Collectibles:
Older Literature

PROSE LITERATURE includes some heavies, others once popular and almost forgotten. Also history. See also Poetry.

TYPES OF COLLECTIBLES

• Small Presses: limited editions, unique formats, early publications
• Poetry, an enduring tradition
• Old Technology (geek history)
• Older Literature
• Language books
• Showcase books
• Other

OLD LITERATURE. See also Poetry.

• Matthew Arnold. Discourses in America. (1894)
• Paul Blackburn, tr. Proensa. An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry. Arnaut Daniel, Bernard de Ventadour, Peire Vidal, Marcabru, Bertran de Born, Guillaume IX, Duke of Aquitaine, and more.
• Vicente Blasco-Ibañez. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea). A Novel.
• Britannica World Language edition of Funk & Wagnalls New Practical Standard Dictionary of the English Language.
• Pearl Buck. Pavilion of Women.
• Buddha. Sayings of Buddha. Wood-engravings by Boyd Hanna.
• Rev. Peter Bullions. An Analytical and Practical Grammar of the English Language, 1858.
• The Story Pocket Book. Selected by Whit Burnett, Editor of Story Magazine.
• William Burroughs. The Naked Lunch.
• George Gordon, Lord Byron. The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Complete in One Volume, collected and arranged with illustrative notes by Thomas Moore, Lord Jeffrey, Sir Walter Scott, Bishop Heber, Samuel Rogers, Professor Wilson, J.G. Lockhart, George Ellis, Thomas Campbell, Rev. H.H. Milman, etc., etc., etc.
• Rachel Carson. Silent Spring.
• Bennett Cerf. The Life of the Party, some drawings in red.
• Whittaker Chambers. Witness. (sic)
• G.K. Chesterton. Five Types. A Book of Essays.
• Kate Chopin. The Awakening and Selected Stories. Reprint.
• Agatha Christie. An Autobiography.
• Agatha Christie. Death in the Air.
• Agatha Christie. Miss Marple, The Complete Short Stories.
• Agatha Christie. Death in the Air.
• Winston Churchill. The Crisis.
• Winston Churchill. A Far Country.
• Cicero. Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny.
• Titus Munson Coan. Art and Literature. Topics of the Time. A Series of Representative Essays on Questions of the Day.
• Irvin Cobb. Irvin Cobb at His Best.
• Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Carlo Collodi. Pinocchio.
• Harry Crosby. Shadows of the Sun. The Diaries of Harry Crosby.
• The Psalms of David in Metre. (1855) Translated and diligently compared with the Original Text and Former Translations, more plain, smooth, and agreeable to the text than any heretofore
• Fielding Dawson. Backtalk. 200 printed.
• Charles Dickens. Christmas Stories and Master Humphrey's Clock.
• Pietro Di Donato. Christ in Concrete.
• Austin Dobson, ed. Eighteenth Century Essays.
• Theodore Dreiser. Fulfilment and Other Tales of Women and Men. Edited by T.D. Nostwich. li />Lawrence Durrell. Justine.
• Lawrence Durrell. Justine. A Novel.
• Howard Fast. Literature and Reality.
• Edna Ferber. Giant.
• William Freeman. Dictionary of Fictional Characters. Revised by Fred Urquhart.
• Isaac K. Funk. A Standard Dictionary of the English Language. on the Original Plans. Two volumes.
• Mohandas K. Gandhi. The Voice of Truth. Volume 6 of the Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. no ISBN
• Erle Stanley Gardner. The Case of the Cautious Coquette.
• John F. Genung. Handbook of Rhetorical Analysis. Studies in Style and Invention.
• Sue Grafton. N Is for Noose. 1st/1st
• Sue Grafton. N Is for Noose. Signed by author.
• Tim Graham. The Royal Year 1989.
• Tim Graham. The Royal Year 1991.
• Robert Graves. I, Claudius.
• Sir J.A. Hammerton. Outline of Great Books. Introduction by John Erskine. Comprising Two Hunred and Fifty of the World's Most Famous Works of History, Philosophy, Science, Religion, Poetry, Biography, Travel and Criticism Outlined in Their Authors' Own Words. With a Portrait Gallery of the Authors.
