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Winesburg, Ohio

By: Anderson, Sherwood

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1947

Seller ID: CS00602

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint, Toledano binding style 8, 408 titles listed on inverse of dust jacket, Kent end papers, 303 pages plus publisher's title list; tan cloth boards are clean and square, previous owner's bookplate adhered to front paste down, name written on title page; dust jacket now protected in mylar cover.
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Man's Fate

By: Andre Malraux

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Modern Library: 1934

Seller ID: CS00456

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint, Toledano binding style 8, 385 titles listed on inverse of dust jacket, Kent endpapers, 360 pages plus publisher's list; gray cloth boards are clean and square; dust jacket is a bit rubbed, now in protective mylar cover.
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The Seven That Were Hanged

By: Andreyev, Leonid; Seltzer, Thomas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Boni and Liveright: 1918

Seller ID: 001435

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Early printing circa 1919 with 81 titles in catalog, Toledano binding style 2 with Brodzky endpapers, 12mo, flexible green leatherette boards,194 pages plus publisher's list in rear; very light cover wear, slight bow to spine, internally clean and sound with toned pages. An early installment in The Modern Library books, and a unique one to add to any collection. Said to have influenced Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Franz Ferdinand.
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Francis Bacon Selected Writings

By: Bacon, Francis, Dick, Hugh G.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1955

Seller ID: CS00132

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint, Toledano binding style 8, blue and red cloth, Kent end papers, 379 titles listed on interior wrapper, 604 pages; corners of boards are worn; unclipped dust jacket, quite worn, with a chip to head of spine, jacket now in protective mylar cover.
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The Adventures of Augie March

By: Bellow, Saul; Trilling, Lionel

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Modern Library: 1965

Seller ID: CS00280

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Modern Library Edition, Toledano binding style 11, 12mo, inverse of dust jacket blank, Kent endpapers, 536 pages plus title list in rear; red cloth boards are clean and square, minor wear to ends of spine and corners; dust jacket is edge worn, especially along extremities, $2.45 price inside dust jacket, now in protective mylar cover.
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My War with the United States

By: Bemelmans, Ludwig

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Modern Library: 1941

Seller ID: 001353

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Modern Library edition stated; blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket, 12mo, Toledano binding style 8, 304 titles on inside of dust jacket, 151 pages, illustrated by the author; dust jacket edge worn with toned spine and significant chipping at head and tail of spine, one half inch chip out at bottom front corner. Ludwig Bemelmans was an Austrian writer and illustrator, best know for his Madeline picture books. My War with the United States was translated from the pages of the German diary he kept during his service in the United States Army around 1917-1918.
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The Old Wives' Tale

By: Bennett, Arnold

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1931

Seller ID: 001200

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Modern Library edition stated; flexible blue cloth covered boards, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches, 640 pages, 185 tales on rear of dust jacket, Rockwell Kent endpapers, Toledano binding 6, pictorial dust jacket; spine very lightly faded with sunned strips at head and tail; toned dust jacket with sunned spine, small water spot on spine, chipping at extremities with short closed tear at top rear edge. Scarce in dust jacket.
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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

By: Boccaccio, Giovanni; Winwar, Frances (translator)

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1955

Seller ID: 001422

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint, 12mo, Toledano binding style 8, grey cloth, Kent endpapers, 408 titles inside dust jacket, xxxviii,666 pages; name stamped at top of front paste-down, slight lean to spine; dust jacket with a bit of edge wear, sunned spine with scattered water spots, now in protective mylar cover. Complete and unabridged. Dust jacket designed by George Salter.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell

By: Boswell, James; Evans, Bergen

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Modern Library: 1952

Seller ID: CS00788

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint, Toledano binding style 8, red cloth, kent endpapers, interior of dust jacket lists unnamed amount of titles, 559 pages; price clipped dust jacket now protected in a mylar cover.
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Between Hume & Mill, An Anthology of British Philosophy, 1749-1843

By: Brown, Robert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Modern Library: 1970

Seller ID: CS00810

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Modern Library Edition, Toledano binding style G7, blue cloth, blank endpapers, interior of dust jacket blank, 495 pages; boards slightly bowed, faint foxing to edges of text block; price clipped dust jacket is edge worn, now protected in mylar cover. A vintage first Modern Library Giant Edition of selected readings in philosophy from Hartley to Ferrier.
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The Poems & Plays of Robert Browning

