Magazines

1884 · 6983 — NY: The Century Co. Very Good. 1884-88. Hardcover. 7 volumes. First appearances of the articles that eventually were issued as a 4 volume set edited by Johnson and Buel. Articles written by Ulysses S. Grant; ; Mark Twain; Gen. James Longstreet; George B. McClellan; D. H. HillGeorge W Cable; Lew Wallace; G. T. Beauregard; scores of others many whoe were Genrals in the Union or the CConfederate armies. Each volume is half-leather over pebbled cloth 4 raised bands gilt titles on spine. Frontispiece with each issue. Other contributors or articles include: "The Bostonians" by Henry James; Joel Chandler Harris; 3 excerpts from "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain; "The Rise of Silas Lapham" by W. D. Howells; ; John Burroughs; "Hunting the Rocky Mountain Goat"; "Greeley at Cape Sabine" by Charles H. Harlow; a number of articles on different dog breeds; "Creole Slave Songs" by George W. Cable; Ballooning; "Riding to Hounds on Long Island" by Theodore Roosevelt; "Gloucester Fishers"; Homing Pigeons; "Camping Out in California"; "English as She is Taught" by Twain; "Abraham Lincoln: A History" by Nicolay and Hay; "Machine Politics in New York City" by Roosevelt; "The White Man of the New South"; "Animal Locomotion in the Muybridge Photographs"; "Among the Apaches" and "An Elk Hunt on the Plains" by Frederick Schwatka; "meisterschaft: In Three Acts" by Twain; "Ranch Life in the Far West" by Roosevelt with illustrations by Frederic Remington; George Kennan on Russia; much more. Light soiling on cloth; light rubbing and wear on spines. . The Century Co. hardcover