Romance Fiction

First volume of two, 710 p. in fine hard cover binding. the most rare and complete edition edited by Abdurrahman al Safti al Sharqawi. vol.1 contains 536 stories. 26.5 x 18 cm. printed in Bulak 1251 (1834-1835).

Messner, New York
NF Boards, VG Dust jacket
Not price clipped. Price of $3.50
NF dark grayish green boards. No dings, no bumping, clean, no marks, no p o's, no book plates, no stickers. Tight bindings.
DJ is in very good condition. Shelf wear, tiny tears along all edges.
Great B&W photo of the author on back sitting at a table in jeans and tennies with her feet propped up. "Grace Metalious is the most surprising new novelist of the year. In Peyton Place this Pandora in blue jeans lifts the lid off a small New England village, in the most explosive novel since Kings Row.Made into a motion picture and became a cult classic t.v. series.

The Queen Of Hearts, 1859 Harper & Brothers, NY. First Edition. By Wilkie Collins. Complete in one volume. RARE. QUEENS QUORUM TITLE. Exlib. Marbled boards, beige cloth spine. Paper library tag on spine. 4 5/8 X 7 1/2. Moss green end-papers are intact at the hinge. 472 pages. Pages tanned. Some pages show some degree of water damage. Please see our photos.

The Woman In White (1860 Harper & Brothers 1st Edition) BY WILKIE COLLINS. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1860.[2], 260, [4, ads] pp. States 1860 on the title page. In-text illustrations by John McLenan. Publisher's dk. brown stamped heavy cardboard boards with elaborate blind-stamped Harper and Brothers cartouche on front and back boards. Ads state B. Miss Mulock spelled correctly. Ads list eleven titles, and verso advertising The Mill on the Floss [Gasson p. 160.]Used. Good- Condition: Our copy lacks its spine, otherwise in good condition and a good candidate for rebinding. Chocolate brown endpapers are in good shape. Please see our photos. Your offers are welcome here.

1651 KISSING Dutch John Secundus Everaerts Poetry Erotica Romantic Latin Poems

Johannes Secundus, also known as Joannes Everaerts was a 16th-century Dutch poet. He wrote several romantic elegies, odes and songs, letters, and epistles most of which deal primarily with love and romantic behavior. He is best known for his treatise on kissing which explores the erotic behaviors and the symbols that kissing represents.

This 1651 Latin edition was published in Leiden and features the entirety of the known works of Secundus.

Item number: #9562
Price: $550
EVERAERTS, Johannes of Nicolai
Joannis Secundi Opera. Accurate recognita
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Franciscum Moyaert, MDCXXXXXI. [1651].

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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Provenance: Bookplate – Henri Lambert
o Henri Lambert (1862–1934) was a Belgian engineer and glass works owner at Charleroi near Brussels. His glass works were the largest in the world in that time.
o He was one of the… Read More

By Daphne Du Maurier. Jamaica Inn, Doubleday & Company MXXXVI, BCE. 243 pages. INCLUDES RARE ORIGINAL REX WHISTLER 1ST EDITION UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. Fits volume size 5 3/8 X 8 1/8. Original cover price $4.50. Includes good condition Library bound. DJ is taped to the book. We consider offers.

SOURCE OF THE TITLE PRIDE AND PREJUDICEBURNEY, FRANCES. Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. By the Author of Evelina. 12mo. Bound in full speckled calf with gilt-lettered spine labels; page edges dyed yellow. London: Printed for T. Payne and Son. 1782. First Edition. 5 volumes. With the misspelled catchword on page 235 of vol. II and the mispaginated page 159 in vol. V. The first edition of Fanny Burney's second novel, recounting the trials and tribulations of a wealthy young orphan who, launched into society, must guard her fortune and virtue from the depredations of assorted suitors. A follow-up to her hugely successful Evelina, Cecilia is "less unstudied" than the earlier work, "with greater polish, and a 'literary quality' that gave rise to the report that Dr. Johnson had corrected it." (Kunitz & Haycraft)An interesting incidental note is the appearance near the end of the book of a phrase that would gain immortality in the hands of a slightly later author:"'The whole of this unfortunate business,'… Read More

FIRST EDITION in dust jacket; SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the author to novelist Rupert Hughes. The book is fine. The unclipped dust jacket has very minor edge wear, minimal paper loss at the spine ends, and is sunned at the spine. Miller was an actress in the twenties, starring opposite Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and was married to screenwriter John Lee Mahin. See & Brooker.

