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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: The Bibliophilist Society Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Extremely tight binding. Wonderfully well-preserved! Very very rare and hard-to-find! Half-Leather (spine and corners) with green marbled boards and gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt upper outer page edges as well. Green marbled endpapers. Extremely scarce. No publishers date (looks to be late 19th century). One of sixteen very rare volumes. Exceptionally well-cared for. This volume contains 680 unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by historic black and white illustrations. Beautifully done. "I was occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole....." ---- from the Preface.. Library Edition .… Leer más

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: The Bibliophilist Society Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Extremely tight binding. Wonderfully well-preserved! Very very rare and hard-to-find! Half-Leather (spine and corners) with green marbled boards and gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt upper outer page edges as well. Green marbled endpapers. Extremely scarce. No publishers date (looks to be late 19th century). One of sixteen very rare volumes. Exceptionally well-cared for. This volume contains 639 unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by historic black and white illustrations. Beautifully done. . Library Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: The Bibliophilist Society Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Extremely tight binding. Wonderfully well-preserved! Very very rare and hard-to-find! Half-Leather (spine and corners) with green marbled boards and gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt upper outer page edges as well. Green marbled endpapers. Extremely scarce. No publishers date (looks to be late 19th century). One of sixteen very rare volumes. Exceptionally well-cared for. This volume contains 658 unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by historic black and white illustrations. Beautifully done. . Library Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Co. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed;l some light shelf wear; front hinge is cracked; pages are toning; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! No publishing date, but appears to be late 19th century. Brown cloth with black lettering and illustration on the front board and gilt lettering and black illustration on the spine. 424 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and adventure-filled pages! "As this work professes, in its title-page, to be a descriptive tale, they who will take the trouble to read it may be glad to know how much of its contents is literal fact, and how much is intended to represent a general picture. The author is very sensible that, had he confined himself to the latter, always the most effective, as it is the most valuable, mode of conveying knowledge of this nature, he would have made a far better book........" ---- from the Introduction.. Reprint.… Leer más

Saint Meinrad, Indiana, U.S.A.: Abbey Pr, 1988. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, spine is very gently creased, overall a clean used first edition! Color illustrated wrappers with yellow and white lettering. 287 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "Accurate in historical detail, Daughter of Lazarus is a compelling drama with a panoramic setting that will take you from the ashen darkness of Mt Vesuvius and the bloody horror of the Roman Colosseum to the prayerful whispers and secret meetings of the early Christians. Besides Lorcis, the fictional daughter of Lazarus, you will meet famous historical personages: Domitian, the tyrant emperor; Martial, the witty and self-interested satirist; Pliny the Younger, the honorable statesman and observer of Roman life; Domitilla, the saint. Daughter of Lazarus is an entertaining and searching study of true freedom and the journey toward faith ---- a tale that will sweep you away.". First… Leer más

New York, New York: Hearst's International Library Co., 1914. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some shelf wear; front hinge is cracked; former owners inscription and date are in ink on the ffep; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 483 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and philosophical pages! "The subject of Charmides is Tempreance, which may also be rendered Moderation, Modesty, Discretion, Wisdom, without completely exhausting by all these terms the various associations of the word. It may be described as 'mens sana in corpore sano,' the harmony or due proportion of the higher and lower elements of human nature which 'makes a man his own master,' according to the definition of the Republic.........." ------ from the (Introduction by Charmides).. Reprint. Red Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

Emmaus, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Story Classics , 1951. A tiny stain is on the title page, overall a very crisp and clean used copy, almost new and unread condition, gift quality! Slipcase is gently shelf worn. The Story Classics flyer is included! 206 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Decorative boards quarterbound by green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and brown lettering on the front board. "Founded by Gogol, Russian literary realism reached its high-water mark in the writings of Ivan Sergeievich Turgenev. Among the most powerful of the world's masterpieces of fiction, they abundantly justify the renewal of our subscriber's passports for an extended residence in Czarist Russia. It was of Turgenev that the French perfectionist Flaubert wrote: 'This gigantic Scythian has surpassed us all!' But then, that is only another way of expressing an enthusiasm you will share when you read the forth-coming Story… Leer más

