Examples of goodness : narrated for the young; Translated from the German

Philadelphia, James K. Simon. 1852. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ill.: T. Sinclair's Lith (Lithographer). Book, blue blind-stamped cloth, gilt cover ans spine,116 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of hand-colored plates : illustrations, CONTENTS; Aunt Christina,Old Agatha,The table,The Chinese tent,The little Spanish girl,Mischievous Adele,Female courage Julius and Mary,moisture marks on prelims, and a few pp of text, a very good copy, rare in this the 2nd edition. Very Good/no d.j. as Issued.

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Book number: 1125558138

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: T. Sinclair's Lith (Lithographer)Children's Stories, American,Conduct of Life,Didactic Fiction Fiction,Juvenile Literature 1852,Juvenile Works,Morale Pratique Romans, Nouvelles, Etc. Pour la Jeunesse,Christian Life,Christian Life Juvenile Fiction,Courage,

Islanders; With an Introduction by Robert Lyned

Cork, Ireland, The Mercier Press. 1965. Soft cover, 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book, pictorial paperback, 124 pages, very small ink sig at top of half title, else a very good + copy. Very Good.

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Book number: 1125559248

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Donegal (Ireland : County) Fiction, Donegal (Irlande : Comte?) Romans, Nouvelles, Etcfiction, Ireland Donegal (County) Romans Literature

CARNAC CAROL;

Affair at Helen's Court

Garden City, N.Y, Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday. 1958, First US Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ill.: jacket design by Rus Anderson. Book, green cloth, dust jacket, 191 pages, 1 st US edition, (so stated) published in UK under title, "Long Shadpws" very light wear at edges, dust jacket with price (2.95), dust jacket shows wear at spine ends with some minor loss, and at corners, dust jacket shows some slight wear at spine folds. in protective mylar jacket. a very good + copy of a rare title by Edith Caroline Rivett was a British crime writer, who wrote under the pseudonyms E. C. R. Lorac, Carol Carnac and Mary Le Bourne. a rare title. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 1125559329

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Jacket Design By Rus Andersondetective and Mystery Fiction, Fiction, Great Britain Mystery Fiction, Police, Police Great Britain Fiction Crime & Mystery Rare Books

CARROLL, LEWIS

Ludovici Carroll Alicia in Terra Mirabili. Liber notissimus primum abhinc annis centum editus

London, Macmillan Co. 1964, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Tenniel John, Illustrator. Book, pictorial red cloth, gilt spine, 116,(1) pages, illustrated, 1 st edition in Latin ,pictorial end papers, dust jacket is toned with some signs of moisture at spine and along top edge of dust jacket, d.j. is NOT price-clipped. in protective mylar. Clive Harcourt Carruthers (c.?1891-1980) was a Canadian classicist. Very Good/Fair.

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Book number: 1125558689

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Tenniel John, Illustratorenglish Fiction -- 20th Century Children's Stories Children's /Juvenile's Literature

CUSK, RACHEL

Second Place: A Novel; Long-Listed for 2021 Booker Prize

Toronto, Harper Perennial. 2021, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9781443458733) Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, cloth dust jacket, 288 pages, first Canadian edition, as new, in mylar jacket, long-listed for the 2021 Booker Prise. Cusk is a Canadian who lives in Paris. "A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and landscape. Over the course of one hot summer, his provocative presence provides the frame for a study of female fate and male privilege, of the geometries of human relationships, and of the struggle to live morally between our internal and external worlds."--Provided by publisher. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 1125557436

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 9781443458733 Artists -- Fiction. Man-Woman Relationships -- Fiction. Male Domination (Social Structure) -- Fiction. Privilege (Social Psychology) -- Fiction. Art -- Fiction. Interpersonal Relations -- Fiction. Art. Artists. Interpersonal Relations. Male

ROBERTS CHARLES G. D.

Eyes of the wilderness

New york, Macmillan Co. 1933, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, green cloth, 1 st American edition, 269 pages, CONTENTS: Tabitha Blue, or the indiscretions of a Persian cat,The bear woke up The ladder,Good for evil,The quiet village,Fire,Wolf! wolf! Lone clearing,The moose and Rusty Jones,When Judson froze Fisherman's luck,Eyes of the wilderness. spine is faded as are the edges, sound, tight copy. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 1125558456

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Animals,Animals Legends and Stories,Biographies Biography & Autobiography Canadiana

DEFOE DANIEL

The adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Franklin Center, Pa. Franklin Library. 1977. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Walter Paget (Illustrator). Book, bound in full brown morocco, gilt cover and spine, 374 pages : illustrations,4 raised bands, brown moire end papers, all edges gilt, silk page marker, a volume in the series 100 greatest books of all time. minor shelf wear to lower edge. The story begins with the universal quest: the young man in Britain, torn between his safe home and his hunger for adventure, breaks away from his loving father and sails away into the unknown. After a series of harrowing escapes, he's shipwrecked on a desert island. His lively first-person account shows how his intelligence and education help him survive for many years, and how he uses technology, including guns and tools salvaged from the shi. Near Fine/no d.j. as Issued.

