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Misled: A Society Novel.

By: Affery (Charles)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: NY: Minerva, 1889. First edition.:

Seller ID: 50965

Original printed wrappers. Back cover lacking, spine ends chipped, old stain to front cover, name stamped in ink on front cover, very good otherwise. Issued as No. 15 in the Minerva Series, November, 1889. Evidently a cloth edition exists as well, as it is listed in Wright III: 31 (HEH only). Scarce. A society novel in which a man's bride-to-be dumps him upon learning that he was born out of wedlock.
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Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of The Plague and The Fire. With Illustrations by John Franklin and H.K. Browne.

By: Ainsworth (William Harrison)

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 55027

London: Routledge, [c.1874]. Large 8vo. Blue decorative cloth, designed and lettered in black and gilt. Light brown printed end papers, containing ads for the series. Frontispiece, vignette title page, and 20 inserted plates. Issued as a volume in the series: Routledge's Octavo Novels. Fraying to spine ends, inner hinges cracked, some shelf wear, about very good otherwise, internally quite fresh. Engravings are attractive, good quality impressions, some have onion skins. First published in 1841.
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The Story of Ida. Epitaph on an Etrurian Tomb.

By: Alexander (Francesca)

Price: $60.00

Seller ID: 55142

Portland, Maine: Mosher, 1899. 8vo. Stiff ivory-paper wrappers, overlapping edges, designed and lettered in dark brown. Frontispiece. This is one of 100 numbered copies on Japan Vellum. Small bookplate on inner front cover, creased where overlapping covers meet page edges, a nice clean copy. The preface is by John Ruskin, dated 1883. The frontispiece is dated 1872. This is a sentimental tale of a virtuous young woman, first published in 1883; after reading it, John Greenleaf Whittier wrote a sonnet of the same title.
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The Rhymers' Club.

By: Alford (Norman)

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 54829

[Victoria?]: Cormorant Press, (1980). First edition. Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Tan end papers. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, some tiny tears at edges, but basically as-new. A study of the group which included Yeats, Arthur Symons, Ernest Dowson, and others.
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Trash. Stories by Dorothy Allison.

By: Allison (Dorothy)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: NY: Firebrand, (1988). First edition.:

Seller ID: 55822

Black boards, spine lettered in gilt, paper covers pasted on. Tan end papers. A fine copy. This is the hardcover issue of this collection of 14 stories.
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Almanach des Muses, 1790.

By: Almanack [Chateaubriand contribution].

Price: $90.00

Seller ID: 54306

Paris: Delalaine, 1790. 12mo. Green half-calf & marbled boards, covers ruled in gilt, spine designed and lettered in gilt. Marbled end papers. Engraved title leaf. 330 pages, plus one leaf of addenda/corrections at rear. Contemporary patterned wrappers are bound in. Some damage to the last couple of leaves, at the gutter, with very slight loss; binding rubbed at joints and tips; in general, a clean very good copy. Chateaubriand contributes a poem at page 205: L'Amour de la Campage [ as M. le Chevalier de C*** ]. Pages 303 - 330 contain detailed ads for poetry and other works, entitled: Notice ...
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Anacreontis Carmina. Accedunt Selecta Quaedam E Lyricorum Reliquiis. E Recensione et cum Notis Rich. Fr. Phil. Brunckii. Nova Editio Stereotypa Emendatissima.

By: Anacreon.

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 53442

Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Sumtibus et Typis Caroli Tauchnitii, 1829. [100] pages. 3.5 X 5 inches. Brown marbled boards, green calf spine designed in gilt. Scattered foxing throughout, heavier towards the later leaves; some small nicks to edges, but a very nice copy. Selections from Anacreon; the text is in Greek, the preface and notes in Latin.
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In The Snow: Tales of Mount St. Bernard.

By: Anderdon (Rev. W.H.)

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 53867

London: Burns, Oates, 1868. First edition. Blue decorative cloth, spine and front cover designed and lettered in gilt. Brown coated end papers. One leaf of ads at rear. Prize inscription on front end paper, light shelf wear, very slight chipping to spine ends, a bright very good copy. Tales set in the Alps.
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Pen, Patron, and Public. A Critical Survey.

By: Anon. [possibly by J. H. Escott]

Price: $55.00

Publisher: London: Greening, 1907. First edition.:

Seller ID: 51304

Red cloth lettered in gilt. A few blemishes to cloth, in general a bright, very good copy. A survey of literary patronage, much to do with 19th century British authors. An uncommon book.
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The Man Who Never Understood.

By: Anonymous.

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 53961

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, (1924). First edition, Colonial Issue (so stamped on the copyright page). Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in blind. Some pen marks and small marks to end papers; a bright and attractive copy. An anonymous epistolary work of fiction, consisting of letters from a woman to her love, Ronald, written in the 1920s. Touches on politics, love, social issues.
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Arfao or A Roland for an Oliver. The Romance Of A Newspaper Personal. By HER and THEM. Elaborately Illustrated.

