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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark TwainISBN 0486400778 (0-486-40077-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:This is Mark Twain's first novel about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, and it has become one of the world's best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain's own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred," he tells us. This is a book one never forgets: Tom whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence, Tom and Huck's dreadful oath, their cure for warts ("spunk water" and dead cats), Tom's puppy love for Becky Thatcher, the boys playing "pirate" on Jackson's Island.[via]
This Mark Twain Library text is the only edition since the first (1876) to be based directly on the author's manuscript and to include all of the "200 rattling pictures" Mark Twain commissioned from one of his favorite illustrators, True W. Williams.More editions of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0520235754 (0-520-23575-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0553211285 (0-553-21128-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0517205769 (0-517-20576-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0520045580 (0-520-04558-0)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0520045599 (0-520-04559-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 051722108X (0-517-22108-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0517399911 (0-517-39991-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0517688131 (0-517-68813-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0486400778 (0-486-40077-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: ISBN 0520235754 (0-520-23575-4)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Jean Craighead George, Mark TwainISBN 0531169782 (0-531-16978-2)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:Few books capture both the simplicity and complexities of American life quite like these enduring "boyhood" classics by Mark Twain.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love. [via]More editions of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer:
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Alfred Lord Tennysonby Michael BaronISBN 0460878026 (0-460-87802-6)
Softcover, Everyman
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Alice Through the Looking Glassby Crown, Lewis CarrollISBN 0517501368 (0-517-50136-8)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Morton N. CohenISBN 0553211730 (0-553-21173-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0529050315 (0-529-05031-5)
Hardcover, Collins-World
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Armadaleby Wilkie CollinsISBN 0486234290 (0-486-23429-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules Verne, George M. TowleISBN 0486411117 (0-486-41111-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around the World in Eighty Days'Book summary:The eccentric English gentleman Phileas Fogg accepts a challenge to circle the globe in no more than 80 days an incredible feat for the Victorian age. Exotic locales, seemingly insurmountable obstacles, and comic relief (chiefly supplied by Fogg's loyal valet, Passepartout) provide a fantastic blend of adventure, entertainment, and suspense.[via]More editions of Around the World in Eighty Days:
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Barchester Towersby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 051762639X (0-517-62639-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barchester Towers'Book summary:This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is Dr. Proudie, who with his awful wife and oily curate, Slope, maneuver for power. The Warden and Barchester Towers are part of Trollope's Barsetshire series, in which some of the same characters recur. [via]
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Beyond Good and Evilby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Helen ZimmernISBN 048629868X (0-486-29868-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Good and Evil'Book summary:This is a major work by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, whose writings have been deeply influential on subsequent generations of philosophers. It is offered here in a new translation by Judith Norman, with an introduction by Rolf Peter Horstmann that places the work in its historical and philosophical context. [via]
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The Castle of Otrantoby Horace WalpoleISBN 0486434125 (0-486-43412-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Charles Darwin's Beagle Diaryby Richard Darwin KeynesISBN 0521003172 (0-521-00317-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary'Book summary:Here is a fascinating record of one of the most famous journeys ever made. This work constitutes an accurate historical document as well as an evocative travelog that conveys Charles Darwin's personal account of the voyage with freshness and immediacy. [via]
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Christina Rossettiby Christina RossettiISBN 0460878204 (0-460-87820-4)
Softcover, Everyman
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Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City During the Nineteenth Centuryby Mary P. RyanISBN 0520216601 (0-520-21660-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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- Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City During the Nineteenth Century: ISBN 0520204417 (0-520-20441-7)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr - Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City During the Nineteenth Century: ISBN 0520216601 (0-520-21660-1)
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- Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City During the Nineteenth Century: ISBN 0520204417 (0-520-20441-7)
