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189950576Philadelphia PA: J. B. Lippincott 1899. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. covers show a bit of darkening. 174 pages; 4 1/2 x 6 3/4 J. B. Lippincott hardcover
1900P-15633London: Macmillan 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Original green gilt designer buckram with maroon and gilt leaf motif framing title. From Minor Myers's library see Basbanes's PATIENCE AND FORTITUDE sold at auction. A very nice tight unmarked and bright copy. Extremely scarce. Macmillan hardcover
1900P-12729London: Macmillan 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Macmillan hardcover
188671145San Francisco: The San Franciscan 1886. First edition. Small octavo. 63 1 pp. Publisher's pebble-grain green cloth with gilt cover lettering. Very minr edge wear. A very good copy.Contributors include Mr. & Mrs. J. C. Lemmon H. W. Harkness Hermann Behr and E.F. Lorquin. The San Franciscan hardcover
187015474New York:: Ivison Phinney Blakeman & Co. 1870. original cloth. Gutter break at the Preface leaf; a little shaken; old ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Oblong 8vo. Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co., hardcover
1896110464The Macmillan Company 1896. Hardcover. Very good. The Macmillan Company c1896 1897 printing. 475pp. 6pp. publisher's catalog. 8vo. Decorative green cloth with red and gold titles on front cover and spine upper edge gilt. Previous owner's name stamped on title-page "B. Wyeth". Inscription on first page "Maud Wyeth Wyndham with the compliments of J.H.S. March 1897" B. Wyeth stamped on the lower edge of textblock. from the estate of Stuart Wyeth Campbell. Spine somewhat darkened Very Good attractive hardcover. The Macmillan Company hardcover
1900024891UK 1900. First Edition . Paper. Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. An Original Letter Written and Signed by Flora Annie Steel. Undated C1900. A letter to a friend about enjoying her holiday. Flora Annie Steel 1847-1929 was an English writer who lived in British India for 22 years. She was noted especially for books set in the Indian sub-continent or connected with it. Her novel On the Face of the Waters 1896 describes incidents in the Indian Mutiny. She grew deeply interested in native Indian life and began to urge educational reforms on the government of India. Mrs Steel herself became an Inspectress of Government and Aided Schools in the Punjab and also worked with John Lockwood Kipling Rudyard Kipling's father fostering Indian arts and crafts. Size of letter is 152mm x 98mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17036 <br/> <br/> unknown
1900200753Lincoln NE: The Ivy Press 1900. Hardcover. Good Boards are moderately edgeworn/scuffed/smudged/foxed; textblock edges are foxed and toned; inner hinges are cracked; textblock is cracked; inscription to former owner on ffep; interior has some light toning and foxing. Blue and white boards with gilt lettering and blue illustration; 52 unnumbered pages; richly illustrated. Presentation copy signed by J. Sterling Morton a prominent Nebraskan and former United States Secretary of Agriculture under Grover Cleveland who died in 1902. The Ivy Press hardcover
1894914151894. Rebound in new grey boards with paper title lable pp 137-165 complete. Lightly pencilled annotation to top of one page. Near-fine condtion. An address to the Royal Colonial Institute by Flora Louisa Shaw later Lady Lugard; appointed Dame Commander in 1918. In the 1890s Shaw was the Colonial Editor for the Times and in 1892 was sent out to Australia to study conditions there. Describes the interest of Australia's future. hardcover
1869611800New York: Ivison Blakeman & Company 1869. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 57 pages. Cloth covered flexible covers. Black & white illustrations. Title in gilt on cover. Features music lyrics and exercise instructions. Light rubbing to cover corners. Clean unmarked copy. Record # 611800 Ivison, Blakeman & Company hardcover
1893930Jersey City N.J.: Star Publishing Company 1893. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. First edition. 8vo; 488pp; silver and brown stamped vignette to mustard-colored cloth over beveled board; blue floral endpapers; color illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard; b&w illustrated plates; light shelf-wear to boards small scrape to ffep age-toning to paper lightly shaken; very good. Poetry lectures and recitations along with information on Vocal Culture Gesturing and Physical Culture. Illustrations of how to stand and move to be effective and dramatic in public speech. Star Publishing Company unknown
1897898F32London: William Heinemann 1897 . Cloth. Good. 8" by 6". None. A charming scarce collection of short stories by Flora Annie Steel who lived in British India for twenty-two years and was noted for her works set in the Indian sub-continent. The third impression of this scarce work which was first published in September 1893.In the original pictorial cloth binding.Consisting of eight short stories and the four part 'Songs of the People' collection to the rear.The 1911 edition of the 'Encyclopædia Britannica' names this as one of her two best works.Steel is best remembered for her 1896 novel 'On the Face of the Waters' about the Indian Mutiny.With a thirty-two page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail with discolouration to board perimeters. Front hinge strained but firmly held. Internally firmly bound. Pages age toned due to paper type with significant spotting and handling marks throughout. Good William Heinemann hardcover
