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Vintage Monthly Book Club: Fiction & Literature - 6 month subscription

By: N/A

Price: $90.00

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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Vintage Monthly Book Club: Fiction & Literature - 3 month subscription subscription

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

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 - 1 year subscription

By: N/A

Price: $170.00

Publisher: 1800-1975

Seller ID: vbcf1yr

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good or better

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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Turkish Fairy Tales

By: N/A

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Mount Vernon, NY, Peter Pauper Press: 1964

Seller ID: CS00663

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Cream boards decorated in pink, green and black ink, 12mo, 60 pages, beautifully illustrated by Vera Bock; very light toning to endpapers; dust jacket now in mylar. A sweet little copy of Turkish tales with funky illustrations and charm.
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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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The Miser's Daughter (in two volumes): From the Novels of William Harrison Ainsworth Volumes XVIII & XVIX Windsor Edition

By: Ainsworth, William Harrison

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Gibbings & Company, Limited: 1902

Seller ID: 000695

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Red cloth stamped in gilt. Top edges gilt. Boards are clean and square with mild wear at extremities. Spines slightly sun faded. Lovely stamped Art Nouveau blank book plates in front end papers. Tanning in end papers and pages lightly toned from age. Sound bindings. Volume I is 282 pages and Volume II is 270 pages. Four photogravures in each volume from the original etchings by George Cruikshank. William Harrison Ainsworth (1805 - 1882) was an English historical novelist. He trained as a lawyer, but the legal profession held no attraction for him. His first success as a writer came with Rookw...
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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 re...
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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: 0575018674

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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The Ashes of a God

By: Bain, F. W.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1911

Seller ID: 001189

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Second printing, full blue cloth with stamped gilt titles and elephant, 8vo, 152 pages plus publisher's ads, frontis illustration of an elephant; wear at extremities, light brown stain to bottom corner of title page, else internally clean and sound. Very good. Francis William Bain (1863-1940) was a writer of numerous fantasy stories that he claimed to have translated from Sanskrit. It became clear over time that he was not actually translating anything, but he had gained a following of readers who, it turned out, didn't care that he was making them up himself. He continued to write them even ...
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The Heroine

By: Barrett, Eaton Stannard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Frederick A. Stokes:

Seller ID: 001027

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint, blue buckram with gilt stamped titles and little gilt illustration, 364 pages, 4 pages of publishers ads; light wear at extremities, tiny tear to tail of spine, gilt to spine a little dulled, deckle edges, internally clean and sound. Attractive edition of Barrett's popular comic gothic novel. Edgar Allan Poe and Jane Austen were counted among the fans of the book.
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Equality

By: Bellamy, Edward

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company: 1897

Seller ID: CS00042

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Heather boards, 8x5 inches, 412 pages plus publishers list; boards are edge worn, slight foxing to pages; no dust jacket.
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I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

By: Bemelmans, Ludwig

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Viking Press: 1942

Seller ID: MH00184

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

207 pages, black and white line drawings throughout; yellow cloth boards with pink titling, illustrated end papers, spine slightly leans, dust jacket with just a bit of wear at extremities, spine is sunned, now in protective mylar sleeve. Illustrated by the author. From the author of the Madeline series of books.
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Under Twenty-Five; Duke Narrative and Verse, 1945-1962

By: Blackburn, William

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Durham, NC, Duke University Press: 1963

Seller ID: CS00465

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition, grey cloth, 8vo, 240 pages, inscribed by editor; a clean, well kept copy; dust jacket has a small stain on front cover near spine, now protected in mylar. Inscribed by editor William Blackburn (signed Bill), to artist and author Clare Leighton (which he spells 'Claire') on front free endpaper. Includes the Anne Tyler poems 'The Saints in Caesar's Household' and 'I Never Saw Morning', appearing here in 1963 a year before her first novel was published. An attractive copy that carries some special tidbits of literary history.
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Ivy Gripped the Steps & Other Stories

By: Bowen, Elizabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf/Borzoi: 1946

Seller ID: CS00403

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration on spine, 12mo, 233 pages; boards are sunned, most notable on tail of spine, pages toned, bookseller's stamp on rear paste down; dust jacket quite worn with chips and tears to extremities, toned, now protected in mylar cover. Twelve new stories by the author of "The Death of the Heart", and "The House in Paris".
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Scholar Gipsies

By: Buchan, John

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, John Lane the Bodley Head: 1896

Seller ID: CS00074

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Brown cloth with dark green ribbed spine and gilt title, 8 x 5.5 inches, 205 pages, five etchings by D.Y. Cameron; boards are edge worn, mottled in several places, wrinkling along edges, decorative gilt on spine is dulled, deckle edges. This collection of literary sketches was John Buchan's second book.
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Mrs. Hope's Husband

By: Burgess, Gelett

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Century Co.: 1917

Seller ID: MH00176

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

161 pages, black and white illustrated plates throughout; red cloth boards with gilt titling, previous owner address stamp (A. C. Guanzinoli) in front free end paper, a bit of foxing in end papers and at page edges, dust jacket is lightly toned from age with small, quarter inch chips out of head and tail of spine, now in protective mylar sleeve. By the author of the popular "Goops" books, and an important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s.
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Have You an Educated Heart?

By: Burgess, Gelett

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York City, Boni & Liveright: 1925

Seller ID: CS00776

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Third printing, decorative paper backed in orange cloth with a paper paste down title, 12mo, 57 pages; very faint damp stain on front and rear fore edge of cover boards, also visible on endpapers, bookseller's stamp on rear paste down. A nifty little book. Bookseller's stamp is from The Seven Arts in Carmel, where Burgess lived and passed in 1951.
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Pups and Pies

By: Butler, Ellis Parker

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page & Company: 1927

Seller ID: 000266

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Orange cloth boards with stamped black titles. Boards are clean and square with light wear at extremities. Spine ends shelf worn. Prev. owner's name written on half-title page. Else pages are clean and crisp. Binding straight and tight. Dust jacket rubbed and edge worn with several small edge tears and chipping at extremities. Closed triangular crinkled tear at center of spine, taped from inside. Dust jacket now in protective mylar cover. 312 pages. 21 black & white illustrated plates. Collects five stories from the author of Pigs is Pigs in one volume: That Pup; Mike Flannery; The Thin Santa ...
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Something About Eve; A Comedy of Fig-leaves

By: Cabell, James Branch

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Robert M. McBride: 1927

Seller ID: CS00056

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Brown cloth, 8x5.5 inches, 361 pages; binding is tight, pages are slightly age toned, previous owner's name and address in front end paper; dust jacket also age toned, with small chips to extremities, and sunned spine.
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Category: Literature & Fiction