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Penguin Island (Modern Library #210. 1)
FRANCE, ANATOLE · 1950 · Bluebird Books
$14.50 (€13.16 | £10.97 | ¥2,316)
New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1950]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of Anatole France's satirical fantasy novel which was cited as a major factor in his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. Includes an introduction by H. R. Steeves…
The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812, Volume I & II
Mahan, A.T. · 1897 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books
$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,027)
Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1897. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Seventh Edition exemplar of this timeless classic work of social and military history, a two-volume set, complete. Bound in blue cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lette…
A Lot of Six (6) William Golding Novels in Softcover
Golding, William · 1956 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books
$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,027)
, , . . Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copies, a set of six (6) novels by the author of The Lord of the Flies. Minor wear of covers, less to text-blocks, and with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copies.…
Three Plays: Anna Christie, the Emperor Jones, and the Hairy Ape (Modern Library #146. 2)
O'NEILL, EUGENE · 1952 · Bluebird Books
$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,837)
New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1952]. Hardcover. Three plays written by the acclaimed Eugene O'Neill, three times a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a Nobel laureate. With an introduction by Lionel Trilling. In blue and tan typographic dust jacket variant. --- I…
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Modern Library #147. 1)
STERNE, LAURENCE · 1946 · Bluebird Books
$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.24 | ¥2,795)
New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1946]. Hardcover. A complete and unabridged Modern Library reprint edition of Laurence Sterne's ribald ".novel about writing a novel.", first published in installments beginning in 1759. In green jacket variant with E. McKnight Kau…
Stories of Modern Italy from Verga, Svevo and Pirandello to the Present (First Modern Library Edition, ML #118. 4)
JOHNSON, BEN (EDITOR) · 1960 · Bluebird Books
$23.00 (€20.87 | £17.41 | ¥3,673)
New York: The Modern Library / Random House, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first printing, 1960 (confirmed by listing of Modern Library titles at rear of volume). An English-language collection of 26 modern Italian short stories in a Modern Library edition in jacket. Se…
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (the Modern Library, #185. 2)
FIELDING, HENRY · 1954 · Bluebird Books
$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)
New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1954]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of Henry Fielding's comic novel, which first appeared in four parts in 1749. This edition divided into eighteen books, with black & white illustrations at beginning of each. With a…
The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Modern Library #56. 2)
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH · 1952 · Bluebird Books
$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)
New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1952]. Hardcover. A Modern Library collection of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's best-loved poetry (including "Evangeline," "The Song of Hiawatha," "Tales of a Wayside Inn," "The Courtship of Miles Standish" and many others). Includes…
The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci (Modern Library #138. 1)
MEREJKOWSKI, DMITRI · 1952 · Bluebird Books
$14.50 (€13.16 | £10.97 | ¥2,316)
New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1952]. Hardcover. The brilliant Leonardo Da Vinci is brought to life in this biographical romance. A novel, this work translated from the Russian of Dmitri Merejkowski, and with biographical sketch of the author, by Bernard Guilber…
Selected Stories of Franz Kakfa: The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony and 13 Others (Modern Library #283. 1)
KAFKA, FRANZ · 1953 · Bluebird Books
$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)
New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1953]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition presenting 15 short stories by the master of the genre, Franz Kafka. Includes his "The Metamorphosis," "In the Penal Colony," "The Great Wall of China" and 12 others. Translated by Willa a…
Flowering Judas and Other Stories (Modern Library #284. 1)
PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE · 1955 · Bluebird Books
$14.50 (€13.16 | £10.97 | ¥2,316)
New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1955]. Hardcover. A collection of 10 short stories in a Modern Library edition by the insightful Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980). Many of these stories are set in Mexico, and often explore relationships between women and men. Wit…
The Unvanquished: A Novel of the American Revolution (Modern Library #239. 1)
FAST, HOWARD · 1946 · Bluebird Books
$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)
New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1946]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition presenting Howard Fast's historical novel of George Washington and the American Revolution. Includes maps of New Jersey and New York City areas in 1776. Volume in jacket with a front panel…
Lord Jim (Modern Library #186. 1)
CONRAD, JOSEPH · 1949 · Bluebird Books
$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)
New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1949]. Hardcover. ISBN: 3936709033. A Modern Library reprint edition of Joseph Conrad's classic novel which tells the tale of a man whose shame drove him deep into the jungles of southeast Asia. With an introduction by J. Donald Ad…
Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays (Modern Library, #94. 2)
DUNN, ESTHER CLOUDMAN (INTRODUCTION) · 1950 · Bluebird Books
$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)
New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1950-63]. Hardcover. ISBN: 0803292341. A Modern Library edition presenting an assortment of plays from the Elizabethan period: "Doctor Faustus" by Marlowe, "The Shoemaker's Holiday" by Dekker, "A Woman Killed with Kindness" by Heyw…
Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, Major Barbara, Androcles and the Lion (Modern Library #294. 1)
SHAW, BERNARD · 1959 · Bluebird Books
$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)
New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1959]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition presenting three of Bernard Shaw's highly praised plays, first published in 1924, 1913 and 1913. Born in Ireland, Shaw (1856-1950) wrote more than sixty plays during his long life. With le…
Three Soldiers (Modern Library #205. 1)
DOS PASSOS, JOHN · 1958 · Bluebird Books
$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)
New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1958]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of the highly acclaimed first novel by John Dos Passos, a stark portrayal of the horrors of World War I. The author saw the misery of the war first-hand as an ambulance driver at V…
The Young Lions (Modern Library #112. 3)
SHAW, IRWIN · 1958 · Bluebird Books
$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)
New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1958-59]. Hardcover. Stated First Modern Library edition, 1958 of Irwin Shaw's novel, which is set against the backdrop of WWII and was later made into a movie starring Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando and Dean Martin. Though copyri…
Journeys Through Bookland: A New and Original Plan for Reading, Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children (Volume Nine Only, of 10)
SYLVESTER, CHARLES H. · 1909 · Bluebird Books
$19.50 (€17.69 | £14.76 | ¥3,114)
Chicago: Bellows-Reeve Company, 1909. Hardcover. Volume nine only, of ten. An illustrated collection of classic stories suitable for reading by children. The stories were borrowed from notable works of literature by such authors as Washington Irving, Robert Browning, Lord Byron,…
The Trial
KAFKA, FRANZ · 1960 · Round Table Books, LLC
$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)
New York: The Modern Library, c. 1960. Definitive Edition. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full red cloth (Style 8, Blumenthal design), gilt lettering on black panels on cover and spine, with Kent torchbearers, t.e.g. (black), printed Kent endpapers. Translated from the …
South from the Spanish Main: South America Seen Through the Eyes of Its Discoverers (the Great Explorers Series)
HANSON, EARL PARKER (EDITOR) · 1967 · Bluebird Books
$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,955)
New York: Delacorte Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Editor Earl Parker Hanson has compiled excerpts from accounts left by various explorers of South America, from Christopher Columbus to Charles Darwin. The accounts were edited by Hanson, with his a…