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Gleanings from Popular Authors - Grave & Gay


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Hardcover. New York, Cassell, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages. Illustrated with black & white engravings by various artists. Previous owners signature on front endpaper. Features stories by: Dickens, Longfellow, Byron, Blake, J. Fennimore Cooper, Poe, and many more. One plate loose. Gilt edges. Light foxing throughout. Bottom corners bumped and worn.

Record # 604212


Price: $16.00 

 

Americana Esoterica


Van Doren, Carl/Various Authors

Hardcover. New York, Macy-Masius, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages. Limited to 3000 copies - this being hand numbered #53. Front cover paste down and endpapers by Rockwell Kent. Wine colored cloth covers. Fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610834


Price: $31.00 

 

Spell of the Open Air, The


Various Writers, Illust. by: Harry Rountree

Hardcover. London, T. N. Foulis, 1st, ND, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 43 pages plus 2 pages of publishers ads. Covers are decorative blue silk cloth over stiff wraps. Title in gilt on front cover. Features 4 full color illustrations by Harry Rountree. Spine with some fading, light chipping. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 614157


Price: $44.00 

 

English Sermon, The Volume 1 and 2.


Sisson, C.H.; Seymour-Smith, Martin

Hardcover. Cheshire, England, Carcanet Press Book, Chesire, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Volume one: 1550-1650; 491 pages. Hardcover with lightly frayed green dust jacket. Edited by Seymour-Smith. Previous owner's signature on end paper. Volume two: 1650-1750; 358 pages. Hardcover with lightly frayed orange dust jacket. Edited by Sission.

Record # 750047


Price: $63.00 

 

Hockney's Alphabet


Spender (Editor), Stephen, Illust. by: David Hockney

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 2nd, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 92 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Adhesive residue on front dj along with bleeding on reverse side rear from red cover board. Faint water damage on front and back dust jacket near spine. Faint water damage to the top of the last couple of pages. Clear and bright illustrations by David Hockney.

Record # 750325


Price: $50.00 

 

Yankee Doodle's Literary Sampler of Prose, Poetry, & Pictures: Being an Anthology of Diverse Works Published for the Edification and/or Entertainment of Young Readers in America Before 1900


Haviland, Virginia and Margaret N. Coughla

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 466 pages w/ index. Red cloth w/ embossed picture of a boy on cover and gilt lettering on spine. Color pictorial dust jacket is protected in myler cover. One brown strip of discoloring runs the width of the dj, presumably from tape. Clean, unmarked, tight copy of the collection of stories selected form the Rare Book Collections of the Library of Congress.

Record # 804037


Price: $51.00 

 

Anchors Aweigh!: Tales of Wooden Ship Days


Swan (editor), Oliver G.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 235 pages, illustrated throughout. Dust jacket edge wear and tear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853401


Price: $20.00 

 

Twenties, The: American Writing in the Postwar Decade


Hoffman, Frederick J.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 466 pages, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, dust jacket edge chip and rub, otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 854674


Price: $12.00 

 

Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism by John Updike


Updike, John

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 919 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear and fading on jacket and foxing on text block. Spine show slight separation at top but no cracking.

Record # 2230495


Price: $15.00 

Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Six Volume Set Masson, Thomas L. (Editor)
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Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Six Volume Set


Masson, Thomas L. (Editor)

Hardcover. Garden City, NJ, Doubleday, Page & Co., 2nd, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Six red cloth volumes without dust jackets. Vol 1 (148 pages), Vol. 2 (150 pages), Vol. 3(186 pages), Vol. 3 (186 pages), Vol. 6 (186 pages). Minor wear to cover and spine edges. Gilt text on spines somewhat faded. Slight water staining to front end papers of volumes 1, 2, 6. Some volumes have slight separation to hinge between mid-text block (vols. 1, 2, 5, 6)

Record # 2230762


Price: $35.00 

 

That Red Wheelbarrow: Selected Literary Essays


Coles, Robert

Hardcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233615


Price: $19.00 

The World of Evelyn Waugh by: Editor: Rolo, Charles J.
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The World of Evelyn Waugh by: Editor: Rolo, Charles J.

Hardcover. Boston , Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 411 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is chipped and torn at the edges. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (October 28, 1903- April 10, 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books. He was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. The World of Evelyn Waugh contains a select harvest from his stories and novels. Clean copy. Record # 33705
Price: $15.00 

All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories of William Maxwell by: Maxwell, William
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All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories of William Maxwell by: Maxwell, William

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 415 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some staining, and the spine is bumped. Covers are also lightly stained, spine sunned. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This modern first edition is a collection of 21 of William Maxwell's best short stories, 8 of which appeared here for the first time. Spanning more than fifty years and traversing more layers of memory and feeling than are contained in most books of history, 'All the Days and Nights,' represent the life's work of one of America's most widely and justly honored writers. Clean copy. Record # 33826
Price: $12.00 

 

Pundits, Poets, & Wits - An Omnibus of American Newspaper Columns


Meyer, Karl E.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 458 pages. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 63981


Price: $16.00 

 

Wolfert's Roost and Other Papers, Now First Collected


Irving, Washington

Hardcover. NY , G. P. Putnam, 1st US, 1855, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1st printing of the first ed. 12 Park Place as publisher's address. Frontis and title pg, illust by Darley. Light wear to cover edges otherwise VG

Record # 107160


Price: $80.00 

 

DEMOCRATIC SPIRIT, THE. A COLLECTIONS OF AMERICAN WRITINGS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY


Smith, Bernard, editor

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. 16 full color reproductions of family members in Colonial costumes. Intact and very clean.

Record # 219831


Price: $16.00 

 

Hewins Lectures 1947-1962, The by: Andrews, Siri

Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages, a collection of lectures on children's literature and publishing. Blue cloth covers, clean and tight. Record # 405846
Price: $12.00 

 

Searching for Crusoe: A Journey Among the Last Real Islands


Clarke, Thurston

Hardcover. US, Ballantine Books, reprint, 2001-01-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466537


Price: $23.00 

Sumac Reader, The by: Bednarik, Joesph (editor)
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Sumac Reader, The by: Bednarik, Joesph (editor)

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Softcover. East Lansing, Michigan State University Press, reprint, 1997, East Lansing, Michigan State University Press, reprint, 1997, 238 pages. Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. . Record # 467453 Record # 467453
Price: $12.00 

 

New Russian Poets - 1953 to 1968 - An Anthology, The


Reavey (editor), George

Softcover. New York, October House Inc., Reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 292 pages. Softcover. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY EDITOR GEORGE REAVEY ON HALF TITLE PAGE AND ON TITLE PAGE. Covers with darkening to edges. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 612395


Price: $38.00 

 

Caribbean Literature: An Anthology


Coulthard (Editor), G. R.

Hardcover. London, University of London Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 127 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854389


Price: $20.00