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U.S.A: Dover Publications, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Introduction by Edith Wharton.The classic novel of despair, forbidden emotion, and sexual undercurrents set against the austere New England countryside, considered by many to be Edith Wharton's (1862-1937) masterpiece, first published in book format in 1911. Clean, bright cover designed by Paul E. Kennedy, no wear to edges, soundly bound, pages clean and unmarked, toned. 96 pages. 8.25 x 5.2 inches. Dover Publications, New York, 1991.

New York: Signet/New American Library/Penguin Group, 1992. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked white wraps with red design, light wear to front corners, no creasing. Tight and solid binding, square. Internals clean and unmarked, no underlining or highlighting. . Original copyright 1943.This edition includes an Introduction to the 25th anniversary edition by the author and a special Afterword by Rand's literary executor, Leonard Peikoff. Also inc is a short bio on the author and information on the essentials of Objectivism. 704 pages. 7 x 4.2 inches. 1992, Signet/New American Library/Penguin Books, New York, New York, USA

146 Charing Cross Road, London: Charles Scribners Sons, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Volume V of Galsworty's Compact Editon includesThree Novels: The Dark Flower; Beyond; and Saint's Progress. John Galsworthy, 1867-1933, was an English Author noted for his satire on the British upper-middle class, late 19th-early 20th century. Hardcover in Very Good Condition. No Jacket. Binding of green buckram w/gilt titles, backstrap gilt decorated with five low raised bands, front with four blind-stamped borders, gilt titles. Very clean and unmarked with slight wear of front lower corner and rubbing of spine head/heel. Lower text block has a circular 1 cm spot and the corner is smudged. Rough cut. Title page decorated with border of red design; frontispiece with same red border, of Bury House, John Galsworthy's Home in Sussex, England. Pages very clean, no marks, no tears, lightly toned. 739 pages. 7.75 x 5.5 x 1.6 inches. Publisher: New York. Charles Scribners… Leer más

U.S.A: Signet Classic/New American Lib, 1965. Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. Set against a vividly depicted background of fin de siecle New York, this novel centers upon the conflict between a self-made millionaire and a fervent social revolutionary. The realities of the American experience in an age of social struggle is clearly portrayed, as is his determination to present justice to every point of view. Alfred Kazin ranks Howells as "the first great domestic novelist of American life". Williams Dean Howells was born in 1837 in Ohio and died in 1920. Illustrated cover is clean, edgeworn, crease to upper corner, soundly bound with intact pages. Internals clean , toned, with underlined text on a few pages, no other markings. 441 pages. 7 x 4.2 inches. Signet Classic, New York, 1965.

U.S.A: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback A novel from the pen of the author of "The Last Angry Man". Hardcover in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Not a Book Club Edition. Binding of black cloth with green lettering on spine, rubbed but clean, spine heel compressed enough so cloth scrunches up, otherwise light wear to extremities. Sewn binding tight and solid. Internals quite clean, free from any markings, no creasing. 473 pages. 8.5 x 5.6 inches. G P Putnam's Sons, New York, 1979.

Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. First Mariner Books/New Houghton Mifflin Edition 2000. First published 1940. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Cover is clean and unmarked, slight wear to edges. Internals have no marks, no creases. Binding is tight, solid, and square. A heart-rending story of great sensitivity, an unforgettable tale of moral isolation in a small southern mill town in the 1930s. Now a motion picture. 359 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. Mariner/Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts

Boston, Massachusetts: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. A heart-rending story of great sensitivity, an unforgettable tale of moral isolation in a small southern mill town in the 1930s. Cover is very clean and unmarked, trace wear to extremities. Pages clean and unmarked, no creases. Now a motion picture. 359 pages. 5,5 x 8.25 inches. 2004, Mariner/Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts

USA: Bantam Books, 1967. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. McCullers first full length novel is a story of a group of people in the American South and their individual response to the sympathetic appeal of a deaf mute. A heart-rending story of great sensitivity. Cover is very clean and unmarked, quarter inch closed tear to upper edge and faint crease to upper corner. Prev owner name on first page. Pages clean and unmarked, lightly toned. Now a motion picture. 307 pages. 7 x 4.25 pages. Bantam Books, New York, 1967.

U.S.A: Harper & Brothers,, 1948. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE Book in Very Good Condition. Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author. Binding of navy cloth with silver titles; clean, tight, solid, unmarked. Lght wear to extremities. Tight & solid. Pages clean, unmarked, no creases, toned. Novel set in Rome in the time of Julius Caesar. Thornton Wilder takes the reader back to the Rome of Julius Caesar, bringing to life one of the most magnificent personalities of all time. The reader will meet Caesar the man, his family, his legions, his Rome and his Empire.246 pages. 8.25 x 5.75 inches. 1948, Harper & Brothers, New York, New York, USA

U.S.A: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1945. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE Book in Very Good Condition with a Fair Dust Vintage Dust Jacket in proterctive archival cover. Burgundy cloth w gilt design and titles on spine, clean and unmarked. Tight and solid and square. Rear lower corner bumped, corners and spine edges rubbed. Rough cut. Pages clean and unmarked. Jacket shows age and wear, scuffed along edges and fold-over flap and around spine. A small (1/4") closed tear to the upper edge. Clean and intact. Other classic contributions to American Literature by this author include Pulitzer Prize Novel of 1921, "Alice Adams" and "The Magnificent Ambersons", which was Pulitzer Prize novel of 1918. 275 pages. 5.6 x 8. 1945, Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York, New York, USA

