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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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... View More...
Shapur's adventures after being left behind at an oasis by the caravan after his camel becomes ill. Then his salt is dissolved by a leak from the water, and why should he continue on to the market with nothing to sell? Clean, bright and tight text. Small split at head of spine, tiny black dot on front board near bottom. ; The Johnston Jewel Series; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 35 pages; 28902 View More...
B/W and color plates. Critique by Hazel Boyer Braun. Not ex-library. Most pages slick paper, tanned around edges; DJ chipped, tanned, stained (one large ink stain on rear which bled thru on to rear board) , in mylar book jacket cover. Postcard from Pearl K. McGown (designer of hooked rug patterns and an author) dated 1945 and containing her signature laid in between pages 86/87.; B&W and color Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 16484; Signed by Associated View More...
A tumultuous story of modern India in the ferment of independence. As conflicts rage between British soldiers and Indian nationalists, a young Anglo-Indian woman strives to clarify her own ethnic identity. Chipped and edgeworn DJ now in new mylar. Previous owner's name. Light age-tanning to endpapers, slight slant. ; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 367 pages; 27070 View More...
A collection of essays by well-known authors on a diverse group of topics ranging from bachelors, death, and music to honey, politics and Leonardo Da Vinci. The style varies from solemn to amusing, from cynical to analytical. Page 56 has a small chip in outer lower corner. No writing or any other defect...just age-wear. ; The Master Classics, VIII Series; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 246 pages; 31316 View More...
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