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Seven Famous Greek Plays (Modern Library #158.2)

By: AESCHYLUS, SOPOCLES, EURIPIDES, ARISTOPHANES (authors); OATES, Whitney J.; O'NEILL Jr., Eugene (editors)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c.1956]

Seller ID: 81584

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

A selection of seven notable plays from ancient Greece. Includes Agamemnon and Prometheus bound by Aeschylus; Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles; Medea and Alcestis by Euripides and The Frogs by Aristophanes. Edited, with introductions and notes by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. --- In Toledano spine 8 / grey cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 377 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1956 (though 1950 date appears in book). ML #158.2. --- A very nice copy: clean, bright and unmarke...
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A Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry (Modern Library #101.3)

By: AIKEN, Conrad (compliler & editor)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1955]

Seller ID: 81471

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Conrad Aiken, an acclaimed American poet and novelist, has selected dozens of American poems from the 17th through 20th Centuries for this Modern Library edition. With an introduction by Mr. Aiken. Indices of authors and first lines at rear of volume. --- In Toledano spine 8 / rust cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i / verso advertises 374 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1955 (though 1944 date appears in book). ML #101.3. --- An unmarked copy but with slightly loosened front cover and loss of gilding to cover and...
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Selected Stories of Sholom Aleichem (Modern Library #145.2)

By: ALEICHEM, Sholem

Price: $18.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1961]

Seller ID: 83577

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket

A collection of writings by Sholom Aleichem, described on the jacket flap as the ". . .Jewish Mark Twain", in a Modern Library edition. Includes an introduction by Alfred Kazin and a glossary of Hebrew expressions at rear of volume. Sholom Aleichem is the pen name of Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 403 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1961 (though 1956 date appears in book). ML #145.2. --- A very nice copy: clean, tightly-bound...
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Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life (Modern Library #104.1)

By: ANDERSON, Sherwood

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1941-55]

Seller ID: 84607

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) wrote this collection of 22 short stories from 1915 to 1916 and published them as "Winesburg, Ohio" in 1919. All stories are set in the mythical town, and they detail the life of his George Willard character. Includes an introduction by Ernest Boyd in this Modern Library reprint edition. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / faded black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 372 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1941-55 (though 1919 date appears in book). ML #104.1. --- Loosened fro...
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Introduction to Aristotle (Modern Library #248.1)

By: ARISTOTLE; McKEON, Richard (editor)

Price: $16.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1957]

Seller ID: 84750

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

A Modern Library edition featuring selections of the major works by Aristotle. Includes the complete text of his "Logic", "On the Soul", "Nicomachean Ethics" and "Rhetoric and Poetics" plus generous excerpts from Physics, Metaphysics, and Politics. Edited, and with general introduction and introductions to the various works, by Richard McKeon. --- In Toledano spine 8 / pale green cloth / gilt titling on green spine & cover blocks / green topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 379 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1957 (though 1947 date appears in book). ML #24...
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Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles edition)

By: ARMSTRONG, Karen

Price: $13.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 2000

Seller ID: 80907

ISBN: 0679640401

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8th printing. In this Modern Library Chronicles edition the author tells the history of Islam and clarifies "misunderstandings" about Islam. With several maps, chronology, glossary of Arabic terms and listing of leading Islamic figures. --- In special pictorial boards with sepia images of men at prayer / Bernhard endpapers / special Chronicles semi-transparent jacket. --- A clean, bright, newish copy but with minor rippling to pp.35/36. In clean, bright, unclipped jacket. Jacket with 1/2-inch tear to edge. ; Small Octavo (7-1/2 to 8 in. tall); xxxiv, 222 pages
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New Voices in the American Theatre (Modern Library #258.3)

By: ATKINSON, Brooks (foreword)

Price: $17.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1962]

Seller ID: 81829

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

A Modern Library edition offering six plays which debuted in the late 1940s-early 1950s and gained widespread popularity. The collection includes: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams; Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge; The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod; Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson; The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial by Herman Wouk. With a foreword by Brooks Atkinson. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 408 titles...
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New Voices in the American Theatre (Modern Library #258.3)

By: ATKINSON, Brooks (foreword)

Price: $15.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1969-70]

