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18972222111<p>First American edition. Octavo. Original pictorial brown cloth with design in white black and gold of dagger and envelope. Binding designed by George Wharton Edwards. No dust jacket. Very good. 331 pages. No signatures.</p><p>Heraldic bookplate of H. B. Nason.</p><p>Printed by John Wilson and Son Cambridge Massachusetts.</p><p>Sadlier 1720.</p><p>Wolff 4765.</p> Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books
18992222124<p>First edition. Octavo. Original tan pictorial cloth with figure of man dressed in red black white and brown holding his hat and stick. No dust jacket. No foxing. Very good slight lean. 407 pages 4 pages of ads. No signatures or bookplates.</p> Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
19002222072<p>Early printing. Octavo. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Charles Dickens with facsimile signature by A. V. S. Anthony; 24 b/w illustrations in text. Original red cloth t.e.g. No dust jacket. A fine fresh tight copy. 573 pages. No signatures.</p><p>From the library of noted "Gone With The Wind" Hollywood director George Cukor with his Paul Landacre Bookplate on the front pastedown.</p><p>Cukor directed the 1935 film "David Copperfield" with screenplay by Hugh Walpole and W. C. Fields in his first dramatic role.</p> Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover books
18412222159<p>Early edition. 4 3/4" x 2 3/4". Full contemporary black calf. Two page preface by Henry Hobbs Samuel Beede William Burr. 1832 copyright by David Marks. Very good. 608 pages.</p><p>Printed by The Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry.</p><p>Includes: Table of First Lines. Index of subjects.</p> The Trustees of the Free-Will Baptist Connection hardcover books
18632222007<p>Octavo. Edited by "Peter Parley." Pictorial title page. Two page preface. 8 engravings. Original green cloth stamped in gilt and blind one signature loose. No dust jacket. Very good. 312 pages.</p><p>First published in New York in 1855. The 8 engravings show unusual "aerial views."</p><p>Old signatures on front free endpaper.</p> Sheldon & Company hardcover books
18796808First edition. Small 8vo. 6 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. 270 pages 6 pages advertisements. Original brown pictorial cloth spine and upper cover stamped gilt and black top edge stained brown blue floral patterned endpapers wear to top and bottom of spine lacking blank leaf at end of advertisements. Good-very good. BAL #18874: first state with signature mark 1 on page 1 and "Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's Earlier Stories" advertised on page 271. Three line rubberstamp of Northville Michigan bookseller on the half title page. F. Hardcover. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
19002222190<p>Octavo. Prospectus for this publication printed in red and black 16 pages including covers. Very good. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Also includes information and an order form for other books published by Seymour.</p> The Fine Arts Building paperback books
18952222051<p>First edition. Small octavo. Illustrated with 12 sepia vignettes by Auguste Donnay. Original tan pictorial wrappers wallet edges chips; cover taped at fold. With contributions by Gide Emile Verharen Henri de Regnier Robert de Souza Andre Fontainas Gustave Kahn and others. Good. 97 pages.</p><p>Printed by Charles Renaudie.</p> Mercure de France, paperback books
19005911<p>WITH ORIGINAL ROYCROFT BOX FIRST EDITION THUS FINE FRESH COPY.</p> Roycroft Press hardcover books
19002222223<p>First edition. Octavo. B/W frontispiece by Thomas Fogarty 5 full page plates by Fogarty W. D. Stevens and 14 vignettes in the text. Original tan pictorial cloth with design in red green black and white of woman on fire escape hanging laundry signed S.; t.e.g. No dust jacket. Very good spine a bit faded. 254 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed by author to his brother Charles: "This book may remind you od some places we visited together in New York. Your brother Robert Shackleton. April 25 1900."</p><p>Wright III 4876.</p><p>Author's first book. Born 1860 died 1923.</p> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
18712221802<p>First edition second issue. Octavo. Original maroon cloth stamped in gilt spine faded and ends frayed. 11 text illustrations. No dust jacket. Very good. 47 pages 1 page ads for Ball Black and Co. on verso of title.</p><p>Pictorial and armorial bookplates of Justin Turner and Herbert Claiborne Pell.</p><p>BAL 3326.</p> Sheldon & Company hardcover books
