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

Keywords: Fiction; Literature ; Fiction ; ;

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

Keywords: Fiction; Literature ; Fiction ; ;

Brown, John and Andrew Lang

Rab and His Friends and Our Dogs

New York, The Century Co, 1900. Leather bound. Extensively embossed brown leather covers depicting dogs with title and signed in bottom right corner, "BMM". All edge gilt; tan, brown and orange marbled end papers; bw portrait frontispiece; red bordered title page, xviii, 140 pp. Frontispiece is titled; "Dr. John Brown. From the collection of Ernest Dressel North, Summit, New Jersey." Includes an introduction by Andrew Lang. VG- (heavy wear to boards with tear along front cover and spine, pages are very clean and clear.) .

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Book number: 182685

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction ; Fiction; Dogs ; ;

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

Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; Historical Fiction ; ;

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

Keywords: Literature Young and Old: Fiction ; Fiction ; ;

Defoe, Daniel and James Plumptre

The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1882. Leather bound. Brown textured leather boards with gilt ruling, five raised bands on spine with black title block and gilt lettering, marble tinted block edges, marble illustrated end pages, xxiv, 448 pp, bw illustrations. New edition, revised and corrected by James Plumptre, B.D. Vicar of Great Gransden Hunts. VG (overall wear to boards, light foxing to beginning and end pages but pages are otherwise very clean and clear. Previous owner's name on ffep. It appears name was on title page also and whitened out) .

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Book number: 178902

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction ; Robinson Crusoe ; ;

Ebers, Georg

The Elixir and Other Tales

New York, W.S. Gottsberger & Co, 1890. Hardcover. Bound in half tan leather and tan cloth boards, gilt spine lettering; bw portrait frontispiece of author; 261 pp. Translated from the German edition by Mrs. Edward Hamilton Bell. Contents include: The elixir. -- The Greylock, a fairy tale. -- The nuts, a Christmas story. Good (shelfwear and soiling overall to boards and block, library label inside front cover, library stamp on title page, and library pocket inside rear covers. Pages are age toned as expected with age but are otherwise clear.) .

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Book number: 182963

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction ; German Fiction ; ;

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

Keywords: Fiction: Literature ; Fiction ; ;

Firbank, Ronald

Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli

London, G. Richards, 1926. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine; 150 pp. bw portrait frontispiece. A first edition limited to 1000 copies printed. Good+ (overall soiling and wear to covers, tear to cloth along bottom of spine;previous owner's name on ffep, pages are age toned but otherwise clean and clear.) .

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Book number: 182390

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction ; Fiction ; ;

Hellman, Dave

Peacock's Feather

Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931. 2458/249. Hardcover. Green, black, and blue decorative paper over boards; off-white vellum spine with gilt spine lettering; shiny gold end papers; untrimmed pages; color illustrated frontispiece; red and black bordered and illustrated title page; 350 pp. "Autographed edition of Peacock's Feather limited to two hundred and forty-nine copies of which this is number 245." Signed by author. Good+ (overall shelfwear to boards, soiling to spine; foxing and soiling to ffep, frontispiece and title page. Remaining pages are otherwise very clean and clear other than expected light age toning.) .

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Book number: 184552

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction ; Fiction; Greek Fables ; ;

Legrand, Edy

Macao Et Cosmage, Ou, L'Experience Du Bonheur

Paris, Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1919. Softcover. Oversized, hand-colored wraps with black lettering, (54) pp, profusely illustrated with pochoir plates throughout. "The first children's book published by NRF, and one of the masterworks of children's literature created by the young painter Edouard Warshawsky, known as Edy-Legrand, stencilled in color by Jean Saudé. The fable tells the story of a brown woman and a white man living harmoniously on an idyllic island, filled with marvelous animals and flowers, whose existence is threatened by the forces of colonialization represented by the arrival of a naval ship and its sailors. The images and compositions display the influence of Fauvism and Cubism, and the way they inhabit and move within the page has been compared by Claude-Anne Parmégiani to the syncopated rythms of jazz." -website. As is (covers soiled and worn, spine is gone, pages are loose but this is a complete copy. Images are still very bright and clear.) .

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Book number: 182741

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction ; Juvenile Fiction ; ;

Lorac, E.C.R.

Murder by Matchlight ( a Chief-Inspector Macdonald Mystery)

New York, Mystery House, 1946. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with blue lettering on front cover and spine; 288 pp. A rare first edition issued in the United States. "On a damp November evening in wartime London, a young chemist sits on a bench in Regent's Park and watches as an approaching stranger suddenly disappears beneath a footbridge. Seconds later another figure appears on the same overpass, stops to smoke and discard a cigarette, and strikes a match that briefly illuminates a face beyond his own. Through the succeeding darkness come the sounds of a thud and a falling body - then silence. Thus begins this chilling mystery from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Murder by Matchlight features Scotland Yard's imperturbable Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald, who is tasked with finding the killer of the man on the bridge. His only evidence: a set of bicycle tracks that come to an abrupt end. His suspects: a colorful cast that includes the shy, soft-spoken witness, a respected London physician, a screenwriter, an unemployed laborer, and a vaudevillian specializing in illusions - a lively group whose questionable activities will keep readers guessing until the final twist and turn of this deftly plotted whodunit."- website description. VG- (soiling and wear to boards, age toning to pages but text is clear. No dust jacket) .

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Book number: 182311

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction ; Fiction ; ;

Marvel, Ik

Reveries of a Bachelor, or, a Book of the Heart

New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1900. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with extensive gilt tooling and gilt lettering on front and spine; top edge gilt, color illustrated frontispiece with descriptive tissue guard, xviii, 244 pp; several color plates throughout. Includes an introduction by Arlo Bates. VG- (previous owner's name inside front and rear cover, title half page is loose, pages are otherwise clean and tight) .

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Book number: 182700

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction ; Fiction ; ;

Melville, Herman; et al.

The Piazza Tales: And Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860

Evanston/ Chicago, Northwestern University Press / Newberry Library, 1987. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering; red title block on spine; off-white dj with red and black lettering; viii, 847 pp; facsimiles. Included are two sea tales that encompass the essence of Melville's art: "Benito Cereno", an exhilarating account of mutiny and rescue aboard a disabled slave ship, which is a parable of man's struggle against the forces of evil, and "The Encantadas", ten allegorical sketches of the Galapagos Islands, which reveal nature to be both enchanting and horrifying. Two pieces explore themes of isolation and defeat found in Melville's great novels: "Bartelby, the Scrivener", a prophetically modern story of alienation and loss on nineteenth-century Wall Street, and "The Bell Tower", a Faustian tale about a Renaissance architect who brings about his own violent destruction. The other two works reveal Melville's mastery of very different writing styles: "The Lightning-Rod Man", a satire showcasing his talent for Dickensian comedy, and "The Piazza", the title story of the collection, which anticipates the author's later absorption with poetry. Contents: The piazza tales --; Uncollected pieces --; Reconstructed lectures --; Attributed pieces --; Editorial appendix. VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Pages are otherwise clean and clear. Binding tight.) .

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Book number: 187322

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction ; American Prose Literature ; ;

Pierce, John J.

Foundations of Science Fiction: A Study in Imagination and Evolution

New York, Greenwood Press, 1987. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with silver lettering; xv, 290 pp. Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, No. 25. Foreword by Frederik Pohl. Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-273) and index. VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Pages are otherwise clean.) .

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Book number: 185519

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction ; Science Fiction ; ;