Condition: Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued

Volume 1: A to D; volume 2: E to L; volume 3: M to R; volume 4: S to Z. In reading books, a word, name or place may not be known to the reader and can be looked up in this encyclopedic dictionary. You may be reading a book which refers to a Bicorne, Chrysale, or Hobinnol. Your dictionary is no help, but this Reader's Encyclopedia will tell you what you want to know. The poet Alfred deMusset's works are listed here, as is Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan's (Irish novelist and playwright). And so is Daniel Quilp, a character in Dicken's Old Curiosity Shop. Ding on top edge of volume 2. ; Small ...
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1949 Yucca, North Texas State College Volume 42

By: Brock, Leroy (Ed. )

Price: $32.50

Publisher: Denton, TX, Students of North Texas State : 1949

Seller ID: 30745

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued

In Denton, Texas, when phone numbers were two digits. Some foxing to endpapers. No writing or autographs. Bookplate with previous owner's name on it. Some soil on boards, primarily at extremities. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 411 pages; 30745
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Wuthering Heights

By: Bronte, Emily

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Franklin Library : 1979

Seller ID: 29605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued

Dark blue boards, all edges gilt, raised bands, gilt decorations. The Franklin Library was a division of The Franklin Mint that produced fine collector edition books. The Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, in order to preserve secrecy and to avoid the special treatment they believed reviewers accorded to women, assumed the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. 1 page dogeared. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 29605
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Ernest Maltravers Or The Eleusinia Complete in One Volume

By: Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 1st Baron Lytton

Price: $23.00

Publisher: J. B. Lippincott & Co. : 1879

Seller ID: 31336

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued

Quarter-bound leather with marbled paper boards, endpapers and edges. Tissued woodcut frontispiece. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC (25 May 1803 ? 18 January 1873) , was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling dime-novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the clichés "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", as well as the famous opening line "It was a dark and stormy night". Very minor age-wear. Lea...
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Pelham, Or The Adventures Of A Gentleman Complete in One Volume

By: Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 1st Baron Lytton

Price: $18.00

Publisher: J. B. Lippincott & Co. : 1879

Seller ID: 31340

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued

Quarter-bound leather with marbled papers. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC (25 May 1803 ? 18 January 1873) , was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling dime-novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the clichés "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", as well as the famous opening line "It was a dark and stormy night". ; Lord Lytton Edition, Bulwer's Novels Series; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 338 pages; 3...
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Our Texas Explorers, Heroes, Battles, Founders, Makers

By: Cox, Bertha Mae

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Turner : 1965

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 23336

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued

Written for students in the 7th grade, including State flags, motto, flower, song, tree and seal. White "smudge" above title on front board, PON. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages; 23336
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Barnaby Rudge, And Hard Times

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Porter & Coates : 1900

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 31591

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued

Illustrated frontispiece of Mr. Harthouse and Tom. Gift note. Gilt titling on spine still brilliant. Brown endpapers. ; Dicken's Works Series; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 31591
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Dombey and Son

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Philadelpha, PA, Porter & Coates : 1896

Seller ID: 30987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued

Burgundy embossed boards with gilt titling on spine. No date of publication in book. Previous owner's name dated Aug. '97 (can only assume it to be 1897 because it's obviously not 1997) , so the date of 1896 is on the ffep which is badly foxed, and a SWAG. Satin self-bookmark still present but tanned. Binding tight and pages clean, very minor edgewear along bottom, small chip at bottom front corner of spine. ; Alta Edition Series; B&W Drawings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 543 pages; 30987
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Master Humphrey's Clock, and Sketches By "Boz"

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Porter & Coates : 1900

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 31590

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued

Gift note. Gilt titling on spine still brilliant. Brown endpapers. ; Dicken's Works Series; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 31590
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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 1955 Corral Odessa High School

By: Hennessey, Betty Kemper (Ed. )

Price: $30.50

Publisher: Odessa, TX, Taylor-Made Publishing : 1955

Seller ID: 23816

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued

No writing or autographs. Light soil to boards, primarily at extremities. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 288 pages; 23816
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A Memoir Of The Reverend Sydney Smith. With a Selection from His Letters Edited by Mrs Austin, Volume I

By: Holland, Lady

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers : 1855

Edition: 1st American Edition

Seller ID: 30979

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued

Previous owner's name, mild foxing, ffep clipped. ; Vol. 1; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 378 pages; 30979
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Manual For The Fur Trade

By: I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft

Price: $32.50

Publisher: I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft : 1937

Seller ID: 31081

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued

Contents: soaking, scouring, dressing of fur skins and treatment of the skins before dyeing and much more. Index and multi-foldout chart at rear of book. Black cloth boards with gilt titling. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 95 pages; 31081
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The Darlings Of The Nations; Mighty Men And Their Daring Deeds Two Books in One.

By: Kemp, Dora Nesbitt, and Nathaniel Wiseman

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Robert Culley : 1905

Seller ID: 30600

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued

Book covers 6 vignettes for Lord Nelson; Napoleon Bonaparte; Pericles; George Washington; the Cid Campeador; and Peter the Great. The second book (following page 128) 'Mighty Men and Their Deeds', with 160 pages, publlished in 1904 and is a second edition.16 additional pages of various catalogs at back of book. Old purple previous owner stamp. Foxing, minor edgewear. ; The Wide World Series Series; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 288 pages; 30600
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Hope of the Nation Family Life Edition

By: Keyes, Nelson Beecher & Gallagher, Edward Felix

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Gastonia, NC, Good Will Publishers : 1959

Seller ID: 32036

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued

The Family Life Program of Alva Oklahoma. Padded leather covers tan, with gilt decorations, dedication page still blank. Interior like new. Freckled page edges. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 398 pages; 32036
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Dog Tales Volume 1

By: Long, Walter E.

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Von-Boeckmann-Jones : 1968

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 30334

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No Dust Jacket as issued

With inspiration from Longfellow: "footprints on the" -- lives of men. The author is the namesake for Lake Walter E. Long, a power plant cooling reservoir on Decker Lake in Austin, Texas, USA. A charming collection of photos with anecdotes about all the dogs he had and loved since he was a child. A letter from Mr. Long looking for more dog tales is laid in...with 3 stains on the back that correspond to the 3 stains on rear pastedown. Auto-pen signature on dedication page. Also laid in are two copies of an 11-page story (with red covers) by Mr. Long, published the same year. Binding is straight...
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