Category: Literature & Fiction

Vintage Monthly Book Club: Fiction & Literature - 1 year subscription

Price: $235.00

Publisher: : 1800-1975

Seller ID: vbcf1yr

Once a month for twelve months you will receive one vintage hardcover book, printed between 1800 and 1975. Each book is carefully selected, wrapped and packaged with care. Books are in good to very good condition with varying signs of use and wear associated with old books. Part of the fun is the vintage appeal! All are complete and intact with no major flaws, such as broken bindings, missing pages, unpleasant odors or excessive soiling. Where dust jackets are present, most are covered in protective mylar. Expect mostly novels, but also occasional poetry collections, essays or short stories. M...
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Vintage Monthly Book Club: Fiction & Literature - 3 month subscription subscription

Price: $75.00

Publisher: : 1800-1975

Seller ID: vbcf3mo

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good or Better

Once a month for three months you will receive one vintage hardcover book, printed between 1800 and 1975. Each book is carefully selected, wrapped and packaged with care. Books are in good to very good condition with varying signs of use and wear associated with old books. Part of the fun is the vintage appeal! All are complete and intact with no major flaws, such as broken bindings, missing pages, unpleasant odors or excessive soiling. Where dust jackets are present, most are covered in protective mylar. Expect mostly novels, but also occasional poetry collections, essays or short stories. Ma...
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Vintage Monthly Book Club: Fiction & Literature - 6 month subscription

Price: $130.00

Publisher: : 1800-1975

Seller ID: vbcf6mo

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good or better

Once a month for six months you will receive one vintage hardcover book, printed between 1800 and 1975. Each book is carefully selected, wrapped and packaged with care. Books are in good to very good condition with varying signs of use and wear associated with old books. Part of the fun is the vintage appeal! All are complete and intact with no major flaws, such as broken bindings, missing pages, unpleasant odors or excessive soiling. Where dust jackets are present, most are covered in protective mylar. Expect mostly novels, but also occasional poetry collections, essays or short stories. May ...
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Aesop's Fables

By: Aesop

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hurst & Company

Seller ID: CS00574

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Morocco flexi-boards with gilt titles, 12mo, 253 pages, illustrated throughout; foxing to edges of text block, pages are clean and binding is sound. A handsome, vintage edition of a classic, 0
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A Death in the Family

By: Agee, James

Price: $25.00

Publisher: McDowell Obolensky : 1957

Seller ID: 002355

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

1st edition, title page in blue, "Walking" for "Waking" on p. 80, $3.95 DJ price. Full blue cloth boards with green & silver lettering and decoration, 8.5" tall, 339 pp. Minor fading to top edge of boards, minor fading to DJ spine panel, very light wear to DJ edges.
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The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken

By: Aiken, Conrad; Schorer, Mark (preface)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: World Publishing Co. : 1960

Seller ID: 002360

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First edition stated. Teal and white cloth boards under white dust jacket designed by Ellen Raskin, top edge stained grey. Slight rubbing to jacket.
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The American Dream

By: Albee, Edward

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Coward-McCann : 1961

Seller ID: 002359

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Green cloth boards under white dust jacket, 8.25" x 5.5", 93 pp. A lovely copy. Published the year before the Tony Award-winning "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" which, although he was well-known from the get-go, would rocket him to fame, especially after the film.
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The Zoo Story; The Death of Bessie Smith; The Sandbox

By: Albee, Edward

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Coward-McCann : 1960

Seller ID: 002361

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Blue cloth boards under white dust jacket, 8.25" x 5.5". Although 1960 is the last copyright & no additional printings listed, the top-corner clipped jacket has a printed pirce of $3.50 at the bottom corner which makes me suspect a later issue. Other than price-clip, a near fine jacket.
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All Men Are Enemies

By: Aldington, Richard

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co. : 1933

Seller ID: 001064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition stated, black cloth with blind stamped illustration to front board and gilt titles to spine, 574 pages, dust jacket art, frontis illustration and small illustrations at beginning of each section all by Rockwell Kent; cloth faded at spine ends, gift inscription in front endpaper, internally clean and sound, dust jacket rubbed and edge worn with chipping at extremities, 1/2 inch chip out at head of spine affecting the first "A" in the title and a small triangular chip out at tail, a few small closed edge tears, dust jacket now in protective mylar cover. Aldington is best remembered...
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The New American Poetry 1945-1960

