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Thackeray, William Makepeace.
Thackeray's Works, 4 Volumes: Roundabout Papers; The Newcomers Vol. I Only; Burlesques; Christmas Books, Illustrated
New York, Lovell, Coryell & Co.,
Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, Makepeace brilliant English 19th century novelist and satirist. Four very clean illustrated editions from a set, brown cloth, mild wear, gilt lettering, TEG. Roundabout; to which is added: The Second Funeral of Napoleoon, Critical Reviews, The Four Georges, The English Humorists of the 18th Century, Sketches and Travels in London; Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh, Mrs. Perkins Ball, Out Street, Dr. Birch, The Kicklebury's on the Rhine, The Rose and the Ring, Ballads and Tales, The History of Samuel Titmarsh & The Great Hoggarty Diamond, Men's Wives, The Book of Snobs; The Newcomes, Memoirs of a most Respectable Family, edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq., Vol. 1 only. Hinge of Roundabout starting, all else clean, solidly bound. Profusely illustrated, full page plates. sm 8vo. No date circa late 1800's early 1900's
(Mackepeace, Thackeray, English, Literature, English, Satire, English, Novelists, 19th, Century, English, Novelists,English, Ballads) Cat No. 1344.
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35.00
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Licoln, Joseph C.
Thankful's Inheritance
New York, A.L. Burt,
1915, Hardcover,
Condition: Very Good, Jacket: Good Plus, Joe Lincoln (1870) Brewster, Cape Cod, Massachusetts wrote many popular, nostalgic and humorous books about a fictional, semi mythical Cape Cod. Thankful Barnes, a Cape Cod widow inherits a home in the country which she turns into a boarding house. Its comfortable quarters and beautiful setting soon have it filled with villagers and summer boarders from the city. Then things begin to happen and it is discovered the house is haunted. Pure fun, a roaring comedy of Cape Cod. Green illustrated boards, and spine, mild cloth wrinkle to upper spine. Frontispiece by H.M. Brett. DW color illustration of picturesque house on the Cape. Upper and lower spine ends chipped, closed tear to lower spine and upper spine edge. In mylar. Clean bright test, no inscriptions. sm 8 vo, 383 pages. We have several Lincoln novels, all with DW's.
(C., Lincoln, Thankful's, Inheritance, Cape, Cod, Novels, Novels, Of, New, England) Cat No. 2872.
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15.00
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James, Henry Introduction, Heywood Broun.
Theatre and Friendship Some Henry James Letters With a Commentary By Elizabeth Robins
New York, G.p. Putnam's Sons,
1932, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, Classical theatrical actress Robins played "Hilda" in Ibsen's The Masterbuilder. She received oaver 100 letters from James from the late 1800's through the early 1900's. Reflecting his fascination with the theatre & loyalty to friendship. Original brown cloth boards & spine, orange lettering to spine. Rubbing of edges, upper spine end mild fraying, lower bumped. Frontispiece of James, few other photos. Clean bright text, tightly bound. Solid copy. tall 8vo, 303 p
(James, Letters, Literature, Letters, Henry, James, Plays, American, Literature, American, Novelists, 19th, Century, American, Novelists, 20Th, Century, Theatre, First, Edition, Elizabeth, Robins) Cat No. 558m.
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17.50
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Cabell, Branch.
These Restless Heads A Trilogy of Romantics
New York, The Library Guild, Inc,
1932, Hard Cover,
illus: Samuel Bernard Schaeffer, Condition: Very Good Plus, Cabell's stories of fantasy; 2nd print before publication. frontispiece, decorated title page. Black and white boards, black cloth spine, upper spine end rubbed, mild fraying. All else very clean, tightly bound. sm 8 vo, 253 pages
(Bernard, Schaeffer, Illustrator, James, Cabell, Fantasy, James, Cabell, Stories, These, Restless, Heads, American, Authors, Novelists, 1930's) Cat No. 2538.
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20.00
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Stackpole, Edward, J.
They Met at Gettysburg
New York, Bonanza Books,
1956, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, Jacket: Very Good, General Stackpole captures the strategy & tactics with a keen understanding of the personalities involved. From the moment Robert E Lee decides to invade Pennsylvannia & tracing it down to the last despairing hour, when Lee took his bloody & beaten army back across the Potomac. 124 Illustrations, 14 maps. 8 vo, 342 pages, First Edition. DJ grey pictorial blue lettering, edgewear, rear dj edges browned. Grey cloth boards & spine, lower rt corner small pale stain.
(Civil, War, Civil, War, Calvary, Jeb, Stuart, Peach, Orchard, General, Longstreet, Manassas, Civil, War, Battles, Civil, War, Generals, Stonewall, Jackson) Cat No. 129m.
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6.50
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