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18990005401New York & London: Harper & Brothers 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo brown cloth gilt titles inked name on front free endpaper cocked light edgewear one lower corner bumped. <br/><br/>This story of a girl coming of age is the vehicle for James to comment on the decadence of the fin-de-siecle era in England: told largely in dialogue. BAL 10636 - state uncertain pages appear to bulk at 1 7/16 in. = closer to state A of 1 5/8 in. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1898DEMO015638IParis: Librarie Borel 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. A. Calbet et Marold. 24mo 84 pages 13.5 x 7 cm. half morocco raised bands marbled boards original pictorial wrappers bound in place. <br/><br/>Printed in the Collection Lotus Alba. Limited to 100 copies of which this copy is one of 50 printed on Japon paper. Delicately illustrated by Antoine Calbet and Ludek Marold. Jacques Soldanelle was a nom de plume of two brothers who wrote as J.-H. Rosny. The elder brother Joseph is considered second only to Jules Verne among modern French science fiction writers. Librarie Borel hardcover
188429110N Y N Y: Harper & Brothers. Good with no dust jacket. 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. B/w frontis; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; x 565 12 pages; A romance of Friends. Publisher's decorated cloth with worn red paper library label on spine and Haverhill library bookplate else free of markings. Some fading to cloth and some light foxing scattered in contents. . Harper & Brothers hardcover
18960007083New York: R. F. Fenno & Company 1896. First American edition. 12mo 312 pages pictorial red cloth snags on spine tape residue on cracked hinges. Very Scarce: no original copy of this cited in WorldCat. <br/><br/>Author's second book Collie 2c. The first edition was a British triple-decker. The second edition was considerably shortened. This edition is from that second edition. A novel of life among the lower classes in which a young schoolteacher is the beloved of a young prostitute who is also the daughter of a prostitute. Illustrated with six plates. R. F. Fenno & Company hardcover
18940009354London: Chapman And Hall 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo green cloth; vol. 1: front hinge cracked extremities well worn; vols. II & III shelfworn tight. <br/><br/>One of only 1500 copies. Chapman And Hall hardcover
1831004878London: E. Dunscomb 1831. Soft cover. Fair. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. 128pp. Bound in limp buckram engraved frontispiece. Binding is heavily worn and chipped and separated from text block text is age-toned and with very light and scattered foxing. Author offers advice to young men on how not to be deceived by women's lack of faithfulness and "constancy" in choosing a mate. <br/> <br/> E. Dunscomb paperback
1836004867Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1836. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Cooney Barbara. 288pp. Brown cloth gilt lettering engraved frontispiece and title page. Corners rubbed light wear and soiling contents are lightly foxed former owners' names on front endpapers. Early 19th century advice to recently married men regarding their duties and responsibilities of marriage. <br/> <br/> Carey, Lea & Blanchard hardcover
18940007223London: Lawrence & Bullen 1894. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo; 446 pages red cloth x-library with emboss on title-page call numbers on spine rear pocket; also bookplate of Father Girard; variant without the publisher's ads at rear. <br/><br/> Collie XII b; Sadleir 972. "On this subject at least Gissing's opinions were clear consistent and uncompromising. An enemyt of the Victorian myth of the inferiority of women he believed firmly that women were the intellectual and spiritual equals of men - Jacob Korg." Lawrence & Bullen hardcover
189922485Frederick A. Stokes NY Publ. 1899. HB NODustJacket 1899 1st Edition THUS Interior nice tight light FoX Wear Art Nouveau Decorated Black & Yellow Cloth Cover slight Wear Rub & Corner Ding Small Tear Bottom Spine Cvr VG-/VG AS-ISNODJ Small light stain top Title page 7 3/4 X 5 1/4 in. Approx Pencil Writing some Pages & Endpapers One Loose page & several small Tears Heavy Foxing O/W Nice Condition 214 pages Frontispiece Mansfield as Cyrano de Bergerac taken by PACH Pencil Writing some Pages & Endpapers Preface by Charles Renauld. First Thus. Hard Cover. Frederick A. Stokes NY Publ. hardcover
1811DEMO015627IPhiladelphia: M. Carey 1811. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 24mo 108 pages contemporary quarter calf marbled boards foxed. Ex John S. Walton stamped on p.3. RARE. <br/><br/>Shaw & Shoemaker 22501. This is either the first or second Spanish-language novel published in the U.S.A. Carey published two by this author in 1811. having appeared first in Spain in 1800. This copy apparently lacks the frontispiece NUC NC 0268637. M. Carey hardcover
18940005293New York: The Athenaeum Society 1894 circa. New edition. Hardcover. good. Frontipieces. Octavos red cloth spines sunned snag in vol. 5. <br/><br/>Classic Dumas: Marguerite De Valois 1v; La Dame de Monsoreau 1v; The Forty-Five 1v; Three Musketeers 2v; Twenty Years After 2v; Vicomte de Bragelonne 4v; Memoirs of a Physician 3v; Queen's Necklace 2v; Ange Pitou 2v; Comtesse de Charny 3v; Chevalier de Maison-Rouge 1v; Monsieur de Chauvelin's Will 1v; Count of Monte Cristo - in a new improved translation 3v. The Athenaeum Society hardcover
