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190040348Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son 1900. Hardcover. Complete 20-volume set. Translation by George Burnham Ives. 8vo. Half brown calf with compartments and gilt letterng and decorations and tan decorated paper over boards. Various paginations. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece with captioned tissue guards full-page illustrations with captioned tissue guards decorative tan endpapers. Very good overall. Bit of occasional edgewear only. A tight quite handsome custom bound full set of the "Edition de Nohant" with colophon noting the limitation to 1000 numbered sets this #83 and this set printed for Charles N. Mann likely the Philadelphia antiquarian and book collector1840-1912. Though not so marked this set hails from the library of Adlai E. Stevenson III Illinois senator and before him the library of his father Adlai E. Stevenson II 1900-65 Illinois governor and twice presidential candidate -- whose wife Ellen Borden 1907-72 likely acquired it she being the family member who read and collected fine literature and poetry. Uncommon set nice condition unusual provenance. George Barrie & Son hardcover books
18453902Philadelphia: E. Ferrett & Co 1845. First American Edition of this translation the first book by Sand published in the United States translated by Elizabeth A. Ashurst and published in London in 1844. 16mo; drab paper over boards original brown cloth spine label with title on spine despite some wear to edges and some foxing this is a very good copy of this bookPublished in France in 1838 as Spiridion and described as a "mystical hotchpotch" the novel falls into the period when Sand was fascinated by various "isms" including Christian mysticism. . NUC lists only one location: LC. Scarce. E. Ferrett & Co unknown books
187414244New York: Scribner Armstrong & Co. 1874. 12mo. 2 xvi 17350 2 pp. <br><br>Publisher's "Bric-a-brac series" number 3. Volume edited by Richard Henry Stoddard. Includes "Twenty-five years of my life" by Alphonse de Lamartine and "Recollections" by George Sand. Translated by Lady Herbert. Publisher's white cloth stamped and decorated in black and gold. Spine sunned slightly cocked. Hinges inside starting and open signature separated. Soiling on back cover. Ex-library with bookplate rubber-stamps call number on spine in white charge pocket and date due slip at rear. Private owner's stamps including on title-page. Top and bottom of spine pulled with loss of cloth. Scribner, Armstrong, & Co. hardcover books
1890006382London: John C. Nimmo 1890. Limited Ediiton. Full Morocco. Very Good. Extra-illustrated with 20 additional engravings besides the 11 hand-colored plates by Commedia dell'Arte costume by Maurice Sand and seven Lalauze etchings. Two volumes. No. 604 of 780 copies. 8vo. 23.5 by 17.5 cm. xii 4 371 2 379 pp. Contemporary full green morocco binding with fairly elaborate gilt ruling pips floral devices. Condition: binding heavily rubbed along joints and spine extremities. A few small abrasions on boards. Light age toning to leaves which are otherwise clean. <br /><br /> John C. Nimmo books
1869294Paris: Michel Levy Freres 1869. Nouvelle Edition. Leather bound. Very good . Beautifully bound partial set in green half leather over black and green marbled paper boards. Gilt title on spine. Four raised bands. Rubbing to edges and bumped corners of paper boards on some volumes. Mauprat showing rubbing to spine. Blue marbled end papers. Previous owner's inscription and writing on some blank leaves. Binding is sturdy square and strong. Foxing and toning to pages. Each volume about 300 pp. Sextodecimo 4 1/2 x 7 inches tall. Text in French. Levy Sand's official publisher released this New Edition in the author's lifetime. Michel Levy Freres hardcover books
1871008609James R. Osgood and Company 1871. Book. Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in Decorative Cloth.First Edition Excellent Copy. James R. Osgood and Company Hardcover books
187369672Madison WI: Published by Order of the State 1873. original cloth lacking backstrips. 8vo. original cloth lacking backstrips. 6371; 7191 pages. Printed by Atwood & Culver 1873. An alphabetical list by author of more than 50000 titles in the Wisconsin State Historical Society Singerman 3321. Ex-library copy from the Mercantile Library Philadelphia with markings. Each volume lacks back strip some wear to extremities corners bumped. Volumes 1-2 complete and self-contained from A to Z 1873 but lacks Vols. 3-7 1873-1887 which were issued later as supplements. Published by Order of the State unknown books
1833046866Paris: Urbain Canel Adolphe Guyot 1833. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Scarce collection of 26 works of fiction by French women - contemporary quarter leather over marbled boards. Scattered foxing paper of mixed quality and some pages browned. Includes an early Sand "Une Vielle Histoire". 407pp; 429pp; 413pp; 491pp; 446pp; 403pp Size: Octavo 8vo. 6-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 046866. Urbain Canel, Adolphe Guyot hardcover books
