Search Results: Classics from Conover Books

New York, New York: AMS Press, 1970. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 569 historical and informative pages! "This Manual is not a work of erudition. It is addressed especially to students in the secondary schools, and to readers who wish to inform themselves quickly as to the essential facts of Greek literature. All matters of controversy, therefore, all questions of authenticity, all enumerations of obscure names that could interest only the specialist, have been omitted. But within the limits imposed by the needs of the public they had in view, the authors have remained faithful to the spirit that guided them in their earlier work........." -------- from the Author's Preface.. Reprint (1904). Green Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1922. Edge and corner wear to the dj; lower corner and head and tail of the spine of the dj are heavily chipping away; pages are toning; former owner's inscription and a date are written in ink on the ffep with a christmas stamp there as well; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; shelf worn; overall a nice used copy! Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! 291 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and magical pages! Illustrated endpapers. Red cloth with black lettering on the spine and a black illustration and black lettering on the front board. "Since the appearance of this book over fifty years ago the world has been taking Tom Sawyer to its heart. In no other story has the soul of a boy been better realized than in this record of a boy's life in a little town on the Mississippi. In it you will find the characters whose names are known in nearly every home in the country ---- Tom, Huckleberry Finn, Becky Thatcher,… Read More

New York: Gordon & Payne , 1935. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, light shelf wear, pages are toning, former owner's name in ink on the ffep, overall a very crisp and clean first Gordon & Payne edition! Light green cloth with black lettering on the front cover and the spine! Very very rare printing! Extremely hard to find! 2-way classic. 379 very clean, unmarked and uncreased, adventure-filled and action-packed pages! Wonderfully well-preserved! "No newspaper story of criminal deeds is more real or has in it more of horror than this rapid-moving picture of the escapes of a work-house waif from the grim clutches of the underworld. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was only twenty-five years old when he wrote this novel.". First Thus. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Detroit, Michigan: St James Press, 1999. Ex-library with the usual library markings (if not for the library markings this 4-VOLUME SET would be graded in fine condition); overall a very nice used 4-VOLUME SET! Blue boards with yellow and white lettering. 1326 historical and informative pages! "In a memorandum to contributors, Lina Mainiero, the founding editor of American Women Writers described the project she envisioned in 1978: Written wholly by women critics, this reference work is designed as a four-volume survey of American women writers from colonial days to the present.....Most entries will be on women who have written what is traditionally defined as literature. But AWW will also include entries on writers in other fields.....I see AWW as a precious opportunity for women ----- those who write it and those who read it ----- to integrate at a more self-conscious level a variety of reading experience. The result was a document of its time, a period when feminism was associated with building… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Minor edge and corner wear to the dj, some chipping at the corners and edges of the dj, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, some light shelf wear, overall a clean used copy! Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! 196 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "This new edition of 'The Art of Worldly Wisdom' represents still another landmark in the history of the book, the original and classic advice for making friends and influencing people. Through the changing centuries, nothing in the nature of man has altered to lessen the pertinence of these scraps of worldly wisdom so aptly expressed by a Spanish Jesuit three hundred years ago.". First Edition / Eighth Printing. Blue Cloth. Very Good-/Very Good-. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover.

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891. Edge and corner wear; no dj; scuffed and scratched; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some shelf wear; heavy liquid stain at the base of the interior pages (does not affect readability); former owner's name in pencil on the ffep and dated and in ink on the 2nd ffep; overall still a nice collectible used copy! Green boards quarterbound by white cloth with a black and white illustrated front board and black lettering on the spine. 67 magical and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "It was very early Christmas morning, and in the stillness of the dawn, with the soft snow falling on the housetops, a little child was born in the Bird household. They had intended to name the baby Lucy, if it wree a girl; but they hadn't expected her on Christmas morning, and a real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named ---- the whole family agreed in that......." ------ from Chapter I (A Little Snow Bird)..… Read More

