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NEW YORK: HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, 1952 TERRIFIC BOOK, SLIGHT WEAR CORNERS, TIGHT, GREEN BLUE BLACK DESIGN FRONT AND BLACK PRINT SPINE. GREAT PICTURES, DETAIL, PLATES BACK, PICTURES OF PLAY AND CAST. A play set in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170; first performed in Canterbury, England, in June 1935. Archbishop Thomas Becket returns from exile abroad to face martyrdom-he must resist the temptations of King Henry ll's agents and come to terms with his impending death. Eliot, T[homas] S[tearns] (1888¿1965), playwright and poet. The expatriate American, who spent most of his creative career in England as a British subject, is remembered by American playgoers largely for three plays: Murder in the Cathedral (1936), The Cocktail Party (1950), and The Confidential Clerk (1954). WONDERFUL BOOK AND PIECE OF HISTORY. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

UNITED STATES: PENNWICK, 1978 BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH EXCELLENT PHOTOGRAPHY OF IMPERIAL CHINA, 1850-1912. PROTECTIVE COVER IS LIGHTLY WORN. PICTURE OF MANDARIN AND HIS WIFE. RED COVER WITH CHINESE WRITING ON FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. SECTIONS INCLUDE FOREWARD, IMPERIAL CHINA: A CHINESE VIEW, PHOTOGRAPHS, PHOTOGRAPHY IN IMPERIAL CHINA, INDEX OF COMMERCIAL AND AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS IN CHINA 1846-1912 AND SOURCES. VERY INTERESTING PHOTOS AND DETAIL. FOR THE LOVER OF HISTORY AND CHINA. WORSWICK WAS A PHOTO HISTORIAN WHO WAS A GUEST CURATOR IN CHINA AND JAPAN. Jonathan Dermot Spence CMG (11 August 1936 – 25 December 2021) was an English-born American historian, sinologist, and writer who specialized in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. His most widely read book is The Search for Modern China, a survey of the last several hundred years of Chinese history based on his popular course at Yale. Harrison Evans Salisbury (November 14, 1908 – July… Read More

NEW YORK: A.L. BURT COMPANY, 1908 VERY NICE DARK BLUE COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT SPINE. FRONTISPIECE A PICTURE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. FORMER OWNERS LABEL IN FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. FOR THE LOVER OF HISTORY AND UNITED STATES. 16 CHAPTERS WITH GREAT DETAIL AND APPENDIX. Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.[6] He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. Following the American Revolutionary War and prior to becoming president in 1801, Jefferson was the nation's first U.S. secretary of state under George Washington and then the nation's second vice president under John Adams. During the American Revolution, Jefferson represented Virginia at the Second Continental Congress and served as the second governor of Virginia from 1779 to 1781. In 1785, Congress appointed Jefferson U.S. minister to France, where… Read More

NEW YORK: SARAH H. LEGGETT, 1877 BEAUTIFUL COVER, GOLD AND BLACK DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT, HEAVY PAGES, GOLD TRIM PAGES. AMERICAN POETRY OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, HENRY W. LONGFELLOW, JOHN G. WHITTIER, JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL AND BAYARD TAYLOR. ILLUSTRATIONS BY FREDERICKS, DARLEY, SMILLIE, HARTS AND OTHERS. POEMS INCLUDE ON THE THRESHOLD, THE SONG SPARROW, THE POETS, JUNE ON THE MERRIMAC, THE FIREFLY A PARABLE, THE LOST CAYATID. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881 SYMBOLS OF FAITH THROUGHOUT HISTORY IN RELIGION. NICE LOOKING BROWN COVER, GOLD PRINT SPINE, TOP AND BOTTOM EDGES OF SPINE WORN, SMALL OWNER LABEL INSIDE FRONT, TIGHT, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS. THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED, Originally published 1877. THREE VOLUMES WITH THIS BEING VOLUME ONE. EIGHT CHAPTERS OF VERY DETAILED INFORMATION. GREAT PIECE OF HISTORY. A creed (also confession, symbol, or statement of faith) is a statement of the shared religions of a religious community in the form of a fixed formula summarizing core tenets. Philip Schaff (January 1, 1819 ¿ October 20, 1893), was a Swiss-born, German-educated Protestant theologian and a Church historian who spent most of his adult life living and teaching in the United States. PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, NY. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

