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Aesop. The Fables of Aesop. Charles E. Graham, no date, 1910?. Small hardback w/o dj, pictorial cover, 75 b&w ink illustrations, covers soiled slightly, previous owner inscription on both endpapers, foxing, front hinge starting, few dog-eared pages, text is clean & unmarked, good condition. .....$25 ((rj151))

Aesop. The Fables of Aesop. Charles E. Graham, no date, 1910? Small hardback w/o dj, pictorial cover, 75 b&w ink illustrations, covers soiled slightly, previous owner inscription on both endpapers, foxing, front hinge starting, few dog-eared pages, text is clean & unmarked, good condition.....$25 ((rj151))

Aristotle (edited by Louise Ropes Loomis). Aristotle On Man In the Universe. Metaphysics, Parts of Animals, Ethics, Politics, Poetics. Wlater J. Black, 1971. Hardback w/o dj, tan cloth with red & gold decoration, 441 pages, text is clean & unmarked, tight binding, very good condition, an attractive copy.....$7 ((ml526e))

Aron, Raymond (edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen). Marxism and the Existentialists. World Perspectives Volume Forty (40). Harper & Row, 1969, First Edition. Ex-library hardback w/dj, mylar jacket, tape foxing, 176 pages, few pencil notations, good condition. Philosophy.....$10 ((gc5720))

Bacon, Francis (edited w/intro & notes by Brian Vickers, preface by Lord Quinton, engravings by Harry Brockway). Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral. The Folio Society, 2003, 2nd printing. Hardback w/o dj, red decorative slip case, cream cloth with black lettering & maroon decoration, pictorial endpapers, b&w engravings, text is clean & unmarked, 258 pages, very good condition, an attractive copy. Slip case does not show any noticeable wear.....$28.50 ((bw1604))

Baker, Ann. Introduction to Philosophy. Fourth Edition. Pearson Custom Publishing, 2003. Soft cover, 308 pages, very good condition. ISBN 0536739412.....$45 ((ml167u))

Borchert, Donald M. (editor-in-chief). Macmillan Compendium. Philosophy and Ethics. Macmillan Library Reference, 1999. Large ex-library hardback w/o dj, pictorial cover, 1158 pages, good condition. ISBN 0028653661.....$30 ((mlo1170))

Brehier, Emile (trans. by Wade Baskin). Contemporary Philosophy - Since 1850. The History of Philosophy Volume VII. University of Chicago Press, 1969. Ex-library hardback w/dj, dj laminated & glued, 274 pages, good condition.....$18.50 ((ml3133))

Burton, Richard F. Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Volume XV (15) Only. Collector's Edition. The Easton Press, 1994. Hardback w/o dj, beautiful leather binding (purple/dark burgundy with gold & black decoration), gold satin style endpapers, gilt page edges, ribbon book mark, b&w frontispiece, 381 pages, like new condition. Probably never read. With notes anthropological and explanatory.....$50 ((ml1107t))

Carroll, Lewis (illus. by Moritz Kennel). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1971. Large hardback w/o dj, couple smudges on yellow cloth cover, 136 pages, many full page color plates, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. ISBN 0690009844.....$15 ((go286))

Chaucer, Geoffrey (trans., intro. & notes by David Wright). The Canterbury Tales. Folio Society, 2003, 4th printing. Hardback w/o dj, red slip case, cream/gold/red pictorial cover, b&w ink woodcut engraving illustrations on endpapers & throughout text by various illustrators, text is clean & unmarked, 519 pages, very good condition, an attractive copy. Slip case shows slight shelf wear at one corner.....$30 ((bw1603))

Cooper, James Fenimore (adapted by Naunerle Farr; illus. by Fred Carrillo). Illustrated Classic Book Club. The Last of the Mohicans. Pendulum Press, 1977. Hardback w/o dj, pictorial cover, b&w cartoon adaptation for children, 62 pages, pages browning slightly, very good condition.....$15 ((gc1449))

Crane, Stephen (illus. by Herschel Levit). The Red Badge of Courage. Macmillan, 1967, 5th printing. Hardback w/o dj, pictorial cover, 205 pages, very good condition.....$5 ((gc1517))