Rahway, N. J. : The Mershon Company Edge and corner wear; no dj; scuffed and scratched; corners are bumped and rubbed; shelf worn; front and rear hinges are cracked; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a still a nice readable used copy! No publishing date, but appears to be from around the turn of the 20th century. 244 historical and magical pages! "Anna Sewell's Black Beauty was an immediate success on its publication in 1877, and has gone on to sell an estimated 50 million copies. Black Beauty is a horse with a fine black coat, a white foot and a silver star on his forehead. Seen through his eyes, the story tells of his idyllic upbringing and the hardship and cruelty he suffers subsequently, before finding security and happiness in a new home. Black Beauty is one of the most popular children's books ever written.........". Reprint (1877). Pictorial Boards. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Philadelphia, PA: Henry Altemus Company Edge and corner wear; scuffed and scratched; spine and edges are discolored; missing the rfep; some tears to the inner rear cover and the ffep and inner front cover; former owner's stamp on the ffep and title pages; overall a nice collectible used copy! Wonderfully well-preserved for its age! No publishing date (appears to be mid 19th century printing). Very very rare and hard-to-find printing! Soft green leatherbound with gilt lettering and illustration on the front cover. 202 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and magical pages! Extremely scarce copy! Frontispiece reads "She was walking to and fro to hush it." --- in black and white. "There are not many people ---- and as it is desirable that a story-teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as possible, I beg it to be noticed that I confine this observation neither to young people nor to little people, but extend it to all conditions of people:… Read More

New York, New York: J. B. Ford & Company , 1874. Edge and corner wear; scuffed and scratched; corners are bumped and rubbed; spine is rolled; fraying at the head and tail of the spine with a small portion of the spine from the middle to the tail missing; shelf worn; former owner's name and address are written in pencil on the ffep; rear hinge is cracked; lightly liquid stain on the lower corner of the rear board; overall still a nice collectible used copy! Decorative brown boards with gilt lettering on the spine and black lettering on the front board. 332 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and magical pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "Whatever is incredible in this story is true. The tale I have to tell will seem strange to those who know little of the social life of the West at the beginning of this century. These sharp contrasts of corn-shuckings and camp-meetings, of wild revels followed by wild revivals; these contacts of highwayman and preacher; this… Read More

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: The Bibliophilist Society Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Extremely tight binding. Wonderfully well-preserved! Very very rare and hard-to-find! Half-Leather (spine and corners) with green marbled boards and gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt upper outer page edges as well. Green marbled endpapers. Extremely scarce. No publishers date (looks to be late 19th century). One of sixteen very rare volumes. Exceptionally well-cared for. This volume contains 680 unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by historic black and white illustrations. Beautifully done. "I was occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole....." ---- from the Preface.. Library Edition .… Read More

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: The Bibliophilist Society Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Extremely tight binding. Wonderfully well-preserved! Very very rare and hard-to-find! Half-Leather (spine and corners) with green marbled boards and gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt upper outer page edges as well. Green marbled endpapers. Extremely scarce. No publishers date (looks to be late 19th century). One of sixteen very rare volumes. Exceptionally well-cared for. This volume contains 639 unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by historic black and white illustrations. Beautifully done. . Library Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: The Bibliophilist Society Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Extremely tight binding. Wonderfully well-preserved! Very very rare and hard-to-find! Half-Leather (spine and corners) with green marbled boards and gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt upper outer page edges as well. Green marbled endpapers. Extremely scarce. No publishers date (looks to be late 19th century). One of sixteen very rare volumes. Exceptionally well-cared for. This volume contains 695 unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by historic black and white illustrations. Beautifully done. "I remarked in the original Preface to this Book, that I did not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from it, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interst in it was so… Read More

