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Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz. 1910. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Used. Paperback. Fair. Good in wraps (spine splitting, spine & covers chipped) 8vo 319pp Series: Collection of British Authors Tauchnitz Edition Vol. 4212. Needs rebinding... sold as-is.

London: The Folio Society, 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Decorative printed cloth hard covers, in slipcase. Mild shelf wear to slipcase. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Illustrated..

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Macdonald, 1956-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback/Hardcover. Clean copy in good condition.

HBDJ, 1960, 1ST EDITION THUS, EARLY ISSUE REPRINT, IN Blue ILLUSTRATED Dustjacket OF Beautiful woman with Long Hair Nursing Sick Man, VG+/VG ,12 mo. 272 PGS, NOTES, BACK OF DJ A FEW OF 500 AUTHORS ENDS WITH ZOLA, larger format binding style 4. Full dark blue cloth-covered boards with copper-look spine titling and gilt "EL" in script at tail of spine; pale orange topstain. In light blue dust jacket with image of the author being offered a drink (laudanum?) by a young woman on front cover. --- An excellent copy: clean, unmarked and firmly bound but with small dampstain to top edge. Dust jacket with slight chafing along edges, otherwise bright and protected in removable archival mylar wrapper.; ,He tells of his Opium Dreams, of his experiences with Ann & his sensations under the Drug. Chilling account of an addicts descent into madness or nirvana depending on your outlook. De Quincey's fascinating insight into opium, begun due to an illness, quickly becoming a habit. This is the story of his… Read More

John Snow; Edward Moxon; Charles Gilpin; William and Robert Chambers; John Wright, 1848. Hardcover. Good. A compilation of nine disparately published titles from various publishers (detailed below), which a previous owner bound together roughly contemporary to their publication. There is a list of each book inked at front paste down, dated 1848, only two years following the date of publication of the newest of these books, which so seems likely as the approximate date that the compilation was bound together. Black half-leather, marbled paper boards - scuffed, scratched, with heavy edgewear frayed to boards. Spine rebacked with a fairly unobtrusive hinges repair which preserves most of the original leather. Interior hinges cracked; binding else intact. Dampstaining to top margin of first few pages; these pages are also foxed, with the foxing continuing only sporadically throughout the volume. Contents listing inked to front paste down, with additional bibliographic note in heavy pencil at FFEP;… Read More

HBDJ, UNDATED But 1890, This 5.375 x 7.5 inch APPROX , VG/VG, BURGUNDY CLOTH WITH GOLD GILT ON SPINE CVR, LITE RUB & WEAR & TINY DJ TEARS, 369 page hardcover book with dust wrapper is a Reprint of this famous 1922 title by A. L. Burt about 1890 . This book is in FINE- condition - - in a very good dust wrapper as issued. The end-papers show several penciled notes and one previous owner's name and the front paste-down shows a small store-sticker from Weinstock-Lubin and Company.BLANK ENDPAPERS SMALL STICKE There is virtually no wear showing to the maroon-cloth covers with gilt lettering on the spine - - with the gilt -as new- and with the top edges also gilt. The binding and corners are square with again no damage or time-wear showing. The text block is again fine with no markings or damage showing and only the end-papers front and back showing some touch of offset to the gluing of the endpapers. The book shows 369 text pages and then four additional un-numbered pages listing Burt's Home Library titles… Read More

Philadelphia and Trenton: E. Littell, 1822. Hardcover. Fair. Magazine. Vol. 2. Published by E. Littell, Philadelphia and Trenton, and R. Norris Henry, New York. Twenty-six weekly issues in one volume (January 5 - June 29, 1822). Octavo. [2], 592, IVpp., with an engraved title page plate preceding a letterpress title page. Contemporary ink owner name on front free endpaper. Publisher's advertisements laid down on both pastedowns. Contemporary quarter sheep and marbled paper over boards. Spine is mostly perished, front board detached, engraved title page and letterpress title page are detached, lacking front fly leaf, old dampstain on index pages at the back, internally very good with moderate scattered foxing. First published anonymously from September to October 1821, in the *London Magazine*, this is the first American appearance printed in 17 installments from January 5, 1822 to May 25, 1822 in *The Saturday Magazine*. The first American edition in book form was published by E. Littell at… Read More

London [and] New York: Printed for Taylor and Hessey [and] E. Littell, 1822 [and] 1823. First Edition, the English Issue and First Edition, the Very Rare First American Issue. 12mo, the English first edition uncut, bound in contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, the spine divided by gilt fillets into compartments; the American first edition uncut in publisher's original drab boards, the spine panel with printed lettering., housed together in custom foldover case, the spine panel lettered in gilt, and each book with a protective cloth dustjacket protecting the volume. [2, half-title], iv, 206, [6 ads and publisher's catalogue]; xii, [13]-183, [1] pp. The English first edition with the front cover and front free end leaf detached, some rubbing and evidence of age, the text-block well preserved and in fine order, crisp and clean throughout, ownership inscription on the front free end-leaf; the American first edition in original drab boards, the text-block very well preserved, with… Read More