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Le Theatre Des Annees Folles

By: Brisson, Pierre, Gerard Bauer

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Geneva, Switzerland, Editions Du Milieu Du Monde: 1943

Seller ID: 11494

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

French Edition; Drawings, blanc and white photos; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 223 pages; 1943 Editions Du Milieu Du Monde. In original printed wraps. Solid clean copy; no marks. Just mild shelf evidence to cover edges. Expected light to moderate toning of page and cover stock. Illustrated with photographs. VG
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Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection. Vol. 2, The Letters [Presentation Copy]

By: Brodsky, Louis Daniel And Robert W. Hamblin

Price: $49.00

Publisher: Jackson, MI, University Press of Mississippi: 1984

Seller ID: 28835

ISBN: 0878051899

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Signed presentation copy x2(1984) As new in as new dj. Inscribed by Brodsky to Georgia Review editor Stanley Lindberg, who has in turn inscribed it (1989) to poet and GR contributor, Sanford Pinsker.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 508 pages; [SIGNED presentation copy x2] 1984 University Press of Mississippi. HC/DJ 1st edition. Inscribed by Brodsky (1984) to Georgia Review editor Stanley Lindberg, who has in turn inscribed it (1989) to poet and GR contributor, Sanford Pinsker. Snugly bound and very neat in crisp edged pictorial dust jacket with a whisper of sunning to spine panel. NF/VG++; Signed ...
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Villette (Haworth Edition) : [Original Dust Jacket Only]

By: Bronte, Charlotte

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1899

Seller ID: 31141

Binding: Dust jacket

Condition: Very Good

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; This listing is for the original dust jacket ONLY. Light green paper with title design and publisher ads and blurbs to other panels lettered in dark green. A nice clean copy of the jacket which was for some reason removed from the book and preserved. Mild toning only; a small nick to the bottom edge of the rear panel. VG or better
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Jane Eyre: [1943 Photoplay Edition W/ Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles]

By: Bronte, Charlotte

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1943

Seller ID: 35103

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Film Still illustrated dust jacket; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 451 pages; HC/DJ. Photoplay edition, published to coincide with the 1943 film starring Welles and Fontaine. Pictorial dust jacket features a film-still photograph of the actors. Snugly bound in original green cloth with title lettering in black. Dust jacket bright and clean with just mild shelf evidence at edges and trace furring at crown of the spine panel. War-time printing with usual notice of compliance with regulations for paper use. But the paper is supple and only minimally toned. Moderate offset toning to front flyleaf whe...
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Shirley [Everyman's Library]

By: Bronte, Charlotte

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London & New York, J. M. Dent & Company & E. P. Dutton: 1911

Seller ID: 40897

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good+

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 710 pages; Everyman's Library. 2nd EL printing. In the uncommon supple red leather binding variant with extra decorative gilt to spine and cover. Soundly bound copy but with some rubbing and wear to spine edges and ends; mild furring to leather at crown and lighter rubbing to board edges. A single page (31/32) has scrunched in use and has a set of accordion stress creases across the page surface. A few scattered pages with a cursory pencil underline or bracket in the margin. Short set of paged references penciled to the rear blank endpage. Early Everyman edition ...
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Villette [Everyman's Library]

By: Bronte, Charlotte & May Sinclair (intro)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London & New York, J. M. Dent & Company & E. P. Dutton: 1913

Seller ID: 40898

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good-

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 645 pages; Everyman's Library. 3rd EL printing. In the uncommon supple red leather binding variant with extra decorative gilt to spine and cover. Soundly bound copy with light shelf rubbing and wear to spine ends and just mild rubbing at corners. Short closed edge tear at bottom edge of pg 431 mended with archival japanese kozo paper. Early Everyman edition in the uncommon leather binding with sattractive shelf presence. VG-
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The Professor; Everyman's Library [Turnbull and Spears, 1909]

By: Bronte, Charlotte and May Sinclair (Intro)

