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A Tale Of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Written by Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel that follows Manette, a French doctor imprisoned for 18 long years in Paris’s Bastille. Following his release, he goes to live in London with his daughter Lucie, who had never met him and believed him to be dead. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution and Reign of Terror, A Tale of Two Cities is a fictitious story that falls both into the historical and adventure genres. The famous book is one of the...
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Cheever
by Blake Bailey
From the acclaimed author of A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates comes the unforgettable life of John Cheever (1912--1982), a man who spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. "I was born into no true class," Cheever mused in his journal, "and it was my decision, early in life, to insinuate myself into the middle class, like a spy, so that I would have an advantageous position of attack,...
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Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
Based on real events and acquaintances of Hemingway, Sun Also Rises is about American and English expats in Pamplona.
Of Human Bondage
by W Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention. " Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel Beauty from Ashes, finally settled on a title taken from Spinoza's Ethics
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women (or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy) is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Written and set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, it was published in two parts in 1868 and 1869. The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March—on their way into adulthood while their father serves as a chaplain in the American Civil War. Although it is not based on a true story, it is loosely inspired by the author's childhood...
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The Rise Of Silas Lapham
by William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, on March 1, 1837. His father was a printer and newspaperman, and the family moved from town to town. Howells went to school where he could. As a boy he began learning the printer’s skill. By the time he was in his teens he was setting type for his own verse. Between 1856 and 1861 he worked as a reporter for the Ohio State Journal. About this time his poems began to appear in the Atlantic Monthly. His campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln,...
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Brave New World
by Huxley Aldous
Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. The future society is an embodiment of the ideals that form the basis of futurism. Huxley answered this book with a reassessment in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with his final work, a novel titled Island (1962), both summarized below. In...
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Leaves Of Grass
by Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass (1855) is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. " Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death. The first edition published in 1855 contained 12 poems on 95 pages....
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Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Rolls On: Observations Then and Now
by Conroy, Frank
Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. The image provided is the actual book I'm offering for sale. No markings or damage to any pages. No sunning. No clips. Structure of the book (covers, binding, spine, hinges) is tight and free of damage. Page block is nice and square. Cut pages. Additional photos will be provided upon request to ensure the quality and integrity of your book purchase.
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£14.56
Saving Fish From Drowning
by TAN, AMY
New York, New York, USA: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. Archival protective cover. Lovely book bound in black half cloth gilt titled, with blue-green boards with blind-stamped design on front. Bright, clean, tight, unmarked, untorn. Unclipped jacket is blue-green/black with illus of Burmese river scene with small Burmese fishing boat and a woman fishing....
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£9.71
The Gaskell Society Journal : 2001 Volume 15
by Pryke, Jo (editor)
Manchester: Manchester University, 2001. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 107pp. Articles, reviews, notes and reports on all aspects of the 19th century writer Elizabeth Gaskell.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8.25 x 5.75 inches.
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£6.00
Number One
by DOS PASSOS, JOHN
Garden City, New York: The Sun Dial Press, 1944. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Type: Hardback The Sun Dial Press, 1944. Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Taupe cloth binding, with brown titles on front and spine. Clean, unmarked, corners all lightly compressed, spine head and heel scuffed. Top edge with publisher's brown tint. Fore-edge and lower edge rough cut. Tight and solid sewn binding, with cracked inner hinge....
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£12.92
The Images of Floyd Rudolph Peterson
by Peterson, Floyd Rudolph
"In the spring of 1976, the Colorado Quarterly, one of the nation's distinguished Little Magazines, announced the establishment of an annual $1,000 award issue to be published each year ... the selection of Floyd Rudolf Peterson's work, will very probably become a part of America's artisitc legend." quotes the back cover. This is a delightful combination of poetry and humorous illustrations, many in color. This was my father's copy, he notes his purchase in pencil as shown in one of my photographs.
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£36.43
The Gaskell Society Journal : 2003 Volume 17
by Pryke, Jo (editor)
London: The Gaskell Society, 2003. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small creases to upper corners of five adjacent pages and no bumping to corners. 146pp. Articles, reviews, notes and reports on all aspects of the 19th century writer Elizabeth Gaskell.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8.25 x 5.75 inches.
