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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skinned, fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose. A true literary wonder, Hurston's masterwork remains as relevant and affecting today as when it was first published -- perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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3 great classic hardcover books black Beauty, The secret Garden, Kidnapped 














Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

3 great illustrated classics - The Secret Garden/ Kidnapped/Black Beauty 

Virgil

Robert Fagles

Bernard Knox

New York

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Recounts the adventures of the Trojan prince Aeneas, who helped found Rome, after the fall of Troy.

The Aeneid

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#paperback #fiction #classic #earnesthemingway #hemmingway #drama #classics #ernesthemingway 

New Jersey

The Authorized Edition

A profile of the Lost Generation captures life among the expatriates on Paris' Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality of bullfighting in Spain, and the moral and spiritual dissolution of a generation.

The Sun Also Rises

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#paperback #fiction #stephenking #horror #horrorfiction #thriller #classic #adult 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

North Dakota

A Novel

In 1985, six men and one woman are called back together to search for a creature of unspeakable evil that had stalked them as children.

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Jane Yolen

Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.

The Devil's Arithmetic (Puffin Modern Classics)

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This Norton Critical Edition of John Webster's 1612-13 tragedy offers a newly edited and annotated text together with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers. The Duchess of Malfi's themes of love, loyalty and betrayal have resonated through the centuries, making this a perennially popular play with audiences and readers alike.

The Duchess of Malfi

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The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design.



The Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With stunning new covers designed by Manuja Waldia, definitive texts, and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come.

This edition of Richard II is edited with an introduction by Francis E. Dolan.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Richard II

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 Such a great read! Ripped back cover (taped up 😉), slight yellowing, a handful of stamps from a previous school library, a couple of library stickers (on the outside). The pages are fully legible and perfectly solid! 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

LINCOLN

Robert M. Pirsig

An Inquiry into Values

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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This is an early printing around 1900, cover is worn but stable condition, pages are yellowed but fully intact. Binding is tight shows no sign of wear.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

Jo's Boys

1924 Allyn & Bacon, 126 pgs; Includes The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge; Sohrab and Rustum by Arnold; Enoch Arden by Tennyson; Multiple notations, symbols and signatures throughout in pencil; pg 126 has tears at binding; no apparent folds or creases. 

Three Narrative Poems 

1981 Hardcover Edition in very good  condition. Minimal separation of pages from the binding; a few stains on back outside cover and tear from apparent price tag removal.  Measures 10”x7”

or How Toys Become Real

The Classic Tale of The Velveteen Rabbit

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Lot set bundle

Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. He spent his childhood in England and, at age eighteen, went to work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa. When World War II broke out, he joined the Royal Air Force and became a fighter pilot. At the age of twenty-six he moved to Washington, D.C., and it was there he began to write. His first short story, which recounted his adventures in the war, was bought by The Saturday Evening Post, and so began a long and illustrious career.

After establishing himself as a writer for adults, Roald Dahl began writing children’s stories in 1960 while living in England with his family. His first stories were written as entertainment for his own children, to whom many of his books are dedicated.

Roald Dahl is now considered one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. Although he passed away in 1990, his popularity continues to increase as his fantastic novels, including James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The BFG, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, delight an ever-growing legion of fans.

Learn more about Roald Dahl on the official Roald Dahl Web site: www.roalddahl.com

Dahl LOT #3/ Enormous Crocodile, The Magic Finger, George's Marvelous Medicine and Esio Trot

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Norton Juster

Pennsylvania

A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provides a cure for his boredom.

The Phantom Tollbooth

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Clifton Fadiman

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Book II

A three-volume anthology of classical and contemporary children's stories, poems, myths, and legends from many countries.

The World Treasury of Children's Literature

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Graham Greene

Robert Stone

An eager American envoy is mysteriously assigned to Saigon during the French occupation of Indochina.

The Quiet American

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Mark Twain

The only authoritative text based on the complete original manuscript. 

With all the original illustrations, historical notes, a glossary, maps, and selected manuscript pages. 

About this story: “He has no mother, his father is a drunkard, and he sleeps in a barrel. He’s Huck Finn-liar, sometime thief, and rebel against respectability. But when Huck meets a runaway slave named Jim, his life changes forever. On their raft floating down the Mississippi, the boy nobody wanted matures into a young man of courage and conviction.” 

One marking on the inside (see photos)

The Only Authoritative Text Based on the Complete, Original Manuscript

This new edition incorporates the discovery, made in 1990, of an unknown Twain manuscript, which turned out to be the original first 663 pages of Huck Finn. Before its discovery, editors had to approximate the exact wording of the first half of Twain's work by using early editions of the book, which were full of mistakes.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants

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Carson McCullers

A quiet, sensitive girl searches for beauty in a small, but damned Southern town.

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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"Contexts and Sources" provides readers with a rich selection of documents related to the historical background, language, composition, sale, reception, and newly discovered first half of the manuscript of Mark Twain's greatest work. Included are letters on the writing of the novel, excerpts from the author's autobiography, samples of bad poetry that inspired his satire (including an effort by young Sam Clemens himself), a section on the censorship of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by schools and libraries over a hundred-year period, and commentary by David Carkeet on dialects of the book and by Earl F. Briden on its "racist" illustrations. In addition, this section reprints the full texts of both "Sociable Jimmy," upon which is based the controversial theory that Huck speaks in a "black voice," and "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It," the first significant attempt by Mark Twain to capture the speech of an African American in print. "Criticism" of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is divided into "Early Responses" (including the first negative review) and "Modern Views" by Victor A. Doyno, T. S. Eliot, Jane Smiley, David L. Smith, Shelley Fisher Fishkin (the "black voice" thesis), James R. Kincaid (a rebuttal of Fishkin), and David R. Sewell. Also included is Toni Morrison's moving personal "Introduction" to the troubling experience of reading and re-reading Mark Twain's masterpiece. “A Chronology andSelected Bibliography” are also included.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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John Steinbeck

A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a deluxe Centennial edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. Adapted for the 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan introducing James Dean, and read by thousands as the book that brought Oprah’s Book Club back, East of Eden has remained vitally present in American culture for over half a century. This Centennial edition, specially designed to commemorate one hundred years of Steinbeck, features french flaps and deckle-edged pages. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translato

East of Eden

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William Shakespeare

condition is very excellent. only “annotation” includes my name written in the back of the front flap. 

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Virgil; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox

The Aeneid

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The Sun Also Rises

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Jane Yolen

The Devil's Arithmetic (Puffin Modern Classics)

John Webster

The Duchess of Malfi

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Richard II

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LINCOLN

Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Louisa May Alcott

Jo's Boys

Edited by George A Watrous; Revised by AB DeMille

Three Narrative Poems

Margery Williams

The Classic Tale of The Velveteen Rabbit

Roald Dahl; Quentin Blake (Illustrator)

Dahl LOT #3/ Enormous Crocodile, The Magic Finger, George's Marvelous Medicine and Esio Trot

Norton Juster

The Phantom Tollbooth

Clifton Fadiman

The World Treasury of Children's Literature

Graham Greene; Robert Stone

The Quiet American

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants

Carson McCullers

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Mark Twain

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