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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
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
18602777United States Government Printing Office. 1860. Hardcover. Fair a tape repair over the spine apparently to hold the back cover in place edges worn page edge toning with some page toning. No dust jacket issued. This is a volume of Congressional records covering a number of topics such as The Covode Report The Lecompton Constitution department issues etc. Black covers with a front and back stamped decoration. The total number of pages is shown some sections had separate pagination. A heavy book additional postage may be required. ; 1074 pages . United States Government Printing Office hardcover
18283598Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Carey. 1828. Hardcover. Fair binding copy the front hinge is broken as is the binding at pages 182-83 there is a tape repair at pages 174-75 a piece of paper that may be paper vellum covers the spine the pages are foxed. The boards appear to be covered with vellum. Volume one only. This is the original edition not a recent reprint. Scarce. ; 322 pages . Carey, Lea & Carey hardcover
18632780Government Printing Office. 1863. Hardcover. Fair spine sunned shaken in the center with a few pages sticking out that are partly loose from the sewn binding-the binding is still basically sound page edges browned. Brown cloth with stamped decorations. ; 659 pages . Government Printing Office hardcover
1897DEMO007259ILondon: Chapman and Hall 1897. New edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo 296 iv pages green cloth recased with new endpapers. <br/><br/>"The novel breathes with the overtones of plain sky and stars in the setting of a South African farm". "Her best and most famous novel . a neurotic but powerful presentation of life on a remote ostrich farm in the Veld. She was an early passionate but unintegrated feminist -NOVELS AND NOVELISTS." Chapman and Hall 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
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
1900w2761Philadelphia PA: George Barrie and Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1900. Hardcover. Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 371 pages; No Dust Jacket Book Shows Some Wear Library Binding Engravings are Black and White copyright dated 1900 Shows 7 Books with chapters inside of books; BX93 . George Barrie and Sons hardcover
18502095Cornish Lamport & Co. 1850. Hardcover. Poor binding copy the front cover is nearly loose about an inch missing at the top of the very rubbed spine the text binding is shaken but intact edge rubbing foxing one plate is loose with fore-edge wear-laid in. All page edges gilt. No dust jacket if issued. Good for rebinding or for the plates. Moral tales stories and poems. ; Color frontispieces 8 steel engraving plates.; 320 pages . Cornish, Lamport & Co. hardcover
18810007946Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1881. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo 200 pages green decorated cloth half in margnal tear to one leaf. <br/><br/>Bjornson was the first Norwegian to win in 1903 the Nobel Prize for Literature. This was translated by the notable Norwegian-American Rasmus B. Anderson who was designated by Bjornson to be his American translator. Bjornson "revises each work before it is translated thus giving his personal attention to this edition - Publisher's Note. Bjornson visited America in 1881. ARNE is a sketch of Norwegian country life. Houghton Mifflin 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
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
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
18912719Charles L. Webster & Co. 1891. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good- spine sun toned rubbing page edges browned a small spot on the back. A solid binding unmarked pages. No dust jacket if issued. This is an original printing not a recent reprint. ; 323 pages . Charles L. Webster & Co. 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
1883557424London: Chapman & Hall Limited 1883. Please email for further details . Not Signed or Inscribed. First Edition of This Edition. Full-Leather Marbled Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Not Illustrated. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Hardback. Chapman & Hall Limited Hardcover
183900004367New York: Samuel Colman 1839 211 pages fourth impression of the original from Berlin according to the Preface but first edition from this publisher same date on title page and copyright page; binding is tight but the backstrip is mostly missing previous owner's signature from 1841 on front free end page scattered light foxing on pages not starting front or back. A romantic fantasy- very scarce. Samuel Colman hardcover
18950007090London: Lawrence & Bullen 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Good . 12mo 379 pages publisher's ads for Autumn 1894. cherry cloth. covers spotted untrimmed bookplate of Myrtle A. Crummer Mrs. Le Roy Crummer M.D. with a designer-signed ex libris from 1921. <br/><br/>"A comedy of the lower middle classes." Collie XIVb : due to recent changes in American copyright law this book was printed from American plates calling the English first a reissue thereof but suggesting that publication was nearly simultaneous . "The best and least appreciated of his novels - H. G. Wells." Lawrence & Bullen 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
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
1892DEMO015628IParis: E. Dentu 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Good . Marold. 24mo 208 pages quarter calf marbled boards <br/><br/>Printed and illustrated at the atelier de Edouard Guillaume in the Petit Collection Guillaume a group of "joyaux litteraires". These nouvelles were to be published at the rate of two each month one old and one new. Illustrated by Ludek Marold. E. Dentu hardcover
18590006722New York: Rudd & Carleton 1859. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Thick 12mo xii. 330 5 brown blind-embossed cloth <br/><br/>Isabella Romola de'Medici d. 1576 was the daughter of Cosimo de Medici the first Grand Duke of Tuscany. At age eleven she was betrothed to Paolo Giordano Orsini. She was beautiful free-spirited strong-willed and thus doomed. Rudd & Carleton hardcover
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
1880676USA: Hurst & Co. 1880s. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover fading to cover wear along spine foxing to pages. Webbing visible in front and back covers. Pages tight. Hurst & Co. 542 pp. Arlington Edition. First publisher's series Hurst produced was the Arlington Series in the 1880s. <br/><br/> Hurst & Co. hardcover
