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Small red/orange cloth boards with blue horizontal line and title in blue on faded spine - dj is mylar covered facsimili. Boards are toned and scuffed. Black and white illustrations, interior pgs are clean, bright and tight.

Pocket sized leather bound. 3 volumes with marbled endpapers and gilt text block edges. Title/author on spine in gilt letters with raised bands. Moderate rubbing to covers, binding is tight. Plain Talks is a series of lecture/essays, Kathrina is a poem and Lessons In Life, a Series of Essays.

Pocket sized green cloth from Heath's Classics series. Herbert Arthur Evans edited this first edition of the Arden Shakespeare series from 1904. Arden was the maiden name of Shakespeare's mother and also the forest Arden is where Shakespeare set "As You Like It"

3 vols., in rose colored cloth, gilt title enclosed in rectangular box front and spine. Sold as a set, each with b/w plate frontis, index and clean pages. The pastedown of The Man in the Making is illustrated with "Three Maps illustrating the life of Samuel Pepys". The other volumnes have glue stains (soiling) to the pastedown hinge.

Iconic jacket of warrior's headress of chains, has circular sticker announcing Winner of the Whitbread Award. English translation from Old English, opposite pgs. An amazing adventure story with a troll, the troll's mother, a dragon and a hero to defeat all three.

Hardcover with dj, a collection of excerpts from U.S. novels and stories, poems and journalism. The dj has minor edgewear and toning to photo on the back. Stories are sorted by regions, the South, Midwest, etc.

Bound with a blue rope tassel,15 hand folded white pages (8x5") revealing the Luncheon Menu in Honor of His Excellency Lt. General Joseph Desire Mobutu and Mme. Mobutu. Hosted by David Rockefeller, Chairman of the Board, Chase Manhattan Bank, August 6th,1970 Invitee name hand written on the cover of cream colored bond paper with the bank logo above. Logo has a dime… Read more about this item

Small hardcover with paper title on spine and illustrated boards front and back. Previous owner signature on fep dated 1930. Clean pages (unpaginated) with tight binding, label scar to upper right corner of front cover. Spine head and tail are crushed spine paper label is scuffed. The hard bargain a striving young artist often makes with life.

3 hardcover vols from the Five Little Peppers series; FLP Grown Up, FLP How They Grew, FLP Midway. Midway is a 1961 edition from Whitman Publishing with text block edges dyed black and pictorial cover. 2 crayon scribbles to rear pastedown. Illus and age toned 282 pgs. Head & tail of spineS are scuffed and rubbed. How They Grew and final… Read more about this item

4 vintage vols with color frontis each, b/w photos and illustrations, beige cloth covers with floral decoration and centered box with title. Spines sunned, small stain spots on some pgs., Volume 2, On The Farm, the text block is separated from boards and first quire separated from block. Vol., 3 Uncle Robert Visits has rear hinge exposed. Concise illustrations of… Read more about this item

Spine has some creasing but pages are bright and tight with no underlining. The injustices of "wage-slavery" to immigrants. This classic set in motion the federal food inspection depts.

Finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors,

Illustrated dust jacket has a sticker scar outline and minor wear to exterior corners. Interior bright and tight, possibly never opened! Color frontis with 12 color plates by Edmund Dulac among the 144 clean pages. Stories by Hans Christian Andersen .

Trade paperback with a shop sticker on back cover from the popular San Francisco based Paul Elder's bookshop. Front cover has minor creases, previous owner signature with 1961 date. The author's name, Shaw, is a pseudonym for Col. Lawrence (of Arabia) .

Lime green cloth folio (31 x 25mm) with a paste-down floral watercolor image on the cover. The slightest sign of a dampstain exists under that image, floral endpapers inside. Text in ITALIAN with many full page watercolors. The chapters headings are months of the year. This is a collection of articles written by Vita between 1947 and 1961 for the… Read more about this item

Marbled boards with gift inscription on free endpaper, dated 1892. Hardcover measures 17 x12mm, octavo with intro by William Sharp. Minor edge wear to boards. Pages have minor age toning. 2 other stories included in the 275 pages, ROSICRUCIANS AND THE FREEMASONS as well as KANT ON NATIONAL CHARACTER IN RELATION TO....

Spiral bound folio (11"x12.5") with pictorial cover and vibrant illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. Minor scuff marks on front, coin sized damp stains in the title word "OF" as well as small corner crease to fore-edge corners. Covers are age toned and from the bottom up 3" are detached from spiral coils but interior is bright and tight. Unpaginated and the… Read more about this item

Illustrated with pen/ink images Sloane is known for. (2) books,a yellow and an orange (18x12cm) with gilt title on covers and spines. Paper title on dark red slipcase with signature of author. Slipcase has very minor wear to bottom fore edge.

Publisher's binding of Art Nouveau design. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, stories accompanied by b/w plate reproductions. Gift inscription dated 1894! See photos. Harper Brothers logo on back cover in silver with green shields. Gilt title on cover and on spine.

Vintage hardcover that refers to the principal actors who have performed Shakespeare onstage thru the years. Mezotint photos, b/w illustrations. Portrait frontis of players with age toned tissue guard, no dj