By: Anonymous. [A. Wolfson?].

Price: $125.00

Seller ID: 53560

NY: Cosmos Publishing Club, 1906. First edition. Original brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Frontispiece & 2 inserted plates. Inner front hinge cracked, moderate edge wear, a fairly bright, very good copy. Small sticker and ownership signature on front end paper. A curious piece of epistolary fiction, comprising a brief narrative and a series of newspaper personals and responses. Smith: American Fiction, 1901-1925: A-297.
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The Modern Story Teller: Or The Best Stories of the Best Authors, Now first Collected. (At the top of the title page: "Putnam's Story Library").

By: Anthology.

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: 54836

NY: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1856. First edition, later or remaindered issue. 8vo. 324pp. Original blue-green printed wrappers, with the 1859 imprint of S.H. Colesworthy, Portland, on the front wrapper. Much chipping at edges, most of spine lacking, only the upper of three stitch-holes still containing thread, puncture through front cover and first 10 pages (affecting the first letter of the imprint); very good otherwise. Offsetting on many pages where leaves were pressed between. Issued in cloth by Putnam, but rarely seen in this wrappered issue. Many stories, some of which look to be criminous, no...
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The Knightly Years.

By: Ardagh (W.M.)

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 54416

London & NY: John Lane, 1912. First edition. Blue cloth, front cover ruled and lettered in white, spine ruled in white and lettered in gilt. 16-page publishers catalogue at rear, plus a 4-page Anatole France ad section (order form intact). Upper edge stained blue. Small Canadian bookstore label in rear, a clean and very attractive copy. Historical adventure, of the Spanish in the Canary Islands during the reign of Isabella.
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Tales of the Revolution. Translated by Percy Pinkerton.

By: Artzibashef (Michael)

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 54710

London: Secker, 1917. First British edition. Black cloth lettered in red, top edge stained black. Small bruise to upper page edges, spine slightly faded, but a fresh and attractive copy. Five stories. The American edition appeared the same year from Huebsch.
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The True Philosopher and Other Cat Tales. Illustrated with Etchings by the Author.

By: Bacon (Peggy)

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: 53453

Boston: Four Seas, 1919. First edition. Blue cloth, spine ruled and lettered in white. Frontispiece & 12 inserted plates. Some staining of the front cover near the spine, a bit of edge wear, a clean very good copy in general.
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Miss Traumerei. A Weimar Idyl.

By: Bagby (Albert Morris)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston: Lamson, Wolffe, 1895.:

Seller ID: 50679

Original green cloth designed and lettered in gilt. Title page printed in black & red. Some dust soiling of cloth, a number of pages have small corners torn off (used as bookmarks?), not affecting text, otherwise a very good copy. Wright III: 208, citing a NY edition published by the author, but also mentioning this Boston imprint. The title page in this copy is a cancel, indicating that the sheets of the first edition were likely utilized for this issue. Also the binding bears no publisher's imprint. A musical novel concerning Franz Liszt.
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The Siege: A Comedy, in Five Acts. [from the first London edition, of 1812]. [bound with four other plays].

By: Baillie (Joanna) also Thomas Otway, Thomas Morton, William Dimond.

Price: $100.00

Seller ID: 54701

NY: Published by The Longworths, Aug - 1812. First American edition. 12mo. 67 pages. [bound with] Thomas Otway: The Orphan; or, The Unhappy Marriage. NY: David Longworth, 1818 [bound with] Thomas Morton: The Knight of Snowdoun: A Musical Drama. NY: D. Longworth, 1811. [bound with] Thomas Morton: Speed The Plough; A Comedy. Philadelphia: Carey, 1807 [bound with] William Dimond: The Aethiop; or, The Child of the Desert. NY: D. Longworth, March - 1813. The five works bound in one volume, 12mo., full calf, the spine ruled and numbered (16) in gilt. Upper cover lacking, some old stains to lower...
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Teresa. A Journey Out Of Time.

By: Baker (Frank)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: NY: Coward-McCann, (1961). First American edition.:

Seller ID: 50943

Brown boards, red cloth spine lettered in gilt. A nice clean copy, in a slightly used dust jacket, some small chips from edges.
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Full Score.

By: Baker (Frank)

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 54359

NY: Coward-McCann, (1942). First American edition. Blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Top edge stained red. A very nice copy in dust jacket, just some light edge wear. Published in the UK as: ALLANAYR (1941). A highly-regarded music novel.
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Children Crossing.

By: Bargate (Verity)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London: Cape, (1979). First edition.:

Seller ID: 55315

Black boards, spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page, dated May 1979. Her second novel.
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