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Poems, Original and Translated

By: Caldwell, William W.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Boston & Cambridge, James Munroe & Co: 1857

Seller ID: 35052

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages; 1st edition. Soundly bound in original brown cloth with decorative borders and rules in blind to boards; gilt title lettering to spine dulled but legible. Light mottling/fading to cloth boards; spine a bit faded and dulled. Light shelf rubbing to cloth at tips and spine ends. Prior ownership of mid 19th century Belles letres society with a bookplate to front pastedown, annotated with a variety of numerals, some of which have been inked out. Text bright and generally clean with just occasional mild instance of spotting. G++ to VG-
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Calvino, Italo & William Weaver (Trans. )

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1981

Seller ID: 41513

ISBN: 0151436894

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 260 pages; 3rd printing indicated. Soundly bound and generally neat in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $12.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Mild shelf bump base of spine and light shelf evidence to jacket edges. Very small splash stain front edge of the page block. Strange black 5 pointed star in a circular white field printed in the jacket design on the lower front corner of the rear panel, with identical black star slug stamped to the rear board. Ordinarily I would suspect this an indicator of a book club issue but the ISBN is...
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Mothers, Tell Your Daughters Stories

By: Campbell, Bonnie Jo

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company: 2015

Seller ID: 33116

ISBN: 0393248453

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages; 1st printing. New copy from publisher's sales representative stock. New in dust jacket
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The Bent Twig

By: Canfield, Dorothy

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Company: 1916

Seller ID: 20537

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 480 pages; Tight clean copy in publisher's dark brown cloth with titles brightly in gilt to spine and in a darker brown to cover board. Mild soiling to page block edges but overall in very well preserved and neat condition. Dust jacket has silverfish damage thus; lower corners of the front jacket panel have been consumed with tracks to the surface extending along the lower third of the spine panel. Small area of loss at the jacket's crown. Jacket spine lettering remains bright and complete. Some loss to blurb and review content printed on the front panel. Uncommon in...
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The Dogs Bark; Public People and Private Places

By: Capote, Truman

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1973

Seller ID: 42540

ISBN: 0394487516

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 419 pages; 1st printing. Snugly bound and neat in original title lettered dust jacket. Gift inscription penned neatly to blank front endpage; trace sunnning to top edge stain and cloth at top edge of boards. Jacket price clipped front flap but otherwise crisp edged and neat. VG++/VG++
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The Last Voyage of Odysseus

By: Carey, Karen L.

Price: $14.89

Publisher: Athens, OH, Ohio University Press: 1983

Seller ID: 0930T285950

ISBN: 0821406833

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fine dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 187 pages; 1983 Ohio University Press HC/DJ 1st ed. Sound and clean; no marks. DJ fresh and glossy. Only a mild loss of firmness in spine. Else fine. VG+/F
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Tubber Derg Or, the Red Well and Other Tales of Irish Life. Sadlier's Firseide Library VIII

By: Carleton, William

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, D. J. Sadlier & Co.: 1854

Seller ID: 21988

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Engraved frontis and title page; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 323 pages; HC in original green cloth with pictorial and floral designs in blind to boards and spine; title lettering in gitl to spine. vi, 7 - 323 pp. followed by one page of ads for the Fireside Series. Soundly bound copy with wear and a hint of fraying to cloth at spine ends and tips. Corners slightly bruised. Short narrow run in the cloth in the front hinge. One signature starting slightly mid-book. Uusal light general toning to page stock with scattered mild foxing. Extra engraved title page and tissue guarded engraved frontis. ...
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The Regicide's Daughter : a Tale of Two Worlds

By: Carpenter, William Henry

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Company: 1851

Seller ID: 35095

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 213 pages; Soundly bound in original brown cloth. Shallow chipping to cloth at spine ends; light fraying and bumping to corners. Prior ownership of a small college Philosophical Society with bookplate to front pastedown. Scattered foxing and toning to page stock. Uncommon in original edition. Good or a little better
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Dos Passos; A Life

By: Carr, Virginia Spencer

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday & Company: 1984

Seller ID: 23245

ISBN: 0385129645

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 624 pages; Inscribed very warmly on the title page to Jere Real and dated 23 April, 1985. The inscription thanks Real for bringing her to Lynchburg in 1984 as a guest and helping her to become the Thornton Writer in Residence for 1985. Jere Real was a professor at Lynchburg College; he coordinated visits and played host to the authors who appeared at the college as part of the Thornton Writer-in-Residence and Guest Reader program. Soundly bound and clean with mild shelf/handling rub to corners and spine ends. Dust jacket stressed and crimped at sp...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; through the Looking Glass and the Hunting of the Snark

By: Carroll, Lewis & John Tenniel (Illus. ) & Alexander Woollcott (Intro)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1926

Seller ID: 42342

Binding: Flexible cloth

Condition: Fair

Modern Library 79.1; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7" tall; 351 pages; Circa 1925/26 Modern Library. Flexible brown leatherette. Binding style 4 with Bernhard running man on cover and Bernhard illustrated endpages. Cloth rubbed at edges with shallow chipping yo spine ends. Moderate vertical creasing to spine edge and rear board. General toning to endpages and light toning to page stock. With Tenniel illustrations including the long-neck Alice on page 35. Prior owner name top edge of front endpage. Some scattered pencil underlining and occasional notation in the Wonderland but not the other tit...
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The White Steed and Coggerers