LONDON: WILDWOOD HOUSE, 1973 WONERFUL BOOK FOR THE ART LOVER AND LOVER OF HISTORY. THE GRAVE WAS WRITTEN BY ROBERT BLAIR IN 1808 AND REFLECTS ON LIFE AND DEATH. BLAKES ARTWORK IS TERRIFIC. LARGE FOLIO SIZE BOOK, LIGHT COVER WITH ARTWORK FRONT. FIRST TWO PAGES LOOSE BUT VERY GOOD SHAPE, ARTWORK AND POEM PRESENTED VERY NICELY. A PRIZE POSSESSION. Rev Robert Blair (17 April 1699 – 4 February 1746) was a Scottish poet. His fame rests upon his poem The Grave, which in a later printing was illustrated by William Blake. "The Grave" is a blank verse poem by the Scottish poet Robert Blair. It is the work for which he is primarily renowned. According to Blair, in a letter he wrote to Philip Doddridge, the greater part of the poem was composed before he became a minister. Edinburgh editor and publisher John Johnstone stated that it was composed whilst Blair was still a student, although "probably corrected and amplified by his more matured judgement."The poem, 767 lines long, is an exemplar of what became… Read More

NEW YORK: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972 NICE LOOKING RED BOOK COVER, DESIGN ON FRONT, GOLD PRINT SPINE. NOTE SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SMALL SPOT ALONG BOTTOM EDGE FRONT WHERE EXPOSED SLIGHTLY TO WATER. TIGHT WITH NO MARKINGS. HUMAN CONDITION IN THE MIDDLE AGES. VERY NICE STORY SET IN 1100 A.D. SET IN GERMANY. FATHER ALBRECHT INVESTIGATING AN INTERESTING COMMUNITY. Gladys Schmitt (May 31, 1909 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ¿ October 3, 1972 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was an American writer, editor, and professor. Born to Henry and Leonore (Link) Schmitt, she attended Chatham University, then transferred and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1932. She worked as an editor for Scholastic Magazine first in Pittsburgh and then in New York from 1933-42. From 1942-72 at Carnegie-Mellon University she became professor of English and fine arts, founding the creative writing department. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Scholastic, 2009 BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH NO INTERNAL MARKINGS. FRONT COVER IS A COLORFUL 3-D GLOW IN THE DARK MOVING PICTURE. TERRIFIC. VERY LIGHT SCRATCHES ON FRONT CAN ONLY BE SEEN WHEN BOOK TURNED SIDEWAYS. PICTURES, INFORMATION AND DETAIL INSIDE ARE AS ALWAYS INFORMATIVE AND EDUCATIONAL. Ripley's Believe It or Not! is a franchise, founded by Robert Ripley, which deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that readers might question the claims. The Believe It or Not panel proved popular and was later adapted into a wide variety of formats, including radio, television, comic books, a chain of museums and a book series. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1929 Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] ¿ 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature": James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. GREAT BOOK, NICE LOOKING, IN GOOD CONDITION. BROWN COVER WITH NICE ENGRAVING FRONT AND GOLD INLAY. 36 PAGES IN THE FRONT ABOUT OLD ENGLISH BALLADS AND FOLK SONGS. THE PAGES OF NOTES IN THE BACK ON EACH ENTRY ARE INTERESTING AND PRICELESS. SOME PENCIL WRITING IN VERY FRONT AND BACK. PREVIOUS OWNER NAME IN INK. TERRIFIC! ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

