Colleen Browning. Fine. Issued Without Dust Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches tall x 2 inches thick, xi, 516pp. Burgundy full leather bound with ornate gilt decoration to covers, four raised bands to spine, all page edges are gilt, satin page marker sewn in, moire endpapers. A fine copy-clean, bright and unmarked. Previous owner's small embossed blind stamp, Dr. Walter Franklin on lower portion of title page.
Harry Clarke. Fine. Issued Without a Dust Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Gilt-embossed red leatherette, all edges gilt, red and white floral patterned end papers. Full page illustrations by Harry Clarke, 304pp. Includes The Pit and the Pendulum, Fall of the House of Usher, Cask of Amontillado, A Descent into the Maelstrom, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, the Gold Bug, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Purloined Letter, Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The ...
Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. The companion volume to the critically revered seven-part PBS television series. "The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians and scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced-and helped to win-the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost. Focusing on the citizens of four towns-Luverne, Minnesota: Sacramento, California; Waterbury, ...
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan Co., New York
Date published: 1909
Description: Very Good. Issued Without a Dust Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. 1909. xiii, 262pp. plus 2pp. adverts about Lowell's other work in rear. 12 black & white plates including frontispiece. Profusely illustrated throughout text with photographs, diagrams and drawings. Original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Octavo. First edition. Tiny bit of wear to the cloth on the head and foot of the spine; overall a handsome copy. Read More
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton & Co., New York
Date published: 1949
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Author's 4th book. Bound in black cloth, with bright gilt lettering and rules to the spine, and the publisher's device blind-stamped on the front board. Top of text block stained pink. Dust jacket has a 1/8" chip to the crown of spine and very minor chipping to the foot Sun fading to the red ink on the back strip of the dust jacket. Not price clipped. A very near fine copy in a black dust wrapper that retains the publisher's price of $3 ... Read More
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chapman & Hall, London
Date published: 1850
Description: Very Good. Issued Without a Dust Jacket. Book Volume 4, 9th thousand. Edition of 1850. The Miser's Daughter complete in one volume. Bound in white velum with 5 raised bands. Very good condition. Small amount of foxing to the frontispiece. Bit of bumping to the corners. Read More
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chapman & Hall, London
Date published: 1850
Description: Very Good. Issued Without a Dust Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Unusual edition dated 1850. I could not find another anywhere. Previous owner's signature on front free end paper. The first edition of The Old Curiosity Shop was published by Chapman and Hall in 1841. Read More
Edition: 5th or later Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: George Routledge, London/New York
Date published: 1878
Description: Very Good. Issued Without a Dust Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Quarter red leather binding with 5 raised bands and gilt decoration to the back strip. Small damp stain to foredege of front free end paper. Text is clean, tight and complete. Includes his confidential correspondence with Mr Wilkes, and his private letters addressed to Mr H.S. Woodfall. With a preliminary essay, notes and folding fac-similes. Of a Whiggish political bent, the Junius' letters attacked many of George III's reign ... Read More
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall. Unread copy in pristine condition signed by the author. Also includes a book mark advertising the publication of the book on September 23rd, 2003. Eddie, a war veteran and head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park, is an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. When he awakes in the afterlife he learns that heaven is ... Read More
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton, Miflin, Boston
Date published: 1996
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s) Gift inscription from previous owner on the front free end paper, signed by Theroux on th title page, unclipped jacket, Life, to the hero of MY OTHER LIFE, has no apparent plot, so it can seem messier than fiction--sometimes it appears that he is leading many separate lives. The only connecting strand is that they all involve the same person. The fictional narrator of these memoirs, a man of different guises, be it ... Read More
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace, New York
Date published: 1942
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s) 469pp. Blue cloth with yellow lettering to spine in original unclipped dust jacket. Minor chipping to dust jacket edges. Small closed tears to top rear dust jacket panel. Expertly repaired with acid free tape. THOROFARE is the name of a little winding street that runs through an ancient English town. But it becomes (. ) a symbol of the westward instinct of the English-speaking race." Read More
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions, New York
Date published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780811206266ISBN:0811206262
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall. Currently out of print. Very good with some age toning to the durst jacket. Price clipped. Read More