Price: $90.00

Publisher: London & New York, J. M. Dent & Company; E. P. Dutton: 1909

Seller ID: 32358

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 292 pages; Everyman's Library. 1st Everyman imprint of this title with no indication of subsequent printings. Printer's notice for Turnbull and Spears at rear. Soundly bound in original trade binding of ribbed red cloth with decoratively gilt panelled spine. Trace crimping and light rubbing to cloth at spine ends. Red cloth is lightly sun faded at spine but with gilt still bright. Binding a little shaken. Prior owner name and 1910 purchase date penned neatly to pictorial front pastedown endpage. The 1st printing of the Everyman edition. [Seymour 117.0] VG- to VG
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Chantemerle, a Romance of the Vendean War

By: Broster, Dorothy Kathleen and Taylor, G[Ertrude] W[Inifred]

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Brentano's: 1911

Seller ID: 25365

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: Very Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 528 pages; Brentano's; 1911. 2nd Brentano's printing, from UK sheets printed at the Edinburgh Press. Original light, bright green cloth with titles boldly and brightly stamped in white to cover and spine. Square, solid and very neat copy of Broster's 1st novel, written in collaboration with her college friend, Gertrude Taylor. Very uncommon example from the year of the novel's 1st appearance. Broster was one of the first few woman students at Oxford; her later novels, including the Jacobin trilogy, have remained popular and widely read through the 20th century. This ...
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The Casa Guidi Windows.

By: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Price: $245.00

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall, Ltd.: 1851

Seller ID: 18050

Binding: Full leather

Condition: Very Good+

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 140 pages; Bound in a period full polished calf; double fillet gilt rules to cover boards. Spine in six compartments with five raised bands. Decrative gilt tooliing and rules to spine; titles on morocco labels to two panels. Marbled edges and endpapers. Snugly bound and bright. Complete with half-title page; no publisher's catalog at rear. Bound by prior opwner as one of several volumes of Browning's works; title labels at spine read: Browning's Poems /// Vol. III. Bibliographic notes penciled to front endpage. 1st edition. VG+ [Wing 14]
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The Entrance to Porlock.

By: Buechner, Frederick,

Price: $179.50

Publisher: New York, Atheneum: 1970

Seller ID: 16900

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 270 pages; A very attractive copy, snug bright and fresh. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine very bright; Buechner's name in blind to cover board. Edges sharp and unrubbed with crisp square corners. Dust jacket uniformly bright to all surfaces, with but a whisper of shelf evidence to spine ends. A rather mysterious set of very light circular "quarter-sized" overlapping impressions to the cloth of the rear board has no apparent cause. The tightly bound book feels unread and the crisp dust jacket has no corresponding set of impressions. As such it is very...
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Coping with the Promised Land; History and Ethnicity in Jewish-American Narrative, 1892-1934

By: Buelens, Gert

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Sussex, England, University of Sussex: 1990

Seller ID: 24961

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

4to 11" - 13" tall; 220 pages; Oversize thesis is tight and neat in laminate covers; spine unlettered. Just trace shelf soiling to externals. Text clean and unmarked. NF ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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Reliques of Robert Burns Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters Poems and Critical Observations on Scottish Songs

By: Burns, Robert and Cromek, R. H. (Ed)

Price: $29.00

Publisher: T. Cadell and W. Davies: 1817

Seller ID: 18475

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 453 pages; Full leather binding is well worn with front board detached and rear board haning by threads. Leather at spine dry and cracked; title labels missing. Text block snug and clean; prior ownership ink stamp top corner of front endpage. Text block VG but binding poor.
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Los Cuentos Del Abuelo a Periquin

By: Busto, Ernesto Suris

Price: $39.00

Publisher: Miami FL, For the Author By ITESA,: 1985

Seller ID: 22006

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

8vo 8" - 9" tall; Printed for the author by ITESA, Santo Domingo. Paperback in matte title lettered wraps. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author top edge of the preface page. Wraps with spine unlettered, as issued. Light rub and stress to spine surface at ends. Mild horizontal stressing across the spine. Solid clean copy. VG-; Signed by Author
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SHADOW OF A SUN.

By: Byatt, A.S.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace & World: 1964

Seller ID: 14684

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 336 pages; Sound unmarked copy bound in publisher's yellow cloth; title lettering to spine in gray and orange. Pictorial dust jacket is notoriously photo (sun) sensitive and this example has the sun fading at spine that is usually found with this title. Spine lettering still reasonably bright. Jacket rubbed and nicked at spine ends and corners. Photo portrait of Byatt on the rear panel has some surface scratches. $4.95 issue price intact on the unclipped front flap. Top edge of page block with some moderate dust spotting. VG/G+
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Mazeppa,

By: Byron, Lord [George Gordon].

