Search Results: Literature from Lavender Path Antiques and Books

New York: Chatham River Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0517415100 . Beautiful hardcover, 310 pages in near fine condition. Pages are gilded on 3 sides, leather spine with gold lettering, marbelized endpapers. Illustrated with orginal drawings by E. W. Kemble.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1945. Hardcover. Dark red hardcover decorated with gilt design. 508 pages in good condition. Many full-color, full page illustrations. Literary Guild.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

London: Bracken Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 1851700064 . Large hardcover, 156 pages in near fine condition, has personal gift inscription written in book. Very good dustjacket, light wear on edges. The greatest stories about children by the most famous story-teller. Illustrated with color plates and pen sketches. 14 stories in all.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .

The Franklin Library. Near Fine. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very faint rubbing to gold page edges. Small thin line mark on spine ; Red hardcovers with gold accents on leather covers and spine. Moire satin endpapers, attached ribbin book mark, gold tipped page edges all around. Limited edition, 1979. Beautiful Franklin Library first edition. Plays are Man and Superman, Pygmalion, and Saint Joan. ; 100 Greatest Books of all Time; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 481 pages .

New York: W.W. Norton. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. 0393045897 . Red and black hardcover with gilt letting in very good condition, light rubbing to cover edges, small ink spot on cover, inside pristine. No dustjacket. A collection of love essays, poems, letters from literature and literary great writers. A never ending source for romantic writings.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

New York: Henry Holt and Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Red covers, with slight shelf wear on edges. Back cover light soiling. Illustrated endpapapes. 69 pages in good condition. Ex Libris label of previous owner in book as well as his name stamped on endpaper.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. From the Franklin Library Publishing collection, beautiful leather or faux leather covers, covers decorated in gold design, spine decorated with gold lettering and design, raised ribs, green design enpapers, gold page tips all around. 618 pages in near fine condition, light wear to cover bottom edges, inside fine. Illustrated with the woodcuts of william Caxton. In contemporary verse by J. U. Nicolson. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1936. Hardcover. Hardcover, 259 pages in very good condition, some rubbing to cover edges, pages tanned. Cpyright 1925, published 1936. Paste down illustration decorates front cover. 10 Beautiful illustrations, full color by Jessie Wilcox Smith. 24 stories about the child characters in Dicken's works.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

NCR Microcard Editions. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0910972141 . Hardcover, 214 pages in fine condition with very good dustjacket, jacket has light wear on edges and small spot where price sticker was removed. For the first time 4 early plays of Eugene O'Neill not included in any previous collection have been brought together in one volume. These apprenticeship plays include: Bread and Butter (1914), Children of the Sea (1914), Now I Ask You (1917) and Shell Shock (1918). Regarding the plays as amateurish, O'Neill vigorousley endeavored to eliminate the possibility that they might ever be published. However in the light of the fresh insight the plays provide into the evolution of creative habits of a writer who virtually single-handedly established modern drama in the US, it seems appropriate that his wishes be overruled and the plays offered for public scrutiny.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Stamford Ct.: Longmeadow Press. Very Good. 1987. Hardcover. 0681401893 . Light rubbing to cover edges. ; Reproduced from the original piblication in the Strand Magazine with the classic illustrations by Sidney Paget. 37 short stories plus a complete novel. ; B&W Illustrations; 9.70 X 6.70 X 2.30 inches; 636 pages .

Boston: Little Brown and Company. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0316533610 . Hardcover, 344 pages in fine condition with near fine dustjacket, faint rubbing to jacket. 1st edition. When she died in 1954, she was surely the most famous woman of letters in the world. The work of her last 20 years of her life was critically acclaimed: the Claudine books, her Cheris, and Gigi were all selling well; she had a seat in the Belgian Academy. To say that she led an exciting life is an understatement. Her love life was, to say the least complex.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 0671724193 . Hardcover, 460 pages in near fine condition with very good dustjacket, faint rubbing to dustjacket. 1st edition, 1st printing. Nathiel Hawthorne and herman Melville, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell: 4 friendships spanning most of the history of American literature that yielded immeasurable riches to 8 of our most important writers. A delightful, unnusual and often illuminating study of the kind of influences wrought on 8 famous American writers.; Remainder; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

New York: Modern Library. Very Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Rust color hardcover, 1364 pages in very good condition, light rubbing to cover edges. Inside pages clean and tight. Modern Library Giant edition. No publishing date stated. Contains all her complete novels, a great way to obtain and enjoy all her books in 1 volume. Please no international orders because of it's size, will not be accepted for flat rate shipping. .; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

New York: Quality Paperback Book Club. Very Good. 1996. Softcover. Light rubbing to covers ; A comprehensive edition of his stories, plays and poems. Illustrated with line drawings by Toulouse-Lautrec and others plus photos from some of his earlyplays. ; Book Club Edition; B&W Photographs and drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 861 pages .

Garden City, New York: Hanover House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. Hardcover, 676 pages in near fine condition, faint rubbing to covers. No jacket. Edited with an introduction by Charles Neider. No edition stated. A total of 66 stories, 13 of them gathered from works on non-fiction. They cover the entire span of Tain's writing life from 1865-1916, 6 years after hs death.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

New York: Grove Weidenfeld. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0802114121 . Hardcover, 202 pages in fine condition with near fine dustjacket, faint rubbing to jacket edges. 1st edition, 1st printing. Foreword by Erica Jong. intr by Mary V. Dearborn. Rediscovered in 1988 by Miller biographer Mary V. Dearborn, Carazy Cock is the tale of Tony Bring, as MIller calls himself in the book, a writer bewildered by his independant wife, Hildred, and the sordid world of Greenwich Village in the 1920s. It is both a historical and a literary addition to the canon of Henry Miller.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

New York: Harpercollins. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 00601833659 . Light wear to jacket edges, gift inscription written in book. ; 1st edition, 1st printing. Revealing England's great Victorian novelists themselves, to reveal the surprisingly human private side of their public genius. ; B&W Illustrations and photos; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 282 pages .

Pleasantville, New York: Reader's Digest. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0895773422 . Hardcover, 495 pages in very good + condition, faint rubbing to covers, inside fine. Illustrated by award-winning illustrator Norman Green. Part of the Reader's Digest "The World's Best Reading" collection. Still contains publisher's slip-in description of the novel.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Franklin Center Pennsylvania: Franklin Library. Fine with no dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. Beautiful hardcover, leather, raised bands on spine, gold design all over cover, gold page edges all around. 625 pages in fine condition, gold lettering of tittle on spine lightly rubbed.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Edison New Jersey: Castle Books. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0785814531 . Large hardcover, 842 pages in fine condition with very good dustjacket, light rubbing to jacket. Reprint. Contains all of Poe's most imaginative short stories, his complete early and miscellaneous poetic masterpoeces, as well as select reviews and narratives. No international shipping on this item because of it's size.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .