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By: N/A
Price: $42.50
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1869
Stock No.: 74482
Six months of the venerable illustrated magazine bound together. With dozens of engraved illustrations scattered throughout. Volume is bound in quarter leather and with pebbled brown cloth-covered boards; covers worn at extremities. With a few loose pages at front of volume, otherwise textblock is firm and intact, though with tears, markings and occasional soiling. --- Harper's Monthly is the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States begi... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Midland Park, New Jersey, The University Society, Inc.: 1973
Stock No.: 80814
Volume 8 in the Best Children's Classics series. This volume features notable childrens stories or excerpts from longer works by noted authors. Includes "Adventures of Pinocchio" by Collodi, "Heidi at the Alm-Uncle's Hut" by Spyri, "Adventures of Black Beauty" by Sewell and many others. With illustrations throughout. --- In colorful pictorial covers. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- A clean, firm copy but with slight cover soiling.; Tall Octavo (9 ... View more info
By: ADAMS, Henry
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1957
Stock No.: 81521
The learned Henry Adams takes the reader on a guided tour of the famed French cathedrals in this handsome edition in slipcase. With photographs by Samuel Chamberlain, a new introduction by Francis Henry Taylor and author's preface. --- In blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titling and decorations on spine. Sandglass flyer not present. Volume housed in gold paper-covered slipcase. --- A partial split at front hinge has been carefully reinforced prior to this listing, ... View more info
By: AGEE, James
Price: $44.50
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979
Stock No.: 75271
Finely produced copy of author's autobiographical novel set in his native Knoxville, Tennessee which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1958. Though published in 1957, it was actually written by Agee from 1948 through 1955; and published posthumously. In rich black full leather covers with elaborate gilt ornamentation on front, back and spine; four raised bands on spine. All edges gilt. Interior published on rich papers and with maroon silk moire endpapers and... View more info
Price: $28.00
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1967
Stock No.: 82507
A handsome Heritage Press reprint edition in slipcase of author's classic novel of family life. With illustrations by Henry C. Pitz and an introduction by Edward Weeks. --- Volume in pale lavender cloth-covered boards with three-balloon artwork to cover, titling gilt-stamped on blue spine block. Slipcase covered in light grey paper. Sandglass flyer laid in (Norwalk, no. V: 35). --- With noticeable yellowing to spine but lacking tobacco odor; else a bright, clean, firm co... View more info
By: ALCOTT, Louisa May (author); WHEELER, Joe (introduction and afterword)
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Wheaton, Illinois, Tyndale House Publishers: 1997
Stock No.: 77509
Signed by Joe Wheeler on title page. Complete and unabridged copy of the timeless family classic. With approx. 150 b&w illustrations. Dr. Wheeler's introduction and afterword provide information about 'Little Women', and Alcott, as well as a study guide for enriching the experience of reading this classic. Part of the Focus on the Family Great Stories series. A life-long educator and author, Dr. Wheeler is one of America's premier compilers of family-oriented stories. --... View more info
By: ALCOTT, Louisa May (author); WHEELER, Joe (introduction and afterword)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Wheaton, Illinois, Tyndale House Publishers: 1999
Stock No.: 81488
Signed by Joe Wheeler on title page. Complete and unabridged copy of the timeless family classic. A clean, bright copy. With 15 b&w illustrations. Dr. Wheeler's introduction and afterword provide information about Alcott, as well as a study guide for enriching the experience of reading this classic. Part of the Focus on the Family Great Stories series. A life-long educator and author, Dr. Wheeler is one of America's premier compilers of family-oriented stories. ; 8vo 8&... View more info
By: ALIGHIERI, Dante
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1978
Stock No.: 81390
