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Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1969. AD3 - A first edition (no additional printings) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by both Anne Clark and Edward Clark to previous owner (Lena and Earl Podolnick) on the front free endpaper in very good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease, and some tears on the edges, corrners and some sides, some scattered scuffing, rubbing and lights tains, tanning and light shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, some scattered light stains and foxing, light discoloration and shelf wear. Foreword by Dame Zara Holt. Edward Aubrey Clark served as the United States Ambassador to Australia from 1965 to 1968. 9.5"x6.5", 232 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Oxford University Press, 1965. T5 - A first edition (same date) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Robert Halsband to previous owner on the front free endpaper in very good condition in fair dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has label and label residue on the front, wrinkling, chipping, crease, some tears and peeling on the edges, sides and corners, less than 2" taped tears on the top and bottom spine, less than an inch tear on the front top right side, scattered rubbing, scraches, scuffing, light smudges and foxing, marked out price on the front flap, tanning, and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners and dents, some wrinkling on the spine edges, scattered light foxing and stains on the page edges, endpapers and some inside pages, light tanning and shelf wear. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (Volume I - 1708-1720). 8.75"x5.5", 468 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer,… Read More

Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: Dorrance & Company, Inc., 1981. CX5 - A first edition hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has wrinkling,, chipping, crease, and few tears on the edges and corners, light rubbing, discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Signed and inscribed by Chenault Kelly and Alice E. Tolle to previous owner on the front free endpaper. Compiled and edited by Emma Chenault Kelly and Alice Elizabeth Tolle. 9.5"x6.5", 419 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 1968. D6 - A first edition hardcover book in very good condition that has some bumped corners, light tanning and shelf wear in poor dust jacket that is mylar protected, worn, torn and discolored. Edited with a commentary by Helmut E. Gerber. 9.5"x6.5", 342 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, USA: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. CG4 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is some light bumping on the right corners plus there is some very light fading on the top board edges plus there is some very light tape staining on the outside and inside surfaces of the boards and front and back endpapers from where the dust jacket was taped down to the boards plus there are the usual library stamps on the top and bottom outside paper edges, front and back endpapers, and title page. The dust jacket shows minor overall shelf wear plus there is significan sunning on the spine plus there is tapstaining on the spine and back plus there is a label stain and a patch of heaver fading around it on the spine. The letters written home by a member of a distinguished English family during his tour of the United States and the Pacific in 1898, just as America was preparing for war with Spain. His family's position allowed him access to notable people… Read More

Forth Worth, Texas, U.S.A.: Texas Christian University Press, 1999. AP6 - A first edition hardcover book SIGNED by Richard Holland in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket and book have some light shelf wear. Design by Barbara Mathews Whitehead. From the archives of the Southwestern Writers Collection at Southwest Texas State University, former curator Richard Holland has selected from among thousands of Larry L. King letters those dealing with the daily warp of woof of an American writer alternately giddy with success and doubting his own talents. 9.5"x6.5", 404 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: J. P. Horn & Company, 1927. CV5 - A hardcover book in very good condition that has some cover edges and bumped corners, less than 2" tear on the third page, tanning and light shelf wear with no dust jacket. The Letters of Madame De Sevigne (Volume 4) with an introduction by A. Edward Newton. The letters in this volume, Number 472 to Number 619, Period November 6th, 1676 to April 19th, 1680. The Letters of Madame de Sevigne Carnavalet Edition newly re-edited, revised and corrected, including over three hundred letters not previously translated into English in seven volumes. 9.5"x6.5", 383 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Houston, Texas: The Anson Jones Press, 1947. BP6 - A hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by author to previous owner on the front free endpaper in very good condition that has some bumped corners, cocked, some scattered stains and foxing, tanning and shelf wear with no dust jacket. If it is not good sense it is not good law. 7.5"x5", 146 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901. X4 - Book has wrinkling, chipping, rubbing, some tears, fading, library markings (labels, stamping, cardholder, etc.), significant discoloration and shelf wear. Reprinted 1901. Letters of Fitzgerald (Vol. 1).. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Philadelphia: J. P. Horn & Company, 1927. CV5 - A hardcover book in very good condition that has some cover edges and bumped corners, tanning and light shelf wear with no dust jacket. The Letters of Madame De Sevigne (Volume 6) with an introduction by A. Edward Newton. The letters in this volume, Number 753 to Number 922, Period December 13th, 1686 to August 28th, 1689. The Letters of Madame de Sevigne Carnavalet Edition newly re-edited, revised and corrected, including over three hundred letters not previously translated into English in seven volumes. 9.5"x6.5", 374 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Houston, Texas: The Anson Jones Press, 1947. BF6 - A hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by author to previous owner on the front free endpaper in very good condition that has some bumped corners and dents, cocked, some wrinkling and chipping on the spine edges, some scattered stains, foxing and chipping on the page edges and endpapers, tanning and light shelf wear with no dust jacket. If it is not good sense it is not good law. 7.5"x5", 146 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959. CO2 - A first edition ex-library hardcover book in good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has price clipped, label stain on the spine, wrinkling and chipping on some edges and corners, taped on the corners and top and bottom of spine, some stains, fading, light discoloration, and shelf wear. Book has library markings (labels, stamping, cardholder, etc.), light cover edgewear, tape stains on the cover and endpapers, lightly loose hinge, tanning, and shelf wear. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

