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Viking Press, 1946. Book Club Edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear and toning to boards and spine, mild toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG-: age toning, mild corner wear, NOT clipped.. 8vo 404pp. BCE. biography of French writer Honore de Balzac. from front flap: "He [Stefan Zweig] was a poet, a novelist, and a dramatist, but it was as a biographer that his full genius expressed itself. Besides Marie Antoinette, he has written biographies of Queen Mary of Scotland, Magellan, and Erasmus, and many short portraits." #03197.

Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

W.H. Allen. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1951. Hardback. Dust jacket is edgeworn with small areas of loss to corners and upper/lower spine, black ink marks to edges of front, price clipped; boards are clean, gilt titling faded and darkened, corners sharp; binding is tight except joint exposed between pp48.9; pages are unmarked aside from previous owner's ink signature on front endpaper, previous seller's bookplate on front pastedown. ; 5.25 x 1 x 8 inches; 191 pages .

New York: Viking, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. About Very good in good dust jacket. Some foxing on front free endpaper and on text edges/ cloth edges and corners bumped and rubbed/ jacket has large tear on front and spine/ fad.

First edition first printing of this collection of short crime stories. Some of the collected are: That Evenin' Sun Do Down by William Faulkner, The Chink and the Child by Thomas Burke, The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy, The Guilty Party by O. Henry. 21 stories in total. There is a 2 inch semi closed tear to the dustjacket's rear panel bottom edge. Price clipped otherwise in very good / good condition.

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. First Paperback edition. Original Wraps. Very Good+ in Wraps. First Paperback edition. Original Wraps. Underlining by Oliver Sacks. Dr. Sacks often made comments in the margins or had conversations with the author in the text. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so, he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Near fine. Glossy pictorial wrappers. 8vo. xvi, 472pp. Illus. (b/w). All underlining, emphasis, and notations are in the hand of Dr. Oliver Sacks.

New York: Viking Press, 1928. First Thus. 12mo (17.75cm.); publisher's cloth in light tan decorative dust jacket printed in brown and orange; [6],187pp.; frontispiece and decorations throughout. Jacket extremities gently rubbed, small chip at spine crown, spine a bit toned, else Near Fine in Very Good or better jacket. "A New York Theatre Guild Production" - upper jacket panel. A modern adaptation of Jonson's 17th-c. comedy; this version was later adapted for George Antheil's 1953 opera.

New York: Viking Press, 1931. First American Edition. First printing. 12mo. Yellow cloth, titled in maroon on spine with color pictorial vignette to front cover; dark green topstain; 121pp. Light soiling to cloth, else a straight, tight, Near Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.50 on front flap), lightly soiled but generally bright and unfaded, Very Good+. Zweig's controversial novella, originally published in the Viennese newspaper Neue Freie Presse in 1922. The story, filled with Freudian references, deals with the romantic obsession of an abortionist with one of his patients, leading finally to her death and his suicide – almost needless to say, this was hardly the drink of choice for Americans in the Great Depression; the print run must have been small and sales smaller still, as today the book is unexpectedly scarce in commerce, and rarely found in nice condition.