A deluxe leatherbound reprint edition of the famous 14th Century Italian epic poem. With illustrations by William Blake. Translated by Charles Eliot Norton. Issued as part of the publisher's collection, the 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of the Great Books of the Western World. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. --- Bound in rich full brown bonded leather covers with three raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and s... View more info
By: ANDERSEN, Hans Christian (author); Lo GRIPPO, Robert (illustrations)
Price: $49.50
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1977
Stock No.: 81228
A deluxe leatherbound edition offering 74 of Hans Christian Andersen's famous fairy tales. Includes "The Little Mermaid", "The Princess and Pea", "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Ugly Duckling" and 70 others. With color illustrations by Robert Lo Grippo on about 20 pages (at least one illustration spans two pages). Translated from the Danish by Erik Christian Haugaard. Includes a painted portrait of Andersen by George H. Jones near front ... View more info
Price: $24.00
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1979
Stock No.: 81872
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. They are presented in this deluxe Franklin Library reprint edition with illustrations by John Berkey. Issued as an entry in the publisher's Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century series. One of an unspecified number in this lim... View more info
By: APPLEGATE, Jesse A.; PORTER, Lavinia Honeyman (authors); RIDGE, Martin (editor)
Price: $28.50
Publisher: Chicago, Lakeside Press/R. R. Donnelley and Sons Company: 1989
Edition: First Edition Thus
Stock No.: 81053
A Lakeside Classic reprint, presenting the memoirs of American pioneers Jesse A. Applegate and Lavinia Honeyman Porter. Applegate was an early leader on the Oregon Trail, and was credited with finding the Applegate Trail, an alternative, southerly route to Oregon's Willamette Valley. Lavinia Honeyman Porter's memoir of her Overland Trail journey, "By Ox Team to California" is also included. Edited by Martin Ridge. --- Includes a color map showing routes, a fronti... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1980
Stock No.: 78262
A handsome reprint edition of the French author's famous novel, first published in 1835. With illustrations by Albert Lynch. --- In full dark blue faux leather with gilt decorations on covers & spine, raised spine bands and title gilt-stamped on spine. All edges gilt, and with colorful patterned paper endpapers. Lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- A bright, firm, clean copy lacking obvious damages.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 376 pages View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York/London, The Heritage Press/The Nonesuch Press: 1946
Stock No.: 80167
Set in the author's 19th Century Paris, "Old Goriot" is often referred to by its French title, "Le Père Goriot", and is perhaps Balzac's most admired novel. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage, with 20 color illustrations by René Ben Sussan and an introduction by François Mauriac. --- In fleurs-de-lis patterned paper-covered boards backed in dark red buckram, with gilt-stamped titling on spine and housed in maroon paper-covered slipcase. Volu... View more info
Price: $19.00
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1939
Stock No.: 80624
A handsome reprint edition of 30 amusing stories by the acclaimed French author of "La Comédie humaine". Translated from the French and with a preface by Jacques Le Clercq, illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff. --- In full maroon cloth, gilt titling & illustration on spine; in maroon paper-covered slipcase. Publisher's Sandglass flyer is not present. --- With binder's glue bleed-through at front and rear hinges, very slight rubbing to back cover, else a clean, brig... View more info
Price: $43.50
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1978
Stock No.: 81424
A deluxe leatherbound edition offering rewarding, amusing stories by the acclaimed French author of 'La Comédie humaine'. Translated from the French by J. Lewis May. With illustrations by Elaine Rafael and Don Bolognese. Includes a portrait of Balzac by Roy Andersen near front of volume. Issued as an entry in the publisher's Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. --- Bound in rich full burgundy bo... View more info
By: BANNERMAN, Helen
Price: $600.00
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio, The Harter Publishing Company: 1931
Edition: First Edition Thus
Stock No.: 80096