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The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blakeby William BlakeISBN 0520044738 (0-520-04473-8)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake'Book summary:Critical commentary illuminating Blake's allusions and references accompanies the texts of his poetic and prose works. [via]
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eaterby Thomas De QuinceyISBN 0486287424 (0-486-28742-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'Book summary:Impressive account admired for its introspective penetration and journalistic astuteness of author's early years as a precocious student of Greek and Latin, his adventures among the outcasts and prostitutes of London, studies at Oxford University, introduction to opium in 1804 and his longterm involvement with the drug.[via]More editions of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater:
Cranfordby Elizabeth GaskellISBN 0486426815 (0-486-42681-5)
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Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nationby Malcolm J. RohrboughISBN 0520216598 (0-520-21659-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Devil's Dictionaryby Ambrose BierceISBN 0486275426 (0-486-27542-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Dictionary'Book summary:145 PP 1958 EARLY DOVER EDITION 5X7 SOFTCVR [via]
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DR. JEKYLL and MR. HYDby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0553212001 (0-553-21200-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'DR. JEKYLL and MR. HYD'Book summary:From the Back Cover: "Robert Louis Stevenson originally wrote 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' as a 'shilling shocker.' He then burned the draft, and, upon his wife's advice, rewrote it as the darkly complex tale it is today. Stark, skillfully woven, this fascinating novel explores the curious turnings of human character through the strange case of Dr. Jekyll, a kindly scientist who by night takes on his stunted evil self. Mr. Hyde. Anticipating modern psychology, 'Jekyll and Hyde' is a brilliantly original study of man's dual nature - as well as an immortal tale of suspense and terror..." [via]
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Emily Dickinsonby Emily Dickinson, Helen McNeilISBN 0460878956 (0-460-87895-6)
Softcover, Everyman
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English Romantic Poetry: An Anthologyby Stanley AppelbaumISBN 0486292827 (0-486-29282-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology'Book summary:Rich selection of 123 poems by 6 great English Romantic poets: William Blake (24 poems), William Wordsworth (27 poems), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems), Lord Byron (16 poems), Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems) and John Keats (22 poems). Introduction and brief commentaries on the poets. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology:
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Fathers and Childrenby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevISBN 0460878638 (0-460-87863-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Children'Book summary:First translated in 1867, Turgenev portays the new generation of nihilists, with their reliance on the material and on science, and their lack of respect for tradition. However, the novel's hero, Bazarov, pleased neither the revolutionaries, who thought the portrait libellous, nor the reactionaries, who thought it a glorification of iconoclasm. [via]
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Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Constance Black GarnettISBN 0486400735 (0-486-40073-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Sons'Book summary:Against the background of the liberation of Russia's serfs during the 1860s, a generational conflict flares between older aristocrats and radical youths. Quarrels, romance, and misunderstandings ensue when an outspoken young nihilist accompanies a school friend home for an extended visit. One of the truly great 19th-century Russian novels, available in an inexpensive edition. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Fathers and Sons:
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Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Moralityby Keith Ansell-Pearson, Carol DietheISBN 052169163X (0-521-69163-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality'Book summary:Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers of the past 150 years and On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is his most important work on ethics and politics. A polemical contribution to moral and political theory, it offers a critique of moral values and traces the historical evolution of concepts such as guilt, conscience, responsibility, law and justice. This is a revised and updated 2006 edition of one of the most successful volumes to appear in Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Keith Ansell-Pearson modified his introduction to Nietzsche's classic text, and Carol Diethe incorporated a number of changes to the translation itself, reflecting the considerable advances in our understanding of Nietzsche. In this guise the Cambridge Texts edition of Nietzsche's Genealogy should continue to enjoy widespread adoption, at both undergraduate and graduate level. [via]
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The Genealogy of Moralsby Friedrich Nietzsche, Horace Barnett SamuelISBN 0486426912 (0-486-42691-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Genealogy of Morals'Book summary:Major work on ethics, by one of the most influential thinkers of the last two centuries, deals with master/slave morality and modern man's current moral practices; the evolution of man's feelings of guilt and bad conscience; and how ascetic ideals help maintain human life under certain conditions. [via]