USA: Random House, 1950. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover 1950 Book in Good Condition. No jacket. The story of Jubel Watson, whose wife has just died, and his four children. They planned to abandon their father and go back to their private, tortured lives until they found out he had some money. Jubel decides to spend three months with each of his children and they each find he is decisive factor in their lives, affecting each in a different way.The infinite understanding of gentle, unobtrusive Jubel who wants only to know his children who have all grown away from him gives this book great compassionate power Binding of grey cloth with green panel on spine, silver titles within; clean and unmarked, lower front corner bumped, light wear to other corners, spine ends lightly scuffed. Tight, square and solid. Rough cut. Foxing on fore edge of text block. Pages clean, no marks, no tears, lightly toned. 280 pages. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Publisher: Random… Leer más

USA: Bantam Classic/Bantam Dell/Random House, 2003. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition. Introduction by Morris Dickstein. Clean and bright, no edgewear, pages clean and unmarked. No specific defects, just a very gently used book. A powerful book describing the truly horrible conditions of the workingmen in the stockyards in Chicago in the early 1900s. When published in 1906, it launched a government investigation. This novel is one of the most important and moving works in the literature of social change. 372 pages with bibliography. 4.25 x 7 inches. Bantam Classic, New York, 2003.

New York, New York, USA: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1943. Hardback First Edition in Good Condition, no jacket. Bound in navy cloth w/gilt titles, still quite clear and visible; clean and unmarked, boards are shelf rubbed; corners and spine head and heel are lightly scuffed, compressed. Sewn binding is tight and solid and square. Rough cut on fore edge and bottom edge. Pages clean, unmarked, no tears, no creases, toned. Booth Tarkington, 1869-1946, was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels "The Magnificant Ambersons" and Alice Adams". He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction more than once, the other two being William Faulkner and John Updike. "Kate Fennigate" is a humorous story of a managing woman. 359 pages. 8 x 5.5 inches. 1943, Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York, New York, USA

New York: Random Hoiuse, 1949. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. William Sharp. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Good Condition, without jacket. Full page, full color illustrations plus pencil drawings throughout, by William Sharp. Pages quite clean and free from any markings, no creases, lightly toned. Binding of brown cloth with illustrations stamped on front, decorated spine with gilt title.Tight, solid, square sewn binding. Corners slightly scuffed, light wear to spine head and heel. 228 pages. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. 1949, Random House, New York.

Random House, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First published in 1947- No date stated for this reprint. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Bound in navy cloth with author's initials imprinted on front, red panels on spine, gold titles within, gold design. Very clean, binding tight and solid; front panel has a scratch on the lower right, not discolored. Spine head lightly frayed. Upper edge tinted red. Fore edge and bottom edge rough cut. Interior very clean and unmarked, no writing, no tears, pages toned. Set in mid-20th century America. 348 pages. 5.75 x 8.25 inches. 1947, Random House, New York and Toronto

USA: Vintage/Random House, 1978. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. Good, clean, solid book with slight corner and edge wear, light spine creases. Pages moderately age-toned, clean, no markings or creases. Llife in Yoknapatawpha County. Six stories of violence: Smoke, Monk, Hand Upon the Waters, Tomorrow, An Error in Chemistry, and Knight's Gambit. 246 pages. 4.25 x 7.25 inches. 1978, Vintage International/Random House, USA

U.S.A: Harper & Row Publishers, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Second Printing. Hardcover Book in Good Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Illustrations by Peter Chapman. Bound in white linen cloth with gilt stripe over spine, gilt lettered, gray paper-wrapped boards. Very clean and unmarked, no edgewear. Internals as new. Inner hinge cracked. Clean, glossy, unmarked jacket, no edgewear, not price-clipped. Set in Australia before the First World War, in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. When John Smith appeared out of the Bush and stole their valley out from under the Hurlingtford Clan, they were outraged. It became most important to Missy Missalonghi who saw no future for herself, for she was a 'manless woman'--bullied, exloited, pitied, patronized. Her breakout is a major part of the story. On one level, this is a classic fairytale; on another, it is a wickedly accurate picture of life in a place where men may dominate, but women rule. 189 pages. 8.5… Leer más

USA: Vintage International/Random House, 1990. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Ex-Library Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Retired Library Book. Good, clean, solid book with light corner and edge wear, minimal library markings. Pages edges and pages clean, no markings or creases.Binding is tight and solid. Most of Faulkner's critics look upon this novel as one of his three or four best novels, if not the best. Published in 1932, it deals with life in Yoknapatawpha County, his Camelot in Northern Mississippi. 512 pages. 5.2 x 8 inches.1990, Vintage International/Random House, USA

Vintage International/Random House, 1990. Paperback. Fair. 8vo - over 7. Type: Ex-Library Trade Paperback in Fair Condition. Ex-library. Clean, worn wrappers, creases, wear to all edges.Tight & solid glued binding. Pages edges and pages clean, no markings or creases. Most of Faulkner's critics look upon this novel as one of his three or four best novels, if not the best. Published in 1932, it deals with life in Yoknapatawpha County, his Camelot in Northern Mississippi. 512 pages. 5.2 x 8 inches.1990, Vintage International/Random House, USA

USA: Vintage International/Random House, 1990. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked cover,slight wear to edges, two light creases to spine; tight & solid glued binding. Pages edges and pages clean, no markings or creases. Most of Faulkner's critics look upon this novel as one of his three or four best novels, if not the best. Published in 1932, it deals with life in Yoknapatawpha County, his Camelot in Northern Mississippi. 512 pages. 5.2 x 8 inches.1990, Vintage International/Random House, USA