- 5 vols. Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
5 vols. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. [Works.] Boston, 1874-1884. 8vo, contemp. 3/4 tan calf, marbled bds. & edges, gilt-decorated spines, brown & green morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers; occasionally slightly scuffed, spines fading. Frontispieces. Incomplete & mixed set in uniform bdgs. Titles included: The Scarlet Letter; The Blithedale Romance; The House of The Seven Gables; The Snow Image and Other Twice Told Tales; Mosses from an Old Manse; Twice-Told Tales; The Marble Faun. Sound, bright & attractive bdgs.
- (FRANKLIN LIBRARY) A group of 20
(FRANKLIN LIBRARY) A group of 20 leather-bound books published by the Franklin Library. Pennsylvania: Franklin Center various dates. The Scarlet Letter. By Nathaniel Hawthorne 1978. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. By Mark Twain 1975. Plays. By Anton Chekov 1976. A Farewell to Arms. By Ernest Hemingway 1976. Four Plays. By Eugene O'Neill 1978. Tales of Edgar Allen Poe 1974. Stories. By Rudyard Kipling (1980). Black Beauty. By Anna Sewell (1982). Moll Flanders. By Daniel Defoe 1978. Humboldt's Gift. Saul Bellow (1983). Tom Jones. By Henry Fielding 1979. Treasure Island. By Robert Louis Stevenson 1975. Poems. By John Donne 1978. The Reivers. By William Faulkner 1983. The Return of the Native. By Thomas Hardy 1978. The Red and the Black. By Stendhal 1979. The Aeneid of Virgil 1975. Faust. By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1979. Vanity Fair. By William Makepeace Thackeray (1977). The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel. By Francois Rabelais 1978.
- (BINDINGS) A group of 15 volumes
(BINDINGS) A group of 15 volumes bound in green or blue-toned leather. The Great Short Novels of Henry James. New York: Dial (1948). The Divine Comedy of Dante. Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1919). 3 vols. Wuthering Heights. By Emily Bronte. New York: Rinehart (1950). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. By Mark Twain. New York: Rinehart (1949). The Scarlet Letter. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York: Rinehart (1949). Moby Dick. By Herman Melville. New York: [Rinehart n.d.]. Madame Bovary. By Gustave Flaubert. New York: Rinehart (1948). American Statesmen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1888. 3 vols. Collector's Editions - Dickens Roget Shakespeare. New York: Pocket Books 1948. 3 vols.
- 25 VOLUMES OF LEATHERBOUND BOOKSEaston
25 VOLUMES OF LEATHERBOUND BOOKSEaston Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written Collector's Edition", including Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Paradise Lost, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, The Red Badge of Courage, The Scarlet Letter, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Prince, The Legend of Sleepy hollow and Other Stories, Huckleberry Finn, Great Expectations, The Count of Monte Cristo, A Farewell to Arms, The Devil's Dictionary, The Brothers Karamazov, Don Quixote, The History of the Indians of The United States, The Talisman, Dracula, The Three Musketeers, Faust, Moby Dick, Treasure Island, The Analects of Confucius; together with Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", London: The Folio Society, 2003; various sizes Condition:
- Hawthorne's Works, 22 Volumes Houghton
Hawthorne's Works, 22 Volumes Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1900, three-quarter red morocco leather with gilt spine decoration, top edge gilt, marbled panels, 7-7/8 x 5-1/4 in.,
- The Complete Writings of Nathaniel
The Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne with Portraits Illustrations and Facsimiles in twenty-two volumes Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press Cambridge 1900. The Old Manse Edition in 22 volumes 8vo. Contemporary red half morocco with marbled boards spine with raised bands gilt titles and decorations deckled edge with gilt ruled top edge.
