Category: Fiction, Literature, Mystery, Classics

Aeschylus. The Seven Plays in English Verse. Lewis Campbell.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press

Seller ID: 2586

Condition: Very Good

xxi.278pgs. Not dated, circa 1900. Very Good green cloth hardcover, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, top edge gilt. Attractive pocket-sized book. Clean and unmarked, Decorated endpapers, original red ribbon page marker present but detached. Frontis portrait. A preface and preparatory note to the edition of 1890 is followed by The Suppliants, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Agamemnon, The Choephoebe, or Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Prometheus Bound. Book#2586.
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Mockery in Arms

By: Aldridge, James

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Co. : 1975

Seller ID: 721

ISBN-13: 9780316031219

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo. 382 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Very Good jacket. Black cloth spine, white endpapers. Dustjacket with light edge and corner wear, 1/2 inch closed tear and two small chips on back panel, in archival cover. Publishers slip laid in. ISBN 0316031216. #721.
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A Door Must Be Either Open or Shut. A Proverb.

By: Alfred De Musset

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, The Rodale Press : 1955

Seller ID: 1025

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 44 pgs. Very good hardcover with very good glassine jacket as issued. Printed in England at The Chiswick Press. Scarce. Printed translucent glassine jacket has a few small closed edge tears and tiny chips, slight age toning along edges, with British price on front flap. Bi-toned Illustration on front board, very slight fading to board and spine edges, light foxing to text block edges and endpapers. Internally clean and unmarked. #1025.
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A Treasury of Jewish Folklore. Stories, Traditions, Legends, Humor, Wisdom and Folk Songs of the Jewish People.

By: Ausubel, Nathan. Editor.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. : 1956

Seller ID: 2632

Binding: Cloth Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xvi. 741pgs. Very Good condition cloth hardcover, minimal shelwear, binding sound, internally clean and unmarked. Divided into six parts, each with its own introduction and sub-sections. Part One: Jewish Salt; Part Two: Heroes: Wise Men, Holy Men, Miracles, Fighters and Strong Men; Part Three: The Human Comedy: Droll Characters, Rogues and Sinners, Traditional Types, Humorous Anecdotes and Jests; Part Four: Tales and Legends: Biblical Sidelights, The World to Come, The Ten Lost Tribes, Folk Tales, Demon Tales, Animal Tales; Part Five: Proverbs and Riddles: Proverbs and Folk Sayings, FolkQuips...
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Animula Vagula.

By: Bacon, Leonard

Price: $12.00

Seller ID: 541

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

12 mo. 37 pgs Very Good condition hardcover. Stated First Edition. Green cloth with paper title pieces on spine and front cover. Some edge chipping to paper of title on spine, not obtrusive to lettering. Very lightly foxed endpapers, with owner name on front endpaper, else clean, sound and unmarked. Introduction followed by 27 poems. Other works by this Pulitzer Prize winning poet include The Heroic Battles of Servia, The Cid, Ulug beg, Ph.D.s, Guinea-fowl and Other Poultry, Lost Buffalo and Other Poems, Sunderland Capture and Day of Fire. #541.
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Steel Guitar

By: Barnes, Linda

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press : 1991

Seller ID: 125

ISBN-13: 9780385300131

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo. 257 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover in Very Good jacket. White boards, black spine with gold lettering, clean and unmarked. Light edgewear. Dust jacket has 1/4 inch closed tear at bottom spine corner, two tiny closed tears at top rear. Author of COYOTE. The fourth of the Carlotta Carlyle mysteries, set in Boston. Blues singer Dee Willis comes back into Carlotta's life. ISBN 0385300131. #125.
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Degrees of Love

By: Basch, Rachel.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton Co. : 1998

Seller ID: 491

ISBN-13: 9780393046250

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

8vo. 281 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, SIGNED by author on half-title page. Author's first novel. Removable "Autographed Copy" sticker on front cover. A young couple's world starts to unravel when their eighteen month old child is accidentally burned, and the report of an emergency room physician prompts the state to take temporary custody. ISBN 0393046257.#491.
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Young Edgar Allan Poe.

By: Bene, Laura

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company : 1966

Seller ID: 2620

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

x.350pgs. Good condition ex-library hardcover in Very Good condition dustjacket, not price-clipped in new archival cover. Book has usual library markings, edge wear, tape residue, with sound binding and clean text throughout, illustrated by George Gillett Whitney. An engaging biogaphy which weaves historical fact with an engrossing storytelling style. Intended for younger readers, there are also enlightening details of Edgar Allan Poe's accomplishments adventures for all ages. By the author of Enchanting Jenny Lind and The Boy Shelley [Percy Bysshe Shelley], The Hidden Valley and Roxanna Rampa...
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BLACKBIRD BYE BYE.

By: Bernard, April

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York and Cleveland, Random House. : 1989

Seller ID: 591

ISBN: 0394535369

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

66 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket. Black cloth spine, maroon boards. Clean and unmarked. Very shallow bump to upper front corner. Faint wrinkle to upper edge of rear panel of dust jacket, no chips or tears. Complex and eclectic, this collection explores a wide range of characters " from gangsters to politicians, from artists to beggars to young lovers". The Staions of the Cross become "a contemporary journey in pain and doubt". Winner of The Academy of American Poets' 1988 Walt Whitman Award. Author of "Pirate Jenny". ISBN 0394535369. # 591.
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Virginia Woolf. Writers and Their Work : No. 33.

By: Blackstone, Bernard

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green and Co. : 1956

Seller ID: 1661

Binding: Softbound Pb, Pamphlet Bound.

