The Illustrated Age of Fable Bulfinch, Thomas [As New] [Hardcover]

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18mo. Beautifully rebound in navy blue buckram, with title in gilt on spine. T.e.g. viii, 251 p.p. [4] p.p. ads. b/w frontispiece with tissue guard. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar on front pastedown endpaper. Previous owner signature inscribed at head of... More

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For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity, Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths, and the age of chivalry have been More

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The introduction begins: "The literature of our time, as of all the centuries of Christendom, is full of allusions to the gods and goddesses of the Greeks and Romans. Occasionally, and, in modern days, more often, it contains allusions to the wors More

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Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of tales from myth and legend rewritten for a general readership by the American Latinist and banker Thomas Bulfinch, published after his death in 1867. The work was a successful popularization of Greek mythology... More

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Stated 26th printing, 1963 of the 1911 revised edition of a work first published in 1893. Charles Gayley has taken the landmark "Age of Fable" and fashioned a guide to ancient mythology, chiefly of Greece and Troy but also with elements of Norse and... More

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First edition in original decorated covers, xii, 265 pages and 60 colour plates after paintings by Fulleylove. In original decorated covers, fraying to head and tail of spine which is also a bit sunned, but binding sound. Pages are generally clean and... More

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Used Very Good Front and back covers have very light edge and corner wear. Spine intact with no creasing or warping. Binding is tight and intact, pages clean and unmarked. Firefly Bookstore sells items online and in our store front. We try to add... More

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Playing a significant role in fomenting the American Revolution, Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" appeared in 1775-1776 in pamphlet form. It is offered here in a little fancier Franklin Library edition, along with two additional of Paine's writings,... More

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Octavo. 210mm x 160mm. 224 pp. Green cloth with elaborate gilt stylings to front panel and spine. Touches of rubbing/edge wear, scuffing to corners but a handsome copy. Minor spotting to the first and last few pages with very occasional spotting to... More

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unpaginated (approx. 46 pages) consisting of fables and black and white illustrations by Lawrence. No separate title-page. Original red boards. dj. 31 cm. Jacket slightly scuffed and soiled. More

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First edition. Octavo. 82, [1]pp. Illustrated. Blue paper over boards with two applied printed paper labels. Faint spine toning and a little wear at the crown, very good or better. One of 15 copies on Imperial Japanese Vellum Signed by Slicer. More

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1948 First Edition, Hardback with Dust Jacket. Book is in very good condition, tanned edge paper. Dust Jacket good with small chips to edges, price unclipped. AMU5B25. More

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Octavo, 190pp. A crisp, clean copy, with a dull impression on the front board, barely visible, but worth noting. Fresh and unread; overall near fine. In a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with the same impression, and bearing the Newbery Honor Medal... More

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Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason. Being an Investigation of True and of Fabulous Theology. Part I. Boston: Thomas Hall, 1794. Possibly the first American edition. (See below.) A modernly hardcovered handsome copy of Paine's bestselling but highly... More