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Sentimental Tommy, The Story of His Boyhood

By: Barrie, J. M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Cassell: 1920

Seller ID: 21240

Binding: Flexible leather

Condition: Good+ with no Dust Jacket

Blue covers, Barrie's gilt initials on front, spine with gilt lettering faded & torn at head and heel, extremities worn. Previous owner's name; top edge gilt. ; The Works of J. M. Barrie Series; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 452 pages; 21240
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Bedside Book Of Famous French Stories

By: Becker, Belle, and Robert N. Linscott (editors)

Price: $13.50

Publisher: NY, Random House: 1945

Seller ID: 13644

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Previous owner's name. Spine faded. Authors include Balzac, Sand, Gautier, Flaubert, Daudet, Zola, Maupassant, Sartre, et al. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 427 pages; 13644Nss
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Coinage of the Artaxiads of Armenia Special Publication - Royal Numismatic Society ; No. 10

By: Bedoukian, Paul Z

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Royal Numismatic Society: 1978

Seller ID: 31016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

8 plates at end of book. Most scholars have paid little attention to the coinage of the Artaxiads as primary historical source material. Dr. Bedoukian has gathered material of the Artaxiad period, and he presents here a systematic survey of the coinage series. Light wear at extremities. Previous owner's gift note. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 81 pages; 31016
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Better Reading Prose, Explanatory and Persuasive

By: Blair, Walter and John C. Gerber

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Scott, Foresman and Company: 1945

Seller ID: 30771

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

Blue cloth boards with gilt titling. Spine darkened with gilt title faded. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 596 pages; 30771
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France Under The Republic

By: Brogan, D. W.

Price: $16.50

Publisher: NY, Harper & Brothers: 1940

Seller ID: 25528

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no Dust Jacket

Binding shaky, boards edgeworn, previous owner's name and light stains to flypage. Occasional underlining primarily in the front half. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 744 pages; 25528
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Reluctant Hussy

By: Burke, Richard

Price: $11.00

Publisher: London, Jarrolds Publishers: 1947

Seller ID: 12323

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Fair Dust Jacket

This is a light-hearted, vivid tale of the San Francisco of 1904, recapturing the thrill and expectancy of its night life, its food, wine, and songs, and its multi-millionaires and fine-feathered soubrettes. Edgeworn covers, foxed page edges. Jacket is tattered and torn, in new mylar Book Jacket Cover. ; Small 8vo - 7½" to 8" tal; 224 pages; 12323
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Aquinas Selected Political Writings

By: D'Entreves, A. P. (Ed.)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom, Basil Blackwell: 1948

Seller ID: 12823

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no Dust Jacket

This translation from J. G. Dawson was based on the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas's political thought in the 13th century in Italy. Page 69 dogeared; top corner of front board frayed, spine faded. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 199 pages; 12823
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A Tale of Two Cities

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $12.00

Publisher: The MacMillan Company: 1930

Seller ID: 14949

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no Dust Jacket

Macmillan Pocket Classics Series; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 631 pages; 14949
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The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club

By: Dickens, Charles (edited by H. G. Buehler and Lawrence Mason, Revised by H. Y. Moffett)

Price: $17.50

Publisher: NY, Heritage Press: 1938

Seller ID: 26056

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Except for chapter one, each chapter has a "summary" of that chapter. Gray decorated boards, gilt oval title on spine tanned; 8 color plates, red topstain. Rear flyleaf has a closed tear. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 764 pages; 26056
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1919 [Nineteen Nineteen]

By: Dos Passos, John

Price: $22.00

Publisher: NY, Harcourt, Brace and Co: 1932

Seller ID: 30901

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no Dust Jacket

Book two in his trilogy, U. S. A. In 1998, the Modern Library of America ranked the U. S. A. Trilogy 23rd on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Faded red cloth boards are rubbed, spine sunned, soiled and edgeworn; previous owner's name; gutters shaky. Text block is clean. A reading copy only for this literature-collectable book. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 473 pages; 30901
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The Outline Of Literature In Three Volumes,

By: Drinkwater, John

Price: $40.00

Publisher: NY, Putnam's: 1924

Seller ID: 28822

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no Dust Jacket

Spine edges of all three volumes spotted, gilt titling faded. 1st volume: 4th printing, 1924. Color plate at pg 256 chipped at bottom, 295 pgs; publisher's errata slip tipped in. 2nd volume: 1923 2nd printing, tissue missing from frontispiece, has "a plain story simply told" as subtitle; ditto 3rd volume. 3rd volume: 1st printing, tissue in front of frontispiece torn, pages 687-1136. Pg 947 folded; Foxing, edgewear and old bookplate on all 3 volumes. Bindings still solid. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 28822
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The University Library Volume XXIV, December 17 - 31

