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Beauties of English Poesy 1767

Selected by: Oliver Goldsmith Publisher/Date: London: printed for William Griffin, 1767. First Edition, First State . General Note: With half-titles. The titlepage to v.2 differs in having no price below the imprint and the date...

$ 400.00

BROTHERLY LOVE

Author: Pete Dexter Publisher/Date: Franklin Library, PA 1991 Signed First Edition Format/Condition: Full leather bound book with gilt decorative covers, a.e.g., marbled end papers, & ribbon is in very good plus condition: small blemishes on...

$ 50.00

CHAUCER ILLUSTRATED Five Hundred Years of The Canterbury Tales in Pictures

Author: ed. William Finley & Joseph Rosenblum Publisher/Date: Oak Knoll/British Library 2003 First Edition Format/Condition: NEW hardcover book with dust jacket, 445 pages, illustrated throughout in b/w with 12 pages of color plates Description: This...

$ 40.00

Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

Editor: Blanche H. Gelfant is the author of The American City Novel, Women Writing in America: Voices in Collage, and Cross-Cultural Reckonings: A Triptych of Russian, American and Canadian Texts. For many years she was...

$ 7.00

Confessions of Nat Turner

Author: William Styron, signed limited edition. Publisher/Date: Random House New York (1967) First Edition, first printing. Limited Edition of 500 of which this is 95. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Format/Condition: Red...

$ 120.00

CRIME OF SYLVESTRE BONNARD

Author: Anatole France Translator: Lafcadio Hearn Introduction: A.S.W. Rosenbach Illustrator: Sylvain Sauvage, signed & numbered 888 of 1500 Publisher/Date: New York: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Designed by Edward Alonzo Miller and printed in red &...

$ 75.00

F. Scott Fitzgerald LEDGER

Introduction: Matthew J. Bruccoli Publisher/Date: Bruccoli Clark, NCR Microcard Editions; (1972, 1st thus – fascimile edition) Limited to 1,000 copies of which this is numbered 75 PROOF. Format: Leatherette hardcover. Measures 10×15 inches. 200 pages...

$ 40.00

F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship

Author: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Judith S. Baughman, F. Scott Fitzgerald Publisher/Date: Univ of South Carolina Press, 1996. 1st printing Format/Condition: NEW hardcover book with dust jacket is in very good condition: small remainder mark on...

$ 10.00

Fall of the House of Usher

Author: Edgar Allan Poe Illustrator: Alice Neel Publisher/Date: Limited Editions Club, 1985, #34 of 1500, SIGNED on the colophon page by Raphael Soyer Format/Condition: USED quarter leather hardcover book with black cloth, felt lined, slipcase,...

$ 600.00

Greenwich Village Reader Fiction, Poetry, and Reminiscences 1872-2002

Author: June Skinner Sawyer, ed. Publisher/Date: Cooper Square (2001, 1st) ISBN: 0815411480 Format/Condition: NEW hardcover book with dust jacket in fine condition: 727 pages; map. measures approx 6 ½ x 9 ¼ inches. Description: New...

$ 12.00

LE BESTIAIRE ou Cortege D’Orphee

Author: Guillaume Apollinaire, illustrated with woodcuts by Raoul Dufy, translations by Lauren Shakely Publisher/Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977 Format/Condition: USED white cloth bound hardcover book with slipcase, unpaginated – approximately 80 pages, book is...

$ 50.00

Morte d’Arthur: Facsimile Edition

Author: Sir Thomas Malory, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley Publisher/Date: Dorset Press, 1990 Format/Condition: USED black slipcased hardcover book with gilt decorations on covers and spine, t.e.g. 624 pages, profusely illustrated with original designs by Aubrey...

$ 50.00

NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Illustrator: Clarke Hutton Publisher/Date: Limited Editions Club, 1976; limited to 2,000 of which this is copy 1428 Format/Condition: Harcover book is in fine condition. Slip case is very good: edgewear, scruffed....

$ 45.00

OUTERBRIDGE REACH

Author: Robert Stone Publisher/Date: Franklin Library, PA 1992 Signed First Edition Format/Condition: Full leather bound book with gilt decorative covers, a.e.g., marbled end papers, & ribbon is in near fine condition: small blemishes on gold-gilt...

$ 50.00

POLAR STAR

Author: Martin Cruz Smith Publisher/Date: Franklin Library, PA 1989 Signed First Edition Format/Condition: Full leather bound book with gilt decorative covers, a.e.g., marbled end papers, & ribbon is in very good plus condition: small blemishes...

$ 45.00

PRIZZI'S MONEY

Author: Richard Condon Publisher/Date: Franklin Library, PA 1994 Signed First Edition Format/Condition: Full leather bound book with gilt decorative covers, a.e.g., marbled end papers, & ribbon is in very good plus condition: small blemishes on...

$ 50.00

Revelations of St. Birgitta of Sweden, Vol. 1

Author: Dennis Searby, Bridget Morris Publisher/Date: Oxford University Press, 2005 Format/Condition: NEW hardcover book with dust jacket, 368 pages, Description: St. Birgitta of Sweden (1303-1373, canonized 1391) was one of the most charismatic and influential...

$ 35.00

RIVER TOWN

Author: Thomas Keneally, Australian author of Schindler’s List Publisher/Date: Franklin Library, PA 1995 Signed First Edition Format/Condition: Full leather bound book with gilt decorative covers, a.e.g., marbled end papers, & ribbon is in very good...

$ 65.00

SAINT MAYBE

Author: Anne Tyler Publisher/Date: Franklin Library, PA 1991 Signed First Edition Format/Condition: Full leather bound book with gilt decorative covers, a.e.g., marbled end papers, & ribbon is in very good plus condition: small blemishes on...

$ 65.00

Selective Bibliography of American Literature 1775-1900

A Brief Estimate of the More Important American Authors And a Description of Their Representative Works Author: B.M. Fullerton Introduction: Carol Van Doren Publisher/Date: CT: Ox Bow Press (1989 reprint) Format/Condition: NEW cloth hardcover in...

$ 8.00