COLLECTED STORIES BOOKSTORE 12 daniel st. milford, ct.  203-874-0115

We carry a full line of leather bound books including books from Easton Press and Franklin Library.  

Washington, the Indispensable Man, James Flexner  $40.00

Paine, David Freeman Hawke, $35.00 sold

T. R. The Last Romantic, H. W. Brands  $35.00 sold

The Rector of Justin, Louis Aucheloss, signed $45.00

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, $35.00

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens, $35.00

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens, $35.00  SOLD

Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth, $30.00 sold

The Trial, Franz Kafka, $35.00

The Theodore Rooselvelt Treasury, $25.00  SOLD

The Affluent Society, John K. Galbraith (signed) $45.00sold

The First American, Benjamin Franklin, H. W. Brands $40.00

Old Creole Days, George Washington Cable  $30.00

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Francois Rabelais  $25.00

Madam Bovary, Gustav Flaubert  $25.00

The Sketch Book, Washington irving $30.00

The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand $150.00

We the Living, Ayn Rand $125.00

Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman  $30.00

The Complete Madison,  $25.00  sold

The Path Between the Seas, McCullough v.2 $15.00 sold

Selected Lives, Plutarch  $20.00

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, $35.00

Poems of Yeats,  $25.00

Rabit Run, John Updike  $25.00

Tristram Shandy  $25.00

John Adams, David McCullough  $45.00  SOLD

FOLIO SOCIETY

WE HAVE A SALE ON FOLIO SOCIETY BOOKS, including

Charles Dickens'

Dombey and Son

Oliver Twist

Martin Chuzzlewit

Barnaby Rudge

Hard Times

Price between $15 and $30.00.  

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

Illustrated by Boardman Robinson

Published, full leather, Heritage Press.  Signed by artist.  $450.00.  Some rubbing at top edge of Vol. 1.  Previous owner's bookplate in both volumes.  

Description:

Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 10") bound in full dark sheepskin with gilt lettering on the spines. Copy #725 of 1500 with color and black-and-white plates after paintings by Boardman Robinson and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. One of the most difficult books of the press to obtain in decent condition because of the tendency of the leather to dry. When copies are seen, usually the binding is so dry it is crumbling.A beautiful set in very-good condition. 

Godel, Escher, Bach

Douglas Hofstadter

5th printing

Signed by author

Jacket is sunned and slightly chipped; interior is very good.  $100.00

 Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Edgar Allan Poe  $600.

1st edition of Harry Clarke illustrated volume.  With rare dust-jacket.  

Description

Brentano's, New York. Large 4to, 412 (1)pp. Original gilt-decorated black cloth with label on front cover. One of 2500 copies, with 32 full-page illustrations (8 are color, tipped-in plates), plus numerous vignettes. First color-plate edition. Illustrated by Harry Clarke. Stories include "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and 25 additional stories. 

Not Waving but Drowning.  Stevie Smith.  1st Edition.  Near fine.  $100.00

SOLD

MUCKRAKING

A Paper City

D. R. Locke; Petroleum V. Nasby

Abraham Lincoln's favorite author, A Paper City is muckraking journalistic novel about a City wanting to be the next Chicago.  1879. Hardcover.  $20.00. HC  VG/VG

Origin of "Muckraking" comes from Theodore Roosevelt via Paul Bunyon's A Pilgrim Progress--

"... you may recall the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man who could look no way but downward with the muck-rake in his hands; Who was offered a celestial crown for his muck-rake, but who would neither look up nor regard the crown he was offered, but continued to rake to himself the filth of the floor.” While cautioning about possible pitfalls of keeping one's attention ever trained downward, "on the muck," Roosevelt emphasized the social benefit of investigative muckraking reporting.

King Coal

Upton Sinclair

$20.00

also

Oil

Upton Sinclair

$10.00 pb. 

Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens

1st Edition.

Ida M. Tarbell.  History of the Standard Oil Company.  2 volumes.  Reprint.