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Hardcover. First Modern Library Edition. 16mo. 4.5 x 6.625 in. xii, 243 pp. ML Binding Style 1, dark peacock blue 'limp croft leather' (leatherette), with gothic Boni & Liveright device in gilt on upper cover, gilt title to spine; with blue marbleized endpapers and catalogue of 35 titles (C3) preceding frontispiece page. Translated by Constance Garnett, with an introduction by Thomas Seltzer, Russian translator and friend of D.H. Lawrence. Illustrated with black & white photographic frontispiece of Turgenev.

Made the " top ten books to have" list for 1940's decade . And the top 100 ever written! A must for any and all collections!
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1945. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4. First American BCE. Waugh's seventh novel
1945 stated on full title page. Copyright dates: 1944, 1945, by Evelyn Waugh. Book printed and bound by Kingsport Press, Inc. Kingsport Tenn.

VG/none
Dark red covers.

Cabell's most famous book. He is known as a prolific writer of fantasy novels.
"Jurgen is a pawnbroker caught between romantic and cynical world views: a would be poet. He wished to be rid of a nagging wife, he finds himself the poorer for it, and sets out to make good his loss. His quest ranges through various scenarios borrowed from history, myth and fiction involving many allegorical figures." BARRON 3-67

VG/none
Red cover with Gilt titles. Design on front and spine showing strawberry and leaf patterns.

A soft cover copy of The Good Earth in Very Good Condition.
Published by Cardinal.

A Very Good copy of the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas written by Gertrude Stein
A Grey Arrow Book, 1960
Awesome collectible cover!
Soft Cover
Born in San Francisco Alice B. Toklas is an indelible figure in modern cultural history.

Mr Woodchuck
Frank Baum, author of Wizard of Oz,wrote this book!
He used the pseudonym "Laura Bancroft"
A full set of all six books lists for $7500.00

In great condition! Light scruff around "Mr";on the cover . Otherwise pages are clear and bright. Some faded ink smudges on end papers. (Like pencil marks in the day!)

The People of the WhirlpoolMabel Osgood Wright1903library editionVG, no dust jacketMacmillianFirst Edition

Collectible Teaching Unit from 1940's.FORBESCOCA COLA Includes 16 LARGE Posters on thick poster paper3 smaller, 9" by 11" posters
Teaching Manuals, student books, and more!excellent , near fine condition for 13 of the 16 posters. Remaining 3 are very good condition. A few are pictured. More photos by requestGorgeous. Units: Steel, Electric, Oil, TransportationI have seen individual posters sell for $350.00 on average.

1874 , Popular EditionConsidered one of the greatest historical works on the Spanish in America.Historical account of Peru in the late 1800'sBeautiful burgundy covers, all over arabesque designs blocked in blind and lettered and decorated in gilt long the spine. Clean and crisp internally. No dj as issuedVery Good/noneAfter favorable reception of his first books Prescott set out to write about the history of the Spanish conquest of the Incas of Peru. The Incas contact with the devastatingly powerful empire of Spain, one of the most epic confrontations in the annals of human history. Prescotts rendering of the story has always been considered one of the great historical works on the Spanish in America and one of the great works in American history.

Very Good /noneFirst American Edition1915 Doubleday, New YorkCollection of military poems and short stories. Decorated with British Admiralty and French Flags.

Life Magazine, Mark Spitz on cover swimming. Magazine in very good used condition with original address label attached.A 14 page preview of Munich, " Surge To The Olympics"August 18, 1972

Garden City, New York 1934VG/ noneThe collected short stories of W. Somerset Maugham30 Stories: Rain, Fall of Edward, Barnard, Mackintosh, Red Honolulu, Pool, Letter, Before The Party, Force of Circumstance, Outstation, Yellow Streak, P&O, June, Round Dozen, Creative Impulse, Miss King, Hairless Mexican, Gillian Lazari, Traitor, His Excellency, Mr Harrington's, Washington, Footprints in the Jungle,Human Element, Virtue, Alien Corn, Book Bag, Vessel of Wrath, Door of Opportunity, Back of Beyond, Neil MAC Adam

True First Edition1944, same date on title pageVG/VGDoubleday Rare, Collectible First Edition with ORIGINAL Dust JacketStated in Book, "True, First Edition after the Printing of a limited printing of 750."
Price of 2.75 on dust jacket. Dedication on Valentine's Day 1944. PO's signature.
This is the story of Larry Darell, an American pilot traumatized by WWI who sets off on a search of some transcendent meaning of his life. Concerned in a large part with the search for the meaning of life with the dichotomy between spirituality and materialism.

First Edition, Macmillan, seventh printing.NF with NF Original DJIllustrated by Willy Pogany
RARE DJ!Pictoral map end pages depicting Greece and the surrounding nations of the Mediterranean Sea.Greek Mythology cycling around Jason and the Argonauts and the quest for the Golden Fleece. The Golden Fleece is the fleece of the golden haired winged ram procured in Colchins. Also included is tales of the creation of Heaven and Earth, the labors of Hercules, Thesus,the Minotaur and more rousing adventures!

Near Fine, Beautiful Collectible Copyno dj as issued. Gold edged pages. Illustrated cloth cover with gold gilt Harp in center front. Rare, Highly Collectible. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first edition of first book published. 1839Published by Hurst and Co. New YorkOne of the 5 members of the group Fireside Poets.His debut book of poetry. The bulk of it is translations though he also included 9 original poems and 7 poems he wrote as a teenager. Voices of the Night, Hymn to the night, A psalm of life, The reaper and the flowers, The light of stars, Footsteps of Angels, Flowers, The Beleagured City, Midnight mass for the dying year.Earlier Poems,: An April Day, Autumn, Woods in Winter, Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem, Sunrise on the Hills, The Spirit of Poetry, Burial of the Minnisink

Grosset & Dunlap, 1920 first printing of first edition. Ex-Library edition, usual library markings. Being the loved book it has always been, it was obviously checked out many times and shows wear for it. Good/none. Red boards, black titles, cover torn and worn at spine ends. Loose binding though inner pages are all in tact and in very good condition.

Doubleday New York 1956, First NF/NF Map Endpapers. Dark green boards with gilt titles on front and spine. No marks, no names, no stickers. Tight and clean, like new. DJ has price of $6.95. Colorful, illustrated dj depicting mountains and an orange sky. The book is a colorful gallery of characters: heroes and rascals, adventurers and plodders, men who invaded and tamed or were tamed by t the geographers call the true Far West - California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. In the cast are Spaniards, Russians, Yankees, southerners; Sutter, whose dream of an idyllic retreat in the foothills of paradise was shattered by the Gold Rush; John C. Fremont, Mark Twain, Brigham Young, Ralston's Ring, and the Big Four; the Silver Kings, H.A. W. Tabor and Baby Doe, the Rose of Sharon and Eilley Orrum, and scores more.

Paisano Press, Inc. 1971 First. Signed and numbered (198). Signed "For Clista, who jumped my claim on Bull Run Creek " Signed by both the writer and Artist.After the rich northern placer diggings of '48 and '49 began to play out, J. Ross Browne, the great early California mining expert and historical reporter, stated, : "The year 1850 was marked by the first of a multitude of 'rushes' or sudden migrations in search of imaginary rich diggings."

Doubleday Page & Co New York 1919. navy blue boards with gold gilt titles to front cover and spine, with some fading to gilt on spine. Corners slightly bumped and worn. 6 B & W illustrations. PO's library sticker inside front cover, and some light underlining with red pencil.