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Avenal Books, New York, 1982. Avenal Books New York, 1982 Edition. Yellow cloth over boards with black lettering. NO DJ. Good Reading Copy. Very Good, clean, bright and solid. Slight bumping at top and bottom of front cover./No DJ. John Steinbeck's last, unfinished written work, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, was posthumously published in 1976. In part, Steinbeck set out to retell the exploits of the Knights of the Roundtable so that his sons could enjoy reading about them as much as he had enjoyed the stories growing up. Like much of his other work, Steinbeck's King Arthur is characterized by the author's stark, simple style and detailed characterization. The story offers a different, more nuanced perspective of the love triangle between King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, and Sir Lancelot. Notes Avenal Books New York, 1982 Edition Full line hgfedcba. Very Good, clean, bright and solid. Slight bumping at topand bottom of front cover. Yellow cloth over boards with black… Read More

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels. The story begins in fictional St. Petersburg, Missouri (based on the actual town of Hannibal, Missouri), on the shore of the Mississippi River "forty to fifty years ago" (the novel having been published in 1884). Huckleberry "Huck" Finn (the protagonist and first-person narrator) and his friend, Thomas "Tom" Sawyer, have each come...
,'The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written' Collector's Edition. In MINT unread condition. Fully-bound in richly colored brown leather with raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. All Edges Gilt. Golden brown Silk Endpapers. Gold Silk Ribbon Bookmark. Smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Illustratted by Thomas Hart Benton. A beautiful book and a great and memorable gift to give.

Easton Press, Norwalk Connecticut, 1994. Easton Press, 1994,'The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Fully-bound in richly colored brown leather with raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. In MINT unread condition. Fully-bound in richly colored brown leather with raised bands and gilt lettering on spine/no dj as issued. Thomas Hart Benton. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885 Commonly named among the Great American Novels The story begins in fictional St Petersburg, Missouri (based on the actual town of Hannibal, Missouri), on the shore of the Mississippi River "forty to fifty years ago" (the novel having been published in 1884) Huckleberry "Huck" Finn (the protagonist and first-person narrator) and his friend, Thomas "Tom" Sawyer, have each come. ,'The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written' Collector's Edition. In MINT… Read More

Hardcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. Hardcourt, Brace and Company,1946. First American Edition. Green cloth over boards, very clean covers. Very Good/no dj. Orwell initially encountered difficulty getting the manuscript published, largely due to fears that the book might upset the alliance betANIMAL FARM GEORGE ORWELL ween Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Four publishers refused to publish Animal Farm, yet one had initially accepted the work, but declined it after consulting the Ministry of Information.[49][d] Eventually, Secker and Warburg published the first edition in 1945. Orwell's famous novel which is regarded in the literary field as one of the most famous satirical allegories of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based the book on events up to and during Joseph Stalin's regime. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Stalin, and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences in the Spanish… Read More

Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1982, 1982. Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, (1982). Dark Blue Leatherette over boards, with gold designs and lettering. gold gilded page edges to further protect the pages, raised spine bands that give each volume that distinctive antique look. Near Fine/No DJ as issued. Illustrated by the etchings of Giovani Batista, Piranesi. The Annals (Latin: Annales) by Roman historian and senator Tacitus is a history of the Roman Empire from the reign of Tiberius to that of Nero, the years AD 14-68. The Annals are an important source for modern understanding of the history of the Roman Empire during the 1st century AD; it is Tacitus' final work, and modern historians generally consider it his greatest writing. Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb. Illustrated by the etchings of Giovani Batista, Piranesi. Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1982. The Franklin Library, 1982, Near Mint, Leatherette, 22 kt.… Read More

HERITAGE PRESS, New York, 1962. HERITAGE PRESS, New York, 1962. . Very Good , clean and bright except for spine,slightly pulled and spotted, Slipcase is good some spotting. Not collector's but a good reading copy/Slipcase. Edward A. Wilson. Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a 20,000 wager (75,400 in 2017).set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. (wiki).HERITAGE PRESS, New York, 1962. Introduction Ray Bradbury. Illustrations Edward A. Wilson. Very Good , clean and bright except for spine,slightly pulled and spotted, Slipcase is good some spotting. HERITAGE PRESS, New York, 1962. Introduction Ray Bradbury. Illustrations Edward A. Wilson. Very Good , clean and bright except for… Read More

Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (£2,075,400 in 2017)[3] set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. (wiki)HERITAGE PRESS, New York, 1962. Introduction Ray Bradbury. Illustrations Edward A. Wilson. Very Good , clean and bright except for spine,slightly pulled and spotted, Slipcase is good some spotting. Not collector's but a good reading copy

Dodd, Mead and Company, New York (1910), 1910. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York (1910). Olive cloth over boards, flower embossed designs on cloth, gold lettering. Many of the pages are not cut, have not attempted to do so A very good copy. VERY Good ++. Translator Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. A 1908 play by Belgian playwright and poet Maurice Maeterlinck. It premiered on 30 September 1908 at Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, and was presented on Broadway in 1910. The play has been adapted for several films and a TV series. The French composer Albert Wolff wrote an opera (first performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1919) based on Maeterlinck's original play, and Maeterlinck's innamorata Georgette Leblanc produced a novelization. The story is about a girl called Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl seeking happiness, represented by The Blue Bird of Happiness, aided by the good fairy Bérylune. Maeterlinck also wrote a relatively little known sequel to The Blue Bird… Read More

Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash.
Book in Very good condition, clean and vibrant, text is excellent, high gradeacid free paper.Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges, gilt tooled modern backed cloth boards. a very good copy

Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1979, 1979. Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1979 Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1979. Leatherette, 22 kt. gold accents and lettering. Near Mint,/NO DJ as issued. Illustration Antoni Clave. Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, this novel is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash. ( The Literature Network). Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1979, Illustration Antoni Clave. Near Mint, Leatherette, 22 kt. gold… Read More

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. In 1386, Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of Peace and, three years later, Clerk of the King's work in 1389. It was during these years that Chaucer began working on his most famous text, The Canterbury Tales. The Fraklin Library edition of Chaucer's Cantebury Tales is illustrated by the woodcuts of William caxton (1422?-1491), the first English printer , from his second edition of the Canterbury Tales (1484).
Book in goodcondition, very slight pulling of spine at top, Book is clean and bright. A perfect keepsake!

Franklin Library Edition, 1981. Franklin Library Edition (1981). Green Letterette 22 kt. gold accents and lettering, printed with acid neutral pages that are thread sewn, not glued together, gold gilded page edges to further protect the pages, a silk page marker sewn into the binding, raised spine bands that give each volume that distinctive antique look, lustrous silk moiré end paper. NO DJ as issued. Franklin Library Edition, 1981 Very Goodd, Book is clean and bright. A perfect keepsake/no dj as issued. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer In 1386, Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of Peace and, three years later, Clerk of the King's work in 1389 It was during these years that Chaucer began working on his most famous text, The Canterbury Tales. Franklin Library Edition, 1981. VeryGood , clean and bright. The Fraklin Library edition of Chaucer's Cantebury Tales is illustrated by the woodcuts… Read More

Simon & Schuster, New York 10//01/1994, 1994. Simon & Schuster (Oct 01, 1994). Dark blue paper over boards, red cloth spine. Very Good ++/Very Good++. Catch-22" is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. It is set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. (He has decided to live forever even if he has to die in the attempt.) His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men have to fly. The others range from Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder, a dedicated entrepreneur (he bombs his own airfield when the Germans make him a reasonable offer: cost plus 6%), to the dead man in Yossarian's… Read More

Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania (1979), 1979. Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania. Brown Leatherette over board., Accented in 22kt gold, designs and lettering. Very Good/No Dj as issued. With the Illustrations of Jose and Luis Jimenez y Aranda. Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. It was published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615. A founding work of Western literature, it is often labeled "the first modern novel and many authors consider it to be the best literary work ever written. The plot revolves around the adventures of a noble (hidalgo) from La Mancha named Alonso Quixano, who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant (caballero andante) to revive chivalry and serve his nation, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania 1979. , Very Good **, Leatherette, 22 kt. gold accents and letteriing printed with acid… Read More

Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania (1983), 1983. Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania (1983). Leatherette, 22 kt. gold accents and lettering. Near Mint/No DJ as issued. Hablot K. Browne. A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. (wiki). Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1983. Near Mint. Near Mint, Leatherette, 22 kt. gold accents and lettering, printed with acid neutral pages that are thread sewn, not glued together, gold gilded page edges to further protect the pages, raised spine bands that give each volume that distinctive antique look, decorated end paper. NO DJ as issued Avery… Read More