1822557011London: W.Simpkin & B.Marshall 1822. Morning Noon & Night or The Romance of the Day A Comic Opera produced at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on Monday Sept.9 1822. The Overture and Music Not included with three exceptions composed by Mr Perry.In Good condition with some wear to the covers The title page still very original.Please email for further details. NOT Signed or Inscribed. First Edition. No Binding Paper Wraps . Good Below AVERAGE/No Jacket. Illus. by Not Illustrated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Booklet. W.Simpkin & B.Marshall Paperback
18252061Carlisle PA: Moser and Peters. 1825. Hardcover. Fair full leather covers with five spine bands rubbed some separation of the rear spine edge from the board but it is basically sound as Is the binding overall pages are various shades of brown and are waved but are fully legible some moisture marks but not much the clasp's leather straps are gone there is a paper pocket on the last end page-no other indication this is ex-library a pastedown gift notation from the 1883 To Amanda Dohner from Joseph Dohner. The Starck Hand-book is followed by the 88 page prayer booklet. Not all of the title Is given not sure of the accuracy of our translation. ; Frontispiece of the author 4 other plates.; 38288 pages . Moser and Peters hardcover
1896DEMO010988INew York: D. Appleton and Company 1896. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo tan buckram untrimmed on laid paper. Ex libris William H. Sahud. <br/><br/>Second state with eleven-line title-page Stallman 8a; BAL 4075. A revised text of his first book 1893. "His book is the most truthful and unhackneyed study of the slums I have yet read fragment though it is. It is pictorial graphic terrible in its directness -- Hamlin Garland." D. Appleton and Company hardcover
18252071Königsberg Germany: Bornträger. 1825. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair to good original leather spine over marbled boards stamped spine lettering is difficult to see pages foxed in varying degrees some old pencil notes with old ink numbers - not heavy an inch wide and deep tapered piece of the rear board cover paper missing page edges darkened short and small lettered 1940 pastedown gift notation endpaper names with some guessing at the letters are Friedrich Scheffler maybe Oeconomie Vernalter aufdem From 1845 with location of Vickerode. A solid binding. A rough English title translation: A handbook on the natural and contemporary operation of agriculture in its entirety. Based on the most proven physical and economic principles and more than twenty years of experience with special consideration of the harsher climate of northern Germany and the Baltic coastal countries. Volume one field cultivation. There is a second title page that starts with dem achtungswerthen stande der gebilbeten preuszifchen landwirthe - the respectable status of the educated Prussian farmers. ; xxii 384 pages . Bornträger hardcover
19000006918New York: Harper & Brothers 1900. Special Biographical Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Octavos red cloth extra gilt top edge gilt. Extra shipping charges will be necessary. <br/><br/>Annotated by Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie William's eldest daughter with memories of him and his work and with selections from his letters. Illustrated and with photogravures. Thackeray was as popular as Dickens when they both were writing and he deserves much better consideration than he receives today. " I think I see in him an intellect profounder and more unique than his contemporaries have yet recognized; . His wit is bright his humor attractive". - Charlotte Bronte 1847. Harper & Brothers hardcover
18192217Tewkesbury: James Bennett Printed By. 1819. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good except rubbed edge wear end page name and notation - George Hopkins his book May 11th 1847 another name in small letters in the top title page corner. A solid sewn binding unmarked text. The map has one fold tear. Several items were laid in. There is a letter from Lucile Moore to a book buyer named George Connors Esq. In Pittsburgh Pa. Dated 1947. Lucile Moore was the wife of English author John Moore. There is also a letter from a W. Booth from Tewkesbury apparently to George's father on June 5 1945 referring to this book apparently and the fact George was still in Germany. There is also is enclosed an unused letterhead sheet of Lucile Moore Antiquarian Bookseller 19 Church Street Tewkesbury Glos. Glouscester the same as was used in the letter. ; 123 pages . James Bennett (Printed By) hardcover
18522637G. P. Putnam. 1852. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair underlining and margin marks about half the spine strip of volume one is gone volume two has a little loss on the spine rubbing air bubble line on the back of volume one and a little on the front an end page name on both volumes. The bindings are slightly shaken but sound. No dust jacket if issued. Original brown cloth with stamped decorations. Date on title page matches the copyright page date. ; 423 452 pages . G. P. Putnam hardcover
18207617London: Published by W. Perks 1820. SOLE EDITION 12mo pp. 24 hand-coloured frontispiece. Partly unopened and stitched as issued in original blue paper wrappers front wrapper printed in black. A little light soiling slight creasing to title-page. Wrappers split at spine. A scarce little collection of verse mostly in address-and-answer format between ‘Valentine’ and various types: faithless lover gentleman miser coquette old batchelor etc. Various catalogues guess a date between 1798 and 1830 but BBTI puts the publisher’s active period at 1820-1826 and the printer George Smeeton at 139 St Martin’s Lane between 1808 and 1839. The Yale catalogue attributes the frontispiece to Isaac Cruikshank. Published by W. Perks unknown
18192212Reading Pa.: Johann George Homan. 1819. Hardcover. Good corners wear end page purchase notation in small letters margin foxing page toning pages 31 to 42 have about an inch long piece missing in the margins. ; 302 pages . Johann George Homan hardcover