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BOSTON: THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., 1895 GOOD LOOKING BOOK, LEATHER ALONG THE SPINE AND CORNERS OF FRONT AND BACK. FRONT COVER FULLY ATTACHED, BUT WORN AT SPINE AREA, FORMER OWNERS NAME WRITTEN IN THE FRONT 1899. NICE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. TIGHT AND CLEAN. A VERY ENTERTAINING READ. The Beauty from Nivernais (French: La belle Nivernaise) is a 1924 French silent drama film directed by Jean Epstein. Alphonse Daudet (French: [dod]; 13 May 1840 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée Daudet, and writers Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet. Daudet was born in Nîmes, France. His family, on both sides, belonged to the bourgeoisie. His father, Vincent Daudet, was a silk manufacturer a man dogged through life by misfortune and failure. Alphonse, amid much truancy, had a depressing boyhood. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 1929 DARK BLUE COVERS, GOLD DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, GOLD PRINT SPINE, LIGHT FADING SPINE SECOND VOLUME, GOLD TRIM TOP PAGE EDGES. THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE FRONTISPIECE BOTH VOLUMES. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. BOOK ONE- FOUR CHAPTERS, L'ANCIEN REGIME: 1757-1777, THE AMERICAN WAR: 1777-1781, GLORY: 1781-1787, THE REVOLUTION: 1787-1792. 12 ILLUSTRATIONS. BOOK TWO- 8 CHAPTERS WITH NOTES/SOURCES, INDEX. PRISON AND EXILE: 1792-1799, THE CONSULATE AND THE EMPIRE: 1799-1807, THE HUNDRED DAYS: 1807-1815, THE RESTORATION: 1815-1824, APOTHEOSIS: 1824-1825, THE ROMANTICISTS: 1825-1830, THE REVOLUTION OF 1830: 1930, THE LAST PHASE: 1830-1834. TERRIFIC DETAIL FOR THE HISTORY LOVER. Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette was a French aristocrat, freemason and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War, commanding American troops in several battles,… Read More

BOSTON, CAMBRIDGE: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY; RIVERSIDE PRESS, 1883 BLACK COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER OWNERS NAME IN FRONT, 5 LINES PENCIL NOTES INSIDE BACK COVER. A FEW PENCIL NOTES THROUGHOUT, PAGE 39 HAS A 3" RIP. VERY NICE ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. Sir Walter Scott, (15 August 1771 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley, Old Mortality, The Heart of Mid-Lothian and The Bride of Lammermoor, and the narrative poems The Lady of the Lake and Marmion. He had a major impact on European and American literature. The Lady of the Lake is a narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1810. Set in the Trossachs region of Scotland, it is composed of six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single day. There are voluminous antiquarian notes. The poem has three main plots: the contest among three men, Roderick Dhu, James… Read More

NEW YORK: THE CENTURY CO., 1908 DARK BROWN COVER WITH FLOWER DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. GOLD AND TAN USED. ONLY INTERNAL MARKING IS THE FORMER OWNERS NAME IN FRONT. TIGHT AND GOOD SHAPE. Frances Little (November 22, 1863 ¿ January 6, 1941) was the pseudonym of American author Fannie Caldwell. Caldwell and her husband, businessman J.D. Macaulay, made their home on Fourth Street in Louisville, Kentucky. Her debut book The Lady of the Decoration was published in New York City in 1906 and would be her most successful work. The "Lady" rode the wave of American interest and support for Japan in the Russo-Japanese War, and supports the Japanese cause throughout. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

BOSTON: RICHARD G. BADGER, THE GORHAM PRESS, 1909 RARE BOOK, VERY NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, PICTURE WOMAN FRONT, RED DESIGN WITH WHIP COVER. LIGHT WEAR SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. ARTWORK FRONTISPIECE OF BOOK CHARACTER HASKINS. 24 CHAPTERS. A FEW CHAPTERS ARE FISTS AND THE MAN, LITTLE RED DEVIL, SUSPENSE, THE LASH, WANDERLUST AND THE LONG ROAD. VERY ENTERTAINING ACTION FILLED BOOK.
The Lash is a 1930 American pre-Code Western film produced and distributed by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. It had an alternate title of Adios. The film was directed by Frank Lloyd and stars Richard Barthelmess, Mary Astor, James Rennie and Marian Nixon.ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

