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Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
The Kathleen V. Roberts Collection is the work of many years of collecting. It highlights the changing styles and aesthetics of decades of cloth-bound publishers' bindings, from their beginnings in the 1830s, to their gradual decline in favor of printed dust jackets in the early 20th century.
Don't know where to start? Curious about a particular designer? Try searching for "Margaret Armstrong" to list all bindings in the collection designed by her. Want to explore by era? Search "1880s" to see all bindings designed in that decade.
"We" / Charles A. Lindbergh
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A Child's History of England / Charles Dickens
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A Complete History of the Life and Trial of Charles Julius Guiteau, Assassin of President Garfield / H.G. and C.J. Hayes
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A Cousin's Conspiracy / Horatio Alger, Jr.
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A Dog of Flanders / Ouida (Louisa de la Rame)
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A Foregone Conclusion / W.D. Howells
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A Hole in the Wall / Louisa M. Alcott
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A Japanese Nightingale / Onoto Watanna
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A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath / James Lane Allen
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A Little Book of Tribune Verse: A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay / Eugene Field
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A Maid in Arcady / Ralph Henry Barbour
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A Pretty Tory / Jeanie Gould Lincoln
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A Rebellious Heroine / John Kendrick Bangs
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A Room of One's Own / Virginia Woolf
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A Spinner in the Sun / Myrtle Reed
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A Spinner in the Sun / Myrtle Reed
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A Spinner in the Sun /Myrtle Reed
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A Study in Human Nature / Lyman Abbott, D.D.
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A Voyage to Brobdingnag Made by Lemuel Gulliver in the Year MDCCII / Jonathan Swift
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A Weaver of Dreams / Myrtle Reed
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A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan / Gertrude Adams Fisher
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About England with Dickens / Alfred Rimmer
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Addresses / Phillips Brooks
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Aesop's Fables Illustrated by Ernest Griset / J.B. Rundell
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African Game Trails / Theodore Roosevelt
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African Game Trails / Theodore Roosevelt
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Aftermath /James Lane Allen
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Allusion & Imagery in the Book Art of Sarah Wyman Whitman Catalogue 2 / Adrienne Horowitz Kitts
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Allusion and Imagery in the Book Art of Sarah Wyman Whitman Catalogue 1 / Adrienne Horowitz Kitts
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An English Village: A New Edition of Wild Life in a Southern County / Richard Jefferies
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An Island Garden / Celia Thaxter
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An Island Garden / Celia Thaxter
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An Old-Fashioned Girl / Louisa M. Alcott
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Around Old Chester / Margaret Deland
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Ascutney Street: A Neighborhood Story / Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney
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Assalide: Dichtung aus der Zeit der provençalischen Troubadours / Julius Wolff
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At Sundown / John Greenleaf Whittier
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At the Back of the North Wind / George MacDonald
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Aunt Amity's Silver Wedding and Other Stories / Ruth McEnery Stuart
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Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, etc. / Louisa M. Alcott
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Baby's Kingdom / Annie F. Cox
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Before Adam / Jack London
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Birds Worth Knowing / Neltje Blanchan
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Black Rock: A Tale of the Selkirks / Ralph Connor
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Bracebridge Hall / Washington Irving
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Bracebridge Hall; Or, The Humorists, A Medley / Geoffrey Crayon
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Burlesques / William Makepeace Thackeray
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Candle-Lightin' Time / Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Celebrated American Indians / S.G. Goodrich
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Child Life in Prose / John Greenleaf Whittier
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Chosen Poems / Henry Van Dyke
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Christie's Christmas / Pansy
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Colette / Jeanne Schultz
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Companionable Books / Henry Van Dyke
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Country Stories / Mary Russell Mitford
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Cranford / Mrs. Gaskell
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Cranford / Mrs. Gaskell
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Curiosities of the Bible / Rev. J.H. Vincent
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Daisy Miller / Henry James
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Darkness and Daylight, Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's Pictorial Record of Gospel, Temperance, Mission, and Rescue Work "in His Name" ... / Helen Campbell, Thomas W. Knox, Thomas Byrnes
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Das Heideprinzesschen / E. Marlitt
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David Copperfield / Charles Dickens
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Days Off and Other Digressions / Henry Van Dyke
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Days Off and Other Digressions / Henry Van Dyke
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Days with Sir Roger de Coverley : A Reprint from "The Spectator"
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Denizens of the Deep / Frank T. Bullen
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Der Gute Ton in allen Lebenslagen / Franz Ebhardt
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Dick Duncan: Glen Morris Stories / Francis Forrester, Esq.