Hayward, Rachel The Hippodrome , 1913 George H. Doran Company, New York. American First Edition. Red boards with gilt titling and ornamentation. Gilt still fairly bright. EXLIB Good condition. / No DJ Included. Early noir detective novel set in Paris in the 1860's- 70's, and the Story of Arithelli, the beautiful English equestrienne. 295 PAGES. 5 1/8 X 7 ¾. 295 pages. QUITE RARE. We are pleased to consider offers.

London: Dean & Munday, [ca. 1820s] First edition? There is also a twenty-four-page Derby edition from T. Richardson. We have been unable to establish priority. Both editions are scarce: OCLC records only three copies of this edition (UCLA, the Huntington, Princeton) and three of the T. Richardson (University of Alberta, Cambridge, NYPL, University of Kentucky). Modern gray paper wrappers. 4 x 7 in. . With a hand-colored frontispiece of two women dressed in early nineteenth century gowns. Offsetting to title-page, otherwise a very good, clean copy. A sensational novel of a young woman who leaves her modest country life to find employment in the corrupt and fast-paced city. Though besieged by the advances of men, Fanny Bilson maintains her honor and escapes back to the safety of her father's home, now with a reputable gentleman on her arm.

True First Edition1944, same date on title pageVG/VGDoubleday Rare, Collectible First Edition with ORIGINAL Dust JacketStated in Book, "True, First Edition after the Printing of a limited printing of 750."
Price of 2.75 on dust jacket. Dedication on Valentine's Day 1944. PO's signature.
This is the story of Larry Darell, an American pilot traumatized by WWI who sets off on a search of some transcendent meaning of his life. Concerned in a large part with the search for the meaning of life with the dichotomy between spirituality and materialism.

Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1920. Original Full Leather. Near Fine. 8vo. 1920-1928. Dünndruck. Einbandgrössse; 11,5 x 17,5cm. RARE ORIGINAL FULL RED LEATHER. SELTENE ORIGINAL GANZLEDERAUSGABE. Very insignificant unnoticeable wear to head of spine. A VERY GOOD CLEAN AND FRESH COPY. Minimalste kaum sichtbare Gebrauchsspuren am Kopf der Rücken, innen sehr sauber und frisch. EIN SEHR SCHÖNES EXEMPLAR!

New York: MacMillan Company. 1936. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. First issue with "Published May 1936" on copyright page in first issue jacket with rear panel headed "Macmillan Spring Novels" listing Gone with The Wind as the second title in the second column. Binding tight and square. Original full-bound cloth boards present, in exceptional condition for their age, with slight wear to corners as shown. Minimal wear present to boards and text block, with some wear evident to the original dust jacket, with a repaired tears on both the front and back covers, as well as some chipping losses at spine corners, and wear to the edges at bottom and top. Clipped (as is typical) at the top corner, with original price of $3 not clipped at the bottom left. Overall a very nice example. ; Signed by Margaret Mitchell on the first free end page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1037 pages; Signed by Author .

1887 Atala Chateaubriand Gustave Doré Romance Tragedy Natchez Indians Chactas

"Atala," by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand, is a 19th-century romantic novella set in early colonial North America. It tells the tragic love story of Atala, a Christian Natchez Indian, and Chactas, a young Native American from a different tribe. The story explores themes of love, religion, and the conflict between civilization and nature.

This folio edition, translated by James Spence Harry, features 30 striking illustrations by renowned artist Gustave Doré, who captures the dramatic and emotive scenes from the story with his intricate and evocative engravings. Doré's illustrations bring the characters, landscapes, and pivotal moments of Chateaubriand's tale to life, adding depth and visual appeal to this classic work of French literature.

Item number: #41009
Price: $599

CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René vicomte de; HARRY, James Spence (Transl.); DORÉ, Gustave (Illus.)

Atala by Chateaubriand. Translated by… Read More

THIS IS THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ENGLISH VERSION OF ANNA KARENINA, 1886. THIS WAS PRINTED IN THREE DIFFERENT COLOR BINDINGS, GREEN, BLUE AND BROWN. THIS BROWN COPY IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION AND VERY RARE. THE WORK IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT LITERARY ACHEIVEMENTS OF ALL TIME.