Category: Literature

The Crown of Success or Four Heads to Furnish

Price: $68.77

Publisher: London, T. Nelson and Sons : 1881

Seller ID: 56107346

Condition: Good

219 pages. A very attractive volume with exquisite gilt lettering and illustration upon brown cloth. All edges gilt. With frontis and illustrations. Presentation inscription upon chocolate coloured front endpaper dated 1882, else unmarked. Moderate wear overall. Dampstains to the corners of some pages and back endpaper.
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Textuerre No. 2 (Two) - Revue Litteraire Bi-Mestrielle, Numero 2, Janvier 1977

By: Agulhon, Brigitte; Antoine, Yves; Butor, Michel; De Crozals, Jean-Marie; Hauc, Jean-Claude; JeanJean, Anne-Marie; Teulongnouailles, Bernard; Verlet, Jean-Louis

Price: $79.95

Publisher: France, B. Teulon-Nouailles : 1977

Seller ID: 302g3408

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

55 pages. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Text in French. A quality copy.
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Collier's, The National Weekly Magazine, October 1, 1949 - Paul (Dreamboat) Douglas / Boater Bob Lane

By: Alexander, Holmes; Clark, Delbert; Ruark, Bob; Frank, Stanley; Frazier, George; Carter, Hodding; Wilson, Earl; Scott, William R.; Hawkins, John and Ward; Williams, Lawrence; Gardner, Erle Stanley; Snow, Enid Sims; Gilden, Bert K.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Springfield, Ohio, The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company : 1949

Seller ID: 534g1549

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

74 pages. Articles: Troubles of College Deans; The Germans Wait Only For a Leader - argues we must make a fresh start toward stopping the rise of old-line Nazis - with color photo of John J. McCloy, High Commissioner for U.S. Occupied Germany; Lover with a Ball Bat - actor Paul (Dreamboat) Douglas - article with colour photos of Douglas and Linda Darnell; Saturday Afternoon Meat Grinders; The Christian Science Monitor - Gentleman of the Press (part 2 of 3); Always Heading for Salt Water - Bob Lane has been making boats since he was five; Fabulous Jacques Fath - article and color photo of fashi...
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Maupassant: The Semiotics of Text - Practical Exercises (Semiotic Crossroads)

By: Algirdas Julien [A.J.] Greimas; Perron, Paul [Translator]

Price: $149.95

Publisher: Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company : 1988

Seller ID: 615h3328

ISBN-13: 9781556190636

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

xxxiv, 258 pages. English version of Maupassant - la semiotique du texte. Includes the unabridged text of Two Friends. Average wear. Usual library markings. Tight and square. A sound reference copy.
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Textuerre, Numero 10-11, Avril 1978

By: Alkema, Tjeerd; Arnal, Andre-Pierre; De Crozals, Jean-Marie; Beaudonnet, Jean-Louis; Bioules, Vincent; Clement, Alain; Dezeuze, Daniel; Sarthou, Claude; Parant, Jean-Luc

Price: $79.95

Publisher: France, B. Teulon-Nouailles : 1978

Seller ID: 302g3409

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

112 pages. Black and white illustrations. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Text in French. A sound copy.
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Collier's, The National Weekly Magazine, 30 July, 1949 - Shelley Winters / Phillip Jessup

By: Allen, Robert S.; Whitman, Howard; Reynolds, Quentin; Caldwell, John; O'Reilly, John; Davidson, Bill; Herndon, Booton; Smith, Bradley; Fay, Bill; Small, Collie; Carson, Robert; Spencer, Sheila

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Springfield, Ohio, The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company : 1949

Seller ID: 534g1540

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

74 pages. Articles: My Pal, Drew Pearson; Richest Man in the Cemetery - warning to wives who don't want to be widows; It Happened in Mississippi - Thousands of sharecroppers in the 13 fertile delta counties are buying and equipping their own farms with aid from the Farmers Home Administration; Voyage of the Pagan - John Caldwell's Sailing Adventure (part 2 of 3); I Cover the Animals - nature writer John (Tex) O'Reilly; The Surprising Phillip Jessup - the man who helped lift the Berlin blockade; It's in the Cards - Jack Jarvis of Seattle prints funny membership cards; Marvelous Mel Parnell; - P...
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The Goloshes of Fortune and Other Stories - the Hans Andersen Library