New York, New York: D. Appleton & Co. , 1853. Edge and corner wear; no dj; corners are bumped and rubbed; front board is detached from the spine; foxing; lightly scuffed and scratched; some shelf wear; former owner's library label is affixed to the inner front cover; part of the title portion of the head of the spine has frayed away; overall still a very very rare and collectible used FIRST AMERICAN EDITION! Decorative green boards with gilt lettering on the spine and gilt lettering and illustration on the front board! 49 unmarked and uncreased magical and historical pages of text and 14 wonderful pages of historic black and white illustrations! "There is no need to say why I became Assistant Master and Professor of the English and French language, flower-painting, and the German flute, in Doctor Birch's Academy, at Rodwell Regis. Good folks may depend on this that there was good reason for my leaving lodgings near London, and a genteel society, for an under-master's desk in that… Leer más

New York, New York: American Book Company, 1915. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Brown cloth with dark brown lettering on the spine and front board. 200 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and magical pages! "From Wednesday to Friday, the 4th to the 6th of October, 1843, Dickens was at Manchester, where 'he spoke mainly on a matter always nearest his heart, the education of the very poor.' He described to his audience the terrible sights he had lately taken his friend, the poet Longfellow, to see in some of the worst parts of London: 'thousands of immortal creatures condemned without alternative to tread, not what our great poet calls the primrose path to the everlasting bonfire, but one of jagged flints and stones laid down by brutal ignorance.'.........." -------- from Charles Dickens.. Brown Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo -… Leer más

New York, New York: American Book Company, 1910. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; former owner's name is in pencil on the inner front cover; some writing in pencil throughout the book; overall a nice used copy! Tan cloth with brown lettering on the front board and spine. 55 historical and poetic pages! "Matthew Arnold was born at Laleham, England, Dec. 24, 1822. He was the son of Dr. Thomas Arnold, who, as head master of the Rugby School, was accounted one of the greatest educational reformers of England. Matthew Arnold entered Rugby in 1837, and a few years later went to Balliol College, Oxford, where in 1840 he won a scholarship for proficiency in Latin. In 1843 he won the New-digate prize for English verse, the subject of his poem being 'Cromwell.'..........." ------ from the introduction.. First Edition. Tan Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.… Leer más

New York: John Wurtele Lovell , 1881. Edge and corner worn, scuffed and scratched, corners are bumped and rubbed, shelf worn, tear in the top of the spine with a small portion worn away and a small portion worn from the base as well, ffep is missing and former owner's inscription on the sfep, front hinge is beginning to crack, overall a clean used first edition! Wonderfully well-preserved! Decorative brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 479 unmarked and uncreased historical pages. "'I was of a low and inconsiderable generation, my father's house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all families in the land.' 'I never went to school, to Aristotle or Plato, but was brought up in my father's house in a very mean condition, among a company of poor countrymen.' 'Nevertheless, I bless God that by this door He brought me into the world to partake of the grace and life that is by Christ in His Gospel.' This is the account given of himself… Leer más