Price: $275.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1819

Seller ID: 28505

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 72 pages; 1st edition, 2nd issue - with imprint moved from [70] to verso of p. 71. Retains half-title page. Bound in later cloth backed, paper covered boards with paper title label to the thin spine. Without the original wraps and the 8 page inserted Murray catalog. Small horizontal abrasion to the upper board; presumably a paper title label had been mounted to the center. Board edges lightly rubbed at edges, maroon quarter cloth rubbed and a little thin at spine ends. Small chip missing from the top edge of the half-title. Contents bright and clean; complete save fo...
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The Giaour, A Fragment of a Turkish Tale

By: Byron, Lord [George Gordon].

Price: $265.00

Publisher: London, John Murray; Printed by T. Davison: 1813

Seller ID: 28949

Binding: 1/4 leather

Condition: Very Good-

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 41 pages; 1st edition, 2nd issue. Recased in modern 1/4 brown polished calf and brown cloth boards. 2nd issue, the trade printing, with Byron's name on title page but without watermark in the paper of the text block. Lacking half-title page. Contents clean and generally bright, though with a very mild and faint damp line in the lower spine corner of the title and dedication leaves and with trace rippling to the same portion of the book's pages. A well done rebinding if somewhat utitlitarian. Trace rub to cloth at corner tips. Davison imprint between double rules on t...
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Marino Faliero, Doge Of Venice. An Historical Tragedy In Five Acts. With Notes - The Prophecy Of Dante, A Poem [bound With] The Island, Or Christian And His Comrades. [Queen Adelaide's Copy with Signature and Bookplate]

By: Byron, Lord [George Gordon].

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London, John Murray & John Hunt: 1821

Seller ID: 29398

Binding: 1/2 leather

Condition: Very Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; [ASSOCIATION COPY - Queen Adelaide with her bookplate and signature] 1821 & 1823. John Murray & John Hunt. Two volumes in one, including the more difficult John Hunt published "The Island". 1st edition, 1st variant of Marino Faliero with Doge speech in 151 in 5 1/2 lines. Soundly bound in period 1/2 polished calf over marbled paper boards; ruling across spine in gilt and blind with black morocco title label. "Faliero" bound with half-title but lacking ad leaf at rear; "Island" lacking half-title and adverts leaf at rear. xxi,[1],261,[1]pp.; ...
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English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; A Satire [First American Edition]

By: Byron, Lord [George Gordon].

Price: $295.00

Publisher: Philadelphia & Charleston, Brannan and Morford; E. Morford, Willington, and Co.: 1811

Seller ID: 29399

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 86 pages; 1811 Brannan and Morford, Philadelphia and E. Morford, Willington, and Co. , Charleston. 1st US edition, from the 3rd London edition. Bound in original letterpress printed, paper covered boards. An early 20th century spine rebacking of buff paper with new endsheets laid down. Complete with original half-title. [2], viii, 86, [bl] pp. Publisher's printed paper over boards show some light soiling and toning to upper cover with shallow chipping to paper at front corners and abrasion at edges; lower board comprising a catalog ad for recent titles by E. Morford ...
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Jurgen, a Comedy of Justice

By: Cabell, James Branch

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, Robert McBride: 1919

Seller ID: 12510

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 368 pages; 1919 Robert McBride. HC. 1st edition, 2nd issue. Original marron cloth with a thatched weave; titles brightly in gilt to cover and spine. 1st edition of 1919 but the 2nd issue with the broken line in the tuling on page 144 and the depth of the book 1 3/4 inches. Still a very well preserved example with only superficial shelf evidence at tips. Binding snug and contents quite neat. Prior owner has stamped his surname with a very small inkstamp in the gutter of the dedication page. VG+
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Special Delivery; A Packet of Replies

By: Cabell, James Branch

Price: $29.50

Publisher: New York, Robert M. McBride: 1933

Seller ID: 37620

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 269 pages; 2nd printing (before publication). Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $2.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket has a thin swath missing from the bottom edge of the front panel and a dime sized chip missing front the lower front corner. Shallow chip missing from the crown of the jacket spine panel. Binding snug and contents clean with no marks. VG+/VG-
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