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J. M. Dent, London & E. P. Dutton, NY, third edition, 1909. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

J. M. Dent, London & E. P. Dutton, NY, third edition, 1909. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York, New York USA: Tor Books/Tom Doherty Associates Inc, 2000. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Paperback in Very Good Condition. " As knights battle to the death, the fate of England hangs in the balance". An exciting, adventurous tale, of intrigue and love, alive with colorful characters. Ivanhoe allies himself with Richard I on Richard's return from the Crusades, when he finds Prince John attempting to have himself crowned king in Richards absence. A classic tale that has enthralled generations. Cover is clean and unmarked with a touch of edgewear and a tag on the lower spine. Pages also clean and unmarked. Tight glued binding. 551 pages. 6.75 x 4.2 inches. Tor Books, New York, 2000.

New York. 1995. April 1995. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Worn Wrappers. 0451526236. Movie edition. 485 pages. paperback. CE2623. Cover: United artists. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback Literature England 18th Century Adventure. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Rob Roy MacGregor is a romantic outlaw who comes alive in Sir Walter Scott's classic epic of the passions and struggles of the Scottish borderlands. Published in 1817, ROB ROY achieved immense success as a favorite among Scott's 'Waverley' books - works which established the historical novel as a literary form. In rich prose and vivid description, ROB ROY follows the adventures of a businessman's son, Frank Osbaldistone, who falls out of favor with his father and is sent to stay in Scotland. Innocent, English, and Protestant, Frank is intrigued by this wild and noble land. He finds himself drawn to the powerful, enigmatic figure of Rob Roy, who alongside his fiercely passionate wife,… Read More

International Collectors Library, Garden City, 1926. Very Good/Unknown. Octavo, hardcover, near fine in ornate maroon boards with gilt lettering and design. 281pp With selections from the journals, sermons & correspondence of Laurence Stern. Ribbon marker. One of the most influential works in 18th century English literature. "Yorick, in Tristram Shandy, was represented by an Englishman, descended from the Yorick of Shakespeare, 'a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. ' Sterne also used the pseudonym in his Sermons of Mr. Yorick, published in 1760, so that the authorship of this book was probably never in doubt. 'The lively, witty, sensitive and heedless parson, ' was, as Sir Walter Scott says, 'the well-known personification of Sterne himself. '

Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1981. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 298 pp, notes, Scott;s genealogy, 8vo, brown boards. Few words underlned, few vertical lines in margins, very good, no other defects; dust jacket priced, near fine.

MP3 Audio CD. The Lay of the Last Minstrel BREATHES 1 there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, ‘This is my own, my native land!’ Whose heart hath ne’er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand? O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e’er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand!…

