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1943. Hardcover. Good. 1943 Hardcover Good++ condition blue cover No Dj private owner Illustrated by Gordon Ross Includes: Boccaccio, Rabelais, Cervantes, Defoe, Swift, Sterne, Scott, BAlzac, Dumas, Hugo, Flaubert, Hawthorne,etc..305 pgs Published Book League of America BoxB ISBN: B00005W9WX

New York: Book League of America. 1943. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Spine edge worn. ; 305 pages .

New York: Book League of America. 1943. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Bookplate. ; 305 pages .

New York: Book League of America. 1943. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. ; 305 pages .

Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing, 1943. 1st edition (stated). Hardback. Very Good condition.. Green cloth binding with some wear at corners. A pretty book with biographies of Boccaccio, Rabelais, Cervantes, Defoe, Swift, Sterne, Scott, Balzac, Dumas, Hugo, Flaubert, Hawthorne, Thackeray, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Maupassant, Zola, Mark Twain, and Hardy. Each includes a portrait of the author.

Book League of America, 1943-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1943 stated 1st Edition hardback with green cloth cover and gilt art on front and spine and gold lettering. Unique Dickens frontispiece art. Illustrated by Gordon Ross. No dj.

New York: Book League of America, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Black boards with decorative silver gilt titling on spine. Shelf and handling wear on cover and spine with pine tear about 1.5" at head. Binding is square and tight. Deckle edged pages are clean and unmarked. 305 pp.

Tight and unmarked- Deckled edges (rough cut)- dark blue- Logo on front board, 14x20 cm-Sound binding-" The writers covered in this volume lived from the early 14th century to the early 20th century and range from Boccaccio to Hardy. One could argue that in today's world the little chapters on each of these writers could be gleaned from Wikipedia and other Internet sources. But the spirit that the writers Henry and Dana Lee Thomas infuse into this book is what makes it special-Rebelais, Cervantes and Defoe had a distrust of the law and their writing was artistic but flawed in craft; they all served prison sentences and flirted with bankruptcy and madness. Swift's satirical solution to ending poverty was to have all one-year old children of the poor classes be eaten as food. Scott made a fortune in his writing and lost it all on his printing business then repaid his huge debts by writing more. Balzac was eternally broke and Flaubert died unrecognized. Hugo was successful as an author but his entire… Read More

UsedVeryGood. Book League hardcover with gold letters and design on blue cover; name written inside front; no other writing or tears