- Scott (Sir W) Letters on Witchcraft,
Scott (Sir W) Letters on Witchcraft, 1830, illustrated by George Cruikshank, with the plates plain and coloured, Sm 8vo, full red morocco gilt, bookplate for Edward Henry Hill
- 'THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE', 'THE
'THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE', 'THE LITTLE REGIMENT', AND 'BOWERY TALES: GEORGE'S MOTHER AND MAGGIE''The Red Badge of Courage', 'The Little Regiment', and 'Bowery Tales: George's Mother and Maggie',, Three Volumes by Stephen Crane for D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1896 and William Heinemann, London, 1900
- TWO SMALL ETCHINGS BY H. GROSS
TWO SMALL ETCHINGS BY H. GROSS AND P.W.M. 5"H X 3 1/2"W (SIGHT, SCARLET LETTER), 11"H X 9 7/8"W (FRAME)Two small etchings by H. Gross and P.W.M., H. Gross, (American, 20th Century), Scarlet Letter, color etching: Titled lower left, numbered 6/50 Lower middle, signed lower right. P.W.M., Naomi Two, 1971, etching: Numbered 12/125 lower left, titled lower middle, signed and dated lower right. Dimensions: 5"H x 3 1/2"W (sight, Scarlet Letter), 11"H x 9 7/8"W (frame)
- FRANKLIN LIBRARY AMERICAN LITERATURE
FRANKLIN LIBRARY AMERICAN LITERATURE BOOKS, 19 Nineteen leather-bound American literature books with gilt lettering published by Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania comprising Richard Henry Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast," and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Justin Kaplan's "Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain," Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms," Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence," Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," "Tales of Edgar Allan Poe," William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" and "The Reivers," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," Eudora Welty's "The Optimist's Daughter," John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans," Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Essays," Bruce Catton's "A Stillness at Appomattox," and Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage". Largest: 9.5" H x 6.5" W x 1.5" D.
- Scott's Demonology , 1830,
Scott's Demonology , 1830, Sir Walter Scott, Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft , published by John Murray, London, 1830, 402 pages, "The witches bestrode either corn straws, bean stalks, or rushes, and calling 'Horse and Hattock, in the Devil's name!' which is the elfin signal for mounting…", half leather, marbled boards, 5-3/4 x 4 in. Wear and minor losses, moderate toning. Descended through the Family of General Robert Patterson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 33 EASTON PRESS BOOKS, INCUDING
33 EASTON PRESS BOOKS, INCUDING CLASSICS OF MEDICINE LI...Grouping of 33 Easton Press Books, titles include 1: Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 2: Chekhov, Two Plays: The Cherry Orchard - Three Sisters, 3: Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, 4:Bronte, Jane Eyre, 5: Conrad, Lord Jim, 6: Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 7: Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, 8: Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , 9: Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 10: Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 11: Lewis, Sherman Fighting Prophet (Volume II), 12: Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, 13: Shaw, Two Plays for Puritans, 14 & 15: Freeman, Lee's Lieutenants A Study In Command (Volume I), 16: Voltaire, Candide, 17: Conner, Comeback (signed) , 18: Alden, The American Revolution , 19: The Poems of John Donne, 20: White, A Puritan in Babylon, 21: Ohrelius, Vasa - The King's Ship, 22: Du Maurier, Peter Ibbetson, 23:Harvey's De Motu Cordis, 24 - 33: Classics of the Medicine Library - The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M. D., An Account of the Foxglove, Cellular Pathology, Diseases of theMind, William Harvey's De Motu Cordis, The Pituitary Body, The Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves, The Collected Papers of Joseph Lister (Volumes I and II),
Condition:
All books overall very good to excellent condition.
- FRANKLIN LIBRARY LEATHER COLLECTOR'S
FRANKLIN LIBRARY LEATHER COLLECTOR'S EDITION BOOKSFranklin Library Leather Collector's Edition of 26 Books, all having gilt edging, marble end papers and silk ribbon, comprising the following: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott; Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana; A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens; The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne; A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway; The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane; Don Quixote De La Mancha by Cervantes; Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev; Twenty-Two Years; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope; Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray; Guy de Maupassant Selected Stories; Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy; The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas; Pere Goriot by Honore' de Balzac; Tom Jones by Henry Fielding; Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad; The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper; The Red and the Black by Stendhal; Romantic Poets William Blake to Edgar Allan Poe; My Antonia by Willa Cather. Books do not appear to have seen usage. No marks or blemishes. Books will be shipped Media Mail.
