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The Enormous Room (Modern Library #214. 1)

CUMMINGS, E. E. · 1956 · Bluebird Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1956]. Hardcover. The American modernist poet, painter, playwright and essayist E. E. Cummings based his autobiographical novel on his experiences as a prisoner in France during World War I. With a brief introduction by the author …

Napoleon (Modern Library #95. 2)

LUDWIG, EMIL · 1957 · Bluebird Books

$14.50 (€13.16 | £10.97 | ¥2,316)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1957-59]. Hardcover. Emil Ludwig's popular biography of Napoleon Bonaparte in a Modern Library reprint edition. Mr. Ludwig (1881-1948) was a German Jew who emigrated to Switzerland in 1906 and later to the United States. Translated…

Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, General Gordon (Modern Library #212. 1)

STRACHEY, LYTTON · 1962 · Bluebird Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1962]. Hardcover. Ex-Library. A Modern Library reprint edition presenting Lytton Strachey's four short biographies of leading English citizens living in the time of Queen Victoria: Cardinal Henry Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. …

The Medici (Modern Library #179. 1)

YOUNG, COL. G. F. · 1952 · Bluebird Books

$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,955)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1952]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition of a profile of the House of Medici, who wielded great power in Florence and Tuscany starting in the 14th century through the early 18th century. With a preface by the author and extensive…

The Short Stories of Henry James (Modern Library Giant #G11. 3)

JAMES, HENRY · 1954 · Bluebird Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1954]. Hardcover. A Modern Library Giant edition presenting seventeen stories by Henry James (1843-1916), selected and introduced by Clifton Fadiman. Includes "The Middle Years," "Mrs. Medwin," "The Beast in the Jungle" and others.…

Candide, and Other Writings (Modern Library #47. 3)

VOLTAIRE · 1958 · Bluebird Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1958]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition offering Voltaire's satirical 1759 novella, as well as writings in other genres: fiction (including "Zadig"), poetry, history, literary criticism, philosophy, dialogues, letters and other …

Oracles of Nostradamus (Modern Library #81. 3)

WARD, CHARLES A. (EDITOR) · 1947 · Bluebird Books

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1947]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition offering a guide to the predictions of the French astrologer, physician and prophet Michel de Nostredame (1503-1566), best known as "Nostradamus." Many historic events are believed to have…

Tono-Bungay (Modern Library #197. 1)

WELLS, H. G. · 1960 · Bluebird Books

$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,955)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1960]. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394603656. A Modern Library reprint edition of the 1909 novel by H. G. Wells, which features numerous wild plot twists. This story touches on the manufacture and marketing of a controversial patent medicine…

The Best Stories of Guy de Maupassant (Modern Library #98. 4)

MAUPASSANT, GUY DE · 1959 · Bluebird Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1959]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition presenting a selection of 45 short stories written from 1883 to 1893 by the master French storyteller Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893). Selected, and with an introduction by Saxe Commins. ---…

A New Anthology of Modern Poetry, Revised Edition (Modern Library Giant #G46. 2)

RODMAN, SELDEN (EDITOR) · 1946 · Bluebird Books

$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,955)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1946]. Hardcover. A Modern Library Giant edition presenting a comprehensive collection of great "modern" (presumably, 20th century) English language poetry. A revised edition with the addition of 36 additional poets to an earlier M…

Riceyman Steps

BENNETT, ARNOLD · 1923 · Bluebird Books

$23.00 (€20.87 | £17.41 | ¥3,673)

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [c.1923-1940s]. Hardcover. A reprint edition of Arnold Bennett's novel, which is the story of Henry Earlforward, a miserly bookseller in a down-and-out section of London. This work was awarded the 1923 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Mr. …

ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. PUBLIC AUCTION Of The BEIDEMAN ESTATE, in the City of San Francisco, by Maurice Dore & Co., Real Estate Auctioneers, Wednesday, July 24th, 1867, Twelve O'Clock, Noon, at Salesroom, 327 Montgomery St. [Wrapper title]