By: Andersen, Hans Christian

Price: $79.95

Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons : 1916

Seller ID: 56107539

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

119 pages. Undated but appears to be Circa 1916. Illustrated with thirteen pictures. Gift inscription upon front endpaper dated 1916. Very attractive in decorated blue cloth boards with lovely colour illustration pasted on front. Large ornate decorated gilt title upon front board and spine. Both hinges open.
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Collier's, The National Weekly Magazine, September 10, 1949 - Communism vs. The Church

By: Anderson, Stanley; Small, Collie; Wechsberg, Joseph; Lader, Lawrence; Thomas, Bob; Wylie, Evan M.; Fay, Bill; Hail, Steve; Edwards, Charlotte; Chase, Bargaret; Maier, Howard; Hamilton, Donald; Aldrich, Bess Streeter

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Springfield, Ohio, The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company : 1949

Seller ID: 534g1546

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

74 pages. Articles:.Stanley Anderson of Britain is Becoming An American; The Forty-Niners Listen in the Hills - Mining for Uranium - article with color photos; Unholy Crusade - Communism vs. the Church; Psycho Ward No. 3 - Boston Psychopathic; Young People in Theatre - John Barrymore, Jr.; No Business for Sissies - Henry Trefflich is the biggest wild-animal dealer in the U.S.; Star Without a Country - Tennis star Jaroslav Drobny; Great last page photo of a barn-raising bee with dozens of men at work. Fiction: renegade; The Sleeper; Give Me My Golden Arm; The Red Dog; Deadfall (part 2 of 3); Th...
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Occident, Fall, 1960

By: Armstrong, Florence; Editor

Price: $69.95

Publisher: USA, Associated Students of the University of California : 1960

Seller ID: 231h0903

ISBN: B002H9FKG6

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

46 page stapled booklet measuring 9" x 6". Includes poetry and prose by: Edwin Brush, Bruce Hawkins, Oswald LeWinter, Robert B. Newman, Belle Randall, Walt Wright, William Searle and seven others. Also includes a fascinating article by Michael Rossman entitled New Faces on the Picket Line. Average wear. Small incidental pen mark to front cover and coffee stain to lower corner of last few pages. A sound copy.
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Collier's, The National Weekly Magazine, October 13, 1949 - Lincoln's Lost Speech / Clown Ed Wynn

By: Arnold, General H.H. (Hap); Sandburg, Carl; Hill, Gladwin; Davidson, Bill; Gresham, William Lindsay; Gehman, Richard B.; Fay, Bill; Brandon, William; Heinz, W.C.; Archer, Jules; Grubb, Dave; Gardner, Erle Stanley; Macaulay

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Springfield, Ohio, The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company : 1949

Seller ID: 534g1551

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

74 pages. Articles: Tradition Can't Win Wars - General H.H. (Hap) Arnold proposes a method of tightening civilian control of national defense - article with color photo; Confessions of a Congressman's Son - author anonymous; Lincoln's Lost Speech - an American Psalm; It's Ed Wynn Again - in Video - one of the greatest clowns in entertainment history; The Marvelous Mounties - As They Really Are (part 2 of 2); Doctor "Doc" J.S. Dorton - He Makes Our Hearts Gay at the Country Fair - Shelby, North Carolina; Blood and Thunder - Raymond L. Caldwell has assembled the world's best collection of "Penny...
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The Handmaid's Tale

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $495.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt : 1986

Seller ID: 358h4719

ISBN-13: 9780395404256

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

First printing of the American edition. "An accomplished novel so powerful as to shut out events in the real world, while answering forever the question of whether there is such a thing as a woman's novel." - Judith Rossner. 311 pages. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Tight and square. Moderate wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Margaret Atwood
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Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of James Russell Lowell

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $69.95

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1919

Seller ID: 561a5210

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

88 pages. Speakers include: Elihu Root, John Galsworthy, Stephen Leacock and many others. Tissue protected black and white frontis of subject. Gilt spine lettering. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Nice solid copy.
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Etymonia

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: London, Samuel Tinsley : 1875

Seller ID: 562a5829

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

258 pages plus 16 pages of advertisements. "What we have herein written has been conceived in a spirit of philosophic dispassionateness. Let, then, those who would criticize passionately remember this, and forbear. We address ourself to the masters of reason and to the intellectual man; and not to those who are the mere slaves of prejuduce. Let these stand aside, since with them we have no business." - from Author's Notice. One-inch openings at each end of spine. Above-average wear to decorated brown boards. Gilt lettering upon front board and spine. Relatively benign erasures to endpape...
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Hobson's Choice - VHS Movie Tape with Case

