Classics Of World Literature from The Brooklyn Bookman

CONGREVE, William: The Comedies of William Congreve. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover, no dust jacket, 392 pp. Subject: Literature / Drama /17th Century British Restoration Comedy / 17th Century British Playwrights-William Congreve, 1670-1729. Condition: Very Good. Former owner's name inscribed on the title page. Normal age toning… Saber más sobre este artículo

PASTERNAK, Boris: Doctor Zhivago: A Novel. New York, Pantheon, 1958. (Originally published in Italy in 1957.) First American Edition. Subject: Novel/Fiction & Literature/Historical Fiction-Russian Revolution, 1917-1921. Hardcover with dust jacket, 559 pp. English translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari. ("The Poems of Yurii Zhivago" by Bernard Guilbert Guerney.) Book &… Saber más sobre este artículo

BELLAMY, Edward: Looking Backward. New York, Dover Publications,Inc., 1996. Originally published in 1888. Softcover, 165 pp. Subject: Novel / SF Fiction & Literature / Speculative Fiction / Utopias-Fiction. Condition: Very Good Minus. Some age toning to the pages but all unmarked and the text readable. Corner crease to one of the extremities.… Saber más sobre este artículo

LESSING, Doris: The Summer Before the Dark. New York, Vintage Books, 1983. Stated First Vintage Books Edition, March 1983. Paperback, 247 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction & Literature. Condition: Good. Evident wear to the covers and pages. Pen-marked, but readable text found on pages 163 and 194. All remaining pages clean… Saber más sobre este artículo

SHAKESPEARE, William: Measure for Measure. New York, Signet/New American Library, 1988. New Revised Edition (reprint). Paperback, 253 pp. Subject: Drama/Literature Classics. Condition: Good. Evidence of wear and creasing to covers and spine. A few pages bear markings and underlining of text. Othewise a decent copy overall. One of the great universal classics of world literature and drama. Edited by S.… Saber más sobre este artículo

CRANE, Stephen: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Short Fiction. New York, Bantam, 1986. Bantam Classic Edition: 1986. Paperback, 192 pp. Subject: Fiction / Short Story Collections / Literature Classics. Condition: Good Plus. Light edge-wear to the book's extremities. Reading crease/wear to the spine margins. Pages clean. A copy in near first-rate condition overall. A collection of the… Saber más sobre este artículo

MALORY, Sir Thomas: Le Morte D'Arthur: Volume 2. Harmondsworth, UK, Penguin, 1978. Reprint. Penguin Books edition originally published in 1969. Paperback, 532 pp. Subject: Literature / Medieval Epics – King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table / Arthurian Legends / Literature Classics. Condition: Good. Evident wear and creasing to the covers. Spine tips show a bit of tearing… Saber más sobre este artículo

CRANE, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage. New York, Bantam, 1983. Originally published in 1895. Paperback, 138 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction & Literature / Historical Fiction-American Civil War 1860-65. Condition: Good Plus. Evident wear/creasing to the cover (but none too extensive). Otherwise a copy in fairly-decent condition with all pages unmarked. The classic literary statement on on the nature… Saber más sobre este artículo

ARISTOPHANES, Four Plays by Aristophanes. New York, Meridian, 1994. Stated First Meridian Printing: 1994 (later printing). Softcover, 619 pp. Translations by William Arrowsmith, Richmond Lattimore and Douglass Parker. Subject: Literature / Drama-Ancient Greece / Comic Playwrights, Aristophanes, c. 446 – 386 B.C. / Drama Anthologies. Condition: Good Plus. A bit of marking and writing in the text but quite readable.… Saber más sobre este artículo

SHAKESPEARE, William: Much Ado About Nothing. New York, Spark Publishing, 2004. Later Printing. Paperback, 239 pp. Subject: Drama / Literature / Comedies / Drama Classics / No Fear Shakespeare Series. Condition: Good. Light wear to covers and corners. Some marking/highlighting to the pages, but very much readable. Reading crease to the book-spine. All-in-all a decent copy. One of the great… Saber más sobre este artículo

HARDY, Thomas: Tess of the d'Urbervilles. New York, Bantam, 2004. Bantam Classic Reissue: 2004. (Originally published in 1891.) Paperback, 438 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction & Literature. Condition: Very Good. Former owner's name inscribed in the inside of the front cover. Light edge-wear along the extremities. All pages clean and unmarked. One of the timeless classics of Victorian British Literature… Saber más sobre este artículo

BRONTE, Charlotte: Jane Eyre. New York, Nelson Doubleday, Inc, n.d. Hardover,no dust jacket, 466 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction & Literature. Condition: Very Good. One or two smudge spots to cover fore-edges. Some wear to the extremity of the lower spine. An ex-library copy with all pages clean and not marked. One of the great and immortal love stories in… Saber más sobre este artículo

HILTON, James: Lost Horizon. New York, Pocket Books, 1968. Stated 68th Printing, June 1968. (Originally published in 1933.) Paperback, 231 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction & Literature / Utopias. Condition: Very Good Minus. Some age-toning to the pages with a damp stain or two at the corners of the first few… Saber más sobre este artículo

COBURN, Kathleen: Inquiring Spirit: A Coleridge Reader. Minerva Press, 1968. Softcover, 454 pp. (Originally published in 1951.) Subject: Nonfiction / Literature / Collected Essays & Miscellaneous Writings. Condition: Very Good. Some traces of toning and wear to extremities. Small blackened sticker found on the reverse. All interior pages clean and unmarked. … Saber más sobre este artículo

DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. New York, A & W Visual Library, 1975. Trade Paperback, 279 pp. Subject: Literature / Mystery & Crime Fiction / Sherlock Holmes series / Classics. Condition: Good Plus. Evidence of slight wear to the covers and corners – especially to the front cover itself. Creasing along the spine, slightly tilted. There… Saber más sobre este artículo

STENDHAL: The Red and the Black. New York, Washington Square Press, 1966. Originally published: 1963. Second Printing: August 1966. Translated from the French by Charles Turgie. Edited & revised by Phyllis La Farge. Introduction by Lester G. Crocker. Paperback, 491 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction and Literature. Condition: Acceptable / Good. Age toning to pages evident, text unmarked. Spine roll… Saber más sobre este artículo

NEIDER, Charles (Ed.): The Selected Letters of Mark Twain. New York, Harper & Row, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 328 pp. Subject: Non-Fiction / Letters and Correspondence / Autobiography - Mark Twain (1835 – 1910). Book and jacket condition: Good. Evident wear and light chipping to the dust wrapper with its reverse repaired with protective tape, adjacent to… Saber más sobre este artículo

BRONTE, Emily: Wuthering Heights. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1956. Riverside Edition edited by V.S.Pritchett. (Originally published in 1847.) Trade paperback, 287 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction & Literature-British-19th Century. Book condition: Very Good (VG). Used copy with reading creases adjacent to and along the book-spine. Small chip on upper left-hand corner of reverse cover and corner crease on lower left-hand corner.… Saber más sobre este artículo