Condition: Very Good

48 pgs. Very Good condition softcover, pamphlet bound, paper wraps. Light tea colored spot to top edge of text block near spine, otherwise clean and unmarked with minimal wear. Sepia toned frontis portrait of the author. A biography and select bibliography, with an index of essays and stories. No. 33 in the bibliographical series of supplements to "British Book News" on Writers and Their Work. General Editor Bonamy Dobree. #1661.
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Literary Blasphemies

By: Boyd, Ernest

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers : 1927

Seller ID: 1591

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 265 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover quarter bound in green buckrham cloth with green boards and matching title piece on spine. Stated First Edition. Slight darkening to spine at edges, wear to cloth of upper spine end. Paper over front hinge cracked, underlying binding remains intact. Clean and unmarked throughout. Jacket is present but in fragments, pieces are separated at the paper folds, held in place in a clear archival cover. With a refreshing attitude of "appreciative irreverence", a literary Friar's Roast of sorts, biographical commentaries and critiques are presented for Willia...
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Cimarron Rose

By: Burke, James Lee

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., Hyperion Books : 1997

Seller ID: 1763

ISBN-13: 9780786862580

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

288 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean, unmarked, pristine. James Lee Burke introduces a new series set in the American West. ISBN 0786862580. #1763
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The Cream of the Jest. Introduction By Harold Ward.

By: Cabell, James Branch

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library

Seller ID: 1937

Binding: Leatherette

Condition: Very Good

xii.250pgs. Very Good condition. Dark Green leatherette binding no. 4, Bernhard endpapers [circa 1925-1929] with gilt to spine. Light wear to edges, bottom spine edge frayed, spine slightly crinkled. Owner names on front blank. List of Modern Library titles after text. #1937.
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Screaming with Joy : The Life of Allen Ginsberg

By: Caveney, Graham

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Bantam Books. : 1999

Seller ID: 1487

ISBN-13: 9780767902786

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

8vo. 216 pgs. As New hardcover in As New jacket, clean and unmarked. Black and white cover art.The first fully illustrated tribute to Allen Ginsberg, the best-known American poet of the post-war generation, mother of the Beats, and walking embodiment of Western counterculture. ISBN 0767902785. #1487.
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Charles Lamb. Selections from His Letter, Essays and Verses. [Little Masterpieces]

By: Charles Lamb.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Thompson, Brown & Co : 1915

Seller ID: 1926

Binding: Cloth Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

ix.156pgs. Very Good little green cloth hardcover, light shelf wear and rubbing to cloth at corners, gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine. Internally clean, sound, unmarked. Frontis portrait engraving of Charles Lamb, tissue intact. Contents: Editor's Introduction; Essays: The Two Races of Men, New Year's Eve, Imperfect Sympathies, Dream-Children: A Reverie, A Dissertaction Upon Roast Pig, On Some of the Old Actors, Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading, The Superannuated Man, Old China; Letters: To Coleridge [3 letters], To Manning [2 letters], To Wordsworth [4 letters], To Miss ...
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Theo's Odyssey

By: Clement, Catherine. Translated By Steve Cox and Ros Schwartz.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Arcade Publishing : 1999

Seller ID: 1880

ISBN-13: 9781559704991

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

593 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine dustjacket, clean and unmarked. First English Language Edition. Translated from the French by Steve Cox and Ros Schwartz. A story of healing as an ill little boy explores the many forms of religious faith while travelling with his aunt. He learns the tenets and philosophies of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Shinto, yoga, animism, voodoo and more. From the publisher: "This is a hugely enjoyable story about how and why people believe in their God, told with wit, clarity, and infectuious enthusiasm". By the author of "The Feminine a...
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow. [Pyramid Giant G214]

By: Collins, Hunt [Ed McBain, Evan Hunter]

Price: $16.00

Publisher: New York, Pyramid Books : 1956

Seller ID: 1879

Binding: Softcover, Pb

Condition: Very Good

190 pgs. Very Good condition vintage paperback. Scarce. Slight rubbing to paper at spine edges and a shallow partial crease to front cover vertically along woman pictured, else externally pristine, square and tight. Text block edges are red. Internally clean and unmarked, paper uniformly age-toned. First four pages have a small 1/2 inch closed edge tear to right margin. Cover art by Bob Lavin. From the back cover: "The Vikes were in the saddle riding high-peddling forbidden pleasures, substituting drugs for cocktails, following a twisted path which would permit mankind to escape reality. And o...
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The Archivist. A Novel.

By: Cooley, Martha

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Little Brown & Company : 1998

Seller ID: 1638

ISBN-13: 9780316158725

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

8vo. 326 pgs. As New hardcover in As New jacket. Clean, crisp, unmarked first edition. A literary novel centered arount Matthias, a librarian, his unsettled memories following World War II and his wife's mental illness, and a young woman interested in the library's extensive collection of letters by T.S. Eliot. Author's first novel. "An intricate and compelling tale of the way in which guilt and passion may quickly unravel the inner life of an orderly man." ISBN 0316158720 #1638.
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From Potter's Field

By: Cornwell, Patricia

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Scribner : 1995

Seller ID: 486

ISBN-13: 9780684195988

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo. 412 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover in Near Fine dust jacket, clean, tight and unmarked, no rubs or tears. Dark grey cloth spine, light grey boards with copper lettering to spine and blue endpapers. Dr. Kay Scarpetta again meets Gault. ISBN 0684195984. #486.
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Point of Origin

By: Cornwell, Patricia

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons : 1998

Seller ID: 782

ISBN-13: 9780399143946

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo. 356 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket, clean, tight and unmarked. Maroon cloth spine, gilt lettering, maroon boards. No tears or rubs, minute trace of shelfwear along bottom edges. Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta mystery. A killer uses fire to mask his crimes and Kay's Nemesis Carrie Grethen is involved. ISBN 0399143947. #782.
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Category: Fiction, Literature, Mystery, Classics

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