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Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Good+ ; Good Jacket. 1979 Farrar Straus Giroux. Book Club Edition. Hardcover has brown cloth-covered boards with silver spine lettering. Blind-stamped cover lettering and decoration. Black and white illustrations. 362 pages. Edited and with an introduction by E. B. White. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends… Read more about this item

Atlantic Books, 2016. Trade Paperback. Fine. Fine. 2016 Atlantic Books, London, UK. Trade paperback. 339 pages. British edition. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Appears to be unread. Spine NOT creased. No visible wear to book. Book is gift quality. Pages clean and unmarked. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Bayly Art Museum, 1991. Softcover. Very Good. Very Good. 1991 Bayly Art Museum. Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Black and white illustrations. 76 pages. High-quality glossy paper. "Organized by Valerie Morris." NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Spine NOT creased, but a little wrinkled. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Back bottom corner has some wrinkling at… Read more about this item

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1911 Charles Scribner's Sons. First Edition. First printing. Published April, 1911, stated. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has tan cloth-covered boards with brown spine and cover lettering and decorations; spine has small thistle illustration and front cover has small oval portrait of Stevenson. 457 pages.… Read more about this item

International Business Machines, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very Good ; No jacket. 1934 International Business Machines (IBM), New York. No edition stated. No additional printings listed. Hardcover has brick red cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering. Black and white frontispiece portrait of the author. Small black and white illustrations. 886 pages. NOT ex-library. Binding tight.… Read more about this item

Princeton University Press, 1967. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. 1967 Princeton University Press. Second printing, copyright 1947. Trade paperback. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Spine NOT creased. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Pages clean and unmarked. 236 pages. Princeton Paperbacks, no. 88.

Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1898. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1898 Houghton Mifflin Company. The Riverside Press Cambridge. Copyright 1890. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has burgundy cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering and blind-stamped ruled borders. Top edges are gilt. Green satin index ribbon. 398 pages. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners rubbed. Spine ends bumped. Rear… Read more about this item

Henry Holt and Company, 1911. Softcover. Good. Good. 1911 Henry Holt and Company. NOT ex-library. Small softcover, 4.75 x 5.75 inches, has blank stiff cardstock covers with paper jacket attached at spine. Jacket has black & white illustrated front cover and fold-in flaps; blank spine. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Contents "The Inner Beauty", "Silence", "The Invisible… Read more about this item

D. C. Heath & Co., 1911. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1911 D. C. Heath & Co. Small cream cloth-bound hardcover has faded and soiled spine. Covers are also somewhat soiled, with a few small red stains on front cover. Corners bumped; spine ends lightly frayed. Front cover has decorative title in brown. Dent at bottom… Read more about this item

Orange Frazer Press, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Near Fine ; Near Fine Jacket. 1999 Orange Frazer Press, Wilmington, Ohio. SIGNED by author on front free endpaper, with a personal inscription. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Square hardcover, 8.6 inches, has black cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Black and white photographs. High-quality glossy paper. Binding tight. Appears to… Read more about this item

George Bell & Sons, 1892. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good+ ; No jackets. 1892 George Bell & Sons. Second Edition, Revised. Translated by Charles Cotton. Edited by W. Carew Hazlitt. Bohns' Standard Library edition. Three volumes, complete. Half-bound in blue-green leather over red, blue, brown and cream marbled paper-covered boards. Spines have five raised bands on spine, with small… Read more about this item

Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, 1986. Softcover. Very Good. Very Good. 1986 Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. Softcover. Oversized. Periodical. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Spine NOT creased. Pages clean and unmarked. Pages 1 - 112. Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, Vol. 40, No. 1 January 1986; Essays on Bible… Read more about this item

J. B. Lippincott Company, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good ; Very Good Jacket. 1964 J. B. Lippincott Company. SIGNED by author on half-title page, with a personal inscription. Second printing. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has red paper-covered boards with black cloth-covered spine and white and yellow spine lettering. Cover has facsimile of author's signature in white. Binding… Read more about this item

Greenwich Editions, Meridian Books, Inc., 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good ; Good Jacket. 1959 Greenwich Editions, Meridian Books, Inc. Selected, edited, and introduced by Justin O'Brien. First Edition thus. "First Published by Meridian Books 1959; First Printing 1959" on verso. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has black cloth-covered boards with white cloth-covered spine and black and gold spine lettering.… Read more about this item

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good ; Very Good Jacket. 1995 Farrar Straus Giroux. SIGNED by author on title page. Not personalized. First Edition, stated. No additional printings listed. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has pale yellow paper-covered boards with reverse spine lettering on black panels. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly… Read more about this item

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good+ ; No jacket. 1892 Houghton, Mifflin and Company. The Riverside Press Cambridge. Copyright 1892. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has burgundy cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering and blind-stamped ruled borders. Black and white frontispiece with tissue guard. Top edges are gilt. Green satin index ribbon. 322 pages. Binding tight. Hinges… Read more about this item

Mercer University Press, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine ; Very Good Jacket. 2005 Mercer University Press. First Edition. First printing. No additional printings listed. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has blue cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Binding tight. Appears to be unread. No visible wear to book. Book is gift quality. Pages clean and unmarked. 114 pages.… Read more about this item

Orbis Books, 1988. Softcover. Very Good. Very Good. 1988 Orbis Books. Softcover. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. 352 pages. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Spine NOT creased. Pages clean and unmarked. one page has diagonal crease at bottom corner. Edited and with an introduction by Michael True.

Colonial Press Company. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good+ ; No jackets. Colonial Press Company. Circa 1895. No date stated. Four volumes. Beacon Edition of the Complete Works of Thomas Carlyle. NOT ex-library. Hardcovers have maroon cloth-covered boards with paper spine labels. Deckle fore edges. Tissued frontispiece. Tissued black and white plates. Hinges NOT cracked. Volume 1 binding cracked… Read more about this item

Richard and Jacob Tonson, 1757. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jackets. 1757 Printed for Jacob and Richard Tonson in the Strand, London. Eight volumes, complete. NOT ex-library. Hardcovers are full bound in brown leather with five raised bands on the spines. Each volume has title "SPECTATOR" in gilt on dark brown leather spine label with gilt ruled… Read more about this item