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Fables from Boccaccio and Chaucer by John Dryden. With a Memoir o the Author
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1845
- Binding
- Hardcover
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- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$65.00
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New York: Calvin Blanchard, 1845. Hardcover. Very Good. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. 227pp. No date c1840s. Brown blind-stamped boards, gilt motif to front and gilt spine decoration, engraved title page and engraved frontispiece with tissue-guard. Very good copy with very little wear both inside and out, faint stain to top edge, binding… Read more about this item Item Price
$65.00
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Presente amistoso dedicado a las Señoritas Mexicanas
by Cumplido, Ignacio
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- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Published
- 1847
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$375.00
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Mexico: I. Cumplido, 1847. Hardcover. Good/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 194pp. Blind stamped boards, gilt stamped floral border, gilt stamping and gilt lettering to spine, all edges gilt, 7 engraved plates with tissue-guards, signed on editor's page "Maria G. Haro." Edge worn, spine chipped with minor loss, endpapers stained, very occasional foxing… Read more about this item Item Price
$375.00
Ma Vie From Kiev to Kiev; An Autobiography Translated by James Holman Mason
by Lifar, Serge
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1970
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$25.00
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New York and Cleveland: The World PUblishing Company, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 332pp. Yellow cloth, gilt lettering to spiine. Spotting to upper portion of boards and top edges, book is otherwise clean and sound, inside and out, with no apparent wear, unclipped dust jacket is… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
Serge Diaghilev; His Life, HIs Work, His Legend
by Lifar, Serge
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1940
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$22.00
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399pp. : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1940. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 399pp. Red buckram boards. Good copy virtually unworn, spine is faded, text is clean, former owner's bookplate on front pastedown.
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$22.00
Markova Remembers
by Alicia Markova
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Published
- 1986
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780316546256
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- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$15.00
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1986. First American Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 182pp. Maroon cloth, gilt spine lettering. Near fine condition in unclipped near fine dust jacket.
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$15.00
The Queen: Her Life
by Morton, Andrew
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 2022
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781538700433
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$25.00
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New York: Grand Central, 2022. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 427pp. Blue boards, white spine backing, black lettering to spne. Book is in clean, unworn condition.
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$25.00
The King: The Life of Charles III
by Andersen, Christopher
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- As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Published
- 2022
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781501181597
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$25.00
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New York: Gallery Books, 2022. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 468pp. Black boards, gilt lettering to spine. Book is in clean, unused condition.
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$25.00
Adolf Hitler
by John Toland
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Published
- 1976
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780385037242
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$100.00
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1035pp. Red boards, black buckram backing, gilt spine lettering.Signed by Author on half-title page. Light wear to spine ends and lettering. Book is sound, binding is tight, contents are clean. Dust jacket is price-clipped,… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
A Little Journey to the Home of John B. Stetson
by Hubbard, Elbert
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1911
- Binding
- Soft cover
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- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$20.00
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Aurora, New York: The Roycrofters, 1911. Soft cover. Very Good. 32pp. Tan decorative wraps. Light, short edge tear, small spot on rear cover, text is clean and unmarked.
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$20.00
Saml. Pepys and the MInxes
by Freeman, R.M.
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1939
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$35.00
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London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Wood. 288pp. Green cloth, gilt lettering lean andnearly unworn. to spine. Short tears to head of spine, otherwise clean and unworn, slight internal separation, no loose pages, former owner's name pencilled on front free endpaper. Tipped-in is an intriguing 3 page AUTOGRAPH letter… Read more about this item Item Price
$35.00
Sketches of the Life of William Stuart, the First and Most Celebrated Counterfeiter of Connecticut
by Stuart, William
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- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1932
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$15.00
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New Milford, Connecticut: Times Print Shop, 1932. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 171pp. Red cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine. Light edgewear, spint slightly darkened, dampstain to lower rear cover, text is clean and sound. A reprint of the first edition published in1854.
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$15.00
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Mark Twain's Autobiography; With an Introduction by Albert Bgelow Paine - 2 Volumes in Slipcase
by Twain, Mark
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Published
- 1924
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$100.00
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New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 368, 365pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, top edges gilt, includes slipcase, frontispiece in both volumes. Both volumes in very good condition, publisher's spine lettering worn. Slipcase is moderately worn and damstained, but square and tight.
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$100.00
Theatre Street
by Karsavina, Tamara
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- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition Sixth Printing
- Published
- 1931
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$30.00
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New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. , Inc., 1931. 1st Edition Sixth Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 64mo - up to 3" tall. 341pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering. Cover nearly unworn, spine darkened, endpapers darkened, inscription and date (1931) on front endpaper, text is clean and sound. Forward by J.M. Barrie. Laid-in is a 1978… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
Matgot Fonteyn Autobiography
by Fonteyn, Margot
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Published
- 1976
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$25.00
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New YOrk: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First American Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 266, ixpp. Black cloth, gilt lettering, SIGNED by author on title page. Book is in unworn, like-new condition. Unclipped dust jacket is in very good condition.
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$25.00
Doctors Mase in America
by Bauer, Edward Louis
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Published
- 1963
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$20.00
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 370pp. Inscribed and SIGNED by AUTHOR on front free endpaper. Blue decorative boards, black backing, gilt spine lettering. Corners lightly rubbed, slight fading to edges, interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is worn and several pieces torn from… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
United States Naval Academy; The First Hundred Years
by Crane, John and Kieley, James F.
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1945
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$20.00
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New York: Whittlesey House, 1945. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 53pp + approx. 110 pp illustrations. Blue cloth, gilt insignia to cover and gilt lettering to spine. Corners lightly rubbed, spine darkened but readable, book is in clean and sound condition. Book includes an extensive section… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
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The Steinway Collection of Paintings by American Artists Together With Prose Portraits of the Great Composers
by Huneker, James
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Published
- 1919
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$50.00
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(New York): Steinway & Sons, 1919. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Brown boards, gilt lettering and gilt scroll design to cove. Tipped-in presentation card on front endpaper states this edition is limited to 5,000 copies of which this is No. 1010. Twelve tipped-in illuustrated color plates with tissue-guards. Wear and chipping to corners… Read more about this item Item Price
$50.00
Funeral Orration on the Death of Hon. Daniel Webster, Delivered at a Commeroation in the Presbyterian Church, Ballston Spa, N.Y., Monday Evening, November 8, 1852.
by McCoy Amasa
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Published
- 1856
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$35.00
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Boston: C.C.P. Moody, 1856. 3rd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 39pp. Grey printed wraps. Light wear and light soil to cover, contents are clean. INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR on title page. Bound in at fron are 5 pages of endorsements from prominent individuals of McCoy's speech.
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$35.00
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Margot Fonteyn
by Beaumont, Cyril W.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1948
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$75.00
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London: C.W. Beaumont, 1948. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 20pp. Blue cloth, paper label to front board. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on copyright page. Very good condition with mild age-toning. Dust jacket is chipped, soiled, missing large piece along bottom rear panel, price-clipped, no loss of… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
Mark Twain's Notebook
by Twain, Mark - Paine, Albert Bigelow (Compiler)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Published
- 1935
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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$20.00
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. Second Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 413pp. Blue cloth gilt lettering. Very slight rubbing to extremities, nearly invisible dampstain to top margin of frontispiece, text is clean and unmarked, binding is sound. Book was prepared for publication with comments by Albert… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