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0486264645 (0-486-26464-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:A dark allegorical masterpiece based on the author's own traumatic experiences in the Belgian Congo, recounts the voyage of Marlow up the Congo River in search of the mysterious Mr. Kurtz a white trader whose domination of the local natives had transformed him into a depraved and abominable tyrant. Large print format.[via]More editions of The Heart of Darkness:
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 0553212141 (0-553-21214-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer'Book summary:Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer. [via]
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New Yorkby Jacob A. RiisISBN 0486220125 (0-486-22012-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York'Book summary:This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and a monument of early American photography. Captured on film by photographer, journalist, and reformer Jacob Riis, more than 100 grim scenes reveal man's struggle to survive. [via]
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Idylls of the Kingby Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, William J. RolfeISBN 0486437957 (0-486-43795-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Idylls of the King'Book summary:[via]Tennyson interprets the Arthurian myth as an epic poem, and his tales of Camelot soar to remarkable imaginative heights to trace the birth of a king; the founding, fellowship, and decline of the Round Table; and the king's inevitable departure. Encompassing romance, heroism, duty, and conflict, Tennyson's poetry charts the rise and fall of a legendary society.More editions of Idylls of the King:
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The Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar WildeISBN 0486264785 (0-486-26478-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Importance of Being Earnest'Book summary:Witty and buoyant comedy of manners is brilliantly plotted from its effervescent first act to its hilarious denouement, and filled with some of literature's most famous epigrams. Widely considered Wilde's most perfect work, the play is reprinted here from an authoritative early British edition. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of The Importance of Being Earnest:
Importance of Being Earnest and Other Writingsby Oscar WildeISBN 0517626411 (0-517-62641-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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A Journey to the Center of the Earthby Jules VerneISBN 0486440885 (0-486-44088-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth'Book summary:An adventurous geology professor mounts an expedition that descends into a subterranean world of luminous rocks, antediluvian forests, and fantastic marine life a living past that holds the secrets to the origins of human existence. Jules Verne's 19th-century action classic has the added appeal of a psychological quest, in which the journey is as significant as the destination.[via]More editions of A Journey to the Center of the Earth:
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The Jungle Bookby Rudyard KiplingISBN 0486410242 (0-486-41024-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle Book'Book summary:One of the all-time favorite stories from Rudyard Kipling is back, featuring delightful full-color and black-and-white illustrations. [via]
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The Jungle Books and Just So Storiesby Kipling RudyardISBN 0553211994 (0-553-21199-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jungle Books and Just So Stories'Book summary:First published in 1894 and 1895, The Jungle Books remain some of the most beloved tales of all time. Adored by readers of all ages, these classic stories in two volumes spin the unforgettable story of Mowglia boy raised by a pack of wolvesas he learns indelible lessons about the laws of the jungle as well as the needs of the heart. Through Mowglis journey, readers also meet the tiger Shere Khan, who stalks man and beast alike, the rock python Kaa, who dispenses wisdom, and the aging wolf Akela, who struggles as his leadership of the pack is challenged. Set in India, Kiplings great masterpiece is an allegory for Britains imperialism, filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters. The mythic tale of a boy looking for where he truly belongseither with the man-pack of the village or the wolf-pack of the wildThe Jungle Books touch both our intellect and our emotions, while Kiplings dazzling storytelling makes them the timeless archetype for popular tales to come. [via]
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L`A-Basby Joris Karl HuysmansISBN 0486228371 (0-486-22837-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0486426785 (0-486-42678-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last of the Mohicans'Book summary:This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, the Hunting of the Snarkby Lewis CarrollISBN 0517147815 (0-517-14781-5)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, the Hunting of the Snark'Book summary:This beautiful, 868-page leather-bound volume contains a delightful collection of stories from one of history's most beloved children's authors. Lewis Carroll's stories are still as fresh and appealing as when they were first published more than a century ago. John Tenniel's original illustrations accompany the Alice stories and bring to life the wildly popular characters so well known to us all: the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and a passel of others.
Carroll, one of 11 children, knows his audience well. His stories--clever, provocative, and bizarre--capture the imaginations of children worldwide. Though a prolific storyteller from childhood, he went on to become a mathematician, a fact evidenced by the Tangled Tales serial, which contains a mathematical equation in each installment.
