Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
The Works of William Shakespeare
Author: William ShakespeareDon Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Crock of Gold
Author: James StephensPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775459608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Pass a pleasant afternoon with this delightful collection of short stories. Simple but not simplistic, these diverting tales are rendered in exquisitely rich and often playful language that will have you lingering over sentences and highlighting your favorite passages so you can revisit them again and again. The Crock of Gold is the perfect blend of literary virtuosity and lighthearted fun.
Darwin's Journal
Author: Charles DarwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Natural History and Geology
Author: Charles DarwinPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781010328490
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Used and Rare
Author: Lawrence GoldstonePublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0312207492
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Journey into the world of book collecting with the Goldstones-rediscover the joy of reading, laugh, and fall in love with books all over again. The idea that books had stories associated with them that had nothing to do with the stories inside them was new to us. We had always valued the history, the world of ideas contained between the covers of a book or, as in the case of The Night Visitor, some special personal significance. Now, for the first time, we began to appreciate that there was a history and a world of ideas embodied by the books themselves. Part travel story, part love story, and part memoir, Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone's Used and Rare provides a delightful love letter to book lovers everywhere.
Paddington Abroad
Author: Michael BondPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007402570
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The Browns are going abroad, and Paddington considers a holiday in France is not to be taken lightly, So he packs a disguise outfit, his magic set and a map of France printed on a tea towel.
The War Between the United States and Mexico Illustrated
Author: George Wilkins KendallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The Birds of America
Author: John James AudubonPublisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This edition has 65 new images, making a total of 500. The original configurations were altered so that there is only one species per plate. The text is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's Synopsis of the Birds of North America (1839).
Old Books, Rare Friends
Author: Madeline B. SternPublisher: Main Street Books
ISBN: 0307874532
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Louisa May Alcott once wrote that she had taken her pen for a bridegroom. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, friends and business partners for fifty years, have in many ways taken up their pens and passion for literature much in the same way. The "Holmes & Watson" of the rare book business, Rostenberg and Stern are renowned for unlocking the hidden secret of Louisa May Alcott's life when they discovered her pseudonym, A.M. Barnard, along with her anonymously published "blood and thunder" stories on subjects like transvestitism, hashish smoking, and feminism. Old Books, Rare Friends describes their mutual passion for books and literary sleuthing as they take us on their earliest European book buying jaunts. Using what they call Finger-spitzengefühl, the art of evaluating antiquarian books by handling, experience, and instinct, we are treated to some of their greatest discoveries amid the mildewed basements of London's booksellers after the Blitz. We experience the thrill of finding one of the earliest known books printed in America between 1617-1619 by the Pilgrim Press and learn about the influential role of publisher-printers from the fifteenth century. Like a precious gem, Old Books, Rare Friends is a book to treasure about the companionship of two rare friends and their shared passion for old books.