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1895134984Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution 1895. Hardcover. VG- Ex-lib. stamp inside front cover usual markings; Light wear to cloth particularly at extremities; Corners bumped; Interior clean and tight. Green cloth over boards; Gilt titling at front cover; 81 pp.; Numerous tables and bw figures. Smithsonian Institution hardcover books
189144175New York: New York Printing Co. The Republic Press Publishers 1891. 1st edition thus Revised and Freshened with Notes by the Author. Original publisher's blue cloth spine over silver patterned paper covered boards with gilt stamped lettering. Green patterned paper paste-downs. Shelf & edgewear. Bookplate & booklabel to front paste-down. Age-toning to free eps. Removed library pocket from rear paste-down. About Very Good. 45 1 pp. Index at rear. Partially unopened. Frontis of Depew. Oblong format: 8" x 9-3/8" <br/><br/> New York Printing Co. (The Republic Press) Publishers hardcover books
19001318926Paisley: Alexander Gardner 1900. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair hardcover; Spine blue with gold print; Boards in blue cloth worn corners and spine caps wear to hinges shelfwear; Text block has gilt top edge deckle edged cracked hinges intermittent spine breaks spotting to some page edges small stain to front endpapers newspaper clipping taped to rear pastedown stains to front endpapers and title page annotation in ink on front endpapers; 707 pages frontispiece. 1318926. FP New Rockville Stock. Alexander Gardner hardcover books
188829399NY: Scribner's 1888. Revised edn. F. O. C. Darley. 8vo pp. 286. Illustrated. "Darley" edition. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Cover little worn at edges o/w VG. Scribner's unknown books
18923402NY: The Century 1892. First edn. 8vo pp. 307. Little foxing and external wear a VG copy. BAL 14148. The Century unknown books
1897WRCLIT55924New York: The Century Co. 1897. Two volumes. Decorated grey cloth stamped in gilt red and darker grey t.e.g. fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Frontispieces by Howard Pyle. Later printing with the corrected readings on I:54 and II:260 the titles integral and the edges treated as noted. Modest rubbing 1897 pencil Christmas inscription; a good set. BAL 14178. WRIGHT III:3782. The Century Co. hardcover books
1898173675New York: The Century Company 1898. Hardcover. VG old bookstore sticker inside front covers light foxing but interior is clean and tight otherwise. Two volume set gray stamped boards with red lettering Volume 1 is 306 pp. Volume 2 is 261 pp each with bw frontispiece. Two volume set correspondence from Weir Mitchell and his son John K. Mitchell to Dr. Elisabeth Ryder laid in. The Century Company hardcover books
1897100133570D.C. Heath & Co 1897 in8. 1897. Cartonné.
183756841Lexington: Finnell & Zimmerman 1837. 12mo pp. 22 2; removed from binding wrappers wanting; an ink stain on the back of the pamphlet has eaten through the gutter and caused loss of text on the last 6 leaves pencil equations on blank leaf; fair. Mitchell was a zealous reformer of the medical profession and of society at large earning him a reputation as a "narrow-minded bigoted presumptuous puritanical Presbyterian" DAB. He served on the faculty of Transylvania University from 1837 to 1849. Wellcome NLM Transylvania Kentucky Cincinnati History Library and Texas in OCLC. <br/><br/> Finnell & Zimmerman unknown books
1838286545Philadelphia: Hinman and Dutton 1838. Half Leather. Good binding. An Accompaniment to Mitchell's Map of the World with chapters of textual information only on certain geographical regions. Foxing; previous owner's name on the front pastedown in pencil. Half leather over marbled paper. Good. Good binding. Hinman and Dutton unknown books
1879WRCLIT19693Np 1879. Folio broadsheet. Approx. 79 x 43cm. Decorative border. Folded with a few short clean breaks at fold else very good. A relatively late but charmingly bad example of the genre. unknown books
1891027788New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1891. Small Octavo. 5th edition. 78 pages. A theme in last Victorian literature which was the opposite of Manifest Destiny. A novel of a future that finds catastrophic climate change has left America in ruins including the Statue of Liberty cf. the Planet of the Apes. Another illustration shows ruins of a New York Fifth Avenue Hotel with explorers finding wild beasts in its ruins. Anatomy of Wonder 1981. Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 21. Lewis Utopian Literature p. 125. Negley Utopian Literature 796. Wright III 3770. Bound in a blue pictorial cloth accented in black white and gilt spine plain. wear to corners and spine ends. Frederick A. Stokes unknown books
1879106354<p>Pamphlet 8vo stapled 36 pp. Mitchell's name penciled on title some creasing normal aging and browning; otherwise very good. John H. Mitchell 1835-1905 was a rather corrupt U.S. senator from Oregon who served three times between 1873 and 1905. Among his many accomplishments he managed to get himself indicted and convicted in the "Oregon Land Scandals" at the time he was a sitting senator of the United States. Mitchell managed to get himself fined and a six months prison sentence for election fraud in 1901. However he managed to die during the appeal process from complications related to a tooth extraction. On the positive side he actually managed to address a young National Geographic Society in April 1895. The present title addresses a bill before the Senate on constructing a harbor on the Pacific Coast. downfalldictionary website. <br /></p> books