Seller ID: 83607

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

A Modern Library edition offering six plays which debuted in the late 1940s-early 1950s and which gained widespread popularity. The collection includes: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams; Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge; The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod; Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson; The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial by Herman Wouk. With a foreword by Brooks Atkinson. Volume wrapped in blue, red and white jacket variant. --- In Toledano spine 14 / blue cloth / silver spine titling / blindstamped front cover ml logo / yellow & ...
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The Rector of Justin (Modern Library First Edition, ML #383.1)

By: AUCHINCLOSS, Louis

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: 1967

Seller ID: 84300

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Stated first Modern Library edition, 1967. This novel by Louis Auchincloss first appeared in 1964 and traces the life and career of the headmaster of an exclusive New England school for boys. --- In Toledano spine 13 / green cloth / gilt-stamped spine titling / ml logo blindstamped to front cover / brown & yellow Fujita endpapers / jacket style n, verso is blank. ML #383.1. --- A sound, clean and unmarked copy, but with foxing to textblock top edge and a faint dampstain to front cover. Price-clipped dust jacket with green verso bleed-off from cover, some yellowing but intact and bright; wrappe...
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Selected Poetry of W. H. Auden (Modern Library #160.2)

By: AUDEN, W. H.

Price: $21.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1959]

Seller ID: 84315

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

A Modern Library edition of selected poetry of W. H. Auden, the prolific English-born poet, playwright and essayist. The poems were chosen for this ML edition by Mr. Auden in this first version of Auden poetry selections issued by Modern Library. Indices of titles and first lines at rear of book. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 388 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1959 (though 1958 date appears in book). ML #160.2. --- An excellent copy: clean, tightly bound and b...
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Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library spine 17)

By: AUSTEN, Jane

Price: $16.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1996

Seller ID: 83420

ISBN: 0679601686

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

A Modern Library edition of Jane Austen's classic novel, which offers an array of exquisitely-described characters. A companion to the BBC television production of "Pride and Prejudice", aired on American television on the Arts & Entertainment Network. Introduction by Anna Quindlen. --- In Toledano spine 17 / grey cloth / blindstamped torchbearer logo to cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / Bernhard endpapers / jacket style r with images of actors from the TV series on cover, verso is blank. --- A bright, clean, unmarked copy lacking obvious damages. Bright, unclipped jacket with a lit...
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Selected Writings of Francis Bacon (Modern Library #256.2)

By: BACON, Francis; DICK, Hugh G. (editor)

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1967]

Seller ID: 84140

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket

A Modern Library edition presenting Francis Bacon's 'Essays', 'Advancement of Learning', 'New Atlantis', and much more. Selected, with an introduction and notes by Hugh G. Dick. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 415 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1962 (though 1955 date appears in book). ML #256.2. --- A very nice copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked but with creasing to top edges of leaves near rear of volume. Unclipped, bright dust jacket with very mild chafing to...
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Short Stories (Modern Library #40.1)

By: BALZAC, Honoré de

Price: $36.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Boni and Liveright, Inc.: [c.1921-1923]

Seller ID: 82580

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Eleven of Honoré de Balzac's short stories, including "Don Juan" and "Christ in Flanders" in an early Modern Library edition. With listing of other Modern Library titles and a promotional article about the series at rear of volume. --- In Toledano spine #2 / brown leatherette ("Croftleather") limp boards / gilt spine titling & horizontal bars / gilt Modern Library/BL device, cover / brown topstain / Brodzky illustrated M-L endpapers / lacks the dust jacket. Likely published c.1921-1923 (no publication date listed, but 1921 date appears at rear of volume). ML #40.1. --...
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Droll Stories (Modern Library #193.1)

By: BALZAC, Honoré de

Price: $14.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1946]

Seller ID: 84145

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Fair dust jacket

A Modern Library edition offering this famous collection of ribald, amusing stories by the acclaimed French author of "La Comédie humaine". Translated from the French and with preface by unspecified person. --- In Toledano spine 8 / rust cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso lists 316 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1946 (no publication date appears in book). ML #193.1. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked except for prior owner's signature to half title page. Fair only dust ja...
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Zuleika Dobson

