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The Education of Henry Adams (Modern Library #76.2)

By: ADAMS, Henry

Price: $12.00

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

Stock No.: 82687

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

A Modern Library edition of this autobiography by the grandson of John Quincy Adams and great-grandson of John Adams. First published privately in 1907, it became a highly-praised success upon its publication for a wider audience in 1918. With an introduction by James Truslow Adams. Indexed. In orange jacket with image of Adams on cover. --- In Toledano spine 8 / pale green cloth / gilt titling on green spine & cover blocks / green topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 408 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1962 (though 1946 date appears in book). ML #76.2. --...
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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]

Stock No.: 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]

Stock No.: 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]

Stock No.: 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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Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles edition)

By: ARMSTRONG, Karen

Price: $13.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 2000

Stock No.: 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]

Stock No.: 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]

Stock No.: 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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Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library spine 17)

By: AUSTEN, Jane

Price: $16.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1996

Stock No.: 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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Cousin Bette (First Modern Library Edition, ML #299.1)

By: BALZAC, Honoré de

Price: $29.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1958

Stock No.: 80301

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Stated First Modern Library Edition, 1958 (confirmed). Author's famous 1846 novel is set in Paris in the 19th century and has been praised for its realism. Translated from the French by Kathleen Raine and with an introduction by Floyd Zulli, Jr. --- In Toledano spine 8 / grey cloth / gilt titling stamped on red cover & spine blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i. Verso advertises 383 titles in ML catalog. ML #299.1. --- With prior owner's signature to half title page and water spotting to topstain, otherwise a firm, clean copy. Dust jacket bears original $1.65 flap pric...
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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]

Stock No.: 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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Zuleika Dobson

By: BEERBOHM, Max

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1926

Stock No.: 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]

Stock No.: 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: $14.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1944]

Stock No.: 83100

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very 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 advertises 303 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1944 (though 1917 date appears in book). ML #22.3. --- Book is clean, bright and tightly bound, though with prior owner's signature to front free endpaper and some loss of cover gildin...
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The Decameron (Modern Library #71.4)

By: BOCCACCIO, Giovanni

Price: $10.00

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

Stock No.: 77140

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Good only copy of the classic collection of ancient stories. Translated (and with translator's note) from the Italian by Frances Winwar. Complete and unabridged. --- Toledano spine 8, w/light grey cloth-covered boards, gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks, black topstain, grey Kent endpapers. Likely published c.1959 (though 1955 publication date appears in book). Jacket style h, verso advertises 385 titles in ML catalog. ML #71.4. --- With water-spotting to topstain, evidence of exposure to moisture, otherwise an unmarked, clean copy. Price-clipped dust jacket is very rubbed & w/some s...
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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]

Stock No.: 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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The Poems and Plays of Robert Browning (Modern Library Giant #G17.1)

By: BROWNING, Robert

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library:

Stock No.: 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 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]

Stock No.: 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]

Stock No.: 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 #13.1)

By: BUTLER, Samuel

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c.1931-1939]

Stock No.: 79003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

The author'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. --- In Toledano spine 7: full rust balloon cloth-covered limp boards, gilt lettering and decorations on cover and spine, and with binder's red topstain. With orange Kent endpapers, no dust jacket. Likely published c.1931-1939 (no date appears in the book). ML #13.1. --- Spine is sunned (but titling is readable), with an open tear to title page and rounded cover corners. A partially detached rear hinge has been carefully ...
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Erewhon, or Over the Range -and- Erewhon Revisited: Twenty Years Later (Modern Library #136.2)

By: BUTLER, Samuel

Price: $11.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c.1939-63]

Stock No.: 80471

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

A Modern Library reprint edition presenting the author's utopian first novel "Erewhon" (first published 1872) and its sequel (1901) in this single volume. With an introduction by Lewis Mumford. --- In Toledano spine 8 / rust cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / faded black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / lacks the dust jacket. Likely published c.1939-63 (though 1927 date appears in the book). ML #136.2. --- A clean, sturdy and unmarked copy but with some dulling to cover & spine gilding and slightly sunned spine.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall) ; xxvii, 622 pages
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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]

Stock No.: 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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Erewhon, or Over the Range -and- Erewhon Revisited: Twenty Years Later (Modern Library #136.2)

By: BUTLER, Samuel

Price: $16.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c.1963-67]

Stock No.: 83115

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

A Modern Library reprint edition presenting the author's utopian first novel "Erewhon" (first published 1872) and its sequel (1901). Originally published anonymously, "Erewhon" satirically skewered Victorian society. With an introduction by Lewis Mumford. --- In Toledano spine 11 / red cloth / ML hex torchbearer logo blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / tan Kent endpapers / jacket style l, verso blank. Likely published c.1963-67 (though 1955 date appears in book). ML #136.2. --- An excellent copy: clean, newish and tightly bound, but with Lubbock bookselle...
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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

Stock No.: 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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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Modern Library Spine 16)

By: CATHER, Willa

Price: $15.50

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

Stock No.: 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]

Stock No.: 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]

Stock No.: 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]

Stock No.: 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]

Stock No.: 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]