Crane, Stephen (illus. by John Steuart Curry). The Red Badge of Courage. The Heritage Press, 1972. Large hardback w/o dust jacket, brown cloth with embossed decorative cover, light brown slipcase, 170 pages, few brown & white illustrations, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Slipcase is also in very good condition. .....$10 ((mlo5375))

Dana, R.H., Jr. (edited by Charles W. Eliot). Two Years Before the Mast and Twnety-Four Years After. The Harvard Classics Deluxe Edition. P.F. Collier and Son, 1969, 62nd printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, dark green faux leather with gold lettering & decoration, 405 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Gift quality. .....$5 ((ml354o))

de Cervants, Miguel (trans. by Thomas Shelton). The First Part of the Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of the Mancha. The Harvard Classics. Deluxe Edition. P.F. Collier and Son, 1970, 63rd printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, faux dark green leather with gold lettering & decoration, 519 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition......$5 ((ml354q))

Dickens, Charles (illus. by G.J. Pinwell and F. Walker). The Uncommon Traveller and Reprinted Pieces Etc. Oxford University Press/Frankin Library, 1985. Hardback w/o dj, leather bound spine with raised bands, red boards with gold lettering & decoration, ribbon book mark, marble endpapers, 796 pages, gilt page edges, beautiful condition, truly like new. Franklin Library edition. .....$60 ((ml3495))

Dos Passos, John. Travel Books and Other Writings 1916-1941. The Library of America, 2003, first printing. Ex-library hardback w/dust jacket, mylar jacket, library stamps & labels, ribbon book mark, 865 pages, few color plates, good condition. ISBN 1931082405.....$10 ((ml2722k))

Druon, Maurice (trans. by Humphrey Hare). The Memoirs of Zeus. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964. Ex-library hardback w/dj, mylar jacket, black remainder marks, 240 pages, good condition.....$11 ((ml1486f))

Editors. Classics Appreciation Society Condensations. "Gulliver's Travels" by Swift; "The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini"; "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Gibbon"; "The Aeneid" by Vergil. Grolier, 1956. Hardback w/o dj, orange cloth, abridgement of classics, 586 pages, very good condition. Also contains "The Book of Job", "Napoleon Bonaparte: A Love Letter to Josephine", and "William Pitt's Speech Objecting to Taxation Without Representation".....$6 ((gc1350))

Editors. Classics Appreciation Society Condensations. "Moby Dick" by Melville; "Life of Samuel Johnson" by Boswell; "The Social Contract" by Rousseau"; "The Odyssey" by Homer. Grolier, 1957. Hardback w/o dj, orange cloth, abridgement of classics, 538 pages, very good condition. Also contains "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", "Christopher Columbus' Letter Reporting His First Impressions of America", and "Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address".....$6 ((gc1347))

Editors. Classics Appreciation Society Condensations. "The History of Tom Jones" by Fielding; "The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy" by Burckhardt; "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Carroll; "Leaves of Grass" by Whitman. Grolier, 1956. Hardback w/o dj, orange cloth, abridgement of classics, 552 pages, folded pages, one unevenly cut page, overall good condition. Also contains "Young Goodman Brown" by Hawthorne, "Elizabeth Cady Stanton Addresses the First Woman's Right Convention", and "Anne Boleyn's Last Letter to Her Husband, Henry VIII".....$6 ((gc1349))

Editors. Classics Appreciation Society Condensations. "The Scarlet Letter" by Hawthorne; "The History of Herodotus"; "Utilitarianism and On Liberty" by Mill; "The Sonnets" of Shakespeare. Grolier, 1956. Hardback w/o dj, orange cloth, abridgement of classics, 510 pages, very good condition. Also contains "The Open Boat" by Crane, "Beethoven: Letters to His 'Immortal Beloved'", and "Pope Urban II Calls Forth the First Crusade".....$6 ((gc1351))

Editors. Classics Appreciation Society Condensations. Contains "Les Miserables" by Hugo; "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin"; "The French Revolution" by Thomas Carlyle; "The Divine Comedy" by Dante". Grolier, 1955. Hardback w/o dj, orange cloth, abridgement of classics, 571 pages, covers are scuffed/soiled slightly, otherwise very good condition. Also contains "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Twain, "A Letter Describing the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius" by Pliny the Younger, Andrew Hamilton's "Speech Defending Freedom of the Press.".....$5 ((cs214o))

