Literature And Fiction from Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1903. 431 pages. Octavo. In the scarce dust jacket. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century. The book is in very good condition: clean, bright, and tight; very shallow chipping at head of spine; 3/4" closed tear at top of front gutter;… Read more about this item

Macon, Georgia: The J. W. Burke Company, 1928. 52 pages. 12mo (7" X 5 1/4"). Staple-bound pamphlet in red pictorial wraps. First edition. Collection of 3 short stories originally written for publication in magazines in Century Magazine. Evelyn Magruder De Jarnette (1841-1902) was the wife of a slaveholder who lived on at "Pine Forest," a… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. 232 pages. 12mo. Bound in black cloth with gold paper title patches on spine and front cover. First edition, first state (undamaged page number on p. 3; weighs 15.8 ounces). Collection of 14 short stories, including the first appearance in book form of "The Killers," the Hemingway classic that… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. 227 pages. First printing of this collection of 3 novellas by the famed playwright Noël Coward. SIGNED by the author, without inscription, on a tipped-in leaf for members of Kroch's & Brentano's First Edition Circle, whose bookmark is laid in. The unread book is clean and tight, with some foxing on the… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1994. 318 pages. The author's debut novel and the first book in the Merry Folger series of mysteries. Mathews also has written the Jane Austen mystery series under the name Stephanie Barron. This book is SIGNED, without inscription, by the author on the title page. Both book and dust… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 249 pages. The ninth novel in the Mitchell and Markby series of mysteries by Ann Granger. This book is SIGNED, without inscription, by the author on the title page. The book and the dust jacket, are in virtually as-new condition.. SIGNED. First U. S. Edition. Hardcover. Collectible- Fine/Fine. 8vo… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. (14), 239, (3) pages. May 1950 printing of the third book in the "Little House" series, with the date code E-Z on the copyright page--including the rare dust jacket with $2.00 price on the front flap The book is clean and tight in a dust jacket jacket that is in much… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. 401 pages. One volume in the Franklin Library's"The 100 Greatest Books of All Time" series. Beautifully bound in full red leather, beautifully decorated in gilt; silk moiré endpapers; all-edges gilt. The leather is the high quality material used by Franklin only in their early years of publishing. The book… Read more about this item

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1902. 345 pages. SIGNED by Kate Douglas Wiggin and inscribed to Annette Markoe on May 4th 1918, the date of Miss Markoe's marriage to William Jay Schieffelin. Wiggin's inscription quotes the following lines from page 343 of her book: "I told him what is true: that my life had been one… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. 169 pages. The book is clean and tight, with light rubbing at corners and top & bottom edges of spine. Pages are lightly tanned. Dust jacket is generally bright, with some fading along the spine; very minor chipping of spine extremities.. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible-Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

U.S.A.: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1927. 280 pages. 8 full page black and white illustrations. In the scarce dust jacket! Originally published in 1890, this novel was intended by Balch to be the first of a series of novels based in the "Oregon country," but Balch died of tuberculosis in 1891. The book is clean… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1905. 128 pages. Gray cloth; four-color decorated binding. Civil War fiction. The book is clean and tight, with light toning of pages and darker offsetting on endpapers.. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1977. 387 pages. One volume in the Franklin "The 100 Greatest Books of All Time" series. Beautifully bound in green leather beautifully decorated in gilt; silk moiré endpapers; all-edges gilt. The leather is the high quality material used by Franklin only in their early years of publishing. The book is… Read more about this item

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1979. 299 pages. One of the books in the Easton Press series "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written." Beautifully bound in gilt-decorated brown leather; silk moire endpapers; all edges gilt. An unread copy in almost as-new condition (Easton Press bookplate WITHOUT owner's name adhered to front pastedown endpaper).. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Collectible-Fine.… Read more about this item

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2005. 190 pages. Nicely bound edition of this novel in the Allan Quartermain series. Full brown leather binding that is highly decorated in gilt; satin endpapers; all edges gilt. Beautiful example of the fine quality leather used by Easton Press. The book is in virtually as-new condition.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/No… Read more about this item

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1979. 215 pages. Beautifully bound in 22 kt. gilt- decorated red leather with raised bands on spine; all-edges gilt; silk moire endpapers. Unused Easton Press bookplate affixed to front pastedown endpaper. In virtually as-new condition!. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by George Him. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Boston: David R. Godine, 2009. 352 pages. Novel about desert people of North Africa circa World War I and at the same time a contemporary story about one of their descendants. Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature; he wrote this novel in 1980. Book is in as new condition.. First U. S. Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible-Fine/Fine. 8vo… Read more about this item