Good condition; review of stories, anecdotes, cartoons by James Thurber that originally appeared in New Yorker Magazine.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Thurber Carnival

The Praise of Folly

Five Great Dialogues

The Iliad

On the Nature of Things

Henry Esmond

Discourses

Rubaiyat

Art type edition from the early 1900s, see photos for details!

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

Early print, special edition 

Moby Dick

H. P. Lovecraft

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Washington

The Complete Fiction

In the 1920s and '30s, H.P. Lovecraft pioneered a new type of fiction that fused elements of supernatural horror with the concepts of visionary science fiction. Lovecraft's tales of cosmic horror revolutionised modern horror fiction and earned him the reputation of the most influential American writer of weird tales since Edgar Allan Poe. H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction collects for the first time in a single volume all of Lovecraft's groundbreaking fiction. The book is exquisitely designed with bonded-leather bindings, distinctive gilt edging and an attractive silk-ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and collectible, the Leatherbound Classics series offers hours of pleasure to readers young and old and is an indispensable cornerstone for any home library.

H. P. Lovecraft (Barnes and Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition)

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Charles Dickens

A little bent on the corners of the cover. No markings inside.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major literary work, each volume presents critical essays, selected or prepared especially for students, that approach the work from several contemporary critical perspectives, such as gender criticism and cultural studies. Each essay is accompanied by an introduction (with bibliography) to the history, principles, and practice of its critical perspective. Every volume also surveys the biographical, historical, and critical contexts of the literary work and concludes with a glossary of critical terms. New editions reprint cultural documents that contextualize the literary works and feature essays that show how critical perspectives can be combined.

Great Expectations

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Full Beatrix Potter Collection in Hardcover. Displays beautifully on a shelf 

Virginia

Beatrix Potter Collection, Peter Rabbit Bundle

Lewis Carroll

Tan Lin

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Main Street 

Very, very cool 1941 edition of this Nancy Drew classic. This book has illustrations within. 

The book does show its well-loved age and has several significant flaws including paint on the front inner cover, writing within the title page, broken outer binding, and fragile inner binding. Still for 90 years old, looking pretty good! 

Illinois

Nancy Drew Mystery Stories

Nancy Drew: The Mystery at the Moss-Covered Mansion

Mary Beard

Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history, from the sixth century BCE to the present day.

Destroyed by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the ruins of Pompeii offer the best evidence we have of life in the Roman Empire. But the eruptions are only part of the story. In The Fires of Vesuvius, acclaimed historian Mary Beard makes sense of the remains. She explores what kind of town it was―more like Calcutta or the Costa del Sol?―and what it can tell us about “ordinary” life there. From sex to politics, food to religion, slavery to literacy, Beard offers us the big picture even as she takes us close enough to the past to smell the bad breath and see the intestinal tapeworms of the inhabitants of the lost city. She resurrects the Temple of Isis as a testament to ancient multiculturalism. At the Suburban Baths we go from communal bathing to hygiene to erotica.

Recently, Pompeii has been a focus of pleasure and loss: from Pink Floyd’s memorable rock concert to Primo Levi’s elegy on the victims. But Pompeii still does not give up its secrets quite as easily as it may seem. This book shows us how much more and less there is to Pompeii than a city frozen in time as it went about its business on 24 August 79

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

History

Pompeii Lost and Found

From its political and religious systems to slavery and attitudes toward sex, the ruins of this ancient Roman city are explored in a study that brings to light new facts about the way the people of Pompeii lived prior to meeting their devastating end in 79 CE.

The Fires of Vesuvius

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California

Illustrated in Color by Harvey Dunn

A Tale of Two Cities - Illustrated

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I, Robot has a creased spine. The other volumes are all in excellent condition 

The Robot Series

Norton Critical Editions of Hamlet and Macbeth. Both are used copies with some annotations inside. 

