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18216505London: T. Boys 1821. Hardcover. Very Good. Nice little books with engraved titles. A three volume set bound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Bindings worn and dry. Contents very good. <br/><br/> London: T. Boys hardcover books
1897WRCLIT62082Boston: L.C. Page and Company 1897. Small octavo. Pictorial cloth by Amy Sacker t.e.g. others untrimmed. Frontis. First edition this being the special issue for Harvard so denoted on the spine and in the design on the upper board. Spine darkened cloth lightly soiled else a very good sound copy. Verse selected from undergraduate publications. L.C. Page and Company hardcover books
1897WRCLIT62081Boston: L.C. Page and Company 1897. Small octavo. Pictorial cloth by Amy Sacker t.e.g. others untrimmed. Frontis. Later impression of the first edition denoted the fourth thousand. Some darkening and light foxing to spine extremities and gutter of frontis short scrape at upper tip of lower board else a good sound copy. Verse selected from undergraduate publications. L.C. Page and Company hardcover books
1875WRCLIT68114New York: Henry Holt 1875. xvi24011pp. Small quarto 21 x 16cm. Contemporary full dark brown crushed morocco gilt extra a.e.g. A bit of rubbing to fore-tips and edges else very good or better. A somewhat curious large-paper rendering of this anthology with a pictorial title and sectional vignettes drawn by John A. Mitchell and engraved by Henry Marsh. Henry Holt unknown books
183548125Paris: Published by A. and W. Galignani and Co. 18 Rue Vivienne 1835. 1st edition. Contemporary brown half- leather with marbled boards. Gilt stamping to spine. Slight lean average wear. Later poi to t.p. top margin. Age-toning to paper. A VG copy. 4 331 1 blank pp. 12mo signed in 6s. <br/><br/>A mostly anonymous collection of stories 25 in number. Rare volume not found in the NUC and with OCLC showing only one institutional holding the British Library. Published by A. and W. Galignani and Co. 18, Rue Vivienne hardcover books
186843321New York: Beadle & Adams 98 William Street 1868. Ca. 1885 cf. Johannsen BEADLE I p. 401. Printed orange paper wrappers with the reverse dime cut Type II-D. Geneal wear & soiling with some paper loss to spine ends. Some light foxing. An About Very Good copy. 7 - 96 6 adverts = 96 pp. Woodcut vignette "All Hail! Our Queen of May" to front wrapper. 12mo. 6-1/4" x 4" <br/><br/> Beadle & Adams, 98 William Street unknown books
184235483Nashua: Published by David Marshall 1842. 1st edition American Imprints 42-1865. Publisher's brown vertically-ribbed cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & front board. Yellow eps. Wear to extremities with board showing at tips. Period pos & po book label to front paste-down. A VG copy. 10 2 13 - 391 3 blank pp. Errata tipped-in to p. 391. 7-3/4" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/> Published by David Marshall hardcover books
18855577London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. 1885. Boards. Very Good/Anthology of English poetry published for the gift trade in 1885 still the Victorian age. Indeed there is a gift inscription in ink: "Inspirations to the Celtic bard from a Saxon." Interesting to consider who among the poets represented is still well-known and who is forgotten. Charles Sedley Winthrop M. Praed Hartley Coleridge Yet Blake is there and all the Metaphysicals I thought their popularity came later. Two female poets are represented: Aphra Behn 1642-1689 and Anna L. Barbauld 1743-1825. The editor is not named. Octavo 17 cm; xiii 296 pages. Bound in faux vellum. Title in red on upper board and spine. Edges untrimmed. Binding mottled with age else fine. Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co. hardcover books
1881WRCLIT73707New Haven: Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor Printers 1881. 256pp. Bright blue cloth decorated in black lettered in rustic type in gilt. Spine ends a bit rubbed and spine a trace darkened offset to two pages from absent place marker but a very good copy with the booklabel of the Betts Collection at Yale and another related bookplate properly withdrawn and an early private bookplate. First edition. A substantial compilation though some of it anonymous. Authorship is noted when known but the compilers opted out of indexing same perhaps because their own identified contributions would have overwhelmed the index. [Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Printers] hardcover books
