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1887230131-MB33London: Longmans Green and Co. 1887. Two volume set ex-library with stamps rebound illustrated. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Cover. Longmans, Green and Co. hardcover
189542369London: Longman Green 1895. Cover has rubbing and scratches First pastedwon badly damaged by ink and childrens pen marks F-fep have large tears and some amatuer sellotape repairs spine is sprung colour illus in remarkable condition look brand new PP clean and tidy. Hard. Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo Landscape. Longman Green Hardcover
18906qlzeRichard Bentley and Sons 1890. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Publication of 267 pages. Name and small bookplate of the previous owner. Complete with all plates. Volume number One only. There is gilt on the spine of the book and decoration on the front cover. Frontispiece. The boards are a little shelf rubbed slightly faded marks and a touch edge worn. Internally in good condition considering the age of the book 1890. The pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Richard Bentley and Sons hardcover
19009617Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. Early printing. 8vo 139 viii pp. Illustrations several color plates. Publisher's olive cloth ruled and lettered in gilt with black illustration on front board in original illustrated orange paper jacket. Near fine book with light wear at spine ends. Jacket with chipping at corners and spine ends. <br /> <br /> Native American songs folklore stories poems etc. all nicely illustrated for the young student. This copy very scarce in the original jacket. . Houghton, Mifflin and Company unknown
188219hmRichard Bentley and Son 1882. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The plate facing page 320 is not present otherwise all other plates are accounted for. This book has recently been beautifully rebound in full brown leather with new end pages. It has a previous owner's stamp mark and there is sporadic foxing throughout. square and tight. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Richard Bentley and Son hardcover
188320200378Winsted CT: M. W. Dowd & Co 1883. General wear. Minor tear on back cover. A book written by two housewives for other housewives full of recipes which would enable them to make a different dessert each night for husbands and families for a single year. The recipes used in the book were gathered from a variety of print materials or other women and each recipe has been credited. In addition to the desserts there are recipes provided for the sick general recipes for sauces or pie dough and general cooking tips. There are numerous pages of advertisements for local Connecticut business scattered throughout. The book was published for the benefit of the West Cemetery Association of Bristol CT. 109 numbered pages with numerous unnumbered pages of advertisements and a 3 page index. Blue printed wrappers. OCLC 1 Nov. 2020. Measures 8" x 5 1/2 M. W. Dowd & Co unknown
1896370821Boston: Roberts Brothers. London: John Lane Vigo St 1896. First American Edition. Illus title-page by P.W. 210 12 ads.pp. Printed at the Univerrsity Press Cambridge Mass. 2mo. Rust cloth stamped in black. Some minor rubbing. First American Edition. Illus title-page by P.W. 210 12 ads.pp. Printed at the Univerrsity Press Cambridge Mass. 2mo. Purdy p.304. "The Spectre of the Real" on pp.165-210. Purdy p.304. "The Spectre of the Real" on pp.165-210 <br/><br/> Roberts Brothers. London: John Lane Vigo St hardcover
1876157514Chicago: Jansen 1876. 12mo pp. 1-6 7-282 1-4: ads flyleaves at front and rear original decorated brown cloth front and rear panels stamped in blind spine panel stamped in gold brown coated endpapers. First edition. Eleven stories most of them dark tales of mental aberration. The title story concerns the invention of a machine to amplify sound and the murder of an elderly deaf woman who tries to take the instrument away from its inventor. Most of the stories can be characterized as Gothic fantasies. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 546. Bleiler 1978 p. 131. Not in Reginald 1979. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1087. Wright III 3531 locating 2 copies. Cloth lightly worn at spine ends 25 mm narrow loss of cloth along lower fore-edge of front cover scattered foxing to text block a very good copy. Scarce. #157514 Jansen unknown books
