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18897423Pictorial limp boards with text. Full color illustrations throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Discoloration to boards with small loss to front cover paper on right edge; light thumbing and spotting throughout see image. 10.25 x 7.5 inches. Shipped through USPS Priority insured mail. Fleming H. Revell paperback
183823863New Haven: B. Babcock 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green illustrated wrappers. Very good. 24 pages. 14.5 x 9 cm. Illustrated with woodcuts. OCLC lists only a later larger edition of 64 pages published 1844. Correspondence noted herein dated at turn of the 19th century. Inscription on title page back cover illustration. Interior contents clean front cover with small nick at fore-edge head and darkening head and foot. B. Babcock hardcover
18591980367Chicago: Book and Job Printing Office of Scott & Co 1859. Paperback. Used-Very Good. Octavo. 88 pp. Some wear toning smudging and chipping to wraps with heavy chipping & tearing to spine. Penciled notation to rear wrap. Mild toning to pages that are otherwise quite sound. Chicago: Book and Job Printing Office of Scott & Co paperback
187551010New York: Nelson & Phillips 1875. 8vo. 467 1 pp. plus 2 pp. publ. ads. Woodcut-engraved frontisp. numerous woodcut-engraved plates tissue guards woodcut-engraved text illustrations. Olive-green cloth gilt lettering on spine gilt illustration on front cover minor bumping to corners slight fraying head & foot of spine minor dustsoiling VG- copy. First edition of this travel account through the Yucatan up through Mexico to Mexico City over to Monterey and then onto Havana Cuba. Haven 1821-1880 was a radical abolitionist and strong advocate for civil and social rights who worked tirelessly for abolishing slavery and after the Civil War for securing equal social and political status for freed slaves and African-Americans. In addition he devoted time as a missionary to establish Methodist Churches in Mexico the Caribbean South America and Africa. See: Gilbert Haven Papers United Methodist Church General Commission on Archives & History 2016. Nelson & Phillips, hardcover
188373289n.p. 1883. Hardcover. Good. Small format ledger book with handwritten entries. Pages not numbered. 19 cm. Covers intact but worn around edges and heavily scuffed. Contents sound. Later typed labels identifying contents mounted on front cover and front free endpaper. hardcover
18910831182New York: G. P. Putnam 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In red cloth with gilt spine titling 8vo 412ppads. minor light shelfwear to extremities slight toning to page edges. G. P. Putnam hardcover
1872020398Boston and San Francisco: B. B. Russell and A. L. Bancroft 1872 Boston: Russell and Bancroft 1872. First Edition. 12mo. Cloth binding 445 pp. Frontispiece engraved portrait protective tissue. Illustrated with engravings. Top of spine rubbed. No writing inside hinges sound gilt titles and decoration bright. Very good. B. B. Russell and A. L. Bancroft hardcover
18962110502150407136Norifumi-kan 1896. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Norifumi-kan paperback
189114739New York: G P Putnam's Sons. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1891. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Light tone otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Subtitle continues: "Together with a report of the legislation now pending in Great Britain a sketch of the contest in the United States 1837-1891 in behalf of international copyright and certain papers on the development of the conception of literary property and the probable effects of the new American law." Published the same year as the passage of the US International Copyright Act of 1891 which first extended limited copyright protection to foreign copyright holders from select nations. "Chiefly reprints of papers originally published during the "copyright campaign" in the U.S." - WorldCat. "George Haven Putnam 1844-1930 was a publisher and author best known for his commitment to the establishment of national copyright legislation in the U.S. and to American adherence to the international copyright Convention of Berne. After serving in the U.S. Civil War he entered his father's publishing house G.P. Putnam's Sons. He assumed the presidency of the firm in 1872 and became an authority on the legal implications of copyright. In 1886 he formed the American Publishers' Copyright League and the English Speaking Union in the U.S." - NYPL George Haven Putnam papers. An interesting compilation of copyright law history by an influential American publisher and advocate of international copyright protections. ; Questions of the Day; Vol. 67; xii 142 2 ad pages . G P Putnam's Sons hardcover
1892006885Chicago: E. B. treat 1892. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Gilt lettering on brown cloth covered boards elaborately blind-stamped & decorated in black with gold lamp shining down on gold eagle superimposed on a shield. 8vo 552pp. plus ads. Corners lightly bumped bottom edge somewhat shelf-worn. A very attractive and interesting historical volume. <br/> <br/> E. B. treat hardcover
1896218688DNew York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1896. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 486 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Previous owner's bookplate on the fpdep. Lightly darkened on the ffep. Gilt on the top edges. Bound in brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Worn around the edges and spine. 2nd edition. VG <br/> <br/> G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
182755173N.p. 1827. First edition. old half morocco over marbled boards. First few leaves blanks at front and title page foxed; spine sunned; light scuffing to binding; tight and sound. 8vo. hardcover
1853516894New York: D. Appleton & Company 1853. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. 214 2 ads pp. Illustrated with pictorial chromolithographed title page of prospectors and engraved plates. Owner's early pencil name on front pastedown. slight fraying to cloth at tips and corners front fly neatly excised foxing a very good copy. Alice Bradley Haven was a prolific author of juvenile fiction. Not in Wright which does locate a number of other titles by this author. "Sam Gilman accompanies his father to California gold fields where Mr. Gilman dreams of finding instant wealth to support his family" from OCLC plot summary. D. Appleton & Company hardcover
1858101551New York: Appleton 1858. hardcover. very good. 336pp. 12mo blind stamped brown cloth; ex-lib with library label on some ink markings gilt-lettering and decoration on spine faded lightly rubbed. New York: Appleton 1858. First Edition. A very good copy.<br/> <br/> "A young married couple in upstate New York." Wright II 1129. "Her work.refected the pleasant side of life." Kunitz & Haycraft p. 347.<br/> <br/> Appleton unknown
1896rbr2-states441st ed. published 1876. Spine chipped 1 1/4" from top edge ow vg. Pocket-size edition. 148 pages including 3-page index and 7 pages of advertisements at back of book. Portsmouth Journal Job Print hardcover
1857002179General Protrstant Episcopal Sunday School Union 1857. Hardcover. Fair. Book is shelf worn and stained and had a lot of underlinings and note throughout. Very Scarce title.Religious writings. Alice Haven 1828-1863 nee Bradley was an American writer of poetry and short stories who wrote under the pen names of: Alice G. Lee Alice B. Neal Clara Cushman Mrs. Joseph C. Neal Alice B. Haven. <br/> <br/> General Protrstant Episcopal Sunday School Union hardcover
1879001013Hartford Connecticut: The Case Lockwood & Brainard Co. 1879. Three years of the New Haven City Yearbook bound together in an attractive Victorian binding limited to 1000 copies. Each year's publication contains a list of the officers of the City and Town Governments Reports of Department Heads Official Communications from the Mayor Public Documents Reports of Committess of the Court of Common Council Diagrams of Aldermen's and Other Chambers Miscellaneous Papers. Dark red cloth with lettering and the city seal in gilt other decorations in black 299 274 512 pages plus the indices for each year bound in at the back. Light edge and corner wear plus what looks like a puppy chew at the bottom of the spine which affects the exterior only - not the pages which are clean and free from chips tears markings etc. Hinges good binding sound. Internally near fine. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. Hardcover