Editors. Foreign Classical Romances Volume 2. Elective Affinities by Wolfgang von Goethe. P.F. Collier & Son, no date, 1909?. Hardback w/o dj, brown cloth, gold lettering, 384 pages, back hinge separation.....$8 ((gc1057))

Editors. The Debate on the Constitution. Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification. Part One. The Library of America, 1993, 7th printing. Hardback w/o dj, red cloth in white slip case, red ribbon bookmark, 1214 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Debates in the press and in private correspondence September 17, 1787 - January 12, 1788; Debates in the state ratifying conventions Pennsylvania, November 20-December 15, 1787; Connecticut, January 3-9, 1788; Massachusetts, January 9-February 7, 1788. ISBN 0940450429.....$15 ((ml7244))

Editors. The Debate on the Constitution. Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification. Part Two. The Library of America, 1993, 6th printing. Hardback w/o dj, red cloth in white slip case, red ribbon bookmark, couple dog-eared pages, 1175 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Debates in the press and in private correspondence January 14-August 9, 1788; Debates in the state ratifying conventions South Carolina, May 12-24, 1788; Virginia, June 2-27, 1788; New York, June 17-July 26, 1788; North Carolina, July 21-August 4, 1788. ISBN 094045064X.....$15 ((ml7246))

Eliot, Charles W. (editor). Harvard Classics Vol.14. The First Part of the Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of the Mancha by Miguel De Cervantes. P.F. Collier & Son, 1909. Hardback w/o dj, brown cloth/gold lettering, good condition, 545 pages, front hinge separation.....$8 ((gc1053))

Eliot, Charles W. (editor). The Harvard Classics Vol.32. Literary and Philosophical Essay. French, German and Italian. P.F. Collier & Son, 1910. Hardback w/o dj, brown cloth & gold lettering, 419 pages., very good condition.....$10 ((gc1043))

Eliot, Charles W. (editor). The Harvard Classics. Elizabethan Drama. Marlowe, Shakespeare. Deluxe Edition. P.F. Collier and Son, 1969, 62nd printing. Hardback w/o dj, green boards with gold lettering & decoration, 437 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition......$5 ((gc2141m))

Eliot, Charles W. (editor). The Harvard Classics. English Poetry in Three Volumes. Volume III: From Tennyson to Whitman. Deluxe Edition. P.F. Collier and Son, 1969, 62nd printing. Hardback w/o dj, green boards with gold lettering & decoration, pp. 959-1422, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition......$5 ((gc2141k))

Eliot, Charles W. (editor). The Harvard Classics. Essays English and American. Deluxe Edition. P.F. Collier and Son, 1969, 62nd printing. Hardback w/o dj, green boards with gold lettering & decoration, 437 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition......$5 ((gc2141n))

Eliot, Charles W. (editor). The Harvard Classics. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books. Deluxe Edition. P.F. Collier and Son, 1969, 62nd printing. Hardback w/o dj, green boards with gold lettering & decoration, 437 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition......$5 ((gc2005n))

Euripides (trans. by Philip Vellacott, illus. by Michael Ayrton). Medea, Hippolytus, the Bacchae. The Heritage Press, 1963. Large hardback w/o dust jacket, dark maroon cloth with black & gold decoration, black slipcase, 184 pages, few b&w watercolor illustrations, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Slipcase is also in very good condition......$10 ((mlo5377))

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (edited by John Kuehl and Jackson Bryer). The Basil and Josephine Stories. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973. Ex-library hardback w/dj, dj glued, 287 pages, good condition. Collection of fourteen stories centered around two main characters, Basil Duke Lee and Josephine Perry. ISBN 0684133989.....$15 ((ml2165d))

Goldsmith, Oliver (illus. by Arthur Rackham). The Vicar of Wakefield. David McKay Company, no date. Large ex-library hardback w/o dj, yellow library tape on spine & cover edges, 12 color plates, few small b&w ink illustrations, few dog-eared pages, 232 pages, solid reading/research copy......$20 ((ml1401b))