- EASTON PRESS BOOKS (7) LEATHERIncludes
EASTON PRESS BOOKS (7) LEATHERIncludes American classics Last of the Mohicans, Scarlet Letter, Lord Jim and others. All but The Federalist are still shrink-wrapped. shipping info This item can be shipped in-house.
- Sixteen books including six replicas
Sixteen books including six replicas of first editions of 20th century novels, probably by The First Edition Club, c. 1990, still in original slipcases and still in original shrinkwrap, c/o All the King's Men by Warren, Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell, Gone With The Wind by Mitchell, The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; and two limited edition novels by the International Collector's Library, Wuthering Heights by Bronte and A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens. Together with eight various other 20th century books primarily on Christianity.
- Limited Edition The Writings of
Limited Edition The Writings of George Eliot(Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co. 1908) 25 volumes set #256 of 750 quarto red cloth covers with applied title plate on the spine Betsy Penn library plates.Minor chipping to the covers; internally fine. Very good condition.
- A five-volume set of the novels
A five-volume set of the novels of Jane Austen, together with another volume of Austen's letters (Oxford, 1932-1933).
- Ten replica printings of first
Ten replica printings of first editions of classic novels, 20th century, in original slipcases and in original shrinkwrap. Probably from the First Edition Library, circa 1990. Consisting of Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner, As I Lay Dying by Faulkner, Look Homeward Angel by Wolfe, The Red Badge of Courage by Crane, and four by Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom The Bell Tolls and The Old Man And The Sea.
- The Complete Works of Nathaniel
The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (American, 1804-1864) in Fifteen Volumes Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882, the Large Paper Riverside Press Edition. The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with introductory notes by George Parsons Lathrop, and Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife a biography by Julian Hawthorne, and illustrated with etchings and engravings on steel with tissue guards. Top edge gilt; others deckeled edges. 3/4 red leather with marbled boards and linings end papers, gilt tooled spines with 5 raised bands, spines shifted to rich brown. All like bound.
- * (CLEMENS SAMUEL L.) TWAIN MARK
* (CLEMENS SAMUEL L.) TWAIN MARK A group of two first British editions uniformly bound in decorative red cloth including A Tramp Abroad 1880 and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884.
- The Hester Piozzi - Sophy Thrale
The Hester Piozzi - Sophy Thrale Correspondence, a remarkable and apparently unknown series of letters from Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821, writer) to Sophia Thrale/Hoare (1771-1824, her seventh child and sixth daughter), described by Samuel Johnson as 'dear, sweet, pretty, lovely, delicious Miss Sophy', unbound in a tan calf album bearing the bookplate of Henry Merrik Hoare (1770-1826), gilt tooled with MSS Letters to spine, husband of Sophia/Other letters of Hester Piozzi have been published,
- THREE NOVELS BY JOHN STEINBECK
THREE NOVELS BY JOHN STEINBECK & WILLIAM FAULKNER Comprising John Steinbeck; THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT (NY: Viking, 1961) and TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY IN SEARCH OF AMERICA (The Same, 1962), both 8vo, cloth, with d.js.; and William Faulkner, THE TOWN (NY: Random House, 1957) stated 1st printing, 8vo, cloth, d.j.
