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1872007507New York: Robert Carter and Brothers 1872. 12mo. Half-title with ads on the verso 339 10pp. publisher's ads. Author of sentimental juvenile novels. Bound in brown cloth stamped along the edges in blind spine lettered and decorated in gilt lacks the front free endpaper. A stain on the lower portion of p.121 slightly marks adjoining pages. Robert Carter and Brothers unknown books
18867706Rochester N.Y.: H.H. Warner & Co 1886. Stapled booklet in wrappers 22.75 x 15 cm. 32 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. Publication date from the latest testimonials. FIRST EDITION. A promotional book for patent medicine from H.H. Warner & Co. with the usual assortment of medicinal recommendations glowing testimonials household and culinary recipes and advertisements. Also mentioned is Warner's Safe Cook-Book "the most valuable family recipes ever published." Lightest discoloration to some leaves otherwise fine in wrappers boldly decorated with a woodcut of a child sitting stop a sea captain's shoulder. Laid-in is a printed addendum a warning against falsely advertised products with a guide to telling the fakes from the real Warner's nostrums. Scarce. OCLC locates two copies appears to be the earliest of the Warner's SY booklets. H.H. Warner & Co unknown books
18897620Rochester N.Y.: H.H. Warner & Co. Stecher Lith Co 1889. Octavo-sized booklet stapled in wrappers 22 x cm. 51 1 pages. Illustrated. Index. Title and publication information from wrapper. FIRST EDITION of the eleventh annual almanac advertising Warner's patent medicines with the standard elements - ephemeris glowing testimonials illustrated advertisements for the various cures including Warner's Kidney & Liver Safe Cure Log Cabin Sarsaparilla Benton's Hair Grower. The cooking recipes themselves an advertisement for Warner's Safe Cook Book run along the pages as footers. Some advertisements printed on colored paper; small loop for hanging in the kitchen. In a handsome chromolithographed paper wrapper. Fine. OCLC locates six copies; Hoolihan Atwater Collection S-1419. H.H. Warner & Co. Stecher Lith Co unknown books
1881013886New York: Robert Carter and Brothers 1881. Cloth. A Good Copy. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 112p. The author here deals with "worldly amusements" beginning with music dancing theatre and gambling. She warns of the young girl who attends the theatre just one time then becomes addicted and attends again and again. There she sees actors in brilliant costumes without realizing they often are of a terrible moral character. Imagine a man she does not know from the seat behind her peering over her shoulder to "look at the program" on in an opera men actually touch a woman. All of these terrible violations trouble the writer of this description of the book but alas the book must be offered if only to prevent young men and young girls discovering the terrible allure of "worldly amusements."--It would appear that the church members are tired of a drab life and sometimes seek the vain attractions of the world. It is likely there song would be "Tempted and Tired" rather than the standard gospel song tear on p. 26-27 not affecting text. Robert Carter and Brothers unknown books
18685792New York: Harper & Brothers 1868. First edition. Didactic fiction for juveniles on gardening. Quite charming. 17 cm; 268 6 pages. Wood engraved floral illustrations in text. Bound in green cloth decorated in gilt on spine. Very good. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
188735929London: Kegan Paul 1887. Kegan Paul unknown books
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. <br/><br/> V. F & M. F. Harrison, no. 27 South Eighth Street unknown books
188719693New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good. 1887. Hardcover. Ex-lib marbled board and leather binding is shot. Backstrip worn away. Author inscribed gift presentation from Christmas 1886. Many illustrations. . Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1899165324London: N. J. Powell & Co. 1899. Octavo pp. 1-2 i-v vi-vii viii-x 1 2-116 four inserted plates and two illustrations in the text title page printed in red and black original Japan vellum front and spine panels stamped in gold all edges untrimmed. First edition. A historical novel set in ancient Egypt. Binding warped a very good copy. #165324 N. J. Powell & Co. unknown books
186845123New York / Cincinnati: Robert H. Johnston & Co. / Robert Clarke & Co 1868. 1st Edition. Original publishers green pebbled cloth card stock boards with gilt stamped lettering to front cover. Later black cloth spine duplicating the original. Minor wear offset to eps VG. IV 5 - 30 2 blank pp. 8vo. <br/><br/>A parody of Longfellow's SONG Of HIAWATHA though asserts the author "the idea of ridiculing or caricaturing Mr. Longellow is too inconsequent and unjust an inference to require formal refutation. That gentleman is far above the reach of such ill-natured assaults." Robert H. Johnston & Co. / Robert Clarke & Co hardcover books
