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London- UK: William Heinemann, 1898. VIA LUCIS: A Novel- by Kassandra Vivaria [i.e. Magda Sindici afterwards Heinemann.]- William Heinemann- London, UK- 1898- 1st Edition-1st Printing-UK and true first, preceding the US 1898 Richmond and the 1899 L. C. Page Editions- Hardcover:-8vo- G-VG/ no jacket as issued, 3/4 red calf leather and cloth, rubbed at extremities, thin hairline crack front exterior spine, but tight and square- new endpapers- 350pp are clean, one lower margin nick on p349, no writing-no underlining- Collation- complete- SEE PHOTOS- A very scarce novel set in Italy. The Richmond edition is held by 7 librairies worldwide, the true first Heinemann is only held by one, the British Library.- Rare- 1898 on title page- Fiction-religion-adventure-romance (3595). 1st Edition-1st Printing-UK. 3/4 Leather & Cloth. G-VG/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Let Us Highly Resolve by Stratton-Porter, Gene - 1927
by Stratton-Porter, Gene
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Let Us Highly Resolve
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1927. Hardcover. Text is clean. Orange boards with maroon spine strap. Orange pasteon title in spine. Early printing with 1927 on title page, but does not state first edition. ; [Bloom, Who Should We Then Read? , pp. 197-199] .
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VIA LUCIS: A Novel
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Maiwa's Revenge; Or The War Of The Little Hand
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London, England / New York, New York: Longmans, Green and Company. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1888. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 216 pages: 5.5 x 7.75 in.: 1.4: KB#010055: No dustjacket is included. Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Beautiful copy of a classic novel. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "A historical novel of Renaissance Italy." Fourth volume in the Allan Quatermain Series. Boards are dark black cloth with embossed red lettering on front and spine. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except for prior owners' names that are neatly inscribed on both sides of front flyleaf), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Corners of boards and spine top are lightly rubbed. Contains 216 pages of text, followed by a 16-page catalogue of other Longmans' published works of the time. This is an adventure fantasy in which Maiwa is a woman pursuing revenge. It was originally a two-part story published in Harper's Monthly…
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Wingarden
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United States: Arbor House, 1971. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book has a green cloth boards with light cornerwear, jacket has light wear and sunning to the head and heel of the spine, else clean. Jacket is not price-clipped.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS. By Wanda Ga'g. 1938. Coward-McCann, Inc. First Edition, 18th Impression Thus. EXLIB. Good- Condition/ Good- Condition DJ. A clean, solid copy. Summary: "The beloved tale as the Grimm Brothers set it down, accompanied by perfect pictures." Translated and illustrated with woodcuts by author Wanda Ga'g. DJ flaps have been trimmed by library. DJ protected by mylar. (Please see our photos.) Back panel of the green, red and white dust jacket is a book list of Wanda Gag titles.
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Where the Souls of Men are Calling
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This Book, written by early 20th Century Author, Credo Harris, is one of the first published about world War I. This Book is in Very Good condition for one that is now over 100 years old and would be a great Book for your shelf. The illustrated front cover and the illustration in the frontispiece say a lot about the subject of the Book. There are 298 pages of reading about America's participation in World War I and this story of romance.
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Man And Wife
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RARE/SCARCE.USED. GOOD CONDITION. HARPER & BROTHERS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1870. MAN AND WIFE, a novel by WILKIE COLLINS, author of "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White. Brown boards with ornate gold gilt titles on spine. Large octavo, original cloth, 239 pages [text printed in two columns] (followed by 4 pages of adverts). ILLUSTRATED with a frontispiece portrait and text vignettes. Signed and dated by former owners Mr. & Mrs. A. B. Wiswall of Newton Lake Falls, Mass. Sept. 1869.
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Man And Wife
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MAN AND WIFE. Used. Good Condition. Antiquarian. HARPER & BROTHERS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1871 Printing Thus. A novel by WILKIE COLLINS, author of "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White. Used. Good Condition. No DJ as issued. Black boards with ornate gold gilt titles on spine. Paper covering split at spine. Large octavo, original cloth, 239 pages [text printed in two columns] (followed by 4 pages of adverts). ILLUSTRATED with a frontispiece portrait and text vignettes..
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The Searching Wind
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Hellman, Lillian: The Searching Wind. PLAY The Viking Press, 1st Ed., First printing Thus, June, 1944. DRAMA. Used. Good/Good unclipped DJ $2.00 price. Protected in a mylar wrap.