Grant, Michael. Greek and Latin Authors 800 B.C. - A.D. 1000. A Volume in the Wilson Authors Series. H.W. Wilson Company, 1980. Ex-library hardback w/o dj, 490 pages, good condition. ISBN 0824206401.....$10 ((ml3174o))

Gulick, Charles Burton. Modern Traits in Old Greek Life. Cooper Square Publishers, 1963. Small ex-library hardback w/o dj, ink price front endpaper, 159 pages, clear tape on spine, good condition.....$10 ((ml2074f))

Hardy, Thomas (intro. by John Bayley, wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker). Jude the Obscure. The Heritage Press, 1969. Hardback w/o dust jacket, slipcase, small brown stain on slipcase, few b&w engravings, 427 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition......$10 ((mlo5374))

Hathorn, Richmond Y. Crowell's Handbook of Classical Drama. A modern guide to the comedies and tragedies of the Greek and Roman theater, with biographies of their authors. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1967, first printing. Ex-library hardback w/dust jacket, mylar jacket, library stamps & labels, 350 pages, good condition......$5 ((cs1477))

Hemingway, Ernest (decorations by Edward Shenton). Green Hills of Africa. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935, First Edition. Hardback w/dust jacket, light green binding shows some sun fading along edges, pages are beginning to yellow slightly, 295 pages, b&w ink illustrations/decorations, pages are clean & unmarked, very good condition. On copyright page we have the "A" and the Scribner Press seal. The dust jacket has original price of $2.75, and shows wear/fraying along edges/rubbing, back dust jacket (with b&w photo of Hemingway) has scratches and 2" wear mark with white showing and some creases and light soiling. The DJ has 1/2" closed tear & has been folded/creased along back inside flap......$600 ((mw43))

Homer (trans. by Samuel Butler, edited by Louise R. Loomis). The Iliad of Homer. Walter J. Black, 1970. Hardback w/o dj, tan cloth with red & gold decoration, 391 pages, text is clean & unmarked, tight binding, very good condition, an attractive copy.....$7 ((ml526d))

Homer (trans. by Samuel Butler, edited by Louise Ropes Loomis). The Odyssey of Homer. Walter J. Black, 1944 copyright, later reprint. Hardback w/o dj, tan cloth with red & gold decoration, 306 pages, text is clean & unmarked, tight binding, very good condition, an attractive copy.....$7 ((ml526h))

Hubbell, Harry M. (introduction). Selected Works of Cicero. A New Translation. Walter J. Black, 1948. Hardback w/o dust jacket, cream tweed with red & gold decoration on spine, 385 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition......$5 ((rk931))

