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Adventure
The Rover Boys on the Farm
A lively installment in the classic Rover Boys series of adventures for young readers.
$8.50

Fiction
Eloisa : $b or, A series of original letters
An epistolary work told through a series of letters, in the eighteenth-century tradition of the novel in correspondence, unfolding its story and sentiment through the exchange of w
$9.00

Crime
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie's very first novel, and the debut of Hercule Poirot.
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$9.50

Fiction
The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe's masterpiece of cold revenge, told by a narrator luring his victim into the catacombs by the promise of a rare wine.
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$9.50

Classics
One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories: Right Pleasaunte To Relate In All Goodly Companie By Way Of Joyance And Joll
A bawdy, high-spirited collection of Renaissance tales in the tradition of Boccaccio: a hundred short stories of wit, mischief, love, and folly, told for the pleasure of good compa
$9.50

Fiction
Minute Mysteries [Detectograms]
A collection of bite-sized detective puzzles, each a small crime laid out for the reader to solve in minutes — with the solution turning on a single telling detail.
$9.50

History
The Critical Period of American History
John Fiske's classic study of the turbulent years between American independence and the Constitution, when the young republic nearly came apart.
$9.00

Classics
Dubliners
James Joyce's incomparable collection of stories mapping the everyday lives of early-twentieth-century Dublin.
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Adventure
The Hero of the People
A sweeping romance of the French Revolution from the great Dumas, carrying its characters through the fever of Paris as an old regime falls and a new age is born in blood.
$9.00

Children
Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I
The opening book of Edmund Spenser's great Elizabethan epic, following the Red Cross Knight and the lady Una on a quest that is at once a thrilling romance and a rich allegory of h
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$8.50

History
The history of human marriage
Edward Westermarck's landmark study tracing the origins and development of marriage across human societies.
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$9.00

Fiction
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Dickens's tantalizing final novel, a tale of obsession and disappearance in a cathedral town, left forever unfinished by the author's death mid-story.
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$5.00

Biography & Memoir
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda's celebrated spiritual autobiography, a luminous account of a life devoted to yoga, meditation, and the search for God, and the book that introduced millions
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$9.00

Adventure
Blow The Man Down
Holman Day's brisk sea-and-shore adventure of a young man making his way in the hard world of shipping and coastal trade, full of salt air, rivalry and grit.
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$9.50

Adventure
The Treasure of Pearls
An adventure tale built around the lure of hidden riches, following the search for a fabled treasure of pearls.
$9.50

Non-fiction
The King James Version of the Bible
The King James Version of the Bible is the landmark 1611 English translation whose language, cadence, and imagery shaped centuries of literature, worship, and public speech.
$9.00

Fiction
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux's haunting gothic romance of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera and fixes his obsession on a young soprano.
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Children's
The Boy with Wings
Berta Ruck’s wartime novel blends romance, aviation, danger, and emotional resilience in a story shaped by flight and modern longing.
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Essays
The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
A king's own hand, unguarded and impatient: the surviving letters Henry VIII wrote to Anne Boleyn as desire, dynasty, and the fate of a church all began to gather around a single c
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Fiction
The String of Pearls
The original penny dreadful that gave the world Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, and Mrs Lovett's terrible pies.
$9.50

Adventure
The Car of Destiny
A romance of motoring and intrigue from the golden age of the automobile, when the open road promised adventure, mystery and love.
$9.50

Non-fiction
Simple Sabotage Field Manual
The declassified wartime guide produced by the American OSS, teaching ordinary citizens in occupied Europe how to obstruct the enemy through everyday slowness and mistakes.
$9.00

Adventure
The Yeoman Adventurer
A historical adventure novel of loyalty, intrigue, and derring-do set against the turbulence of eighteenth-century England.
$9.50

History
Superstition and Force: Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture
Henry Charles Lea's landmark study of medieval legal procedure, tracing how Europe sought truth through oaths, trial by combat, the ordeal, and torture.
$9.00

Fiction
The Passionate Elopement
Compton Mackenzie's elegant first novel, a witty and stylish period romance set in an eighteenth-century spa town.
$9.50

Classics
Manon Lescaut
The Abbé Prévost's famous tale of a young man's ruinous passion for the beautiful, faithless Manon.
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Business
Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs
A detailed early twentieth-century engineering handbook on building with concrete, setting out the practical methods, materials and economics of a material then transforming constr
$9.50

Adventure
Forest Days
A nineteenth-century historical romance of pursuit, loyalty, and danger unfolding through woodland England.
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Non-fiction
Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ
A collection of biographical accounts of Jewish people who converted to Christianity, gathering the lives and testimonies of many such figures from across the centuries in one devo
$9.00

Classics
Don Juan
The legendary seducer reimagined as the hero of a sprawling, satirical verse epic.
$8.50