By: BEERBOHM, Max

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1926

Seller ID: 71139

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Older version of Modern Library's issue of this classic work; in full reddish brown cloth covers. Interior has poorly removed bookplate remnants front pastedown, light toning to spine; otherwise in good shape. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall
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Zuleika Dobson (Modern Library #116.2)

By: BEERBOHM, Max

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1947]

Seller ID: 83578

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

A Modern Library reprint edition of author's 1911 novel, set amidst undergraduate life at Oxford. Zuleika Dobson has been named to the Modern Library list of the 100 greatest English-language novels. With an introduction by Francis Hackett. In blue and tan variant dust jacket. --- In Toledano spine 8 / light blue cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso advertises 322 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1947 (though 1926 date appears in book). ML #116.2. --- With a little age-toning to cloth, bruise to lower textblock ed...
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Looking Backward 2000-1887 (Modern Library #22.3)

By: BELLAMY, Edward

Price: $13.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1949]

Seller ID: 84604

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Author's novel, first published in 1888, envisioned a socialist utopia in the year 2000. With an introduction by Heywood Broun and a preface & postscript by the author; as well as a biographical sketch of Mr. Bellamy. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso lists 344 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1949 (though 1917 date appears in book). ML #22.3. --- With noticeable dulling to front cover gilding, markings & notations in red pencil on perhaps as many as 30 leaves, else a clean, tight...
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In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (Modern Library #133.1)

By: BIERCE, Ambrose

Price: $22.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1946]

Seller ID: 84320

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

A Modern Library edition of this collection of short stories by Ambrose Bierce (1842-c.1914). Includes his acclaimed "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge". The witty, but ill-tempered, writer was an American Civil War soldier, journalist, humorist and short story writer. With an introduction by George Sterling. --- In Toledano spine 8 / reddish-brown cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso lists 316 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1946 (though 1927 date appears in book). ML #133.1. --- With pronounced loss...
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The World of Opera: The Story of Its Development and the Lore of Its Performance (Modern Library Giant #G95.1)

By: BROCKWAY, Wallace; WEINSTOCK, Herbert

Price: $36.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: 1966

Seller ID: 84168

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Stated First Modern Library Edition, September 1966 (confirmed). A detailed history of the development of opera from its origins in 17th Century Florence, through many of its most memorable performances. Appendix with Annals of Performance, Index to Annals, and Index. --- In Toledano G6 spine / turquoise cloth / gilt-stamped ML cover hex logo / spine titling & decorations in gilt and blue / blank GA style endpapers / dust jacket in variant of style Gh, verso is blank. ML #G95.1. --- With previous bookseller's pencilings to front free endpaper, else unmarked, clean and tightly-bound. Price-cli...
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Wuthering Heights

By: BRONTË, Emily; EICHENBERG, Fritz (woodcut illustrations)

Price: $20.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1978-80]

Seller ID: 84051

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

039460458X The classic romance novel in a Modern Library reprint edition. With wood engraved illustrations by Fritz Eichenberg, an introduction by Royal A. Gettmann, and an editor's preface by Charlotte Brontë, writing under her Currer Bell pseudonym. --- In Toledano spine 15 / brown paper-covered boards / gilt-stamped spine titling / perfect bound (not stitched) / plain style F endpapers / plain tan style p dust jacket / verso blank. Likely published c.1978-1980 though incorrectly labeled as "First Modern Library Edition, 1950" on copyright page. --- A clean, firm, unmarked copy but ...
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Between Hume and Mill: An Anthology of British Philosophy, 1749-1843; Selected Readings from Hartley to Ferrier (Modern Library Giant #99.1)

By: BROWN, Robert (editor)

Price: $51.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: 1970

Seller ID: 84308

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket

A Modern Library first edition of a selection of writings of notable English and Scottish philosophers after the time of David Hume (1711-1776) and before John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). Includes lengthy, self-contained passages by David Hartley, Abraham Tucker, Thomas Reid, Joseph Priestley, Richard Price, Dugald Stewart, Thomas Brown, James Mill and James Frederick Ferrier. Edited, and with an introduction, by Robert Brown. This work was only published in the Modern Library series for one year (1970); thus copies are rather scarce. --- In Toledano spine G7 / dark blue cloth / silver & purple ...
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The Poems and Plays of Robert Browning (Modern Library Giant #G17.1)

