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint (Revised). 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original maroon cloth with gold decoration and titles on boards. An arresting revision of the original volume. The present author has omitted Chapters XII to XV on the ground that they are "pedagogical", and thus (apparently) of little interest to most prospective readers. His own first impression, however, was that "I was on the border of a delectable country." Inscription. 254 pp..

Toronto: Fleming H. Revell, 1895 Book. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original blue cloth on boards. Another by the tremendously popular author of Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush. Text in heavy dialect. Cocked. Cover soil. 366 pp..

N.Y.: Athenaeum Society Book. Illus. by Frontispiece. Very Good. 3/4 Leather on Marbled Board. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original 3/4 maroon Cape Levant on marbled boards. Abrasion to 2 inches of the rear cover top edge. Marbled endpapers. Translated into English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. No writing. One of the series titled Scenes from Political Life, part of The Divine Comedy. Top edges gilt. Deckled front edges. Copyright 1896. 482 pp..