Stated First Edition November, 1931 on copyright page. This scarce edition of the controversial children's classic with 7 color illustrations of the original 8 by Fern Bisel Peat. (One illustration, "Oh! what lovely melted butter", is missing.) Also with 13 black and white illustrations by Ms. Peat. --- In patterned dark red cloth-covered boards with Peat circular color illustration pasted to cover. Unpaginated, with 46 yellow-bordered leaves (not counting the fu... View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Barre, Massachusetts, Imprint Society: 1971
Stock No.: 82004
A deluxe, modern edition of a 15th century version of the ancient Greek myth by Pietro Andrea di Bassi. Illustrated with a color facsimile from the original manuscript and additional color images from the original manuscript. Translated, with a preface, by W. Kenneth Thompson. --- In cream paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling; grey topstain. Number 98 of a limited edition of 1,950 copies. Volume housed in cream paper-covered slipcase. --- Note: the limi... View more info
By: BAUM, L. Frank
Price: $103.50
Publisher: Indianapolis, Indiana, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1903
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 79545
A fourth printing in the first edition of the re-packaged Baum story that was originally published under the title "A New Wonderland" by R. H. Russell in 1900. With vertically aligned 'O-H-D' sans serif type on copyright page, broken 'H' in "The Monarch", p.[51] and half-missing 'D' in "Wizard", p.[121] (Bienvenue p.209-210). With 12 color plates, front cover illustration, and throughout in black & white by Frank Verbeck [Ver Beck]. Endpapers illu... View more info
By: BAUM, L. Frank
Price: $84.00
Publisher: Chicago, Reilly & Lee: 1920
Stock No.: 79548
A c.1920 printing of the non-Oz story by the famous L. Frank Baum, creator of the Wizard of Oz and originally published in 1906 (no later date appears in the book). Illustrated by John R. Neill on 11 full-color tipped-in plates with the following pages' text printed on the verso (one at p. 10 is missing, along with page 12's text). Neill black & white illustrations throughout. (Bienvenue p.228). --- In full pale yellow cloth-covered boards with Neill color illustration ... View more info
By: BAUM, L. Frank (author); NEILL, John R. (illustrations)
Price: $62.50
Publisher: Chicago, The Reilly & Lee Co.: [c.1941]
Stock No.: 79544
A 1940s reprint edition of the fifth of the famous Oz books by L. Frank Baum. First published in 1909, volume bears no later date, likely published c.1941 (Bienvenue p.44). With front cover illustration (and throughout in black & white) by John R. Neill. --- In grey cloth-covered boards with bright color Neill illustration pasted to cover; spine with Neill illustration and titling in black. Jacket with the same color Neill illustration as on the cover on both front and b... View more info
By: BAUM, L. Frank et al. (authors); RACKHAM, Arthur et al. (illustrators); DODGE, Mary Mapes (editor)
Price: $51.50
Publisher: New York, The Century Company: 1913
Stock No.: 76289
Six months of the famed magazine bound together by the publisher, The Century Company, in half burgundy leather and pebbled cloth-covered boards. Includes the months of November, 1912 through April, 1913. --- Each issue of St. Nicholas includes stories, often by well-known authors, as well as dozens of charming illustrations, photos, riddles, poems, letters, and non-fiction articles written for young people. One story, "Aunt 'Phroney's Boy", written by L. Frank B... View more info
Price: $45.50
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1954
Stock No.: 79651
The Austrian-American author's children's book is set in the Alps. With color & black and white illustrations by the author. Ludwig Bemelmans was the author of the popular "Madeline" series, which included the Caldecott Award winning "Madeline's Rescue". --- In rust cloth-covered boards with illustration on cover in blue; spine titling in white. Jacket with colorful Bemelmans snowy ski scene on cover. --- With a little yellowish toning to endpapers, other... View more info
By: BEWICK, Thomas
Price: $16.50
Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 1981
Stock No.: 77579
Likely first Folio Society edition. The autobiography of the great English naturalist, in a deluxe reprint edition. With many woodcut engraved illustrations and watercolours by the author. In brown quarter cloth over yellow paper-covered boards. Lacks the glassine jacket or a slipcase. --- With light soiling to covers and some loss of spine gilding; else a firm, bright copy. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 192 pages View more info
By: BLACKMORE, R.D.
