Tales from the Spanish
by Alarcon, Pedro Antonio De
Allentown, Pennsylvania: The Story Classics, 1948. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 9x6x1. Balet, Jan. First thus. Includes publisher's slipcase. Minor wear to slipcase corners. 1948 Hard Cover. 228 pp. Translated into English by Mary J. Serrano, Alberta Gore Cuthbert, and George F. Duyster, illustrations by Jan Balet. Includes: 'A Fine Haul!'; The Nail; The Account Book; The Gypsy's Prophecy; Moors and Christians; The Cornet Player; The Patriot Traitor; The Tall Woman; Alarcon: His Life and Writings;... Read More
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Tales from the Spanish
by Alarcon, Pedro Antonio De; Serrano, Mary J.; Cuthbert, Alberta Gore; Duyster, George F
Allentown, Pennsylvania: The Story Classics, 1948. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9x6x1. Balet, Jan. Includes publisher's slipcase and original clear acetate jacket. Minimal cosmetic wear. 1948 Hard Cover. 228 pp. Translated into English by Mary J. Serrano, Alberta Gore Cuthbert, and George F. Duyster, illustrations by Jan Balet. Includes: 'A Fine Haul!'; The Nail; The Account Book; The Gypsy's Prophecy; Moors and Christians; The Cornet Player; The Patriot Traitor; The Tall Woman; Alarcon: His Life and... Read More
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The V.I.P.s (Dell 9335)
by Albert, Marvin H
New York: Dell, 1963. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 6x4x0. First paperback printing. Pages faintly toned. 1963 Mass Market Paperback. 192 pp. Film still of Richard Burton kissing Elizabeth Taylor's cheek on front and back cover. A group of ultra-wealthy travelers have a life-altering day of thrills at an airport.
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Have a Little Faith: A True Story
by Albom, Mitch
New York: Hyperion, 2009. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x1x7. First edition. An excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2009 Hard Cover. viii, 254 pp. What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together? In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds -- two men, two faiths, two communities -- that will inspire readers... Read More
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Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster
by Albrecht, Donald; Lacher-Feldman, Jessica; Valenti, William M
Rochester, New York: RIT Press, 2021. Large Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 9x0x9. Still in original plastic wrap. 2021 Large Hardcover. 232 pp. Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster offers nearly 200 examples of visually arresting and socially meaningful posters, taken from more than 8,000 held in the collection in the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries' Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation. The collection, one of the largest of its kind in the... Read More
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Design Culture Now: The National Design Triennial
by Albrecht, Donald; Lupton, Ellen; Holt, Steven Skov
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000. Large Softcover. Very Good. 1x1x1. Spine a bit faded, wrappers lightly soiled. 2000 Large Softcover. 215, [1] pp. This is the first-ever survey of American design that cuts across the four disciplines of architecture, product design, graphic design, and new media. Put together by the National Design Museum surveys the up-to-the-minute trends in American design from architecture to product and graphic design to new media. This comprehensive survey catalogs the best in... Read More
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Pirc Alert! A Complete Defense Against 1. e4 (Alburt's Chess Openings)
by Alburt, Lev; Chernin, Alex
New York: Chess Information and Research Center / W.W. Norton, 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x1x9. First edition - a paperback original. An excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2001 Trade Paperback. 448 pp. Packed with surprise-weapons, Pirc Alert! gives you everything you need to know to defend against White's most popular way of starting the game. Alburt and Chernin explain both the winning ideas as well as the moves of... Read More
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Test and Improve Your Chess: Numerical Evaluation and Other Improvement Techniques (Pergamon Chess Series)
by Alburt, Lev; Neat, Kenneth P
Oxford: Pergamon Chess, 1989. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8x5x0. Tiny ink mark on back cover, owner address label inside, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1989 Trade Paperback. vii, 128 pp. The ability to analyse a position properly is one of the most important qualities of a good chess player, yet there are few aspects of the game that the average player seems to find more baffling. Twice U.S. Champion Lev... Read More
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Except by Nature (The National Poetry Series)
by Alcosser, Sandra; Grennan, Eamon
