Publisher:
Boston, U.S.A., Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by John P. Jewett & Co., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massechusetts : 1854
Inscribed inside front cover: Augustine Kimball, now owned by his daughter M. Darlie Kimball Hight. 4.75" x 7.25". 348 very old and discolored pages. Binding is loose, ties are loose, all pages are present except the very last page. Owner has written in "THE END" at the bottom of page 348. The Paragraph ends logically, it seems to be the correct end of the book. End papers are present. Brown cloth boards, embossed on front and back covers. Title in gold leaf on the spine. Much wear. Much read, much loved copy. Some newspaper clippings enclosed. Wear to top and bottom of spine and to the corner... View More...
5.5" x 8.25". Publication dates confusing. Shows publish date as 1984, dates of included articles as late as 1988, and gives author's date of death as 1990. Sierra Club Paperback Library. Very clean like-new book. Some very minor shelf wear. 383 pages. Cover design by Paul Bacon, Photograph by Jay Dusard. View More...
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 Withdrawn from the library.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" x 6.75". "There is a theory that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened." Book is worn and corners have been bent. Pages are secure in the spine, which is creased with much reading. 250 pages. Our book number 19007. View More...
5.5" x 8.5". 529 pages. The endpapers are covered in the front cover, by part of the dust jacket which has been glued in over the beautiful map of the Mythical country and the surrounding states. There is a book plate declaring the previous owner and the name of the Library from which it was withdrawn. The back endpapers are not as bad, there is residue of a check-out sheet on the left, but just taped along the top, and on the inside of the back cover is a library pocket. On the up-side, this is a first edition, clean, tight pages. Minor shelf wear to the cover (besides the library sticker). T... View More...
Used paperback. Creases on spine. Covers have a few creases, pictures are clear. Pages secure and clean. Preview of Tales From Watership Down, New Stories in the back. 494 pages. Our book number 19020. View More...
Name of previous owner on title page with the date purchased. Yellow ribbon glued into back cover for a book mark. Cover worn with much handling. Corners worn, edges worn. pages secure and clean. 478 pages includes a Lapine Glossary. Note of acknowledgement to the author of The Private Life of the Rabbit, R.M. Lockley with publisher information. Our book number 19019. 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...
"Illustrated and Unabridged. The most complete one-volume collection available, containing Little Women * Little Men * Dozens of stories full of irrepressible life". 'Bargain Books' label stuck to front of Dust Jacket. Previous owner's name inside on endpaper. Apparently previous owner's child also laid claim to the book by drawing on the front cover, writing her name inside on the endpaper, and also on the line below the word "Contents" because it must have seemed the thing to do. This appears to be all she was allowed to do before the decorating was discontinued. Text is clean, Pages slightl... View More...
Novel for Young people. 4 3/4 inches X 7 inches. 298 pages. Published for use as a textbook for Calvert School on Baltimore. 3rd or 4th grade level readers. minor shelf wear. spine tight, clean pages. Our book number 106. View More...
Withdrawn from the library, hard cover; had green paper finish, damaged by removal of library stickers. Embossed title on front cover, someone started to lightly color in with pencil. Black letters on spine, mark where library sticker was torn off, some soiling to cover due to handling. Library name marked out with magic marker inside book. OTHER THAN ALL THESE COSMETIC PROBLEMS WITH THE OUTSIDE, This is a very good copy. The pages are very clean, the binding is tight and the text is clean. Book One in the Prydain Chronicles. Printing numbers are "10 9" 217 pages. Our book number 703. 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...
4" x 7". Note from previous owner to her mother on title page. Text is clean, pages secure, some creases on spine. 433 pages, some slight yellowing of the paper. Cover is clear and clean. Unabridged. Our book number 19025. 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" x 8.5". 247 pages. Sewn Spine slightly relaxed, pages secure, foxing on the top of the closed pages. Withdrawn from Library. Dust jacket protected by library plastic cover. Pages secure, text clean as a whistle. Good reading copy with nice dust jacket - one library sticker on spine of DJ, smudge on hinge if DJ toward the top in front. Our book number 19047. 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...
