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The Critique of Pure Reason

The Critique of Pure Reason

Immanuel Kant's revolutionary masterwork asks what the mind can truly know, redrawing the limits of reason and reshaping the course of Western philosophy.

$9.00

The Air Pirate

The Air Pirate

An early aviation adventure of daring, danger, and villainy in the skies, from the pioneering age of flight.

$9.00

Ancient States and Empires: For Colleges and Schools

Ancient States and Empires: For Colleges and Schools

A survey of the great civilisations of the ancient world, written for students.

$9.00

Catriona

Catriona

Robert Louis Stevenson continues David Balfour’s adventures through kidnapping, legal peril, divided loyalties, romance, and Jacobite intrigue with wit and momentum.

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Kidnapped

Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson's breathless Scottish adventure, in which a robbed orphan is flung into a Highland flight across moor and mountain after the Jacobite rising, bound to a dang

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The Governments of Europe

The Governments of Europe

A comprehensive survey of European political systems by Frederic Austin Ogg, describing the constitutions, institutions and everyday workings of the continent's governments.

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The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

The great medieval love story retold with grace and passion: a knight, a queen, a fatal potion, and a love that defies king, honour, and death itself, one of the founding legends o

$8.50

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle's classic retelling of the Robin Hood legend, gathering the greenwood's finest tales of daring, disguise and good cheer into one rousing, richly told adventure.

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River Legends

River Legends

A gathering of legends and tales bound to the world of rivers and their waters.

$8.50

Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

Mary Rowlandson's gripping first-person account of her capture during King Philip's War and her weeks among her Native captors.

$9.00

Love and Freindship [sic]

Love and Freindship [sic]

Jane Austen, barely a teenager, takes a scalpel to the sentimental novel.

$8.00

Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre

Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre

A gathering of the essays, poems and lectures of Voltairine de Cleyre, one of American anarchism's most eloquent voices.

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The Book of Ballads: Eleventh Edition, 1870

The Book of Ballads: Eleventh Edition, 1870

A Victorian gathering of ballads, drawing on the long tradition of narrative song and verse.

$8.50

Dainty's Cruel Rivals

Dainty's Cruel Rivals

A romantic melodrama in the popular tradition, its title promising jealousy, rivalry and a heroine beset by scheming enemies.

$9.50

The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete

The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete

The complete diary of Samuel Pepys, an incomparably vivid, gossipy and honest record of London in the 1660s, from plague and Great Fire to the small daily pleasures of an ambitious

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The Blue Lagoon

The Blue Lagoon

Henry De Vere Stacpoole's famous romance of two children shipwrecked on a Pacific island, who grow to adulthood in innocent isolation and discover love, nature and the pull of the

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Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding

Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding

Leibniz's chapter-by-chapter reply to Locke, cast as a philosophical dialogue on the origins and limits of knowledge.

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Moods

Moods

A nineteenth-century American novel of the inner life, tracing a young woman's shifting temperament as she navigates love, marriage, and the pull of conflicting affections.

$9.50

Apologia pro vita sua : $b being a history of his religious opinions

Apologia pro vita sua : $b being a history of his religious opinions

John Henry Newman's celebrated spiritual autobiography, tracing with candour and eloquence the long development of his religious opinions and his path toward Rome.

$9.00

I. Beowulf

I. Beowulf

The great Old English epic, sung in a mead-hall world of monsters, gold, and doom.

$8.50

Essays on the Latin Orient

Essays on the Latin Orient

A historian's studies of the Crusader and Latin states of the medieval eastern Mediterranean, examining the Frankish rulers, islands and principalities of a fascinating borderland.

$9.00

Space Station 1

Space Station 1

A work of science fiction whose title promises the drama of an orbiting outpost, where isolation, danger, and human ingenuity meet the challenges of space.

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Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion

Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion

A scholarly study tracing the threads between the customs, songs and superstitions of modern rural Greece and the beliefs of the ancient world.

$8.50

Pamphlets and Parodies on Political Subjects

Pamphlets and Parodies on Political Subjects

A collection of political pamphlets and parodies, using satire, wit and pointed argument to skewer the issues and figures of their day.

$8.50

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

A classic single-volume dictionary of the English language from the renowned Edinburgh house of Chambers.

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The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery

The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery

An entry in the popular early-twentieth-century series following a group of Camp Fire Girls as they turn detective.

$8.50

The Doré Bible Gallery, Complete: Containing One Hundred Superb Illustrations, and a Page of Explanatory Letter-press Fa

The Doré Bible Gallery, Complete: Containing One Hundred Superb Illustrations, and a Page of Explanatory Letter-press Fa

A complete gallery of Gustave Doré's magnificent Bible illustrations, one hundred dramatic engravings with explanatory text.