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£5.00
Wordscapes
by Barry Maybury
London: Oxford University Press, 1971. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight foxing to page edges and a trace of rubbing to corners. 160pp. Poetry, essays, many from young children and associated images for stimulating creativity in students.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good (+). 8.5 x 6.5 inches.
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£4.95
Noli Me Tangere
by Rizal, Jose
Honolulu: U. Of Hawaii, 1996. Later Printing . Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. Beautiful, unmarked trade paperback, could pass for new. Translator Soleded Lacson-Locsin. Classic early Filipino work, originally written in Spanish. *We feel that books offered for internet sale should be described thoroughly and accurately. Books listed by Brass Dolphin are so described, and graded, using the strict, traditional standards. For this reason, we have virtually zero returns.*
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£13.85
The Waverly Novels Illustrated Edition The Monastery 2 Volume XIX 1879
by Sir Walter Scott, Bart
368 p.p. Foxing insides covers and a few pages in front and back. Wear to cover as photographed. Spine is mainly intact. Slight bend in the boards. Second volume of The Monastery begins at Chapter 18. One volume in the Waverly Novels. Printed by R. and R. Clark, Edinburgh. This volume dated 1879.
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£20.24
House of Sand and Fog
by Dubus, Andre III
U.S.A: Vintage Books/Random House, 2000. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Cover is clean, top front corner scratched, light edgewear, and rubbing along spine. Interior is clean and unmarked, no creases. Oprah's Book Club Selection. A classic tragedy. In this novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously engaged in an escalating crisis. An Iranian immigrant from a wealthy...
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£5.29
The Poets of England, from Ben Johnson to Beattie, Selected and Chronologically Arranged with Biographical and Critical Noticies
by Aikin, Dr
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1853. First edition thus. Leather_bound. Good. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1853. First edition thus. Good. Illustrated with fine steel engravings. Specially bound in full red morocco, elaborately decorated, embossed, gilt, all edges marvelised. Some foxing to plates and end pages, plates protected by tissue. Spine missing, first 3 pages loose but binding tight for rest of book. 807pp. Po signatures 1909 and 1991. Shelf wear. <br/><br/>
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£101.19
Book and Magazine Collector : No 211 October 2001
by Crispin Jackson (editor)
London: Diamond Publishing Group Ltd, 2001. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163pp. This issue includes Sir Winston Churchill, Samuel Beckett, Toulouse-Lautrec, The Fortune Press, Harry Price - ghost-hunter, Robert Harris - 'Enigma' author, Walt Coburn, Great British Comic Artists no 1 - Dudley Watkins - Dandy Beano Broons and index, letters and classified.. We do not duse stock...
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£5.50
The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the XVIII Century
by Dobson, Austin
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, 1892. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked bevelled edge boards, foxing to end papers and a few other pages, clear gilt lettering/embossing to front and to spine, dusty untrimmed page edges and no bumping to corners. 89pp. Beau Brocade was a highwayman. There are seven other period pieces and four pages of notes. Attractive small period drawings throughout.. Second Edition....
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£19.50
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CRONICA DI MATTEO VILLANI A Miglior Laezione Ridotta [6 Volumes]
by Villani, Matteo
Firenze, Italy: Per il Magheri. G/No Dustjacket. 1825. ........ 1/4 Leather. 6 volumes . Sm 4to., v. p., covers rubbed, bumped, frayed, page foxing, toning .
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£182.14
The Great Fire
by Hazzard, Shirley
New York: FSG, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover book is crisp, clean, and tight. While it states first edition, it really is not because the number line lacks a one, showing only two through ten. It does not meet the test. The jacket is glorious in mylar. The National Book Award gold medallion laid on the book's front with its raised lettering has a trace of scuff. *We feel that books offered for internet sale should be described thoroughly and accurately. Books listed by Brass...
