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Image for French Literary Gems: Morceaux Choisis de Oeuvres de Cornielle, Moliere, Pascal, Lafontaine, Boussuet, Racine, Voltaire, Beaumarchais, Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Renan, Daudet, and Rostand

French Literary Gems: Morceaux Choisis de Oeuvres de Cornielle, Moliere, Pascal, Lafontaine, Boussuet, Racine, Voltaire, Beaumarchais, Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Renan, Daudet, and Rostand

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, R.D. Cortina Company: 1962

Seller ID: 10244

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Blue paper-covered boards with a printed title label pasted on the front cover. Some fading to the spine and a couple of small stains to the rear cover. Interior clean and bright. 59 pages, illustrated endpapers. Selections from masterpieces of French literature, one page each with a facing page English translation. Useful for anyone learning French. A title in the Cortina Classics Series.
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The Early English Text Society (Four Publications Bound in One Volume)

By: N/A

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, N. Trubner & Co.: 1866

Seller ID: 06867

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Four early publications (1860s-70s), hard-bound in one volume, from the Early English Text Society, formed in 1864 for the study of Old English literature. Boards are worn at the corners and spine. Provenance: "Dundas Harford. Hampstead. 1911." Harford was Rev. Dundas Harford (1858-1953), Vicar of the Parish of Emmanuel in Hampstead at the time he owned this book. Interesting marginalia throughout the publication concerning Richard Rolle de Hampole (see below) indicates a scholarly interest by Rev. Harwood in this subject. The publications in this bound volume include the following: 1....
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Arba Sicula - Sicilian Language Folklore and Literary Review, - Vol. 7, 1986

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Brooklyn, New York, Arba Sicula: 1986

Seller ID: 11184

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Faint staining and soiling to the covers. The text block is still glued to the covers, but showing signs of coming unglued. 84 pages with illustrations. Scarce volume of this journal, whose mission was to preserve and disseminate Sicily's heritage and culture through its literature and folklore. Text is in Sicilian and English.
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Calaggeine: Raccolta di poesie in dialetto molese di Antonio Abatangelo

By: Abatangelo, Antonio

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Bari, Italy, Edizioni Dal Sud: 1988

Seller ID: 11185

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Italian Language Text. A few indentations on the rear cover, otherwise a Fine copy. Antonio Abatangelo's collection of poems in the dialect of Molise, a region in Southern Italy. 139 pages with illustrations. From the dust jacket: "Lo scopo del lavoro del metodo che ci accingiamo a riproporre, abbastanza rigoros dal punto di vista finetico, non ha nei suoi intendimenti la presunzione di correggere il modo attuale di parlare e le sue "evolute", stranezze, tra l'altro anch'esse motivo di analisi e di studio, bensi la piu modesta aspirazione di voler concorrere all'abbattimento di qu...
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Emma

By: Austen, Jane; Edited by Lionel Trilling

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1957

Seller ID: 20070401

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Riverside Editions B17. Light edge wear, reading crease to spine. Mild rubbing. Previous owner label affixed inside the front cover. 381 pages with Introduction by Lionel Trilling. [gbrlit]
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The Master and Margarita

By: Bulgakov, Mikhail; Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Meridian / Penguin Publishing: 1993

Seller ID: 11016

ISBN: 0452008999

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Very milde wear with slight toning to page edges. 384 pages.
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Russian Experimental Fiction: Resisting Ideology After Utopia

By: Clowes, Edith W.

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 08332

ISBN: 069103222X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ex-Library copy with stamps, marks, and a card pocket indicating such. About fine condition except for the library markings. 236 pages with Bibliography and Index. Publisher's synopsis: "Clowes advances the provocative hypothesis that the certain recent Russian novels constitute a special category of 'meta-utopian' works by virtue of their playful skepticism toward political and social 'realities' of the past, present, and future."
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7 by Colette of the Academy Goncourt: Gigi, The Cat, Chéri, The Last of Chéri, My Mother's House, Chance Acquaintances, and The Vagabond

By: Colette

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy: 1955

Seller ID: 10358

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Blue cloth with rubbing wear to the extremities. The dust jacket has edge wear and chipping to the spine ends and corners. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. Translations from French to English by the following: Roger Senhouse (Gigi, Chéri, The Last of Chéri), Antonia White (The Cat), Una Vicenzo Troubridge and Enid McLeod (My Mother's House), Patrick Lee Fermor (Chance Acquaintances), and Enid McLeod (The Vagabond).
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Rozenie Ou Les Moscovites

By: D'Estaing, Charles-Henri

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, East European Monographs, Boulder/Columbia University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 09427