1895515565New York: D. Appleton and Company 1895. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition. Blue cloth stamped in gilt and silver. Lightly rubbed at tips of spine small surface abrasion and spot of glue residue on front and rear pastedowns else a fine copy. The English-born author She wrote more than 150 novels primarily mysteries and gained fame for her mystery novel The House on the Marsh. Uncommon. Hubin. Crime Fiction p414 published in England in the same year. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1898318852London : Bedford Press 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii 238p. plates ; 24cm. Subjects: St. Mary's Church Hurley Berkshire England. Church history -- Great Britain. London : Bedford Press hardcover
188914905NY: John Wiley & Sons. Very Good. 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. The covers are soiled and the front inner hinge is starting to crack. Just a bit of rubbing at the corners & spine ends. Otherwise nice & tight. The contents are "fine". Owner's stamp inside the covers an early assayer . ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 200ads pages . John Wiley & Sons hardcover
189976955London New York & Bombay: Longmans Green & Co. 1899. Oblong 4to. 64 pp. Red cloth spine over colour pictorial boards. Tape repairs to pages and reinforcement to hinges. Wear to edges of binding scattered foxing throughout. Full-page colour chromolithographic illustrations throughout by Florence K. Upson. Colours vibrant. Binding firm. A Fair to Good copy. . Fair. Pictorial Boards. 1899. Longmans, Green & Co. 1899 hardcover
1899009515London: Longman's Green & Co. 1899. Hardcover. Fair. First edition of Florence Upton's 4th children's story to feature the Golliwog. With 32 colour plates by Florence and verse by her mother Bertha. Oblong 4to. Rubbing to edges toning to covers. Tearing to title page with loss to top edge not effecting text. Mild offsetting throughout. Slight weakening to hinges. Fair. <br/> <br/> Longman's, Green & Co. hardcover
18992289600H.S. Nichols Ltd 1899. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition one of 500 copies. Boards lightly soiled bookplate of Alexander Cochrane on each front endpaper. 1899 Hard Cover. Complete in three volumes. xlviii 337 3; vii 1 348; viii 356 pp. 8vo. Translated with an introduction and notes by J.H. Freese. Includes frontispieces of Madame d'Epinay Jean Jacques Rousseau and Le Baron de Grimm. Madame d'Epinay "was a French writer a saloniste and woman of fashion known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior Baron von Grimm and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who gives unflattering reports of her in his Confessions as well as her acquaintanceship with Denis Diderot Jean le Rond d'Alembert Baron d'Holbach and other French men of letters during the Enlightenment. She was also one of many women referenced in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex as an example of noble expansion of women's rights during the 18th century." - Wikipedia H.S. Nichols Ltd hardcover books
1899184031London: H.S. Nichols 1899. Hardcover. Good light shelfwear to boards expected age toning to pages but text is otherwise very clean and clear. Bookplate of previous owner inside each front cover. Volume 3 frontis is torn loose protective tissue guard sheet has tears. Three volume set bound in red cloth with gilt tooling and lettering; each volume has a bw illustrated frontispiece with protective guard sheet; Volume 1 xlviii 337 pp. Volume 2 348 pp. Volume 3 356 pp. "Edition strictly limited to 500 copies." Includes bibliographical references v. 1 pages xlv-xlvi. Translated with introduction and brief notes by J.H. Freese. H.S. Nichols hardcover books
1882145518Philadelphia: Porter and Coates 1882. First Edition. First Edition. With color illustrations by the author. <br/><br/>Very Good in illustrated boards with gilt titles and page edges. Contemporary gift inscription to the first blank. Boards lightly soiled and rubbed with a tide mark to the rear board. Interior pages lightly foxed. Porter and Coates unknown books
1883WRCLIT81958Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey 1883. 44pp. Printed wrappers. Divinity school library release stamp in lower margin of title otherwise very good or better. First edition of this lecture by the Anglo- American theologian and novelist then the Rector of the Church of St. Michael in Baltimore. Kirkus published two rare pseudonymous novels while still resident in the UK: FREDERICK RIVES INDEPENDENT PARSON 1864 and ONLY TO BE MARRIED 3 vols. 1867. OCLC locates eight copies of this work. OCLC: 33002515. Cushings & Bailey unknown books