By: BROWNING, Robert

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library:

Seller ID: 76428

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Fair dust jacket

From the dust jacket: "...everything of importance that Browning ever wrote..." and "Including all of Browning's lyric and dramatic poetry...". A Modern Library Giant edition with introduction and biograhical information by Saxe Commins; index of first lines of poems at the rear. Though 1934 date appears on copyright page, this edition likely published c.1940. --- In Toledano spine G4 with full beige cloth covers, gilt & green titling & decorations on on cover & spine; publisher's faded green topstain, plain endpapers. Jacket style Gc, verso advertises 274 titles in ML catalog...
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The Good Earth (Modern Library #15.3)

By: BUCK, Pearl S.

Price: $30.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1962]

Seller ID: 84462

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

The classic novel of China in a Modern Library reprint edition. Pearl S. Buck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932 for "The Good Earth." Includes a foreword by the author. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 408 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1962 (though 1944 date appears in book). ML #15.3. --- A very nice copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked but with slight dulling to cover & spine gilding. Unclipped dust jacket with a couple of small tears and mil...
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The Life and Works of Beethoven (Modern Library #241.2)

By: BURK, John N.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1965]

Seller ID: 81478

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good- dust jacket

This Modern Library edition includes both a biography of the great German composer, as well as a section offering a brief description, (including some musical notations), of most of his major works. With index of names to be found in this volume. --- In Toledano spine 11 / rust cloth / ML hex logo blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style l / verso blank. Likely published c.1965 (though 1943 date appears in book). ML #241.2. --- With a partial split near front of volume, otherwise binding is firm; also with spot of soiling to textblock fo...
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The English Philosophers from Bacon to Mill (Modern Library Giant #G-47.1)

By: BURTT, Edwin A. (editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c.1939-44]

Seller ID: 79778

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

A Modern Library Giant edition offering: ". . . 13 essays [which] comprise a complete survey of the golden age of English philosophy." Includes entries by Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, John Stuart Mill and others. Edited, with an introduction by Edwin A. Burtt. Volume bears 1939 date, but likely published c.1939-44. Lacks the dust jacket. --- MODERN LIBRARY PARTICULARS: SPINE-Toledano G-4, CLOTH-Blue-Green, SPINE TITLE BLOCKS/TOPSTAIN COLORS- Black, ENDPAPERS-blank, JACKET-none, ML#G-47.1. --- A partial split near title page has been carefully reinforced prior to this listi...
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The Way of All Flesh (Modern Library #13.2)

By: BUTLER, Samuel

Price: $11.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1950-70]

Seller ID: 83101

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Samuel Butler's controversial semi-autobiographical novel was published in 1903 after his death in 1902. With a biographical note about Butler and this work by R. A. Streatfeild, as well as an introduction by Morton Dauwen Zabel. --- In Toledano spine 8 / rust cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / lacks the dust jacket. Likely published c.1950-70 (1950 date appears in book). ML #13.2. --- A very nice copy: clean, sturdy and unmarked though with slight dulling to cover & spine gilding.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xxix, 562 pages
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The Way of All Flesh (Modern Library #13.2)

By: BUTLER, Samuel

Price: $16.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1958]

Seller ID: 84468

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

The author's semi-autobiographical novel has been acclaimed widely since it first was published after his death in 1902. It is presented in this Modern Library reprint edition with an introduction by Morton Dauwen Zabel. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 380 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1958 (though 1950 date appears in book). ML #13.2. --- An excellent copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked but with some dulling to cover and spine gilding. Price-clipped dust jacket ...
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Beyond Life: Dizain des Dmiurges - Signed by Granville Hicks (Modern Library #25.2 in Toledano Spine 3)

By: CABELL, James Branch

Price: $47.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Boni and Liveright, Inc.: [c.1923-1925]

Seller ID: 84510

Binding: Flexible covers

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

An early Modern Library edition of James Branch Cabell's examination of the artistic aspects of writing, as well as other topics such as economics and the charlatans among us. With an introduction by Guy Holt. Mr. Cabell wrote many novels which could be described as fantasies or escapist, as well as thoughtful non-fiction works in various fields. This copy signed and dated January 1925 by Granville Hicks, the American Marxist-turned-Anti-Marxist novelist and literary critic. --- In Toledano spine #3 / green leatherette ("Croftleather") limp boards / gilt spine titling & horizontal bars...
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God's Little Acre (Modern Library #51.2)