Hugo, Victor (adapted by Malvina G. Vogel; illus. by Pablo Marcos Studio). Great Illustrated Classics. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Baronet Books, 1994. Hardback w/o dj, pictorial cover, 239 pages, very good condition.....$8 ((gc1444))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 14. Plutarch. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1952. Hardback w/o dust jacket, blue cloth, 897 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans", the Dryden Translation. .....$8 ((hh154g))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 14. Plutarch. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & grey cloth, 897 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans. The Dryden Translation" by Plutarch. .....$8 ((ml3636))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 14. Plutarch. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1952. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & blue cloth, 897 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecian and Romans. The Dryden Translation". .....$8 ((ml3724))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 15. Tacitus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & grey cloth, 313 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "The Annals and Histories" by P. Cornelius Tacitus. .....$8 ((ml3634))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 15. Tacitus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1952. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & blue cloth, 313 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "The Annals and the Histories" by P. Cornelius Tacitus. .....$8 ((ml3722))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 17. Plotinus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1952. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & brown cloth, 360 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "Plotinus. The Six Enneads" translated by Stephen MacKenna and B.S. Page. .....$8 ((ml3723))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 24. Rabelais. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1952. Hardback w/o dust jacket, olive green cloth, 318 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "Gargantua and Pantagruel" by Francois Rabelais (trans. by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux). .....$8 ((hh154i))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 24. Rabelais. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & olive green cloth, 318 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "Gargantu and Pantagruel", trans. by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux. .....$8 ((ml3666))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 25. Montaigne. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & blue grey cloth, 543 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "The Essays of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne" trans. by Charles Cotton, edited by W. Carew Hazlitt. .....$8 ((ml3667))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 26. Shakespeare: I. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & olive green cloth, 626 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "The Plays and Sonnets of William Shakespeare Volume One" edited by William George Clarked and William Aldis Wright. .....$8 ((ml3665))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 28. Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & forest green cloth, 496 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies" by William Gilbert; "Concerning the Two New Sciences" by Galileo Galilei, "On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals. On the Circulation of the Blood. On the Generation of Animals" by William Harvey. .....$8 ((ml3675))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 29. Cervantes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & grey cloth, 429 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes, Translated by John Ormsby. .....$8 ((ml3638))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 30. Francis Bacon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & brown cloth, 214 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "Advancement of Learning", "Novum Organum", "New Atlantis". .....$8 ((ml3672))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 32. John Milton. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & olive green cloth, 412 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "English Minor Poems, Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, Areopagitica". .....$8 ((ml3659))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 34. Newton, Huygens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1952. Hardback w/o dust jacket, forest green cloth, 619 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" and "Optics" by Sir Isaac Newton; "Treatise on Light" by Christiaan Huygens. .....$8 ((hh154h))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 35. Locke, Berkeley, Hume. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1952. Hardback w/o dust jacket, brown cloth, 509 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "A Letter Concerning Toleration, Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" by John Locke; "The Principles of Human Knowledge" by George Berkeley; "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" by David Hume. .....$8 ((hh154j))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 35. Locke, Berkeley, Hume. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & brown cloth, 509 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "A Letter Concerning Toleration, Concerning Civil Goernment, Second Essay, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding", by John Locke; "The Principles of Human Knowledge" by George Berkeley, "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" by David Hume. .....$8 ((ml3673))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 36. Swift, Sterne. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & grey cloth, 556 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift and "Tristram Shandy" by Laurence Sterne. .....$8 ((ml3632))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 37. Henry Fielding. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & grey cloth, 405 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "The History of Tom Jones. A Foundling". .....$8 ((ml3633))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 39. Adam Smith. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & grey blue cloth, 468 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth Nations". .....$8 ((ml3664))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 40. Gibbon: I. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & blue grey cloth, 900 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Volume I". .....$8 ((ml3670))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 41. Gibbon: II. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & grey cloth, 855 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" Volume II by Edward Gibbon . .....$8 ((ml3694))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 43. American State Papers, the Federalist J.S. Mill. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & blue grey cloth, 476pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "American State Papers", "The Federalist" by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, "On Liberty, Representative Government, Utilitarianism" by John Stuart Mill. .....$8 ((ml3679))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 44. Boswell. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & blue gray cloth, 618 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "Life of Samuel johnson, LL. D." by James Boswell. .....$8 ((ml3680))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 46. Hegel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & brown cloth, 369 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "The Philosophy of Right", "The Philosophy of History" by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. .....$8 ((ml3671))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 47. Goethe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & olive green cloth, 294 pages, text is clean & unmarked, scuffed mark on cover, very good condition. Contains "Faust Parts One and Two" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. by George Madison Priest . .....$8 ((ml3697))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 47. Goethe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1952. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & olive green cloth, 294 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "Faust Parts One and Two" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by George Madison Priest. .....$8 ((ml3726))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 48. Melville. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & grey cloth, 619 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "Moby Dick; or, The Whale" by Herman Melville. .....$8 ((ml3689))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 49. Darwin. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & forest green cloth, 659 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" and "The Descent of Man". .....$8 ((ml3683))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 50. Marx. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & grey cloth, 434 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "Capital" by Karl Marx edited by Friedrich Engels, "Manifesto of the Communist Party" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. .....$8 ((ml3692))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 52. Dostoevsky. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & olive green cloth, 412 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. by Constance Garnett. .....$8 ((ml3658))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 52. Dostoevsky. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1952. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & olive green cloth, 412 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett. .....$8 ((ml7911a))

Hutchins, Robert Maynard (editor-in-chief). Great Books of the Western World Volume 53. William James. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1988, 30th printing. Hardback w/o dust jacket, black leather & forest green cloth, 897 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains "The Principles of Psychology" by William James. .....$8 ((ml3686))

