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1882mon0000117221James Nisbet 1882-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. worn copy on decorative green cloth some looseness and one end paper loose James Nisbet hardcover
1891035911NY: HURST AND CO. Rare to find this book in a DJ. Previous owner's inscription in the book. . VG. Hardcover. REPRINT. 1891. HURST AND CO. hardcover
1852041592London: James Nisbet & Company 1852. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 9 " Tall. Vii 372; V 367 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt Yellow Endpapers Publisher's Topstain. First English Edition First Printing With 1852 Date On Title Pages. Volume I Without Publisher's Name At Base Of Spine Name Present On Volume Ii Some Copies Do Not Have The Name. Very Good Gilt Brilliant Spine Cloth Slightly Browned Just Beginning To Fray Along Top Edges Of Spines Endpapers Immaculate Pages Clean No Marks. <br/> <br/> James Nisbet & Company hardcover
18529124110901NY.: George P. Putnam. 1852. Rebound in 19th Century brown cloth. Occasional foxing 1 signature slihtly sprung cover joints worn: about VG. 8vo. First Edition. Bal 21255. LW #2649. Any ads included were removed when this set was rebound in one volume. George P. Putnam. hardcover
1891024854Hurst and Company. Very Good. 1891. Cloth. Paper browning at edges blue cloth & gilt decorative stamping covers in nice condition with modest wear a nice copy.; 8vo . Hurst and Company hardcover
1856217656JNew York: D. Appleton and Company 1856. Hardcover. Good. 516 pages in good condition. Pages are foxed and stained. Blue endpapers. Bound in brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Corners bumped head and tail of spine worn and torn. Stained on the boards. GOOD. <br/> <br/> D. Appleton and Company hardcover
186216330New York: Hunt and Eaton 1862. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Hunt and Eaton 1862. First Edition. 114 pgs. Author and illustrator not stated. This fairy tale was re-published by George Routledge & Sons1866 in a compilation titled 'Two School Girls and Other Tales'. Two lovely engravings. Hard Cover red cloth with black decoration gilt title on spine. Cover has moderate shelfwear faded spine light areas on back. Pages are clean and unmarked slightly toned occasional light foxing. Binding is tight. Very nice copy. Very scarce. Other bibliographic entries list Elizabeth Wetherell and Amy Lothrop as authors. Hunt and Eaton hardcover
1851139641New York: George P. Putnam 1851. Only "surpassed by Uncle Tom's Cabin in sales and popularity" First edition of Susan Bogert Warner's first novel written under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Wetherell in bright condition. Warner 1819-1885 began writing The Wide Wide World in 1848. It was to become one of the most popular American novels of its time however initially had difficulty finding a publisher. "Even when George P. Putnam accepted the novel for publication in 1850 largely because his mother was enthusiastic about the manuscript he initially printed only 750 copies; two years later the novel was reprinted for the fourteenth time and for decades to come only Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin surpassed Warner's first novel in sales and popularity" ANB. Henry James wrote admiringly of the work in the Nation in 1860 praising Warner's realistic depiction of rural life. This copy is in the third state listed in BAL without the printer's imprint on the copyright page and the final signature of vol. II being 154; the order of priority given as "probable". Blanck notes in his juvenilia bibliography Peter Parley to Penrod that as in the present copy "in first printed copies the folio at p. 157 vol. I and the folio at p. 34 vol. II are misplaced and appear at the inner portion of the page rather than at the fore-edge" Blanck p. 4. 2 vols octavo. Original green morocco-grain cloth titles and decorative motifs to spine in bronze covers stamped in blind within double-rule frames yellow coated endpapers BAL binding b no priority. Spines gently cocked and a little sunned faint spotting to joints touch of wear to tips occasional foxing; a very good copy indeed. BAL 21253; Jacob Blanck Peter Parley to Penrod: a bibliographical description of the best-loved American juvenile books 1938. hardcover
1876265783London : Nisbet 1876. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth over marble boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; viii 422 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Subject; Guardian and ward -- Fiction. London : Nisbet hardcover