St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 5x0x9. First edition. Jacket spine base bumped. Top page ridge very faintly foxed, ink name on front paste-down endpaper. 1989 Hard Cover. 70 pp. "Whether immersed in the exotic claustrophobia and sexual edginess of a Louisiana bayou or smelling again the sweat of workers in her father's garage, or remembering an aunt's passion for extravagant hats . . . Sandra Alcosser always gives us poems... Read More
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Eight Cousins; or, the Aunt-Hill (24 Classics Series)
by Alcott, Louisa M. [May]
Cleveland, Ohio / New York: The World Syndicate Publishing Co, 1935. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Politzer, Irving. No publisher date (ink date 1935). Some chips, tears and creases to jacket edges, rear jacket flap joint torn most of the way down but still holding. Ink name and date on front free endpaper. 252 pp. Irving Politzer jacket art. "After the death of her father, orphan Rose Campbell has no choice but to go and live at the 'Aunt... Read More
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Little Women
by Alcott, Louisa M
Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing Co. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Todd, Dorothy. Reissue. No date on copyright page, circa 1940. Ink gift note on front endpaper, bookworm tracks on outer edge of text block, affects margin and not text, pages toned, 1 inch open tear to jacket spine base, edges of jacket rubbed. Binding tight and square, pages clean. 412 pp. Jacket art by Dorothy Todd. In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic... Read More
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Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
by Alcott, Louisa M
Chicago: The Goldsmith Publishing Co, 1930. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Gretta, [J. Clemens]. Reissue. No date on copyright page, circa 1940. Ink gift note on front endpaper, bookworm tracks on outer edge of text block, affects margin and not text. Pages toned, 1 inch open tear to jacket spine base, jacket edges a bit rubbed. Binding tight and square, pages clean. 253 pp. Turquoise cloth, black titles. At Plumfield, an experimental school for boys, the little scholars... Read More
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Eight Cousins
by Alcott, Louisa M
Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing Co, 1935. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Reissue. No date on copyright page, circa 1940. Ink gift note on front endpaper, bookworm tracks on outer edge of text block, affects margin and not text, pages toned, minor loss from jacket corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean. 243 pp. A new edition of Louisa May Alcott's 1875 classic novel, Eight Cousins: Or, The Aunt-Hill. The story of Rose Campbell, a lonely and sickly orphan who... Read More
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Little Women (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
by Alcott, Louisa May; Showalter, Elaine; Kilfeather, Siobhan; Showalter, Vinca
New York: Penguin Classics, 2009. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 6x1x9. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. 2009 Hard Cover. xxx, [6], 504 pp. Timeless in its evocation of idealized family life and robustly enduring, Little Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories of all time. Originally written as a "girls" story, its appeal transcends the boundaries of time and age, making it as popular with adults as it is with young readers. For this... Read More
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Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out. A Sequel to "Little Men
by Alcott, Louisa M. [May]
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition, first state (BAL 211), with 1 1/16 inch text block. A few minor blemishes to boards, edges faintly foxed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1886 Hard Cover. 365, [1] pp., advertisements follow text. Brown cloth, gilt titles with black and red decorations, floral decorated endpapers. "Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men" is a novel... Read More
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Little Women (Penguin Classics)
by Alcott, Louisa May; Showalter, Elaine
New York: Penguin Classics, 1989. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 7x5x1. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy. 1989 Trade Paperback. xxx, 504 pp. Introduction by Elaine Showalter, notes by Siobhan Kilfeather and Vinca Showalter. "Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their dreams, plays, pranks, letters, illnesses, and courtships, women of all ages have become a part of... Read More
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Becky's Christmas Dream and Other Stories
by Alcott, Louisa M. [May]
London: W. B. Conkey Company, 1895. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Boards rubbed, pencil name and date on endpapers, pages toned. 1895 Hard Cover. A carefully selected collection of entertaining stories and poems, suitable for young readers, and including sketches and poems by such well known authors as Olive Thorne, Edgar Fawcett, Laurie Loring, Celia Thaxter, Sara Conant, and many others. Profusely illustrated.