- A six-volume set of The Works of
A six-volume set of The Works of Jane Austen, c/o Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park and Emma (Charles C. Bigelow & Co., New York, n.d. but c. 1910). Many pages uncut. A tear to the title page of Pride and Prejudice. Volume 5 hinge broken to front, some damage to leather at bindings on bottom
- * (FINE PRESS LIMITED EDITIONS
* (FINE PRESS LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB) A group of ten books. The Education of Henry Adams. An Autobiography. Boston: LEC 1942. Jude the Obscure. By Thomas Hardy. New York: LEC 1969. The Trial and Death of Socrates. By Plato. Verona: LEC 1962. The Prince. By Niccolo Machiavelli. New York: LEC 1954. Far From the Madding Crowd. By Thomas Hardy. Cambridge: LEC 1958. Together with five others. (10 total)
- NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. HAWTHORNE'S
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. HAWTHORNE'S WORKS. 1860 TO 1864. 11 VOLUMESNATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. HAWTHORNE'S WORKS. 1860 TO 1864. 11 VOLUMES, [Sets] Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Hawthorne's Works. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 1860 to 1864. 11 volumes of Hawthorne's works, owner's bookplate pasted to front board and card from Ursula Morgan to Anne Morgan, daughter of J.P. Morgan. Titles include Mosses from an Old Manse (1863), Scarlet Letter (1864), Snow Image (1861), Marble Faun (1860), Our Old Home (1864), Twice-Told Tales (1863), Blithedale Romance (1863) and House of Seven Gables (1863), quarter leather with marbled boards and endpapers (11) Provenance: Estate of Nina Rodale Houghton, wife of the late Arthur A. Houghton, President of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Carmichael Farm, Queenstown, Maryland
- THE NOVELS AND LETTERS OF JANE
THE NOVELS AND LETTERS OF JANE AUSTEN, EDITED BY R. BRIMLEY JOHNSON, WINCHESTER EDITIONNumbered 698/1250.
Ten Volumes. Including:
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Mansfield Park
The Letters of Jane Austen
8 1/2 in. x 6 in. x 1 1/2 in.
Condition
General overall wear to the interiors, with losses, staining, and scuffing to the exteriors, especially the spines.
- [LITERATURE], 15 VOLUMES, INCLUDING:
[LITERATURE], 15 VOLUMES, INCLUDING: HARPER LEE, JAMES JONES, WILLIAM FAULKNER, LYND WARD, GEORGE ORWELL, MELVILLE AND STEINBECK[Literature], 15 vols., 8vo-4to, first and later editions, most with dust jackets, including: Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960; James Jones, From Here to Eternity, 1951; William Faulkner, The Town, 1957 and Big Woods, 1955; Lynd Ward, Madman's Drum with woodcuts, 1930; George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949; Herman Melville, Moby Dick or the Whale, illustrated by Rockwell Kent, 1930; John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat, illustrated by Ruth Gannett, 1937; and others.
- Austen, Jane, novels, complete,
Austen, Jane, novels, complete, leather bound.
Condition: Worn.
- 6 vols. Leather Bindings - Belles-Lettres:
6 vols. Leather Bindings - Belles-Lettres: Wordsworth, (William). Poems. London: Macmillan, 1886. Edited by Matthew Arnold. Sm. 8vo, early 20th-Century 3/4 brown morocco & marbled bds., spine gilt, t.e.g., raised bands; occasionally slightly scuffed, by Riviere & Son. Vignette title portrait. * Morris, William. Poems by The Way. London, etc.: Longmans, 1896. 2nd ed. Sq. 8vo, early 20th-Century full double-gilt fillet paneled crushed blue niger morocco, richly gilt decorated & lettered spine, a.e.g., raised bands; occasionally scuffed, by Stikeman. Bright bdg. * Scott, Sir Walter. The Poetical Works. London, n.d. [ca. 1900]. Canterbury Poets series. 24mo, contemp. full tan calf, gilt, spine gilt, inner dentelles gilt, t.e.g.; scuffed, lacking morocco spine label. * Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1891. 8vo, early 20th-Century full crushed niger morocco, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, inner dentelles gilt, scarlet morocco "A" with gilt border inlaid in front & back covers, raised bands; occasionally scuffed, joints & raised bands often rubbed, by Stikeman. Frontis. * Boccaccio, (Giovanni). The Decameron. London: Villon Society, 1886. #15 of ltd. ed. 2 vols. Sq. 8vo, contemp. 3/4 red morocco & marbled bds., gilt, spines gilt, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, raised bands; scuffed, joints & spine ends rubbed.
