Barth, John

The Floating Opera

New York, Appleton Century Crofts, Inc, 1956. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards, black lettering on spine; 279 pp. " Barth's first published work, the existentialist and nihilist story is a first-person account of a day when protagonist Todd Andrews contemplates suicide."-website description. Good+ (library label on ffep, shelfwear to boards and block, light age toning to pages. Text is otherwise clean and binding is tight. Missing dust jacket.) .

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Book number: 184523

Catalogue: Fiction; Literature

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Bronte, Charlotte and Temple Scott

Jane Eyre, Volume I and II

Edinburgh, John Grant, 1905. Hardcover. Two volumes bound in green cloth with gilt spine lettering; top edge gilt. Bw illustrated frontispiece in each volume. Volume I is 405 pp. Volume II is 372 pp. 11 unnumbered leaves of plates. In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret. Good+(ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Pages are lightly age toned but otherwise clean and clear.) .

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Book number: 185246

Catalogue: Fiction; Literature

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Cabell, James Branch

Something About Eve: A Comedy of Fig-Leaves

New York, R.M. McBride, 1927. Hardcover. Green boards with gilt design, spine and corners are white, gilt lettering on spine; bw frontispiece with tissue guard; untrimmed pages, ix, 364 pp. Issued in green cardboard slipcase. Limited edition of 850 signed and numbered copies, of which this is numbered 823. Contents include: Part One: The Book of Outset -- Part Two: The Book of Twilight -- Part Three: The Book of Doonham -- Part Four: The Book of Dersam -- Part Five: The Book of Lytreia -- Part Six: The Book of Turoine -- Part Seven: The Book of Poets -- Part Eight: The Book of Mages -- Part Nine: The Book of Mispec Moor -- Part Ten: The Book of Endings -- Part Eleven: The Book of Remnants -- Part Twelve: The Book of Acquiescence. VG/VG- (pages are very clean, light soiling to white spine along top front edges. Slipcase has overall wear) .

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Book number: 181047

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old; Middle Ages Fiction

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Daubler, Theodor

Bestrickungen: Novellen

Berlin-Grunewald, Horen-Verlag, 1927. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with silver and gilt lettering; 147 pp. Text is in German. Contents: Siora Maddalena -- Eine ungeschickte Hexe. VG- (overall wear to boards, binding is tight and pages are clear.) .

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Book number: 186515

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old: Fiction

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Ferrier, Susan

Destiny; or, the Chief's Daughter (Volume 1 and 2)

Philadelphia, Carey and Lea, 1831. Leather bound. Two volume set bound in brown leather boards; volume 1 is 224 pp; volume 2 is 268 pp. By the author of "Marriage," and "The inheritance." Excerpt: "John Knox, fascinated by Queen Mary, presents no more piquant spectacle than these two sides of Miss Ferrier's nature confronting each other. She shows a most accurate perception of the disagreeable side of French character in her portrait of Madame Latour. But in addition to her wit, and again, in somewhat queer contrast, her robust and very native sense of farce breaks irrepressibly through this slight suggestion of French polish. It is certain, too. Fair (heavy wear to boards and spine, heavy age toning and foxing spots. pencil scribbling on end pages, previous owner's name on end pages) .

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Book number: 183641

Catalogue: Fiction: Literature

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Riding, Laura

A Trojan Ending

New York, Random House, 1937. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with bw illustrations on front and spine, black spine lettering; illustrated title page; xxviii, 426 pp. Contents include: Book I- From the Scaean Tower. Book II- In Helen's Chamber. Book III- The Truce. Book IV- Winter. Book V- With the Speed of Spring. Book VI- Peace. VG- (shelfwear to boards, previous owner's name inside front cover, light age toning but pages are otherwise clear.) .

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Book number: 181715

Catalogue: Fiction; Literature

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