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The HISTORY The INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN Of DON QUIXOTE Of La MANCHA.; Translated from the Spanish by P. A. Motteux
Cervantes, Miguel De [1547 - 1616]. Motteux, P. A. - Translator
Book Number: 66465
ISBN:
Publisher: John Grant, Edinburgh, 1906.
4 Volumes 8vo. hardcovers. pp.445,484,512,508.b/w plates & frontis in all volumes with tissue guards, uncut. Good, some foxing, Vol1 tears at top of spine, some wear and soiling to covers. Heavy set extra post may apply.
Price: $250.00

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST: VOLUME 3, The Guermantes Way.
Proust, Marcel.
Book Number: 66075
ISBN: 0143039229
Publisher: Penguin, Reprint 2005.
8vo softcover 619pp. very good.
Price: $25.00

Ovid's Selected Works
Thornton, J. C. & M. J. (editors) [Ovid]
Book Number: 65843
ISBN:
Publisher: J M Dent And Sons Limited, London 1955.
Small 8vo. hardcover. 432pp. index. Very good, owner's details on fep. / good, chipped d/w. Everyman's Library No. 955.
Price: $15.00

The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I
Grene, David & Lattimore, Richmond (editors) [Sophocles]
Book Number: 65845
ISBN:
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press, 1954.
8vo. softcover. 206pp. Good, a little underlining, small crease on rear corner, owner's name on fep. Includes Oedipus The King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone.
Price: $10.00

Peter Ibbetson with an Introduction By His Cousin Lady ***** (" Madge Plunket" )
Du Maurier, George
Book Number: 65011
ISBN:
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, London 1924.
8vo. hardcover. 381pp. b/w illus. Good, spine faded, missing fep.,
Price: $15.00

Hillingdon Hall or The Cockney Squire.
Surtees, R.S.
Book Number: 63582
ISBN: 1845882113
Publisher: Nonsuch Classics, UK. 2006.
12mo. softcover. 512pp. Near Fine. Written in 1845, this satire follows the lovable cockney grocer Jorrocks, and takes a stab at the upper-class fox hunting gentry of the day.
Price: $10.00

Tales of The Arabian Nights
Dulken, H. W. (editor)
Book Number: 63225
ISBN: 08900800x
Publisher: Castle USA 1984.
8vo. hardcover. 822pp. b/w illus. Very good, light foxing to endpapers. / Good+ d/w with creased rear flap and small tear at top of spine(repaired). The Text Revised and Emendated throughout by H.W. Dulcken with upwards of 200 Illustrations by Eminent Artists.
Price: $45.00

Romance of the Rose
Lorris, Guillaume De and Jean de Meun
Book Number: 52350
ISBN: 0525470905
Publisher: E. P. Dutton April 23, 1962
8vo softcover 472pp very good. Po notes in pencil on end pages. This is a new translation of The Romance of the Rose, an allegorical account of the progress of a courtly love affair which became the most popular and influential of all medieval romances. In the hands of Jean de Meun, who continued de Lorris's work, it assumed vast proportions and embraced almost every aspect of medieval life from predestination and optics, to the Franciscan controversy and the right way to deal with premature hair-loss.
Price: $8.00

Three Bear Witness (Testimonies in the USA)
O'Brian, Patrick
Book Number: 58778
ISBN:
Publisher: Secker and Warburg, Stated First Published 1952
8vo. Yellow washed green boards. no d/w. front board slightly bowed, otherwise the copy itself is almost mint, no foxing or toning. Lists The Last Pool as other work by same author.
Price: $75.00

The Stony Road: A Tale of Humble Life.
By the Author of
Book Number: 43937
ISBN:
Publisher: London, T. Woolmer. N.D.
Small 8vo. green dec. cloth hardcover. 172pp. + ads, b/w frontis with tissue guard. Very good, light rubbing to cover eges, light wear to cover corners, light foxing, mainly to first & last few pages, owner's inscription & very small stail on fep.
Price: $20.00

A New Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms: Being the Fifth Part of the Travels Into Several Remote Parts of the Worl
Lemuel Gulliver (Swift, Jonathan)
Book Number: 52382
ISBN:
Publisher: Putnam, New York. 1969
8vo. hardcover. 91pp. Very good. / very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

The Tragedy of a Genius
Balzac, Horore de, (translated by Henry Blanchamp
Book Number: 22544
ISBN:
Publisher: New York Brentanto's n.d.
small 8vo. 303pp, red embossed cloth with slight wear to spine crease, embossed spine, Gilt not shiney, The Lotus Library. Cover and spine have 'Tragedy of a Genuis' embossed and title page has 'Tragedy of a Genius' printed
Price: $25.00