187641539New York: M. J. Ivers & Co. Publishers 1876. Ca late 1890s cf. Johannsen BEADLE I p. 397. Yellowish orange printed wrappers without the reverse dime cut. "Charles S. Pratt" label affixed over publisher info on front wrapper & t.p. Modest wear & soiling to wrappers. Text paper yellowing. A VG copy. 2 9 - 95 7 pp. Adverts last 7 pages. Woodcut vignette to front wrapper. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4-1/8" <br/><br/> M. J. Ivers & Co., Publishers unknown books
187941542New York: Beadle and Adams 98 William St 1879. 1st printing cf. Johannsen BEADLE I p. 401. Pale orange printed wrappers with the reverse dime cut. Series advert to rear wrapper lists through No. 24 with this title advertised as a "new book" on inner front wrapper. Modest wear & soiling to wrappers. Text paper yellowing. A solid VG copy. 2 9 - 92 10 = 96 pp. Adverts last 10 pages. Woodcut vignette to front wrapper. Text illustrated with cuts. 12mo. 6-5/16" x 4-1/16" <br/><br/> Beadle and Adams, 98 William St unknown books
188041543New York: M. J. Ivers & Co. Publishers 1880. Ca late 1890s cf. Johannsen BEADLE I p. 397. Yellowish orange printed wrappers without the reverse dime cut. Modest wear & soiling to wrappers. Text paper yellowing. A VG copy. 2 9 - 92 10 = 96 pp. Adverts last 10 pages. Woodcut vignette to front wrapper. 12mo. 6-3/8" x 4-1/16" <br/><br/> M. J. Ivers & Co., Publishers unknown books
186841482New York: M. J. Ivers & Co. Publishers 1868. Ca late 1890s cf. Johannsen BEADLE I p. 397. Yellowish orange printed wrappers without the reverse dime cut. Modest wear & soiling to wrappers. Text paper yellowing. Front wrapper adhereing to t.p. near gutter. Bits of last leaf adhereing to rear wrapper. Very Good. v - viii 9 - 84 16 = 96 pp. Adverts last 16 pages. Woodcut vignette to front wrapper. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/> M. J. Ivers & Co., Publishers unknown books
186841481New York: Beadle and Adams 98 William Street 1868. Ca late 1879 cf. Johannsen BEADLE I p. 405. Yellowish orange printed wrappers with the reverse dime cut. Wear & soiling to wrappers. Text paper yellowing with bookseller stamp to upper corner of t.p. Very Good. v - viii 9 - 95 5 = 96 pp. Adverts last 4 pages. Woodcut vignette of a young man orating from a stump to front wrapper. 12mo. 6-3/8" x 4" <br/><br/> Beadle and Adams, 98 William Street unknown books
189836799New York: M. J. Ivers & Co. Publishers 1898. Ca late 19th C / early 20th C. Orange printed wrappers. Some light wear to paper at spine ends. Bookstore stamp to front wrapper. A solid VG copy. 5 - 95 5 = 96 pp. Adverts last 4 pages. Woodcut vignette of a young man in a melodramatic pose to front wrapper. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4-1/8" <br/><br/> M. J. Ivers & Co., Publishers unknown books
187637173New York: M. J. Ivers & Co. Publishers 1876. Later printing. Stapled printed orange wrappers with woodcut vignette of man brandishing iron instrument. Chipping to foot of spine minor soiling to front wrapper toning small open tear to rear wrapper. Withall a solid VG copy. 2 9 - 95 8 pp of advertisements. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4" <br/><br/> M. J. Ivers & Co., Publishers unknown books
1892WRCLIT64282Chicago: A.C. McClurg 1892. Quarto. Cream cloth lettered in gilt. Two bookplates on pastedown white cloth moderately hand soiled else a good tight copy. Cloth case faded. First edition printing contributions of the moment "sentiments dedicated to little children" in autograph facsimile by Hardy James Kipling Jewett Howe Holmes Meredith Tchaikowsky political dignitaries et al. BAL 10901. A.C. McClurg hardcover books
189432059New York: Crowell 1894. Red cloth faded light wear. Ownership signature of Max L. Abramson a cousin of Leonore Gershwin who was a drama critic in the teens and became a friend of George Gershwin. With frequent annotations or marks of emphasis of intederminate authorship; two pages containing Hood's "Bridge of Sighs" removed. From lyricist Ira Gershwin's library with posthumous bookplate. <br/><br/> Crowell hardcover books
188427097NY: Scribners 1884. Reprint edition. 10 volumes. Some minor binding wear o/w a very good set bound in tan cloth stamped in brown. This seems to be a reprint set with volumes 3 7 8 dated with the original publication date of 1884 the other 7 volumes are dated 1891. Includes original stories by: Rebecca Harding Davis; Frank Stockton BAL 18879; Mary Putnam Jacobi; Harriet Prescott Spofford BAL 18481; Frances Hodgson Burnett BAL 2063; Celia Thaxter BAL 19890; Constance Fennimore Woolson BAL 23463; N. P. Willis; Henry James BAL 10567; Park Benjamin; Edward Bellamy BAL 955; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Thomas Nelson Page; T. A. Janvier etc. Scribners unknown books
