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1899HVD-36683-A-0New York NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1899. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. 464 pages; Heavy yellowing to pages. Foxing throughout the book. Light scratches to back cover. Rubbing shelf wear to cover edges. Small blemish and light stain to spine. Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. ; - We're committed to your satisfaction. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. . G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
185027011003Philadelphia PA: Fisher & Bro Fisher & Denison c1850. Covers show some wear mostly on the edges due to rubbing. The embossed covers have faded and therefore it is hard to tell the design. . 192 pp. Cloth stamped boards. Miniature book. Wood-cut drummer boy frontisepiece. This book has several short stories along with over a half a dozen charming black and white illustrations to go along with. A list of the stories found within are as follows: Little Joseph the Child of the Sea The Bishop and his Birds Grace Greenwood The Power of a Word The Christmas Sheaf Even a Child May Do Something A Safe House to Sleep In A Pleasure for A Child The Ragged Boy The Bishop's Place of Prayer The Bear What the Ostrich Can Eat A Word with a Beautiful Meanings Keeping the Rain Off A Incident at Fort Sumter Artlessness and Those Boys. The stories showcase good deeds and morals for children to learn. Measures 2 1/4" x 2". <br/><br/> Fisher & Bro, Fisher & Denison hardcover books
185027011003Philadelphia PA: Fisher & Bro Fisher & Denison 1850. 192 pp. Cloth stamped boards. Miniature book. Wood-cut drummer boy frontisepiece. This book has several short stories along with over a half a dozen charming black and white illustrations to go along with. A list of the stories found within are as follows: Little Joseph the Child of the Sea The Bishop and his Birds Grace Greenwood The Power of a Word The Christmas Sheaf Even a Child May Do Something A Safe House to Sleep In A Pleasure for A Child The Ragged Boy The Bishop's Place of Prayer The Bear What the Ostrich Can Eat A Word with a Beautiful Meanings Keeping the Rain Off A Incident at Fort Sumter Artlessness and Those Boys. The stories showcase good deeds and morals for children to learn. Measures 2 1/4" x 2" Covers show some wear mostly on the edges due to rubbing. The embossed covers have faded and therefore it is hard to tell the design. Fisher & Bro, Fisher & Denison unknown
18901088Frederick A. Stokes New York 1890. 1st. Hardcover. A well-preserved copy of the 1890 1st edition. VG in its original green cloth with bright gilt-lettering and gilt-bordered embossed pictorial on front panel. Minor scuffing to front and back panels and a bit of customary fading to the spine. Still a sharp crisp copy. Octavo 217 pgs. Frederick A. Stokes, New York hardcover
18901088Frederick A. Stokes New York 1890. 1st. Hardcover. A well-preserved copy of the 1890 1st edition. VG in its original green cloth with bright gilt-lettering and gilt-bordered embossed pictorial on front panel. Minor scuffing to front and back panels and a bit of customary fading to the spine. Still a sharp crisp copy. Octavo 217 pgs. <br/><br/> Frederick A. Stokes, New York hardcover books
1866290944Boston.: L. Prang & Co. 1866. Brown cloth gilt cover title. Good plus cover extremities worn a marginal tear to first plate endpapers toned. 27.5x23 cm. A nice production by the noted pioneer in chromolithography. weight: 1.4 lb. Three illustrations and poetry text surrounded by elaborate borders on each page. L. Prang & Co. hardcover
1899R100070741Frederick A.Stokes Company. 1899. In-8. Cartonnage d'éditeurs. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. VIII+352 pages - quelques planches en noir et blanc dont une en frontispice - livre en anglais - quelques rousseurs, papier jauni.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
1891320624New York: E. P. Dutton & Co 1891. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by W. Rainey. Very Good in boards. Owner name inked on FEP. Shelfwear on panel corners and spine crown and heel. Light foxing on gilded text block edges. E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover
1866BOOKS1985Boston MA: L. Prange and Company. Good condition: hinges broken binding weak cover soiled/No Dustjacket. 1866. 4to. unpaginated . L. Prange and Company unknown
