Literature

New York NY: MacMillan. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Previous owner's name. Edgewear. ; 401 pages .

Eyre Methuen Ltd., London,, 1979. HBDJ, STATED First published in Great Britain 1979, 1ST EDITION, very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. 8.25 x5.25 IN, 1 Small 8vo., blue cloth, 166 pages. The book is in good condition with light wear, some light spots on the inside of the dust jacket, some fading on the first and last pages next to the cover and the pages are clean.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illus. by Jo Lynch.

1917 1st ed Anne of Green Gables Canadian Novel Montgomery House of Dreams

"You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead."
― L.M. Montgomery

'Anne's House of Dreams' is an early 20th-century novel by Lucy Montgomery, following the life of Anne Shirley, from the famed 'Anne of Green Gables.' This rare first edition features the beautiful, illustrated front cover.
Item number: #3829
Price: $499
MONTGOMERY, Lucy M
Anne's house of dreams.
New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co., ©1917. First edition.

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Language: English
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Binding: pictorial cloth hardcover; tight and secure
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Size: ~7in X 5in (17.5cm x 12.5cm)

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1885 CREOLE Proverbs Gombo Zheebes New Orleans Louisiana Haiti Guyana Trinidad

"Gombo Zheebes" is a collection of Creole proverbs from six different dialects, including those of French Guyana, Haiti, Martinique, Mauritius, New Orleans, and Trinidad translated into French and English by Lafcadio Hearn.
This 1885 1st edition is bound in brown cloth with a gilt-stamped title and design on the front-cover.
Item number: #13753
Price: $499
HEARN, Lafcadio
"Gombo zheebes." Little Dictionary of Creole proverbs, selected from six Creole dialects. Tr. into French and into English, with notes, complete index to subjects and some brief remarks upon the Creole idioms of Louisiana.

New York, W.H. Coleman, 1885. 1st edition

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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42, [4]
· References: BAL 7914;
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
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Decorative cloth
· Size: ~8.5in X 6.75in (22cm x 17cm)
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1858 Japanese Samurai Ninja Yokai Battle Hokusetsu Utagawa Illustrated Naruto

An interesting Meiji woodblock-print of the classic novel 'Hokusetsu Bidan Jidai Kagami,' which was serialized from the Edo period for 30 years with 48 volumes written in Hiragana drawn by Utagawa Kunisada II and intended for a popular audience. 'Hokusetsu Bidan Jidai Kagami,' became a major influence for all modern ninja stories in modern day being adapted into theater, movie, video games, and manga, most notable the manga Naruto.
This rare edition is written in a column handwritten format. This edition contains excellent illustrations throughout of different scenes from 'Hokusetsu' of samurai, battles, courtesans, ninja, flying yokai, monks, and more!
Item number: #16693
Price: $499
TANEKAZU, Ryukatei
(Uplifting Tale of Northern Snows, Mirror of the Ages) (Hokusetsu bidan Jidai Kagami) 児雷也豪傑譚(じらいやごけつものがたり)
[Edo: Ansei 5 1858]

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1844 1st Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit English Literature Satire Illustrated

"If I was a painter, and was to paint the American Eagle, how should I do it?"
– Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
This rare first edition, first issue, was believed by Dickens to be his best work, though it was the least popular of his works. Dickens originally released the story in 20 monthly parts; however, upon realizing its failing popularity, he changed the plot to send the title character, Chuzzlewit, to America. Dickens sought to elaborate on his own views of selfishness in America, and, in doing so, created popularity within a lesser-known character.

Item number: #17202
Price: $750
DICKENS, Charles

The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. With illus. by Phiz.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. First edition.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o xiv, [2], 624
o 40 steel engraved plates
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Porpoise Books, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Like New/Like New. Like New - Limited First Edition. No 30 of 200, dust wrapper in protective cellophane wrapper.

1881 Jules Verne 1st ed 800 Leagues Amazon Jangada South America French Hetzel

Unlike many of Jules Verne's other novels, 'Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon' does not have any science fiction elements. The story takes place around Joam Garral and his family, who are forced to travel down-stream on the Amazon river using a giant timber raft before rushing to decode an encrypted letter to save Joam.

First Published in French in 1881 by Hetzel, this book was the 21st in the famed 'Voyages Extraordinares' series. While undated, this 1881 edition features the two elephants at the top corners of the front cover, indicative of earliest Verne editions.

Note on dating: like many other Verne first editions, the title page included was issued in each edition, including later printings. The dating comes from the ads in the back of the book – note the ads in this volume advertise for the releases in the 1881-1882 print year.