Jacobs, Joseph (editor) (illus. by John D. Batten). The Book of Wonder Voyages. Xerox University Microfilms, 1967. Hardback w/o dust jacket, light blue cloth with small pictorial paste down, few maroon ink illustrations/drawings, 224 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Contains 'The Argonauts", "The Voyage of Maelduin", "Hasan of Bassorah", "The Journeyings of Thorkill and of Eric the Far-Travelled". .....$7.50 ((rk772))

James, Henry (illus. by Lawrence Beall Smith). Washington Square. The Heritage Press, 1971. Large hardback w/o dust jacket, brown decorative cloth, brown slipcase, 204 pages, few b&w illustrations, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Slipcase is also in very good condition......$10 ((mlo5379))

James, Henry. Novels 1896-1899. The Other House, The Spoils of Poynton, What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age. The Library of America, 2003, first printing. Ex-library hardback w/dj, mylar jacket, ribbon bookmark, 1035 pages, good condition. ISBN 1931082308.....$18.50 ((ml7249))

Kant, Immanuel (trans. & intro. by Ted Humphrey). What Real Progress Has Metaphysics Made in Germany since the Time of Leibniz and Wolff?. Abaris Books, 1983. Ex-library hardback w/o dj, 206 pages, ink price front endpaper, covers sun-faded, text in English and German, good condition. ISBN 0913870560.....$55 ((ml1816x))

Khayyam, Omar (trans. by Edward Fitzgerald, edited by Louis Untermeyer). Rubaiyat of Amar Khayyam. A Complete reprint of the First Edition and the combined Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions, with an Appendix containing FitzGerald's Prefaces and Notes. Random House, 1947. Hardback w/o dust jacket, red & black grape vine pictorial cover, red slipcase [slip case], gold decorative pages, color illustrations, text is clean & unmarked, 149 pages, very good condition. Gift quality......$5 ((ml354r))

Kipling, Rudyard (adapted by John Norwood Fago; illus. by Leonardo Patricia). Illustrated Classic Book Club. Captains Courageous. Pendulum Press, 1977. Hardback w/o dj, pictorial cover, b&w cartoon adaptation for children, 62 pages, pages browning slightly, very good condition.....$15 ((gc1450))

Lamb, Charles (edited by Bliss Perry). Little Masterpieces. Selections from His Essays, Letters and Verses. Doubleday & McClure Co., 1901. Small hardback w/o dj, pencil marks front endpapers, back hinge separation, 156 pages, pages yellowing, good condition.....$12 ((gc1428))

Lamb, Charles, Mary Lamb, and J.C. Trewin (as told by). The Complete Tales from Shakespeare. A Nonesuch Cygnet. Franklin Watts Inc., 1964. Ex-library hardback w/dj, dj laminated & glued, 445 pages, good condition.....$25.50 ((ml3143n))

Lawrence, D.H. The Short Novels. Volume II (Two). The Phoenix Edition. Heinemann, 1968. Small ex-library hardback w/dj, dj laminated & glued, good condition. ISBN 0434407151.....$15 ((ml7256))

Lindsay, Jack (editor). Ribaldry of Ancient Rome. An Intimate Portrait of Romans in Love. Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1965. Small ex-library hardback w/o dj, orange cloth, 231 pages, good condition......$18.50 ((ml7348))

Loeper, John J. (illus. by James and Ruth McCrea). Men of Ideas. Atheneum, 1970. Ex-library hardback w/dj, mylar jacket, 120 pages, black remainder marks, good condition.....$8 ((hh72))

McSpadden, J. Walker. Stories from Wagner. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1905. Small hardback w/o dj, plaid cloth cover, b&w frontispiece, back hinge starting, 329 pages, one page is unevenly cut by publisher, pages clean & unmarked, a couple pages have small tears on edge, good condition. Stories include "The Ring of the Curse", "Parsifal the Pure", "Lohengrin, the Swan Knight", "Tannhauser, the Knight of Son", "The Master Singers", "Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes", "The Flying Dutchman", "Tristan and Isolde.". .....$5 ((cs392s))

