6.5" x 9.5". Withdrawn from the library. Dust Jacket protected by plastic, but has library markings and some wear. Price not clipped. Book had pocket and record of circulation removed from inside the front cover. Residue on endpapers. 261 pages. Very interesting tie-in to several famous persons of the period. London in 1880. Clean text. Our book number 19029. View More...
4.5" x 7" x 2". 717 pages. Scar on spine. Crease on front cover. Wear to the corners and edges. Used paperback in Good condition. "The Classic Tale of the Supernatural" A tragedy - "The Lancashire Witches is Harrison Ainsworth's classic romance of the supernatural, as vast and forbidding, as wild and inspiring, as bleak and as savage as windswept Pendle Hill itself." Well, I wouldn't go THAT far. The story of the people in this book is pretty sad. NO one is happy at the end. Our listing number 19048. View More...
Name of previous owner inside. "Because of his deep interest in, and knowledge of American History, Hervey Allen undertook to write a saga of colonial times--in Pennsylvania, the Ohio country, and New York State. It was to be called The Disinherited. The protagonist was one Salathiel Albine. Mr Allen finished the first three volumes of this great novel: The Forest And The Fort, Bedford Villiage, and Toward The Morning. He had written a section of the fourth volume--The City In The Dawn--when death cut short his labors. Fortunately the completed chapters bring Salathiel Albine at last from the... View More...
Second printing, May 1985. No dust jacket. Clean book. previous owner's name inside front cover. One of the blank pages in the front was folded and cut funny at the printer. 368 pages. Our book number 4011. View More...
8.5" x 5.75", 219 pages. Book very clean, withdrawn from a library, one small stamp on front facing endpaper. Book club edition, Dust Jacket has a scratch on the back. Binding sound, text clean. Post WWII suspense in eastern Europe. Our book number 19050. View More...
6.25" x 9". Illustrator: Bacon, Paul. One inch tear at lower edge of Dust Jacket near hinge in front, otherwise attractive and clean. Book is in very good condition, clean and unmarked. Some foxing on outside of pages when closed. Historical fiction built around the massacre at Gildenford (England) in 1033 leading up to the 1066 event. 392 pages. Our book number 19017. View More...
4" x 6.75". Some wear to the edges. Text clean, pages secure and clean. Previous owner's name stamped on inside. Borders sticker over bar code. 631 pages. Broad ranging fiction, encounters with historical figures, ending up in the future. "Geodyssey." Our book number 19035. View More...
6.5" x 9.5" x 2". This is a three-pound book and may require additional postage to your location. First Edition, "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1." Book is very good, some scuffing along the edges from the shelf. Dust jacket has been repaired with tape along the front edge of the front cover. Picture is clear. Plastic coating ispeeling a little at edge of back cover. 760 pages. Our book number 741. View More...
5.25" x 7.5". Hardcover, No Dust Jacket. Private Collection. My grandfather's name inside the front cover. Book has a red cloth binding with a gold bordered title on the front cover and a gold title on the spine. Gold on the spine has grown darker. Shelf wear is minor to the edges. Book is still very clean and bright looking. 414 Pages, yellowed with the age of the paper, they lived in Kansas in 1922, so it had to get there by train. It survived the Great Depression and the dust bowl, and now it is offered as a sacrifice for the education of the namesake great-grandson of the previous owner. I... View More...
5.25" x 7 3/4". Previous owner's name inside front cover in pencil. Wear to top and bottom of cloth on spine. Corners worn. Gold leaf and image on front cover in excellent condition. Pages worn, some fingerprints, spine secure. Text clean. Adventures of pioneers around Lake Champlain and Ontario. Woven from fireside stories of the men who settled the area (or so the author claims.) Our book number 19144. View More...
Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. New York, 1946, Prentice-Hall, Inc. Second [Large] Printing, December 1946. This copy has the original paper dust jacket with a beautiful watercolor on it by Cirlin. Some yellowing of the paper. A surprisingly well preserved copy. Beautiful book. View More...
First American Edition. "In this exquisite re-creation of the Middle Ages, James Blish follows the life of Roger Bacon through both history and myth.." , 1971, beautiful parchment-like dust jacket with Medieval lettering preserved in clear contact paper. Darkening of the DJ along the spine, two water stains across light blue top of closed pages, bookplate of current owner inside front cover. Clean and tight copy. Very nice book. Sacrifice for the education of the next generation (in college.) View More...
This book does not have a printed publication date, but if you google the translator and publisher, here is what you find: "BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375) The Decameron, or, Ten days’ entertainment of Boccaccio. A revised translation, by W[alter].K[eating]. Kelly. London, Henry G. Bohn, 1855. xii, 545p., frontis. (port.). (Bohn’s Extra Volume) Extra Volume: 5. Cordasco: 213. " This volume has been covered in clear contact paper, the original box that came with the book has also been covered with contact paper and reinforced at the corners with red electrical tape. The front cover of the book ... View More...
Book Club Edition. Novel, action takes place in Zurich, Switzerland, 80-year-old hero, vital and fresh. Book has wear to the top and bottom of the cover near and on the spine from being removed from shelves, gilt-text on spine. Dust Jacket is soiled in back from water, some damage to lower corner of back/spine under the dust cover, some wear, tears, and a small hole on the front. 279 pages. Published 1955, pages and spine secure.Our book number 19132. View More...
Has a water spill across the lower portion of the book. Spine is weak at page 19, but all pages are present and the text is readable. Small pink and black picture of William Holden from the Movie. View More...
Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. 1978. Ex-library. Endpapers are a little cracked at the hinge. Book is in very nice condition. Text very clean, some wear to the corners and edges of the cover. Library markings. Our book number 6013. View More...
Autobiografical Fiction, Victorian life and psychology. Butler's unpublished work at the time of his death, two chapters supplied from Mr. Butler's notes by Mr. Streatfield. Our book number 19134. View More...
4" x 6.75". 341 Pages. Clean text. Corner of front cover curled. Shelf wear to outer edges. Ink mark on inside front page. Small tear on table of contents page and on page 341. Our book number 19332. View More...
Used - Very Good Condition comments: Some wear to the bottom and top of the spine, Corners slightly soiled. Tect clean. Binding tight. Paper slightly colored with age. Private collection of my father. View More...
9.5" x 6.5" x 3", 782 pages. The bottom of the first twenty pages and front cover and endpapers have gotten wet (water glass spill). Some fading at the lower edge of the first three pages. Clean text, sound binding, Dust jacket is good. Historical fantasy, magicians in England of 1806. Competing magicians, light and dark, liberal and conservative magicians. Our book number 19336. View More...