LONDON: J.M. DENT & SONS, 1910 NICE LOOKING DARK RED TEXTURED COVER, BEAUTIFUL GOLD DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. SLIGHT WEAR TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT. NO INTERNAL MARKINGS. TASSLE ATTACHED TO MARK PLACE. WONDERFUL BOOK, BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK INSIDE FRONT AND BACK. The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical romance written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826. The novel has been one of the most popular English-language novels since its publication and is frequently assigned reading in American literature courses. It has been adapted numerous times and in many languages for films, TV movies, and cartoons. James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances depicting colonist and Indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries created a unique form of American literature. He lived much of his boyhood and the last fifteen years of life in Cooperstown, New York, which was… Read More

HARRISBURG, PA: BY AUTHORITY, 1926 CLEAN, TIGHT, VERY GOOD SHAPE. ONLY INTERNAL MARKING IS A STAMP BY CYRIL F. RUFFENACH HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, HARRISBURG. GOVERNOR NOTE IN FRONT, LAWS, VETOES, INDEX. GREAT PIECE OF HISTORY. PAGE 5 EVEN HAS A GASOLINE TAX. PASSED AT THE EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF 1926, IN THE ONE HUNDRED FIFTIETH YEAR OF INDEPENDENCE. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

DUBLIN, LOWER ORMOND-QUAY: CHEZ JOHN CUMMING, 1845 DARK BROWN COVER WITH GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT ON THE SPINE. ORIGINAL OWNER SIGNED AND MADE NOTE APRIL 8, 1856, COLLEGE CARLOW. BOOK HAS WEAR ON THE OUTSIDEWITH SMALL WHITE DOTS ON FRONT. RIGHT CORNERS BUMPED, EDGE BETWEEN SPINE AND FRONT COVER QUITE WORN BUT STILL ATTACHED. EDGES WORN. INSIDE FIRST BLANK PAGE IS A STAMP FOR ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, SIGNATURE AND DATE OF 1853 ON THE TITLE PAGE. B. DU GUE FRENCH LANGUAGE PROFESSOR LISTED ON TITLE PAGE. 1ST PAGE OF STORY HAS SIGNATURE AT TOP- MONASTERY- JUNE 16, 1853. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT, SOME PENCIL WRITING INSIDE BACK COVER. Les aventures de Télémaque (The adventures of Telemachus) is a didactic French novel by Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai and tutor to the seven-year-old Duc de Bourgogne (grandson of Louis XIV and second in line to the throne). It was published anonymously in 1699 and reissued in 1717 by his family. The slender plot fills out a gap in Homer's Odyssey,… Read More

PARIS: LIBRAIRIE CH. DELAGRAVE, 1884 NICE LOOKING RARE BOOK, GREEN TEXTURED COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. IN FRENCH LANGUAGE, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. TITLE IS THE GREAT EPOCHS OF THE PAINTING. Salomon van Ruysdael (c. 1602, Naarden buried 3 November 1670, Haarlem) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. He was the uncle of Jacob van Ruisdael. Claude Lorrain (French:; born Claude Gellée, called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in Italy, and is one of the earliest important artists, apart from his contemporaries in Dutch Golden Age painting, to concentrate on landscape painting Nicolas Poussin (UK: /pusæ/, US: /pusæ/, French: [nikla pus]; June 1594 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque Marie de Besneray (1850-1919) BORN IN MOSCOW, LIVED IN FRANCE. Woman of letters. -… Read More

BOSTON: D. C. HEATH & CO., 1907 VERY NICE LOOKING BOOK. DARK BLUE COVER WITH GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. SLIGHT WEAR AT EDGES. TIGHT, ONLY MARKINGS INSIDE ARE THE FORMER OWNERS SIGNATURE IN THE FRONT, FEW VERY SMALL CHECKS IN MARGIN AND A PLACE INSIDE BACK COVER 2 1/2" LONG WITH SMALL X'S. TERRIFIC ARTWORK INSIDE THROUGHOUT. Wilhelm Hauff (29 November 1802 ¿ 18 November 1827) was a German poet and novelist. Considering his brief life, Hauff was an extraordinarily prolific writer. The freshness and originality of his talent, his inventiveness, and his genial humour have won him a high place among the southern German prose writers of the early nineteenth century. Lichtenstein, an historical novel by W. Hauff, published in 1826. Written in conscious emulation of the Waverley Novels, it is described as Eine romantische Sage aus der württembergischen Geschichte. It is set in the 16th c. in the time of Duke Ulrich, and follows Scott's pattern in using fictitious principal… Read More

MUSCATINE, IOWA: IOWA BIBLE & PUBLISHING CO., 1874 LIGHT RED TEXTURED COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, LIGHT WEAR COVER. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. GREAT DETAIL OF A VERY INTERESTING LIFE AND TIME PERIOD. MANY TOPICS COVERED INCLUDING SLAVERY AND LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT. Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 March 11, 1874) was an American politician and United States Senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the anti-slavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Senate during the American Civil War. During Reconstruction, he fought to minimize the power of the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the freedmen. He fell into a dispute with fellow Republican President Ulysses Grant on the question of taking control of Santo Domingo. Grant's allies stripped Sumner of his power in the Senate in 1871, and he joined the Liberal Republican… Read More

