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ANCIENT OLD BOOKS

A few of them are kind of grotty, but if this is the book you want, here it is...

 

Keren Hayseed

The greatest romance in history

Keren Hayseod [New York] 1922
Condition: Very good soft cover little book. No Jacket.
WorldCat: Number of libraries worldwide owning this item: 3

500
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Honore de Balzac

Short Stories

Happy Hour Library, Inc. (no date)
Paper boards, edgewear, intact.
15
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Charles J. Bellamy

The Wonder Children

MacMillan 1906 1st Edition
Hardback book with broken spine and
some loose pages, but all present. First editions
of this book are all but non-existent.

Box 101-C

10
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Thomas Carylye Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels

John D. Williams, New York, 1882 First Edition
Used hardcover no jacket. Good condition (considering)
but front board loose.
35
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Henry Fielding

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews
& His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams

J. M. Dent, 1929
Condition: Good except for detached flap of spine.
No Jacket. Red Cloth Over Boards.

6
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Henry George

Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want and Increase of Wealth. The Remedy.

Henry George & Co., New York, 1879 4th Edition
No Jacket. 4th Edition. Published by Henry George himself, no dates later than 1880 in the text or front matter, though an ad at the end dates to 1884. Preface dated November 1880. Brown cloth with blind rules; gilt titles to spine quite legible though moderately age-dulled. Board corners toed in but not worn through.
Original floral endpapers.

550
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Thomas W.Handford Two Thousand and Ten Choice Quotations
in Poetry and Prose, Ect.

Belford, Clarke & Co, 1890
Condition: Good
Decorative Cloth. Fifth Edition.Owner's Name. pretty blue/gilt/black boards.
10
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Rudyard Kipling The Light That Failed

Hurst & Co. ca 1900
Good condition hardcover. No Jacket. Corners and spine ends bumped with some wear. Pages have darkened.
75
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Thomas Mann The Beloved Returns

Knopf First Edition
Condition: Fair/Poor. No dust jacket.
Front cover is loose. Stamped on front facing endpage.
10
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John Milton

L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus and Lycidas

Longmans, Green and Co. May 1926
Condition: Very Good. Later printing. 5 x 7 in. Olive green cloth boards. Mild shelf wear, covers very clean. Binding tight and text unmarked with foxed endpapers. Text in English.

15
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Anthony M.Ludovici (Transl.)
Oscar Levy (Ed.)

The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values, Vol. I - Books I and II (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume Fourteen)


T. N. Foulis, Edinburgh, 1910
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Good+ No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Hardcover in green cloth, and marked limited no.513/2000. The book has a minor lean with a few slight cracks to the binding, splitting starting to the front edge of the spine, moderate bumps to the spine ends and cover corners with chipping and some creasing to the cloth, light sunning to the spine and cover edges, rubbing to the covers, and areas of soiling to the spine and covers. Otherwise, this is a solid Good+ copy.

200  
Mary A. Nourse

A Short History of the Chinese:
The Four Hundred Million

New Home Library 1943 3rd Edition
Red boards, pretty square. Cover at spine is loose.

5
c
James Payne, W.E. Norris,
A Mary F. Robinson, Laurence Oliphant Laurence & Anthony Trollope
Stories By English Authors: Italy (single volume)

Charles Scribner's Sons 1899
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Frontis Portrait of James Payn (illustrator). brown c w/gilt lettering;
tissue guard for frontis. Book has a slanted countenance,
edge corners are rubbed and there is a gaping wound at the top of the spine with the gilt words "Stories by English" missing and only 'writers' remains.
8.5
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Jeanne G. Pennington Some Marked Passages and Other Stories

Fords, Howard & Hulbert, NY, 1898 1st Edition
First edition. 1st prtg. Blue cloth.
Hardcover book in very good condition. Solid and square, with a few rubbed edges. Scarce.
12.5
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Francis J. Reynolds

International Short Stories, Volume I: American

P. F. Collier & Son, New York, 1910
Condition: Poor No Jacket. Blue cloth binding. Clean pages with no markings in the text. There is a name printed on the front end paper. The front hinge is cracked. The cover has some light scuffing and the spine has some darkening and a very small edge tear. Volume I only.

9
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Jean Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract and Discourses

J.M. Dent, London, 1947
Everyman's Library no.660. Binding tight;
gilt lettering on spine very dull & worn. Ex. Library.
Good hardback.

5
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William Shakespeare

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
with Themes of the Plays

Walter J. Black, New York, 1937
Hardcover. Good condition. Rubbed along partially detached spine and corners. Pages are slightly yellowed.

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Virgil

The Eclogues translated by Wrangham, The Georgics by Sotheby and the Aenid by Dryden

The Aeneid

Harper & Brothers 1844
Used good condition hardcover. It appears the spine cover is detached and this book suffers some darkening to the pages but is overall solid and usable.
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