BOSTON: ALLYN AND BACON, 1892 RARE BOOK, NICE LOOKING LIGHT BROWN COVER WITH RED SPINE, BLACK PRINT FRONT, FORMER OWNERS NAME STAMPED IN FRONT. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. A RARE BOOK BY NUMBER AVAILABLE AND ALSO NOT MANY ON THIS TOPIC. FOR THE WRITER AND PHILOSOPHER. LEWES WAS A VERY EDUCATED INTERESTING MAN. George Henry Lewes ( 18 April 1817 30 November 1878) was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre. He was also an amateur physiologist. American feminist Margaret Fuller is known to have called Lewes a "witty, French, flippant sort of man". He became part of the mid-Victorian ferment of ideas which encouraged discussion of Darwinism, positivism, and religious skepticism. However, he is perhaps best known today for having openly lived with Mary Ann Evans, who wrote under the pen name George Eliot, as soulmates whose lives and writings were enriched by their relationship, though they never married each other. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

LONDON: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1948 DARK BLUE COVER, INLAY DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, GOLD PRINT SPINE, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. PREFACE BY SELINCOURT.
FAIRY QUEENE IS THE MOST POPULAR POEM AND FIRST, GREAT NUMBER OF WORKS, INCLUDED ARE APPENDIX, CORRESPONDENCE, CRITICAL APPENDIX, GLOSSARY AND INDEX FIRST LINES.
FOR THE LOVER OF SPENSER, POETRY. A VERY INTERESTING POET. ONE OF ENGLANDS MOST POPULAR.
Edmund Spenser (1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language. Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, around the year 1552; however, there is still some ambiguity as to the exact date of his birth.
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NEW YORK: THE MINERVA PUBLISHING CO., 1892 RED COVER, WORN, WITH BLACK DESIGN AND GOLD SPINE DESIGN. FORMER OWNER NAME INSIDE FRONT, FIRST BLANK PAGE MISSING. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. FIRST AMERICAN PRINT. Matilde Serao (7 March 1856 25 July 1927) was a Greek-born Italian journalist and novelist. She was the first woman called to edit an Italian newspaper, Il Corriere di Roma and later Il Giorno. Serao was also the co-founder and editor of the newspaper Il Mattino, and the author of several novels. She never won the Nobel Prize in Literature despite being nominated on six occasions. In 1860 the family moved back to Italy, first to Carinola and then to Naples. Serao grew up in poverty and worked as a schoolmistress, an experience later described in the preface to a book of short stories called Leggende Napolitane (Napoletan Legends, 1881). She first gained notoriety after publishing her short stories in Il Piccolo, a newspaper edited by Rocco de Zerbi and her first novel, Fantasia (Fantasy, 1883)… Read More

PHILADELPHIA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 BEAUTIFUL DARK RED COVER, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT WITH NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, THICK PAGES, COLORFUL ARTWORK ON TITLE PAGE. NO DATE LISTED, CIRCA EARLY 1900. TWO COLOR PLATES INSIDE. Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was performed first circa 1607 at the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre by the King's Men. Its first appearance in print was in the Folio of 1623. Timon of Athens (The Life of Tymon of Athens) is a play by William Shakespeare, published in the First Folio (1623) and probably written in collaboration with another author, most likely Thomas Middleton, in about 1605¿1606. It is about the fortunes of an Athenian named Timon (and probably influenced by the philosopher Timon of Phlius). ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

PHILADELPHIA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 BEAUTIFUL DARK RED COVER, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT WITH NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, THICK PAGES, COLORFUL ARTWORK ON TITLE PAGE. NO DATE LISTED, CIRCA EARLY 1900. TWO COLOR PLATES INSIDE. The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597. The Windsor of the play's title is a reference to Windsor Castle in Berkshire, England, and though nominally set in the reign of Henry IV, the play makes no pretence to exist outside contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life. All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1604 and 1605, and was originally published in the First Folio in 1623. Though originally the play was classified as one of Shakespeare's comedies, the play is now considered by some critics to be one of his problem plays, so named because they cannot be neatly classified as… Read More