187796514Chicago: J.A. Ruth & Co 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original hardcover in blue cloth boards with title and picture on front contained within a decorative flourish. Spine is similarly decorated. Light wear to edges and corners of boards. Small patches of discoloration on rear panel. One or several blank endpages appear to be missing from the beginning of the book. Brown endpapers are present and title page is intact. Tight binding clean pages no writing in book. Covers manners in public and almost every other etiquette topic imaginable circa 1877. 8vo. 352 pp. <br/><br/> J.A. Ruth & Co hardcover
189836062London: Ernest Nister 1898. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Some cracking to cover at spine. Owner inscription. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Ernest Nister hardcover
18999021899. HALL Ruth. THE BOYS OF SCROOBY. Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company 1899. Small 8vo. pictorial gray cloth. First Edition. Signed presentation from Hall on the front endpaper: "Edward Merrill Hall from his affectionate Aunt The Author. Christmas A.D. 1899." With the ink name of Warren Robert Ward on the front pastedown. Very Good tiny stain front cover; rear hinge cracked but still tight. Scarce!! $175.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1899902Houghton 1899. HALL Ruth. THE BOYS OF SCROOBY. Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company 1899. Small 8vo. pictorial gray cloth. First Edition. Signed presentation from Hall on the front endpaper: "Edward Merrill Hall from his affectionate Aunt The Author. Christmas A.D. 1899." With the ink name of Warren Robert Ward on the front pastedown. Very Good tiny stain front cover; rear hinge cracked but still tight. Scarce!! $175.00. Houghton unknown
1899324216New York: Putnam 1899. hardcover. very good. Two volumes. Illustrated in black and white with three folding map. xiv 470; xii 462 pages. 8vo 3/4 brown leather backed marbled boards top edges gilt. New York: Putnam 1899. Some light wear to edges and hinges -- still internally clean and tight. Third impression. Very good.<br/> <br/> Papers on Dutch and Colonial New York City.<br/> <br/> Putnam unknown
1898384237New York: H. Ingalls Kimball 1898. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Blue cloth stamped in red and lettered in gilt. Modest rubbing tiny nicks on the edges of a couple pages else near fine. Inscribed by the author. Wright III. 4900. H. Ingalls Kimball hardcover
1880779New York: Union Publishing House 1880. Good. <p>Octavo. 352 pp. Royal blue boards heavily stamped in black and gold leaf. Spine ends frayed; corner edges worn. Front inner hinge partially split through the brown coated endpapers showing exposed backing web. Toned internal pages. Title page and preliminary sheets bear a neat 1891 ink ownership inscription from Ellwood City Pennsylvania with an early pencil marking to the upper copyright field.<br /> <br /> The definitive manual governing Gilded Age American behavioral customs. Sold strictly by door-to-door subscription agents this comprehensive textbook outlines the rigid social guidelines required to navigate late nineteenth-century urban society. Chapters provide explicit detailed advice on early courtship etiquette dinner party seat assignments proper ballroom coordination appropriate funeral mourning dress and complex moral philosophy. Desirable for its striking portrait binding variant.</p> . Union Publishing House unknown
18981509010003G. P. Putnam 1898-01-01. Hardcover. Like New. 8 Volume set of the 12 volumes issue of the 1st series. Pamphlets rebound in brown cloth. Gilt to front boards. Original yellow wraps. Publishers marks to prices on front wraps to double price. Good bindings and covers. Minimal shelfwear. Near fine. Clean unmarked pages. <br>Contents are: I. The Stadt Huys of New Amsterdam / by A.M. Earle -- G. P. Putnam hardcover