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $69.95

Publisher: USA, Janus : 1990

Seller ID: 561c5471

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

VHS video tape in original slipcase. Average wear. British Academy award winner - Best British Film. "Delightful and Rewarding" - The New York Times. Sit your family down and watch this movie. They will thank-you. Suffers early from over-acting by Charles Laughton (Mr. Hobson) but as the story develops you will be abundantly rewarded.
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L'enfant Voue Au Blanc Ou Prudence Est Mere De Surete

By: Author Not Stated

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Belgium, Oeuvre Saint-Charles De Grammont : 1930

Seller ID: 564a5365

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

260 pages. Text in French. Above-average wear. Binding has defects. Worthy reading copy. Undated. Circa 1930?
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Hannah Newton or, A Girl's Trial

By: Author Unknown

Price: $49.95

Publisher: London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge : 1890

Seller ID: 56108036

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

62 pages. Undated. Circa late 1800s?. Loose leaves. Well-worn decorated green boards. Hinges gone.
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Collier's - The National Weekly Magazine, April 23, 1949 - The Dionne Quints

By: Bankhead, Tallulah; Graziano, Rocky; Bernstein, Walter; Lehman, Milton; Carlisle, Madelyn and Norman; Munro, Keith; Davidson, Bill; Grubb; Dave; Coons, Hannibal; Lull, Roderick; Horwitt, Arnold B.; Beauchamp, D.D.; Yerby, Frank

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Springfield, Ohio, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company : 1949

Seller ID: 534g1529

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

94 pages Features: My Friend Ethel Barrymore; Trouble is My Middle Name - Rocky Graziano Story (part 3 of 3); Why You Haven't got a House; Thrill Pills Can Ruin You - Barbituates; The Strange Case of the Dionne Quints - article with great photos of the 15-year-old girls; Fox of the Indies - Matthew Fox on the prowl in Indonesia. Fiction: The Lollipop Tree; Arabella and the Susquehanna; A Wife Walks Out; For Every Man There's a Woman; The Rain Maker; Pride's Castle (part 6 of 8). Includes these ads: a great colour one-page ad for Zenith radios, Packard cars, RCA Victor radios, Ford cars, Old...
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Space Relations: A Slightly Gothic Interplanetary Tale

By: Barr, Donald

Price: $750.00

Publisher: New York, Charterhouse : 1973

Seller ID: 561h2088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

John Armbruster Craig, a rising young earth diplomat, is sold into slavery on the forgotten planet of Kossar. Here, under the strange castle of Treghast, he finds the secret that may mean the end of man in the galaxy. Author's first full-length work of fiction. 249 pages. Contents very clean. Prior owner's name upon soiled top edge otherwise tight and unmarked with light wear to dark blue cloth. Trifle of soiling to bottom edge. Slight lean to spine. Light wear to dust jacket which remains very attractive in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy.; Dust Jacket; 8vo
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The World of Bemelmans; An Omnibus By Ludwig Bemelmans

By: Bemelmans, Ludwig (Signed)

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press : 1955

Seller ID: 561h1808

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Signed and briefly inscribed by author upon half-title page. "Here are four favorite Bemelmans books that have not been easily available recently. My War with the United States is his discovery of America in 1914. Small Beer is the risible saga of his adventures and discoveries on the long road from Tirol to New York. The Donkey Inside takes us on his own magic carpet to the little-hidden-away country of Ecuador. I Love You, I Love You, I Love You is a star-spangled pot-pourri that presents the author in his various roles of bon vivant, doting parent, luxurious vagabond, and somewhat gull...
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God the Stonebreaker (Caribbean Writers Series)

By: Bennett, Alvin

Price: $99.95

Publisher: London, Heinemann : 1973

Seller ID: 56403461

ISBN-13: 9780435981006

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

246 pages. "Granny Brown, known as GB to her many friends and enemies, was tennant of one of the king-sized dust-bins constructed and filled with rubbish by the slum area behind Montego Bay, Jamaica. She was a stonebreaker by profession and by genius historian of all the scandalous gossip of the community". - from back cover. Underlining and/or marginalia interspersed throughout. Average wear. Binding intact. Solid copy.
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Category: Literature