Price: $55.00
Publisher: [United Kingdom], Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. for Boots the Chemist: [c.1920s-30s]
Stock No.: 82543
An undated, ornate reprint edition of Blackmore's historical romance, first published in 1869 and set in southwest England's Exmoor. With tipped-in colored plates specially prepared for this work: landscapes by Charles E. Brittan and figure subjects by Charles E. Brock. Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. for Boots the Chemist, possibly c.1920s-30s. --- In royal blue cloth-covered boards with ornate decorations and spine and cover titling in gilt. Volume has n... View more info
Price: $196.00
Publisher: New York, Frederick Warne & Co.: [1893-1894]
Stock No.: 74866
An extremely scarce edition of author's adventure story, set in the 'Colorado Desert' of present-day Southern California's Imperial Valley. With 21 b&w illustrations by Hume Nisbet and W. Buckley, 3 of which inserted as plates; as well as one map. Undated copy, but likely published c.1893-1894. --- In full red cloth-covered boards with lettering and elaborate illustrations on cover and spine in gilt, white, black, yellow, brown and orange. Lacks a dust jacket. --- Interi... View more info
Price: $28.00
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1977
Stock No.: 81429
A deluxe leatherbound Franklin Library edition of the 14th century author's collection of stories which have long been considered the ultimate in tales and have provided numerous plot lines for subsequent works by others. Translated G. H. McWilliam. With illustrations by Ann Grifalconi and a portrait of Boccaccio by Jim Campbell near front of volume. Issued as an entry in the publisher's Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series. One of an unspecified numb... View more info
By: BONSELS, Waldemar (author); WIESE, Kurt (illustrations)
Price: $24.50
Publisher: New York, Albert & Charles Boni: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 79611
First U.S. edition. A charming illustrated story of an orphan boy who is befriended by all manner of creatures in the forest. With black and white illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Translated from the German by the noted anti-communist Whittaker Chambers. --- In pale yellow boards with Wiese illustrations and titling in brown and green on cover and spine. Lacks the dust jacket. --- With light soiling to covers, spotting to textblock edges and prior owner's dated signature to ... View more info
By: BOSWELL, James; POTTLE, Frederick A. (editor)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 1985
Stock No.: 77568
Likely first Folio Society edition. A handsome reprint version of the famous observations, taken from James Boswell's journals, which he maintained daily in the years 1762 and 1763. Mr. Boswell is noted for his biography of his friend, Dr. Samuel Johnson. This edition edited and introduced by Frederick A. Pottle. Volume includes about 20 b&w engraved illustrations. With extensive endnotes and index. --- In navy quarter cloth over grey paper-covered boards w/handwritten d... View more info
By: BROMFIELD, Louis
Price: $24.50
Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Press: 1977
Stock No.: 75308
Attractive leatherbound reprint copy of author's post World War I novel, which examines cultural clashes in a mythical Massacusetts town. 'Early Autumn' was originally published in 1926 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1927. In rich full brown leather covers with elaborate gilt ornamentation on front, back and spine; three raised bands on spine. All edges gilt. Interior published on rich off-white papers and with maroon silk moire endpapers and matching ... View more info
By: BRONTË, Charlotte; BRONTË, Emily
Price: $50.00
Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 1996
Stock No.: 80223
A handsome two-volume reprint set offering the two principal works by the Brontë sisters. With woodcut engraved illustrations in "Jane Eyre" by Simon Brett, and woodcut illustrations in "Wuthering Heights" by Peter Forster. The books share a green paper-covered slipcase. Volumes lack dust jackets (likely as issued). Stated 6th printings, 1996. --- The books are covered in light green silk moire fabric, with gilt-stamped spine titling. The authors' names ... View more info
By: BRONTË, Emily; EICHENBERG, Fritz (woodcut illustrations)
Price: $19.50
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: [c.1977-80]
Stock No.: 80432
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.1977-1980 though incorrectl... View more info
By: BROWN, Abbie Farwell (author); WHEELER, Joe (introduction and afterword)
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Wheaton, Illinois, Tyndale House Publishers: 1999
Stock No.: 74670
