Click on the book picture for a larger image
 |
Prometheus 1997
ISBN
1573921327 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A “comic masterpiece”. A young, free-thinking socialite falls desperately in love with an Episcopal minister. COMEDY,RELIGION,ROMANCE Book# 6953 |
US$8.50 |
 |
Barnes & Noble
1996 ISBN: 0760701857 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The secret is out: Louisa May Alcott led a double literary life! During the same years in which she carved a niche for herself in American letters with publication of her short stories in the prestigious Atlantic Monthly and her children's classic Little Women, she also wrote nearly three dozen thrillers steeped in violent emotion and cliff-hanging suspense. SHORT STORIES,THRILLERS,SUSPENSE,LITTLE WOMEN Book #4823,6401 |
US$12.00 |
 |
Dutton Book Club Edition
1997 ISBN: 0525457569 Very Good Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Nonauthorial gift note on front free endpaper - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Here at last is the book "Jo" wrote. Generations of fans have longed to plumb that first romance, hinted at so captivatingly on the pages of Little Women, Alcott's autobiographical classic. Now, after nearly one hundred fifty years spent among archived family documents, Louisa May Alcott's debut novel finally reaches its eager public. LITTLE WOMEN,ENGLISH Book #4284 |
US$10.50 |
 |
Wordsworth 1994
ISBN: Near Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Pictorial binding. Book and DJ with mild corner bumping - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The vivid delineations of provincial middle-class attitudes, moral firmness and the author's sense of comic and satirical ridicule make Pride and Prejudice one of the enduring classics of the English language. Illustrations by George Allen. ENGLAND,ENGLISH LITERATURE,ENGLISH NOVELS Book #3730 |
US$14.00 |
 |
Barnes & Noble
1996 ISBN: 0760700451 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. The first of Jane Austen's published novels portrays the life and loves of two starkly different sisters: Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. ENGLISH LITERATURE,BRITISH WRITERS Book #6580 |
US$6.00 |
 |
Bramhall House First Edition
1960 ISBN: 0517029626 Near Fine Tall (4to) Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. A trace of very faint edge spotting - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Illustrated by John Tenniell. With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner. . FANTASY,CHILDRENS BOOKS,YOUNG READERS,MAD HATTER Book #5293 |
US$27.50 |
 |
Nelson Doubleday
ISBN: Very Good Hardcover in no Dustjacket as issued. Leatherette binding with gilt spine and front board lettering and design. Mild wear of binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A reprint of a classic of nineteenth-century American literature. AMERICAN FRONTIER, ADVENTURE Book #5604 |
US$8.95 |
 |
Dover 1990 ISBN: Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Stephen Crane (1871-1900), American novelist, poet, bohemian, war correspondent, is best remembered for The Red Badge of Courage (1895). This novel of the Civil War is a realistic record of the day-to-day, almost the minute-to-minute, existence of the common soldier, and at the same time a psychological probe of a youthful personality. CIVIL WAR,BATTLE,AMERICAN LITERATURE,COMING OF AGE Book #3985 |
US$4.00 |
 |
Oxford University Press 2006
ISBN: 0199204748 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Silk bookribbon sewn in. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. This volume, edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, contains not only Dicken’s A Christas Carol but also The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man. ENGLISH LITERATURE,ENGLISH NOVELS,SCROOGE,TINY TIM Book #7756 |
US$12.00 |
 |
Running Press 1992
ISBN: 1561381144 Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustkacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a small, closed tear; in a clear protective cover. Dickens classic tale of politics and human passion shifting between Georgian London and the Paris of the French Revolution. LONDON,PARIS,FRENCH REVOLUTION Book #3581 |
US$7.00 |
 |
Reader's Digest Association
1986 ISBN: Near Fine Hardcover in no DJ as issued. A small, faint fore-edge spot - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A special press edition of Dicken's classic first published in 1850. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne. Afterword by W. Somerset Maugham. LONDON,ENGLISH LITERATURE,BRITISH NOVELS Book #3903 |
US$13.50 |
 |
Reader's Digest Association
1989 ISBN: Fine Hardcover in no Dustjacket as issued. Decorative laminated binding. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A Reader's Digest special press edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic first published in 1844. Contains the color illustrations done by Rowland Wheelwright for the 1920 edition. FRENCH LITERATURE,ADVENTURE,D'ARTAGNAN,COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO Book #5230 |
US$13.95 |
 |
Konemann 1999 ISBN: 3829030053 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Her classic portrayal of English rural life first published in 1859. ENGLISH LITERATURE,ENGLISH MIDLANDS,SEDUCTION Book #7276 |
US$7.00 |
 |
Modern Library 2001
ISBN: 037575718X Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Introduction by Alexander Theroux. Includes a Modern Library reading group guide. ENGLISH LITERATURE,BRITISH WRITERS,CLYM YEOBRIGHT,EGDON HEATH Book #6450 |
US$7.50 |
 |