• Frank Harris. Contemporary Portraits, Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4. Little Blue Books Nos. 269, 270, 271, 272. Complete set of four.
• The Harvard Classics. P.F. Collier, 1909 De Luxe Edition, No. 790 of a limited edition.
• Nathaniel Hawthorne. Tales of the White Hills, and Sketches. No. 40 Riverside Literature Series.
• Olwen Hedley. The Queen's Silver Jubilee. (Elizabeth II)
• Joseph Heller. Good as Gold.
• Ernest Hemingway. The Dangerous Summer. Introduction by James A. Michener. B/w photos.
• Ernest Hemingway. The Green Hills of Africa.
• Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises.
• Ernest Hemingway. True at First Light. A Fictional Memoir.
• Katharine Hepburn. The Making of THE AFRICAN QUEEN. or, How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind
• Milton Hindus. Essays: Personal and Impersonal.
• Elbert Hubbard. Erasmus. Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers.
• Elbert Hubbard. The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard. Mottoes, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings and Preachments.
• Elbert Hubbard. Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard. Hundred-Point Men. Vol. X.
• Elbert Hubbard. The Story of the Steinways.
• Elbert Hubbard. Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book. Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use.
• W.H. Hudson. Green Mansions. A Romance of the Tropical Forest.
• W.H. Hudson. The Purple Land. No. 721 Armed Services Edition.
• Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington. Picasso. Creator and Destroyer. Signed by author.
• Thomas Hughes. Tom Brown's School Days. By an Old Boy.
• J.R. Hulbert. Dictionaries British and American.
• Washington Irving (as Diedrich Knickerbocker). A History of New-York. from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty…
• Washington Irving. Rip Van Winkle. And other American essays from The Sketch Book. No. 51 Riverside Literature Series.
• Italian for Opera Lovers.
• P.D. James. The Skull Beneath the Skin.
• Susan James. Foul Deeds.
• Mrs. Anna Jameson. Characteristics of Women. Moral, Poetical, and Historical.
• John Keats and Percy Shelley. Odes of Keats and Shelley.
• John Keats. Selected Poems of John Keats. No. R-2 Armed Services Edition.
• Robert Kelly. A Strange Market.
• Robert Kelly. The Time of Voice. Poems 1994-1996.
• Stephen King. Bag of Bones. A Haunted Love Story.
• Stephen King. The Colorado Kid.
• King René's Book of Love.
• Rudyard Kipling. Letters of Marque.
• Rudyard Kipling. Mine Own People.
• Milton Klonsky. Blake's Dante. The Complete Illustrations to the Divine Comedy.
• K.G.E. Konkel. The Glorious East Wind.
• Richard Kostelanetz. A Critical (Ninth) Assembling. (Precisely: 6789).
• Michael Lally. ¿Que Pasa Baby?
• Andrew Lang. Aucassin and Nicolete. Done into English by Andrew Lang.
• D.H. Lawrence. Pansies.
• Luis Leal. Mitos y Leyendas de México/Myths and Legends of Mexico. Paperbound.
• Luis Leal. Mitos y Leyendas de México/Myths and Legends of Mexico. Perfectbound signed.
• Luis Leal. Mitos y Leyendas de México/Myths and Legends of Mexico. Hardcover signed.
• John Lennon. In His Own Write.
• William Ellery Leonard. Beowulf.
• Sir Roger L'Estrange. Seneca's Morals, by Way of Abstract, to Which Is Added, a Discourse, Under the Title of an After-Thought.
• Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary.
• Sinclair Lewis. Babbitt. A Novel. No. K-24 Armed Services Edition.
• The Liberal.
• The Library Magazine. of Select Foreign Literature, Volume 3.
• Abraham Lincoln. Speeches and Addresses.
• E.V. Lucas. The Open Road. A Little Book for Wayfarers.
• Eli Luria. Travel Sketches, Arabian Nights Travel Adventure. Color cartoon sketches.
• T.B. Macaulay. Essay on Milton. No. 103 Riverside Literature Series.
