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18852090202120408787Osaka Doshisha Publishing Co. Ltd. Reprinted by Hanai Usuke 1885. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Osaka Doshisha Publishing Co., Ltd. (Reprinted by Hanai Usuke) paperback
18802508180030American Book Company 1880. Revised. Hardcover. Very Good. 19th Century American Education 12mo pp. 174; original blue printed paper-covered boards. Very minor shelf wear a clean copy. <br> A revision of the American speller made by Aaron Ely who was hired for this task by Noah Webster in 1828. See E.E.F. Skeel Webster p. 85 <br> Willie P. Mangum Weeks. Willie Person Mangum the North Carolina US Senator was Weeks' great grandfather. Sallie Mangum of Walnut Hall was his grandmother. American Book Company hardcover
1841111111114526Ira White 1841. Hardcover. Good. Ira White; Wells River 1841. Hardcover. A Good binding fragile cracked hinges wooden boards partially showing frayed spine buckram with several tears discolored boards previous owner handwritten ink info front pastedown age toned text block scattered foxing throughout rubbing along board edges exposed board corners without Dust wrapper. 18mooctodecimo or approx. 4.25 x 6.75. 168pp. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scans are available for any item please inquire. Ira White hardcover
182925497NY: J. P. Haven and R. Lockwood. Fair. 1829. First Edition. Hardcover. Disbound in the original boards with leather spine. The leather spine is pretty much gone but the contents are very good although the paper is darkening. As-is. ; 7"; 168 pages . J. P. Haven and R. Lockwood hardcover
1831203280165366Black Young and Young 1831. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. THIS COMPLETE TWO VOLUME SET IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY REBOUND IN FULL LEATHER WITH BLIND STAMPED RULE TO BOARDS SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINE WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD NEW END PAPERS AND PASTE DOWNS NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND CLEAN WITHOUT MARKS EXCEPT FOR PREVIOUS OWNER NAME TO TITLE PAGE LIGHT SPORADIC FOXING. BOOKS MEASURE 10.75"x9". FIRST UK EDITION 190 YEARS OLD. A SCARCE SET IN REMARKABLE CONDITION. Black, Young, and Young hardcover
186062247London:: John Camden Hotten 1860. New issue in four volumes. old half red morocco; gilt spines; over marbled boards. Slightest of use to bindings; a very attractive set. 12mo. With nearly one thousand illsutrations by the inimitable George Cruikshand and other artists. Noah Brooks's set with his bookplate in each volume in two of the four volumes it is at the rear and the old oval stamp of the Castine Maine Town Library. John Camden Hotten, hardcover
189134655New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1891. 1st Edition. Yellow cloth binding with gilt title lettering and brown and silver graphic stamped to front board and spine. Slight lean sunning to spine off-set to title page. A VG copy. 10 252 2 balnk pp. 16 b/w inserted plates. 7-1/2" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
187616091Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth cover with gilt and black blind stamped decor has modest wear to corners and light fraying to spine caps but clean bright and in very good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Antique bookplate of Richmond Library Association affixed to front paste down. End sheets and paste downs foxed and soiled. Frontispiece protected by tissue. Pages are toned and soiled from thumbing but in good condition. . . Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1828100584<p>Small 8vo leather spine cloth with cardboard covers 168 pp. Spine ends chipped and worn front joint cracked and tender corners showing covers a little warped some aging browning and staining but internally in very good condition. Noah Webster 1758-1843 first introduced his spelling book in 1783 and it would become the basic schoolbook for children in early 19th century America. Revised many times by Webster it would teach generations of Americans how to read and spell. </p> Robert H. Sherburne, books
182258417Brattleborough Vt: Holbrook & Fessenden n.d. 1822. 8vo pp. 168 including frontispiece 8 woodcut illustrations in text decorative woodcut border on title; original cloth-backed paper-covered boards; contemporary signature on front board of Silvester Barns; covers soiled some water-staining; ink stain on rear board; pages toned; hinges starting; binding firm. Skeel tentatively dates this as 1822 "because it is virtually identical with the Brattleboro 1821 edition and because 1822 is the only gap in a series of Dated Brattleboro editions appearing annually." Skeel 195; American Imprints 19235. <br/><br/> Holbrook & Fessenden, n.d. hardcover books
