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Adventure

Shadows in the Moonlight

Robert E.

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Biography & Memoir

The Black Hawk War Including a Review of Black Hawk's Life

by Stevens, Frank Everett

Frank Everett Stevens's detailed history of the 1832 Black Hawk War, with an account of the Sauk leader Black Hawk's life.

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Adventure

A Martian Odyssey

by Stanley G. Weinbaum

Stanley G.

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Non-fiction

Through Finland in Carts

A lively Victorian travelogue journeying across Finland by horse and cart, observing its landscapes, customs, and people.

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Children's

The Story Girl

by L. M. Montgomery

L.M.

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Children

Child-Land: Picture-Pages for the Little Ones

A charming illustrated book for young children, gathering pictures and simple pages meant to delight the very youngest readers and those who read aloud to them.

$7.50

Essays

The Humbugs of the World

by P. T. Barnum

P.

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Adventure

The Dash for Khartoum

by G. A. Henty

A rousing Victorian adventure set against the Nile campaign in the Sudan, following young heroes into danger, duty, and the dust of desert warfare.

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Children's

The Goose Man

by Jakob Wassermann

A German novel of a musician torn between art, love and a stifling provincial world, tracing an artist's ambitions and failures with searching psychological depth.

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Classics

Imaginary Conversations and Poems

Walter Savage Landor's celebrated prose dialogues, in which historical and legendary figures meet across the centuries to argue, reflect, and confide, gathered here with a selectio

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Children

At the Back of the North Wind

by George MacDonald

George MacDonald's tender Victorian fantasy.

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Classics

The Republic of Plato

by Plato

Plato’s great dialogue on justice, education, power, and the shape of an ideal city remains one of the defining books of political thought.

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Biography & Memoir

The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2): or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadou

The first volume of a nineteenth-century study of the women who inspired the poets: portraits of the muses and beloveds celebrated in verse, from the age of the troubadours onward.

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Adventure

Wanderfoot

by Cynthia Stockley

A novel of restless hearts and far horizons, following characters whose lives are shaped by travel, longing, and the pull of distant places.

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Non-fiction

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests

A nineteenth-century traveller's account of Peru, journeying from the coast up into the sierra, across the Andes and on into the primeval forest, rich in observation of landscape,

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Adventure

The Aeneid of Virgil

by Virgil

Virgil’s epic of exile, destiny, war, and empire follows Aeneas from the ruins of Troy toward the founding myth of Rome.

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Crime

The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4

The concluding volume of G.

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Fiction

Woman: Her Sex and Love Life

An early twentieth-century work of frank sex education and advice about women's health and intimate life, written to dispel ignorance and shame at a time when such subjects were ra

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Children

Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen’s tales mingle enchantment, wit, sorrow, and moral sharpness in one of the great story collections for all ages.

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Children

Five Little Peppers at School

by Margaret Sidney

Another warm-hearted installment in Margaret Sidney's beloved Five Little Peppers series, following the lively Pepper children as they face the trials, friendships, and lessons of

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Classics

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

by Robert Burns

The complete lyric world of Scotland's national poet, from tender love songs to biting satire.

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Fiction

The Fifth Queen Crowned

by Ford, Ford Madox

The final volume of Ford Madox Ford's trilogy on Katharine Howard, following her rise and peril at the treacherous court of Henry VIII.

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History

The History of Trade Unionism:

Sidney and Beatrice Webb's pioneering history of the British trade union movement, tracing its rise from early combinations to organised labour.

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History

The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New Granada

Henry Charles Lea extends his monumental study of the Spanish Inquisition beyond Spain itself, tracing how the tribunal operated across Sicily, Naples, Sardinia, Milan, the Canarie

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Non-fiction

The Principles of English Versification

A scholarly study of the craft and theory of English verse, examining metre, rhythm, rhyme, and poetic form.

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Classics

Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov

A gathering of short stories by Anton Chekhov, master of the modern form.

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History

History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present : $b Moral and physical reasons for its performance, with

A wide-ranging nineteenth-century medical and cultural history of circumcision across peoples and eras, setting out the moral and physical arguments made for the practice through t

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Adventure

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

A collection of sensational true and traditional tales from the age of sail, gathering accounts of shipboard revolt, bloody crime, and piracy on the high seas.

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History

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations: Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Cen

A wide-ranging Victorian-era survey of Christmas across many centuries: its origins, customs, historical episodes, and the songs, feasts, and festivities that gathered around the m

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Non-fiction

The Ordinance of Covenanting

A work of Reformed theology examining the biblical practice of covenanting, the solemn binding of a people to God.

