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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine/Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st Edition. Second printing. 2nd printing. Numberline starting with "2." Newberry award winning novel. Inscribed by the author. Hardcover with maroon cloth with light fading along the edges. spine and tan paper over boards. Dust jacket has some chipping along the top and bottom of spine and some edgewear. Dust jacket is price clipped at both corners of front flap. Inscribed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Trade Edition. Bound by Whitman Bennett bindery (1 of 12 bound by Whitman Bennett) in full decorated crushed morocco, with a note by the author. Beautiful, marbled endpapers. Gilt text block edges. Tight and square binding. Edges and hinges rubbed. Stephen Vincent Benet, a prominent early 20th century poet, wrote his most famous book-length poem about the Civil War. Benét won the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed poem named after the song about the great martyr for emancipation, John Brown.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Copyright date 1747. 768 pgs plus Index. Rebound. Folio. Recent full calf with remnants of original paneled. New endpapers. Title page soiled with some small holes in margins, not affecting text. Upper corner of last 20 pages or so chewed, not affecting text, but affecting some page numbers. Contemporary ownership inscription to title page. Some staining to contents and some marginal folds and tears but overall a very good copy. Thomas Story (1670-1742) was an English Quaker convert and friend of William Penn, whose writings were very influential to Quakers. In 1698, he visited colonial America, lectured to Quakers there, and held positions in the Pennsylvania colony. Additional postage may be required.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First US Edition. Gilt spine titles. 1896 at bottom of title page. Previous owner's stamp on verso of frontis. Spine ends/corners worn and tiny tear to cloth at spine foot and head. Very light foxing to a few pages.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover Condition: Good+. Full calf. Three volumes. Vol. I cover detached. Vols. II and III covers are loosening but still attached. Ownership inscription on FFEP of each volume and bookplate on endpaper of each volume. Clean interior with minimal foxingJunius is the pseudonym of the still unidentified author of a series of letters contributed to Henry Sampson Woodfall's Public Advertiser,
a popular English newspaper of the day, between Jan. 21, 1769, and Jan. 21, 1772. Junius' aims were to discredit the ministries of the Duke of Grafton and subsequently of Lord North and to draw attention to the political influence of George III, who was trying to establish his own "personal government" by selecting his ministers from a group of subservient friends. Junius used arcasm in attacking the public and private lives of Grafton and his associates, the Duke of Bedford, the Earl of Bute, and Lord Mansfield. He also attacked King George himself which lead the government to (unsuccessfully)… Read More

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine/Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine/Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing (complete number line). Not price-clipped ($27.00 price intact). 8vo. Signed on tipped-in page. Hardcover is in Near/Fine condition with light, circular stain to lower right of front board (about the size of an eraser head). Light shelf wear to spine. Fine, unclipped dust jacket has light shelf wear/ edge wear with no tears or chips. "Signed Copy" sticker.