By: Carroll, Paul Vincent

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1939

Seller ID: 23344

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages; Hardcover in original pictorial dust jacket. General wear to dust jacket at corners and edges. Bottom quarter of dust jacket spine end chipped away and missing. Light color mudging and tonig to the cream background of the jacket's rear panel. Sporadic minor pencil underlining and bracketing scattered in text. Two plays in one volume. G++/G+
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Do Not Disturb

By: Case, Frank & O. Soglow (Illust. )

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Garden City, N. Y., Garden City Publishing, Star Books: 1943

Seller ID: 32398

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 326 pages; Early printing. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Reissue from the 1940 Stokes edition. Dust jacket lightly rubbed at edges with some shallow nicks and tiny chips to spine ends. Just mild fading to spine panel; a mild stray pencil doodle to the front panel. An attractive and neat copy in dust jacket. VG+/VG
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Don Chisciotte Della Mancia Traduzione Di Bartolomeo Gamba. Fregi Di Duilio Cambellotti. Illustrazioni Di Enrico Sacchetti

By: Cervantes, Miguel De

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Milano, Istituto Editoriale Italiano:

Seller ID: 14648

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Biblioteca Dei Ragazzi #3; Tipped in color plates and in text line drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 371 pages; No date given; circa 1920's. Biblioteca Dei Ragazzi #3. Publisher's metallic green cloth with thatched pattern and motif of fleur de lis stamped in white and red. Titles in gilt to cover. Publisher's pictorial dust jacket is lightly rubbed at edges and surfaces with light toning. A few short closed tears and nicks to jacket. Illustrated with 10 tipped in color plates mounted on heavy stock gray paper. Accompanied by in text line illustrations. Endpage joints tender. Uncommon and ...
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Title Pliny The Younger's Character As Revealed Through His Letters; An Intermediate Reader/grammar Review

By: Chambers, P.L.

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Norman, OK, Peggy L. Chambers: 2000

Seller ID: 30953

ISBN: 0962845051

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 86 pages; Oversize paperback in glossy illustrated covers. Snugly bound and neat. Mild general shelf/handling wear to covers; mild edgewear and corners lightly bumped with light shelf rub to surfaces. Contents crisp and clean. Neat unmarked copy. VG+ ...Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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You Remind Me of Me

By: Chaon, Dan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 2004

Seller ID: 24690

ISBN: 0345441419

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 356 pages; Paperback is tight, bright and fresh in glossy pictorial covers. Just a hint of wear to exteriors. Appears and feels unread; about as new. An uncorrected proof/ advance reader's edition. VG++
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Wonder Tales from Wagner

By: Chapin, Anna Alice

Price: $13.50

Publisher: New York & London, Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1898

Seller ID: 00-EVDP-0FCA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 189 pages; 1898 Harpers HC in decoratively gilt stamped and illustrated green cloth. Square sound and neat. Just faint shelf rub edges and mild toning to spine. Gilt titles bright; cover ills in three colors. School headmaster or teacher inscription on front endpage. Solid and clean VG
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Lady Bramber's Ghost

By: Charrington, Charles

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Stone & Kimball: 1896

Seller ID: 26055

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 141 pages; Soundly bound in original green cloth with double rules and pictorial crest in red to cover but with title letering at spine faded to a grey. Corners a little bumped with an abrasion and fray to the top front corner of the upper board. Cloth thin at spine ends and a little chipped at tail. Contents clean, neat and well bound. Prior owner name in manuscrip to the front endpage. VG-
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The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse

By: Charteris, Evan; Edmund Gosse

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1931

Seller ID: 29360

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 524 pages; Sound decent copy with cloth at spine well toned and darkened but with title lettering legible. Hinges tender in the endpaper joints with evidence of a prior owner's glue mending to partiall split endpage at front. Endpages holding tenuously at rear. Text block sound and unmarked; mild evidence of a bookplate removed from front pastedown. Reading or reference copy is near Good
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Les Textes Litteraire Generaux; Classes Superieures De Lettres Et Enseignement Superieur

By: Chassang, A. ; Ch. Senninger

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Paris, Librairie Hachette: 1958

Seller ID: 11617

ISBN: 0320063364

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

French Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 536 pages; 1958 Librairie Hachette . In original printed wraps. Solid copy. Evidence only of casual perusal. University Language Dept's name penned neatly to the front cover. VG
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The Horse-Stealers, and Other Stories

By: Chekhov, Anton and Constance Garnett (Trans. )

Price: $185.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co.: 1921

Seller ID: 26024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages; Very handsome copy is bright, snug and very neat in original dark green cloth with title lettering very brightly in gilt to spine and in blind to upper board. Just trace shelf rub to cloth at tips. Mounted to the front pastedown is the attractive pictorial bookplate of book collector, Redmond Conyngham, designed and engraved by noted historian of American printmaking, David McNeely Stauffer. A few pages opened a little roughly at front edge with a few more remaining unopened. An exceptionally nice copy. NF
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Category: Literature