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Catholic Digest Omnibus

London, W.H. Allen, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 440p. A red cloth hardcover book in good condition. Front free endpaper is clipped off, and the 1/2 title page is almost entirely split off. Former owner's inscriptions on front endpapers. Two small bits of tape residue on back endpaper. Otherwise, the cover is lightly rubbed, the text is clean, and the binding is tight. Introduction by James Keller. Contains essays by many Catholic writers, such as Ronald Knox, Fulton Sheen, Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh, G.K. Chesterton, and more. Represents articles published in theCATHOLIC DIGEST. .

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Buchzahl: 142940

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John Ayre

Northrop Frye: A Biography

Toronto, Random House, 1989. Hardcover. 472p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. Like-new apart from a former owner's neat bookplate inside the front cover. Black marker streak on bottom edge. A biography of the Canadian literature critic. Contains a section of black and white photographs. .

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Buchzahl: 149899

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William Edmondstoune Aytoun, ed

The Ballads of Scotland, Volumes I-II

Edinburgh/London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. Second Edition. Leather. 2 vols. 296p; 403p. A set of two hardcover books bound in 3/4 dark blue leather with marbled boards, foredges, and endpapers. The spines are sunfaded (a bit more severely on volume II) and the corners lightly rubbed. Early owner's flourishing pencil inscription on a blank front endpaper in volume I. Otherwise, pages clean and binding tight. A handsome two-volume collection of Scottish poetry. .

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Buchzahl: 176944

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Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

For the Story Teller: Storytelling and Stories to Tell

Springfield, MA, Milton Bradley Company, 1920. Hardcover. 261p. A green cloth hardcover book in acceptable condition. Edges rubbed, and lots of little rub marks on covers. Small marker notation at top of front cover. FRONT HINGE CRACKED, but all pages still attached. Text unmarked. A worn but readable copy. Explains how to improve approaches to storytelling for the moral education of children. .

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Buchzahl: 178586

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[Robert Frost]. George P. Baker

The Pilgrim Spirit: A Pageant in Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts December 21, 1620

Boston, Marshall Jones Company, 1921. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 136p, 2 blank, 3pp ads. A fine hardcover book in a very good dustjacket. The book is flawless but the dustjacket is mildly worn at the spine ends with the loss of a half-inch of paper at the crown. SCARCE EARLY ROBERT FROST ITEM. The text is a pageant produced by the committee celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the Plymouth Rock Landing. Frost contributed the poem THE RETURN OF THE PILGRIMS. .

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Buchzahl: 1225950

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Sonstige Stichworte: Poetry

James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room

New York, Vintage Books/ Random House LLC, 2013. Paperback. 169p. A softcover book in very good condition. Like new apart from faint creasing at the bottom corner. A novel set in 1950s Paris by the famous Black author. Very Good .

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Buchzahl: 204329

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James Baldwin

Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son

New York, Delta, 1962. Paperback. 241p. A softcover book in very good condition. Edges a bit worn; mild spotting and a patch of sticker residue on front cover. Neat former owner signature on front endpaper. First and last pages a bit loose but remain attached. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. A vintage paperback copy of Baldwin's collection of essays on race, politics, sexuality, and writing. Very Good .

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Buchzahl: 204382

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James Baldwin

Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son

New York, Delta, 1964. Paperback. 120p. A softcover book in very good condition. Edges a bit worn; mild creasing to spine and a smudge where a sticker was removed on front cover. Neat former owner signature on front endpaper. Page 63-64 dog-eared. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. A vintage paperback copy of Baldwin's bestselling indictment of American racism. The book is made up of two essays: "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" and "Down At the Cross: Letter from a Region in my Mind. Very Good .

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Buchzahl: 204383

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Hans Urs von Balthasar

Bernanos: An Ecclesial Existence

San Francisco, A Communio Book (Ignatius Press), 1996. Paperback. 617p. Ex-library. A softcover book in very good condition. Unmarked and tight, but with a label taped to the spine, stamp on title page, and additional label inside back cover. Otherwise virtually like new, as if unread. A study of the life and thought of French Catholic author Georges Bernanos. Good .

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Buchzahl: 196603

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Honore de Balzac

Droll Stories

New York, Random House. Modern Library edition. Hardcover. 553p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Binding is cockeyed, but still tight. A few light stains on spine. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The jacket is lightly rubbed and worn due to normal shelf wear, and the spine is a bit faded. Otherwise intact and not price-clipped. Modern Library no. 193, with Rockwell Kent endpapers. Undated vintage printing, ca. 1940s. Very Good .

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Buchzahl: 198272

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Honre de Balzac

Old Goriot

New York/London, The Heritage Press, the Nonesuch Press. Hardcover. 317p. A hardcover book with a red cloth spine and patterned boards. Very good condition, lacking the slipcase. The spine is faded and the boards lightly rubbed; otherwise clean and tight. Translated by Ellen Marriage, introduced by Francois Mauriac, and illustrated by Rene ben Sussan. Undated; ca. 1950. .

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Honore de Balzac

Old Goriot

New York, The Heritage Press. Hardcover. 317p. A hardcover book bound in 1/4 red cloth with patterned boards. Very good condition. Spine faded. Light stains on pages x-xi in the introduction. Otherwise clean and tight. Undated; ca. 1950s. Translated by Ellen Marriage, introduction by Francois Mauriac, and illustrated by Rene Ben Sussan. Includes the Sandglass notes. Very Good .

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Buchzahl: 186558

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Edward J. Bander

Mr. Dooley and Mr. Dunne: The Literary Life of a Chicago Catholic

New York, Michie/Bobbs-Merrill, 1981. Hardcover. 321p. A new hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. Still in shrinkwrap. Exerpts from Finley Peter Dunne's turn-of-the-century columns starring the fictional Mr. Dooley, mingled with biographical material about Dunne. .

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Buchzahl: 147549

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John Kendrick Bangs

The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1896. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 176p plus ads in back. A dark blue cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Edges lightly rubbed and binding slightly cockeyed, but still tight. Bookplate residue inside front cover. Otherwise clean. Humorous plays by a satirist who was also an editor of PUCK. Contains black and white illustrations. Very Good .

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Buchzahl: 193192

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John Kendrick Bangs

R. Holmes & Co. Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq. , Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1906. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 231p. A small, decorated grey-blue cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Edges lightly rubbed and spine slightly cockeyed. Former owner's signature on the back of the frontispiece. Plates lightly foxed, but otherwise, text clean and binding quite secure. A scarce collector's item, this work is a collection of short stories intended as sequels to E.W. Hornung's "Raffles" books, which spoofed the Sherlock Holmes character. Illustrated by Sydney Adamson. Measures approx. 6.8" x 4.5. Ill.: Sydney Adamson.

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Buchzahl: 167556

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Sonstige Stichworte: Sydney Adamson