1900156133New York: The Century Co. 1900. Octavo pp. i-viii ix-x xi-xx 1-149 150-152: blank note: last leaf is a blank eight inserted plates with illustrations by A. J. Keller original decorated blue-green cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold t.e.g. fore-edge untrimmed bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition first binding. Collects two stories. The first printing of the novelette version of "The Autobiography of a Quack" first published anonymously in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY in October and November 1867. "It was a realistic account of the devices by which a dishonest and ignorant physician proceeds and it gave a veracious picture of the seamy side of life in Philadelphia and other large cities. Homeopathy spiritualism and other pet aversions of the orthodox physician were treated in a humorous way and the cold-blooded manner in which the quack tells his story made it a successful piece of irony." - Quinn American Fiction p. 311. "The Case of George Dedlow" Mitchell's first published story was published anonymously and without his knowledge in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY in July 1866. It is largely a realistic story of the feelings both physical and mental of an army surgeon who lost both arms and legs in a battle which occurred during the American Civil War. The satire becomes clear at the end when Dedlow is briefly united with his legs during a spiritualistic seance. Some readers missed the point and according to Mitchell "the spiritual incident at the end of the story was received with joy by the spiritualists as a valuable proof of the truth of their beliefs." Wright III 3777. BAL 14192. A fine copy. #156133 The Century Co. unknown books
18993734New York: Century Co. 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ. Light shelf/edge wear touch of spotting on front board of both spines lightly toned else tight bright and unmarred. Beige cloth boards black ink lettering gilt decorative elements in blind decorative elements teg frontispiece tissueguards. 8vo. ix 306pp; vii 261pp plus approx. 63 np plate pages bound/tipped in. <br/><br/>Mitchell was a well-known Philadelphia physician who was also well known for his poetry and prose. Pyle was commissioned to illustrate this work supporting lithos and photoplates and accepted knowing that Mitchell was well known to be difficult. Though the process was painful the result is quite acceptional. Overall a rather handsome set. Century Co. hardcover books
1866263281Charles Scribner's Sons 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. 300 295 pages. A novel. First edition first printing. A very good hardcover 2-volume set; green cloth with gilt spine lettering. No dust jacket. BAL 13943 Binding A. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown.<br> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
188436235New York: DJ Sadlier 1884. Hardcover - as published. fair. boards detached top of spine damaged a.e.g. 686pp. pages are not brittle very little foxing . DJ Sadlier hardcover
188457630New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1884. No. 116 of 250 copies of the limited large-paper reissue with a new Preface by the author. Tall octavo 25.5cm. Printed parchment-backed paper-covered boards; 282pp; etched frontispiece by Smillie. Old repair to a tear at lower third of spine; rubbing to spine ends and corners; a solid straight Very Good copy. <br /> <br /> Gilded-Age reissue of a work originally published in 1851. The prolific Mitchell produced dozens of volumes of the sort of miscellaneous prose that earned him the damnedest of faint praise from his compatriot Oliver Wendell Holmes - who deemed him ".one of the pleasantest of our American writers." BAL 13962. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
18471410882New York: Harper & Brothers 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 336 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Spine cocked. Material chipped away at head and tail of spine. General fraying and wear to cloth along extremities. Some light splotching and discoloration to cloth. Fore and bottom edges of textblock uncut. Foxing throughout interior. Shelved under the Front Counter. 1410882. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Harper & Brothers hardcover
18922351301New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1892. Half-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 10x6x1. Darley F.O.C. Felix Octavius Carr. 1892 printing rebound in half-leather. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. xxiv 286 pp. Dark brown leather spine and corners red-orange cloth boards gilt titles double rules and decorations in compartments top edge gilt marbled endpapers engraved illustrations by F.O.C. Darley. A collection of ruminations on boyhood country life marriage travel and dreaming by American author Donald Grant Mitchell published under the pseudonym Ik Marvel. The first two reveries were originally printed in 1849 in the magazine Southern Literary Messenger and in 1850 the four essays were published in book format to great public acclaim. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
185355972New York: Charles Scribner 1853. Octavo 19cm. Purple cloth gilt arms to front and back titled in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers; iv viii 2 289pp; illustrated title page and frontispiece. Ex-library with bookplate to front pastedown charge slip to rear endpapers and call number to spine. A straight tight copy rubbed spine sunned: Very Good. Charles Scribner unknown
181677866Whiting & Watson New York 1816. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. New-York: Whiting & Watson Daniel Fanshaw Printer 1816. vi400 pages. 9 x 5.75" printed white paper spine blue paper boards. Untrimmed. Shaw & Shoemaker 38153. Spine nibbled some old staining bit foxed VG. Whiting & Watson, New York hardcover
1865WRCLIT54523New York: Charles Scribner 1865. 4vii1324pp. Green gilt cloth boards ruled in blind. Illustrated with engravings and maps. First edition a variant of BAL's binding C with brown rather than peach endpapers. Edges a little darkened bookplate on pastedown very faint early ownership signature spine ends and boards lightly rubbed last gathering darkened else very good. BAL 13942. Charles Scribner hardcover books
1899D17721Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 1 ad 177 pp. Original blue cloth lettered in gold. Near fine. Third edition of Mitchell's popular work. An inscription on the f.f.e.p. reads "May 25 '92 L.O. Day at New Haven Centennial Celebration State Med. Soc." A few checkmarks appear in pencil in the margins. <br/><br/> J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
1885D17747Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 423 pp. 12 pp. ads bound at the back. Original red cloth. First edition of Mitchells first novel. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin hardcover books