Burnett, Frances Hodgson, Little Lord Fauntleroy (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1st ed., 1886; 1889 printing). Hardcover, quarto, 209 pp. with 16 pages of ads in the back. Classic Reginald Birch illustrations that kicked off a regrettable American craze for dressing boys like a Gainsborough painting. Grey-green cloth boards. Covers and spine faded with some staining, front hinge slightly separated. Brown endpapers. HBB
price: $175.
Eliot, T.S., Murder in the Cathedral (Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1st ed. 1935). Cloth boards; near-fine book with very good unclipped dust jacket. Octavo, 86 pp. Dramatization of the murder of Thomas a Becket in 1170. HBB price: $250.
Griffin, Kathy, Official Book Club Selection (Ballantine Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2009). ISBN 978-0-345-51851-4. As new, with unclipped dust jacket, autographed on title page. Hardcover, 357 pp. HBB price: $50.
Hemingway, Ernest, The Old Man and the Sea (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952, 1st. ed, 1st printing). Ex-library copy. Hardcover, octavo, 140 pp. Some foxing on the end papers; library stamps on front end papers. With unclipped dust jacket in mylar covering. No library tags on the spine. Blue-tinted author photo on back cover. Overall, very good condition. HBB price: $275.
Strunk, William Jr. and White, E. B., The Elements of Style (Macmillan, 1st ed., stated 1st printing, 1959). LOC 59-9950. Fine hardcover, very good unclipped dust jacket. Blue cloth boards, 71 pp. Some foxing of the endpapers. Scarce and highly collectible. HBB price: $395.00.
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