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1 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE An Oxford Miscellany
Oxford Clarendon Press 1909 Hardcover VG/NONE 
Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration to spine, mild wear to edges (with few tiny tears in cloth at corners and spine-ends), rubbed, slight yellowing/foxing to textblock edges and feps, previous owner's inscription to ffep. ; 12mo; 183 pages 
Price: 16.00 USD
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2 Abbey, Edward The Journey Home
E. P. Dutton 1977 052513753x / 9780525137535 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover VG+/VG Signed by Author
A few corners have minor bumps but a very nice, clean copy otherwise. The dust jacket is price clipped and has some soiling on the rear. Otherwise only very light wear. ; Signed by Abbey on the front free endpaper. Not inscribed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 242 pages; Signed by Author 
Price: 200.00 USD
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3 Adams, Henry SKETCHES FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW
Hamden Archon Books 1986 Hardcover NF/NF 
8vo; 262 pages 
Price: 8.80 USD
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4 Agcaoili, T.D. COLLECTED STORIES [2 Volumes] Volume 1; and Volume 2: Stories of War
Quezon City, Philippines New Day Publishers 1992 9711004798 Softcover VG/NONE 
Illustrated wraps, both volumes have slight sunning to spines, light creasing to covers along spines, label damage to lower margin of title pages. Volume 1 has bumping along lower edge, causing several mild creases to covers and also light creasing across the outer corner of the text block; volume 2 has minor crease to upper corner of front cover, bump to spinetail causing light creasing to the text block with evidence of book plate removal to both ffeps. ; 8vo; 134/151 pages 
Price: 15.00 USD
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5 Alcott, Louisa M. Hospital Sketches
Boston, James Redpath 1863 First Edition Hardcover G/NONE 
Original wine-colored cloth, stamped with the title in gilt on the front and spine. Yellow endpapers, 2pp. of publisher's ads at the end with announcement for Wendell Phillips Speeches priced at $2.50. The covers are quite worn with bumping at the corners and spine ends. Fading to light brown along the edges and spine. There is some evidence of early dampness to the back cover and there are some areas of the cloth that have lifted up from the boards. There is some wrinkling to the rear pastedown. Bump to the upper page fore edges. To the front free endpaper and the title page there are oval stamps reading as follows, "Mercantile Library, received Feb. 2, 1864, San Francisco." Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Pages are uniformly toned and have several small, scattered spots of foxing. Some scattered staining. A good only copy of a scarce book. Please contact us for more information or pictures. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 102 pages 
Price: 400.00 USD
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6 Allen, Thomas W. and E.E. Sikes THE HOMERIC HYMNS
London Macmillan and Company, Limited 1904 First Edition Hardcover VG-/NONE 
Dark green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Light edgewear; corners bumped; cloth at tips of bottom corners worn through to boards; rubbing and light scratch marks to boards; top textblock darkened; light foxing to front and rear pastedowns and endpapers; blocks of discoloration to endpapers; front hinge just starting. The pages are quite clean without marking, underlining, bookplates, etc. ; Hymns in greek. ; 8vo; 330 pages 
Price: 75.00 USD
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7 Anderson, Judith H. THE GROWTH OF A PERSONAL VOICE. PIERS PLOWMAN AND THE FAERIE QUEEN
New Haven Yale University Press 1976 0300020007 / 9780300020007 First Edition Hardcover VG+/VG- 
Price-clipped, archivally covered dust jacket has edgewear, light soiling, marring and insect damage. Highlighting to text of inside front dj flap and faint soiling to to text block edges. ; 8vo; 244 pages 
Price: 8.00 USD
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8 Armitage, Merle ACCENT ON AMERICA
New York E. Weyhe 1944 Limited Edition Hardcover VG/G 
Limited to 1675 copies, nice decoration illustrations. Blue cloth-covered boards, edges faded, light soil and a few spots to text block edges. Dust jacket is price clipped, small chips and tears, rubbing, corners chipped, spine faded, 1/2" x 1/4" chip lower rear panel, lower spine chipped to 1/4" and a little larger chip next to it on rear panel. ; Illustrations; 8vo; 406 pages 
Price: 12.50 USD
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9 Austen, Jane Persuasion
Easton Press 1977 Hardcover VG+/NONE 
Full leather with gilt decoration and lettering. All page edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, silk book marker. There is a blank Easton Press bookplate to the front pastedown, a 3/8" scuffed area to the rear cover, a few tiny pinpoint-sized spots of wear to the rear cover. All else is quite nice and clean. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 241 pages 
Price: 60.00 USD
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10 Austen, Jane; illustrated by Helen Sewell; introduction by Stella Gibbons SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Easton Press 1985 Hardcover NF/NONE 