Humor
The Comic English Grammar
A witty Victorian send-up of the dry grammar book, teaching the rules of English through humour, satire and comic example, so that the driest of subjects becomes an unexpected sour
$9.50

Non-fiction
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc
An illustrated study of American mushrooms — edible, poisonous and curious — combining careful description with the naturalist's delight in one of nature's strangest kingdoms.
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$9.00

Fiction
Linnet
A novel following its heroine, Linnet, through the fortunes of love and circumstance.
$9.50

History
The Philippine Islands
A wide-ranging account of the Philippine archipelago — its lands, peoples, and history.
$9.00

Adventure
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe’s enduring adventure classic follows Robinson Crusoe through shipwreck, solitude, labor, fear, and survival on a remote island.
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Classics
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare’s moonlit comedy mixes lovers, fairies, artisans, and theatrical mischief in one of the most durable plays of enchantment and confusion.
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Adventure
The Pirate: Andrew Lang Edition
A seafaring tale presented in an edition associated with Andrew Lang, the great Victorian anthologist and man of letters.
$9.50

Nature & Environment
The field and garden vegetables of America : $b containing full descriptions of nearly eleven hundred species and variet
A remarkably thorough nineteenth-century American reference describing nearly eleven hundred vegetable species and varieties: a gardener's and farmer's encyclopedia of what grew in
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Poetry
The Story of Genesis and Exodus
An early Middle English verse retelling of the opening books of the Bible, rendering the great stories of creation, the patriarchs, and the deliverance from Egypt in the poetry of
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Biography & Memoir
The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2): Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Ac
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, an old soldier of Cortés, recounts the conquest of Mexico as he lived it, this first volume opening one of history's great firsthand adventure narratives.
$9.00

Biography & Memoir
Emily Brontë
A biography of Emily Brontë, the fiercely private author of Wuthering Heights, seeking the life and inner world behind one of English literature's most singular and enigmatic imagi
$9.00

Adventure
Monte-Cristo's Daughter
A dramatic sequel to Dumas's beloved Count of Monte Cristo, carrying the saga of vengeance, fortune and destiny into a new generation.
$9.50

Classics
Plutarch's Morals
Plutarch's wide-ranging essays and dialogues on how to live, think, and govern oneself.
$8.00

Non-fiction
The Enchiridion
Epictetus's compact handbook of Stoic wisdom, distilled by his pupil Arrian.
$9.00

Fiction
The Romance of Lust
A notorious work of Victorian erotic fiction, published anonymously and long circulated underground.
$9.50

History
A Source Book for Ancient Church History
A curated collection of primary documents tracing the early Christian church from the apostolic age through the great councils.
$9.00

Fiction
What Will People Say? A Novel
A novel probing the pressures of reputation, appearance, and social judgment on the choices people make.
$9.50

Biography & Memoir
Rizal's own story of his life
The life of José Rizal, the Philippines' national hero, drawn largely from his own words: the memories, reflections and testimony of the writer and patriot whose ideas helped awake
$9.00

Crime
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
A retired industrialist is found stabbed in his study, and Hercule Poirot comes out of quiet seclusion to investigate, in the Agatha Christie novel routinely named one of the fines
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$9.50

History
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
A narrative portrait of the court, favourites and intrigues of Elizabeth I.
$9.00

Biography & Memoir
De Profundis
Oscar Wilde’s long prison letter turns suffering, memory, vanity, love, humiliation, and spiritual reckoning into one of the most searching autobiographical works in English.
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Biography & Memoir
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Harriet Jacobs's searing first-person account of enslavement, escape, and seven years hidden in a cramped attic.
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Biography & Memoir
A Pickle for the Knowing Ones
Timothy Dexter's gloriously eccentric self-published tract, famous for its erratic spelling and absent punctuation, which the author supplied by the page for readers to insert them
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$9.00

Essays
Southern Literature From 1579-1895
A wide-ranging anthology of writing from the American South across more than three centuries, gathering poetry, prose and historical documents to trace the literary voice of a regi
$9.00

Fiction
Robert Orange
A late-Victorian novel of society, conscience, and thwarted feeling by the writer known as John Oliver Hobbes.
$9.50

Crime
The Sign of the Four
The second Sherlock Holmes novel sends the great detective and Dr.
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$9.50

Children
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving's immortal tale of the gangling schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, the drowsy Dutch hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, and the terrifying midnight rider who haunts its glen.
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Biography & Memoir
Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812: For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical
The private letters of Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine trace one of history's most famous relationships from passionate ardor to estrangement, offering an intimate view of the empe
$8.00

Children
A Christmas Carol in Prose
Charles Dickens's timeless ghost story of a miser, three spirits, and one cold heart thawed in a single night.
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Adventure
That Girl Montana
A story of the American West and a spirited young heroine, set against frontier country where identity, belonging and the past all come into play.
$9.50