The Modern Library
The Rector of Justin
New York: The Modern Library, 2001. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. grey cloth. viii, 363 pp. Fine. With an afterword by the author. Louis Auchincloss has been celebrated as one of the best American novelists of our time. The Rector of Justin, originally published in 1964..... More
The Life of Samuel Johnson
New York: The Modern Library, 1952. Hardcover. 12mo. The Modern Library No. 282. Abridged, with an introduction by Bergen Evans. xv, 559 p.p. Red cloth boards with black spine label and black label to front board, gilt lettering. Top edge black. Spine ends and corners bumped and rubbed. Pictorial dust..... More
Go Down, Moses
Toronto: Random House, 1942. Hardcover. 12mo. The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, No.175. Orig. maroon cloth. 383 pp. Some very light rubbing to extremities, bumping to spine head, spine slightly tilted. Dust jacket worn and bumped at extremities, darkened at spine. Perforation to spine and rear cover, a...... More
Light in August
New York: The Modern Library, 1950. Hardcover. 12mo. Orig. grey cloth. xiv, 444 pp. Slight rubbing to edges. Light age toning to interior. Dust jacket is lightly edge worn. More
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
New York: The Modern Library, 1950. Hardcover. 12mo. The Modern Library No. 185. Green cloth with gold titling to spine, Modern Library device to front in blind. xvi, [20], 886 p.p., [2 p.p. ads]. Illustrated B&W headpieces and end piece. Light staining to spine, bumping to spine foot. Dust jacket..... More
The Purple Land
New York: The Modern Library. Hardcover. 12mo. [N.d., ca. 2926 or later per the date of the introduction.] Orig. green cloth. Classic Modern Library endpapers. Top edge black. xvi, 389 pp. Mild edge wear. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, bumped and lightly chipped to edges. Short tear to head..... More
The Wings of the Dove
New York: The Modern Library, 1937. Hardcover. 16mo. Modern Library No. 244. Full maroon cloth. xxx, 439 pp. Very light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Sporadic ink notation to text. Dust jacket is price clipped, lightly edge worn with a few chips, slightly age toned. More
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh 1901-1902
New York: The Modern Library, 2002. Soft cover. 8vo. Paperback. xxii, 601pp. About fine. "One of the Modern Library's Hundred Best Nonfiction Books of the 20th Century." More
John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete Poetical Works
London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd. Hardcover. 8vo. [n.d.] The Modern Library of the World's Best Books. [viii], 914 p.p. Half bound in teal calf, marbled paper boards. Spine is brown calf with a red spine label and gilt titling and dentelle tooling. Gilt tooled lines edging leather on..... More
The Stoic and Epicurean Philosophers: The Complete Extant Writings of Epicurus, Epictetus, Lucretius, Marcus Aurelius
New York: The Modern Library, 1957. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full blue cloth. xxvi, 627 pp. Front joint tender, inner hinge cracked at title page. Light staining to fore edge of text block. Sporadic marginalia. Ink ownership inscription to front pastedown, price stamp..... More
The Latin Poets
New York: The Modern Library, 1949. Hardcover. 8vo (small). The Best of the World's Best Books Series, no. 217. Green cloth, xxxi, 604pp. Boards lightly rubbed o/w near fine in a good clipped d/w, with a tear along upper left corner of front cover. English translations of the Latin poets..... More
Memento Mori: The Ballad of Peckham Rye
New York: The Modern Library, 1960. Hardcover. 12mo. Modern Library No. 373 pp. Orig. green cloth. 376 pp. Bumping to spine ends, else fine. Dust jacket bumped to extremities, a few light spots of foxing, small chip to spine head. More
Tortilla Flat
New York: The Modern Library, 1937. Gannett, Ruth. Hardcover. 12mo. Orig. red cloth, blue title labels to spine and front board. 317 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Spine sunned and bumped at ends. Pages are age toned. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. More
Gullivers Travels and Other Writings
New York: The Modern Library, 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. World's Best Books Series, No. 100. Green cloth, xix, 550pp. Some bruising on spine ends and corners, o/w very good in d/w. Jacket a bit faded and clipped at front inner flap. Includes some of Swift's other famous writings "including A tale..... More
Barchester Towers and the Warden
New York: The Modern Library, 1936. Hardcover. 12mo. [World's Best Books Series No. 41] xiv, 746 p.p. [7] p.p. ads. Tears to jacket edges, extremities with some scoring and wear to covers. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Small tear to tail of jacket spine and small chip at head..... More
The Plays of Oscar Wilde
New York: Modern Library. Hardcover. [ca. 1947] Grey cloth, iv, 220pp. Spine sunned with bruising at ends, cloth a bit faded o/w very good in d/w with loss at the spine ends but still v/g. Includes Wilde's best and well known plays: The Importance of Being Earnest, Salome, Lady Windermere's..... More