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viii, 337 pages 21 cm. On spine of binding and dj: Doubleday. Dreiser started work on this story in 1914; it was published the year after he died. The involved plot centers on a Philadelphia Quaker family, one of whom "Solon works in a bank in Philadelphia, where his Quaker values are contrary to financial ethos." Stock# 48078.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page, 1927. Hard Cover. xi, 1396 p., index; flexible embossed red covers a bit worn; good+. The Four Million, Heart of the West, The Gentle Grafter, Roads of Destiny, Cabbages and Kings, Options, Sixes and Sevens, Rolling Stones, Poems, Whirligigs, The Voice of the City, The Trimmed Lamp, Strictly Business, Waifs and Strays (Twelve Stories; Critical and Biographical Comment). stock#101115.

Holt, Rinehart & Winston, NY [1982]. 'First Edition'. First Edition. Hard Cover. 368 p. 'Friday is her name... one of the best interplanetary agents in the business. And she is an Artificial Person... Desperate for human identity and relationships, she is never sure whether she is one step ahead of, or one step behind, the ultimate fate of the human race.' Color pictorial dust jacket chipped, worn, book covers bleached in dj pattern; VG. Stock#21226/h.

Penguin Books [1987]. "Deptford Trilogy". Soft Cover. Although this is the second of "three linked novels, the first being 'Fifth Business' (1970) and the third being 'World of Wonders' (1975)", this book "can stand alone as an exploration, by an exquisite stylist, of those regions beyond reason where monsters live." 310 p., 19.5 cm.; paper; minor wear; VG+. 34385.

Firenze, Tipographia Borghi e Compagni, 1833. Hard Cover. Octavo; [1105]-1281 pages, engraved frontispiece. Issued in series: Raccolta di Novellieri Italiani 1833-34, volume 2, #140. The "Autori Senesi" are Gentile Sermini (15th cent.), Pietro Portini (d. 1562), Bernardo Lapini (15th cent.), Scipione Nelli (d. 1612), Alessandro Sozzini (1518-1608), Alessandro Maris Bandiera (1699-1770). Bound with Fiorentino, Giovanni (14th cent.), Il Pecorone Di Ser Giovanne Fiorentino, Firenze, Tip. Borghi e Compagni, 1833, [1282]-1418 p. , This is an association copy: pasted inside the front cover is a label with the signature of Anna [Lindau] Vivanti, the mother of Annie Vivanti, writer and friend of Giosuè Carducci (1835-1907). Vivanti, at age 20, initiated correspondence in 1889 with Carducci (he was then 54) when she wrote to ask if he would read her poems. He was busy; she persisted. Pietro Pancrazi published their correspondence for the first time in "Un Amoroso Incontro Della Fine Ottocento: Lettere e… Read More

NY, McGraw-Hill [1975]. Hard Cover. xii, 254 p., [8] leaves of plates, illus.; 24 cm. "A dramatic fictionalized biography... based on extensive research." ISBN (10): 0070182701. Stock#46983. Vg / dj good+, frayed.