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£18.27
The Phatom Rickshaw and Other Stories
by Kipling, Rudyard
New York: Reader's League of America. Very Good- with no dust jacket. N.D.. BOMC. Hardcover. Book is Very Good - (minus). Strong and sturdy binding. Clean and unmarked text. Appears book never read. Very light bumping to cover corners and edges. Very light edge/corner wear to cover. Light surface shelf wear to cover. Light spine end bumps. Front page ends very small 1/8 inch chip to few pages. Light bottom page ends very small bumps on few pages. Bottom page ends small 1/2 inch smudge. Very...
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£5.67
Lewis Carroll: An Illustrated Biography
by Hudson, Derek
London: Constable, 1976. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 272pp. Biography of Lewis Carroll, now republished with a great many illustrations. Now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10.25 x 7.5 inches.
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£9.50
Earthlight, Wordfire: The Work Of Ivan Doig
by Simpson, Elizabeth
Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1993. 1st Edition, full number Line . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A beautiful book and jacket. Tiny, nearly microscopic bump at top field of front board. Tight, bright hardcover copy. Simpson signature and Feb. '93 date on 1/2 title page. Jacket newish in new mylar wrapper. *We feel that books offered for internet sale should be described thoroughly and accurately. Books listed by Brass Dolphin are so described, and graded, using the strict, traditional...
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£16.45
Literary Britain :Bill Brandt
by Haworth-Booth, Mark (editor)
London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1984. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 172pp. This set of captioned photographs by Bill Brandt was first published in book form in 1951. This reprint was made to accompany the V&A exhibition of the work in 1984. The first 65 of the 75 photographs are accompanied by poem or prose quotations from the English literature of famous authors. Scarce in...
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£50.00
Book and Magazine Collector : No 147 June 1996
by Crispin Jackson (editor)
London: Diamond Publishing Group Ltd, 1996. No marks or inscriptions . No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163p. This issue includes Billy Bunter annuals and paperbacks, John Creasey's pseudonymous works, Franz Kafka, Bette Davis, Sir Charles Oman historian, London Book Fairs, Erskine Childers, index and letters and classified... Soft Cover. Fine. 8.25 x 6 inches.
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£4.95
The Rise of Silas Lapham
by Howells, William Dean
New York, New York, USA: Perennial Classics/Harper & Row Publishers, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. First published in 1885--New York Times at that time wrote that "the great American novel" had at last been written. About a self-made Yankee millionaire's rise and fall against a richly detailed background of upper-class life in late nineteenth-century Boston. Introduction by Everett Carter....
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£6.07
Portage, Wisconsin; And Other Essays
by Gale, Zona
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [13], 4-214, [4] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; brown topstain. Price of $2.50 on the reverse of the jacket. Publisher's cancel after the dedication page. Illustrated by a woodcut frontispiece and a full-page portrait of one of the subjects of the essays. Jacket woodcut by Richard Bennett. Women in Wisconsin, "Zona Gale". A collection of essays from an early feminist figure, who made...
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£67.19
Literature As Recreation in the Later Middle Ages
by Olson, Glending
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1986. First Thus. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Cornell Paperbacks First Printing, 1986. Trade Paperback in Fine Condition. Golden wraps with medieval illustration and red letteirng is very clean and unmarked, no edge-wear, no creasing. Internals in Fine Condition also. This important study succeeds in demonstrating that in the later Middle Ages literature was consciously intended to give recreational pleasure and to contribute to...
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£6.44
The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works Series I Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Part 2 Volume 9
by Owen, Jane; Introduced By Dorothy L. Latz
United KIngdom: Ashgate Pub Ltd, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back Small Octavo Hardcover Book in NEAR FINE Condition. 276 p. 5.25"w x 7.75" tall. (12.5 cm x 19 cm). Green cloth with gilt titles on front and spine, gilt decoration on front. Small square dark area on upper corner where a sticker was removed and small erasure on upper corner area on ffep--otherwise in Fine Condition. Bright, square, sharp corners, tight sewn binding....
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£7.62
Marcel Proust : Selected Letters Volume Two 1904-1909
by Proust, Marcel & Kolb, Philip (editor)
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage and no fading to spine. 482pp. This volume of Proust's letters covers the crucial period leading up to his final discovery of his true vocation as a writer.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.
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£25.00