Beideman, Jacob C. [d. 1865]. Cobb, H. A. - Auctioneer · 1867 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$1,375.00 (€1,247.50 | £1,040.59 | ¥219,596)

[San Francisco]: Alta California Printing House, 1867. 1st edition (Cowan II, pp. 375-376; Rocq 9192). Original printed pale green paper wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 64 pp. Numerous mss corrections to text. Intratextual lot plans, ~ 55, describing, by c…

Light in August (Modern Library #88. 5)

FAULKNER, WILLIAM · 1956 · Bluebird Books

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1956]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition of Faulkner's 7th novel, a story of small town life in the American South, set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi (based on his actual home county of Lafayette). Fi…

The Red and the Black (Modern Library 157. 1)

STENDHAL (PSEUDONYM OF MARIE-HENRI BEYLE) · 1953 · Bluebird Books

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1953]. Hardcover. Stendhal's magnum opus is centered around a young man of simple means who attempts to rise in elite society. This unabridged English-language Modern Library reprint edition features C. K. Scott Moncrieff's transla…

Lectures on Ancient History, from the Earliest Times to the Taking of Alexandria by Octavianus. Comprising the History of the Asiatic Nations, the Egyptians, Greeks, Macedonians, and Carthaginians. Volume 1 and 3 Only

Niebuhr, B.G. · 1852 · Mare Booksellers

$43.00 (€39.01 | £32.54 | ¥6,867)

Philadelphia, Blanchard and Lea, 1852. Cloth. Black cloth with ornamentation in blind. xxiii, 424, 24 (advertisements); xvi, 569. Volumes 1 and 3 ONLY. A study of ancient history presented as a series of lectures, containing sections on the Babylonians, Nineveh, the Cimmerians, …

Istituzioni Di Architettura Statica E Idraulica. (Complete Set)

San-Bertolo, Nicola Cavalieri · 1826 · Parigi Books

$900.00 (€816.54 | £681.12 | ¥143,736)

Bologna, Dalla Tipografia Cardinali e Frulli, 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. In three volumes. 384pp; 570pp + errata; sixty-eight plates. Volume 2 has a pagination error (skips from page 328 to 339). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines lettered and decorated in g…

Walden and Other Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Modern Library #155. 3)

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID · 1957 · Bluebird Books

$25.50 (€23.14 | £19.30 | ¥4,073)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1957]. Hardcover. A collection of the Henry David Thoreau's works in a Modern Library edition. Includes "Walden," "Cape Cod," "Civil Disobedience," and "Slavery in Massachusetts," among other works. Edited, and with a biographical …

Handwoven (Hand Woven) Magazine, September (Sept. ) / October (Oct. ) 2002 - 20 Design Secrets

O'HARA, SHEILA; KAESTNER, T.; NICKOL, M.; LANCASTER, D.; SELK, KAREN; ELLIS, CATHARINE; ET AL · 2002 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$59.95 (€54.39 | £45.37 | ¥9,574)

USA: Interweave Press, 2002. First Edition. Paperback. 96 pages. Features: Turning over a new leaf - or petal!; Inspiration is where you find it; Chroma Kaleidoscope - unfolding design and delight; Designing from the stash; Set limits and gain designing confidence; Woven Shibori…

The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln (Modern Library Giant #G20. 2)

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM; STERN, (EDITIOR) · 1945 · Bluebird Books

$21.50 (€19.51 | £16.27 | ¥3,434)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1945-62]. Hardcover. ISBN: 0785812466. A Modern Library Giant edition offering the principal writings of Abraham Lincoln, taken chiefly from his speeches and his letters, and annotated for the general reader. Includes a 217-page bi…

Le Morte Darthur the Story of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table

MALORY, SIR THOMAS · 1955 · Round Table Books, LLC

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

NY: The Heritage Press, 1955. Limited Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Robert Gibbings. Quarter bound in publisher's navy blue cloth over printed boards, gilt lettering on spine. Generously illustrated with B&W woodcuts by Robert Gibbings. This edition was originally creat…