ISBN: 0880332808

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Dark blue cloth with gilt title on the spine. Gift inscription inside the front cover, otherwise fine. 154 pages with Selected Bibliography. Introduction and Notes by Jean-Pierre Cap. A previously unpublished play from eighteenth-century France. Russia's Catherine I is the heroine of the play and this play is historically significant for having been the only work in French to glorify Catherine I. This book is organized into the following sections: Foreword, Critical Introduction, Introduction to Rozenie ou les Moscovites by Comte Charles-Henri d'Estaing, the text of Rozenie ou les Moscovites, ...
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Klassenlekture 106 Autoren stellen sich vor mit ihren selbst ausgewahlten Texten

By: Engelmann, Bernt and Walter Jens

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hamburg, Germany, Albrecht Knaus Verlag: 1982

Seller ID: 08280

ISBN: 3813563774

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

525 pages. German text.
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Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

By: Kerouac, Jack; Edited by Paul Marion

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1999

Seller ID: 07712

ISBN: 0670888222

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Remainder mark on the bottom edge and a couple of small, worn spots on the bottom edge of the borards. More than 60 previously unpublished works by Kerouac, written from age 13 to 21. 249 pages.
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La Riva Sommersa

By: Mastantuono, Rita Santoro

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Taranto, Italy, Portofranco: 1993

Seller ID: 11188

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Italian Language Poems. Number 9 of 9 volumes of poetry in the series, "Delphinus" Collana di Poesia. 51 pages plus Index.
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Tomboy

By: Meinecke, Thomas

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Franfurt, Suhrkamp: 1998

Seller ID: 06449

ISBN: 3518409956

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light wear, rubbing to jacket. Ex-lib copy form the Goethe Institute in Houston. Usual library markings to spine, endpapers. Jacket adhered to boards with clear protector. Clean copy in nice condition aside from library markings.
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Four Contemporary Russian Writers

By: Porter, Robert

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Oxford, England, Berg Publishers: 1989

Seller ID: 08330

ISBN: 0854962468

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ex-Library copy with stamps, marks, and a card pocket indicating such. About fine condition except for the library markings. 184 pages with Biographical Notes, Selected Bibliography, and Index. The four writers: Rasputin, Aitmatov, Voynovich, and Vladimov.
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Candidula: Poesie per Ragazzi

By: Prete-Vacca, Giuseppina

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Italy,

Seller ID: 11189

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Italian Language Poems. Some ink staining to the front cover. No publication information. Thin, stapled booklet of 16 pages (unpaginated). English translation of the title: Poems for Boys.
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La Barunissa Di Carini

By: Salomone-Marino, Salvatore; English translation and Introduction by A.M. Cinquemani.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Brooklyn, New York, Arba Sicula: 1986

Seller ID: 11183

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fair

The text block has come unglued from the covers, which have some faint staining and soiling. This issue from Arba Sicula, the Sicilian Language Folklore and Literary Review, features two different versions of the Renaissance poem, La Barunissa di Carini: The 1873 and 1914 versions of Salvatore Salomone-Marino. Unpaginated.
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The First & Second Parts of King Henry IV

By: Shakespeare, William

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Graphic Arts Typographers, Inc.: 1970

Seller ID: 10445

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

About Fine to Fine in a slipcase with mild wear.
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The Celestina: A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Novel in Dialogue

By: Simpson, Lesley Bird (Translator)

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Berkeley, California, University of California: 1959

Seller ID: 20070402

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Spine slightly slanted. Mild edge wear. 162 pages with a Preface by the translator (Spanish to English). Facsimile illustration of the 1502 title page from the copy in the British Museum. Comedia de Calisto y Melibea (The Comedy of Calisto and Melibea), known in Spain as La Celestina, is a work entirely in dialogue originally published circa 1499. It is attributed to Fernando de Rojas. [gbrlit]
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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: From the Winchester Manuscripts of Thomas Malory and Other Sources

By: Steinbeck, John; Edited by Chase Horton

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux: 1977

Seller ID: 11416

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Dark green endpapers with a penciled date, barely detectable. Steinbeck's retelling in plain, present-day English of tales from Malory's "Morte d'Arthur". 364 pages with Appendix that includes his letters during the project to his literary agent, Elizabeth Otis, and his editor, Chase Horton. He also wrote the Introduction, but he died in 1968 before he could finish the book. However, it was published posthumously in 1976, by his wife, Elaine. This copy is a reprint Book Club Edition.
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Gulliver's Travels

By: Swift, Johnathan; Retold By Padraic Colum

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Macmilan: 1962

Seller ID: 11206

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Pictorial paper-covered boards in matching dust jacket. Mild shelf wear and a tear to the jackat at the top edge of the front panel. Protected now in a Myalr sleeve. 260 pages, a retelling of the literary classic, illustrated by Willy Pogany. Afterword by Clifton Fadiman.
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