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Book number: 1125558480

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Walter Paget (Illustrator)Action and Adventure Fiction,Adventure Stories,Castaways Castaways Fiction. Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious Character) Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious Character) Fiction,Fiction Islands Biography & Autobiography

BRONTE EMILY

Wuthering Heights

Franklin Center, Pa, Franklin Library. 1979. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, bound in red, full leather, gilt dec. cover and spine, 4 raised bands, moire end papers, silk page marker, all edges gilt, 338 pages, A volume in the series, "100 greatest books of all time." A limited edition, unread , as new. As New.

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Book number: 1125559197

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Domestic Fiction, Enfants Trouve?S Romans, Nouvelles, Etc England Yorkshire, Familles Rurales Romans, Nouvelles, Etc Fiction, Foundlings, Foundlings Fiction, Love Stories, Literature Franklin Library Editions

GARCÍA LORCA FEDERICO

Cinco farsas breves : Seguidas de asi que pasen cinco anos

Buenos Aires, Editorial Losada. 1960, 2nd Edition. Soft cover, 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book, printed paper covers,206 pages,2nd edition, in Spanish, very good condition. Very Good.

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Book number: 1125557814

Catalogue: Fiction

MEYRINK GUSTAV

The golem

London,, Folio Society. 2010. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Vladimir Zimakov (illustrator). Book, presentation case, 262 pages , illustrated, Vladimir Zimakov (illustrator), introduction by Ian Sinclair. as new copy in sd new case. As New/Boxed.

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Book number: 1125559368

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Vladimir Zimakov (Illustrator)Czech Republic Prague, Fiction, Prague (Czech Republic) Fiction Literature

HARDING, PAUL

This Other Eden (long listed for 2023 Booker Prize)

Freedericton New Brunswick, Goose Lane Editions. 2023, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 1773103121) Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, pictorial paper,221 pages, first Canadian edition, Long listed for the 2023 Booker Prize, From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated, and often hungry, but nevertheless protected from the hostility awaiting them on the mainland (until)... New.

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Book number: 1125558277

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 1773103121 Domestic Fiction,Eugenics,Eugenics Fiction,Families,Families Fiction Fiction,Historical Fiction,Hurricanes,Hurricanes Fiction,Islands Islands Fiction,Missio,Aries,Missionaries Fictionrace Relations Race Relations Fiction,Racially Mixed People,R

CROSBY EDWARD HAROLD

RADIANA; a novel,

Boston, Ivy Press. 1906, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Illustrations By P.B. Dakyn. Book, gilt dec. blue cloth, gilt spine. 427 pages, [3] full page plates (inc. frontis.) binding a bit dull, light spine fade, light over all soil to covers, a sound copy of a book scarce in 1 st edition. Size: 8 vo. Good/No Dust Jacket.

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Book number: 1124512

Catalogue: Science Fiction

Keywords: Illustrations By P.B. Dakynearly Science Fiction Novels.

JAMES HENRY ,EUGENE ATGET

The ambassadors

Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library. 1980, Limited Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ill.: portfolio of photographs by Eugene Atget. Book, black, gilt dec, full leather binding, gilt cover & spine, 406 pages, illustrated, all edges gilt,3 raised bands, moire end papers, silk page-marker,, A volume in the series The 100 greatest books of all time. never read. contains a 32 pp portfolio of sepia-toned images from the photographs of Atget entitled " A City Observed." The Paris of Henry James and Eugene Atget. As New.

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Book number: 1125558128

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Keywords: Portfolio of Photographs By Eugene Atgetamericans,Americans France Fiction,Fiction,France,France Paris Paris (France) Fiction Photography Literature

HENRY JAMES, LEON EDEL (EDITOR, WRITER OF INTRODUCTION)

The complete tales of Henry James; 8 volumes,1864-1892

Philadelphia, Lippincott. 1963, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 8 volumes in dust jackets, CONTENTS: 1.1864-1868,2.1868-1872 3.1873-1875.4.1876-1882,5.1883-1884,6.1884-1888,7.1888-1891 8.1891-1892. spine of d.j. vol.5 sunned, else a clean, tight set. NOT price-clipped, all in protective mylar. Near Fine.

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Book number: 1125558484

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction,Fictional Work,Manners and Customs,Nouvelles Ame?Ricaines 19e Sie`Cle,Nouvelles Ame?Ricaines 20e Sie`Cle,Romans Short Stories,Short Stories, American,Short Stories, American 19th Century,Short Stories, American 20th Century,United States United St

THURBER JAMES

The thirteen clocks ; and the wonderful O

Harmondsworth, Penguin,in association with Hamish Hamilton. 1962. Soft cover, 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Illustrated by Ronald Searle. Book, pictorial covers, 157 pages, full page frontis. illustration, by Searle, plus 10 full page illustratiosn in text, also numerous half page illustrations, very skillful tape repair to fron cover near spine at top edge else a very good copy.Puffin books (Series)180. CONTENTS; The thirteen clocks. Originally published, London : Hamish Hamilton, 1951 The wonderful O. Originally published, New York : Simon and Schuster, 1957. Very Good.

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Book number: 1125558467

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Illustrated By Ronald Searlepuffin Books Literature, Penguin Books Literature