186428477New York: Robert Carter and Brothers 1864. 1st edition BAL 21275; Wright II 2648. Original publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering professionally recased with new eps. Old pos to preliminary blank dated December 1864. General binding wear. Some staining & browing to paper especially lower corner/margin of Vol I's last 18 leaves. Withal a VG set. 2 volumes 328; 363 1 pp. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/> Robert Carter and Brothers hardcover books
189938647n.p.: n.p. 1899. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with toned edges. 14 pp. 8vo. American essayist and novelist Charles Dudley Warner Twain's coauthor on The Gilded Age was a lawyer by training and wrote this article against the backdrop of criminal reform in Connecticut. In it he gives attention to the rules and regulations of parole and parole violations in particular defense of the Indeterminate Sentence which Warner describes as a scientific a disciplinary a really humanitarian method. "We have tried all other means of protecting society of lessening the criminal class of reforming the criminal. The proposed Indeterminate Sentence with reformatory discipline is the only one that promises to relieve society of the insolent domination and the terrorism of the criminal class; is the only one that can deter men from making a career of crime; is the only one that offers a fair prospect for the reformation of the criminal offender. Why not try it Why not put the whole system of criminal jurisprudence and procedure for the suppression of crime upon a sensible and scientific basis" Quite uncommon. It would be quoted in full in The Connecticut Magazine Vol. 5 in support of a bill on prison reform and later be republished in his "Fashions in Literature" 1902. OCLC locates three copies: Columbia Law Trinity College and Yale Law. n.p. unknown books
1846TB31670Hartford Conn.: H. S. Parsons & Co. 1846. Third Edition of 1846. Very good in its original full leather covered boards with extensive gilt tool work and gilt text on the spine with the edges of the text block marbled. An octavo of 8 by 5 inches with rubbing to the boards and the edges of the boards The contents are mildly foxed in the margins throughout. The fold-out map is missing. 624 pages of text illustrated a frontispiece and from "numerous" woodcut engravings. The first edition of this title was published in Hartford in 1840 and contained only 576 pages. Howes B-124 H. S. Parsons & Co. hardcover books
1841TB26036Worcester Mass.: Dorr Howland & Co. 1841. First Edition. Good in 3/4 red leather and pebbled black cloth covered boards with gilt tool work and text on the spine and with the edges of the text block marbled. An octavo measuring 9" by 5 1/4" with 1/4" deep chipping to the leather at the head of the spine and with 1/8 chipping from the leather at the heel of the spine. The leather at the lower tips of the boards is worn through. There is also considerable foxing throughout the pages but none so bad as to render the text unreadable. 576 pages of text illustrated with a frontispiece and throughout the text with line drawings and wood cut engravings by the author. The fold-out hand colored map following the preface is present and is in excellent condition with only a minor closed tear of 1/2" long at one of the folds. Howes B-124 Dorr, Howland & Co. hardcover books
185610234NY: Appleton 1856. First US edn. 8vo Pp. 516 adv. A nice tight copy. Wright II. 2646 BAL 21263 BAL printing C no sequence established; Binding 1 no sequence established. Appleton unknown books
185611326NY: Appleton 1856. First US edn. 8vo Pp. 516 adv. A nice tight copy with some minor external wear. Wright II. 2646 BAL 21263 BAL printing C no sequence established; Binding 1 no sequence established. Appleton unknown books
185610301NY: Appleton 1856. First US edn. 8vo Pp. 516 adv. A nice tight copy. Wright II. 2646 BAL 21263 BAL printing A no sequence established; Binding 2 no sequence established. Appleton unknown books
185635484New York: D. Appleton and Company 1856. 1st edition BAL 21263; Wright II 2646. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt spine lettering & boards stamped in blind BAL Binding Style #1. Spine a bit dull. Period pos to ffep & preliminary blank. Some foxing. A VG copy. 516 8 pp. With state B of the adverts no priority established. 12mo. 7-7/8" x 5" <br/><br/> D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