By: Finley, John (Editor-In-Chief)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1927

Seller ID: 30886

Binding: Leather Bound

Condition: Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued

Contains 4 plates: Ray Stannard Baker ("David Grayson") [frontispiece]; Sidney Lanier; Giovanni Boccaccio; Harry Leon Wilson. Table of contents: Ghirlandajo; Alice Freeman Palmer; 5 poems for "Back to Nature"; The Little Man; Patient Griselda; 3 entries on "Travel"; Ruggles and Fate; A Day of Pleasant Bread; She Walks in Beauty; plus more entries by authors Charles Lamb, Edwin A. Alderman, Francis Thompson, Rudyard Kipling, Stewart Edward White. Top edge gilt a little faded. Minimal edgewear to brown leather boards. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 337 pages; 30886
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The Lady Of Godey's Sarah Josepha Hale

By: Finley, Ruth E

Price: $50.00

Publisher: J. Lippincott Co: 1931

Seller ID: 26453

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

With 9 reproductions in color and 24 illustrations. The entire first page and a portion of the 2nd page of chapter one lists all her accomplishments, all after the age of 38 (amazing). Every Thanksgiving dinner we celebrate is due to Sarah Josepha Hale. In 1827, Mrs. Hale wrote an article about the economic rivalry between the north and south -- not slavery -- that would start a civil war. Usual ex-lib markings. Binding solid and clean. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 318 pages; 26453
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The Tipton Home Story

By: Fooks, L. E

Price: $57.00

Publisher: Austin, TX, Firm Foundation Publishing House: 1958

Seller ID: 29786

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

The orphanage in Tipton, Oklahoma was first operated by the Church of Christ at Canadian, Texas, and later moved to Oklahoma. Brother Fook states that the church at Canadian, though caring for orphan children, had not started an institutional orphan home, and did not until much later learn that its child-care work had become an institution. PON and edgeworn. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 310 pages; 29786
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Cordelia

By: Graham, Winston

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Doubleday: 1949

Seller ID: 30024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no Dust Jacket

A victorian romance. Previous owner's name. Small bumps to hardcover edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 311 pages; 30024
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Aurora Dawn Or, The True History Of Andrew Reale Containing a Faithful Account of the Great Riot, Together with the Complete Texts of Michael Wilde's Oration and Father Stanfield's Sermon

By: Herman, Wouk

Price: $23.00

Publisher: New York: A Venture Pressbook / Simon and Schuster, 1947: 1947

Seller ID: 30847

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good Dust Jacket

The author of this book was a young American writer who had boldly set at defiance the entire modern bare-bones school of writing derived from the early Heningway. He used the great English language in all its beautiful values, rather than regarding it as a device to be ashamed of, boiled down, or pared away. His later works included Marjorie Morningstar, Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Raintree County, and many others. DJ, edgeworn and chipped, is in new mylar. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 241 pages; 30847
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The Odes Of Horace

By: Horace. (Englished by William Hathorn Mills)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, Lederer Street & Zeus: 1924

Seller ID: 31314

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

Brown boards worn on front board, gilt titling still brilliant. Laid in is an old article about Horace's influence. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 114 pages; 31314
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Letters Of James Gibbons Huneker Collected and Edited by Josephine Huneker

By: Huneker, James (1857-1921)

Price: $11.01

Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons: 1922

Seller ID: 30842

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

James Gibbons Huneker was an American art, book, music, and theater critic. A colorful individual and an ambitious writer, he was "an American with a great mission," in the words of his friend, the critic Benjamin De Casseres, and that mission was to educate Americans about the best cultural achievements, native and European, of his time. List of books by Huneker at back of book. Tissued frontispiece. Corners bumped, hinging, spine darkened. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 324 pages; 30842
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Steeplejack Two Volumes in One

By: Huneker, James Gibbons

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1925

Seller ID: 30843

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no Dust Jacket

Tissued frontispiece, corners bumped, deckled edges, foxing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 647 pages; 30843
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Diedrich Knickerbocker's History Of New York

By: Irving, Washington

Price: $23.00

Publisher: NY, Heritage Press: 1940

Seller ID: 22033

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no Dust Jacket

In late 1809, Washington Irving completed work on his first major book, A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker, a satire on self-important local history and contemporary politics. Prior to its publication, Irving started a hoax akin to today's viral marketing campaigns; he placed a series of missing person adverts in New York newspapers seeking information on Diedrich Knickerbocker, a crusty Dutch historian who had allegedly gone missing from his hotel in New York City. As part of the ruse, Irving placed a notice-alleged...
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Category: Vintage