• Thomas Babington Macaulay. The History of England. from the Accession of James the Second. (1849-1855) 3 vols.
• Thomas B. Macaulay. Lays of Ancient Rome. No. 45 Riverside Literature Series. Illustrated.
• Burns Mantle, Ed. The Best Plays of 1943-1944. No. T-25 Armed Services Edition.
• Mao Tse-Tung. Quotations from Chairman Mao. (the Little Red Book).
• Beryl Markham. West with the Night. The Illustrated Edition. Signed by the editor.
• Steve Martin. Shopgirl: A Novella. Paperback.
• Steve Martin. Shopgirl: A Novella. Hardcover.
• Margaret Matches. Savage Paradise.
• Bill Mauldin. The Brass Ring. A Sort of a Memoir.
• Bill Mauldin. Up Front.
• W. Somerset Maugham. Then and Now. A Novel.
• Michael McClure. The Surge.
• Mabel McIlvaine, ed. Reminiscences of Early Chicago.
• James A. Michener. Alaska.
• James A. Michener. Caravans. A Novel.
• James A. Michener. Caribbean.
• James A. Michener. Iberia, Spanish Travels and Reflections.
• James A. Michener. Return to Paradise.
• James A. Michener. Space. A Novel.
• John Milton. L'Allegro and Other Poems. No. 72 Riverside Literature Series.
• George Monteiro, ed. Jorge de Sena / Edith Sitwell Correspondence. Christopher Morley. Kitty Foyle.
• William Morris. The Tale of King Coustans the Emperor. Done out of the Ancient French into English. li />The Mothers Magazine. Vol. 11. Edited by Mrs. A.G. Whittelsey and Rev. D. Mead.
• Edward R. Murrow. Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer — Edward R. Murrow. See It Now, 4th Year, Show #18, January 4, 1955.
• Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The Bounty Trilogy. Comprising the Three Volumes Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, and Pitcairn's Island.
• Arch Oboler. Fourteen Radio Plays. with The Art of Radio Writing. Signed by Oboler.
• Arch Oboler. Ivory Tower and Other Radio Plays.
• Free World Theatre. Nineteen New Radio Plays. A Radio and Screen Writers Collaboration, with an Introduction by Thomas Mann. Edited by Arch Oboler and Stephen Longstreet.
• Takashi Ohta and Margaret Sperry. The Golden Wind. (vintage paperback)
• J. Olney, A.M. The National Preceptor: or, Selections in Prose and Poetry; consisting of narrative, descriptive, argumentative, didactic, pathetic, anbd humorous pieces; together with dialogues, addresses, orations, speeches, &c calculated to improve the scholar in reading and speaking; and to impress the minds of youth with sentiments of piety and virtue. Designed for the use of schools and academies.
• Charles Olson and Robert Creeley. Charles Olson and Robert Creeley. The Complete Correspondence. Volume 8. Edited by George F. Butterick.
• John Pierpont. Introduction to the National Reader. A Selection of Easy Lessons, designed to fill the same place in the common schools of the United States, that is held by Murray's Introduction, and the Compilations of Guy, Mylius, and Pinnock, in those of Great Britain.
• PB the Pocket Book Magazine. No. 1
• The Pocket Book of the War. Quincy Howe, Ed.
• Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug, The Purloined Letter and Other Tales. No. 120 Riverside Literature Series.
• The Popular Educator. No. 26. 764 Digests of the World's Great Books in 53 Weekly Issues. George M. Murray, ed.
• Paul Portugés. Aztec Birth. Inklings 2. The Turquoise Mockingbird of Light. Bilingual.
• Elvis Presley Album.
• Psychology for the Fighting Man. What You Should Know about Yourself and Others. A Fighting Forces Penguin Special.
• James Purdy. 63: Dream Palace. Selected Stories 1956-1987. Signed by the author, with a pen drawing by author.
• James Purdy. 63: Dream Palace. Selected Stories 1956-1987. Signed by the author
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The Yearling. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth.
• I.A. Richards. Science and Poetry.
• Margaret Rockwell. A Norman Rockwell Christmas.