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History

The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War

A regimental history of the Second Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, in the South African War of 1899 to 1902: the marches, battles, and service of one Irish battalion through the

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Essays

Jewish Literature and Other Essays

A collection of essays surveying the richness of Jewish literary and cultural history, from the scholarly pen of Gustav Karpeles.

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Fiction

Shapes that Haunt the Dusk

A gathering of eerie and supernatural tales, where the ordinary world thins at the edges and something strange steps quietly through.

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Children

Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight

by Anonymous (Middle English Poet)

The great Middle English romance in which Sir Gawain accepts a mysterious stranger's deadly game, and rides out to keep a bargain that will test his courage, courtesy and truth to

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Adventure

Red Nails

Robert E.

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History

Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900

A military surgeon's firsthand account of wound treatment during the South African War, recording the injuries, methods and hard-won lessons of the battlefield.

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Fantasy

Changeling, and Other Stories

A collection of short fiction gathered under the title of its lead story, "Changeling." A set of tales to be discovered on their own terms by the curious reader.

$8.50

Fiction

The Prairie Mother

by Arthur Stringer

A woman's diary of marriage, motherhood and hard weather on the Canadian prairie, told with candour and dry humour as domestic strain tests a homesteading household.

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Fiction

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

by Herman Melville

Melville’s final novel turns a Mississippi steamboat into a shifting satire of trust, fraud, charity, and self-invention.

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Art & Design

Bookbinding, and the Care of Books

A classic, clear-eyed manual on the craft of binding books and keeping them well.

$8.50

Fiction

A Heart-Song of To-day

by Savigny, Annie G. (Annie Gregg)

A novel of the heart from an earlier era, by Annie Gregg Savigny.

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Fiction

An Old Man's Love

by Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope's last completed novel, a quiet, tender study of an ageing man's love for his young ward and the claims that youth and honour make on the heart.

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Classics

The Comedies of Terence: Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes

The six surviving comedies of Rome's most elegant playwright, rendered into plain English prose with helpful notes.

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Biography & Memoir

The Life of Trust

A stirring nineteenth-century narrative of faith put into practice, recounting a life and ministry sustained, its author held, entirely through prayer.

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History

Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 3 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India

The third volume of James Tod's monumental Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, his pioneering history of the Rajput states, their dynasties, traditions and antiquities in central

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Children

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

by Hesiod & Homer

The essential companion to Homer: Hesiod's poems of the gods and the farming year, the Homeric Hymns, and the surviving fragments of early Greek epic.

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Non-fiction

Impressions of South Africa

A traveller-observer's account of South Africa near the close of the nineteenth century, surveying its peoples, its politics and its landscape at a moment poised on the edge of gre

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Children

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy

A lively popular-science account of astronomy's wonders and the myths that have gathered around the heavens.

$7.50

Classics

The Satyricon — Complete

by Petronius Arbiter

Petronius's outrageous, fragmentary Roman satire of appetite and excess, following disreputable wanderers through a vivid, decadent world of the early empire.

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Biography & Memoir

The Story of My Life

A first-person memoir tracing the arc of a life from its beginnings onward.

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Biography & Memoir

Geoffrey de Mandeville

A classic study of Geoffrey de Mandeville and the anarchy of King Stephen's reign, using one turbulent baron's career to illuminate a chaotic chapter of medieval England.

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Biography & Memoir

Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters

An early family biography of Jane Austen, drawing on her surviving letters to trace the quiet life behind the novels and the woman who wrote them.

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Art & Design

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete

by Leonardo da Vinci

The gathered notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, a dazzling record of one of history's greatest minds at work.

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Classics

On the Nature of Things

by Lucretius Carus, Titus

Lucretius's magnificent philosophical poem, which sets out an atomist vision of a universe made of matter and void, aiming to free the mind from fear of the gods and of death.

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History

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido: For the Suppression of Piracy

A Victorian naval memoir of anti-piracy patrols along the Borneo coast, entwined with the extraordinary career of James Brooke, the English adventurer who became Rajah of Sarawak.

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History

Home Life in Colonial Days

by Alice Morse Earle

Alice Morse Earle's richly detailed portrait of everyday life in early America — the homes, food, work, and customs of colonial households.

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History

The Minority of Henry the Third

A scholarly history of the turbulent early years of King Henry III of England, when a boy king inherited a realm in crisis and others governed in his name during his minority.

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Non-fiction

The Sailor's Word-Book

A rich and comprehensive dictionary of nautical terms from the age of sail, gathering the vast working vocabulary of ships and seamen into one authoritative and endlessly browsable

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Historical Fiction

The Knights of the Cross, or, Krzyzacy: Historical Romance

Henryk Sienkiewicz's sweeping medieval epic of Poland and the Teutonic Knights, culminating in the clash of arms that would decide a kingdom's fate.

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