$9.00

Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship

Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship

A gathering of Victorian short fiction on the theme of courtship, in which love is pursued, tested and negotiated within the manners, hopes and constraints of nineteenth-century En

$9.50

Hypnerotomachia

Hypnerotomachia

A strange and sumptuous Renaissance dream-romance, in which a lover wanders through allegorical landscapes of ruins, gardens, and enigmatic architecture in pursuit of his beloved.

$8.50

Hungry Hearts

Hungry Hearts

Vivid stories of Jewish immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side, told with hunger, hope, and unsparing feeling.

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The Genealogy of Morals

The Genealogy of Morals

Nietzsche's fierce polemic tracing where our ideas of good and evil actually came from.

$9.00

Boys and Girls Bookshelf

Boys and Girls Bookshelf

A classic anthology gathering stories, poems, and readings chosen to delight and instruct young readers.

$8.50

Cynthia's Chauffeur

Cynthia's Chauffeur

A light romantic adventure from the early motoring age, in which a young woman's journey by automobile leads to entanglements of the heart.

$9.50

The Silent Barrier

The Silent Barrier

Louis Tracy’s alpine romance-thriller of chance encounter, concealed motive, social performance, and danger in the high Engadine.

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Twenty Years of Hus'ling

Twenty Years of Hus'ling

A brisk American memoir of enterprise and hard graft, recounting two decades of the itinerant salesman's life — the roads, the deals, the setbacks and the pluck that carried them t

$9.50

The Egyptian Book of the dead

The Egyptian Book of the dead

The ancient Egyptian funerary texts guiding the soul through the perils of the afterlife.

$8.50

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's celebrated sequence of love sonnets, among the most cherished in English.

$8.50

Manual of Military Training: Second, Revised Edition

Manual of Military Training: Second, Revised Edition

A comprehensive early twentieth-century handbook of soldiering, covering drill, tactics, equipment and the practical craft of military life.

$9.00

Biographia Literaria

Biographia Literaria

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's landmark of literary autobiography and criticism, blending the story of his intellectual life with profound reflections on poetry, imagination, and philos

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The innocence of Father Brown

The innocence of Father Brown

The first collection of G.K.

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I am a woman

I am a woman

A book announced by its title as a statement of self and identity.

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Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

A comprehensive official veterinary manual on the ailments of the horse, describing their causes, symptoms and treatment for a world that still depended on horsepower in the most l

$9.50

The Crack of Doom

The Crack of Doom

An early scientific romance in which knowledge itself becomes a weapon, and a fanatic threatens to unmake the world.

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Symposium

Symposium

A drinking party in ancient Athens becomes a contest of speeches in praise of love.

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The Crown of Wild Olive: also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici

The Crown of Wild Olive: also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici

A gathering of John Ruskin's lectures and essays on work, wealth, art, and honor.

$8.00

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

William Blake's twinned cycles showing the two contrary states of the human soul.

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History of the inductive sciences, from the earliest to the present time

History of the inductive sciences, from the earliest to the present time

William Whewell's landmark survey of how the natural sciences developed, tracing the growth of physics, astronomy, chemistry and more from antiquity to the nineteenth century as a

$9.00

Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone

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Doctor Cupid

Doctor Cupid

A romantic novel of the Victorian era, tracing the entanglements and misunderstandings of love among its characters.

$9.50

The Gay Adventure

The Gay Adventure

A light-hearted novel in the older sense of "gay" — bright, spirited, and comic.

$9.50

The Dunwich horror

The Dunwich horror

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Rambles of an archæologist among old books and in old places : $b Being papers on art, in relation to archæology, painti

Rambles of an archæologist among old books and in old places : $b Being papers on art, in relation to archæology, painti

A genial Victorian collection of papers on art, archaeology, and antiquity, wandering among old books and old places: essays on how art and everyday life illuminate the past.

$8.00

Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian

Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian

A biography of Susan B.

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The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus

The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus

Two masterworks of the Roman historian Tacitus: the Germania, an ethnography of the tribes beyond the Rhine, and the Agricola, a biography of his father-in-law and the conquest of

$9.00

On the Cross

On the Cross

A novel that carries the weight of its title into a story of faith, sacrifice and the reckonings people make when they believe something larger is watching.

$9.50

In the forbidden land : $b an account of a journey into Tibet, capture by the Tibetan lamas and soldiers, imprisonment

In the forbidden land : $b an account of a journey into Tibet, capture by the Tibetan lamas and soldiers, imprisonment

A gripping first-person account of a perilous journey into forbidden Tibet, ending in capture, imprisonment, and hardship at the hands of Tibetan authorities: a classic tale of exp

$9.00

Shakespeare's family

Shakespeare's family

A scholarly inquiry into the relations, ancestry and descendants of William Shakespeare, patiently sifting parish records, wills and documents to reconstruct the ordinary family th

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The Rover Boys on the Farm

The Rover Boys on the Farm

A lively installment in the classic Rover Boys series of adventures for young readers.

$8.50