By: CALDWELL, Erskine

Price: $26.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1936

Seller ID: 83064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Poor in Good dust jacket

Stated First Modern Library edition, 1934 (confirmed). A reprint edition of Mr. Caldwell's rollicking, humorous novel, featuring eccentric Southern farmers. This work was so controversial that it was banned in Boston and New York, and the author was arrested for disseminating 'pornography'. With a new foreword by the author. A New York court filing declaring the legality of this work is appended. --- In Toledano spine 7 / blue balloon cloth / limp boards / gilt cover & spine lettering & decorations / dark topstain / orange Kent endpapers / jacket style e, verso lists 225 titles in ML catalog. ...
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Other Voices, Other Rooms (Modern Library spine 17)

By: CAPOTE, Truman

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: 2004

Seller ID: 84295

ISBN: 0679643222

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Truman Capote's semi-autobiographical first novel first appeared in 1948 and explores coming of age themes, as well as homosexuality. It is presented here in a 2004 Modern Library edition, with an introduction by John Berendt. --- In Toledano spine 17 / grey cloth / blindstamped torchbearer logo to cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / Bernhard endpapers / jacket style r variant with black and white Cecil Beaton photographic portrait of the author on cover, verso lists titles in ML catalog. --- A bright, clean, unmarked copy lacking obvious damages. Bright, unclipped jacket with slight rubbing...
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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Modern Library Spine 16)

By: CATHER, Willa

Price: $15.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c.1980-1985]

Seller ID: 79959

ISBN: 0394605039

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

A Modern Library reprint edition of the author's novel, originally published in 1927. Virginia-born and Nebraska-raised, Willa Cather (1873-1947) often wrote of pioneer life in the West. "Death Comes for the Archbishop" is set in the Territory of New Mexico and concerns the first bishop and his vicar who are sent there to establish the Catholic Church in the new territory. --- Toledano spine 16 / brown paper-covered boards / gilt-stamped spine titling / perfect bound (not stiched) / style G ML torchbearer logo endpapers / jacket style q / verso advertises Modern Library titles using la...
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The Autobigraphy of Benvenuto Cellini (Modern Library #150.3)

By: CELLINI, Benvenuto

Price: $15.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c1961]

Seller ID: 77127

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

The 16th century Florentine artist, sculptor and author's tempestuous life is so energetically told here, this autobiography has become a classic. Translated from the Italian by John Addington Symonds. --- Toledano spine 8, w/blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks, very faded red topstain, grey Kent endpapers. Likely published c1961 (though no publication date appears in book). Jacket style i, verso advertises 405 titles in ML catalog. ML #150.3. --- Penciling to front free endpaper, else an unmarked, firm, clean copy. Dust jacket with chafing and tears (especially...
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Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Modern Library #3.2)

By: CELLINI, Benvenuto

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c.1927]

Seller ID: 80130

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

This energetically-told autobiography by the 16th century Florentine artist, sculptor and author has become a classic. In an early Modern Library reprint edition. Translated from the Italian by John Addington Symonds. --- In Toledano spine #4 / brown leatherette limp boards / gilt lettering and decorations on cover and spine / publisher's brown topstain / yellow Bernhard endpapers. Lacks the dust jacket. Undated, but likely published c.1927. ML #3.2. --- With wear to edges of covers and general darkening to textblock edges. Interior leaves have yellowed a little but are clean and unmarked; vol...
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Thirty Famous One-Act Plays Modern Library Giant #G22.3

By: CERF, Bennett & Van H. CARTMELL & Jr. Richard WATTS

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c.1953]

Seller ID: 82835

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

A hefty Modern Library Giant reprint edition presenting 30 well-known one-act plays by a wide variety of international authors, chosen by editors Bennett Cerf and Van H. Cartmell. Includes an introduction by Richard Watts Jr. and with brief biographical sketches of the playwrights at rear of volume. --- In Toledano spine G5 / tan cloth / gilt titling on burgundy cover & spine blocks / red topstain / blank GA style endpapers / jacket style Gd, verso advertises 367 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1953 (1952 date appears in book). ML #G22.3. --- With prior owner's signature to front past...
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Great German Short Novels and Stories: An Anthology (Modern Library #108.2)