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Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
by Alcott, Louisa M. [May]
Chicago / New York: M.A. Donohue & Co. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Saunders, D.E. Reissue. No publisher date. Rear hinge weakening. 357 pp. Color frontispiece and picture plate mounted on front board, illustrated endpapers by D.E. Saunders. Some later Donohue printings have black-and-white frontispiece. With two young sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the unusual school at Plumfield, Jo March - now Mrs Jo Bhaer - couldn't be happier. But... Read More
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Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
by Alcott, Louisa M
New York, N.Y: Grosset & Dunlap, 2020-01-01. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Doane, Pelagie. Reissue. Unknown publishing date, estimated 1940, ink gift note on front endpaper, pages toned, a few tears to jacket corners. Binding tight and square. 354 pp. Dichromatic frontispiece, black and white illustrations in text (illustrator unattributed), Pelagie Doane jacket art. Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag is a classic romance story by Louisa May Alcott. As grandmothers rummage their piece-bags and bundles in search of gay... Read More
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Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Bethy, and Amy
by Alcott, Louisa M. [May]
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company / S.J. Parkhill & Co, 1902. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Stephens, Alice Barber. 1902 reprint. Front joint split, boards rubbed with edges exposed, spine toned with some loss from titles and decorations, hinges loosening, ink gift note dated 1918 on front endpaper. viii, 617 pp. 8vo. Olive cloth, gilt titles and decorations on spine, color illustration with cream titles on front board. Frontispiece and plates by Alice Barber Stephens. An attractively... Read More
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Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
by [Alcott, Louisa May]; Matteson, John
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Signed by author. First edition. Inscribed and signed without designation on title page ('Best wishes always! John Matteson'). 2 inch stain to fore edge margin of last 50 pages - does not affect text. Binding tight and square. 2007 Hard Cover. x, 497 pp. An account of the family life of Louisa May Alcott, American Transcendentalist and author of Little Women. Louisa May... Read More
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Little Women (Puffin in Bloom)
by Alcott, Louisa May
New York: Puffin Books, 2014. Reissue. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 6x1x9. Bond, Anna. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. 2014 Hard Cover. 777, [27] pp. Cover art by Anna Bond. Reader's guide follows text. Timeless in its evocation of idealized family life and robustly enduring, Little Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories of all time. Originally written as a "girls" story, its appeal transcends the boundaries of time and age, making... Read More
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Letters to a Sister; or Woman's Mission. to Accompany the Letters to Young Men. (Alcott's New Series.)
by Alcott, Wm. A. [William Andrus/Alexander]
Buffalo, New York: Geo. H. Derby and Co, 1850. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Boards soiled, ring stain on rear board, heavily foxed throughout, ink name and address on front endpaper, last couple pages stained. 1850 Hard Cover. xv, [15]-307 pp. A companion volume to Familar Letters to Young Men on Various Subjects, released in the same year, instructing young men on how to cultivate good moral character, maintain healthy relationships, etc. Includes discussion of abstaining from alcohol... Read More
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After the Spring: A Story of Tunisian Youth
by Aldeguer, Helene
San Diego, California: IDW, 2019. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 7x0x9. First printing. Corners bumped. 2019 Hard Cover. 136 pp. In 2011 one of the biggest political events in the world, the Arab Spring, swept across North Africa. But what came next' As the world moves on, four young Tunisians must cope with the reality of an uncertain future in this original graphic novel. Winner of the Raymond Leblanc Foundation's Belgian Prize, and... Read More
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From Early American Paintbrushes: Colony to New Nation (Art Tells a Story Series)
by Alden, Carella
New York: Parents' Magazine Press, 1971. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9x7x0. 1971 Hard Cover. 64 pp. Discusses the sculpture, painting, signs, furniture, and other artistic works produced in America from 1620 to the early nineteenth century.
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