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: The Bibliophilist Society Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Extremely tight binding. Wonderfully well-preserved! Very very rare and hard-to-find! Half-Leather (spine and corners) with green marbled boards and gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt upper outer page edges as well. Green marbled endpapers. Extremely scarce. No publishers date (looks to be late 19th century). One of sixteen very rare volumes. Exceptionally well-cared for. This volume contains 658 unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by historic black and white illustrations. Beautifully done. . Library Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: The Bibliophilist Society Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Extremely tight binding. Wonderfully well-preserved! Very very rare and hard-to-find! Half-Leather (spine and corners) with green marbled boards and gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt upper outer page edges as well. Green marbled endpapers. Extremely scarce. No publishers date (looks to be late 19th century). One of sixteen very rare volumes. Exceptionally well-cared for. This volume contains 531 unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by historic black and white illustrations. Beautifully done. "The late Mr. Waterton having, some time ago, expressed is opinion that ravens are gradually becoming extinct in England, I offered the few following words about my experience of these birds. The raven in this story is a compound of two great originals, of whom I was, at… Read More

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: The Bibliophilist Society Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Extremely tight binding. Wonderfully well-preserved! Very very rare and hard-to-find! Half-Leather (spine and corners) with green marbled boards and gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt upper outer page edges as well. Green marbled endpapers. Extremely scarce. No publishers date (looks to be late 19th century). One of sixteen very rare volumes. Exceptionally well-cared for. This volume contains 683 unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by historic black and white illustrations. Beautifully done. . Library Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: The Bibliophilist Society Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Extremely tight binding. Wonderfully well-preserved! Very very rare and hard-to-find! Half-Leather (spine and corners) with green marbled boards and gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt upper outer page edges as well. Green marbled endpapers. Extremely scarce. No publishers date (looks to be late 19th century). One of sixteen very rare volumes. Exceptionally well-cared for. This volume contains 704 unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by historic black and white illustrations. Beautifully done. "I make so bold as to believe that the faculty (or the habit) of correctly observing the characters of men, is a rare one. I have not even found, within my experience, that the faculty (or the habit) of correctly observing so much as the faces of men, is a general one by… Read More

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: The Bibliophilist Society Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Extremely tight binding. Wonderfully well-preserved! Very very rare and hard-to-find! Half-Leather (spine and corners) with green marbled boards and gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt upper outer page edges as well. Green marbled endpapers. Extremely scarce. No publishers date (looks to be late 19th century). One of sixteen very rare volumes. Exceptionally well-cared for. This volume contains 566 unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by historic black and white illustrations. Beautifully done. . Library Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: The Bibliophilist Society Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Extremely tight binding. Wonderfully well-preserved! Very very rare and hard-to-find! Half-Leather (spine and corners) with green marbled boards and gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt upper outer page edges as well. Green marbled endpapers. Extremely scarce. No publishers date (looks to be late 19th century). One of sixteen very rare volumes. Exceptionally well-cared for. This volume contains 665 unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by historic black and white illustrations. Beautifully done. . Library Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1917. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, some light fraying in the top of the spine, pages are toning, lightly shelf worn, overall a very clean vintage first edition! Green cloth with gilt design on the front cover and gilt on black lettering on the spine. 376 clean, unmarked and uncreased historical pages! Frontis is a black and white illustration of Mark Twain. "The Old Man and the Young Man had been conversing. The Old Man had asserted that the human being is merely a machine, and nothing more. The Young Man objected, and asked him to go into particulars and furnish his reasons for his position........" Authorized Edition Volume XII.. First Edition. Green Cloth. Very Good-/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: The Bibliophilist Society Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Extremely tight binding. Wonderfully well-preserved! Very very rare and hard-to-find! Half-Leather (spine and corners) with green marbled boards and gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt upper outer page edges as well. Green marbled endpapers. Extremely scarce. No publishers date (looks to be late 19th century). One of sixteen very rare volumes. Exceptionally well-cared for. This volume contains 576 unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by historic black and white illustrations. Beautifully done. . Library Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.