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Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate best-seller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, but having lived long enough to see her only novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time. While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect. Throughout, Sewell rails - in a gentle, 19th-century way - against animal maltreatment. Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel. Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all.
Green clot, embossed with horse and rider on front, horse is black, female rider in gold, gold… Read More

Pasternak is best known as the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel which takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the First World War. Due to the novel's independent-minded stance on the socialist state, Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR. At the instigation of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Doctor Zhivago was smuggled to Milan and published in 1957. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, an event which both humiliated and enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which forced him to decline the prize, though his descendants were...
Believe to be First American Edition, 1958, stated Twentieth Printing. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari "the Poems of Yurii Zhivago" by Bernard Guilbert Guerney.Book in good condition, grey boards, no yelllowing or soiling, text and colors are vibrant. Dust jacket shows some shelf wear, corners slightly bumped. A good copy.

EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY Translated from the original MS. by Mark Twain [NOTE. I translated a portion of this diary some years ago, and a friend of mine printed a few copies in an incomplete form, but the public never got them. Since then I have deciphered some more of Adam's hieroglyphics, and think he has now become sufficiently important as a public character to justify this publication. M. T.] Monday This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don't like this; I am not used to company. I wish it would stay with the other animals. Cloudy to day, wind in the east; think we shall have rain.... Where did I get that word?... I remember now the new creature uses it. Tuesday Been examining the great waterfall. It is the finest thing on the estate, I think. The new creature calls it Niagara Falls why, I am sure I do not know. Says it looks like Niagara Falls. That is not a reason; it is mere waywardness and imbecility. I get no… Read More

New York, Scribner and Sons, 1912 Edition, 5 volumes Kidnapped- St. Ives- Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hide- Treasure Island- The Wrecker. All in good condition, all have Ex-Libris on inside front cover, all have frontispiece and protective tissue ,some shelfwear, some bumped covers. Merry Men has two (1 in.) ink line on front end paper. Great gift for Stevenson's fans.

Beige cloth with wraparound vignette of famiilies moving out of the Midwest. Author's famous novel of the dust bowl and the Great Depression in an unusual edition. Mr. Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940 for this novel, and later was presented with the Nobel Prize in Literature. ---

Artwork by Disney animators accompanies the story of Quasimodo, the lonely hunchback, who proves his devotion to Esmeralda, a beautiful gypsy

Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass,[1] revising it multiple times until his death. This resulted in vastly different editions over four decades—the first a small book of twelve poems and the last a compilation of over 400.
Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania,1979, signed by author. Book in very good condition. Illustrated with photographs of Whitman's America. Full leather binding,printed on acid free archival paper to prevent page yellowing over time. The leather bindings are stamped with gold letterings and/or designs, and the page edges are gilt in gold, which helps to protect the paper from humidity damage. Pages that are sewn not glued into the binding. These Franklin Library full leather bound books included silk pictorial end pages and sewn-in silk or satin ribbons as bookmarks. Top of some leaves… Read More

Translation by Geoffrey Sainsbury. Illustrations by Stefan Beltzig.The Patience of Maigret is a 1965 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. Maigret searches for evidence that an old nemesis of his is behind a series of jewel robberies. Maigret believes the ageing gangster is organising a gang from his apartment. However, when the gangster is found dead, Maigret investigates his criminal connections and his neighbours trying to find the murderer.
Genuine full leather bound, high quality paper. Pages that are sewn not glued into the binding. Gold gilded page edges on all three sides, attached silk page marker. . Raised spine bands that give each book that distinctive antique look. The front panel design , suggesting Maigret's analytical powers of detection,was created by Douglas Smith in a scratchboard technique and was specially commissioned for this edition

Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children's literature, with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with the same very optimistic outlook. The book was such a success that Porter soon produced a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Eleven more Pollyanna sequels, known as "Glad Books", were later published. The title character is named Pollyanna Whittier, a young orphan who goes to live in Beldingsville, Vermont, with her wealthy but stern and cold spinster Aunt Polly, who does not want to take in Pollyanna, but feels it is her duty to her late sister. Pollyanna's philosophy of life centers on what she calls "The Glad Game," an optimistic and positive attitude she learned from her father.The Glad Game, a type of Parcheesi, was made and sold from 1915 to 1967 in various versionsThe 1920 American silent melodrama/comedy film Pollyana starred Mary Pickford and was directed by Paul Powell. It was Pickford's first motion… Read More

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde.] It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll,and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next.
New York, Current Literature Publishing Co., 1909 Book is very good Text clear and neat.

Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer in the year of the hundredth anniversary of his birth. A blend of autobiography and fiction, the book opens on the day his close friend Pop, a celebrated hunter, leaves Ernest in charge of the safari camp and news arrives of a potential attack from a hostile tribe. Drama continues to build as his wife, Mary, pursues the great black-maned lion that has become her obsession. Spicing his depictions of human longings with sharp humor, Hemingway captures the excitement of big-game hunting and the unparalleled beauty of the scenery -- the green plains covered with gray mist, zebra and gazelle traversing the horizon, cool dark nights broken by the sounds of the hyena's cry. As the group… Read More

True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial in The Saturday Evening Post.[1] The novel is told from the perspective of a woman named Mattie Ross who recounts the time when she was 14 years old and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel namedo physicl damage spine is stron Tom Chaney. It is considered by some critics[2][3] to be "one of the great American novels".

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. (Wiki). Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human...
Easton Press, 1979 'One Hundred Best Books Ever Written' Collector's Edition. In near mint condition. Fully-bound in richly colored brown leather with raised bands, smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Gilt lettering on spine and covers. All Edges Gilt. Salmon Silk moire endpapers. Salmon Silk Ribbon Bookmark. An introduction by Raymond Weaver,illustrated by Miguel Gocarrubias. A beautiful gift that wil… Read More