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RIDLER, Anne · 1945 · Cotswold Internet Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,853)

Faber & Faber, 1945. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket First Edition. 1945 1st edition with stories by Wilkie Collins, Henry James, Guy se Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Edith Wharton, Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, E.F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Saki, Walter de la Mar…

The Taming Of The Shrew

William Shakespeare · 2013 · Book Haven

NZ$12.50 (€6.27 | $6.91 | £5.23 | ¥1,103)

Collector's Library 2013 Hardback, 184pp. Controversial and sexually charged, The Taming of the Shrew is possibly Shakespeare's first play, and certainly among the most performed. Is it a mere saga of brute male domination or a passionate love story with a powerful moral punch? …

The Wreck of the Golden Mary

Charles Dickens and Others · 1898 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.33 | $653.97 | ¥104,397)

London, Chapman and Hall, Ltd. 1898. Cloth. A charming later edition of Charles Dickens' maritime novella, with the rare surviving dust wrapper. Being the extra Christmas number of "Household Words" (1856). Issued for 'Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All …

Los mejores cuentistas de lengua inglesa / Compilación y traducción de M. Olivar

OLIVAR, M. [compilador] · 1946 · Librería Miguel Miranda

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

Madrid: Ed. Plus-Ultra, 1946.- 2 Vols. (436 p., 1 h.; 420 p., 1 h.); 8º (18,5 cm.); Cartulina flexible Ed..- Contiene cuentos de: (Tomo 1º) Washington Irwing; Walter Scot; Edgar Allan Poe; Charles Dikens; Eobert Louis Stevenson; Wilkie Collins; Mark Twain; O. Henry; Henry Jame…

Lippincott's Magazine of Literature, Science and Education, Volume VII (January-June 1871)

1871 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott and Co, 1871. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 664p. Ex-library, REBOUND. A hardcover book that has been rebound in black cloth. Library stamps on endpapers, but otherwise clean and tight. Volume 7 of LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE, a monthly digest of literature, cu…

Anglo-American First Editions 1826-1900: East to West: Describing First Editions of English Authors Whose Books Were Published in America Before Their Publication in England

Brussel, Isidore Rosenbaum · 1981 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

New York, Sol Lewis, 1981. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Bound uber-sturdily in green buckram cloth, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Introduction by Graham Pollard, a quite treatise partly about piracy and copyright history. Reprints the scarce…

Temple Bar a London Magazine for Town and Country Readers - Volume XLIII December 1874 - April 1875

1875 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

London, Ward and Lock, 1875. Leather_bound. A green hardcover ex-library book in POOR condition; offered as-is. Covers and spine cracked away from textblock but present. The textblock remains securely bound. Stamp on title page. Mild foxing, otherwise, text clean. This volume in…

Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers Volume XXXVIII April-July 1873

George Augustus · 1873 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1873. Hardcover. 570p. A green cloth hardcover book. Hinges cracking and frayed; covers nearly detached. Corners worn and small spotty stains to covers. Stamp on title page. Some foxing; otherwise, text clean. This volume includes installments of "…

Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers - Vol. XLVI, January 1876 - April 1876

1876 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1876. Hardcover. 572p. A dark green cloth hardcover ex-library book in fair condition. Hinges shaken; binding remains secure for normal handling. Pages age-toned with some mild foxing. Temple Bar was a literary periodical of the mid and late 19th a…

The Little Stranger

Sarah Waters · 2009 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London, Virago, 2009 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Sarah Waters's gothic ghost story, a work that was short-listed for the Booker Prize. The first edition, first impression, flat signed to the title page.In the publisher's original dust wrapper, pri…

9 historische Biographien in englischer Sprache

(Biographien - Biographys) · 2016 · Celler Versandantiquariat

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,798)

Verschiedene Verlage - Text: englisch/ Enthalten: John Aubrey. My Own Life by Ruth Scurr/ Curculation. William Harvey's Recolutionary idea by Thomas Wright/ The Watchers. A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford/ Martin Luther. Renegade and Prophet by Lynd…

