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The History of Pendennis: 2 volumes from the Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray.
Thackeray, William Makepeace, · 1902
$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)
NY, Collier, 1902. 2 G HBs. Drawings by Richard Doyle, Frederick Walker, Charles Green, George du Maurier, R. A. Wallace, and W. M. Thackeray. Shows how first love may interrupt breakfast. Green binding, top edge gilt, cream colored pages, fade to outer edge front cover, edge ...
Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush; The Fitzboodle Papers; Mrscellanies from Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray.
Thackeray, William Makepeace, · 1902
$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)
NY, Collier, 1902. G. Drawings by Richard Doyle, Frederick Walker, Charles Green, George du Maurier, R. A. Wallace, and W. M. Thackeray. Plus Little Travels and Roadside Sketches: I - From Richmond in Surrey to Brussels in Belgium; II - Ghent - Bruges; III - Waterloo. Green bi...
The Irish Sketch Book of 1842 from the Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray.
Thackeray, William Makepeace, · 1902
$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)
NY, Collier, 1902. G. Drawings by Richard Doyle, Frederick Walker, Charles Green, George du Maurier, R. A. Wallace, and W. M. Thackeray. When it is stated that, throughout the town of Galway, you cannot get a cigar which costs more than twopence, Londoners may imagine the stra...
Shirley.
Bronte, Charlotte, · 1900
$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)
London, Methuen, nd (ca 1900). Fair PB. Sixpenny Library. Front cover detached, back cover missing, spine strap missing. Entire story present due to "the end" on. last page. Her second novel after Jane Eyre.
Stories of the Sea: romance and fact.
New York Public Library, · 1914
$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)
New York, New York Public Library, 1914. VG PB. Listing of books available from the NY Public Library in 1914. Reprinted from the Branch Library News, August, 1914. "Gift of Forrest B. Spaulding" written on front cover. Ships and sailors, Pirates and Privateering, History of A...
Some Recent and Standard Publications, vol. 1, no. 1.
Henry Holt & Co. (early advertising brochure 1885), · 1885
$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)
NY, Henry Holt, 1885. VG. Small sized publication advertising Holt's latest offerings.
Cosmopolitan July 1915 vol LIX, The Little Lady of the Big House installment by Jack London shows him at height of powers.
Christy, Harrison Fisher, Booth Tarkington, et al, · 1915
$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)
NY, Cosmopolitan, (1915). Fair PB. Many stories of the day with the artists of the day's illustrations. Front cover " Hey There!" by Harrison Fisher partially detached. Jack London's The Little Lady of the Big House" with five full page illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy...
Nickell Magazine April 1897 Vol. VII, no. 4: an illustrated monthly with a cycling dep't.
Forman, Mildred Aldrich, Gilbert Parker,, · 1769
$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)
180 Summer St., The Nickell Co, Boston. VG PB 16 pages of ads at back. "Some Old California Indians" There were about 50,000 Indians in Alta (upper) California when in 1769 Padre Junipera Serra. wended his way over the San Diego hills to found the first Franciscan mission of t...
I Wish I Could Give My Son a Wild Raccoon.
introduction by, editor of Foxfire Books, · 1976
$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)
NY, Anchor Books, 1976. VG PB. To help students throughout the country participate in discovering the wisdom of our oldest generation of Americans. "I think parents should be with their children all they can.I always went with my boys whenever they went to do work. Then we got...
Letter to a Mountain and other essays.
Twaronite, Eugene A., · 1977
$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)
Manchester, CT, Boreal Publications, (1977). VG PB signed by author.
Feathers in the Wind: the mountain and the migration.
Brett, James J., Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Assn., · 1934
$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)
np, np, nd. G PB. Founded in 1934 HMSA is a non-profit corporation for conserving and protecting wildlife and educating the public in wildlife. This two thousand acre preserve was recently designated a Registered Natural Landmark. In 1793 Jacob Gerhardt moved into the little s...
The Grizzly King.
Curwood, James Oliver, · 1918
$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)
NY, Grosset & Dunlap, (1918). G. From Owosso, Michigan, Curwood writes in his Preface a confession of one who for years hunted and killed before he. learned that the wild offered a more thrilling sport than slaughter - and the hope that what I have written may make others feel...
Tales from Uncle Remus.
Harris, Joel Chandler, introduction by Julia Collier Harris, · 1935
$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1935). Revised. Fair ex-library. Harris had a cunning way of coaxing animal lore from Negroes whom he met in his summer outings or who brought vegetables to. the door. Children have laughed with glee at Brer Rabbit's triumph over Brer Fox, have shive...
McCarthy's Bar: a journey of discovery in Ireland.
McCarthy, Peter, · 2003
$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)
NY, Thomas Dunne Books, (2003). 1st PB ptg. VG PB. Pete's journey begins in Cork in Ireland along the west coast to Donegal in the north. Traveling through spectacular. landscapes but at all times obeying the rule never pass a bar that has your name on it, he encounters McCart...
Wooden Boats: in pursuit of the purcraft craft at an American boatyard.
Ruhlman, Michael, · 2001
$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,756)
NY, Viking, (2001). 1st PB ed. VG lg sz PB. Intimate portrait of passions pursued by those who forswear the rat race of modern life to live and breath the fragrance of. fine timber, salt water, and the indescribable beauty and power of the most sensuous sea-going shapes every ...
New England: Indian Summer 1866-1915.
Brooks, Van Wyck (from estate of Eleanor Roosevelt), · 1940
$145.00 (€131.56 | £109.75 | ¥23,147)
(1940), Dutton, 1940. 1st ed. G. Eleanor Roosevelt bookplate on front endpaper #1233 Hyde Park, N.Y."From the collection of Eleanor Roosevelt John A. Roosevelt". on front endpaper. Some edge wear and tanning.
After Play Stories for the youngest readers.
Jennie Stealey, Sophie Scissors, Zitella Cocks, et al, · 1893
$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,470)
Boston, Lothrop, (1893). Fair. Heavy cardboard covers front showing boy carrying young girl across a puddle with another girl behind pulling her toy wagon,. back cover shows four children, little boy carrying younger girl, older girl carrying basket and young girl walking betw...
By the Way: travel letters written during several journeys abroad describing sojourns in England, Scotland, Ireland....
Foster, Agness Greene, · 1910
$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)
San Francisco, Paul Elder, (1910). Revised enlrgd. VG in G DJ.France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Greece, and European and Asiatic Turkey. DJ edge wear. Index of places. Index of authors and books.
Home Port.
Prouty, Olive Higgins, · 1947
$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1947. G. A young man flees his own identity, fears and an inferiority complex and through psychotherapy and meeting an unconventional. girl, rescues himself. By author of "Now Voyager". Edge wear, few smudges.
The Glass Castle: a memoir.
Walls, Jeannette, · 2005
$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)
NY, Scribner, (2005). 22nd ptg. VG PB. When sober, Jeannette's father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace. life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who hated domestici...