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London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth, gilt letters on spine, 282 pp., no illus. One of Robert Browning's full-volume dramatic poems. A nice book to hold. More
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth, gilt letters on spine, 282 pp., no illus. One of Robert Browning's full-volume dramatic poems. A nice book to hold. More
Gloucester, Massachusetts: Peter Smith, 1965. Hardcover. Orange cloth/boards; black lettering. No dust jacket. 510 pp. with bw frontis and 4 additional bw plates. Chapters include: The Problems, The Canterbury Tales, The Longer Works, The Minor Poems, The Romance of the Rose, Conclusion. With appendices, abbreviations, indices, and a list of..... More
[Not Identified]: Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1909. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with green lettering; 55 pp.; frontispiece with tissue guard; richly illustrated with plates. Text in French and English. More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881. Hardbound. Green publishers cloth with beveled edges, simple gilt title on front covers and spine. 2 volumes. Vol. 1:xviii, 398 pp. Vol 2: vi, pp. 1-426. No illustrations. A very attractive set, made all the btter by the autographed note from Bryant to a...... More
New York: Vantage Press, 1976. Hardcover. Thin volume with green buckram/boards; gilt lettering. [32] with bw illustrations throughout. The fictional story of a young German student who visited the United States and spent a Christmas holiday with friends at Anneslie/Baltimore (Maryland) and learned about the country's history. Scarce. More
Philadelphia: Nicholas L. Brown, 1917. Paperback. Color illustrated wraps with blue and grey lettering; 67 pp. First edition of this book. In good condition for its age. More
Kandy, Sri Lanka (Ceylon): Buddist Publication Society, 1976. Paperback. Small, skinny orange stapled wraps with blue and red lettering. 30 pp. A list of publications, including The Wheel; Bodhi Leaves; Bound Volumes; Book Publications; and a Classified List of Titles. More
Bridgeport, Connecticut: Union Publishing Co., 1888. Hardcover. Blue illustrated cloth boards; 766 pp.; richly illustrated. Scarce copy. This version, published by Union Publishing Co., cannot be located in WorldCat and is not for sale anywhere in the world, according to our research. More
NY: Leavitt, Trow & Company, 1848. Gilt-embossed blue cloth. 191 pp. No illus. A lovely copy of this book-length poem that illustrates in words one of Nature's greatest wonders. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1837. Hardcover. Green cloth with floral embossing, tipped-in label on spine. Vol 1 - 212 pp. Vol 2 - 199 pp + list of other works published by Harper Brothers. More
New York: Salley & Collins, 1939. Hardbound. Blue paper covered boards with snow-flake pattern, remnants of cellophane wrapper. 14 pp. A gift book with the title "Christmas 1939" on the front cover. A small edition, distributed presumably as Christmas gifts by this publishing firm to clients and friends. Signed on..... More
Harrisburg, PA: Gedruckt und zu Haben bey Gustav S. Peters, 1832. Hardcover. Original leather boards with gilt lettering and design on the spine; two volumes in one; illustrations. Text in German. More
London / Philadelphia: Gibbings and Company / J.B, Lippincott Co, 1897. Hardcover. Bound in 3/4 black leather and gold and black illustrated boards; matching gold and black marble end papers; bw illustrated frontispiece; xxix, 434 pp; bw illustrations and plates. With a preface by Charles Kingsley and 118 illustrations by..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1979. Limited Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Green full-leather boards with gilt lettering and illustration; there are five compartments and four raised bands on the spine; textblock is fully gilted; cloth bookmark; xv, 189 pp.; 12 unnumbered leaves of plates; richly illustrated. This is one in the series..... More
London: Elliot Stock, 1875. Hardcover. Bound in 3/4 brown leather and marble illustrated paper over boards; 5 raised bands and gilt lettering and design on spine; top edge gilt, IV, (10), 232 pp. Facsimile reproduction of the first edition. More
Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 1856. Hardcover. Brown leather with stamped design and gilt lettering on spine. 766 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Illustrations. Two volumes bound in one. Complete works of English writer and preacher, John Bunyan. More
London: 1928Nonesuch, 1928. Hardcover. Decorative boards, 450 pages : illustrations. Limited to 1600 copies. Number 1319. More
San Francisco: William Doxey (C.E. Murdock & Co. for issue No.1), 1895-1897. Printed color publishers' cloth iwth design (age yellowed). 2 Volumes. (Book I, Nos. 1 - 12; Book II, Nos. 13 - 24 + Epilark issue). First edition, second issue with the Doxey imprint. Complete, with collective title-page and..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Softbound. Black glossy illustrated wraps, [xv] 369pp, no illustrations. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Softbound. Black glossy illustrated wraps, [xviii] 393pp, no illustrations. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that..... More
Louisiana State University Press, 1941. Hardcover. Black cloth, 455 pp. A collection of writings from the 1930s, penned by American literary theorist Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Black stamped cloth, red & illus. dust jacket with acetate cover, figured flyleaves, unpaginated, color illus. A tale from the Brothers Grimm, translated by Randall Jarrell, with full-page illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burtkert. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. Hardcover. Olive green cloth with ornate gilt, red, and black decorations on spine & front cover, 83 pp. plus ad pages, 6 BW illus. A nice edition of this story by English children's author Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924). With six illustrations made from drawings..... More
Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co., 1886. De Luxe edition. Hardcover. Green silk beveled covers, gilt lettering on spine. 6 volumes frontispieces, illustrations, plates, portraits, folded map, folded facsimiles 24 cm. Illustrated with sixty etchings and wood cuts, maps and facsimiles ...contain music also. Nice example of this rare set. LIMITED DE..... More