190021243New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket; Spine darkened ink front endpaper & . pencil on half-title page 2 pages stained. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. A novel of India.; 8vo; 418 pages . The Macmillan Company hardcover
189217697<p>Near Fine HC no DJ. Tan-ochre fine-grain cloth over boards; front cover and spine brown and silver stamped with titles and floral decoration; front cover with vignette showing Chauncey Depew speaking and 4 inset 3/4 view portraits Shakespeare Dickens Lincoln Webster; pale green floral end papers; tissue-guarded color frontispiece. Bright clean square covers and spine; lightly scuffed rear cover; slight bump at cover fore edge; tightly bound; bright clean interior. Large 8vo 458 pp; illustrated. Cf OCLC #244484974.</p> Jersey City, NJ: Star Publishing hardcover
1869D6743New York & Chicago: Ivison Blakeman Taylor & Co 1869. First. Cloth. Very Good Plus. First printing. Oblong octavo in limp dark brown cloth covered boards lettered in gilt; 68 pps. plus index; illustrated throughout with woodcut diagrams of children doing calisthenic exercises. An unusal songster comprised of music for children to sing and to exercise by. Most of the songs contained herein printed with lyrics and music are accompanied by several small woodcuts of boys and girls performing calestenic exercises and detailed instructions as to how to perform them properly. A solid very good or better copy gilt nearly complete; occasional foxing throughout. <br/><br/> Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co hardcover
18814523bx120<p>First Edition. HC/ndj in Mustard cloth black floral decoration gilt. Wear at tips pencilled 1886 gift inscr else unmarked. 340pp 4pp Roberts Bros illustrated ads. 6 3/4" tall</p> Roberts Brothers hardcover
189477151London:: Macmillan and Co. 1894. publisher's cloth with printed paper label on spine. . Some light foxing; spine label tanned with tiny chips at edges; lower corners bumped. Tight and sound. 8vo. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. Notes by R. C. Temple. Macmillan and Co., hardcover
189012358BARCELONA: Tipolitografía de Luis Tasso 1890. Primera edición.- 4º mayor.- 295 pgs. cada tomo.- Media piel.- 1 lámina frontis.- Láminas fuera de texto. Ejemplar mareado. Palau 96613 Tipolitografía de Luis Tasso unknown
188626328Louisville KY: Press of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company 1886. Very Good. Louisville KY: Press of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company 1886. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's dark green pictorial cloth embossed in gilt floral endpapers; 288pp.; text illus. throughout. Corners and spine ends a bit scuffed spine gilt quite dulled textblock uniformly toned and slightly finger-soiled else a Very Good still quite presentable copy.<br /> <br /> Historical novel of the Civil War sympathetic to the Confederate cause. <br /> <br /> WRIGHT III 5984. Press of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company unknown
190000282147New York: The Western Methodist Book Concern 1900 Black and white photographs of Owl's Head Mount Katahdin Penobscot Bay etc.173 pgs. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The Western Methodist Book Concern hardcover
189445001London: Macmilland and Co 1894. First edition. Hard Cover. near fine. octavo. Dark green boards with paper title label to spine. 393pp Many black and white illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. A beautiful copy with some age-toning to endpapers. Extensive notes and analysis added. Many of the tales in this collection appeared either in the Indian Antiquary the Calcutta Review of Legends of the Punjab. Macmilland and Co unknown
189724760New York: The Macmillan Company 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth front cover and spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Teg. Near fine. 155 pages. 17 x 12 cm. The book set in Calcutta India delves into the intricate dynamics of personal relationships and societal expectations. She lived in British India for 22 years. Bright clean interior. The Macmillan Company hardcover
1889157221London: Andrew Melrose 1889. Very Good. quarto. hardback in decorated cloth 832pp. colour frontis. colour & b/w plates illusts. index The GirlÕs Own Paper Vol. XI. Nos. 510 to 561. Green boards a little rubbed at extremities o/w nice copy with a nice engraved colour title-page. PHOTO available Andrew Melrose hardcover
1900002883Toronto: The Austin Publishing Co. Limited 1900. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good. 12mo. 6 267 p.p. Original tan paper wraps with black titling to front cover spine lacking sewn and glued binding. Covers have several chips creases and short tears to edges bumping to corners a few spots of damp staining wear to joints. Front cover is detached but the binding otherwise remains tight. A bright copy of the author's partly-fictional account of her eldest sister's death and return; published privately by expelled Methodist minister Benjamin Fish Austin. The Austin Publishing Co. Limited unknown
1897Y339London: William Heinemann 1897. 1st edition first issue . Hardback. V.g. rubbed/No Jacket. 8vo. viii 432pp 32 pub. reviews and adspp. A story and history of the Indian Rebellion 1857. Attractive decorative green cloth with black titles and a cover depicting a river and trees with birds blocked in silver and black. LACKS FRONT F.E.P. 8pp appendix at the rear of the text. Please email for photo. No print numbers so presumed a first edition 1st issue <br/> <br/> William Heinemann hardcover