London, East Sussex, United Kingdom: The Bodley Head Ltd, 1948. BC4 - A complete book with the usual library stamps, labels, pocket and notes in pencil on the inside surface of the front board and title page plus part of one of the endflaps of the original dust jacket pasted to the front endpaper plus an advertisement from the same dust jacket is pasted down to the inside surface of the back board plus the front hinge is loose plus the cloth is heavily sun faded especially along and around the spine and the top and right edges plus there is scattered red-brown spots and stains on both the front and back cloth plus there are very small (less than 0.25") tears to the loose cloth at the bottom left corners plus there are the original library catalog numbers on the spine in white. There is no dust jacket. This is a book of material first published in the three volumes "The Athenians," "Harriet and Mary," and "Shelly at Oxford" by The Golden Cockerel Press as limited… Read More

Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing Company, 2004. B2 - A hardcover book SIGNED by Rex H. Stever and Barbara M. Stever on the title page in very good condition that has some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear with no dust jacket. Letters home by a lonesome soldier in Cavalry Company D. Waul's Texas Legion. 9.5"x6.5", 74 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Yale University Press, 1959. BG4 - A tight, clean, sound copy with minor overall shelf wear with the DJ endflaps glued to the front and back fixed endpapers, yellowing of the outside paper edges, usual library marks, stamps, and labels on the top and bottom outside paper edges, the front fixed and free endpapers, the title page, and the copyright page. DJ shows minor overall shelf wear with the front and back endflaps are glued to the fixed endpapers, library labels on the spine, some scattered overall soiling and creasing, still in the original library mylar sleeve. This is the second volume of a series of six book that provide a comprehensive, unexpurgated, and complete collection of the letters of the great English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne. Swinburne is noted as one of the finest letter writers in English and his interests range widely including art, music, drama, archaeology, law, politics, and crime. This volume covers the years 1869-1875. 378p. . First… Read More

Galveston Island: ePelican Press, 2002. CN6 - A spiral bound book SIGNED and inscribed by the author to previous owner on the half-title page in very good condition that has some scattered wrinkling, chipping and crease, some light discoloration and shelf wear. 7.75"x6", 189 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Spiral Bound. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York, New York, USA: Reinhardt Books/Viking Penguin Inc., 1990. BI6 - A tight, clean, sound copy with vey minor overall shelf wear plus there is some tape staining on the outside board surfaces from where the dust jacket was taped to the boards plus there are the usual library stamps and pocket on the top outside paper edges, front endpaper, and title page. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus there is a library label on the spine plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. This is a title in the publisher's Reinhardt series. A collection of Graham Greene's contribution of letters to the press. He letters were noted for their pungency and effectiveness. The letters in this book are selected and introduced by Chirstopher Hawtree and are arranged chronologically. Indexed, 269p.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.