Category: Classic

The book covers some twenty-five years of the growth and decay of not only the hundred or more characters, but of the whole mass of the city-the other millions of characters whom you feel hauntingly behind the persons named and chronicled. .............Against an ever-present background of steel skyscrapers Dos Passos splashes his portrait of New York City in the early nineteen-twenties - his eye a telescopic lens focused now on Fourteenth Street, now on the Bowery, now on Delmonico's, now on the bootlegging activities of the city waterfront; his pen an artist's brush with all the colors of th...
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The History of Tom Jones A Foundling

By: Fielding, Henry & Thomas Rowlandson

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, PA, Franklin Library : 1980

Seller ID: 29436

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

The Franklin Library was a division of The Franklin Mint that produced fine collector edition books. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 736 pages; 29436
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SHAKESPEARE STORIES

By: Garfield, Leon (Shakespeare)

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Houghton and Mifflin : 1985

Seller ID: 18909

ISBN: Summary: an acclaim

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- Dust Jacket

Bottom rear board chipped. Ditto the DJ. Light edgewear. ; Color Plates; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 287+ pages; 18909N
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Spirits Rebellious

By: Gibran, Kahlil (translated From The Arabic by H. M. Nahmad)

Price: $25.20

Publisher: NY, Knopf : 1948

Seller ID: 21990

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Poor Dust Jacket

DJ, rubbed, stained, chipped & torn is in mylar ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages; 21990
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Glencoe Literature, The Reader's Choice

By: Glencoe

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Glencoe/Mcgraw-Hill : 2001

Seller ID: 15938

ISBN-13: 9780028179346

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Flyleaf dogeared. Textbook, never used. 8½ x 10½. 140-page reference section. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 881 pages; 15938
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Comrade Don Camillo

By: Guareschi, Giovanni

Price: $18.00

Publisher: NY, Farrar, Straus and Company : 1964

Seller ID: 24707

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

(translated by Frances Frenaye). Price-clipped DJ lightly edgeworn. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 212 pages; 24707
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The Mayor Of Casterbridge

By: Hardy, Thomas

Price: $14.51

Publisher: Heritage Press : 1964

Seller ID: 28334

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

With engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Previous owner's stamp; rear gutter cracking. ; Wood engraving; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 318 pages; 28334
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The Return Of The Native

By: Hardy, Thomas

Price: $13.50

Publisher: NY, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1917

Seller ID: 21556

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no Dust Jacket

Front gutter cracked, title faded; Modern Student's Library Series; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 410 pages; 21556
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The Return Of The Native

By: Hardy, Thomas

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers : 1922

Seller ID: 31304

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no Dust Jacket

Easily one of the greatest of Hardy's novels, it represents the flower of Hardy's art. Its sustained dignity of expression places it apart from almost all other novels in our language.... Corners bumped, heel of spine crinkled. Pencil notes on pastedown, PON. ; Harper's Modern Classics Series; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 485 pages; 31304
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The Annotator: The Pursuit Of An Elizabethan Reader Of Halle's Chronicle Involving Some Surmises About The Early Life Of William Shakespeare

By: Keen, Alan & Roger Lubbock

Price: $16.50

Publisher: NY, Macmillan : 1954

Seller ID: 22587

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair Dust Jacket

DJ, rubbed and chipped, in mylar book jacket cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216+ pages; 22587
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Kim

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association : 1990

Seller ID: 26893

ISBN-13: 9780895773432

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no Dust Jacket

Bookplate, previous owner's name. ; The World's Best Reading Series; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 303 pages; 26893
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The Narrow Corner

By: Maugham, W. Somerset

Price: $12.00

Publisher: P. F. Collier : circa 1930

Seller ID: 13040

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket

Filled with adventure, passion, and intrigue, The Narrow Corner is a tale of the sea by one of the twentieth-century's finest writers. Island hopping across the South Pacific, the esteemed Dr. Saunders is offered passage by Captain Nichols and his companion Fred Blake, two men who appear unsavory, yet any means of transportation is hard to resist. The trip turns turbulent when a vicious storm forces them to seek shelter on the remote island of Kanda, where these three men fall under the spell of the sultry and stunningly beautiful Louise, and their story spirals into a wicked tale of love, mur...
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The Tree House Confessions

By: McConkey, James

Price: $30.00

Publisher: NY, E. P. Dutton : 1979

Seller ID: 15810

ISBN-13: 9780525222606

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

Eudora Welty's comments on back of DJ, Alison Lurie's on front DJ flap. Edgewear to DJ with tiny chips and tears on rear bottom edge, in mylar book jacket cover. ; 15810
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Doctor Zhivago

By: Pasternak, Boris

Price: $16.50

Publisher: NY, Pantheon : 1958

Seller ID: 21540

ISBN-13: 9780394422237

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ Dust Jacket

Chipped, torn DJ in mylar book jacket cover ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 558 pages; 21540
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History Of American Literature

By: Payne, Leonidas Warren

Price: $14.51

Publisher: Chicago, Rand Mcnally : 1919

Seller ID: 23820

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no Dust Jacket

Penciled owneer's name; pages age-discolored; small but significat chunk missing from lower corner of rear board at spine edge. Some edgewear. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 386 pages; 23820
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Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes

By: Prentice Hall

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Prentice Hall : 1999

Seller ID: 19755

ISBN-13: 9780130512826

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Transparencies to support every literary focus skill and every reading strategy. Minimal edgewear; 3-hole-punched, all transparencies intact; Small 4to - 9" to 11" tall; 158 pages; 19755
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Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes

By: Prentice Hall

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Prentice Hall : 1999

Seller ID: 19758

ISBN-13: 9780130512833

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Transparencies to support every literary focus skill and every reading strategy. Minimal edgewear; 3-hole-punched, all transparencies intact; Small 4to - 9" to 11" tall; 130 pages; 19758
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Category: Classic