186742760London: James Nisbet & Co. 1867. Twenty-Sixth Thousand cf. BAL 21266. Original publisher's purple cloth binding with gilt spine lettering & boards stamped in blind. Shaken with a few loose gatherings & rear hinge cracked. Poi to ffep with abrasion mark underneath. Occasional spot & smudge. A Good copy of an uncommon title. vii 1 blank 479 1 8 pp. 8 page publisher catalogue concludes volume. Frontis & 7 inserted chromolithographed plates by Evans. 12mo. <br/><br/> James Nisbet & Co. hardcover books
18742288751American Publishing Company 1874. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Hoppin; Stephens; Williams; White; et al. Early printing of BAL 3357. Only one imprint on title page. Includes fold-out with several Japanese tissue repairs on reverse. Rebacked with original backstrip laid down boards rubbed. 1874 Hard Cover. xvi 17-574 2 pp. 8vo. First published in 1873 The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America -- an age of corruption when crooked land speculators ruthless bankers and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nation's peacetime optimism. With his characteristic wit and perception Mark Twain and his collaborator Charles Dudley Warner attack the greed lust and naivete of their own time in a work which endures as a valuable social document and one of America's most important satirical novels. American Publishing Company hardcover books
18742288750American Publishing Company / F.G. Gilman & Co 1874. Reprint. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Hoppin; Stephens; Williams; White; et al. Early printing of BAL 3357. Rebacked with original black morocco spine labels laid down new gilt rules. Edges rubbed corners exposed. Includes fold-out with tear along one panel repaired with Japanese tissue. 1874 Full-Leather. xvi 17-574 2 pp. 8vo. First published in 1873 The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America -- an age of corruption when crooked land speculators ruthless bankers and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nation's peacetime optimism. With his characteristic wit and perception Mark Twain and his collaborator Charles Dudley Warner attack the greed lust and naivete of their own time in a work which endures as a valuable social document and one of America's most important satirical novels. American Publishing Company / F.G. Gilman & Co hardcover books
18742288752American Publishing Company 1874. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Hoppin; Stephens; Williams; White; et al. Early printing of BAL 3357. Lacks fold-out. Edges rubbed through on portions of fore edge front board lightly stained cloth just beginning to split on rear joint front hinge just starting light stain on marginal corner of a few pages. McKays bookstore ad laid in. 1874 Hard Cover. xvi 17-574 2 pp. 8vo. First published in 1873 The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America -- an age of corruption when crooked land speculators ruthless bankers and dishonest politicians voraciously took advantage of the nation's peacetime optimism. With his characteristic wit and perception Mark Twain and his collaborator Charles Dudley Warner attack the greed lust and naivete of their own time in a work which endures as a valuable social document and one of America's most important satirical novels. American Publishing Company hardcover books
1884BBJC11432Hartford Conn.: American Publishing Company 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's dark brown cloth stamped in gilt on upper board and spine; 8vo; pp. i-xvi 17-574 2 appendix illustrated throughout. Boards and spine lightly rubbed; spine tips and corners a little bumped and frayed. Internally clean. An excellent early copy. <br/><br/> American Publishing Company hardcover books
187421493Hartford: American Publishing Company 1874. First Edition second issue. Illustrated by Hoppin Stephens Williams White and others. 1 vols. 8vo. Original publisher's sheep black leather spine labels lettered in gilt front cover rehinged else fine. First Edition second issue. Illustrated by Hoppin Stephens Williams White and others. 1 vols. 8vo. With a Page of Charles Dudley Warner's Manuscript. With a page of octavo manuscript in Warner's hand about 130 words concerning the character Philip Sterling with reflections on the fairer sex "It is probably on account of the lack of enterprise in women that they are not as fond of stock speculations and mine ventures as men. It is only when woman becomes demoralized that she takes to any sort of gambling.". BAL 3357 American Publishing Company unknown books
18925020bdBoston: Lothrop Lee & Shepard Co. 1892. Royal octavo illustrated gold cloth hardcover 126 pp. Good with minor soiling and edgewear to covers. Photographs gladly provided upon request. Contents: Some Dogs’ Opinions of the Dog Show; Woggie’s Wonders; Mother’s Cousin Nathan; Jenny Ring; May’s Musical Bars; The Broom Fairies; Mr. and Mrs. Flyaway “At Home;†Old Tyler; “Who Lives in Mamma’s Work Bag; The Clothes-Line Imps. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1892. hardcover books