George Moore Intro (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardcover, no DJ. Covers show some edge wear. End paper has been removed. Pages are clean and unmarked, though tanned. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. The Modern Library of the World's Best Books. 1st thus (n.d. c.1921). 227pp. Limp brown leatherette with gilt series emblem to front cover and titles to spine, decorative endpapers. GOOD copy, spine a little rubbed, possible cigarette burn to front bottom edge where cover has worn and torn, internally very good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket. dj. First Edition. First Edition. Sound binding. Clean, tanned pages. Paper over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has general shelf wear, some edge wear,; Illustrated with erotic drawings, this is an English-language translation of the work of 2nd century AD Greek writer Longus, telling the story of Daphnis and Chloe, who find sensual love with each other after mishaps and adventure. 8.25" tall; 177 pages.…

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good+. Spine#1. GOOD+ Cond, ep torn a bit Black Cloth; 227pg pages; Limpbound. Leatherette covers.Brodzky end papers. Illustrated by Author Ilust Frontis (illustrator).

Flexible Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Modern Library #16. Green leatherette, Style 2 binding, Brodzky endpapers, list at rear mentions new titles for Fall of 1921. 227 pp. plus 11 pp. Mod. Lib. Pages clean, binding tight.

Soft cover. Condition: New. First Paperback Edition. Large format p/b. Pp xv,329. A mint, unread copy. Just a touch of shelfwear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Green leatherette covers, clean and bright, gilt text bright. Book is firm in binding, 227 pages + 5 pages of Complete List of (Modern Library) Titles. Woodcut illustrated endpapers by Horace Brodzky. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 227 pages. Illustrated by Horace Brodzky (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Blue boards with titles to the spine. Jacket is not price clipped. Clean pages.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Spine#1. VERY GOOD CONDITION Black Cloth, name ep "Paul E. Prowder. 1926__X" in distinctive hand. bit toning to endpapers.Top edge text block is dyed dark brown. Foredge & bottom are natural, or only litely tanned. ; Limpbound. Leatherette covers.endpapers show about 30 diagonal diamond shapes with 4 leaping "modern man" per page.Cover is dak brown leather with 1" golden leaping man logo, sands borders, etc. ***NOTE This does NOT state Boni, etc anywhere on or in book***.BOOK HAS NO DATE,ETC.Introduction is dated 1917.Book has no advert/booklist for others in series and nowhere is there any number (16.1) to be seen. ; 227pg pages. Illustrated by Author Ilust line sketch-drawing Frontis portrait (illustrator).…

Octavo hardcover (Near FINE); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Black cloth, front cover facsimile signature of Zola in gilt, paper title label mounted on upper spine, rough-cut text block edges. One volume in Boni & Liveright's edition of the works of Zola, each volume limited to 2,050 copies, with text from the 1895 Lutetian Society issue. Both covers show moisture spotting and dye lightening on lower fore-edges and toward bottom corners, slight warping to front board, otherwise minimal wear. Light gray dust jacket VG with tanned spine panel and folds, now in mylar. Spare title label mounted on rear fixed endsheet. xxiii,504 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. GEORGE MOORE: In 1886 Moore published Confessions of a Young Man, a lively and energetic memoir about his 20s spent in Paris and London among bohemian artists. It contains a substantial amount of literary criticism for which it has received a fair amount of praise, for instance The Modern Library chose it in 1917 to be included in the series as "one of the most significant documents of the passionate revolt of English literature against the Victorian tradition." BROWN LEATHERETTE, Spine #3, BL Logo of Monk at Desk on front, 109 Titles Listed at Back.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: In 1886 Moore published CONFESSIONS OF A YOUNG MAN, a lively and energetic memoir about his 20s spent in Paris and London among bohemian artists. It contains a substantial amount of literary criticism for which it has received a fair amount of praise, for instance The Modern Library chose it in 1917 to be included in the series as "one of the most significant documents of the passionate revolt of English literature against the Victorian tradition." BLUE LEATHERETTE, Spine #2, BL Logo on Front; 108 Titles listed at back; slight spine lean.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. 1st ed. Red hessian cover. 325+(2, pub's.philosophy book notices), top edge red; falls short of Fine due to thin live of rubbing to bottom spine, traces of dustiness to top edge and the faintest of suggestions of fading to top spine, otherwise covers clean and unworn and internally clean, tight & unmarked; unclipped jacket complete but spine darkened, spine corners chipped, brown spot on front title and front & back both faintly dusty and edge-browned (will add protective sleeve when ordered). Moore died in 1958 but managed to write a Preface to this collection of 11 major papers, including 2 hitherto unpublished. Very scarce.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. grey cloth, gilt lettering on green label to spine, 1328 pp Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Good in Good dust jacket. dj. Exlibrary marks. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean except for small areas of adhesive tape residue. DJ has closed tear and creasing at top front, overall shelf wear, label at lower spine. Author (1842-1916) was a member of the Rockbridge Artillery. Autobiography, Civil War history. Ex-Library; 8.75" tall; 331 pages. …

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894. First English Language Edition. Octavo (20cm); publisher's yellow pictorial cloth blocked in black from a design by Aubrey Beardsley; xx,191,[1],15pp. Cloth a bit dust-soiled and toned at margins, especially spine, corners bumped, textblock a bit brittle due to inferior paper quality, contemporary ex libris and bookseller ticket to front pastedown. Very Good, bright and sound overall. The first English language translation of Dostoevsky's first novel, originally published in Russian in 1846. The work is told through a series of letters between two impoverished distant cousins and is today deemed Russia's first "social novel." According to legend, Dostoevsky's friend Dmitri Grigorovich read the manuscript in one sitting, "then rushed out into the middle of the night to proclaim to the world the advent of a new Gogol" (Carol A. Flath, "Dostoevsky's Secrets" (2009), pp. 3, 13). …