Monadnock Press Editors. The Goodly History of the True and Constant Love Between Rhomeo and Julietta. The Monadnock Press/Temple Scott, 1903. Hardback w/o dust jacket, green leather binding with gold lettering, brown smudge on cover, marble endpapers, attractive b&w wood cut frontispiece with tissue paper, hand-made hand-cut pages, red & black calligraphy style printing, gilt page edges, very good condition. Gift quality. .....$350 ((mw44))

Paine, Thomas. Common Sense and Rights of Man. Classics of Liberty Library, 1992. Hardback w/o dust jacket, dark blue boards & leather on spine, blue ribbon book mark, marble endpapers, gilt page edges, attractive decorative copy, very good condition......$15 ((ml3696))

Parkman, Francis (edited by Mason Wade, illus. by Maynard Dixon). The Oregon Trail. Heritage Press, 1971. Large hardback w/o dust jacket, brown cloth with gold decorative cover, light brown slipcase, 297 pages, few monochromatic illustrations, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. Slipcase is also in very good condition......$10 ((mlo5376))

Paul, Elliot. The Life and Death of a Spanish Town. The Modern Library, 1942. Small hardback w/o dust jacket, red cloth, map endpapers, 27 pages plus list of Modern Library titles in back, pages are clean & unmarked, very good condition......$9 ((ml7783v))

Pyle, Howard. The Story of King Arthur and His Knights. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Hardback w/o dust jacket, tan cloth with black/red/gilt decoration (shield) on cover & spine, b&w woodblocks/illustrations, previous owner inscriptions on front endpapers, small tear at top of spine cloth, 312 pages, old style book store label back inside cover, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition. An attractive, gift quality copy of this classic story......$25 ((rk939))

Roth, Philip. Novels and Stories 1959-1962. Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories, Letting Go. The Library of America, 2005, first printing. Ex-library hardback w/dj, mylar jacket, ribbon book mark, 913 pages, good condition. ISBN 1931082790.....$16.50 ((ml7271))

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (edited by Christian Gauss). Selections from the Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Princeton University Press, 1926, 4th printing. Hardback w/o dj, address label front endpaper, 222 pages, pencil notations in text, back endpaper is chipped, good condition. Text is in French with English commentary and notes.....$5 ((rk477))

Salinger, J.D. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters AND Seymour -- An Introduction. Heinemann, 1963. Hardback w/dust jacket, dj shows shelf wear/small tears/small chips, 248 pages, text is clean & unmarked, very good condition......$10 ((mw45))

Schneewind, J.B. (editor). Mill: A Collection of Critical Essays. Modern Studies in Philosophy. University of Notre Dame Press, 1968. Narrow ex-library hardback w/o dj, 455 pages, good condition.....$18.50 ((ml2711))

Scott, Sir Walter (adapted by William Kottmeyer, illus. by William Hopkins). Ivanhoe. Webster Publishing, 1947. Hardback w/o dj, green pictorial cover, bumped corners, school stamp front endpaper, 133 pages, good condition. Juvenile adaptation of this classic novel.....$8.50 ((gc7123))

Scott, Sir Walter (edited by Alfred M. Hitchcock). Ivanhoe. A Romance. Macmillan, 1916. Small hardback w/o dj, brown cloth, bumped corners, previous owner inscription, 480 pages, very good condition.....$5.50 ((gc6957))

Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since. Porter & Coates, 1829 (from preface). Hardback w/o dust jacket, olive green cloth with black floral decoration & gold on spine, cover & spine read "Waverley Novels", b&w frontispiece, 255 pages, pages are clean & unmarked, very good condition. An attractive copy. Title page reads "From the Last Revised Edition, containing the Author's final corrections, notes, etc. Two Volumes in One." It also includes a preface to the Third Edition......$15 ((bw1925))

Shakespeare, William (edited by J.W. Lever). The Arden Edition of the Works of William Shakespeare. Measure for Measure. Methuen and Co., Ltd, 1965. Ex-library hardback w/dust jacket, dj laminated & glued, library stamps & labels, 203 pages, good condition......$10 ((ml7699n))

Shakespeare, William (illus. by Marion Kunzelman). Best Loved Plays. Peopls Book Club, 1949. Hardback w/o dj, 480 pages, very good condition.....$5 ((gc2715))