1898x07181New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1898. 8vo. xiv 462 2 pp pub adds; 470 2 pp pub adds with frontispieces 3 folding maps of Manhattan in the first volume. Green cloth with gilt lettering and seals to spines and front boards top edges gilt. Very Good. Slight wear to extremities of boards top corners of second volume mildly bumped. Second volume published in 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1893991G65London: T. Fisher Unwin 1893 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 6". G.P. Jacomb-Hood; J.A.J. Brindley. A very scarce illustrated first edition of this exploration of the history of ancient mythology. A very scarce work.The first edition.In publisher's original blue cloth binding. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 3 plates by G.P. Jacomb-Hood and J.A.J. Brindley. Collated complete. A work that explores the themes of tragedy and mortality that pervade this ancient mythology. Her analysis contextualizes the stories within the historical and cultural milieu in which they were crafted offering readers a renewed appreciation for the enduring power of Norse myths. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine with light fading. Very small odd marks to boards. Age toning and spotting to endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with spotting and age toning. Spotting is most significant to the front and rear of the work. Very Good T. Fisher Unwin hardcover
18961604220044Paris : Plon Nourrit 1896-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 volumes. 477 515 418 440 452 pp. 5 frontispieces facsimiles letters. Bound in contemporary 3.4 blue leather. Marbled boards. Gilt spine. 5 raised bands. AEG. Hardcover and dust jacket. Fine binding and cover. Shelfwear. Leather spines sunned. Stains to spines of Vol. I II and V. Clean unmarked pages. Contents: Vol. I: 1804-1823; Vol. II: 1823-1831; Vol III: 1831-1847. Vol. IV: 1847-1853. Vol. V: 1853-1862. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Paris : Plon Nourrit hardcover
1843AUB-3367Paris, J.-J. Dubochet 1843. Bel exemplaire relié, reliure demi cuir, dos orné avec titres or et dorures, 4 nerfs, gd in-8, XX + 292 pages avec notice et table + planches.
1900235859Massachusetts: Privately Printed 1900. 194 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Tan cloth. Very good. 194 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The story of Ruth Campbell written in the third person. <br/><br/>Not in OCLC. Privately Printed unknown books
1897008297<p>New York: Published for Will Bradley by R. H. Russell 1897 99 pages. Printed by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press in Springfield Massachusetts. Bound in paper-covered boards with paper spine label. A lovely copy of a book that is rare in this condition with just traces of wear at the extremities. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine.</p> Published for Will Bradley by R. H. Russell hardcover
1898972P2London; New York: Ernest Nister; E. P. Dutton & Co 1898. First edition. Cloth. Good Only. 9" by 11.5". Not Stated. The first edition of this uncommon and charming volume of stories about the domestic lives of animals with chromolithograph folding pop-up plates. The first edition.An uncommon work.A charming work exploring the lives of farmyard animals pets and their domestic lives with their families. With stories about the lives of rabbits geese pigs cats and more.Illustrated with five striking folding pop-up chromolithograph plates. Collated complete.Text is by L. L. Weedon Clifton Bingham and Ruth Dean.Undated dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards. Externally a little rubbed to the boards with a small amount of loss to the extremities. Small tidemark to the fore edge of the front board larger tidemark to the rear board. Light rubbing to the spine. A small amount of loss to the head and tail of the spine. Marks to the boards. Hinges are starting but firm. Tidemark to the rear paste down. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean. Pencil note to the first folding scene. Gift inscription to the head of the title page. One tab to the pig scene is detached to one side otherwise all scenes are in full working order with a couple of very small closed tears. Good Only Ernest Nister; E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover
189443936Harper & Brothers Publishers 1894. STUART Ruth McEnery. CARLOTTA'S INTENDED AND OTHER STORIES. NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1894. 12mo. red cloth stamped in black & gilt. Later Printing. Signed presentation by Stuart on title page: "Ruth McEnery Stuart. For Florance Hall Colgate. Sept.-1911." Also with two autograph letters signed from Stuart general chatty content. Near fine bright small ink name stamped on the front endpaper. $375.00. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books