Signed by Joe Wheeler on title page. A clean, bright copy. With numerous b&w engravings. Dr. Wheeler's lengthy introduction provides information about Abbie Farwell Brown, as well as insights for the parent about the use of this story in a family environment. Part of the Focus on the Family Great Stories series. A life-long educator and author, Dr. Wheeler is one of America's premier compilers of family-oriented stories. ; Great Stories; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; liii,... View more info
By: BROWNING, Robert (author); LEWIS, C. Day (editor)
Price: $20.50
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1971
Stock No.: 80580
A selection of poems by the great 19th Century English Victorian poet, in a handsome reprint edition in slipcase. Selected, edited, and introduced by C. Day Lewis and with woodcut illustrations by Peter Reddick. Indices of first lines and titles at rear of volume. --- In paper-covered boards illustrated with ancient columns and structures, and backed in brown cloth. With gilt-stamped spine titling & decorations. Slipcase covered in maroon paper. Publisher's Sandglass fl... View more info
Price: $39.00
Publisher: London, G. Routledge and Sons: 1868
Stock No.: 73780
Mr. Buchanan's works displayed a respect for those living a simpler life. Author's 'North Coast Poems' comprise roughly 2/3 of this volume. --- Elaborately bound in blue beveled edge cloth-covered boards with gilt and red lettering and decorations, front, rear and spine. With 53 illustrations by T.(homas) and E.(dward) Dalziel and 5 others; all of which were engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Printed on heavy papers, with all three edges in gilt. --- Volume has noticeable... View more info
By: BULFINCH, Thomas; KLAPP, W. H. (editor)
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press: 1942
Stock No.: 80725
Many of the most-repeated myths and fables from Greek mythology are presented here in this attractive illustrated reprint edition. With notes, revisions and additions by W. H. Klapp and illustrations by Stanley William Hayter. Maps of ancient Greece and "family trees" of the Gods at endpapers. --- In orange and beige cloth-covered boards with circular device to cover in green foil. Titling and columnar illustration stamped in gilt on spine; green topstain. Volume... View more info
By: BULLEN, Frank T. (author); SCHAEFFER, Mead (illustrations)
Price: $23.00
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1926
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 81275
First edition of this account of a whaling ship's round-the-world voyage to the South Seas from its base in New Bedford, Massachusetts and back, written by one of its crew members. With 8 striking illustrations by Mead Scheaffer on color plates, plus a few stray black & white illustrations, a second pictorial title page and color endpapers, likely by Scheaffer. With a map of the voyage. --- In black cloth-covered boards with decorations, illustrations and titling in gilt... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Ashmead & Evans: 1866
Stock No.: 82453
An illustrated, revised version of the children's story, centered around a wily fox, his friend the dog, and griffins. Text has been arranged for children by O. D. Martin. With 6 color lithographs (including second title page) by White. --- In rust cloth with titling and decorations in gilt to cover. Volume has been repaired with brown cloth tape and a new paper spine label. --- With prior owner's signature and tear to front free endpaper, soiling to cloth, considerable... View more info
By: BUNYAN, John; WILSON, Rev. J.M.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: London, A. Fullarton and Co.:
Stock No.: 73691
In scuffed dark leather covers with gilt titling on cover. Marbled endpapers. Undated, but likely published in the late 19th century. A fragile work, with a few loose pages and split near front hinge, but with superb engravings scattered throughout. Some dampstaining and soiling. A damaged and delicate, but lovely, artifact from the 19th century. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 147 pages View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Stuttgart, Germany, Loewe's Verlag Ferdinand Carl:
Stock No.: 73551
In dark green cloth-covered boards w/pasted-on color drawing of the little lord on his pony on the front cover. Entirely written in gothic-German type; with many illustrations by Willy Planck in both color and black and white. Volume is loose, but not excessively so; and with spine slant. A legendary story with handsome illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 153 pages View more info
By: BUTLER, Samuel
Price: $13.00
Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company/Literary Guild: 1944
Stock No.: 77044
Book club edition. A nice copy of the author's classic novel, which is a character study of a man's life and challenges. With color and black and white illustrations by André Durenceau. --- In full rust cloth-covered boards with illustration on cover, illustrations and titling on spine; all in gilt. Olive coloring to jacket, with Durenceau color illustration on cover. --- A firm, clean copy but with small hole in front fr ee endpaper. Dust jacket with some chipping and ... View more info
