New York: The Modern Library, 1966. Reissue. Hard Cover.
1944-53 printing, Toledano 076.2, binding/jacket style 8h with 306 titles on verso, $0.95 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Very good in good jacket. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners and spine, owner bookplate on front endpaper, sticker ghost.....
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Inscribed and signed without designation on title page ('Best wishes always! John Matteson'). 2 inch stain to fore edge margin of last 50 pages - does not affect text. Binding tight and square.
x, 497 pp. An.....
New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy.
xi, 288, [1] pp. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography about the early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series.....
New York: Ballantine Books, 2015. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback.
Reprint. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy.
ix, 289 pp. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography about the early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is.....
New York: William Morrow, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. An exceptional copy.
269 pp. "From childhood, acclaimed novelist A. Manette Ansay trained to become a concert pianist. But at nineteen, a mysterious muscle disorder forced her to give up the.....
Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. Hard Cover.
Still in shrink wrap. Jacket spine faded.
312 pp. Conversations with Erskine Caldwell contains thirty-two interviews with this major writer, who during his long career enjoyed both the celebrity and the controversy that his books generated. These collected interviews include what.....
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Large chips and tears to jacket. Bottom corners of boards rubbed, pencil name on front endpaper. Stained.
xvii, 356 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations and plates. "One of the foremost bookmen of America here recounts the pleasures to be had in.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spine a bit toned, ink name and date on front endpaper.
220 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles and decorations. A biography of the American poet best known for Leaves of Grass, a collection of poems he famously continued.....
Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.
Inscribed and signed by author with doodle on title page ('for Rhoda! Alison Bechdel'), with a signed handwritten letter on Bechdel's own stationery laid in. Rhoda is Rhoda Levine, the opera director, choreographer, and faculty member at Juilliard.....
Chicago: J.S. Goodman & Co., 1891. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Hinges loosening, corners exposed, rear board rubbed and lightly soiled, pencil names on front endpaper.
xxii, [13]-540, 330 pp. A massive collection of detailed information on world history, literature, and the sciences, illustrated with color fold-out chronological charts.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his stamp. (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). No jacket. Boards bowed.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. Hard Cover.
Front joint of first volume splitting, edges rubbed with minor loss from spine ends of each, corners exposed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
Complete in two volumes. xiii, 563; 505 pp. Additions and notes by John Wilson Croker.....
London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1891. Reynolds, Joshua. Hard Cover.
'The Library Edition.' 1 inch split to cloth along front joint of first volume, endpapers foxed, front hinge of first and third volumes just beginning to weaken, front and rear hinges of second and fifth volumes weakening, some pages.....
London: The Folio Society, 1985. Reissue. Hard Cover.
2006 second Folio Society edition (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1302). Includes publisher's slipcase. Minimal wear to corners, embossed owner stamp on title page. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
xiv, 365 pp. Edited and introduced by Frederick A. Pottle, foreword.....
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed, faint foxing to edges.
804 pp. The story of Nabokov's life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself and his family was not easy--until the astonishing success of.....
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Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1992. Reissue. Hard Cover.
1992 reissue. Ink owner stamp on front endpaper, minor ink marks on just a few pages.
208 pp. Brewer brings to his task a full scholarly knowledge of the sources of Chaucerian biography... Of obvious value to students reading Chaucer and to all.....
Ohio / Washington, D.C. National Cash Register / Microcard Editions, 1969. Hard Cover.
Ink gift note from SUNY literature professor on front endpaper with original receipt laid in, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked.
146 pp. A yearly publication of articles written about F......
US: Woodbine House, 1992. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Second printing. Top edge bumped.
xi, 107 pp. New foreword and afterword. It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly that all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights. Pearl S. Buck.....
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Ink gift note on half-title page appears to be from someone who frequented the Algonquin ('To Dot from one of the inmates with a very Merry Xmas!') though we cannot decipher the name (it appears to be.....
![Item #2343486 The Life and Letters of Anton Tchekhov [Chekhov]. Anton Chekhov, Anton Tchekhov, S....](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2343486.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1749744545)
New York: George H. Doran, 1925. Hard Cover.
No publisher date (circa 1920s). Lacks jacket. Edges, endpapers, and boards lighty foxed.
314 pp. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 - 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and physician who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of.....
India: Penguin/Viking, 2018. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket rubbed. Ink name on front free endpaper.
xi, 187 pp. This is the never-told-before story of the Hungry generation (or the Hungryalists) a group of barnstorming, anti-establishment poets, writers, artists and activists in Bengal in the sixties. Braving social boycott.....
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New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1953. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Multiple chips and tears to jacket, front jacket flap price-clipped. Top page ridge foxed.
380 pp. Ben Jonson, dramatist and poet, is the only person buried in an upright position in Westminster Abbey. He was born on.....
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New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1953. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
2nd printing. Jacket a bit toned, minor loss from jacket spine head, 1/2 inch closed tear along front jacket edge.
380 pp. Map on endpapers. Ben Jonson, dramatist and poet, is the only person buried in an upright position.....
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1905. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spine toned, boards rubbed, bookplate on front endpaper, front and end matter lightly foxed.
349, [3] pp. Photographic frontispiece. Index and publisher ad follow text. By the author of A Ride Over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and.....
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1905. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition, released just five months after the original edition, with new preface and 'a few stories' added. Top corner of front endpaper absent, front and end matter faintly foxed.
359 pp. Photographic frontispiece. Index follows text. By the author.....