Stock No.: 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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Sixteen Famous European Plays (First Modern Library Giant Edition, #G71.1)

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

Price: $28.50

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: 1947

Stock No.: 83612

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Stated First Modern Library Giant edition, 1947 (confirmed). Published as a companion volume to the Modern Library's "Sixteen Famous American Plays" and "Sixteen Famous British Plays", this collection includes notable plays by Ibsen, Tchekov, Rostand, Capek and 12 others; introduction by John Anderson. Plays compiled by Bennett A. Cerf and Van H. Cartwell. --- In Toledano spine G5 / pale blue-grey cloth / gilt titling on black cover & spine blocks / black topstain / blank GA style endpapers / jacket style Gd, verso advertises 322 titles in ML catalog. ML #G71.1. --- A clean, t...
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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]

Stock No.: 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]

Stock No.: 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]

Stock No.: 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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Best Plays by Chekhov: The Sea Gull / Uncle Vanya / The Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard (Modern Library #171.2)

By: CHEKHOV, Anton

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1966]

Stock No.: 83429

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

A collection of four plays by Russia's Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) in a Modern Library hardcover edition. Chekhov is considered one of the greatest of the Russian writers, excelling at short stories as well as drama. The plays are translated from the Russian by Stark Young, who has also supplied an introduction. --- In Toledano spine 11 / red cloth / ML hex torchbearer logo blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / tan Kent endpapers / jacket style l, verso blank. Likely published c.1966 (though 1956 date appears in book). ML #171.2. --- Newsclip reviews taped to front endpapers...
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Selected Poetry and Prose of Coleridge (Modern Library #279.1)

By: COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor

Price: $15.00

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

Stock No.: 83655

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

A Modern Library edition offering the principal works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Includes his notable poetry, including his "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", as well as a lengthy offering of his prose writings, including literary criticism and essays. Edited, with an introduction by Donald A. Stauffer. --- In Toledano spine 13 w/full olive cloth-covered boards, silver titling & decorations stamped on spine; ml logo blindstamped to front cover, lavender and yellow Fujita endpapers. Interior bears 1951 date but likely published c.1967. Jacket style l, verso is blank. ML #279.1....
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Victory

By: CONRAD, Joseph

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library:

Stock No.: 72515

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Nice clean, tight ML copy of Conrad's gripping South Pacific tale of terror and intrigue. Undated reissue of work originally published in 1915; likely published c.1953. Grey cloth covers lightly faded and faintly stained a yellowish color; with green title rectangle area on both frt cover and on spine. Corner lightly worn. In priceclipped dust jacket w/stain on frt cover; toned spine and abrasions at top front hinge area. Now in removable mylar protector. Toledano binding #8; ML #34.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 385 pages
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Nostromo

By: CONRAD, Joseph

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1983

Stock No.: 80433

ISBN: 0394604318

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Stated second Modern Library edition, May 1983. Author's epic novel, set in the fictional Central American country of Costaguana, in a Modern Library reprint edition. With an introduction by Robert Penn Warren. --- In Toledano spine 16 / brown paper-covered boards / gilt-stamped spine titling / perfect bound (not stitched) / style G ML torchbearer logo endpapers / jacket style q / verso advertises Modern Library titles using last 6 digits of ISBN numbers. --- A clean, firm, unmarked copy but with a little blue stained area to textblock fore-edge and inked ownership info. to verso of front fre...
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Lord Jim (Modern Library #186.1)

By: CONRAD, Joseph

Price: $12.50

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

Stock No.: 82272

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

A Modern Library reprint edition of author's classic novel which tells the tale of a man whose shame drove him deep into the jungles of southeast Asia. With an introduction by J. Donald Adams. --- In Toledano spine 8 / grey cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h / verso advertises 341 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1949 (though 1931 date appears in book). ML #186.1. --- With minor soiling to cloth and dulling to cover & spine gilding; interior unmarked and volume is tightly-bound. Unclipped dust jacket with darkening...
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Lord Jim (Modern Library #186.1)

By: CONRAD, Joseph

Price: $12.50

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

Stock No.: 83584

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

A Modern Library reprint edition of author's classic novel which tells the tale of a man whose shame drove him deep into the jungles of southeast Asia. Includes an introduction by J. Donald Adams. Wrapped in gold compass-theme variant dust jacket. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 380 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1958 (though 1931 date appears in book). ML #186.1. --- A clean, tightly-bound and unmarked copy, but with minor chafing to cloth at spine ends. Price-...
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Victory (Modern Library #34.2)

By: CONRAD, Joseph

Price: $13.00

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

Stock No.: 83868

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Joseph Conrad's gripping adventure story takes place on a tropical South Pacific island. With author's prefatory notes. This Modern Library edition in the dust jacket variant with palm trees, blue sea and yellow sky. --- In Toledano spine 8 w/full pale green cloth covers, gilt titling stamped on green blocks, cover & spine, publisher's green topstain and grey Kent endpapers. Volume bears 1921 date but likely published c.1959. Jacket style i, verso advertises 385 titles in ML catalog. ML #34.2. --- With some dulling to cover & spine gilding and a couple of spots of chafing to cloth; otherwise b...
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