The Californians.

By: Atherton, Gertrude.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: N.Y., B. W. Dodge: no date (c. 1903?)

Edition: 'Special Limited Edition'

Seller ID: 7299

Condition: Good Condition

No limitation notice; 351 pp., pubs. ads; 8vo; blue cloth lettered in white. Cover with moderate rubbing & soil, mostly to spine, with spine lettering effaced; spine slightly cocked; bookplate on front endpaper; moderate tanning to endpapers & pastedowns; area of red offset to cloth back cover along spine, and lower corner near spine. The first edition was published by John Lane, 1898. This edition, not found on World Cat, appears to be very scarce. Publisher's W... View more info

The Novels of Jane Austen. (In Ten Volumes).

By: Austen, Jane.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, Philadelphia, Frank S. Holby: 1906

Edition: The Old Manor House Edition

Seller ID: 7717

Condition: Very Good condition

No. 956 of 1000 numbered & registered copies. Edited by R. Brimley Johnson. Introduction by Prof. William Lyon Phelps. Color plates by C.E. & H.M. Brock. 8vo; brick red cloth, paper spine labels. All volumes with color frontis & 2 color plates, all with tissue guards. Volume 1 with unsigned portrait of Austen, "said to have been painted when she was on a visit to Bath, at age 15 by Johann Zoffany," according to the caption printed in red on the tissue guard. Paper labels... View more info

Trio (with two page copy of a t.l.s. by the author to fellow writer Janet Lewis).

By: BAKER, DOROTHY.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1943

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 8266

Condition: Very Good condition in Good jacket, with Mylar Wrap

8vo; green cloth in dust jacket. Offset tanning from a clipped newspaper caricature of Baker regarding the novel affecting page opposite half-title, verso of half-title, and title page; light soil and wear top edges. Jacket with chips and creases top edge; loss at spine top and top leading corners. Publishers printed, "With the Compliments of the Author" card was paper clipped to top of front endpaper leaving imprint of clip, now laid in.Dorothy Baker, ca... View more info

Aurifodina or, Adventures in the Gold Region, a fantastical '49er novel written by Cantell A. Bigley [G.W. Peck]. With a preface by James D. Hart, and collage illustrations by Burce Conner.

By: BIGLY, CANTELL A. (G.W. PECK).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: San Francisco, The Book Club of California: 1974

Edition: Limited Edition

Seller ID: 8558

Condition: Fine condition

400 copies printed at the press of Andrew Hoyem. (104) pp., frontis; 8vo; black cloth; prospectus laid in. View more info

Marie Stuart', Reyne d' Escosse, Nouvelle Historique.

By: Boisguilbert, Pierre le Pesant de.

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Paris, Louis Billaine: 1675

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 5148

Condition: Very Good condition

3 parts in 1; 234, 239, 428 pp.; 12mo; original polished tan calf; crown over decorative design stamped in gilt front cover; letters & decorations stamped in gilt on spine in six compartments with titles on red & brown leather labels; marbled pastesdowns, endpapers, and edges. Rubbing and moderate wear at edges and spine with minute loss at crown; joints appear to have had some expert repair in the past; title gilt on third panel for the most part effaced; dark "burned" ... View more info

(Three Titles) Avalanche (inscribed with holograph note signed); Gentlemen, I Address You Privately; Plagued by the Nightingale.

By: BOYLE, KAY.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Southern Illinois University Press; Capra Press: 1944, 1966, 1991

Seller ID: 8396

Condition: Good condition

8vo; cloth in dust jackets. Avalanche with bumped corners and some mild rubbing to spine, in price-clipped jacket with wear at corners, closed tear, soil back cover. The other titles in fine condition. Avalanche inscribed by the author in pen on front endpaper "October, 1978, Love and admiration to Israel - Kay, San Francisco." The note also in pen on a scrap from a theater handbill or program, " dear Irving, We are very disappointed - house sold out... View more info

The Complete Novels. Including: Agnes Grey, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Professor, Jane Eyre, Villette, and Shirley (7 vols., complete).

By: BRONTE, CHARLOTTE.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 1991

Edition: Reprint Edition

Seller ID: 8738

Condition: Fine condition

Without Slipcase; 8vo; bound in green moire fabric; illustrated with wood engravings by George Tute, Simon Brett, Ian Stephen, Peter Forster, Harry Brockway, Peter Reddick and Howard Phipp. View more info

Stories.

By: BUCHAN, JOHN.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 2008

Seller ID: 8730

Condition: As New

xxi, 358 pp.; 8vo; cloth in slipcase; still in original shrinkwrap; illustrations by Nick Hardcastle.This edition follows the text of the three volume 'Complete Short Stories' published by Thistle Publishing in 1996. Written between 1894 and 1934, John Buchan's short stories present him as a masterful storyteller, weaving his remarkable personal experiences and interests as a traveller, war correspondent, politician and classical scholar int his tales of suspense... View more info

Life & Death in the Charity Ward.

By: BUKOWSKI, CHARLES.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: (London), London Magazine Editions: 1974

Edition: 1st U. K. Edition

Seller ID: 8296

Condition: Very good condition in fine jacket, in protective mylar

205 pp.; 8vo; photo-illustrated coated paper over boards, in photo-illustrated jacket. Book appears to have been opened roughly at first stressing the hinge at page 7 with first gathering sprung a bit forward; or a slight binding flaw. Else a clean copy. View more info