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Chester, England: J. Fletcher, 1804. Hardcover. Fair +. Printed by J. Fletcher; and sold in London by E. Williams, Bookseller of Wales. xxiii, [i], 62, [2] p.; 17 cm. Original brown paper spine and grey paper over boards. Wood-engraved head pieces and tail pieces. First edition. The author, Richard Llwyd (1752-1835), was a Welsh poet known as the "Bard of Snowdon." In Fair+ Condition: paper over spine is lacking; covers are soiled and faintly dampstained; tail of spine and lower corners of boards and pages have rodent damage, without affecting text; pages are clean and bright. An extremely scarce work.
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London, Eng.: Bradbury and Evans, 1853 xvi, 624 p.: frontispiece, added engraved title page, and 38 additional leaves of plates; 22 cm. (8½ inches). The first edition in book form, with the Bradbury & Evans imprint dated 1853 on the added engraved title page. A lovely Bickers & Son full polished calf binding with six spine compartments between raised bands. Red morocco label in the second compartment reading: Bleak House. Black morocco label in the third compartment reading: Charles Dickens. Small red morocco label at tail of spine bearing publication date: 1853. Gilt-tooled ornamentation in the other four compartments. Gilt-ruled borders and corner rosettes on both boards. Gilt-rolled ornamentation on edges of both boards, with gilt-tooled ornamentation continuing on the turn-ins. All page edges gilt. Grey endpapers, with small binder's stamp on verso of front free endpapers. First edition points include: the 5-line errata statement on p. xvi; on p. xiii the final "i" is slightly elevated in the printing of the page nummber; on p. 516, 16 lines from the bottom, "it" has been omitted after "think"; on p. 620, at the end of the third full paragraph, is found "relieved" for "received." Smith, I:10. In Near Fine condition: joints, ends of spine, and raised bands are lightly rubbed; leather separated along front joint at tail of spine for approx. ½ cm. (¼ inch); frontispiece has left a light shadow on the added engraved title page. All 38 internal plates are resent. A beautiful copy. . First Edition in Book Form. Near Fine. Illus. by Browne, H.K..
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Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Sumtibus Caspari Fritsch [Caspar Fritsch], 1781. Hardcover. Very Good. xxviii, 490, [138] p.; 21 cm. Signatures: a8 b6 A-2Q8 2R2 (8vo). Original black paper-covered boards. All page edges red. Light green endpapers. Colophon: Lipsiae, Ex officina Breitkopfia. Woodcut title vignette and head-pieces. Faint stamp on front fixed endpaper: "Swarthmore College Library. Gift of Morris L. Clothier '96"; "Dup" written below. Morris L. Clothier was one of the Clothiers of the Strawbridge & Clothier, the department store. In Very Good Condition: front board heavily scraped; edges rubbed; pages are clean and crisp.
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Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Sumtibus Caspari Fritsch [Caspar Fritsch], 1781. Hardcover. Very Good. xxviii, 490, [138] p.; 21 cm. Signatures: a8 b6 A-2Q8 2R2 (8vo). Original black paper-covered boards. All page edges red. Light green endpapers. Colophon: Lipsiae, Ex officina Breitkopfia. Woodcut title vignette and head-pieces. Faint stamp on front fixed endpaper: "Swarthmore College Library. Gift of Morris L. Clothier '96"; "Dup" written below. Morris L. Clothier was one of the Clothiers of the Strawbridge & Clothier, the department store. In Very Good Condition: front board heavily scraped; edges rubbed; pages are clean and crisp.
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Gypsies
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Kane & Abel
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Cold Mountain
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NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .
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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural
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228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts
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209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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We Loved Them Once
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And Four To Go: A Nero Wolfe Foursome
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Dobrodruzstvi Toma Sawyera a Huckleberryho Finna.
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Praha: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury SNKLHU, 1961, hardcover. Apparent first edition in Czech 1961, with the illustrations by Jiri Hejna, of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Translated into CZECH by Frantisk Gel. 393 pages. -- Hardcover. Good used condition (yellow cloth cover some soil) with very good minus dust jacket (spine sunned).
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Westwood, NJ: Kindle Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1971. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Common to this edition, the spine is quite sunned compared to the dark green half cloth, but gilt lettering remains bright. A pinpoint speck to the front cover's paper. The slipcase has minor wear to corners, the tail is bumped.; Sir Walter Scott's arguably best short story of the rough life of two cattle drivers in Scotland, privately printed in celebration of his bicentennial birthday. Copy 242 of an edition of 680 and signed on the colophon by Coleman O. Parsons who wrote an extensive Foreword for this edition. Frontispiece is a fanciful lion with spread claws, printed in red. The front pastedown bears a portrait of Scott, but I'm partial to the frontis, instead. Text block trimmed at the head edge. Printed by Meriden Gravure on Hale Paper's mould-made rag paper designed by F. T. Jackson and bearing a facsimile of Sir Walter Scott's signature of 1827. Bound by A.…
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