Item number: #23147
Price: $750

VERNE, Jules

La Jangada huit cents lieues sur… Read More

1877 Jules Verne 1ed Voyage Round the World Australia Illustrated Routledge RARE

In 1876, Scribner's published the first authorized edition of Jules Verne's famous 'A Voyage Round the World', published in three sections South America, Australia, and New Zealand. This work, as with many Verne novels, was published under multiple names including 'Captain Grant's Children,' or 'In Search of the Castaways.' Routledge and Sons published it as three volumes, one of which, is this 1877 first edition of 'South America'. This 1877 edition includes illustrations by Riou.

Item number: #30688
Price: $599

VERNE, Jules

A Voyage Round the World: South America.

London; New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1877. First edition.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o vii, [1], 312
o Numerous engravings thoughout
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
o Decorative blue cloth
· Size: ~6.75in X 4.75in (17.5cm x 12cm)

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Maroon paper spine, light green paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize.

1729 OTTOMAN Harems 1ed Le Geomyler Montfaucon Villars Africa ARAB Monks Magic

Henri Montfaucon de Villars was a 17th-century French novel writer known for his stories on bizarre, strange, occult, and secret sciences. Most of his books contain themes of magic and astrology, devils and pagans, and monks and religious figures. One such work was his 'Le Geomyler' – a story of a Turkish monk who enters an Ottoman harem in Africa where he wins the hearts of several princesses.

Two parts in one volume, a rare 1729 first edition.

Item number: #24114
Price: $499

VILLARS, Henri de Montfaucon de

Le Géomyler

A Paris: chez la veuve d'Antoine-Urbain Coutelier & Jacques Guerin, 1729. First edition.

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· Collation: Complete; 2 parts in 1
o Part I – [2], vi, 190, [2]
o Part II – [4], 207 (i.e., 203), [5]
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~6.75in X 4in (17cm x 10cm)
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Little, Brown and Company. Very Good/Very Good. 1945. First U.S. Edition. Book Club edition, which predates first U.S. trade edition. Hardcover with dustjacket and book-of-the-month-club leaflet. Jacket has about a 1/2 inch chip at the top corner of the front, a 1/8 inch chip at the bottom, and two other less than 1/4 inch chips at the top of the spine. Jacket edges are worn, but aside from two 1/8 inch tears at the bottom of the front, appears to be free of any other rips or tears. Cover has black print on red cloth, with some light staining near the tops of the front and back covers. Bookplate inside the front cover. Binding is resonably tight and pages show no marks or tears. Book-of-the-Month-Club leaflet is in great shape with just some minor edge wear. Free upgrade to priority shipping. Used

New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First edition / First printing. Full number line ending in 1 on the last page of text: 74 75 76 77 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. First issue dust jacket with incorrect nine digit SBN on back panel 06-452500-7 instead of ten digit ISBN 0-06-451990-2. Brown cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Fine in a price-clipped, about fine first state dust jacket. The jacket is much more attractive than usual for this book. The author's first novel. Life on a reservation in the middle of the 20th Century.

Wanda Gag. Millions Of Cats. Copyright 1928 by Coward-McCann, Inc. See stock photo shown here. No other printings listed. The copyright pages states: PRINTED IN USA by the Jersey City Printing Co. and the Title page states: Published in New York by Coward-McCann Inc. in the year 1928. USED BOOK. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Oblong binding. Unpaginated. 9 ¾ X 6 ¾. Has lost it's paper spine. Decorated in woodcuts by the author. Fairy Tale. A SOUGHT AFTER ITEM. just like the cats in this story, there are not a lot of these left. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. 1952 Scribners, first edition, 140 pages. According to a review in the New York Times: "'The Old Man and the Sea' is a short novel, only 27,000 words. It is much simpler and enormously better than Mr. Hemingway's last book, 'Across the River and Into the Trees.' No phony glamour girls and no bullying braggarts sentimentalized almost to parody distort its honest and elemental theme. No outbursts of spite or false theatricalism impede the smooth rush of its narrative. Within the sharp restrictions imposed by the very nature of his story Mr. Hemingway has written with sure skill. Here is the master technician once more at the top of his form, doing superbly what he can do better than anyone else."
Points: Blue-tinted author photo on back jacket, no mention of prizes on the back flap, "A" and Scribners colophon on copyright page
Condition: Jacket in good-condition, chips at the corners, open tears on head and tail of spine, price clipped, book in good… Read More