Massachusetts

Norton Critical Editions Shakespeare Bundle 

Hamlet; Macbeth

1999 barnes and noble special edition of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Some damage to fore edges and shown in images

The Iliad and The Odyssey are the earliest works of Western literature and are the wellspring for much of Western culture. The Iliad, beginning "Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilles / and its devastation" describes the devastation unleashed by Achilles's rage, engulfing soldier and civilian, hero and coward, ruler and slave and even women and children. It is a story of heroes of immense pride and animal strength operating in their element. But it is much more than a great war epic. Homer creates complex human characters. A Greek and Trojan pair, Diomedes and Glaucus, meet on the battlefield, but realizing that they have an ancestral connection, they exchange conversation and armour rather than taunts and blows. King Priam kisses the hands of Achilles, saying "I have endured what no one on earth has endured. I have kissed the hands of the man who killed my son," an act which provokes deep sympathy in Achilles, who in turn returns the body of heroic Hector which he had defiled. The nearly invincible Ajax struggles to choose between heroic glory on the battlefield and the blessing of returning to the beloved land of his fathers. The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War, but much more: it has many tender scenes, it critiques the idea of the hero and it examines the role of the Gods in history. The Odyssey, Homer's epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan war is a wonderful story that has entranced generations over the last two and a half millennia. The characters and events are well known, and the form - a long journey of discovery and testing - has become a standard device in storytelling. Odysseus is known as "polytropos," a man of many twists and turns and tricks, a man who lives by his wits. As the Greeks leave for Troy, it is Odysseus' cleverness that allows him to find the hero Achilles who is crucial to their victory. Then, after ten years camped outside Troy and the loss of countless lives on both sides, he brings the Trojan war to a dramatic conclusion with the now famous Trojan horse. One expects Odysseus' story to end with his returning home as a hero. Instead, Homer and the fates send him on another ten years of travels. This is the story of The Odyssey is not just about Odysseus' adventures on the way home, it is also about faithful marital love, and the love of home and country. Aristotle says that while The Iliad is about events, The Odyssey is about character. The word "odyssey" has entered the English language, and many regard The Odyssey as the world's most enduring narrative. Homer was called "the teacher of all Greece," and "the leader of Greek culture," by Plato. Indeed, in the classical age, the Greeks regarded the Iliad and Odyssey as much more than works of literature; they knew much of them by heart, and they valued them as symbols of Hellenic unity and heroism but also as sources of moral and even practical instruction. Homer's works have been studied, quoted and translated in every corner of Europe and his influence on the Western imagination is immense. This prose edition was translated by Samuel Butler, the iconoclastic English author of the Utopian satirical novel Erewhon and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. The latter was published posthumously as he was afraid to publish it in his lifetime.

The Iliad and the Odyssey

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The beautiful cover of this book was the driving force behind my purchase of this book many decades ago. 
Undated, hardcover.
It is a very old ex-library copy and has a library pocket on the inside cover, library markings and discard stamps.
The pages have very minimal amount of age tone, the spine is solid with only a little edge pull from years on the shelf and the corners have a very small amount of bumping.

The binding is in good condition, the end papers are attached to the binding with just a very small tear at the bottom inside edge.

There is one interior page that shows the beginning of a gap in the binding (see last photo).

Sku: 409

Ohio

Emerson’s Essays First Series, pub T Y Crowell & c, undated pretty cover VTG

William Golding

(Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who compared it to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye in its influence on modern thought and literature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island has become a modern classic. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. As ordinary standards of behaviour collapse, the whole world the boys know collapses with them—the world of cricket and homework and adventure stories—and another world is revealed beneath, primitive and terrible. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies has established itself as a true classic. "Lord of the Flies is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager, I still read it every couple of years." —Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games "As exciting, relevant, and thought-provoking now as it was when Golding published it in 1954." —Stephen King

Lord of the Flies

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Christopher Isherwood

Florida

A Novel

"After the sudden death of his longtime lover, George must adjust to life on his own as a professor in Southern California in the early 1960s. During the course of an ordinary day, George is haunted by memories as he seeks connections with the world around him"--

A Single Man

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PINOCCHIO by D.COLLODI with illustrations by FRANCES BRUNDAGE 

Published by Saalfield

Fair condition—see photos 

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