Category: Literature

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

Price: $7.60

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

Seller ID: 6481

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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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 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 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 Meeting with David B. Axelrod and Gnazino Russo

By: David B. Axelrod and Gnazino Russo

Price: $14.50

Publisher: New York, New York, Cross-Cultural Communications : 1979

Seller ID: 8044

ISBN-13: 9780893045074

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Signed and inscribed by Axelrod to the previous owner. Limited to 1000 copies. 48mo, 4" tall, 94 pages, illustrated card cover. A very good, clean, neat copy with light shelf wear, spine creased. Pages are clean, bright; copy tight. Bi-lingual English / Italian text. Limited to 1000 copies - this copy unnumbered. Inscription and signature by Axelrod on title page. Miniature book published on occasion of Axelrod's tour of lectures and readings throughout Sicily in 1979.
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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 Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faerie

By: Flieger, Verlyn

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Kent State University Press : 1997-11-01

Seller ID: 62132

ISBN-13: 9780873385749

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Fine

Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 276 pages, green cloth. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine, lightly worn dust jacket.
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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-13: 9780500140260

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 Return to Pagany: the history, correspondence, and selections from a Little Magazine 1929 - 1932

By: Stephen Halpert with Richard Johns (editors); Kenneth Rexroth (introduction)

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Beacon Press: Boston : 1969

Seller ID: 60967

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very good

Small quarto, 10" tall, xix + 517 pages, white spine titles on orange quarter-cloth over blue boards. A very good, generally clean, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear, but slight color fading (sunning) to the margins of the blue boards, rubbing at the corners; binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good moderately edge worn dust jacket with price present.
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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 Tolkien Compass: Including J. R. R. Tolkien's Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings

By: Jared Lobdell [Editor]

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Open Court : 1975

Seller ID: 58612

ISBN-13: 9780875483160

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 201 pages, cream cloth. A very good, generally clean, sturdy first hardcover edition with minor shelf wear BUT slight foxing to the cover cloth at the margins; binding solid, paper lightly yellowed BUT with a blush of foxing to the endpapers and fore-edges as well as a light finger edge ink stain to the fore-edge of the first 50 pages. In a good, moderately worn dust jacket, chipping at the top of the back strip, with several short edge tears, but again a patina of foxing especially at the margins, and with the original price present. If you are looking for a less expensiv...
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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-13: 9780826404640

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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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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Adventures in the Book Pages

By: Short, Edward

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Gracewing Publishing : 2015-09-04

Seller ID: 60579

ISBN-13: 9780852448687

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 9" tall, vii + 455 pages, stiff illustrated wraps. A very good, clean, neat soft cover with minor shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, paper cream white.
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Aeneis, (Book VIII to XII ) and postscript; Poems ascribed the Dryden; Essay of Dramatic Poesy, etc; Answer to Mr. Rymer, etc; Observations on the Empress of Morocco, etc; Preface to Husband His Own Cuckold. Vol. XV ( volume 15 only); The Works of John Dryden now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a Life of the Author. [single volume complete]

By: John Dryden; Walter Scott (editor)

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Scotland, Archibald Constable : 1821

Seller ID: 37067

Binding: Decorative Leather

Condition: Good

Single volume 15 only of broken set. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, ii + 417 pages; gilt spine titles and decorations on plain calf. Volume complete by itself. A good copy over all, internally a very good, hinges cracked but solid, binding tight, paper clean, supple, and just lightly yellowed with minor foxing primarily at the endpaper margins, and with 2 bookplates from the previous owners on endpapers, BUT leather back strip chipping, cover-edges rubbed. Both the first and second editions of Dryden's works were issued in wraps or simple cloth and then variously bound privately. This copy is in suitabl...
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Alarm and Hope (&)

By: Andrei D. Sakharov

Price: $11.75

Publisher: New York, New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1978

Seller ID: 38258

ISBN-13: 9780394503691

Binding: Hardcover--quarter cloth, paper over boards

Condition: Very Good / Very Good

Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, xix + 200 pages, gilt spine titles on black quarter-cloth. A very good clean, neat hardcover first edition with light shelf wear, would be near fine but for an exterio dampstain which is lightly visible at the foredges and cover margins; hinges and binding solid, paper cream white. In a very good, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price, but the exterior dampstain visible at the bottom of the back panel and several places on the blank side. A great reading copy.
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Alcuin; A Dialogue

By: Charles Brockden Brown; introduction by LeRoy Elwood Kimball

Price: $52.00

Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut, Carl & Margaret Rollins : 1935

Seller ID: 20574

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Fine/Near Fine

A type-facsimile reprint of the first edition originally printed in 1798 by T. & J. Swords, New York. This edition is limited to 250 copies. 16mo, 6" tall, xxi + 77 pages + two plates, stiff pale moss green wraps, in a moss green cloth slip case with gilt title. Photogravure reproductions of Brown, and of Elihu Hubbard Smith. A fine, clean, neat hard cover with little wear (mostly unread, signatures uncut), paper cream white. In a near fine, lightly worn slip case.
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Allen Tate; A Literary Biography

By: Radcliffe Squires

Price: $4.40

Publisher: New York, New York, Pegasus / Bobbs-Merrill : 1971

Seller ID: 13990

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 231 pages. A very good+, clean, likely unread hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. Lacking dust jacket.
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Alles Getrennte Findet Sich Wieder

By: Hans Loscher

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Lubingen, Germany, Rainer Wunderlich : 1937

Seller ID: 6804

Binding: Hardcover--cloth

Condition: Very Good

Text in German. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 464 pages, brown cloth. A very good, clean neat hard cover with minor shelf wear, spine cloth slightly faded, hinges and binding solid, paper clean and moderately yellowed. Without dust jacket.
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Category: Literature