Other stories included in this collection are "The Hunting of the Snark," which was composed backward, in a sense, when inspiration for the tale came by way of the last line; "Rhyme? And Reason?"; the Sylvie and Bruno books; and the original Alice story, "Alice's Adventures Underground," penned and illustrated in Carroll's own hand. Two never-before-printed poems, originally inscribed in two storybooks and presented as mementos to a little girl and boy, conclude this enchanting collection. [via]
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Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis CarrollISBN 0520050398 (0-520-05039-8)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There'Book summary:Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there, The Pennyroyal Edition as designed and illustrated by Barry Moser, 1983, First printing. [via]
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The Lion and the Leopardby Mary Ellen JohnsonISBN 0517557274 (0-517-55727-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robert Blaisdell, Thea KlirosISBN 0486291715 (0-486-29171-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:When Sara's privileged status at her boarding school comes to an abrupt end, the former favorite finds herself penniless and at the mercy of a vindictive headmistress. This Victorian-era tale's use of imagination and generosity to make the best of life and losses remains a source of inspiration and enchantment.[via]More editions of A Little Princess:
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Hardcover, Franklin Watts - A Little Princess: ISBN 0553212036 (0-553-21203-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - A Little Princess: ISBN 0517014807 (0-517-01480-7)
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Looking Backwardby Edward BellamyISBN 0486290387 (0-486-29038-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking Backward'Book summary:Stimulating, thought-provoking utopian fantasy about a young man who's put into a hypnotic sleep in the late 19th century and awakens in the year 2000 to find a vastly changed world where crime, war, and want no longer exist. A provocative study of human society as it is and as it might be. [via]
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Novels: Fanshawe, the Scarlet Letter, the House of the Seven Gables, the Blithedale Romance, the Marble Faunby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 052126216X (0-521-26216-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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New Grub Streetby George R. GissingISBN 0460877240 (0-460-87724-0)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Grub Street'Book summary:Jasper is attracted to Marian, who loves him passionately, but he proposes to her only when she inherits a legacy of 5000 pounds. When the legacy does not materialise Jasper withdraws. Instead he marries Amy Reardon, the young widow of the writer Edwin Reardon. Edwin is the author of two fine works, but his poverty-stricken existence, his lack of public recognition and his wife's desertion eventualyy drive him to an early grave, in stark and bitter contrast to Jasper's success which comes as a triumph of self-advertisement over artistic conscience. [via]
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Nietzsche on the Genealogy of Morality and Other Writingsby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Keith Ansell-PearsonISBN 0521406102 (0-521-40610-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra A Book For All And Noneby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Not Available, Robert B. PippinISBN 0521602610 (0-521-60261-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra A Book For All And None'Book summary:Nietzsche regarded 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' as his most important work, and his story of the wandering Zarathustra has had enormous influence on subsequent culture. Nietzsche uses a mixture of homilies, parables, epigrams and dreams to introduce some of his most striking doctrines, including the Overman, nihilism, and the eternal return of the same. This edition offers a new translation by Adrian Del Caro which restores the original versification of Nietzsche's text and captures its poetic brilliance. Robert Pippin's introduction discusses many of the most important interpretative issues raised by the work, including who is Zarathustra and what kind of 'hero' is he and what is the philosophical significance of the work's literary form? The volume will appeal to all readers interested in one of the most original and inventive works of modern philosophy. [via]
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No Nameby Wilkie CollinsISBN 0486236056 (0-486-23605-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Name'Book summary:Condemned by Victorian critics as immoral, but regarded today as a novel of outstanding social insight, No Name shows William Wilkie {ollins as the height of his literary powers. It is the story of two sisters, Magdalen and Norah, who discover after the deaths of their dearly beloved parents that the parents were not married at the time of their births. Disinherited and ousted from their estate, they must fend for themselves and either resign themselves to their fate or determine to recover their wealth by whatever means. [via]