18897621London and New York: Offices of "Engineering" and John Wiley & Sons 1889 First edition. 4 200pp. plus 20 pages of advertisements. 28 illustrations. Index. Olive green cloth gilt. Rubbing to extremities a bit of spotting to covers endpapers darkened. A very good copy. Chapters include Some Properties of Gold; Occurrences; Remarks on the Procedure of Late Years; Losses; Remedies; Free Milling etc. Offices of "Engineering" and John Wiley & Sons hardcover books
1898010292Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1898 1898. Green cloth ruled in blind pictorially stamped and titled in gilt minor rubbing to extremities erasure mark to endpaper pages slightly age-toned at edges. Easy-to-read stories poems and songs drawing from Native American mythology folklore and culture. Illustrated with 8 color plates by E Boyd smith other full- and partial-page artwork in b&w. Uncommon in such beautiful condition. Early Printing. Pictorial Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by E Boyd Smith. 8vo. Houghton Mifflin hardcover
1893437New York: E.P. Dutton and Company 1893. Near fine. Rare first edition of this early Upton title following the life of a little girl in the 1890s. A scarce and little known work illustrated by Florence Upton issued two years before the first of the Golliwogg books with Bertha Upton that made her famous. OCLC finds only two institutional holdings one the copyright deposit copy at LOC. A lovely copy. 8.25'' x 6''. Original quarter gilt-stamped cloth gilt floral paper boards. Illustrated by Upton with 9 halftone plates and a vignette. 65 1 pages. Ink gift inscription from Christmas 1893 to front fly leaf. Light toning to spine corners a touch worn. Hinges firm interior clean. E.P. Dutton and Company unknown
1895515641New York: D. Appleton and Company 1895. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. 12mo. Blue cloth stamped in gilt and silver. Front hinge mended to coated endpapers with rear hinge starting short tear on rear fly small surface abrasion on rear pastedown with a spot of glue residue on front pastedown very good. The English-born author She wrote more than 150 novels primarily mysteries and gained fame for her mystery novel The House on the Marsh. Uncommon. Hubin. Crime Fiction p414 published in England in the same year. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1898RHALLIT00ECLothrop Publishing Company 1898. Very Good. Hall Florence Howe. Little Lads and Lassies : Stories in Prose and Verse About and For Them. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company 1898. 1st edition. Illustrated. 4to. Book condition: Very good. The spine ends are lightly bumped. The boards are exposed along the edges. Contemporary owner's name and date on front free endsheet in pencil. The pages are clean and bright. Charming chromolithographs. Lothrop Publishing Company hardcover books
1898RHALLIT00ECLothrop Publishing Company 1898. Very Good. Hall Florence Howe. Little Lads and Lassies : Stories in Prose and Verse About and For Them. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company 1898. 1st edition. Illustrated. 4to. Book condition: Very good. The spine ends are lightly bumped. The boards are exposed along the edges. Contemporary owner's name and date on front free endsheet in pencil. The pages are clean and bright. Charming chromolithographs. Lothrop Publishing Company hardcover
1888345785London : Eyre & Spottiswoode 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy bound in quarter cloth over warm paper boards. Some slight wear and tear as with age. Front board starting. Remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 38 pages. Subjects; Conduct of life ; Juvenile literature. Nannies ; Juvenile literature. Children's stories 19th century ; Juvenile literature. London : Eyre & Spottiswoode hardcover
1880N48375Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1880. unknown. gebraucht gut HalbLeinen-Band der Zeit Goldschnitt Dünndruck Einband etwas stärker berieben und fleckigBesitzervermerk auf der Innenseiteeinige Seiten leicht geknicktsonst GUTE EXEMPLARE. 16x12 cm. zu 1. Collection of British Authors Tauchnitz Edition vol. 1874; zu 2. Collection of British Authors Tauchnitz Edition vol. 1005" Für Ihre Zufriedenheit versenden wir mit DHL und ausschließlich mit Trackingcode für eine sichere Sendungsverfolgung! Weitere Angebote unter antiquariat-kastanienhof Tauchnitz unknown