Literature from Turtleman Used Books

A collection of literature, both fiction and nonfiction, from well over 200 authors, organized by language of origin. Hinge splits showing binding fabric have occurred inside of the endpapers in the front and rear (see photos #3 and 4). Red fabric covered boards are faded over the spine but show little other wear. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked,… Read more about this item

First edition. Little wear to the book or the dust jacket, other than a small impact mark at the base of the spine. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Illustrated with a collection of photographs.

Trade paperback. Cover shows little wear. The spine has one shallow crease yet remains square. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Illustrated. This book will ship at over two pounds. Excess shipping costs are included in the list price.

Very little wear. The spine is square and uncreased and the pages are clean, tight and unmarked. May be unread. A double biography of an author and his best known character. Gift quality, rather scarce.

Pages are clean, tight and somewhat tanned. The first page has a water spot. The spine is stained but uncreased and still square. Some creases and chips on the covers. This is the autobiography of Lawrence of Arabia, from whence the movie came.

A seven-volume set of the works of Balzac. Green fabric covered boards show some wear at the corners and edges. Titles in gilt on brown box glued to the spines, with some chipping. The pages are clean and unmarked. As is often the case in books of this era, splits have occurred where the glued portions… Read more about this item

If you have part of this series, here's a chance to add to it. Or start a new collection. This is Volume eight of ten of Funk & Wagnall's Pocket Library of the World's Essential Knowledge. Red fabric cover shows minimal wear at the corners and edges, and the gilt on the spine still shines. The pages are clean, tight… Read more about this item

A rare copy of Encore magazine from 1945. Mild wear for a magazine almost 80 years old. Just a few illustrations. Note the list of authors on the photo of the front cover. An interesting collection of short stories and essays from an ecclectic group of authors.

One of ten volumes in the Pocket Library of the World's Essential Knowledge by Funk & Wagnall. Nothing worse than an incomplete set, so here is the chance to add to your set or start collecting this series. Red fabric covered boards with gilt print and decoration on the spine. Mild wear. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. The… Read more about this item

A ten-volume set of the works of Rudyard Kipling. Not ALL the works, by any means, but a nice representative sample. This is identified as the de Luxe Edition and is part of a limited, numbered set published about 1910 for sale in America. This is #590 of 1,000 (see photo #10). The books show wear at many corners and… Read more about this item

Stated first edition. Paper covers with purple cloth over the spine. Gilt decoration on the cover and gilt print on the spine. Little wear to the cover other than a bit of edgewear at the lower edge of the spine. The pages appear to be clean, tight and unmarked, and the binding is solid. Looks as if a name has… Read more about this item

Gently worn, does not look over 50 years old. Cover discolored over the spine. This book couples the photography of Eliot Porter with quotations from Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch. A scarce and highly valued book. Originally published in 1962.

No dust jacket. Cover is brown cloth with embossed decoration, front and back, with deteriorating tooled black leather over the spine with the remains of gilt print. Fabric is worn through at all four corners. Free endpapers are missing front and back, plus any other pages that might have preceeded the title page. Remaining pages are present, moderatey tight, unmarked,… Read more about this item

No dust jacket. Published during the last year of the Civil War, this was before the public knew that Currer Bell was actually Charlotte Brontë. The pages are generally clean and tight although one page has torn free of the stitching. The cover is worn and soiled, and the fabric over the spine has come loose along… Read more about this item

Very little wear to the book. Bright red fabric covered boards with gitl print on the spine. Pages are clean, tight and intact. Contains many photographs and illustrations, a few fully intact fold-outs in color. Dust jacket has a bit of wear along the edges, both top and bottom. Published in the former Soviet Union. Stated first printing for this… Read more about this item

A four-volume set of the communications of Virginia Woolf, encompassing the years 1888 to 1931, over a vast 2200 pages. The books are all in very good condition, with clean and tight pages. Inscriptions inside the front cover in volumes two and three. The dust jackets have varied amounts of wear, mainly in the form of small… Read more about this item

A set of four tiny leather-bound books from early in the 20th century. These are each 8 x 10 centimeters. The Kipling and De Maupassant books were bound with endpapers and have held up well over the years. The other two had just the bare leather against the pages, which resulted in the binding failing and the… Read more about this item

No dust jacket. Deep red fabric cover with gilt print on the spine. Very little wear to the cover, with a bit of darkening over the spine. This book does not actually have 1,000 books, just brief synopses. The author/compiler was the Librarian at the University of Pennsylvania. Copyright in 1924, this one is dated… Read more about this item

Stated first edition. A collection of excerpts from various works of Evelyn Waugh, with a brief biography. Book is in rather good condition with little visible wear, other than mentioned below. The dust jacket has collected a number of tears and wrinkles over the years. The one noticeable flaw is on the back cover where it… Read more about this item

Little wear, a slight blemish at the bottom of the spine and a few minor chips. Pages are clean and tight, with a little yellowing near the edges and the owner's name inside the front cover. This slim volume contains a short series of letters written by Rainer Maria Rilke to Franz Xavier Kappus between 1903 and 1908.… Read more about this item