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About this Item : First Edition. Hardcover.  This festive, holly-stamped and candle-lit 1915 collection of Christmas stories for children gathers together material from the Bible, mystic tales, traditional legends, and prose and poetry by such authors as John Milton, Leo Tolstoy, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Eugene Field, Margaret Deland, and Selma Lagerlof and comes illustrated throughout in a frontispiece and 15 monochrome plates of famous paintings of the Nativity.  This collection is the concept and labor of children's librarians Elva Sophronia Smith (1871-1965), author of several books for young people, and Alice Isabel Hazeltine (1878-1959), who later served as Assistant Professor at Columbia University for nearly two decades.  Together, these two turn-of-the-century children's librarians present here a collection of "Christmas stories and legends which have literary merit, are reverent in spirit, and are also suitable for children," a...

About this Item : First Edition. Hardcover.  This signed and inscribed collection of nine enchanting fairy tales is the last work by the English writer Mary De Morgan (1850 1907), a women's suffragist, animal rights activist, and socialist whose politics informed her remarkable fairy tales, known for their feminism, criticism of mass production, and deviations from the traditional "happily ever afters" of the form.  Mary De Morgan was the daughter of the mathematician Augustus De Morgan and the spiritualist, suffragist, and tutor to Ada Lovelace Sophia De Morgan; she was also the sister of novelist and ceramicist William De Morgan and sister-in-law to pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan.  These influences, along with that of artist and radical socialist William Morris and his family, to whom she was a dear friend, were important ones in her work, both social and creative.  This presentation copy comes signed and inscribed by Mary De Morgan "For Peggy with much lo...

About this Item : First Edition. Hardcover. "…but the singing of the Ukrainian is also a precious pearl in the common treasury of mankind. It was born out of the beauty of the Ukraine, and it is beautiful; it was born on the steppes, and as the steppes it is wide; it was born in battles, and it is free….This is Ukrainian Song." This 1916 collection of Ukrainian verse and lyric is here introduced by Ukrainian freedom fighter Pavlo Krot and spans the songbook from old pagan songs to wedding cycles, from historical ballads to songs of legendary heroic outlaws, with over 40 folk songs from "The Daughter of the Witch" to "Songs of the Poppy Harvest," along with verse by prominent Ukrainian poets Taras Shevchenko, Stepan Rudansky, and Yuriy Fedkovych, ending fittingly with the Ukrainian National Anthem.  This first edition is inscribed by compiler and translator Florence Randel Livesay to fellow Canadian authoress Valance St. Juste Patriarche, with her bookplate...

About this Item : Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6". xxx, 338pp.  Rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Slight curl to covers. Pages are free of marks and notation.  Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles' mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfil his destiny as the founder of Rome.  His voyage will take him through stormy seas, entangle him in a tragic love affair, and lure him into the world of the dead itself--all the way tormented by the vengeful Juno, Queen of the Gods. Ultimately, he reaches the promised land of Italy where, after bloody battles and with high hopes, he founds what will become the Roman empire.  An unsparing portrait of a man caught between love, duty, and fate, the Aeneid redefines passion, nobility, and courage for our times.(Publisher). For more info...

About this Item : Hardcover. 12 1/4" X 9 1/4".  Unpaginated. Moderate rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Age-toning to back of jacket.  Dust-spotting to inside of jacket. Small tears along all edges of jacket. Large crease to upper corner of front of jacket.  Bound in red paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Bumps to top corners of both boards. Toning to boards. Gentle bumps to head and tail of spine.  Dust-spotting to text block. Spine is cracked toward the end of the book. Otherwise, binding appears sound.  ABOUT THIS BOOK: When a brash youth is exiled to the shores of Britain, his daring and cunning soon mark him as a leader of men.  Follow the early beginnings as young Val earns the right of Knighthood and becomes Prince Valiant, Knight of the Round Table!(Publisher). For more info...

About this Item : Ink sketch, signed "R. Crumb" with the date of [19]88. Image measures 8" by 7", framed to 15.75" by 13.75" A unique work of art, and to our knowledge never published.  This original ink sketch of Bukowski by R. Crumb links one of the "preeminant underground cartoonist with one of the preeminent writers of his time, whose work provided a link between the Beat generation and the 1960s counterculture and beyond."  "Crumb worked with Bukowski several times in the 1980s, illustrating two short books, 'Bring Me Your Love' and 'There's No Business', that were published by John Martin's Black Sparrow Press.  Around the same time, Crumb produced three writers' portraits - Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs - for a series of posters (and later t-shirts) entitled 'Meet the Beats,' published by Water Row press.  This portrait of Bukowski was reported to its previous owner as having b...

About this Item : Book has some rubbing spine top.  Bumping to edges. A bit loose in back. Interior is clean and tight.  DJ is good only with soiling, chipping, tape remnants and some closed tears.  Still bright with price intact. In fresh mylar. Signed by Sheila Greenwald on title page. Bibliographic Details Title:   A Metropolitan Love Story Publisher:   Doubleday, New York, New York, U.S.A. Publication Date:   1962 Binding:   Hardcover Condition:   Very Good Dust Jacket Condition:   Good Signed:   Signed by Author(s) Edition:   First Edition Store Description If you cannot find what you are looking for, please let me know and I will try and find your book for you.  My goal is to form a trusting customer base so I stake my reputation on as accurate as I can be descriptions, fast delivery and much research to ensure the price matches the quality of the book offered. For more info...