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Latest date in the book is 1917. A gift inscription on the front free endpaper is dated 10/1/31. On that same page is a bookplate sticker from a more recent owner. A third name is on the half-title page. The frontispiece is in color, the remaining illustrations are black and white. Splits in the endpapers show the binding fabric, both… Read more about this item

Yellow fabric with gilt print, showing wear at the lower corners and the base of the spine. Some soiling to the cover. No dust jacket. Richly illustrated, with a color plate at the beginning of each chapter and illustrated endpapers. Appears to have been some water incursion, but the effects are minor. Written by Dickens… Read more about this item

No dust jacket. Reddish-brown fabric covered boards show light wear, with gilt print on the front and spine. Spine is a little faded and has a drop of paint. The deckle-edged pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Owner's bookplate inside the front cover. A split after the front endpaper shows the binding fabric (see photo #4.) A scarce book.

Mild wear. Cover has some chips and rubs. Spine is uncreased but slightly skewed. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked.

Stated first edition. Green fabric covered boards show some wear at the head and tail of the spine, yet still intact at the corners. The dust jacket is badly worn and in two pieces. It has been folded inside the book for untold decades. Also within the book is a clipping of an interview with the… Read more about this item

This book has been expertly rebound. The new cover has blue cloth covered boards. The remains of the spine and front cover from the original binding have been glued to the new material (see photos 3 and 4). The new endpapers are clean and intact, and the pages are tight and unmarked. I have no way to know how long… Read more about this item

Green fabric cover shows substantial wear, with two corners showing the boards and wear at the head and tail of the spine. The fabric is also splitting along the lower rear edge of the spine (see photo #4). The front cover has gilt print and an embossed profile of Sir Richard. The print on the spine has lost all the… Read more about this item

Stated first edition. No dust jacket. Black fabric covered boards with silver print on the spine. The cover shows a bit of damage, possibly from water, on the lower 5 cm of the spine (see photo #4). This water does not appear to have reached the pages. The spine is cocked slightly. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. The… Read more about this item

Trade paperback. Some mild wear at the corners. The spine is square and uncreased. There is a small amount of underlining and marginalia. Additional notes plus the owner's name inside the front cover.

A slim volume with little wear other than creases at the lower right front corner and a little smudge on the title page. The spine is square and uncreased, and the pages are clean, tight and unmarked.

No dust jacket. No date given, as is so often the case with Grosset and Dunlap. Likely published some time between 1920 and 1950. (Or not.) Probably the most famous and popular of the five Leatherstocking Tales. Set in 1757, during the French and Indian War. This edition has illustrated endpapaers, but no illustrations… Read more about this item

A pocket-sized book, part of a larger series by Collins' Clear-Type Press (Collins Illustrated Pocket Classics). Illustrated. The Compleat Angler was originally published in 1653 and underwent a number of revisions over the centuries. Presented as a discussion of the virtues of fishing between the fisher Piscator, the hunter Venator and the falconer Auceps. What was… Read more about this item

Trade paperback. Mild wear, with chips on the edges and a couple of mildly turned corners. The spine is square and creaseless. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Swift's great satire with literary analysis presented through a traditionalist/religionist filter. The editor, Dutton Kearney, is an instructor of literature and theology at Aquinas College in… Read more about this item

Heritage Club edition, in an orange slipcover. Book is pristine except for fading and discoloration over the spine. The slipcover also shows a small amount of soiling and some fading. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Includes the edition of the Heritage Club periodical, Sandglass, that came with every club book. Boards covered with floral print fabric. This book… Read more about this item

A pristine copy of this classic edition from the Heritage Club. The book shows no wear that I can find other than some fading over the spine. Comes in a black slipcover which also shows no obvious wear. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked, with speckled edges. The boards are covered with patterned paper and… Read more about this item

Very little wear. Looks to be a print-on-demand edition of a story in the public domain. "Set in the fictional countries of Paflagonia and Crim Tartary, the story revolves around the lives and fortunes of four young royal cousins, Princesses Angelica and Rosalba, and Princes Bulbo and Giglio." (Taken from the back cover.) Contains some of the illustrations from… Read more about this item

John Dos Passo's famous USA trilogy, containing the novels The 42nd Parallel, 1919 and The Big Money. This set would have originally come in a slipcover, which probably accounts for the very light wear to this trio of books. Wear is slight, the pages are clean, tight and unmarked, with the previous owner's ex libris stickers inside the front cover… Read more about this item

A seven-volume set of the works of Balzac. Green fabric covered boards show some wear at the corners and edges. Titles in gilt on brown box glued to the spines, with some chipping. The pages are clean and unmarked. As is often the case in books of this era, splits have occurred where the glued portions… Read more about this item

No dust jacket. Blue fabric covered boards little wear. Illustration glued onto the front cover, with gilt print and trim. The fabric over the spine is darkened, as is the gilt print thereon. Owners name on the half-title page. Seven color illustrations are included. Books of this era would have stitched pages, but the… Read more about this item

A ten-volume set of the works of Rudyard Kipling. Not ALL the works, by any means, but a nice representative sample. This is identified as the de Luxe Edition and is part of a limited, numbered set published about 1910 for sale in America. This is #590 of 1,000 (see photo #10). The books show wear at many corners and… Read more about this item