188737425New York: M. J. Ivers & Co. Publishers 1887. Later edition ca late 1880s. Orange printed wrappers entitled BEADLE'S DIME DIALOGUES. Modest wear less than usually encountered. Unobtrusive spot to left side of front wrapper. Paper beginning to yellow as usual. A VG copy. v - viii 9 - 87 13 = 96 pp. Adverts last 13 pages. Woodcut vignette to front wrapper. 12mo. 6-3/8" x 4-3/16" <br/><br/> M. J. Ivers & Co., Publishers unknown books
188736798New York: M. J. Ivers & Co. Publishers 1887. Later edition ca late 19th C. Orange printed wrappers. Some light wear to paper at spine ends. Bookstore stamp to front wrapper. A solid VG copy. v - viii 9 - 92 8 = 96 pp. Adverts last 8 pages. Woodcut vignette of a young man in a melodramatic pose to front wrapper. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4" <br/><br/>A compilation of pieces by such luminaries as Daniel Webster John G. Whittier Wm. Cullen Bryant Hon John P. Kennedy Thos. Bailey Aldrich Judge Story George William Curtis James T. Fields & Thomas Carlyle. M. J. Ivers & Co., Publishers unknown books
187641544New York: Robert M. De Witt Publisher 1876. Early printing ca 1876. Original publisher's printed orange paper wrappers. Rear wrapper with series advert through No. 6 "Comic School Speaker". Wear chipping & soiling to wrappers with 1" paper loss at top of spine. Text paper yellowing. A VG copy. 90 6 pp. Adverts last 6 pages. Woodcut vignette to front wrapper. 12mo. 6-3/8" x 4-1/8" <br/><br/> Robert M. De Witt, Publisher unknown books
1882133668London: James Blackwood & Co. 1882. Octavo pp. i-v vi-vii viii 1 2-391 392 note: title leaf is a cancel inserted plates plus illustrations in the text original pictorial cream paper over boards printed in red blue and black top edge stained gray plain endpapers. First edition The authors of about half of the contributions are identified the most prolific being Cuthbert Bede and George Frederick Pardon the latter's short novel MAY FAIR running throughout. The list of six titles on the rear cover includes CRUIKSHANK AT HOME published by Blackwood in 1882 and one of only two of the advertised titles recorded in Topp. The current volume is not in Topp who perhaps considered it a periodical and intentionally omitted it. Not in Topp perhaps considered a periodical and intentionally omitted. Not in Wolff who probably would have bought a copy if he had found one for sale. Some general dust soiling to covers spine rubbed and a bit darkened upper spine end worn with shallow loss small chip from lower spine small stain to lower margin of frontispiece a very good internally nearly fine copy. OCLC reports 2 copies; none reported by COPAC. #133668 James Blackwood & Co. unknown books
1863119333London: Published at the Leisure Hour Office: The Religious Tract Society 1863. Octavo pp. 1-7 8-288 five illustrations original pebbled gray cloth spine titled and ruled in gold. First edition Perhaps a later printing circa 1880s of this collection of didactic adventure fiction probably intended for young readers. These stories were probably first published THE LEISURE HOUR an illustrated penny-weekly paper which featured moralistic self-improving serial novels most of them published anonymously. Includes "Tale of a Detective" pp. 102-131 a crime story set in 1845. All the stories are presented anonymously but "A Race for Life" is credited to the author of "Danesbury House" and "A Life Secret" i.e. "A Life's Secret" both works written by Ellen Price Wood Mrs. Henry Wood. A popular book reprinted many times into the early twentieth century. Thirteen stories in all. "The Power of Music" tells two stories one about Bach another about Gluck. Hubin 1994 p. 24. A tight clean very good copy. #119333 Published at the Leisure Hour Office: The Religious Tract Society unknown books
1896136508New York: New Amsterdam Book Company 1896. Octavo pp. 1-8 9-256 four inserted plates with illustrations by A. Burnham Shute original decorated mustard cloth front and spine panels stamped in black fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. A partial reprint of A STABLE FOR NIGHTMARES a British Christmas annual of fiction and poetry published in 1867 by Tinsley Brothers with additions and omissions. Collects eleven supernatural tales by American and British writers presented here anonymously. Includes "Dickon the Devil" by Le Fanu first appearance in a book and "What Was It" by Fitz-James O'Brien. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 13510. Bleiler 1978 p. 121. Reginald 13510. Mild dust soiling to cloth a very good copy. A better than average copy of this attractive book. #136508 New Amsterdam Book Company unknown books