Medium blue leather covered boards with gilt title and gilt decorative accents. All edges gilt. Binding tight, text clean. Unread. Collector's notes laid in. Unused Easton bookplate on front pastedown. Silk moire eps. Few barely perceptible spots of soil to rear cover, near edges. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 333 pages 
Price: 135.00 USD
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11 Auster, Paul GHOSTS
Los Angeles Sun & Moon Press 1986 0940650703 / 9780940650701 First Edition Hardcover NF/NF 
But for some very light foxing to the lower page edge, an excellent copy of the book and dust jacket. Nearly new. ; The New York Trilogy, volume 2; 8vo 8" - 9" tall 
Price: 40.00 USD
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12 Austin, Jane Goodwin STANDISH OF STANDISH A Story of the Pilgrims [2 VOLUMES]
Boston Houghton Mifflin and Company 1895 Hardcover G/NONE Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill 
Two-volume set in white cloth, gilt titles on spine and fronts, top edges gilt. Both volumes slightly shelf-cocked; spine ends and corners bumped and worn, with light chipping to spine ends and corners just worn to boards at tips; spines darkened by sun and/or soil; overall mild soiling, foxing and insect damage to covers and edges, and a few small light waterstains; bookplate removal damage to each front pastedown and label remnant to each rear pastedown; waterstaining to upper part of each front free endpaper.; Photogravure Illustrations; 12mo; 422 pages 
Price: 30.00 USD
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13 Austin, Mary MOTHER OF FELIPE And Other Early Stories
Los Angeles Book Club Of America 1950 First Edition Hardcover VG/NONE 
Collected and Edited by Franklin Walker; limited to 400 copies; bound in decorated paper over boards; decorations by Cas Duchow; deckled fore-edge. Printed by The Ward Ritchie Press. Light wear/rubbing along spine; slight bumping at corners; tiny (less than half-inch long) , thin dark line/stain on bottom edge of text block; previous owner book plate on front paste down. Subscription piece laid inside back board. ; 8vo; 144 pages 
Price: 45.00 USD
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14 Baldwin, James GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
Norwalk, Connecticut Easton Press 2000 Hardcover NF/NONE Illustrated by Dan Brown 
Full leather with gilt lettering and decoration. All page edges gilt. Silk moire endpapers and silk book marker. An excellent, nearly fine copy but for a blank Easton Press bookplate to the front pastedown. ; B&W Illustrations, Color Frontispiece; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages 
Price: 30.00 USD
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15 Barrington, E. THE EXQUISITE PERDITA
New York Dodd, Mead & Co 1926 Limited Edition Hardcover VG-/NONE 
Presentation copy limited to 250 copies. Blue cloth covered boards, spine and corners bumped, small worm hole to spine, former dealer's stamps to front and rear paste-downs, removed sticker to rear paste-down. ; 8vo; 378 pages 
Price: 36.00 USD
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16 Benson, Eugene and L. W. Conolly ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POST-COLONIAL LITERATURES IN ENGLISH (2 VOLUMES)
London Routledge 1994 0415051991 / 9780415051996 First Edition Hardcover VG/NONE 
Light rubbing to glossy green boards, slight wear at spine ends and corners, light soil to text block edges.; 4to; 1874 pages 
Price: 50.00 USD
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17 Berni, Francesco; translated by William Stewart Rose THE ORLANDO INNAMORATO Translated into Prose from the Italian of Francesco Berni and Interspersed with Extracts in the Same Stanza as the Original
Edinburgh and London W. Blackwood and T. Cadell 1823 First English Edition Hardcover VG-/NONE 
1/2 leather with marbled boards, 5 raised bands on spine, black leather title inserts with gilt lettering. Endpapers foxed, edges worn to boards, spine has some rubbing/scuffing. Interior quite clean, tight. ; 12mo; 279 pages 
Price: 150.00 USD
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18 Borges, Jorge Luis Ficciones
Easton Press 1999 Hardcover NF/NONE 
Full leather with gilt lettering and decoration. All page edges gilt. Silk moire endpapers, silk bookmarker. An excellent, nearly fine copy but for a blank Easton Press bookplate glued to the front pastedown. The gilt on the page edges is just slightly rubbed. Page of collector's notes laid in loose. ; Great Books of the 20th Century; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 174 pages 
Price: 40.00 USD
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19 Boswell, James; (Marshall Waingrow, editor) THE CORRESPONDENCE AND OTHER PAPERS OF JAMES BOSWELL Relating to the Making of the 'life of Johnson'
New York McGraw Hill First Edition Hardcover G+/VG- 
Some separation of front gathering, but front hinge holding well; bumping at spine ends; bit of fading along top edge of text block; dust jacket has some light soiling; also some edgewear, most of all at spine ends and corners. ; Volume 2 of Boswell's Correspondence, from the Yale Editions of 'The Private Papers of James Boswell'; edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Marshall Waingrow. ; Vol. 2; 8vo; 659 pages 
Price: 28.00 USD
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20 Boyd, Brian VLADIMIR NABOKOV The American Years
Princeton University Press 1991 069106797x / 9780691067971 First Edition Hardcover VG+/VG+ 
Blue cloth-covered boards; dust jacket protected in removable, clear, archival sleeve. Light rubbing and soiling to edges. ; Large 8vo; 783 pages 
Price: 12.50 USD
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