Romance Fiction

Hornsby, Westfield, New South Wales, Australia: The Writer's Coffee Shop, 2011. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Good. See scans and description. Hornsby, Westfield, New South Wales, Australia: The Writer's Coffee Shop, 2011. First State of the First Edition, with no numeral on the spine and the lulu bar code number 90000 on the back cover. Octavo, wraps, cover illustrated from an art photo by "Papuga2006"; 372 numbered pages. About Very Good; this copy has been read. The cover corners are curling (see scan), and there is some spotting to the page fore-edge. The Bookmark is Near Fine, with a light crease near the bottom (scan). This is the extremely scarce first state of the first edition, with the equally scarce original WCS Fifty Shades of Grey bookmark that accompanied it. WCS copies dated in 2011 and with the lulu bar code number which do have a spine numeral "I" are also first editions, but a later state. This first state copy was produced… Read More

First volume of two, 710 p. in fine hard cover binding. the most rare and complete edition edited by Abdurrahman al Safti al Sharqawi. vol.1 contains 536 stories. 26.5 x 18 cm. printed in Bulak 1251 (1834-1835).

Messner, New York
NF Boards, VG Dust jacket
Not price clipped. Price of $3.50
NF dark grayish green boards. No dings, no bumping, clean, no marks, no p o's, no book plates, no stickers. Tight bindings.
DJ is in very good condition. Shelf wear, tiny tears along all edges.
Great B&W photo of the author on back sitting at a table in jeans and tennies with her feet propped up. "Grace Metalious is the most surprising new novelist of the year. In Peyton Place this Pandora in blue jeans lifts the lid off a small New England village, in the most explosive novel since Kings Row.Made into a motion picture and became a cult classic t.v. series.

The Woman In White (1860 Harper & Brothers First Edition Second Printing Thus. BY WILKIE COLLINS. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, States 1860 on the title page. In-text illustrations by John McLenan. Publisher's dk. brown stamped heavy cardboard boards with H&B cartouche on front and back boards. Ads are 2nd state. Miss Mulock spelled correctly. News lists page is dated August, 1860. Ads list eleven titles, and verso advertising The Mill on the Floss [Gasson p. 160.] Used. Good- Condition: Our copy lacks its spine, otherwise in good condition and a good candidate for rebinding. Chocolate brown endpapers are in good shape. 260 pages. 6 X 9 1/2. Please see our photos.

1651 KISSING Dutch John Secundus Everaerts Poetry Erotica Romantic Latin Poems

Johannes Secundus, also known as Joannes Everaerts was a 16th-century Dutch poet. He wrote several romantic elegies, odes and songs, letters, and epistles most of which deal primarily with love and romantic behavior. He is best known for his treatise on kissing which explores the erotic behaviors and the symbols that kissing represents.

This 1651 Latin edition was published in Leiden and features the entirety of the known works of Secundus.

Item number: #9562
Price: $550
EVERAERTS, Johannes of Nicolai
Joannis Secundi Opera. Accurate recognita
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Franciscum Moyaert, MDCXXXXXI. [1651].

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o [30], 3-366
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Provenance: Bookplate – Henri Lambert
o Henri Lambert (1862–1934) was a Belgian engineer and glass works owner at Charleroi near Brussels. His glass works were the largest in the world in that time.
o He was one of the… Read More

Jamaica Inn (1936 BCE / WITH UNCLIPPED WHISTLER JACKET) By Daphne Du Maurier. Jamaica Inn, Doubleday & Company.Used. Exlib Copyright date MXXXVI (1936) BCE. Exlib. Library Bound. 243 pages. 5 3/8 X 8 1/8. INCLUDES RARE ORIGINAL REX WHISTLER 1ST EDITION UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. Original price on our jacket is $4.50. Library bound. Green Boards.

SOURCE OF THE TITLE PRIDE AND PREJUDICEBURNEY, FRANCES. Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. By the Author of Evelina. 12mo. Bound in full speckled calf with gilt-lettered spine labels; page edges dyed yellow. London: Printed for T. Payne and Son. 1782. First Edition. 5 volumes. With the misspelled catchword on page 235 of vol. II and the mispaginated page 159 in vol. V. The first edition of Fanny Burney's second novel, recounting the trials and tribulations of a wealthy young orphan who, launched into society, must guard her fortune and virtue from the depredations of assorted suitors. A follow-up to her hugely successful Evelina, Cecilia is "less unstudied" than the earlier work, "with greater polish, and a 'literary quality' that gave rise to the report that Dr. Johnson had corrected it." (Kunitz & Haycraft)An interesting incidental note is the appearance near the end of the book of a phrase that would gain immortality in the hands of a slightly later author:"'The whole of this unfortunate business,'… Read More

London: Dean & Munday, [ca. 1820s] First edition? There is also a twenty-four-page Derby edition from T. Richardson. We have been unable to establish priority. Both editions are scarce: OCLC records only three copies of this edition (UCLA, the Huntington, Princeton) and three of the T. Richardson (University of Alberta, Cambridge, NYPL, University of Kentucky). Modern gray paper wrappers. 4 x 7 in. . With a hand-colored frontispiece of two women dressed in early nineteenth century gowns. Offsetting to title-page, otherwise a very good, clean copy. A sensational novel of a young woman who leaves her modest country life to find employment in the corrupt and fast-paced city. Though besieged by the advances of men, Fanny Bilson maintains her honor and escapes back to the safety of her father's home, now with a reputable gentleman on her arm.