By: CERF, Bennett (editor)

Price: $13.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1946]

Seller ID: 84056

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

15 stories by famous German writers such as Goethe, Heine, Hauptmann, Schnitzler, Brothers Grimm, Mann, Stefan Zweig and Arnold Zweig are offered in a Modern Library edition. Edited, and with introduction by Bennett Cerf. This collection was later followed by a Revised Edition, edited by Victor Lange. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso lists 309 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1946 (though 1933 date appears in book). ML #108.2. --- With dulling to cover and spine gilding and bit o...
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Great Modern Short Stories: An Anthology of Twelve Famous Stories and Novelettes (Modern Library #168.2)

By: CERF, Bennett (selector and foreword)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1965]

Seller ID: 83592

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

A collection of 12 stories and novelettes by noted English and American authors such as Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, John Galsworthy, Willa Cather and eight others in this anthology. Selected, and with a foreword & biographical notes, by Bennett Cerf, editor of the Modern Library. --- In Toledano spine 11 / red cloth / ML hex torchbearer logo blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style k, verso blank. Likely published c.1965 (though 1942 date appears in book). ML #168.2. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy. Price-clipped dust jacket wit...
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Great Modern Short Stories: An Anthology (Modern Library #168.2)

By: CERF, Bennett (selector and foreword)

Price: $19.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1941]

Seller ID: 84495

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

A collection of 12 stories and novelettes by noted authors, 5 of which are English and 7 American. Includes complete and unabridged stories by Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, John Galsworthy, Willa Cather and eight others in this anthology. Selected, and with a foreword & biographical notes, by Bennett Cerf, editor and co-owner of the Modern Library. --- In Toledano spine 8 / rust cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 371 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1954 (though 1942 date appears in book). ML #168.2...
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Sixteen Famous American Plays (Modern Library Giant #G21.2)

By: CERF, Bennett; CARTMELL, Van H. (editors)

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c.1963]

Seller ID: 79782

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket

A collection of 16 works for the stage in one Modern Library Giant hardcover volume in jacket, deemed by the editors to be by ". . .the Greatest Playwrights in America Today". Clifford Odets, Thornton Wilder, Eugene O'Neill, Lillian Hellman and many others are represented. Edited by Bennett A. Cerf and Van H. Cartmell, with an introduction by Brooks Atkinson. Volume bears 1941 date, but likely published c.1963. --- MODERN LIBRARY PARTICULARS: SPINE-Toledano G-6, CLOTH- Green, SPINE & COVER TITLING/ACCENT COLOR- Gilt/Blue, ENDPAPERS-blank, JACKET-Style Ge/Verso lists unspecified number ...
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The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha: Ozell's Revision of the Translation of Peter Motteux (Modern Library #174.2)

By: CERVANTES, Miguel de

Price: $34.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1949-50]

Seller ID: 80552

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

The 'first modern European novel' in a conventionally-sized (but thick) Modern Library reprint edition. Complete and unabridged. In Ozell's revision of the translation of Peter Motteux. With an introduction by Henry Grattan Doyle, and author's preface to the reader. Volume wrapped in E. McKnight Kauffer designed jacket in black, red and white. --- In Toledano spine 8 / rust cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h / verso advertises 344 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1949-50 (1950 date appears in book). ML #174.2. --- ...
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The Canterbury Tales: The Famous Skeat Edition (Modern Library #161.2)

By: CHAUCER, Geoffrey

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern library: [c.1964]

Seller ID: 83666

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

The Canterbury Tales are a collection of 14th century tales, written in Middle English, which take the form of verse and are set against the backdrop of a pilgrimage to Canterbury. In a complete and unabridged Modern Library edition which has been edited by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, and an introduction by Louis Untermeyer. --- In Toledano spine 11 / green cloth / ML hex torchbearer logo blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists titles in ML catalog, but without a total number. Likely published c.1964. ML #161.2. --- A tightly-b...
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