187053681Gloucester: John Bellows 1870. Broadside 12 3/16 x 10 inches 31 x 25.4 mm printed in red and black inks on card stock with a mounted albumen photograph 3 1/8 x 2 7/8 inches 8 x 7.3 mm. There is a closed one-inch tear at the center fold. Age toned. Very good. W. Harding Warner 1816 - 1894 was a British photographer specializing in architecture and landscapes. He issued stereo cards as well as two illustrated guides A SKETCH OF TYNTERN ABBEY and A SKETCH OF ROSS AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD; both are broadsides with a single albumen photograph historical text and a scaled drawing. Each was folded and issued with an envelope which is not present here. <br /> <br /> WorldCat locates only two copies; The British Library and Cambridge University. John Bellows unknown
184555313Philadelphia: V. F & M. F. Harrison no. 27 South Eighth Street 1845. Bust-length mezzotint portrait approx. 22½" x 16½" overall; image size: 12" x 9¾" taken from a daguerreotype; lightly foxed several short creases and breaks in the margins; all else very good. Includes a facsimile of his signature. "Copies were sold in Providence by Abraham Stillwell a local bookseller. Stillwell began advertising the sale of the likeness of Dorr beginning with the June 20 1842 issue of the Providence Daily Express. Stillwell's ad read 'GOV. DORR Just published and for sale at No. 1 Market square a Portrait of Thomas W. Dorr elected Governor of the State of Rhode Island under the People's Constitution'." Phillips Memorial Library Providence College. AAS only in OCLC. V. F & M. F. Harrison, no. 27 South Eighth Street unknown
185248886New York: Cornish Lamport & Co. Publishers 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. Pp. 240. Original brown cloth boards and spine decorated in blind with gilt title to spine. Frontis and illustrated title-page with tissue guard present. Bookplate of H. Scofield to paste-down. Hinges strong binding tight and square very little foxing throughout overall an excellent copy inside and out. First edition. Hubin 415. Scarce. Cornish, Lamport & Co., Publishers hardcover
1852012757NY: Cornish Lamport 1852. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Elaborate blind stamped brown cloth front and back gilt spine titles. Double 2-tone chromo forntispieces with tissue guard. 240 pages. Edges and covers moderately worn. Intermittent foxing. Solid binding. Cornish Lamport hardcover
184220362Boston: J. H. Wilkins & R. B. Carter 1842. A later printing of this first American translation of the Godfrey the first appearing in 1841 and the expanded dictionary. Cloth generally sunned; small chip to the spine and a bit frayed at the head and foot; label somewhat rubbed; some occasional light foxing; a good copy. Large 8vo 9.63 x 6 inches original ribbed brown or perhaps purple cloth printed paper label on spine 135 1; xc pages. Printed music in the text. A work known perhaps for its superfluity of necessary detail. The appended Universal Dictionary of Musical Terms: Taken in Part from Dr. Weber's Vocabulary of Italian Words and Phrases but Chiefly Furnished from Other Sources and Adapted to the Condition and Wants of this Country by James F. Warner has a separate title page and includes a new preface dated April 1 1842 noting that the dictionary "has been enlarged however in the proportion of about three to one. . . . The additions made by the American editor are indicated by a star ." The dictionary also includes two additional appended pages not present in the 1841 edition. Early small neat ink ownership signature on the front free endpaper. J. H. Wilkins & R. B. Carter, unknown
1857R240074276LIBRAIRIE DE CH.MEYRUEIS ET CIE. 1857. In-12. Broché. A relier, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Rousseurs. 256 pages - rousseurs et mouillures sans réelle conséquence sur la lecture - plats désolidarisés, salis - coins frottés - dos manquant - ouvrage désolidarisé - tranches salies.. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
1852mon0000023400New York: George P. Putnam 1852. FIRST EDITION SECOND ISSUE. 2 volumes hardbound bound in the publishers olive cloth gilt lettered spine light occasional foxing head and foot of spine fine inner and outer hinges fine overall a VERY GOOD copy. Housed in a 1/2 brown morocco slipcase raised bands gilt lettered spine slipcase slightly rubbed. New York: George P. Putnam hardcover
1852900430New York: George P. Putnam & Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1852. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1st Printing with Putnam logo embossed on cover and gilt titles on spines. Covers show light minor rubbing. Top edges soiled leading edges show browm spotting. Endpapers have speckled foxing but main text is bright clean and tight. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 410/396 pages . George P. Putnam & Company hardcover