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(100) ONE HUNDRED CHOICE SELECTIONS FOR READINGS AND RECITATIONS, No. 22.

By: Editors of P. Garrett & Co.

Price: $7.60

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, P. Garrett & Co.: 1884

Seller ID: 6481

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Very Good

12mo, 7 1/4" tall, 216 pages+ 16 ads, illustrated orange wraps. A good+ copy, with chipping at all corners, front wrap has a 1/2" strip torn off the top, spine cover chipped at top and bottom; binding solid, paper clean and just lightly yellowed. Includes poems from Goethe, Bret Harte, Ossian (sic) and 97 other selections.
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. . . AND SUCH SMALL DEER.

By: Lucas, E.V.

Price: $8.40

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company: 1931

Seller ID: 8290

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good

Various writings on nature written under a small quotation taken from King Lear. Sextodecimo 6 1/2" tall, 100 pages, blue cloth, paper spine label. A very good, clean, hard cover with minor shelf wear and rubbing, cloth rubbed through to boards at one fore-corner; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. With worn glassine dust jacket. Also with front panel and front and rear flaps of original dust jacket laid in.
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21st Annual World Fantasy Convention--1995: A Map of Ed Bryant; Lloyd Eshbach: his Second Love; The Fantasy Press Story; Terry Bisson is a Man of Strong Opinions; Corwin the Comic; Palpating the Berry Forehead; Rick Berry--A Portfolio

By: Rick Berry, Kathe Koja, Edward Bryant, Laurie T. Edison, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, Kim Stanley Robinson, Phil Hale, Lisa Tuttle, Howard Waldrop, Elizabeth Hand, Lucius Shepard; Michael J. Walsh

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Baltimore, World Fantasy Convention: 1995

Seller ID: 44013

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Quarto, 11" tall, 236 pages, color illustrated stiff wraps; a fine, clean, neat original soft cover convention program with light edge wear; containing stories, essays, and a great portfolio of Rick Berry art work in full color.
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47 [Forty-Seven] the Magazine of the Year; March, 1947; "A New Story 'Home to Heaven,' by Pearl S. Buck; Robert St. John's 'Letter to Judy'; public opinion analysis, 'My country, right or left,' by a Gallop Poll editor.

By: Jerome Ellison (editor); Pearl Buck, Jay Franklin, Vardis Fisher, et al

Price: $15.20

Publisher: New York, New York, Associated Magazine Contributors: 1947

Seller ID: 21580

Binding: Stiff Pictoral Wraps

Condition: Near fine

Single issue. Digest sized periodical. Octavo, 7 1/2" tall, 160 pages, wire saddle stitch, stiff wraps. A near fine, clean, neat , soft cover magazine with little shelf wear; binding solid, but portions of the paper used have yellowed.
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5 [five] Pens in Hand

By: Robert Graves

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company: 1958

Seller ID: 43867

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good

Octavo 8 1/2" tall, 360 pages, beige and brown cloth. A very good, clean, neat hard cover first American edition with light shelf wear, hinges and binding solid, paper just slightly yellowed with a touch of foxing tothe endpapers. Without dust jacket,
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A Bibliographic Check-list of Christmas Books.

By: Walter Klinefelter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Portland, Maine, Southworth-Anthoensen Press: 1937

Seller ID: 61

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Presentation plate signed by Fred Anthoensen (publisher ) tipped onto front free-endpaper. Octavo, 9" tall, xxvi + 114 pages, laid paper with deckled edges, green quarter-cloth over green paper over boards with tipped on title label. A good+, clean hardcover, with fore-corner tips rubbed through to boards and gilt title on spine faded; hinges and binding solid, paper clean, lightly yellowed. Christmas books published in the United States.
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A Brief Handbook of American Authors

By: Oscar Fay Adams

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin: 1884

Seller ID: 12474

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good

An ex-library copy with markings on the spine, endpapers and title pages. Duodecimo, 7 1/4" tall, x + 188 pages + 8 ads, brown cloth. A very good, sturdy hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding solid, paper moderately yellowed.
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A Christmas Garland woven by Max Beerbohm