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
Walls, Jeannette
Book Number: 54849
ISBN: 1416586288
Publisher: Scribner October 6, 2009
8vo hardcover 288pp very good / very good d/w. For the first 10 years of her life, Lily Casey Smith, the narrator of this true-life novel by her granddaughter, Walls, lived in a dirt dugout in west Texas. Walls, whose megaselling memoir, The Glass Castle, recalled her own upbringing, writes in what she recalls as Lily's plainspoken voice, whose recital provides plenty of drama and suspense as she ricochets from one challenge to another. Having been educated in fits and starts because of her parents' penury, Lily becomes a teacher at age 15 in a remote frontier town she reaches after a solo 28-day ride. Marriage to a bigamist almost saps her spirit, but later she weds a rancher with whom she shares two children and a strain of plucky resilience. (They sell bootleg liquor during Prohibition, hiding the bottles under a baby's crib.) Lily is a spirited heroine, fiercely outspoken against hypocrisy and prejudice, a rodeo rider and fearless breaker of horses, and a ruthless poker player. Assailed by flash floods, tornados and droughts, Lily never gets far from hardscrabble drudgery in several states--New Mexico, Arizona, Illinois--but hers is one of those heartwarming stories about indomitable women that will always find an audience. Originally conceived as a biography based on family interviews and historical research, Walls found herself filling in too many blanks for Half Broke Horses to remain a work of nonfiction, so she assumed Smith's indomitable voice and set out to write a novelistic recreation of Smith's unconventional life. Most critics were captivated by Smith's earthy, straightforward style, despite the steady stream of repetitive axioms intermingled with her antics.
Price: $12.00

Her Benny
Hocking, Silas K.
Book Number: 43972
ISBN: 0900389036
Publisher: The Gallery Press 1968
Small 8vo softcover 200pp b/w illus. very good, owner's inscription on fep.
Price: $6.00

Conversations With Eternity: The Forgotten Masterpiece of Victor Hugo
Hugo, Victor
Book Number: 48763
ISBN: 1892138018
Publisher: New Paradigm Books 1998
8vo softcover 260pp. b/w illus. Very good. The first translation into English ever of the most important of the transcripts of these séances, with an introduction by Martin Ebon setting Hugo's channeling experiences in their historical context.
Price: $15.00

The Second Jungle Book
Kipling, Rudyard
Book Number: 61392
ISBN: 0333327977
Publisher: London Macmillan 1982. Centenary Edition
8vo hardcover 299pp. b/w illus. very good+. / very good d/w with faded spine.
Price: $15.00

Tales from Chaucer
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Book Number: 36378
ISBN:
Publisher: Oxford University Press, London, 1967.
8vo. hardcover. 239pp. colour illus by Majorie Walters. very good. / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

Traffics and Discoveries
Kipling, Rudyard
Book Number: 35016
ISBN:
Publisher: London Macmillan 1982. Centenary Edition
8vo hardcover 393pp. very good+. / very good d/w with faded spine.
Price: $12.00

Limits and Renewals
Kipling, Rudyard
Book Number: 35009
ISBN:
Publisher: London Macmillan 1982. Centenary Edition
8vo hardcover 398pp. very good+. / very good d/w with faded spine.
Price: $12.00

Thelma : A Norwegian Princess
Corelli
Book Number: 50760
ISBN:
Publisher: Methuen, London 1896. 15th edition
8vo. red cloth hardcover. 615pp. Good+. light wear to spine edges, foxing mainly to edges, owner's inscription on fep.
Price: $18.00

Ardath. The Story of a Dead Self
Corelli
Book Number: 50761
ISBN:
Publisher: Methuen, London 1897. 10th edition
8vo. red cloth hardcover. 6102pp. Good+. light wear to spine edges, foxing mainly to edges, owner's inscription on fep.
Price: $18.00

Lord Jim
Conrad, Joseph
Book Number: 51245
ISBN:
Publisher: International Collectors Library n.d. - The Lois XVI Replica Binding
8vo. Green leatherette boards. Very good. 309pp. Includes original flyer from publishers. Rough cut page edges - lightly toned, printed on heavy texured cream paper, the page tops and spine title and spine and front board decorations are all in 24K gold, and not worn, as stated in flyers from the publishers. Ribbon place marker. Conrad's classic story about the wanderings of Jim in the Middle East and a Malaysian trading post.
Price: $15.00

The Light That Failed
Kipling, Rudyard
Book Number: 35005
ISBN:
Publisher: London Macmillan 1981. Centenary Edition
8vo hardcover 292pp. very good+. / very good d/w with faded spine.
Price: $12.00

The Roadmender & The Gathering of Brother Hilarius
Fairless, Michael. illustrated by Norman Hepple
Book Number: 28996
ISBN:
Publisher: Collins Clear Type Press, London n.d. circa 1935
8vo. blue cloth covered limp covers in cloth covered slipcase, gilt titles. 254pp. b/w illus. very good+.
Price: $10.00

Tales of Bandits, Robbers, and Smugglers
various
Book Number: 52682
ISBN:
Publisher: London Burns & Oates. n.d.
8vo. dec. cloth hardcover. Very good, presentation plate inside cover dated 1934. foxing to prelims. wear to back of spine.
Price: $15.00

The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
Sutherland, James, editor
Book Number: 2929
ISBN:
Publisher: Book Club Asscociates 1976
1st edition., Fine in dust jacket., Literature topics index, names index, 382 pp
Price: $15.00

Surtees: Scenes and Characters
Surtees, Robert Smith (Cyril Ray, Ed.)
Book Number: 22168
ISBN:
Publisher: London: The Falcon Press, 1948
Small 8vo. hardcover. 96pp. very good, front baord slightly bent. / very good d/w.
Price: $8.00

The Life of Charles Dickens Volume The First 1812-1847
Forster, John
Book Number: 44076
ISBN:
Publisher: Chapman and Hall, London, N.D.
8vo. dec. red cloth hardcover. 313pp. b/w illus. Good, wear to cover corners & spine edges & ends. Front hinge cracke at top.
Price: $35.00