- [American Literature] Three titles
[American Literature] Three titles (with a duplicate) by John Steinbeck Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger comprising: 1) Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (NY: Viking 1954) 1st issue 12mo cloth d.j.; 2) Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea (NY: Scribner's 1952) Book Club ed. 12mo cloth d.j.; 3-4) Salinger The Catcher in the Rye (Boston: Little Brown 1951) Book Club ed. 12mo cloth d.j. Estimate $ 100-200
- Hand and Soul Written by Dante
Hand and Soul Written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti reprinted by William Morris 1895 Hammersmith: William Morris at the Kelmscott Press 1895. 16mo. Hard bound in red leather with gilt embossed covers and spine. Binding by Stikeman. Double page woodcut title page decorated initials and red margin titles. 1 of only 300 copies printed at the Kelmscott Press for America with another 225 copies printed for England. This is the only Kelmscott Press title printed for the United States. Top ruled edge gilt. Sold by Way and Williams Chicago.
- [LITERATURE AND HISTORY]. A group
[LITERATURE AND HISTORY]. A group of 21 works in 23 volumes, including:
BROOKE, Rupert. Collected Poems. New York: John Lane Company, 1918. -- CANFIELD, Dorothy. The Day of Glory. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1919. -- HUGO, Victor. Les Miserables. Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., n.d. 2 vols. -- STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: The Heritage Press, 1940. -- TARBELL, Ida M. The Life of Abraham Lincoln. New York: McClure, Philips & Co., 1900. 2 vols. -- And 16 others. Together, 21 works in 23 volumes, cloth bindings, condition generally good, complete list available on request.
- STEINBECK JOHN The Grapes of Wrath.
STEINBECK JOHN The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking Press (1939). 8vo publisher's pictorial linen. First edition with first state dust jacket unclipped. Light soiling to boards and jacket; marginal chipping to jacket with some loss to spine ends and corners.
- HARRIET BEECHER STOWE SIGNED LETTER
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE SIGNED LETTER 1890United StatesSigned letter by author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and avid abolitionist reading "Trust in the Lord and do good written by your true friend, H. B. Stowe April 26, 1890."
- Literature, A collection of works
Literature, A collection of works to include Beauclerk (Helen), The Green Lacquer Pavilion, Collins, 1926, Edmund Dulac illus, 12mo, original cloth gilt, engraved frontis; Kent (Charles), The Works of Charles Lamb, London: Routledge and Sons, 12mo, quarter calf with marbled boards and gilt tooling on raised bands to spine; Ragozin (Zenaide A), Siegfried The Hero of the North and Beowulf The Hero of the Anglo-Saxons, New York and London: G. P. Putnam, 1898, 12mo, green calf with gilt tooling and
- * (BINDINGS) A group of 27 volumes
* (BINDINGS) A group of 27 volumes bound in varying shades of dark red. Oeuvres de C. Marot de Cahors. Paris: Delarue n.d. [c. 1890] 4 vols. 12mo 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards. The Satyricon of Petronius. Paris: Charles Carrington 1902. 8vo full red morocco marbled endpapers. Limited to 500 copies. Ringan Gilhaize. Edinburgh: G & W.B. Whittaker 1823. 3 vols. 12mo 3/4 morocco over marbled boards marbled endpapers. The Letters of Anna Seward. Edinburgh: George Ramsay 1811. 6 vols. 8vo full straight-grain red morocco a.e.g. The Life of Charles Dickens. London: Chapman and Hall 1872. 3 vols. Large 8vo full red morocco a.e.g. marbled endpapers. The Life of Sir Walter Scott. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black 1869. 10 vols. 12mo 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards marbled endpapers.