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Die Bergpsalmen / Joseph Victor von Scheffel
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Die Schwestern / Georg Ebers
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Dogtown: Being Some Chapters from the Annals of the Waddles Family, Set Down in the Language of Housepeople / Mabel Osgood Wright
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Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall / Charles Major
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Dream Days / Kenneth Grahame
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Dreams In Homespun / Sam Walter Foss
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Droll Stories Collected From the Abbeys of Touraine / Honoré De Balzac
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Eight cousins; Or, The Aunt-Hill / Louisa M. Alcott
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Einkehr und Umschau; Neueste Dichtungen / Friedrich Bodenstedt
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Elizabeth and Her German Garden / Elizabeth von Armin
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England / Frank Fox
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Ethics of the Dust / John Ruskin
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Evelina: Or, a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World / Fanny Burney
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Familiar London Painted by Rose Barton / Rose Barton
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature / John Bartlett
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Familiar Wild Flowers Figured and Described / F. Edward Hulme
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Famous Cathedrals As Seen and Described By Great Writers / Esther Singleton
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Famous Paintings as Seen and Described by Famous Writers / Esther Singleton
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Farm Ballads / Will Carleton
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Farm Ballads / Will Carleton
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Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things / Henry Van Dyke
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Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things / Henry Van Dyke
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Flammenzeichen / E. Werner
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Flora's Interpreter: Or, The American Book of Flowers and Sentiments / Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
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Flower Fables and Fancies / N. Hudson Moore
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Flower of the Dusk / Myrtle Reed
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Flower of the Dusk / Myrtle Reed
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Flowers From Sunlight and Shade: Poems / S.B. Skelding
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Flowers of the Field and Forest From Original Water-Color Drawings After Nature by Isaac Sprague / Reverend A.B. Hervey
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Forrest House / Mary J. Holmes
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Fox's Book of Martyrs
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Frau Wilhelmine: Der Familie Buchholz letzter Theil / Julius Stinde
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Fred Markham in Russia / W.H.G. Kingston
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Free to Serve / E. Rayner
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Gems from the English Poets, Chaucer to Tennyson
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Gesammelte Gedichte / Gottfried Keller
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Great Pictures As Seen and Described By Famous Writers / Esther Singleton
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Guy Carlton: Glen Morris Stories / Francis Forrester, Esq.
