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Hardcover book with 24 Narratives. The African Servant tells the story of a boy looking for sea shells by the shore when white sailors take hime and he never sees his mother or father again. He is taken to Jamaica where he is sold to an American who keeps him in his house as his servant. Three years before this… Read more about this item

This is one volume, number 11, from a set of 21 volumes of The Works of Charles Dickens, Bleak House The Authentic Edition. This book lists the date as 1901. This is apparently the English edition since the last page states it was printed in London and Chapman and Hall is printed on the spine. A thick book with untrimmed… Read more about this item

This is the original 1950 first edition with the square Good News trademark on the spine. States Printed in U.S.A. Inscribed on the FFEP, "Moss Cordially Yours, A. J. Harms". The original owner and address is written opposite on the backside of the cover. There was a name in pencil that had previously been erased on the top of… Read more about this item

Book is becoming scarce with the dust jacket which is very worn with tears at spine edges and corners and has a scrape on the backside. Hardcover book looks nice but has bent edges on the spine ends. Top pages dyed red. Previous owners stamp inside cover mostly covered by the flap which has 2095 at the top. There is… Read more about this item

Book Is in French. Volume One, first catalogue in a series. Slight wear to wrapper, two page corners creased. Ships from the Chicago region.

368 p.p. Foxing insides covers and a few pages in front and back. Wear to cover as photographed. Spine is mainly intact. Slight bend in the boards. Second volume of The Monastery begins at Chapter 18. One volume in the Waverly Novels. Printed by R. and R. Clark, Edinburgh. This volume dated 1879.

First British Edition. No price on dust jacket. Dustwrapper has wear along edges, corners and spine with some scratches. Cover illustration is nice. Inside Like New. HC Near Fine with edges of spine bumped. Located near Chicago, IL.

Initials J. V.Jr. on spine. Inside VG+, boards chipped with a backside crease and a very worn corner.  Please see title page photo for complete title description.  Book is in SPANISH circa 1851.

HC is worn around edges and corners and very worn with chipping along spine. Cover is discolored from age. Personal gift inscription in pencil inside cover. Recipient's name erased. The lithograph prints are beautiful. This little book is HTF in the Pearls series

7 volumes ship as one in the U.S.A. - not a complete set. Bracebridge Hall, frontispieces of Washington Irving is from a daguerreotype by Plumb about 1850. Tales of a Traveller, illus. of The Money Diggers drawn by Frank T. Merrill. The Alhamera preface to the revised edition is dated 1851. Astoria includes a couple of drawings by… Read more about this item

Gilt edge top of book in slipcase. Matching card laid as shown signed by illustrator Bill Green. In Fine condition except slipcase has a green dot backside, slight bend in the card. Standard international shipping only.

Lot of 5 ships as one. #1: Diamonds Are Forever Signet 007 P2725 Wrapper Good, multiple creases, top layer of wrapper peeled away at edges Inside VG, water stains on several pages + foredge. 25th printing (60 cents) #2 Doctor No 007 P2726 Signet (60 cents) complete and unabridged. Wrapper Good, Book bent from storage, water marks on about four… Read more about this item

Signed By Author. Includes a 1993 Governor's General Literary Award Winners bookmark from the Canada Council with a list of winners on the back. (she didn't win) Second printing 2003, has the original price sticker on half title page next to signature. Book almost like new.

Set of 3 Black cloth with beige boards. No Dust Jackets. 1. Tropic of Capricorn 1961 - Cover Near Fine, a scratch on the black. Inside Like New/Tight Binding. 2. Tropic of Cancer 1961 - Book Creaks when opened. Cover Near Fine, bottom of spine dented & spine bends outward slightly in the middle, edges of spine rubbed along front,… Read more about this item