NEW YORK: DERBY AND MILLER, 1865 RARE BOOK, LEATHER COVER, GOLD, BLACK DESIGN SPINE, FRONT COVER LOOSE, BUT INTACT. FOMER OWNER NAME INSIDE FRONT. LIGHT FOXING INSIDE FRONT AND BACK. RAYMOND CONSIDERED THE GODFATHER OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. GREAT DETAIL ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN INCLUDING SPEECHES, ADDRESSES, MESSAGES, LETTERS, PROCLAMATIONS AND CLOSING SCENES FROM HIS LIFE AND DEATH. FRANK B. CARPENTER INCLUDED ANECDOTES AND PERSONAL REMEMBERANCES OF LINCOLN. 15 ILLUSTRATIONS, 21 CHAPTERS AND APPENDIX. A WONDERFUL HISTORY OF A GREAT AMERICAN THAT EXPERIENCED A RICH LIFE OOF EARLY STRUGGLES. FROM CANDLELIGHT READING AND EARLY STRUGGLES IN BUSINESS TO THE PRESIDENCY. Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the Union through the American Civil War to defend the nation as a constitutional union and succeeded in abolishing slavery,… Read More

NEW YORK: Harper & Brothers, 1874 The Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1547-1619) was the principal architect of the independence of the republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands after the death of William the Silent. Motley, John Lothrop, 1814-77, American historian and diplomat, b. Dorchester, Mass. Author of two novels concerning Thomas Morton (1839 and 1849), as well as a number of articles for the North American Review. Motley's study of the history of the Netherlands resulted in The Rise of the Dutch Republic (3 vol., 1856), long a standard work and a popular success, and History of the United Netherlands (4 vol., 1860-67). His last work, The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, appeared in 1874. VERY NICE TWO VOLUME SET, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS, LEATHER ON SPINE AND CORNERS, NICE RED DECORATION FRONT, GOLD PRINT SPINE, WORN ON SPINE EDGES, SOME LIGHT FOXING IN VERY FRONT AND BACK BLANK PAGES, NICE MARBLING ALONG PAGE EDGES. TIGHT AND IN GOOD SHAPE. INSIDE PAGES IN GOOD… Read More

NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1915 Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (January 1, 1838¿1915) was an American literary historian and critic, born in Ovid, New York, January 1, 1838. He graduated at Yale in 1859 and subsequently received honorary degrees from Yale, Harvard, Lafayette, Princeton, and Aberdeen. He enlisted in the 126th New York Volunteers in 1862 and served in the Civil War as a first lieutenant. FIRST PRINTED, DECEMBER 1915, 1,000 COPIES. BEAUTIFUL BOOK, GREEN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. NO MARKINGS ACCEPT JUST INSIDE FRONT COVER UPPER LAFT CORNER IS A SMALL AREA 1" X 1/2" WHERE AN OWNERS STAMP WAS AND WAS REMOVED. VERY NICE CONDITION WITH GOLD ON TOP EDGE OF PAGES. Tennyson, Alfred Lord (1809¿92), English poet, central figure in the Arthurian revival, who drew from classical myth and Celtic legend to write allegorical stories about the ideals and failings of his society. He was particularly influenced by Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte… Read More

NEW YORK: MCLOUGHLIN BROTHERS, INC., 1920 TERRIFIC COLLECTORS CLASSIC. LIGHT BROWN COVER WITH DARK BROWN PRINT AND DESIGN. CIRCA EARLY 1900s, NO DATE LISTED, AFTER MCLOUGHLIN MOVED TO NEW YORK, ESTIMATED DATE 1920. ONLY INTERNAL MARK IS PREVIOS OWNER SIGNATURE IN PENCIL. PAGES INSIDE ARE LIGHTLY BROWNED WITH AGE. PAGES ARE TIGHT, FIRST BLANK PAGE STARTING TO TEAR LOOSE. COLOR FRONTISPIECE, 79 ILLUSTRATIONS BY PAGETT. VERY NICE ARTWORK. BEAUTIFUL CLASSIC. Daniel Defoe (1660 ¿ 24 April 1731), was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy, now most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularize the form in Britain, and, along with others such as Samuel Richardson, is among the founders of the English novel. A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural).… Read More

