Nigel Cawthorne

Secrets of Love: The Erotic Arts Through the Ages

New York, Harper San Francisco, 1997. Paperback. 192p. A softcover book in essentially fine condition. Like new except for an owner's stamps inside. Very Good .

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Book number: 183436

Catalogue: Literary

Davina Charleston, ed

Victorian Secrets: An Anthology of Victorian Erotica

London, Michael O'Mara Books Limited, 1996. Hardcover. 252p. A black hardcover book in very good condition. Dustjacket clipping taped to front endpaper. Owner's stamps inside, but otherwise clean and tight. Very Good .

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Book number: 183425

Catalogue: Literary

Lyman Cobb

The North American Reader; Containing a Great Variety of Pieces in Prose and Poetry, from Very Highly Esteemed American and English Writers; Also, Observations on Good Reading; the Declaration of Independence; the Constitution of the United States; Political Definitions; Variable Orthography; Concise Principle Sof Pronunciation; Rules for the Division of Words; and the Rules for Spelling the Plurals of Nouns, Particples, Preset Tense, and Preterit of Verbs, and the Comparative and Superlative Degrees of Adjectives

Zanesville, OH, R. & A. Lippitt, 1836. Leather. 504p. A hardcover book bound in full brown leather. Boards rubbed, corners slightly bent, and head of spine chipped. Foxing and occasional small stains inside, but text remains easily legible. Pages 339-358 are coming loose, but still weakly attached. Scattered pencil marginalia. Binding is tight. Good condition for its age. A contemporary of Noah Webster, Lyman Cobb (1800-1864) wrote numerous school textbooks, including a bestselling spelling book. This reader contains selections by Washington Irving ("Traits of Indian Character," "Feelings Excited by a Long Voyage," and several others) and speeches and essays by various Founding Fathers and U.S. statesmen, such as Benjamin Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Martin van Buren, and Henry Clay. Good .

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Book number: 187833

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Paulo Coehlo

Sono Come IL Fiume Che Scorre

Milan, Bompiani, 2006. 1st Italian Edition. Hardcover. 236p. A fine hardcover book in a like dustjacket. Translated into Italian from the Portuguese. A volume of belles lettres by the award-winning Brazilian author, best known for THE ALCHEMIST. As New .

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Book number: 300167

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Cole Lesley, Graham Payn, and Sheridan Morley

Noel Coward and His Friends

New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1979. Hardcover. 216p. A large hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Head of spine lightly bumped. Contains the signature of Chicago-based professional musician Donald Knight; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is price-clipped and lightly sun-toned. Scratches on front panel, one of which is torn; otherwise intact. A retrospective of Coward's career, illustrated with lots of black and white photographs. Measures approx. 11.25" x 8.8. Very Good .

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Book number: 186003

Catalogue: Literary

Joseph Collins

The Doctor Looks at Literature: Psychological Studies of Life and Letters

New York, George H. Doran Company, 1923. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 317p. Ex-library, original cloth. A hardcover book in good reading condition. Labels on spine andback cover. Bookplate, stamps, and card pocket on endpapers; additional library marks on title page. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. Illustrated with tipped-in black and white plates of famous authors. Fair .

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Book number: 198400

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Susan Fenimore Cooper

Rural Hours

Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 1968. First edition with David Jones introduction. Hardcover. 337p. Ex-library, original cloth. A hardcover book in good reading condition. Corners lightly bumped; labels on spine and back cover. Bookplate and card pocket on endpapers and library marks on title page. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. Essays on the seasons of the year with an introduction by David Jones. Fair .

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Book number: 198263

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Noel Coward

I'LL Leave It to You

New York, Samuel French, 1927. French's Standard Library Edition. Paperback. 71p plus ads. Original brown wraps, mild chipping at spine ends. Pages lightly tanned fromm age. Overall good condition. Scarce vintage printing dated to 1927, based on the ads. This was Noel Coward's first play, originally produced in 1920. Good .

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Book number: 1277667

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S. Foster Damon

A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake

Providence, Brown University Press, 1965. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. 460p. A good hardcover book in a good dustjacket. Ex-library: label on spine; label on endpaper; stamp on title page and page edges. Jacket price clipped else intact. Interior pages clean, unmarked, and tight. Good .

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Book number: 131288

Catalogue: Literary

Keywords: About literature

Shelagh Delaney

Sweetly Sings the Donkey

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1963. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 186p. Ex-library. A hardcover book in good reading condition with dustjacket. Stamps on bottom edge, endpapers, and title page; bookplate on front endpaper. Text clean and binding tight. The jacket has been glued to the book itself and is encased in an old plastic cover with a label on the spine. The spine is also sunfaded. Scarce memoir of the playwright best known for A TASTE OF HONEY. Fair .

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Book number: 189614

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Fedor Dostoiewski (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Los Hermanos Karamazov [Spanish Translation of the Brothers Karamazov]

Mexico City, Editorial Nueva Espana, 1944. 1st Mexican Edition. Hardcover. 1197p. Original red cloth, stamped in gilt. Covers rubbed, pencil checkmarks in margins of a few interior pages else clean and tight. Former owner's name on half-title page. A hardcover book in good to very good condition. Very scarce vintage edition of Dostoevsky's classic THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, translated from the Russian into Spanish. The work was first translated into Spanish and published in Madrid in 1927. Part of the Coleccion Atenea series of classic literature, it was then published in both Mexico City and Buenos Aires in 1944. Good .

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Book number: 1268914

Catalogue: Literary

John Colin Dunlop

History of Prose Fiction: Vols. I-II

London, G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1911. Hardcover. Ex-library. Stamps on title pages and page edges. Card pocket glued to front endpapers. Numbers painted on spines. Very light foxing on endpapers. Otherwise a tight, clean hardcover set. Publisher's stamp embossed into cover. Burgundy cloth boards. Complete 2 volume set. History of Western fiction from classical writers to the Romantic period and contemporary European novels. Good .

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Book number: 1210679

Catalogue: Literary

Keywords: classics, European literature, western literature

[Finley Peter Dunne]

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War

Boston, Small, Maynard & Company, 1899. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. 260p. A green cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Cover lightly rubbed due to normal shelf wear. Early owner's signature inside front cover, and rear endpapers unevenly tanned. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. Humorous essays originally published in the Chicago Evening Post and Chicago Journal. Very Good .

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Book number: 191608

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George Matthew Dutcher et al.

A Guide to Historical Literature

NY, Macmillan, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover; original red cloth. Ex-library book with various library stamps and labels. Edges worn; spine sunfaded. Text clean and tight and book otherwise in very good condition. Fair .

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Book number: 93537

Catalogue: Literary

Keywords: Book Arts

Grace Eckley

News Stead: A Journal of History and Literature, No. 12 (Spring 1998)

The William T. Stead Memorial Society, 1998. Paperback. 28p. A staplebound magazine in fine condition. Spring 1998 issue of NEWS STEAD, a semiannual periodical of the William T. Stead Memorial Society. Stead was a Victorian investigative journalist and newspaper editor who died in the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic. This issue features Russian journalist Olga Novikoff on the cover and contains articles on British missionary-nurse Kate Marsden, as well as Stead's first article for THE NORTHERN ECHO from 1870. As New .

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Book number: 188349

Catalogue: Literary