By: Browning, Robert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1961

Seller ID: CS00763

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint, Toledano binding style G6, teal cloth, blank endpapers, interior of dust jacket blank, 1,223 pages plus publisher's list; head and tail of spine turned in, random house publisher's stamp on top of edge block; dust jacket is lightly edge worn and protected in mylar. Everything of importance that Browning ever wrote, including "The Ring and the Book", in one volume.
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God's Little Acre

By: Caldwell, Erskine

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Modern Library: 1933

Seller ID: 001386

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint; 12mo, 303 pages plus title list in rea, Toldano binding style 8, Kent endpapers, 383 titles inside dust jacket; bottom front corner bumped, internally clean, sound and unmarked; clipped dust jacket with tiny closed tear at top front edge, smudges on rear, toned spine, now in protective mylar cover. With a new introduction by the author.
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Notebooks 1935-1942

By: Camus, Albert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Modern Library: 1965

Seller ID: CS00319

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Modern Library Ediiton, Toledano binding style 11, blue cloth, Kent endpapers, interior of dust jacket blank, 224 pages plus biographical note and appendices; unclipped dust jacket has light soiling, spine is sunned, a few very small chips and two inch closed tear to front flap, dust jacket now in mylar.
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An Encyclopedia of Modern American Humor

By: Cerf, Bennett

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Modern Library: 1954

Seller ID: CS00808

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Minus

Reprint, Toledano binding style G5, blue cloth, blank endpapers, interior of dust jacket has an unnumbered amount of titles, 688 pages; damp stain visible to tail of spine and continues to bottom of edge of front cover, faint tide mark to bottom edge of pages; dust jacket has light dampstain along bottom edge, gently edge worn, now protected in mylar cover. A Modern Library Giant Edition with drawings by Doug Anderson; features stories by the likes of James Thurber, Will Rogers, John O'Hara, and Mark Twain.
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The Canterbury Tales

By: Chaucer, Geoffrey

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1957

Seller ID: CS00606

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint, Toledano binding style 8, 415 titles listed on inverse of dust jacket, Kent end papers, 642 pages plus publisher's list; green cloth boards are clean and square; dust jacket has a small spattering of paint on rear panel and is now in mylar cover.
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Selected Poetry and Prose of Coleridge

By: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Stauffer, Donald

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Modern Library: 1951

Seller ID: CS00437

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint, Toledano binding style 8, green cloth, Kent endpapers, interior of dust jacket lists 365 titles, 608 pages; pages age toned; price clipped dust jacket is edge worn and rubbed in places, now in protective mylar cover.
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Victory

By: Conrad, Joseph

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1921

Seller ID: AD00005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint, Toledano binding style 8, grey cloth, Kent endpapers, 348 titles inside dust jacket, 385 pages plus note to the first edition, author's note, publishers title list; faint wear to board edges, name and price penned to ffep, minor wear to dust jacket with several small chips at corners and rear panel edges. Dust jacket now in protective mylar cover.
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Victory

By: Conrad, Joseph

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1932

Seller ID: 001199

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Modern Library edition stated. Flexible brown cloth covered boards, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches, 385 pages plus publishers list in rear, Rockwell Kent endpapers, Toledano binding 7, pictorial dust jacket; tiny strip of sun fading at head of spine; toned dust jacket with lightly sunned spine, chpping at extremities with about quarter inch of loss at head, front flap split about half way from tail. Attractive edition of Conrad's "Island Tale." Scarce in dust jacket.
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The Leatherstocking Saga

By: Cooper, James Fenimore

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Modern Library: 1966

Seller ID: CS00812

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Modern Library Edition, Toledano binding style G6, red cloth, blank endpapers, interior of dust jacket blank, 829 pages plus publisher's list; previous owner's name and info on front free endpaper; dust jacket is lightly rubbed and now protected in mylar. A vintage first Modern Library Giant Edition. Contains parts of 'The Deerslayer, 'The Last of the Mohicans', 'The Pathfinder', 'The Pioneers', and 'The Prairie', which specially pertain to Natty Bumpo, otherwise known as Pathfinder, Deerslayer, or Hawkeye.
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Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War

By: Crane, Stephen

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Modern Library: 1951

Seller ID: MH00112

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint; 267 pages; red cloth with black and gilt title blocks, dust jacket now in protective mylar sleeve, Kent end papers, 415 titles listed inside dust jacket, Toledano binding style 8; with an introduction by Robert Wooster Stallman.
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Category: Modern Library