NEW YORK: MITCHELL & MILLER, 1893 RARE EARLY PUBLICATION OF LIFE MAGAZINE. BECAUSE IT IS SOFT COVER THERE ARE VERY FEW LEFT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT WITH WONDERFUL ARTWORK. CONTAINS General-interest and light entertainment, heavy on illustrations, jokes, and social commentary. It featured some of the most important writers, editors, illustrators and cartoonists of its time. WONDERFUL PEACE OF HISTORY AND ENTERTAINMENT. GREAT TO SEE ARTWORK AND INTERNAL INFORMATION. FOR THE LOVER OF LIFE MAGAZINE AND HISTORY. Life was an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, and as a monthly from 1978 until 2000. During its golden age from 1936 to 1972, Life was a wide-ranging weekly general-interest magazine known for the quality of its photography, and was one of the nation's most popular magazines, regularly reaching one-quarter of the population. Life was published independently for its first 53 years until 1936 as a general-interest and light… Read More

NEW YORK: MITCHELL & MILLER, 1893 RARE EARLY PUBLICATION OF LIFE MAGAZINE. BECAUSE IT IS SOFT COVER THERE ARE VERY FEW LEFT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT WITH WONDERFUL ARTWORK. CONTAINS General-interest and light entertainment, heavy on illustrations, jokes, and social commentary. It featured some of the most important writers, editors, illustrators and cartoonists of its time. WONDERFUL PEACE OF HISTORY AND ENTERTAINMENT. GREAT TO SEE ARTWORK AND INTERNAL INFORMATION. FOR THE LOVER OF LIFE MAGAZINE AND HISTORY. Life was an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, and as a monthly from 1978 until 2000. During its golden age from 1936 to 1972, Life was a wide-ranging weekly general-interest magazine known for the quality of its photography, and was one of the nation's most popular magazines, regularly reaching one-quarter of the population. Life was published independently for its first 53 years until 1936 as a general-interest and light… Read More

NEW YORK: MITCHELL & MILLER, 1893 RARE EARLY PUBLICATION OF LIFE MAGAZINE. BECAUSE IT IS SOFT COVER THERE ARE VERY FEW LEFT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT WITH WONDERFUL ARTWORK. CONTAINS General-interest and light entertainment, heavy on illustrations, jokes, and social commentary. It featured some of the most important writers, editors, illustrators and cartoonists of its time. WONDERFUL PEACE OF HISTORY AND ENTERTAINMENT. GREAT TO SEE ARTWORK AND INTERNAL INFORMATION. FOR THE LOVER OF LIFE MAGAZINE AND HISTORY. Life was an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, and as a monthly from 1978 until 2000. During its golden age from 1936 to 1972, Life was a wide-ranging weekly general-interest magazine known for the quality of its photography, and was one of the nation's most popular magazines, regularly reaching one-quarter of the population. Life was published independently for its first 53 years until 1936 as a general-interest and light… Read More

NEW YORK: MITCHELL & MILLER, 1893 RARE EARLY PUBLICATION OF LIFE MAGAZINE. BECAUSE IT IS SOFT COVER THERE ARE VERY FEW LEFT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT WITH WONDERFUL ARTWORK. CONTAINS General-interest and light entertainment, heavy on illustrations, jokes, and social commentary. It featured some of the most important writers, editors, illustrators and cartoonists of its time. WONDERFUL PEACE OF HISTORY AND ENTERTAINMENT. GREAT TO SEE ARTWORK AND INTERNAL INFORMATION. FOR THE LOVER OF LIFE MAGAZINE AND HISTORY. Life was an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, and as a monthly from 1978 until 2000. During its golden age from 1936 to 1972, Life was a wide-ranging weekly general-interest magazine known for the quality of its photography, and was one of the nation's most popular magazines, regularly reaching one-quarter of the population. Life was published independently for its first 53 years until 1936 as a general-interest and light… Read More

NEW YORK: LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1893 RARE EARLY PUBLICATION OF LIFE MAGAZINE. BECAUSE IT IS SOFT COVER THERE ARE VERY FEW LEFT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT WITH WONDERFUL ARTWORK. CONTAINS General-interest and light entertainment, heavy on illustrations, jokes, and social commentary. It featured some of the most important writers, editors, illustrators and cartoonists of its time. WONDERFUL PEACE OF HISTORY AND ENTERTAINMENT. GREAT TO SEE ARTWORK AND INTERNAL INFORMATION. FOR THE LOVER OF LIFE MAGAZINE AND HISTORY. Life was an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, and as a monthly from 1978 until 2000. During its golden age from 1936 to 1972, Life was a wide-ranging weekly general-interest magazine known for the quality of its photography, and was one of the nation's most popular magazines, regularly reaching one-quarter of the population. Life was published independently for its first 53 years until 1936 as a general-interest and light… Read More