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This beautiful Modern Library, 1997 edition is in very good condition. Grey cloth boards with gilt lettering along the spine. Endpapers feature the Modern Library Torchbearer in a repeating diamond-lattice pattern. The pages are clean and unmarked throughout. This 1997 Modern Library edition of Jane Eyre was issued as a movie tie-in to the television adaptation of the novel, and includes a new introduction by novelist Diane Johnson. Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel remains one of the most enduring works of English literature, tracing orphaned governess Jane Eyre's journey toward independence, love, and self-respect in the face of hardship and moral testing.
A first printing softcover in very good condition. Light shelf wear is present around the edges and corners, with no creasing to the spine. Pages are unmarked throughout and the book appears unread. First printing thus, published by Penguin Popular Classics in 1994. The novel itself was first published in 1855. The Warden opens Anthony Trollope's six-volume Barsetshire series, introducing the Reverend Septimus Harding, warden of Hiram's Hospital, a charitable almshouse for elderly men. The book remains a foundational entry point into Trollope's wider body of work.
A beautiful softcover in very good condition. Light creasing around the edges. Pages are tight and clean throughout. The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope. Penguin Popular Classics, 1995. First printing of this edition. Book 5 of the Barsetshire Series, first serialised in the Cornhill Magazine in 1862 and written during Trollope's travels in North America. Other Trollope titles are available in our shop.
A hardcover Collector's Edition in fine condition. Richly decorated brown leatherette boards with gilt diamond lattice pattern, ornamental corner and centre pieces, and raised bands to the spine with gilt lettering. Gilt top edge to the text block. Pages are clean throughout. The Complete Poems of John Milton. The Harvard Classics, Collector's Edition. Grolier Enterprises Corp., Danbury, Connecticut, 1980. Edited with introductions and notes by Charles W. Eliot, LL.D., who served as president of Harvard University for forty years and compiled the celebrated fifty-volume Harvard Classics, with the conviction that careful reading of the series could provide a liberal education to anyone.
A softcover copy in very good condition. Light creasing around the edges. Pages are tight and unmarked throughout, appearing unread. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope. Wordsworth Editions, Ware, 1994. The sixth and final novel in the Barsetshire series, and by Trollope's own account in his Autobiography, the finest novel he ever wrote. With an introduction by Joanna Trollope. Other Trollope titles are available in our shop.
A softcover copy in very good condition. Light creasing around the edges. Pages are tight and unmarked throughout. The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope. Wordsworth Classics, 1996. The third novel in the Palliser series, following the widowed Lizzie Eustace whose insistence that a famous diamond necklace is rightfully hers draws lawyers, suitors, and thieves into a darkly comic legal dispute. With an introduction to the Palliser Novels by Joanna Trollope. Other titles from the Palliser series are available in our shop.