MP3 Audio CD. Peer Gynt IBSEN'S "PEER GYNT" Oct. 7, 1892. A Masterpiece. "Peer Gynt takes its place, as we hold, on the summits of literature precisely because it means so much more than the poet consciously intended. Is not this one of the characteristics of the masterpiece, that everyone can read in it his own secret? In the material world (though Nature is very innocent of symbolic intention) each of us finds for himself the symbols that have relevance and value for him; and so it is with the poems that are instinct with true vitality." I was glad to come across the above passage in Messrs. William and Charles Archer's introduction to their new translation of Ibsen's Peer Gynt (London: Walter Scott), because I can now, with a clear conscience, thank the writers for their book, even though I fail to find some of the things they find in it. The play's the thing after all. Peer Gynt is a great poem: let us shake hands over that. It will remain a great poem when we have ceased… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Following The Betrothed,Sir Walter Scott's first novel depicting the Crusades,The Talisman is considered one of the greatest works of the famous English author.The second novel in the Tales of the Crusaders series,The Talisman depicts the end of the Third Crusade,with a truce having formed between the Crusaders and the armies of Sultan Saladin. Sir Kenneth is one of the main characters presented right from the start in the novel,as he parts for Syria,and is acquainted with a Saracen Emir,with whom he formed a friendly bond on his way towards visiting the hermit Theodoric of Engaddi ? for whom he had vital information to convey that had to reach the Pope.In the meantime,Richard the Lionheart had fallen ill with an attack of fever.This turn of events had put the entire Crusade in danger,and it was up to Sir Kenneth to deliver a physician who could help the King. Following this course of events,Sir Kenneth falls into disgrace and barely escapes with his life after having being entrusted… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Talisman CHAPTER I. They, too, retired To the wilderness, but 'twas with arms. PARADISE REGAINED. The burning sun of Syria had not yet attained its highest point in the horizon, when a knight of the Red Cross, who had left his distant northern home and joined the host of the Crusaders in Palestine, was pacing slowly along the sandy deserts which lie in the vicinity of the Dead Sea, or, as it is called, the Lake Asphaltites, where the waves of the Jordan pour themselves into an inland sea, from which there is no discharge of waters. The warlike pilgrim had toiled among cliffs and precipices during the earlier part of the morning. More lately, issuing from those rocky and dangerous defiles, he had entered upon that great plain, where the accursed cities provoked, in ancient days, the direct and dreadful vengeance of the Omnipotent. The toil, the thirst, the dangers of the way, were forgotten, as the traveller recalled the fearful catastrophe which had converted into an arid and… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Peer Gynt IBSEN'S "PEER GYNT" Oct. 7, 1892. A Masterpiece. "Peer Gynt takes its place, as we hold, on the summits of literature precisely because it means so much more than the poet consciously intended. Is not this one of the characteristics of the masterpiece, that everyone can read in it his own secret? In the material world (though Nature is very innocent of symbolic intention) each of us finds for himself the symbols that have relevance and value for him; and so it is with the poems that are instinct with true vitality." I was glad to come across the above passage in Messrs. William and Charles Archer's introduction to their new translation of Ibsen's Peer Gynt (London: Walter Scott), because I can now, with a clear conscience, thank the writers for their book, even though I fail to find some of the things they find in it. The play's the thing after all. Peer Gynt is a great poem: let us shake hands over that. It will remain a great poem when we have ceased… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Following The Betrothed,Sir Walter Scott's first novel depicting the Crusades,The Talisman is considered one of the greatest works of the famous English author.The second novel in the Tales of the Crusaders series,The Talisman depicts the end of the Third Crusade,with a truce having formed between the Crusaders and the armies of Sultan Saladin. Sir Kenneth is one of the main characters presented right from the start in the novel,as he parts for Syria,and is acquainted with a Saracen Emir,with whom he formed a friendly bond on his way towards visiting the hermit Theodoric of Engaddi ? for whom he had vital information to convey that had to reach the Pope.In the meantime,Richard the Lionheart had fallen ill with an attack of fever.This turn of events had put the entire Crusade in danger,and it was up to Sir Kenneth to deliver a physician who could help the King. Following this course of events,Sir Kenneth falls into disgrace and barely escapes with his life after having being entrusted… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Lay of the Last Minstrel BREATHES 1 there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, ‘This is my own, my native land!’ Whose heart hath ne’er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand? O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e’er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand!…

MP3 Audio CD. The Talisman CHAPTER I. They, too, retired To the wilderness, but 'twas with arms. PARADISE REGAINED. The burning sun of Syria had not yet attained its highest point in the horizon, when a knight of the Red Cross, who had left his distant northern home and joined the host of the Crusaders in Palestine, was pacing slowly along the sandy deserts which lie in the vicinity of the Dead Sea, or, as it is called, the Lake Asphaltites, where the waves of the Jordan pour themselves into an inland sea, from which there is no discharge of waters. The warlike pilgrim had toiled among cliffs and precipices during the earlier part of the morning. More lately, issuing from those rocky and dangerous defiles, he had entered upon that great plain, where the accursed cities provoked, in ancient days, the direct and dreadful vengeance of the Omnipotent. The toil, the thirst, the dangers of the way, were forgotten, as the traveller recalled the fearful catastrophe which had converted into an arid and… Read More

New York:: Clarkson Potter,, (1969). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (few spots on top edge of textblock) . First US printing. A book based on research into the Ballantyne family papers (the Ballantyne brothers served as Scott's copy editor, printer and literay agent, as well as being lifelong friends), which concludes that Lockhort's biography of Scott was incorrect and that Scott himself was responsible for his financial ruin. Frontispiece portrait and 8 pp of inserted illustrations. Bibliography, index. 290 pp.