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poems and Translations 1850-1870. Together with the prose story "Hand and Soul"
• Constance Rourke. Davy Crockett. A Biography. No. J-281 Armed Services Edition.
• J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Illustrated by Mary GrandPré.
• J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Illustrated by Mary GrandPré.
• Q. Curtii Rufi. Alexandri Magni (Alexander the Great) Regis Macedonum.
• William Saroyan. The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze.
• William Saroyan. 34 More Great Stories. Avon Modern Short Story Monthly, No. 12. "Some Day I'll Be a Millionaire."
• Saturday Review Reader. Articles of Enduring Interest Selected from the Saturday Review of Literature.
• Jorge de Sena. Sobre Esta Praia… Eight Meditations on the coast of the Pacific. Translation by Jonathan Griffin.
• Ernest Thompson Seton. Wild Animals I Have Known. Illustrated by the Author.
• Henryk Sienkiewicz. Quo Vadis.
• Upton Sinclair. The Jungle.
• Philip Orkney Skene. Die Geschichte des Kleinen Jack/The History of the Little Jack. adapted for teaching and learning the German language by means of a verbal translation on the principles of the Hamiltonian System, and an elementary grammar.
• Anthony Slide, ed. The Best of Rob Wagner's Script.
• Tee Loftin Snell. The Wild Shores. America's Beginnings.
• John Philip Sousa III. My Family Right or Wrong. No. 662 Armed Services Edition.
• Ben Stiller and Janeane GarofaloFeel This Book. An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction. Signed by both authors.
• Henry Sweet. Anglo-Saxon Primer, 1905.
• Booth Tarkington. Little Orvie. A Humorous Novel. No. 844 Armed Services Edition.
• William Makepeace Thackeray. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself.
• James Thurber. My World—And Welcome to It. No. S-5 Armed Services Edition.
• James Thurber. The Thurber Carnival.
• James Thurber. Thurber Country. The Classic Collection About Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species.
• Leo Tolstoy. Tales by Tolstoy. No. 1080 Armed Services Edition.
• Mark Twain. Life on the Mississippi. (early Bantam Book)
• An Uncensored Anthology. Peter Pauper Press.
  Slightly risqué poetry from Rudyard Kipling, Eugene Field, Earl H. Emmons, James Whitcomb Riley, Thomas Hardy.
• United States Magazine and Democratic Review. New Series. Volume XI.
• Frederick Wakeman. Shore Leave.
• Steve Wall and Harvey Arden. Wisdomkeepers. Meetings With Native American Spiritual Elders. White Deer of Autumn, editor.
• Lew Wallace. Ben Hur. A Tale of the Christ. Wallace Memorial Edition.
• The Warren Report. The Official Report on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
• Webster's Dictionary Unabridged. New Pictorial Edition (1847).
• H.G. Wells. The Outline of History Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, written with the advice and editorial help of Mr. Ernest Barker, Sir H.H. Johnston, Sir E. Ray Lankester, and Professor Gilbert Murray.
• Rebecca West. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. The Record of a Journey Through Yugoslavia in 1937 (two-volume set).
• Edith Wharton. Old New York. A complete matched set of four novellas: False Dawn (The 'Forties), The Old Maid (The 'Fifties), The Spark (The 'Sixties), New Year's Day (The 'Seventies).
• Wendell L. Willkie. One World.
• P.G. Wodehouse. Barmy in Wonderland.
• Cornell Woolrich. Nightwebs. Edited by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.
• J.E. Worcester. An Elementary Dictionary for Common Schools with Pronouncing Vocabularies of Classical, Scripture, and Modern Geographical Names.
• Herman Wouk. The Caine Mutiny, A Novel of World War II.
• Frank Lloyd Wright. An Autobiography.
• Johann David Wyss The Swiss Family Robinson. Illustrated by T.H. Robinson.
• Judy Young. The Dragon Hunts.
• Stefan Zweig. The Royal Game.