1843262665Wells River: Ira White 1843. hardcover. good. Frontis. and several text engravings. 168pp. 18mo original calf-backed boards boards worn and lightly soiled scattered light foxing. Wells River VT: Ira White 1843.<br/><br/> Ira White unknown books
1826288356New York: The Sunday School Depository 1826. First Edition. Full Leather. Good binding. An uncommon hymnal designed for the use of mariners -- "necessary wherever public worship is held for the benefit of this valuable class of our fellow-men and by mariners themselves when 'afar off at sea'". Compiled by the founder of American Baptist Publication Society and the father of Noah Davis who taught Moral Philosophy at the University of Virginia for decades in the post-Civil War era. Japanese tissue paper repair to the top edge of the spine; lacking the endpapers and final page of the index. Mottled calf with red leather label on the spine. 4 293 1 pp. AI 24307. Good binding. The Sunday School Depository unknown books
1823195022Brattleboro VT: Holbrook and Fessenden 1823. Leather. Fair. 158p. A leatherbound book in POOR CONDITION. The front cover is badly torn and weakly held together with clear tape. The spine and back cover are heavily chafed as well. Pages edges worn and last page of text torn. Foxing and toning throughout. Pages remain tightly bound despite external damage. OFFERED AS-IS. After Webster's copyright expired in 1818 there were numerous pirated editions of his spelling book. This is an edition from Vermont printed in 1823. Holbrook and Fessenden unknown
18271329Holbrook and Fessenden Brattleborough VT 1827. Revised Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Poor Condition. Book Skeel 220. The revised impression with the latest corrections. The title page lacks a date but she dates it as 1827 based upon Table LII Of Numbers which provides examples of Roman numerals the last being for 1827 p. 144. She describes this printing as "Undated and different in make-up from other Holbrook and Fessenden editions. . This edition resembles most closely that of Middletown 1829." OCLC shows no holdings for this particular printing though Skeel in 1958 reported seven copies at Yale Harvard the Henry Ford Museum NYPL Columbia University Western Reserve Historical Society and Middlebury College. Size: 5"-6" - Vigesimo-quarto 24mo. 168 pages. Item Type: Book. The text block is tight. The first few pages are are folded at the bottom corner. A few internal pages 87-92 are folded at the upper corner. The illustrations for the fables are similar to Alexander Anderson's first set Plate XIII in Skeel but some of them have been reversed from his originals. The rag paper is supple. Some pages in the middle 75-111 have a tide mark at the gutter. Exposure to moisture may have resulted in the small white dry bumps adhering to the surface on the pages up to 68. Bound with a leather spine and blue paper over wooden boards. The outside paper of the front cover has perished along with over a third of the board itself exposing the cloth ribbons. The front pastedown is loose has lost the bottom corner and is tattered at the middle of the outside edge from the sharp edges of the board. The paper of the rear cover and the rear board are mostly intact. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Language & Linguistics; Spellers; Americana; United States; 19th century; Antiquarian & Rare. Main Picture: Noah Webster 1827 The American Spelling Book - Front cover with exposed board. Picture 2: Noah Webster 1827 The American Spelling Book - Rear cover. Picture 3: Noah Webster 1827 The American Spelling Book - Title page. Picture 4: Noah Webster 1827 The American Spelling Book - Copyright notice. Picture 5: Noah Webster 1827 The American Spelling Book - Preface with March 1818 date. Picture 6: Noah Webster 1827 The American Spelling Book - Montage of woodcuts for the Fables. Picture 7: Noah Webster 1827 The American Spelling Book - Table LII - Of Numbers showing the diagnostic 1827 date. Picture 8: Noah Webster 1827 The American Spelling Book - Table with census data. Picture 9: Noah Webster 1827 The American Spelling Book - Page lit to highlight the small white bumps on pages in the front of the book. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1329. . Holbrook and Fessenden hardcover
182833789Cincinnati OH: Morgan & Sanxay. Good. 1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Good hardcover edition has a previous owner's name and date on the front endpaper. The paper covering the boards has almost completely worn away. The cloth covering on the spine is worn and frayed in places. Binding is tight. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 168 pages . Morgan & Sanxay hardcover