Marsilio 1995 ISBN: 1568860021 Near Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Slight edge wear of binding - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with slight wear of one corner; in a clear protective cover. A bilingual edition of the famed German poet’s account of his trip through the Harz mountains first published in 1826. Translated by Charles G. Leland. POETRY,GERMAN POETS,TRAVEL,ROMANTICISM Book #7015 |
US$45.00 |
 |
Barnes & Noble
1996 ISBN: 0760701687 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Hugo’s classic tale set in 15th-century Paris, first published in 1831. FIFTEENTH CENTURY,MIDDLE AGES,PARIS,ESMERALDA,QUASIMODO, DOM CLAUDE FROLLO,PHOEBUS Book #7655 |
US$6.00 |
 |
Duckworth First Published in
1883, This Edition 2001
ISBN
0715630830 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Henry James was not only an acclaimed novelist but also a renowned travel writer. This volume contains his best work on Italy, Britain and the US, contrasting different social groups in various countries. TRAVEL,ENGLAND,FRANCE,ITALY Book# 6916 |
US$10.00 |
 |
Time-Life 1981
ISBN: 0809436957 Fine Trade Paperback in stiff paper wraps. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. The humorous account - first published in 1889 - of an adventure on the Thames. HUMOR,THAMES,ENGLAND Book #7162 |
US$8.00 |
 |
Yale University Press 2001
ISBN: 0-300-09124-9 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. “This engaging book is a fascinating collection of letters written by Robert Louis Stevenson throughout his remarkable life.” BIOGRAPHY,SCOTTISH WRITERS,ENGLISH LITERATURE Book #7789 |
US$12.00 |
 |
Avenel 1987 ISBN: 0517650843 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The volume contains: Moby Dick, or the Whale - Bartleby - Benito Cereno - The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids - Billy Budd, Sailor. WHALING,MARITIME,NAUTICAL,MOBY DICK,BARTLEBY,BILLY BUDD Book #4902 |
US$17.95 |
 |
University of Oklahoma Press
1997 ISBN: 0806134429 Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A selection of letters of the famous Western fiction writer of the nineteenth century which paint a definitive portrait of him through his own words. Illustrated. AMERICAN LITERATURE,AMERICAN AUTHORS,AMERICAN WEST,WESTERN FRONTIER Book #6648 |
US$12.00 |
 |
Book Essentials 1994
ISBN: Near Fine Mass Market Paperback.Tiny scrapes of wraps from sticker removal - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. What started out as an evening's entertainment of telling ghost stories culminated in one of the most haunting horror stories ever written. HORROR,MONSTERS,FANTASY Book #2702 |
US$5.00 |
 |
Quality Paperback Book Club
1991 ISBN: 019281642X Near Fine Trade Paperback. Slight wear of one corner of wraps-else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Thackeray's Nineteenth-Century classic set in Napoleonic England. ENGLISH LITERATURE,BECKY SHARP,NINETEENTH CENTURY Book #4727 |
US$7.50 |
 |
International Collectors
Library ISBN: Fine Hardcover in no Dustjacket as issued. Decorative leatherette binding with gilt spine and front board lettering and design. Top edge guilt. Silk bookribbon sewn in. A special press edition of the classic of nineteenth-century English literature first published in 1847-48. ENGLISH LITERATURE,BECKY SHARP Book #5587 |
US$14.50 |
 |
Reader's Digest Association
1984 ISBN: Fine Hardcover in no Dustjacket as issued. Decorative binding. Marbleized endpapers. Silk bookribbon sewn in. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A special press edition of Mark Twain's classic first published in 1889. Illustrations by Joseph Ciardiello. Afterword by T.E.D. Klein. AMERICAN LITERATURE,AMERICAN AUTHORS,ARTHURIAN LEGEND, CAMELOT,MERLIN Book #3904 |
US$13.50 |
 |
Scholastic Nineteenth Printing
Originally published 1962 ISBN: 059008562X Fine Mass Market Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. From the ridiculous hilarity of "The Diary of Adam and Eve" to the biting irony of "The Mysterious Stranger", this collection presents the full range of Mark Twain's storytelling genius and incomparable humor. SAMUEL CLEMENS,HUMOR,YOUNG READERS Book #4831 |
US$4.50 |
 |
Courage 1991 ISBN: 1561380237 Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Corner creasing of a few leaves. Spine slightly rolled. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with corner wear; in a clear protective cover. Complete and unabridged. With essays by Edgar Lee Masters and William Dean Howells. MISSOURI,MISSISSIPPI RIVER,HUCKLEBERRY FINN,SAMUEL CLEMENS,BOYHOOD, COMING OF AGE Book #4504 |
US$6.00 |
 |
Oxford University Press First
Thus 2004 ISBN: 0195167937 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. Memoranda During the War is Whitman’s testament to the anguish, heroism, and terror of the Civil War. This volume also includes Whitman’s famous speech “The Death of Abraham Lincoln”, selected poems, and a letter to the parents of a deceased soldier. Illustrated. CIVIL WAR,AMERICAN HISTORY,POETRY,AMERICAN POETS Book #7044 |
US$16.00 |
 |
Everyman’s Library
1991 ISBN: 0460870262 Very Good Trade Paperback. Very mild tanning of pages - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. This volume incorporates much of the best of Wilde’s writing. ENGLISH LITERATURE,BRITISH AUTHORS,THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST,LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN Book #7679 |
US$4.00 |
 |
Barnes & Noble
1999 ISBN: 0760712018 Near Fine Trade Paperback. Slight edge spotting. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. In his introduction to The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde said, "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book". But throughout the book, Wilde's characters breezily debate morality and the great subjects of life, tossing about the witty, barbed observations that only Wilde could assemble. ENGLISH LITERATURE,HOMOSEXUALITY Book #5470 |
US$5.95 |