English Literature:Classics from ZH BOOKS

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. Early edition; 5" x 7 3/4"; pp. [16], 1-541, (1-10) publisher's list, [8]; original embossed red boards; gilt title; minor wear to covers; spine slightly faded; small closed cut to tail of spine; engraved portrait frontis; illustrations from paintings and photographs; very good. The famous tale of love between… Read more about this item

Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1857. Hardcover. Good. Stated second edition of the translation. A handsome copy of Goethe's "greatest long poem of modern European literature." Condition: Good - marbled boards and 3/4 leather; 4 raised bands to spine and gilt title; marbled page edges; beautiful engraved frontis; pages clean and bright; front gutter cracked at upper part; some… Read more about this item

Ram, 1933. Soft cover. Good. 2 volumes. An unusual Spanish oversize-paperback edition - First Ed. in this format. Original pictorial wraps; text in two columns. Condition: Good - pages and covers slightly darkened with age, spine worn, head and tail chipped, pages and binding tight; vol. II has a small chip off edge of front cover. Overall in… Read more about this item

Moskva: Russkii Raritet, 2005. Hardcover. Fine. First edition thus; 3" x 4"; pp. [4], 5-239, [1]; original blue leather boards with pictorial DJ; gilt title to front cover; gift inscription to previous owner on first free page; very minor wear to edges of DJ, else fine. Limited to 5000 copies. A beautiful mini- edition of Persian philosopher and… Read more about this item

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. Subtitled: "With Colonel Chabert, The Atheist's Mass, La Grande Breteche, The Purse, and La Grenadiere." Early American edition; 8vo; pp. [8], 1-338, [6] publisher's advertisements; original red boards; gilt title to spine; several small spots and scratches to boards; spine slightly faded with minor wear to head and tail of spine;… Read more about this item

72057593498894288: J. W. Bradley, 1861. Hardcover. Good. Subtitled: "From This World to That Which is to Come; Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. To Which is Added a Life of Bunyan, By Himself: or Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners." Beautiful engravings, including two full-page frontis; pp. 531; Condition: Good/Acceptable - original publisher's maroon blind stamped… Read more about this item

M. Carey & Son, Philadelphia, 1820. Hardcover. Good. First US Edition, published the same year as the first Edinburgh edition. Vol. I of 2. Condition: Good - full leather with gilt decorations to spine and black & gold title to spine; corners rubbed; leather on spine worn; pages clean, but uniformly darkened with age; two faded signatures to… Read more about this item