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On the Genealogy of Moralityby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Carol Diethe, Keith Ansell-PearsonISBN 0521404592 (0-521-40459-2)
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Pere Goriotby Honore De Balzac, Ellen MarriageISBN 0486436985 (0-486-43698-5)
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Phantastes: A Faerie Romanceby George MacDonald, Arthur HughesISBN 0486445674 (0-486-44567-4)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wildeby Oscar WildeISBN 0553212540 (0-553-21254-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Poems of Christina Rossettiby Christina Rossetti, Florence HarrisonISBN 0517118513 (0-517-11851-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Poems of Tennyson: Chosen and Edited, With an Introduction by Henry Van Dykeby Alfred Tennyson TennysonISBN 0520060121 (0-520-06012-1)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Princess and the Goblinby George MacDonaldISBN 048640787X (0-486-40787-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princess and the Goblin'Book summary:As always with George MacDonald, everything here is more than meets the eye: this in fact is MacDonald's grace-filled vision of the world. Said to be one of J.R.R. Tolkien's childhood favorites, The Princess and the Goblin is the story of the young Princess Irene, her good friend Curdie--a minor's son--and Irene's mysterious and beautiful great great grandmother, who lives in a secret room at the top of the castle stairs. Filled with images of dungeons and goblins, mysterious fires, burning roses, and a thread so fine as to be invisible and yet--like prayer--strong enough to lead the Princess back home to her grandmother's arms, this is a story of Curdie's slow realization that sometimes, as the princess tells him, "you must believe without seeing." Simple enough for reading aloud to a child (as I've done myself more than once with my daughter), it's rich enough to repay endless delighted readings for the adult. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Reelecting Lincoln : The Battle for the 1864 Presidencyby John C. WaughISBN 0517597667 (0-517-59766-7)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reelecting Lincoln : The Battle for the 1864 Presidency'Book summary:Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency tells the dramatic story of perhaps the most critical election campaign in American history. Taking place in the midst of the Civil War, this election would determine the very future of the nation. Would the country be unified or permanently divided? Would slavery continue?
Weaving corroborative detail and rich anecdotal material into a fast-paced narrative, John C. Waugh succeeds in placing this pivotal election in its proper context while evoking its rich human drama. In these pages, the men and women who figured in this epic campaign emerge in bold relief, with all their strengths, weaknesses, and idiosyncrasies. The result is a page-turner that also happens to be a true story.
The best historical writing is the kind that makes the past come alive. Waugh, a former newspaper correspondent, proves that history need not be dry: he uses his journalistic skills to infuse the pages with the sights, sounds, and atmosphere of those times. Drawing from an extensive array of sources, including published and unpublished reminiscences, memoirs, autobiographies, letters, newspapers, and periodicals, he clearly evokes the drama and uncertainty of that fateful year with all the immediacy of a political reporter covering a national presidential election today. [via]More editions of Reelecting Lincoln : The Battle for the 1864 Presidency:
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The Return of the Nativeby Thomas HardyISBN 0486431657 (0-486-43165-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of the Native'Book summary:Passionate Eustacia Vye detests her life amid the dreary environs of Egdon Heath and spies her escape when Clym Yeobright returns from Paris. Hardy's timeless tale of a romantic misalliance embodies his view of character as fate and underscores the tragic nature of ordinary human lives. The Return of the Native ranks among the author's greatest works.[via]More editions of The Return of the Native:
Ruthby Elizabeth Gaskell, Nancy HenryISBN 0460876600 (0-460-87660-0)
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Samuel Taylor Coelridgeby John BeerISBN 0460878263 (0-460-87826-3)
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A Shropshire Ladby A. E. HousmanISBN 0486264688 (0-486-26468-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Shropshire Lad'Book summary:Authoritative edition of one of the enduring classics of English poetry 63 poems on the nature of friendship, the passing of youth, the vanity of dreams, other human concerns. Long prized by literary scholars for their perfection of form and feeling, and loved by generations of readers for simplicity, sensitivity, direct emotional appeal.[via]More editions of A Shropshire Lad:
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloeby George EliotISBN 0486292460 (0-486-29246-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe'Book summary:Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . . and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that kills his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired founding child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are the secrets that permeate this moving tale of guilt and innocence. A moral allegory of the redemptive power of love, it is also a finely drawn picture of early nineteenth-century England in the days when spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses, and of a simple way of life that was soon to disappear. [via]