Shakespeare, William (illus. by Rockwell Kent). Greatest Tragedies of William Shakespeare. The Franklin Library, 1979. Hardback w/o dj, brown leather bound spine with raised bands, grey boards with gold lettering & decoration, marble endpapers, 639 pages, gilt page edges, ribbon book mark, beautiful condition, truly like new. Franklin Library edition. .....$20 ((ml3496))

Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Volume II. Histories. Walter J. Black, 1965. Hardback w/o dj, pp. 400-751, very good condition, a nice copy.....$6 ((gc1826))

Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Collected Stories: A Friend of Kafka and Other Stories; A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories; Passions and Other Stories. The Library of America, 2004, first printing. Ex-library hardback w/dj, mylar jacket, ribbon book mark, 856 pages, good condition. ISBN 1931082626.....$15 ((ml7270))

Spark, Muriel (illus. by Vivienne Flesher). The Only Problem [Franklin Library Signed First Edition]. Franklin Library, 1984. Leather bound without dust jacket, red leather with gold lettering & decoration, raised bands, SIGNED by author front endpaper, gilt page edges, ribbon book mark, 177 pages, marble endpapers, very good condition, a nice copy......$20 ((ml3499))

Stevenon, Robert Louis. 'Virginibus Puerisque' and Other Papers; Memories and Portraits; Familiar Studies of Men and Books. Volume IX (9). Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Hardback w/o dj, red cloth with gold lettering on spine, bumped corners, b&w frontispiece, 629 pages, foxing inside covers, pages raggedly cut (as from publishers), good condition.....$20 ((bw1392))

Stevenson, Robert Louis (illus. by Milo Winter). Treasure Island. Longmeadow Press, 1986. Hardback w/o dj, pictorial cover, 8 color plates, previous owner inscription, 258 pages, very good condition, a nice copy. ISBN 0681400595.....$5 ((gc1478))

Stockhammer, Morris (editor). Plato Dictionary. Philosophical Library, 1963. Ex-library hardback w/dj, mylar jacket, tape foxing, 287 pages, good condition.....$15 ((ml2928))

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Young Folks' Edition. M.A. Donohue, no date, circa 1905. Large hardback w/o dust jacket, color pictorial paste down, olive green cloth, staple binding, brown pages, 64 pages, b&w ink illustrations, good condition......$10 ((mw52))

Tolstoi, Lev (illus. by Academician A. Pakhomov, trans. by Jacob Guralsky). Stories for Children. Progress Publishers, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, no date. Large soft cover, bumped & folded corners, 41 pages, filled with beautiful b&w pencil drawings, good condition.....$7 ((gc4903g))

Tolstoy, Leo (selected & intro by Ernest J. Simmons). Short Stories. Volume Two. The Modern Library, 1965. Small ex-library hardback w/dj, dj laminated & glued, previous owner inscription, bumped corner, 300 pages, good condition. Volume Two Only. .....$15 ((ml7287))

Voltaire (edited by Manuel Komroff). The Romances of Voltaire. Tudor Publishing, 1936. Hardback w/o dj, brown cloth, spine lettering faded, previous owner inscription, one page has thin chip, text is clean & unmarked, overall very good condition. Contains "Candide", "Zadig", "The Princess of Babylon", "The Child of Nature", "Micromegas", "Cosi-Sancta", "Memnon", "The One-Eyed Porter".....$10 ((ml3347d))

Wells, H.G. (illus. by Charles Mozley, intro. by Bernard Bergonzi)). The Invisible Man. The Heritage Press, 1967. Large hardback w/o dust jacket, grey slip case [slipcase], grey cloth with gold lettering & decoration, pictorial endpapers, 164 pages, full page b&w ink illustrations, very good condition. Slipcase shows some slight scuffing & small brown stain. Gift quality......$10 ((mlo2384i))

Wood, Roger and Mary Clarke. Shakespeare at the Old Vic. Julius Caesar, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Winter's Tale, King Henry V, Othello, Troilus and Cressida. Macmillan, 1957. Large ex-library hardback w/dj, dj laminated & glued, grey library tape along inside hinges, many b&w photos, unpaginated, good condition......$35 ((mlo300))

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