18802222058<p>8" x 9 3/4". "Chas. Warren Stoddard" 616 Harrison St. San Francisco July 8 1880 to Anna H. Brewster at Palazza Maldura Roma Italy. Stoddard vouches for his friend Will Stewart of The New York Graphic "and more recently of the dramatic profession" who is visiting Rome. 2 pages address panel on bifold leaf. Very good.</p><p>Brewster 1818-1892 had a close relationship with Charlotte Cushman. She was one of America's first female correspondents.</p><p>Stoddard 1843–1909 was an American author and editor best known for his travel books about Polynesian life.</p> unknown books
1836223262<p>First edition. Octavo. Frontispiece lithographed portrait of Lali in a pensive pose. Contemporary 3/4 tan calf over marbled boards. Stains to upper cover frontispiece and some text pages. Good. 127 pages. No foxing. No signatures or bookplates.</p> A.J. Valpy hardcover books
18484463<p>First edition. Small octavo. Original glazed yellow boards spine a bit worn. With half title page. Good a little foxing. 27 pages. No signatures or bookplates. BAL 13069.</p> NICHOLS hardcover books
18402221861<p>First edition issue "B" with one page lithographed frontispiece with college view by Bufford engraved by E. Ruggles. Original blindstamped brown cloth with gold stamped rose in center plain edges; yellow endpapers. Faint signature pencil of an early owner John Brown Dec. 3 1842. No bookplates. 5 page preface. Very good some light foxing to frontispiece and title page; minor rubbing to corners and head of spine; no foxing to text. 188 pages. Uncommon.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Front joint has partial crack and appears to have been glued down.</b></p><p><b>BAL vol. 3 page 592. Four contributions by Longfellow.</b></p><br /> Joseph Griffin hardcover books
18872221845<p>EARLY SPRING VOICES</p><p>"John Burroughs" West Park New York February 21 1887 1 page 7 3/4" x 4 3/4". Very good traces of mounting on verso.</p><p>To Perry Mason & Co.: "I hand you herewith a paper on 'Early Spring Voices' as one of the three which you have asked me to write for The Companion. If it is not what you want - sent it back with as little delay as possible. If it will do send check as per agreement. The others I will write sometime during the coming season."</p><p>Burroughs 1837-1921 American author and naturalist; popular nature volumes include "Wake Robin" 1871 "Birds and Poets" 1877 etc.; he was influenced by Emerson and Thoreau and was a friend of Walt Whitman.</p><p>Perry Mason & Co. Boston publisher's of "The Youth's Companion."</p><p>Probably an essay relating to birds.</p> unknown books
18522221594<p>First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with 22 steel engravings and chromolithographed pictorial title pages by D. Mc Lellan and T. Sinclair. Publisher's elaborately gilt stamped purple morocco with gilt vignettes of Christ rising the dead Noah's Ark child with lion and lamb group of five men in various ethnic dress; the spine with elaborate gilt designs and decorations; edges gilt; back covers in blind or gilt. Minor light rubbing. Nice examples of elaborate American leather trade bindings. No dust jacket. Very good. 320; 288 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 2 volumes.</p><p>Printed by E. N. Grossman & Son.</p><p>Stereotyped by Richard C. Valentine.</p> Edward Walker hardcover books
1895301220<p>First edition. 6 1/4" x 4 1/2". Original tan boards stamped in black with an art nouveau floral design on the covers outer joints cracked. Good. Enclosed in an attractive 1/2 red morocco slipcase. Crane's second book; the first published under his own name.</p> Copeland and Day hardcover books
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
185142443New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Original pebble-grained red cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind-embossed rules and front board publisher's device. xxiii 635pp 6pp ads. Good plus. Internally a sound "Very good" as it's internally tight and unrestored showing only mild sporadic age toning and occasional light foxing; binding is sound and decent with exposed tips; somewhat rough spine has had 1" X 1" excision archivally and discretely restored and chipped spine head and tail archivally rebuilt see images; pencilled 1852 ownership signature on inner flyleaf. A tight presentable and quite handleable first U.S. edition first issue of this giant of 19th century literature. One of only 3000 U.S. copies the American edition -- preceded by the 2-volume English version one month prior -- met with little fanfare and supposedly many unsold copies were destroyed in an 1854 warehouse fire. Original terra cotta endpapers. Despite wear this is a respectable copy appropriately priced. Housed in a handsome custom red cloth clamshell case with gilt spine lettering. BAL 13664. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