By: Allen, Donald M. (editor)

Price: $750.00

Publisher: New York, Grove Press : 1960

Seller ID: 002010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First printing stated. Full black cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine, top edge stained black, brown endpapers, 8-3/8" tall, 454 pp. Mild toning to foredge, dust jacket is toned and a little spotted at spine panel, lightly toned toward edges of front panel, price of $5.95 intact. A hugely important anthology, canonizing Beat (& beyond) authors such as John Ashbery, Ray Bremser, James Broughton, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones, Jack Kerouac, Denise Levertov, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Frank O'Hara, Gary Snyder,...
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Death in the Thames

By: Anderson, J.R.L.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz LTD : 1974

Seller ID: CS00620

ISBN-13: 9780575018679

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Red cloth with gilt titles, 8vo, 208 pages; slight lean to spine; dust jacket protected in mylar cover. A vintage copy of this, "topical mixture of industrial espionage and boating on the Thames".
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In for a Penny

By: Anderson, Oliver

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company : 1950

Seller ID: CS00055

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Shelf worn dust jacket with heavy chipping at spine ends and sunned spine, now in protective mylar cover.
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Hello Towns

By: Anderson, Sherwood

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Horace Liveright : 1929

Seller ID: 002153

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Full dark orange cloth with embossed lettering to front board, lighter orange lettering & decoration to spine, blue & green dust jacket with $3.00 price intact, 8-5/8" tall, 339 pp. Slight turning in at extremities, bookplate to front endpaper; dust jacket lightly toned at spine, small closed tears to edges, small hole (size of a skinny ladybug) to rear panel; presents very well. Anderson's writing had a significant impact on the development of American literature, particularly through his focus on the lives of ordinary people and his rejection of the romanticism and sentimentality that had ch...
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Breathing Lessons

By: Anne Tyler

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus : 1989

Seller ID: CS00210

ISBN-13: 9780701133917

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Green cloth, gilt stamped titles, 8vo, 327 pages, inscribed by Anne Tyler on title page; a well kept copy, head and tail of spine turned in; dust jacket now in protective mylar.
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Earthly Possessions

By: Anne Tyler

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1977

Seller ID: CS00209

ISBN-13: 9780394411477

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Stated first edition, green boards backed in cream cloth, gilt stamped titles, 8vo, 200 pages, inscribed by Anne Tyler on front free end paper, signed again on title page; a well kept copy, top of front board is a bit toned; dust jacket now in protective mylar.
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Ladder Of Years

By: Anne Tyler

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Knopf : 1995

Seller ID: CS00204

ISBN-13: 9780679441557

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First trade edition, cream boards backed in light blue cloth, gilt stamped titles, 8vo, 326 pages; a well kept copy; small smudge on top right cover of dust jacket, which is now in protective mylar.
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Sense and Sensibility

By: Austen, Jane; illustrated by C.E. Brock

Price: $400.00

Publisher: London, J. M. Dent : 1898

Seller ID: 001739

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Three quarter leather over marbled paper-covered boards, four raised bands to spines with gilt lettering and floral devices in compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; color plate illustrations by C.E. and H.M. Brock; 6-
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Hemingway: The Writer as Artist

By: Baker, Carlos

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press : 1956

Seller ID: 002369

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Second edition stated. Full grey cloth boards under orange pictorial dust jacket, 9.5" x 6.5", 355 pp. Spine panel of DJ faded to grey, else a very nice copy indeed. Additional postage required for international shipping.
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Hemingway: The Writer as Artist

By: Baker, Carlos

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press : 1964

Seller ID: 002370

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Third edition stated. Full grey cloth boards under green pictorial dust jacket, 9.5" x 6.5", 379 pp. Slight shelf wear to bottom of jacket spine panel. Additional postage required for international shipping.
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The Idiot at Home.

By: Bangs, John Kendrick

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers : 1900

Seller ID: 002217

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Hardcover, full brown cloth with white lettering and decoration to front cover and spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, 7" tall, 314 pp. + publisher's ads, illustrated by F.T. Richards, photographic potrait frontispiece. Minor bump to top corner of front cover with some flaking to white at that point, minor rubbing and toning to spine. Humorous stories, often with a moral lesson.
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Category: Literature & Fiction