The Chimes is the second of Dickens's "Christmas Books." Written in 1844 it came a year after A Christmas Carol and a year before The Cricket on the Hearth. Set on a New Year's Eve, The Chimes is a story about self-respect and the consequences of our choices. The main character, Trotty Veck is an inverse of sorts to A Christmas Carol's Ebeneezer Scrooge. He is poor and thinks so little of himself that he threatens to destroy himself and his family. Only through supernatural intervention can things hope to be set right
The Platt & Peck Co, New York. Stated: Copyright 1908, by The Baker and Taylor Company. Published, October 1908. As written in the Christmas Stories By Charles Dickens wwith Illustrations in colour and lines by George Alfred Williams.
Very good copy in the original decorated gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Color illustration pasted on front board is in excellant condition, Frontis port with tissue guard (same as front illustration) bright and clean. Book is in remarkable condition,… Read More

The Platt & Peck Co, New York, 1908. The Platt & Peck Co, New York. Stated: Copyright 1908, by ThThe Baker and Taylor Company. Published, October 1908. Very good copy in the original decorated gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Color illustration pasted on front board is in excellent condition/No dust jacket as issued. The Chimes is the second of Dickens's "Christmas Books" Written in 1844 it came a year after A Christmas Carol and a year before The Cricket on the Hearth Set on a New Year's Eve, The Chimes is a story about self-respect and the consequences of our choices The main character, Trotty Veck is an inverse of sorts to A Christmas Carol's Ebeneezer Scrooge He is poor and thinks so little of himself that he threatens to destroy himself and his family Only through supernatural intervention can things hope to be set right. Stated: Copyright 1908, by The Baker and Taylor Company Published, October 1908 As written in the Christmas Stories By Charles Dickens wwith… Read More

New York, Harper and Brothers, Franklin Square, 1885. New York, Harper and Brothers, Franklin Square (1885). Green cloth over boards, with gold desing, fading to cover spotting and cratches. VERY GOOD/NO DJ AS ISSUED. When city people go among forests and hills, they drink in the fresh air and weird scenery of rural surroundings, with much more relish, enjoyment, and appreciation, than do the life-long residents they find there. For the same reason, the great drama of metropolitan existence falls most forcibly upon those just from the clear streams and green meadows of the country. Their impressions then are deeper, and their feelings more intense than if they were city born and bred. With the latter fact in view, this book is an effort to reproduce some of the effects of city scenes and character upon the intellect and imagination of two people from the country: First, a young student, who has travelled the well-beaten roads of a college course, but is just entering real life, and now for the… Read More

1917. Harper & Brothers, NEW YORK AND LONDON (1917). Gift Edition. Black cloth over boards, gold lettering, beautiful picture on front cover. VERY GOOD/NODJ. Illustrated by Henry Pitz.. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during the reign of King Arthur (wiki). Harper & Brothers, NEW YORK AND LONDON, 1917.Gift Edition. Copyright, 1889 and 1899, by Samuel. L. Clemens. Copyright, 1917, by Clara Gabrilowitsch. Illustrated by Henry Pitz. Book Very Good, solid, no pulling of spine, text vibrant, slight yellowing and stain at top of some pages. Black cloth over boards. Beautiful picture on front cover.

FRANKLIN LIBRARY 1981, 1981. FRANKLIN LIBRARY 1981 (1981). Leatherette, 22 kt. gold accents and lettering, printed with acid neutral pages that are thread sewn, not glued together. Near Mint/No DJ as issued. The Decameron. Of Giovanni Boccaccio It was probably in the years 1348-53 that Boccaccio composed the Decameron in the form in which it is read today. In the broad sweep of its range and its alternately tragic and comic views of life, it is rightly regarded as his masterpiece. Stylistically, it is the most perfect example of Italian classical prose, and its influence on Renaissance literature throughout Europe was enormous. The Decameron , subtitled Prince Galehaut (Old Italian: Prencipe Galeotto [ˈprentʃipe ɡaleˈɔtto, ˈprɛn-]) and sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia ("the Human comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Dante Alighieri's Comedy "Divine"), is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375). The book is structured as a frame… Read More