True First Edition1944, same date on title pageVG/VGDoubleday Rare, Collectible First Edition with ORIGINAL Dust JacketStated in Book, "True, First Edition after the Printing of a limited printing of 750."
Price of 2.75 on dust jacket. Dedication on Valentine's Day 1944. PO's signature.
This is the story of Larry Darell, an American pilot traumatized by WWI who sets off on a search of some transcendent meaning of his life. Concerned in a large part with the search for the meaning of life with the dichotomy between spirituality and materialism.

Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1920. Original Full Leather. Near Fine. 8vo. 1920-1928. Dünndruck. Einbandgrössse; 11,5 x 17,5cm. RARE ORIGINAL FULL RED LEATHER. SELTENE ORIGINAL GANZLEDERAUSGABE. Very insignificant unnoticeable wear to head of spine. A VERY GOOD CLEAN AND FRESH COPY. Minimalste kaum sichtbare Gebrauchsspuren am Kopf der Rücken, innen sehr sauber und frisch. EIN SEHR SCHÖNES EXEMPLAR!

New York: MacMillan Company. 1936. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. First issue with "Published May 1936" on copyright page in first issue jacket with rear panel headed "Macmillan Spring Novels" listing Gone with The Wind as the second title in the second column. Binding tight and square. Original full-bound cloth boards present, in exceptional condition for their age, with slight wear to corners as shown. Minimal wear present to boards and text block, with some wear evident to the original dust jacket, with a repaired tears on both the front and back covers, as well as some chipping losses at spine corners, and wear to the edges at bottom and top. Clipped (as is typical) at the top corner, with original price of $3 not clipped at the bottom left. Overall a very nice example. ; Signed by Margaret Mitchell on the first free end page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1037 pages; Signed by Author .

1887 Atala Chateaubriand Gustave Doré Romance Tragedy Natchez Indians Chactas

"Atala," by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand, is a 19th-century romantic novella set in early colonial North America. It tells the tragic love story of Atala, a Christian Natchez Indian, and Chactas, a young Native American from a different tribe. The story explores themes of love, religion, and the conflict between civilization and nature.

This folio edition, translated by James Spence Harry, features 30 striking illustrations by renowned artist Gustave Doré, who captures the dramatic and emotive scenes from the story with his intricate and evocative engravings. Doré's illustrations bring the characters, landscapes, and pivotal moments of Chateaubriand's tale to life, adding depth and visual appeal to this classic work of French literature.

Item number: #41009
Price: $599

CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René vicomte de; HARRY, James Spence (Transl.); DORÉ, Gustave (Illus.)

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THIS IS THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ENGLISH VERSION OF ANNA KARENINA, 1886. THIS WAS PRINTED IN THREE DIFFERENT COLOR BINDINGS, GREEN, BLUE AND BROWN. THIS BROWN COPY IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION AND VERY RARE. THE WORK IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT LITERARY ACHEIVEMENTS OF ALL TIME.

1929 Hemingway 1st/1st Farewell to Arms World War I Military Romance CLASSIC

Set during the Italian campaign of WWI, Hemingway wrote this first-person account based on his own experience working in the ambulance corps. It is about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations.

Item number: #30940
Price: $750

HEMINGWAY, Ernest

A Farewell to Arms

New York: Scribner's, 1929. First Edition. First Printing.

Details:
· Collation: Complete
o [8], 355, [1]
· Notes on edition:
o Original black cloth with gold paper labels
o Scribner's seal on copyright page
o No disclaimer
· References:Hanneman A8.a
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; secure
o Black cloth
o Facsimile dust jacket
· Size: ~7.5in X 5.25in (19cm x 13.5cm)

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The Woman In White (1861 Harper & Brothers First Edition 3rd Printing Thus) BY WILKIE COLLINS. PLEASE SEE OUR PHOTOS. USED. GOOD CONDITION. QUITE RARE. Publisher's chocolate brown boards are stamped with H&B. Ornate Gold gilt titling on spine still fairly bright. Loss and fragility to exterior spine. List of New Books dated December, 1860. States 1861 on the title page. In-text illustrations by John McLenan. Chocolate brown endpapers.. Miss Mulock correctly spelled. Foxing noted on ads pages. Harpers ads page lists The Woman In White as the sixth title. Former owner Alex McRae has signed and dated this book 10th January, 1861. 260 Pages. 6 1/8 X 9 1/2.