181264412Boston: printed . by E. G. House . for John West and Co 1812. 12mo pp. vi 7-168pp. 8 woodcuts illustrative of 8 fables; small pinhole through the first 40 pages of text small piece missing from the fore-edge of M1 causing loss to a few letters some dampstaining and light general wear but generally a very good copy in original calf-backed paper-covered boards. Also with sections on the analysis of sounds in the English language and additional lessons on domestic economy various aspects of morality frugality industry etc. Skeel 135 noting that this edition contains the 1810 census figures - in fact it is the 1800 census numbers which are present. printed ... by E. G. House ... for John West and Co unknown
1810004762Albany: Printed by William S. Dorr 1810. Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 168p . First Revised Impression 1810. Paper covered boards leather backing. Cover worn and chipped scattered staining and light foxing to contents pages 15-24 missing several first few pages have been gnawed at lower gutter and chipped along edges with some loss of text title page and remainder of text quite sound and complete former owner's name and date December 2 1811 on front and rear endpapers. <br/> <br/> Printed by William S. Dorr hardcover
1809373829Brattleborough VT: Printed by William Fessenden for Fessenden Holbrook & Porter 1809. Woodcut illustrations. 168pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf-backed blue paper covered scaleboard losses to blue paper. A few leaves a bit tattered with losses C2-C4 a few edge tears. With an early owner's collage of creative word clippings on the pastedowns. Woodcut illustrations. 168pp. 12mo. A scarce Vermont edition first published under title: A grammatical institute of the English language . part 1. No copy of this edition at AAS. The early owner's collage of creative word clippings clipped evidently from other books or printed material is on the front pastedown in part a found poem and in part a mneumonic for the months. The clippings mounted on the rear pastedown are mostly a list of names. Highly unusual. Steel 119; Shaw 19172; McCorison 1128. Steel 119; Shaw 19172; McCorison 1128 <br/><br/> Printed by William Fessenden, for Fessenden, Holbrook & Porter unknown
181960046Albany: Websters and Skinners 1819. 12mo pp. 168; 8 woodcuts illustrating 8 fables; contemporary home-made calf binding with blind geometric details naively executed and with a few holes in the skin; nibbling to textblock corner resulting in loss of last word on 3 leaves and again on bottom edge with loss of type on 7 leaves tidestain on top edge with the ownership signature of Samuel Kinnes many times on endpapers with the warning "steal not this book for fear of shame for hear sic you see the owner's name." Kinnes dates his purchase of the book twice as 1818. Skeel 176. Websters and Skinners unknown
1828100584<p>Small 8vo leather spine cloth with cardboard covers 168 pp. Spine ends chipped and worn front joint cracked and tender corners showing covers a little warped some aging browning and staining but internally in very good condition. Noah Webster 1758-1843 first introduced his spelling book in 1783 and it would become the basic schoolbook for children in early 19th century America. Revised many times by Webster it would teach generations of Americans how to read and spell.</p> Robert H. Sherburne,
1843262665Wells River: Ira White 1843. hardcover. good. Frontis. and several text engravings. 168pp. 18mo original calf-backed boards boards worn and lightly soiled scattered light foxing. Wells River VT: Ira White 1843.<br/> <br/> Ira White unknown
181712537Concord NH: J. Perkins 1817. Woodcut headpieces. Original cloth-backed blue boards; boards rubbed and soiled title-page faded light age toning. Revised edition. J. Perkins unknown
183500278903Sanbornville New Hampshire: Samuel Gerrish Hayes 1835 1835 Original Stiff Paper. Fair. Revised Edition. School Book. Owner's Name. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. paper covered wood chips tears leather spine damaged tight foxing stains scarce edition with 144 pgs. "revised with latest corrections" 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover. Fair. Sanbornville, New Hampshire: Samuel Gerrish Hayes, 1835 hardcover
1893312879New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1893. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Ex-library name inked on title page bottom text block edge and rear pastedown. Light shelfwear on spine crown and heel and panel corners. Light foxing on top text block edge.; Men of Achievement. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1850114391850 P., Chez Aubert & Cie, s.d. (ca. 1850), 1 vol. in-4° oblong (268 x 340) sous cartonnage vert éditeur illustré en noir et titré à lor, de (1) f. (titre) - 30 planches.Dos recollé, coins émoussés, cartonnage légèrement poussiéreux, pâles rousseurs éparses, bon exemplaire dans son rare cartonnage éditeur.