Famous English Short Stories. Englische Meistererzählungen. Zweisprachige Ausgabe Englisch - Deutsch: Zweisprachige Klassiker-Ausgaben Englisch - Deutsch

Anaconda · 2009 · LLU Buchservice

€26.90 ($29.65 | £22.44 | ¥4,733)

, Anaconda , 2009. 288, 19,2 x 13,2 x 3,2 cm, Hardcover. Zustand: 2. Ohne die Kurzgeschichte wären die Literaturen der Welt um vieles ärmer. Zahllose Autoren seit dem 19. Jahrhundert erprobten sich an dieser wunderbaren Form, in der formale Strenge und stilistische Offenheit ein…

The Omnibus of Adventure

GROVE, JOHN (ED) · 1930 · Round Table Books, LLC

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

NY: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1930. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full red cloth, blsack lettering on spine and cover, top edge green, Includes complete stories by Charles Dickens, Alexander Pushkin, W. Clark Russell, Emile Zola, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Cona…

Household Words. A Weekly Journal. The Christmas Numbers. Nine Numbers Bound in One Volume.

Charles Dickens [Ed]; Various · 1850 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.06 | $918.20 | ¥146,578)

London, Published at the Office, 1850-1858. Leather. A smartly bound sequence of Dickens"s Household Words Christmas numbers, bringing together nine festive collaborations with contributors including Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. Smartly rebound in…

Literature 1860 | In Londen en Parijs (A tale of two cities). Uit het Engels vertaald. Amsterdam, P.N. van Lampen, 1860. [2 delen in 1 band]

Dickens, Charles; Mark Prager Lindo (vert.) · 1859 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€163.50 ($180.21 | £136.40 | ¥28,768)

8°: [dl. 1:] [6] 244; [dl. 2:] [6] 229 [1] pp. Twee identieke gelithografeerde titelpagina's met daarop een aantal kleine illustraties door P. Blommers, 1 plaat tegenover de eerste titelpagina en 7 platen met 14 afbeeldingen, alle steendrukken door dezelfde naar C.C.A. Last. Hal…

Great law and order stories.

Mortimer, John. · 1992 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,199)

London : Bellow Publishing, 1992. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xiii, 368 pp. 25 cm. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - This collection of short stories contains classics of suspense and mystery. With stories ranging from those of Charles Dickens…

The Book of the Sleuth: 14 Classic Tales of Mystery and Suspense

RUSSELL, ALAN K. (ED) · 1986 · Round Table Books, LLC

$6.95 (€6.31 | £5.26 | ¥1,109)

Poole, England: New Orchard Editions, 1986. 1850790345. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 1850790345. FIRST EDITION (stated) , FIRST PRINTING. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Large 8vo (6.75 x 9.75"). 380, (2) pp. Bound in publisher's full gray cloth,…

Katey. The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter

Lucinda Hawksley · 2008 · Klondyke BV

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,111)

Paperback; 2008; Transworld Publishers Ltd; 496pp.; Conditie: Goed; Katey Dickens was a 19th-century ''It Girl''-an artist, socialite, and the beautiful daughter of Charles Dickens. In this illuminating biography, Lucinda Hawksley, herself Dickens's great-great-great-granddaught…

Excursions in Victorian Bibliography.

MICHAEL SADLEIR. · 1922 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Chaundy & Cox, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. vii, 240pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Errata slip tipped before the dedication page, as required. Cloth quite lightly dust soiled, and a little rubbed at the extremities. Free endpapers lig…

Drood

SIMMONS, DAN · 2009 · Bluebird Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

New York: Little, Brown and Company / Hachette, 2009. Hardcover. ISBN: 0316007021. A first printing of a hefty novel by Dan Simmons, which borrows from the last, unfinished novel by Charles Dickens, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." In this work, Mr. Simmons imagines the final tortu…