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Half-Hours with the Best Authors / Charles Knight
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Hamilton's Complete Catechism of Counterpoint, Melody, and Composition / James Alexander Hamilton
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Herrick's Flower Poems with Coloured Plates / Robert Herrick
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Hidden Beauties / Harvey A. Fuller
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Historic Landmarks of America As Seen and Described by Famous Writers / Esther Singleton
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Historic Towns of New England / Lyman P. Powell
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History of Providence as Manifested in Scripture / Alexander Carson
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Holland As Seen and Described by Famous Writers / Esther Singleton
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Hood's Humorous Poems / Thomas Hood
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Household Stories from the Collection of the Bros. Grimm
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Hymns of The Ages: Second Series
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Im Schmiedefeuer: Roman aus dem alten Nurnberg / Georg Ebers
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In Arcady / Hamilton Wright Mabie
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In His Steps. "What Would Jesus Do?" / Charles M. Sheldon
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In a Nutshell: Suggestions to American College Students / Dio Lewis
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In an Old Hawaiian Garden: An Album of Hawaii's flowers / Don Blanding
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In the Bishop's Carriage / Miriam Michelson
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In the Forbidden Land / A. Henry Savage Landor
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In the Heart of Africa / Sir Samuel W. Baker
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Insect Life: Souvenirs of a Naturalist / Jean-Henri Fabre
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Japanese Art /Sadakichi Hartmann
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John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetical Works / John Greenleaf Whittier
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Joyzelle and Monna Vanna / Maurice Maeterlinck
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Kim / Rudyard Kipling
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King's Handbook of Boston Harbor / M.F. Sweetser
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Kokoro / Lafcadio Hearn
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Kämpfende Herzen: Drei Erzahlungen / Felix Dahn
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Lady Baltimore / Owen Wister
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Later Love Letters of a Musician / Myrtle Reed
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Later Love Letters of a Musician / Myrtle Reed
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Lavender and Old Lace / Myrtle Reed
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Lavender and Old Lace / Myrtle Reed
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Literary By-Paths in Old England / Henry C. Shelley
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Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys / Louisa M. Alcott
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Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys / Louisa M. Alcott
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Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness / Henry Van Dyke
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Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness / Henry Van Dyke
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Little Women / Louisa M. Alcott
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Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. Part First / Louisa M. Alcott
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Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. Part Second / Louisa M. Alcott
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Ljóðmæli / Kristján Jónsson
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Locusts and Wild Honey / John Burroughs
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Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor / R.D. Blackmore
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Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor / R.D. Blackmore
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Love Finds The Way / Paul Leicester Ford
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Lucile / Owen Meredith
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Lucile / Owen Meredith
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Lucille / Owen Meredith
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Mabel Martin: A Harvest Idyl / John Greenleaf Whittier
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Madame Butterfly / John Luther Long
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Major and Minor / W.E. Norris
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Mark Twain's Sketches; New and Old / Samuel L. Clemens
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Mary Magdalene, A Play in Three Acts / Maurice Maeterlinck
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Master of the Vineyard / Myrtle Reed
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Master of the Vineyard / Myrtle Reed
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Maurine and Other Poems / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Maurine and Other Poems / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Maurine and Other Poems / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Meine Ruh / Carmen Sylva
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Memoir of Sarah B. Judson of the American Mission to Burmah / Emily Chubbuck Judson
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Miss Bellard's Inspiration / W.D. Howells
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Modern Painters / John Ruskin
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Modern Priscilla Home Furnishing Book: A Practical Book for the Woman Who Loves Her Home
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Modes and Manners / Max von Boehn
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Monday or Tuesday; With Woodcuts by Vanessa Bell / Virginia Woolf
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Mr. Munchausen: Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures Beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder / John Kendrick Bangs
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Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures / Douglas Jerrold
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My Lady of the Fog / Ralph Henry Barbour
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My Study Fire / Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Nelly and Her Friends / Josephine Franklin
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Nelly's Boat / Josephine Franklin
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Odd People / Captain Mayne Reid
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Old Christmas / Washington Irving
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Old Rose and Silver / Myrtle Reed
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Old Rose and Silver / Myrtle Reed
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Old Time Gardens: A Book of the Sweet o' the Year / Alice Morse Earle
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On Newfound River / Thomas Nelson Page
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Otto der Schütz / Gottfried Kinkel
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Our Album of Authors: A Cyclopedia of Popular Literary People / Frank M'Alpine
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Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them: A Popular Study of Their Habits and Their Peculiarities / Harriet L. Keeler
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Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them; A Popular Study of Their Habits and Their Peculiarities / Harriet L. Keeler
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Our Northern and Eastern Birds / Edward A. Samuels
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Out of Bondage and Other Stories / Rowland E. Robinson
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Out-Of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit / Henry Van Dyke
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Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land / Henry Van Dyke
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Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit / Henry Van Dyke
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books / John Milton
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Passivity Program / Christopher Morley
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Paved with Gold or, The Romance and Reality of the London Streets / Augustus Mayhew
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Peg Woffington / Charles Reade
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Pepacton / John Burroughs
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Pestre Cesty Po Echach / Svatopluk Cech
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Peter the Whaler / William H.G. Kingston
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