By: Max Beerbohm

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, New York, E. P. Dutton: 1926

Seller ID: 39627

Binding: Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 8" tall, 197 pages, apper spine titles on decorative red boards and green quarter-cloth. A very good, clean, solid hard cover with light shelf wear, fore-corner tips bumped and through to boards; hinges and binding solid, paper just moderately yellowed with slight soiling to the fore-edges. Without dust jacket
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A Concordance to Five Middle English Poems: Cleanness, St. Erkenwald, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, Pearl.

By: Barnet Kottler and Alan M. Markman

Price: $30.40

Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh Press: 1966

Seller ID: 19954

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Quarto, 9" tall, xxxiii + 761 pages, red cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hardcover with minor shelf wear, light surface soiling at top fore-edge; hinges and binding tight, paper clean, cream white. Issued without dust jacket.
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A Critical Inquiry into the Scottish Language with the view of illustrating the rise and progress of civilization in Scotland

By: Francisque-Michel

Price: $36.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Scotland, William Blackwood and Sons: 1882

Seller ID: 34966

Binding: Quarter-leather--cloth over boards

Condition: Good

A limited edition of 500 copies. Quarto, 10" tall, xiii + 457 pages, decorative gilt titles and gilt to fore-edge, deckled fore-edge, previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. A good, clean hardcover over all (interior very good), BUT hinges are broken, back cover is loose, back strip leather over spine is missing; internal binding solid, paper light to moderately yellowed, endpapers foxed and some with minor scattered foxing throughout, and a darkening at the bottom margin edge of the endpaper gutter from a slight touch of moisture that must have effected the the missing backstrip.
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A Defence of Poetry & A Letter to Lord Ellenborough; Porcupine Pamphlets No. 3

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley ;

Price: $7.50

Publisher: London, England, The Porcupine Press: 1948

Seller ID: 39538

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Good

Octavo 8 1/2 " tall, 72 pages, stiff brown wraps. A good + pamphlet edition overall with moderate shelf wear, and minor chipping at the spine; interior very good, clean, binding solid, paper moderately yellowed.
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A Dictionary of American Authors (Fourth Edition--revised and enlarged)

By: Oscar Fay Adams

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin: 1901

Seller ID: 43897

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good -

Octavo 8 1/4" tall, x + 522 pages, gilt titles on green cloth. A very good minus, sturdy hard cover edition with moderate shelf wear, soiling and rubbing to the cover cloth; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed.
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A Dream on a Star: A Girl With a Car

By: Dan Scanlan

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Nevada City, California, There Now Delivery Company: 1990

Seller ID: 45116

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Near fine

A compilation of the literature of the road gleaned by sitting, standing, pacing and musing on the on-ramps of the nations highways at various times from April, 1973 to Janiary, 1976." Octavo pamphlet, 8 1/2" tall saddle stitched, 12 pages, stiff gray wraps. A near fine copy with very slight wear, binding solid, paper white. Mostly one liners and complaint.
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A Dreamer's Tales and other stories

By: Lord Dunsany (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany); Sidney Sime (illustrations

Price: $145.00

Publisher: New York, New York, George Allen & Sons: 1910

Seller ID: 38118

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, ix + 252 pages + 9 b&w illustrated plates (accounted for), gilt top fore-edge, gilt titles on light blue cloth, publisher's name at base of spine, illustrators name not given. A good first edition copy only, with general shelf wear and rubbing to the cloth edges, front panel cloth discolored, back strip darkened and fraying at top and bottom; BUT interior very good, clean, sturdy, hinges and binding solid, paper moderate to lightly yellowed with little foxing, and an old catalog listing slip laid in at the back endpaper as well as a number stamp. Lacking dust jacket. This...
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A Guide-Book to the Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning

By: George Willis Cooke

Price: $6.80

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin: 1891

Seller ID: 22946

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 8" tall, xvi + 451 pages, gilt titles and top fore-edge, green cloth. A very good, clean, neat hard cover first edition over all with minor shelf wear, front hinge cracked but secure and binding solid, paper light to moderately yellowed. Lacking dust jacket.
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A History of Indiana Literature

By: Arthur W. Shumaker

Price: $5.20

Publisher: Indianapolis, Indiana, Indiana Historical Society: 1962

Seller ID: 35318

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Octavo, 9" tall, 611 pages, sewn binding, brown and white wraps; with b&w photograph (frontispiece). A very good (minus), clean, neat soft cover overall with light shelf wear, but rubbing to the exterior edges and light exterior soiling; binding solid, paper cream white.
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A Propos de la Rentree des Classes.

By: Jean Giraudoux; illustrations by Maurice Taquoy

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Paris, France, Francois Bernouard: 1939

Seller ID: 20549

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Very Good

French Language. #496 of edition limited to 1350. Small quarto, 9 1/4" tall, 24 pages, color illustrations, stiff illustrated wraps. A very god, clen, neat soft cover with little shelf wear and light yellowing to the paper. With original glassine protective sheet yellowing and edge torn.
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A Reader's Guide to Robert Lowell

By: Philip Hobsbaum

Price: $5.20

Publisher: London, England, Thames and Hudson: 1988

Seller ID: 17862

ISBN: 050014026X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine/Near Fine

Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 184 pages, blue boards. A fine, clean, neat (unread) hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket .
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A Readers' Guide to Irish Fiction

By: Stephen J. Brown, S.J. [james]

Price: $16.50

Publisher: London, England, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1910

Seller ID: 44830

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very good -

12mo, 7 1/2" tall, xii + 226 pages; red cloth with gilt title on spine. A very good (minus) original edition overall with moderate shelf wear, gilt title fading, rubbing to ends of spine and fore-corner tips, slight exterior soiling; endpapers foxing, hinges and binding solid, paper light to moderately yellowed. Lacking dust jacket
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A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and his Literary Circle 1895 - 1915

By: Miranda Seymour

Price: $7.50

Publisher: London, England, Hodder and Stoughton: 1988

Seller ID: 45798

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very good

Octavo, 9 1/3" tall, 327 pages, map endpapers,maroon boards. A very good, clean, neat hard cover first edition with minoir shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, BUT paper moderately yellowed. In a very good, edge worn dust jacket with odd surface damage to the rear panel (Heat? Production mistake?) with the original price.
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A Study in Smollett; Chiefly 'Peregrine Pickle'; with a complete collation of the first and second editions

By: Howard Swazey Buck

Price: $7.60

Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press: 1925

Seller ID: 36348

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Good

With the regards of the author' penned on front free endpaper (no signature). Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 216 pages, dark blue cloth, gilt title on spine. A good, clean hardcover with moderate shelf wear, hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. Lacking dust jacket. A nice reading copy.
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A Study of Ben Jonson

By: Algernon Charles Swinburne

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, England, Chatto & Windus: 1889

Seller ID: 2963

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 8" tall, 181 pages, blue cloth with gilt titles. Previous owner's signature on endpaper and with date 1895. A very good, clean, hardcover first edition with rubbing to the cloth at the fore-tips and some chipping to the cloth at the top of the back strip, hinges and binding solid, paper clean, lightly yellowed with a few occassional small markings at the margins.
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A Syllabus of English Literature

By: Edwin Greenlaw

Price: $8.40

Publisher: New York, New York, Benj. H. Sanborn & Co.: 1926

Seller ID: 13173

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall. v, 319 pages; gilt title on front panel bright; previous owner's name on front free endpaper. A very good, clean hardcover edition with moderate shelf wear, rubbing to cloth color at back panel, fraying to cloth at top of backstrip; hinges and binding tight, paper clean, lightly yellowed. Designed for college courses in the history of English literature.
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A Thoreau Handbook

By: Walter Harding

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, New York, New York University Press: 1959