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930. Edge and corner wear, scuffed and scratched, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, lightly shelf worn, front hinge is cracked, some fraying in the top of the spine, overall a clean used copy! Green cloth with gilt lettering and design on the front cover and spine. Gilt upper page edges as well. Wonderfully well-preserved! Text is in Greek and English. 599 unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "Semele the daughter of Cadmus, a mortal bride of Zeus, was persuaded by Hera to pray the God to promise her with an oath to grant her whatsoever she would. And, when he had consented, she asked that he would appear to her in all the splendour of his godhead, even as he visited Hera. Then Zeus, not of his will, but constrained by his oath, appeared to her amidst intolerable light and flashings of heaven's lightning, whereby her mortal body was consumed......" Volume III. Green Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, lightly shelf worn, front hinge is cracked, overall a very clean used copy! Decorative endpapers. Red cloth with gilt lettering and design on the spine. 424 very clean, unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "The writer of this story dealing with the fate of Constantinople did not turn to it as an ordinary story-teller might, attracted by its world-moving events. He was a profound student of the Eastern world that centred there, and a tireless interpreter of its ideas and spiritual aspirations to the Western world. He threw himself with fervour into this task as part of that still larger one he had in view, which was only cut short by his death, before he had reached his fiftieth year...." ---- from the Introduction. Red Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1920. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, lightly shelf worn, former owner's name in ink on the ffep, overall a very clean used copy! Decorative endpapers. Green cloth with gilt lettering and design on the spine. 316 very clean, unmarked and uncreased historical pages! ". Fourth Printing. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1919. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, front hinge is cracked, lightly shelf worn, overall a very clean used copy! Decorative endpapers. Green cloth with gilt lettering and design on the spine. 554 unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "Nothing now remains to say about John Milton: his place among the immortals is secure. None of the great gifts were denied him, except humour; and the place of humour, in preventing over-emphasis and lack of proportion, was taken in him by something of the Grek instinct for form. It has been noticed that the chief artistic defect of the Teutonic races is a certain caprice and wilfulness; they are a law-abiding race, but they like to make their own laws................" ---- from the Introduction. Sixth Printing. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, lightly shelf worn, overall a very clean used copy! Decorative endpapers. Green cloth with gilt lettering and design on the spine. 231 very clean, unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "Time is the final arbiter of values. He is a leisurely judge, in no hurry to pronounce his verdict; but so far he has dealt kindly with Emerson. For while many a contemporary poet, sprung to instant popularity and acclaimed as a genius of the first order, now lies unread on the library shelves, Emerson, who was but grudgingly admitted to the ranks of the poets, is constantly growing in favour." ---- from the Introduction.. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: F. E. Compton & Company , 1949. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, lightly stained along the spine, gently shelf worn, library stamp on the front cover and the title page (only such markings throughout the text), a couple of the pages have lines in ink on them, overall a clean, collectible used first F. E. Compton edition! Extremely rare and hard to find! Unpaginated, wonderfully illustrated in black and white! Very very scarce! "It has long been a Compton custom to make available in reprint form a few articles which hold special values for librarians and teachers and for students of library science and children's literature. In this booklet we have reprinted and bound together two especially choice articles: 'American Folklore and Its Old-World Backgrounds,' by Carl Carmer; and 'Following the Folk Tales Around the World,' by Mary Gould Davis...." ---- from the Foreword. First Thus. Stapled Soft Cover. Good. Illus. by James… Leer más

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1938. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some shelf wear, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, overall a clean used 4 volume set (The Haensel and Gretel volume is in good- condition with some underlining and margin writing in pencil throughout, half of the last page has been torn out, corners are bumped and rubbed, binding is a little loose as well)! Color pictorial boards quarterbound by cloth. Lohengrin, Carmen, and Aida contain approximately 40 very clean unmarked and uncreased musical and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white and full-color illustrations! Slipcase is edge and corner worn, heavily shelf worn and has been taped together in several places, but still intact. "The Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc. is the name which several thousand people have taken to show their belief that opera is one of the greatest pleasures that can come to them." ---- from the Foreword.. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No… Leer más

New York: Globe Book Company , 1961. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed and scratched, corners are very lightly bumped and rubbed, gently shelf worn, page 113 is torn along the edge, pages 101-113 are slightly creased and wrinkled, former owner's stamp on the ffep, overall a clean used first edition! Very very rare and hard-to-find! 471 historical pages! Green cloth with white and black lettering on the front cover and spine. Extremely scarce and out-of-print! "Excerpts from novels --- like details from great paintings ---- are often interesting. Nevertheless, to understand an artist's vision it is essential to know the full product of his genius. Four Complete World Novels offers, in chronological order, the uncut texts of masterly, autonomous, and typical novels by Russian, German, Latin-American, and Italian literary artists.....". First Edition / First Printing. Green Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Hardcover.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. Edge and corner wear; no dj; scuffed and scratched; former owner's inscription and a date are in ink on the ffep; shelf wear; corners are bumped and rubbed; spine has been reinforced with brown tape; front and rear hinges are cracked and taped; some fraying along the edges of the front and rear boards; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall still a collectible first edition (SIXTEENTH PRINTING)! Gray cloth with blue lettering and design on the front board and brown tape with white lettering on the spine. Deckle page edges. 1037 historical pages! "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her forid Irish father...." ------- from Chapter 1. (FIRST EDITION / SIXTEENTH PRINTING).. First Edition / Sixteenth Printing . Gray Cloth.… Leer más