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WW II THIS WEEK

LEAD UP TO WAR
Days of Wrath. Malraux
E. Roosevelt. Murder in the Map Room.
E. Roosevelt. Murder in the Rose Garden.
E. Roosevelt. Murder and the First Lady.
E. Roosevelt. Murder in the West Wing.
Civilization on Trial. Toynbee

PACIFIC THEATER
The Making of The Jewel in the Crown.

EUROPEAN THEATER
Leon Uris. Mila 18.
The Last 100 Days. War in Europe.
Encyclopedia of German Tanks of WW II.
Russia at War 1941-45.
The Battle for Rome.
Bill Mauldin. Up Front.
Pocket Book of the War.
American Servicemen in Britain 1942.
Powstanie Warszawskie 1944. Warsaw Uprising
Psychology for the Fighting Man.

BACKGROUND
The Story Pocket Book.
The American Legion. 1919-1989.
4 Life Magazines 1944-1945

RADIO
Arch Oboler. 14 Radio Plays.
Arch Oboler. Ivory Tower and Other
Free World Theatre. 19 New Radio Plays. Oboler/Longstreet.
Radio's Best Plays
Cooke. Just Passing Through.
How to Write for Radio.

AFTERMATH
Michener. Return to Paradise.

ARMED SERVICE EDITIONS
Chesterton. The Man Who Was Thursday.
Isak Dinesen. 7 Gothic Tales.
Selected Poems of John Keats.
Sinclair Lewis. Babbitt.
John Philip Sousa III. My Family Right or Wrong.
Zweig. The Royal Game.

VIDEOS ABOUT BOOKS
Joy of Life
Luria Travel Sketches
Jewel in the Crown
Hungarian Art
New Yorker 50's cartoons
Who Is Bookaholic?
Bollinger Bands
French Lithography
Designing with Flowers
Jerry Hall's Tall Tales
Blake drawings/Dante

THIS MONTH: WWII COVERS

Days of Wrath, Malraux
Murder and the First Lady
Murder in the Map Room
Murder in the Rose Garden
Murder in the West Wing
Civilization on Trial, Toynbee
Making of The Jewel in the Crown
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
We Were There at the Battle for Bataan
Mila 18, Uris
The Last 100 Days. WWII in Europe, Toland
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
Encyclopedia of German Tanks of WWII
Russia at War 1941-45, Karpov
The Battle for Rome, Katz
Up Front, Bill Mauldin
Pocket Book of the War
American Servicemen in Britain
Powstanie Warszawskie 1944
WWII, James Jones
Navies of WWII
Psychology for Fighting Man
Story Pocket Book
The American Legion
Life Magazine. 4 issues 1944-1945
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, Skinner
Green Dolphin Street
14 Radio Plays, Arch Oboler
Ivory Tower and Other, Arch Oboler
Free World Theatre, Oboler/Longstreet
Radio's Best Plays, Joseph Liss/Norman Corwin
Just Passing Through, Dwight Cooke
Best of Rob Wagner's Script, Rob Wagner
How to Write for Radio
Crusade in Europe, Eisenhower
Return to Paradise, Michener
Murrow interviews Oppenheimer

ARMED SERVICE EDITIONS
The Man Who Was Thursday, Chesterton
Seven Gothic Tales, Isak Dinesen
Selected Poems of John Keats
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
My Family Right or Wrong, John Philip Sousa III
The Royal Game, Stefan Zweig