Seller ID: 19074

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine/Very Good

Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, xviii + 229 pages, green cloth. A near fine, clean hard cover with minor shelf wear, hinges and binding solid, paper cream white with light yellowing to page edges. In a very good, lightly edge worn dust jacket with several short edge tears; with original price.
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A Tramp Abroad ( in two volumes ) ; Stormfield Edition: The Writings of Mark Twain--volumes IX and X

By: Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] ; introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine;

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Harper & Brothers: 1929

Seller ID: 37852

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good

2 individual volumes--complete in themselves. Octavo 9 " tall, b&w frontispieces; vol. 1: xviii + 285 pages; vol. 2: vii + 296 pages; gilt top fore-edges, gilt titles on blue cloth. Very good, clean, sturdy hard covers and with rubbing at the fore-corners and moderate shelf wear overall (likely unread--signatures uncut), hinges and bindings solid, paper lightly yellowed, but rubbing to the exterior spine of vol.1 at the spine with some dimming the gold title and with a slight touch of foxing to the endpapers.
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Image for Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings; Volume 1: 1832 - 1858; speeches, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; The Lincoln-Douglas Debates / ; Volume 2: Speeches and Writings 1859 - 1865; speeches, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings, Presidential Messages and Proclamations (two Library of America volumes #45 and #46).

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings; Volume 1: 1832 - 1858; speeches, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; The Lincoln-Douglas Debates / ; Volume 2: Speeches and Writings 1859 - 1865; speeches, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings, Presidential Messages and Proclamations (two Library of America volumes #45 and #46).

By: Abraham Lincoln

Price: $22.80

Publisher: New York, New York, Library of America: 1989

Seller ID: 36635

ISBN: 0940450437

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Near Fine

2 individual vols. with individual slipcases, not dustjackets. Vol. 1: Octavo, 8" tall, 898 pages, sewn binding, acid free paper, gilt titles on blue cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white with very slight dust soiling to the fore-edges but with a previous owner's penned name on the half-title. / vol. 2: Octavo, 8" tall, 787 pages, sewn binding, acid free paper, gilt titles on blue cloth. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition (unread) with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white. but with a p...
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Abroad in America: Literary Discoverers of the New World from the Past 500 Years

By: Robert Blow, Editor

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, New York, Continuum: 1990

Seller ID: 15131

ISBN: 0826404642

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near fine

Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, 256 pages. A near fine, clean hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper white, with slight soiling at the fore-edge. In a near fine lightly rubbed dust jacket, with original price.
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Academic Capitalism

By: Harold Fromm

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia Press: 1993

Seller ID: 38436

ISBN: 0820313505

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Fine / Fine

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, xi + 281 pages, purple cloth. A fine, clean, hardcover first edition with minimal shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a near fine dust jacket.
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Across Time and Space : an anthology of literature reflecting a century of change in modern Jewish life.

By: Martha Marenof (editor); Judah Steinberg, Karl Emil Franzos, Haim Nahman Bialik, Ludwig Lewisohn, Robert St. John, Chaim Kaplan, Shalom Asch, et al

Price: $7.60

Publisher: Detroit, Michigan, Dot (D O T) Publicatiuons: 1968

Seller ID: 34841

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Near Fine/Good

Signed by the editor (first name) on the front endpaper and inscribed to the previous owner. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 256 pages, biege cloth. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper just lightly yellowed. In a good edge worn dust jacket, with soiling to the front panel.
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Addresses and Fragments in Prose and Verse

By: James Sager Norton; introduction by Edward G. Mason

Price: $15.20

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, A. C. McClurg & Co.: 1896

Seller ID: 6737

Binding: Three-quarter Cloth

Condition: Good

Edition limited to 1080 copies. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, xiii + 247 pages, 3/4 blue cloth with gilt titles on front and spine. Photo frontispiece of author. Previous owner signatures on front free endpaper. A good, clean, hardcover first edition, cloth worn through at corners, backstrip frayed at top and bottom edges, hinges cracked but binding is secure, paper lightly yellowed.
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