London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. Hard Cover.
Corners rubbed, minor transfer on front board, ink name and small bookplate on front endpapers.
iv, 335, 16 pp. 8vo. A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf's uncle, a graduate of Eton College, King's College, and Trinity College, Cambridge. These originally appeared.....
London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co., 1864. Leech, John. Hard Cover.
Two books in one volume. Binding repaired, corners a bit rubbed.
xviii, 320, 304 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Color frontispiece (one of 20 color plates) and reproductions of 200 engravings by John Leech. The classic.....
New York and London: John Lane, 1897. Limited Edition. Small Hard Cover.
One of 2000 copies printed by Will Bradley at Wayside Press. Pencil note on front free endpaper.
94 pp. Cloth spine, paper over cloth boards. Author's second book. Pseudonym of Irish writer George William Russell. ABOUT THE AUTHOR.....
New York: Sheldon & Company, 1863. Hard Cover.
Small stain on front board, light general wear.
252 pp. 10 pages of publisher ads follow text. Engraved frontispiece, title page and plates. "The Florence Stories is a six volume series written by Jacob Abbott. As with many of Abbott's series, this.....
New York: Anchor Books, 1994. 50th Anniversary Edition. Trade Paperback.
50th anniversary edition. Light edge wear.
209 pp. Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial.....
Boston & New York: Mariner Book/Houghton Mifflin Company, 2020. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
xxxii, 293 pp. “An essay is the child of uncertainty,” André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. “The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true.....
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1980. Reissue. Full-Leather.
Faint blemishes to gilt on edges, top corner slightly pushed.
xiv, 529 pp. Black full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. "The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1966. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1966 printing, Toledano 076.2, binding/jacket style 11l with blank verso, $2.45 jacket price, beige Rockwell Kent endpapers. Near fine in very good jacket. Ink name and date on front endpaper, spine ends lightly bruised, jacket lightly rubbed.
xvi, 517, [11] pp.....
New York: Free Press, 2009. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
Welcome to Kittur, India. It's on India's southwestern coast, bounded by the Arabian Sea to the west and the Kaliamma River to the south and east. It's blessed with rich soil and scenic beauty, and it's.....
New York: The Heritage Press, 1961. Ayrton, Michael. Reissue. Large Hardcover.
Includes publisher's slipcase, lacks Sandglass insert. Spine faded, slipcase edges toned.
In the "Oresteia" - the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity - Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within.....
New York: The Heritage Press, 1961. Ayrton, Michael. Reissue. Large Hardcover.
Includes publisher's slipcase, lacks Sandglass insert. Slipcase edges toned, spine faded.
Translated from the Greek by E.D.A. Morshead, with an introduction by Rex Warner. Illustrated by Michael Ayrton. In the 'Oresteia' - the only trilogy in Greek drama which.....
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co. Hard Cover.
No publisher date. No jacket. Board edges rubbed, board soiled, pages toned.
159 pp. Illustrated boards with gilt accents. Woodcuts by various artists.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1969. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Jacket corners rubbed with 1 inch closed tear to spine head, rear jacket panel toned, small sticker on jacket spine base.
vi, 66 pp. 8vo. A collection of poems by a member of the Russian.....
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2020. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
xx, 343 pp. A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story.....
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2020. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
xx, 343 pp. A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession.....
New York: Ecco, 2020. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the.....
Allentown, Pennsylvania: The Story Classics, 1948. Balet, Jan. Hard Cover.
A near fine copy in a near fine slipcase. Minor general wear to slipcase.
228 pp. Includes publisher's slipcase. Illustrated by Jan Balet. CONTENTS: "A Fine Haul!"; The Nail; The Account Book; The Gypsy's Prophecy; Moors and Christians; The Cornet.....
London: W. B. Conkey Company, 1895. Hard Cover.
Boards rubbed, pencil name and date on free endpapers, pages toned.
A carefully selected collection of entertaining stories and poems, suitable for young readers, and including sketches and poems by such well known authors as Olive Thorne, Edgar Fawcett, Laurie Loring, Celia.....
Cleveland, Ohio / New York: The World Syndicate Publishing Co., 1935. Hard Cover.
No publisher date (ink date 1935). Some chips, tears and creases to jacket edges, rear jacket flap joint torn most of the way down but still holding. Ink name and date on front free endpaper.
252 pp.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition (BAL 167 indicates the UK edition preceded the US by sixteen days). Includes all plates. Some loss from titles on spine and front board, binding slightly shaken, corners rubbed.
252 pp. Dark red cloth (BAL calls it 'terra.....
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. Early printing. Hard Cover.
Early printing. Light stain along top edge.
Green cloth boards with gilt decor and titles on spine and front board, top edge gilt. "Marjorie Daw" is a short story by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. One of Aldrich's first.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1914. Olcott, Charles S. Later Printing. Hard Cover.
Later printing. No jacket. Author's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Ink note on front free endpaper, "August 19/1915 This book was bought at Portsmouth N.H. from the table on which it was written in.....
New York: Penguin Books, 2009. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Remainder mark, rear cover creased and soiled.
xvii, 296 pp. "Written with the authority of a scholar and the vigor of a bestselling narrative historian, The War That Killed Achilles is a superb and utterly timely presentation of one of the.....
Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, 1902. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Spine titles rubbed away, front hinge weakening.
294 pp. "An orphaned sixteen-year-old sets off on a circuit of adventure during which time he has experiences as a bootblack, detective, deckhand, champion whistler, Indian captive, boy philanthropist, and.....
New York: The Heritage Press, 1944. Blake, William. Hard Cover.
Lacks Sandglass insert. A near fine copy in a good slipcase. One joint of slipcase starting but still holding, slipcase edges rubbed.
xxii, 491 pp. Translated into English verse by Melville Best Anderson. Notes and elucidations by the translator. Introduction.....