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Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek
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Longmans, Green, And Co., 1899 Condition: Very Good. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Beveled edges. No dust jacket. Black endpapers. Black and white frontispiece and plates. Previous owner bookplate. Book Well kept and carefully stored with slight shelf wear. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are lightly toned with the usual signs of wear and/or age.Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925), author of "King Solomon's Mines", combines romance and exotic adventure in this novel of the Voortrekkers of 1836: Swallow is a Dutch girl raised in South Africa among the Kaffirs. Lonely, she gazes from shore over the waves of a storm-tossed sea, and dreams of a brother entering her life . . . and soon finds herself face-to-face with a shipwrecked waif cast ashore by the storm. Swallow grows to love the English boy Ralph Kenzie. He returns her love -- but must face the murderous Swart Piet, who is intent on taking Swallow for himself -- and equally set on bringing war to the region. Torn from… Read More
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Visibility Nil: A Man From the Mist
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Dust Jacket: Light toning and shelf wear on the covers. The flaps are unclipped and the original retail price is displayed (photo). Wrapped in a protective mylar cover.Book: There is a small barely visible dent on the front board. The pages are moderately toned and lightly water spotted but still in remarkable condition given the fact that this book is almost 60 years old.The binding is tight and firm. The book lies flat, plumb, and square. The board tips are not bent. Gilt lettering on the spine is still bright and glistening (photo). All pages are present. No marks or entries. The paste-downs have a Sketch Map of Anacher and District (photo).Very Rare Copy. This particular British copy is difficult to find in any condition. The book was republished for the American audience under the title, "A Man From the Mist." This is the author's first of only three publishings before her untimely death three years later at age 47. Elgin enjoyed tremendous popularity in the Romantic Novel genre and has legions…
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LET US HIGHLY RESOLVE
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Mattituck NY: Aeonian Press Limited Hardback Edition. Hardback. Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket as Issued.
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Red Pottage
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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Another Part of the Forest
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ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. THE VIKING PRESS, FIRST EDITION STATED FIRST PRINTING THUS, APRIL, 1947. Used. Very good condition/Good + condition original unclipped, $2.00 price appears on front flap. Fuscia dust jacket spine is a trace sunned. Mylar wrap. Another Part of the Forest, a play in three acts by Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes", and "The Searching Wind". Patricia Neal frontispiece.
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The Actress: A Novel
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This beautifully preserved book is in Near Fine condition. Boards, titles and decorative design are all bright and clear with no fading or chipping. Pages are clean and hinge is tight. Minor bumps to head and foot of spine. End papers are slightly soiled and original owner's name is in pencil on FFEP. There are very minor scuffs to the front cover pictorial pastedown.The author was a noted stage and screen actress of her day as well as an author and a Harper's correspondent in World War I. She was married to Walter Hale, an artist, illustrator and actor who could have been the illustrator of this book as he illustrated many other books for Louise. Priced to sell! There is only one other 1st Edition of this title for sale on the web at a much higher price.
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Germinal
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The Easton Press, The Collector's Library of Famous Editions, 1992 (1942). First Thus; Collector's Edition. Translated by Havelock Ellis. Illustrated by Berthold Mahn. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Used - Fine, "Like New" condition. Appears unopened / unread. Binding and text block are tight, bright, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Bound in full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. All edges gilt. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, silk moire fabric end leaves, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Notes From The Archives sheet laid in. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. A gorgeous copy.
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Ban and Arriere Ban: A Rally Of Fugitive Rhymes
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Andrew E. Lang , a rare book of his poetry. Ban and Arriere Ban USED. 1st Edition, 1894, Longman's Green and Co. Deckle edge, tanning. Beveled green boards with gold gilt ornamentation. The Author's name appears in gold at the front lower right.board. . 118 pages. Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford. illustrator of the Fairy Books. Per wiki "Arrière-ban, in French customs, is a general proclamation whereby the king summons to war all his vassals and their vassals. To the Provost of Paris belongs the convoking and commanding of the arrière-ban. In the Medieval usage, arrière-ban denoted a general levy, where all able-bodied males were summoned into arms. List of contents available upon request.: ."Many of the verses of this collection appeared in magazines prior to appearing here". INCLUDES ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION PUBLISHERS STATEMENT, 4 3/8 x 2 3/8: "Messrs Longmans intend this book to be sold to the Public at the advertised price and supply it to the Trade on terms which will not allow discount."…
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Hunchback of Notre Dame (Modern Readers Library)
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Hugo, Victor. Undated. Circa 1950. William J. Hill Co., Inc. Chicago, Ill. Not an illustrated edition. USED. VG/No DJ Included. Adventure Fiction Romance/Horror. Sorry about the group photo, but please see stock photo of binding for William J. Hill editions for the item being offered here. Blue Boards, gilt titling and red ornamentation on spine. 380 pages. 5 ½ X 8 ¼. Summary: Classic title by French Author Victor Hugo about cruelty, courage, and love. A clean, square, solid copy.
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The Family Moskat
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HARD TO FIND! The Family Moskat. A Novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Copyright 1950 Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY. VG/VG green and orange original dust jacket is included. Translated from the Yiddish by A.H. Gross.
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The Woman In White The Home Library Series A.L. Burt Company
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The Woman in White. By Wilkie Collins. The Home Library Series A.L. Burt Company. P Undated, circa 1940. Maroon cloth boards with gold gilt topstain. Used. Very Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice vintage copy.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Conan Doyle Uniform Edition (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.) THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. July, 1955. John Murray, London. USED. Good-/Good- original price-clipped dust jacket. Partial front flap only. Front flap: has been cut at odd angle. Red boards with black titling. 5 1/8 X 7 ½. 248 pages. Synopsis: Detectives "Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate as following his uncle's death, Sir Henry Baskerville returns from abroad and opens up the ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire." Please see our stock photo.
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