PHILADELPHIA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 BEAUTIFUL DARK RED COVER, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT WITH NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, THICK PAGES, COLORFUL ARTWORK ON TITLE PAGE. NO DATE LISTED, CIRCA EARLY 1900. TWO COLOR PLATES INSIDE. Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. Originally published in the First Folio of 1623, where it was listed as a comedy, the play's first recorded performance occurred in 1604. The play's main themes include justice, "mortality and mercy in Vienna," and the dichotomy between corruption and purity: "some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610¿11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and… Read More

PHILADELPHIA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 BEAUTIFUL DARK RED COVER, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT WITH NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, THICK PAGES, COLORFUL ARTWORK ON TITLE PAGE. NO DATE LISTED, CIRCA EARLY 1900. TWO COLOR PLATES INSIDE. Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written near 1599. It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War. In the First Quarto text, it was entitled The Cronicle History of Henry the fift, Henry VIII is a collaborative history play, written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, based on the life of King Henry VIII of England. An alternative title, All Is True, is recorded in contemporary documents, the title Henry VIII not appearing until the play's publication in the First Folio of 1623. Stylistic evidence indicates that individual scenes were written by either Shakespeare or his collaborator and successor,… Read More

PHILADELPHIA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 BEAUTIFUL DARK RED COVER, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT WITH NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, THICK PAGES, COLORFUL ARTWORK ON TITLE PAGE. NO DATE LISTED, CIRCA EARLY 1900. TWO COLOR PLATES INSIDE. VOLUME 8 HAS HENRY VI PART I & II AND VOLUME 9 HAS PART III AND KING JOHN. Henry VI is a series of three history plays by William Shakespeare, set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Henry VI, Part 1 deals with the loss of England's French territories and the political machinations leading up to the Wars of the Roses, as the English political system is torn apart by personal squabbles and petty jealousy; Henry VI, Part 2 depicts the King's inability to quell the bickering of his nobles, and the inevitability of armed conflict; and Henry VI, Part 3 deals with the horrors of that conflict. King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 1199¿1216), son of Henry II of England… Read More

PHILADELPHIA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 BEAUTIFUL DARK RED COVER, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT WITH NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, THICK PAGES, COLORFUL ARTWORK ON TITLE PAGE. NO DATE LISTED, CIRCA EARLY 1900. TWO COLOR PLATES INSIDE. King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377¿1399) and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some scholars as the Henriad, followed by three plays concerning Richard's successors: Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V. Richard III is a historical play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1592. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of King Richard III of England.[1] The play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified as such. Occasionally, however, as in the quarto edition, it is termed a… Read More

PHILADELPHIA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 BEAUTIFUL DARK RED COVER, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT WITH NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, THICK PAGES, COLORFUL ARTWORK ON TITLE PAGE. NO DATE LISTED, CIRCA EARLY 1900. TWO COLOR PLATES INSIDE. Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV (two plays, including Henry IV, Part 2), and Henry V. Henry IV, Part 1 depicts a span of history that begins with Hotspur's battle at Homildon in Northumberland against Douglas late in 1402 and ends with the defeat of the rebels at Shrewsbury in the middle of 1403. From the start it has been an extremely popular play both with the public and critics. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

LONDON: BURGESS & BOWES, LTD., 1964 VERY NICE MIDGET CLASSIC WITH RED CUSHIONED COVER, GOLD PRINT SPINE, GOLD PAGE EDGES. COVERED CELLOPHANE COVER FOR PROTECTION, BLACK BOX SLIP COVER BOOK STORED IN. ALMOST NEW CONDITION, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. GLOSSARY AND SONNETS AFTER PAGE 197. VERY NICE SMALL COPY. The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself. The nobleman then has the play performed for Sly's diversion. The main plot depicts the courtship of Petruchio and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.