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The Small House at Allingtonby David Skilton, Anthony TrollopeISBN 0460877941 (0-460-87794-1)
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0486266885 (0-486-26688-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0486408787 (0-486-40878-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Through the Looking Glass'Book summary:The 1872 sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds Carroll's inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Alice encounters talking flowers, madcap kings and queens, and becomes a pawn in a bizarre chess game involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and other amusing nursery-rhyme characters. Features 50 illustrations by Sir John Tenniel.[via]More editions of Through the Looking Glass:
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis CarrollISBN 0517033461 (0-517-03346-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Thus Spake Zarathustraby Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas CommonISBN 0486406636 (0-486-40663-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'Book summary:A 19th-century literary masterpiece, tremendously influential in the arts and in philosophy, uses the Persian religious leader Zarathustra to voice the author's views, including the introduction of the controversial doctrine of the Übermensch, or "superman," a term later perverted by Nazi propagandists. A passionate, quasi-biblical style is employed to inspire readers.[via]More editions of Thus Spake Zarathustra:
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Tom Sawyer: Library Editionby Mark Twain, Robert Blaisdell, John GreenISBN 0486291561 (0-486-29156-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tom Sawyer: Library Edition'Book summary:Specially abridged version of the beloved classic about a mischievous but well-meaning young lad who barely avoids calamity as he bounds along from one adventure to another. Memorable cast of characters includes Aunt Polly, Becky Thatcher, Huck Finn, Injun Joe, and others. 31 black-and-white illustrations. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Tom Sawyer: Library Edition:
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Turn of the Screwby Henry JamesISBN 0486266842 (0-486-26684-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turn of the Screw'Book summary:The story starts conventionally enough with friends sharing ghost stories 'round the fire on Christmas Eve. One of the guests tells about a governess at a country house plagued by supernatural visitors. But in the hands of Henry James, the master of nuance, this little tale of terror is an exquisite gem of sexual and psychological ambiguity. Only the young governess can see the ghosts; only she suspects that the previous governess and her lover are controlling the two orphaned children (a girl and a boy) for some evil purpose. The household staff don't know what she's talking about, the children are evasive when questioned, and the master of the house (the children's uncle) is absent. Why does the young girl claim not to see a perfectly visible woman standing on the far side of the lake? Are the children being deceptive, or is the governess being paranoid? By leaving the questions unanswered, The Turn of Screw generates spine-tingling anxiety in its mesmerized readers. [via]
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fictionby Henry JamesISBN 0553210599 (0-553-21059-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Walden and Civil Disobedienceby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0534522068 (0-534-52206-8)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden and Civil Disobedience'Book summary:A discourse on appreciating nature and discovering personal identity, Henry David Thoreau wrote WALDEN, after retreating to a small cabin the woods near Walden Pond. Promoting individual thought, CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE reveals what is still considered essential American political thought. [via]
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The Way We Live Nowby Anthony TrollopeISBN 0486243605 (0-486-24360-5)
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Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0486233162 (0-486-23316-2)
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Thus Spake Zarathustra (Selections)/Also Sprach Zarathustra (Auswahl): A Dual-Language Bookby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Stanley AppelbaumISBN 0486437116 (0-486-43711-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thus Spake Zarathustra (Selections)/Also Sprach Zarathustra (Auswahl): A Dual-Language Book'Book summary:The most popular of Nietzsche's works. A symphony of language, it abounds in every kind of wordplay and an intricate network of leitmotifs. This dual-language edition features one third of Nietzsche's work, keeping the most famous concepts intact and encompassing a variety of moods and modes as well as the author's full linguistic scope.[via]More editions of Thus Spake Zarathustra (Selections)/Also Sprach Zarathustra (Auswahl): A Dual-Language Book:
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