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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Corvina Press, Budapest
Date published: 1967
Description: DJ shows significant wear and is deeply age toned with chipping and tears along top and bottom edges. Pages clean. Embossed with former owners name on half title page. Text in English, Hungarian. 285 p. 19 cm. Hungarian library.. Translation from Hungarian title of Sötét Angyal. Dark Angel Literature Fiction Hungarian Eastern Europe) Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Heritage Press, NY
Date published: 1964
Description: Mugnaini, Joe. Bound tête-bêche. No dust jacket. DOES NOT INCLUDE SLIPCASE, covers have some scuffing/wear/bending to edges/corners, pgs are clean & intact. Color illustrations laid in. 285 p. Includes illustrations. A decorative edition of two science f Both titles are illustrated with striking color plates by Joe Mugnaini-10 with War of the Worlds and 6 with Time Machine Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania
Date published: 1979
Description: Falke, Pierre. Very good in very good dust jacket. Appears unread. Gold colored decoration on brown boards with gilt on page edges. Pages are clean and tight with crisp text. Spine is square and tight. 355 p. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: World Book Company
Date published: 1914
Description: Fair. No dust jacket. Former owners/readers names in pencil inside front cover. Binding is intact, covers show significant shelf wear; 5 pen marks on front cover. Pages show uniform age toning and are clean with clear text. Pencil writing on last blank... 257 p. Contains works by Washington Irving, George William Curtis, James Russell Lowell and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Read More
Language: Hungarian
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Akademiai kiado, Budapest
Date published: 1965
Description: Very good. Edgewear & scuffing on cover, pencil marks on half-title page & back cover. Otherwise, text is clean & binding is tight. 98 p. Includes index. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Corvina Press, Budapest
Date published: 1965
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. Covers have scuffing / wear & bending on edges & corners, small tears, bk covers have minimal wear/bending to edges/corners, previous owners embossed stamp on 2nd pg, pgs are clean & intact. 166 p. "Tersanszky is one of the greatest living Hungarian writers" Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farber & Farber Ltd.
Date published: 1937
Description: Good. No dust jacket. See "General Notes" for condition descriptions. Spine shows diffuse tan discoloration, no rips or tears. Grey cloth boards are very lightly soiled. No bumping to corners. Previous owner's name on front fly page in pencil. Pages are uniformly age toned and slightly loose at the middle of the book with the webbing visible. Small, faint droplet shaped stains on page end. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Penn Publishing, Philadelphia, PA
Date published: 1900
Description: Green cloth over boards has several small, round discolored areas on front cover. Edges and corners rubbed. Red lettering faded but legible. Pages clean, tight and deeply age toned. Spine square. 220 p. Contains a list of "popular handbooks" in the back Read More
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Covers have minimal wear/bending to edges/corners, pgs are clean, LIKE NEW, dedication/signature on 2nd title pg. 651 p. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Macmillan Co, NY
Date published: 1918
Description: Walker, Dugald Stewart. Fair. No dust jacket. Covers have scuffing & wear with wear/bending to edges/corners, spine has been very rubbed, previous school stamp on flypg, pg edges soiled, some age toning, 1/2 title slightly pulled away, pgs are clean. pictures are... 178 p. Includes illustrations. Read More
Edition: The Coronation Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Heritage Press, New York
Date published: 1953
Description: Austen, John; (illustrations engraved in wood by Agnes Miller Parker. Very good in very good dust jacket. Covers show minimal shelf wear, SLIPCASE has some wear/scuffing/teeny tears to edges/corner. Pages are clean and tight. 992 p. Read More
Language: French
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Librairie Armond Colin, Paris
Date published: 1902
Description: Cover shows wear, foxing throughout the book, pages are tight and unmarked. Edges are well worn. 352 p. Includes illustrations. Livre de lecture pour les jeunes filles à l'usage des cours moyen et supérieur et dess classes élémentaires: débuts dans la vie, vie sociale, vie de famille. Avec beau gravures noir et blanc in texte. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Londonmeadow Press
Date published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780681319233ISBN:0681319232
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Guilted text block with minor scratches. Clean pages. Tight binding. Minor shelf wear. Makes a great gift. 950 p. General audience Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Broadway Rouss
Date published: 1864
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Books are in good to very good condition. Books are in great condition for their age. Covers are square. Spines show titles in gold gild. Pages are tight and have age toning. Vol IV has a few pages of... 7 volume set. Green cloth over boards. Complete 7 volume set. Books were originally sold by Holmes Book Co. in San Francisco. Each book bears the bookstore label on the back inside cover. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co, New York
Date published: 1898
Description: Robinson, T. H. Good. Some damage/wear to spine & coversr; 1st pg has ink mark & previous price, inside back cover a very small sticker from bookstore, torn corner on pg 51 bookplate inside from cover; writing & crease on 1st pg 309 p. pgs have age toning. 309 p. Includes illustrations. First edition. presumed. 19 full pg, illustrations Read More
Edition: Special Editors and Artists Edition-831 of 1000 printed
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Colonial Press, New York
Date published: 1901
Description: Cook, Clarence: Art Editor. Very good. No dust jacket. Book is in olive cloth over boards, titled spine, uncut edges, nicely printed on paid paper, title page printed in red & black, top edge gilt. Beautiful artwork-includes famous paintings from the Paris Salon. 398 p. Special introduction by Epiphanius Wilson, A.M. Printed on front endpaper: Editors and Artists Edition: This edition is limited to one thousand copies, of which this copy is 831 Library Committee: Justin McCarthy, Richard Henry ... Read More