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1912. Hardcover. A 1912 reprint of the 1906 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition presenting the life of Scotland's Sir Walter Scott. Written by Scott's son-in-law John Gibson Lockhart, the biography originally was published in seven volumes, from which Lockhart fashioned this abridgement. Per Donald Armstrong Ross, this work is "regarded as one of the great literary biographies." Includes a brief preface by Lockhart. Everyman's Library catalogue no. 39 in their "Biography" series, edited by Ernest Rhys (who has supplied a short introductory note). --- In 'flatback' binding style 1, full ribbed grey cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, brown topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page,… Read More

Historical novel. Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Edward Waverley, a young English gentleman joins the army just before the Jocobite uprising of 1745.er. On leave from army training, he visits friends of his family in Scotland, and finds himself in the midst of loyalists who support the return of the House of Stuart and the Stuart prince, known as Bonnie Prince Charlie. His honour is often challenged as others interfere to push him to the Stuart side, where he is in battle, and he meets two women with whom he falls in love in turn, until he chooses one. His gentlemanly actions gain him friends in this precarious situation, on both sides of the uprising, who stand him in good stead when he is at risk from his own government when the uprising is put down. This book has a text "Advertisement" in the front, then a General Preface, then an Appendix to General Preface, then an Infroduction to Waverley, then Preface to the Third Edition, then Chapter 1 of Waverly, at the end there is Notes to WaverlyFair… Read More

New York: Coward-McCann, 1932. Stated First Edition. Royal 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". Top of text block stained red. 384 pp. including index. Book is in as new condition, beautiful./Dust jacket is very good.. One expects fine things from John Buchan, but in Sir Walter Scott he has surpassed himself. As the London Times in a two-column review said: "The hour occasionally brings forth the book, and one of these fortunate occasions is that which sees Mr. John Buchan's long-matured study of Scott published in this year of his centenary. It would seem to be just the book needed to place Scott in his due proportions . . . he brings to his study just that trained historical imagination which by placing Scott accurately in his time and place shows us the real man in the comprehensiveness of his genius. From the delightful prelude which sets before us the physical and spiritual Edinburgh of 1771 down to the closing scenes of Scott's life, Mr. Buchan is always solicitous to fill in the background against which… Read More

New York, New York: George Routledge & Sons, 1831. Edge and corner wear; no dj; corners are bumped and rubbed; scuffed and scratched; pages are toning; shelf worn; former owner's name is in ink on the inner front cover; overall a nice used copy! No publishing date, but the introduction is dated 1831. Yellow decorated cloth with black and yellow lettering on the front board and spine. 423 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting 'her sister and her foe,' the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have approached the task with the same feelings; for the candid Robertson himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a historian avows, a poor romance-writer dares not… Read More

Chicago, IL: Jansen, McClurg, & Company. Very Good+. 1884. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 1st American Edition - volume 6 only. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is some black and gilt decoration to the spine of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate (LeRoy v. Brandt) on the front pastedown page. "Quite early in his career he began to distinguish himself as a lyric poet, with the three successive volumes of his Heather Blossoms (1845–54). The earliest of his historical romances was The Duchess of Finland, published in 1850. He was also editor-in-chief of the Helsingfors Tidningar from 1841 to 1860. In 1878, Topelius was allowed to withdraw from his professional duties, but this did not sever his connection with the… Read More