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By: About, Edmond
Price: $24.95
Publisher: New York, Appleton: 1873
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 39058
Condition: Very Good
Worn at head & tail of spine, former owner's name, otherwise Very Good in original brown cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. Written by a French novelist and journalist with progressive leanings. ; View more info
Price: $24.95
Publisher: Providence, E. L. Freeman: 1885
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38352
Condition: Very Good-
xvi, 298 pages; Lacks ffep, otherwise clean and tight in original green cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and front cover. Colour folding map of Rhode Island in good condition with 2" closed split at one fold. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. View more info
Price: $24.95
Publisher: Providence, E. L. Freeman: 1893
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38353
Condition: Very Good
xvi, 322 pages; Clean and tight in original green cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and front cover. Colour folding map of Rhode Island in good condition with 2" closed tear at left edge. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. View more info
By: Aesop
Price: $199.95
Publisher: A Philadelphie, none listed: 1823
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 41589
Condition: Good
[4], iv, 112 pages; Contemporary, probably original binding: calf-backed marbled paper-covered boards. Significant wear to the binding, sewing compromised, considerable foxing throughout -- but a complete copy of this rare American edition of an Aesop's fables, in French quatrains. Title page states: "Nouvelle edition dédié a la jeunesse." There is a dedication (in verse quatrains) to youth, page [3], signed with initials at the bottom -- "F. M." ["A LA JEUNESSE"] The French text appears to the version of Jean-Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde. The statement of ... View more info
By: Aesop [edited by Luigi Rigoli]
Price: $120.00
Publisher: Firenze [Florence, Italy], Stamperia del giglio, a spese di A. Garine: 1818
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 39611
Condition: Very Good
118, [2] pages; Contemporary cream colored boards, two small labels with collection numbers on spine and front cover -- (the faint spine label matches the number on the booklabel of Leo S. Olschki [ Ex libris Leonis S. Olschki bibliopolae Veneti Established heading] -- longtime booksellers in Florence, etc. Two small inscriptions dated 1843 on the enpapers. A well preserved uncut copy, impressed as an octavo with generous margins, possibly on large paper -- (the copy in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, similarly sized, has an ink note suggesting that this issue can be designated thus). Thi... View more info
By: Aikin, Lucy ; (Mary Godolphin) ; Daniel Defoe
Price: $19.95
Publisher: New York, American News Company: 1869
Seller ID: 42108
Condition: Very Good
71 pages; Original owner's name on first blank after ffep, Frank H. ?? / January 1, 1869, Contents clean and secure in original brown cloth binding with elaborate gilt lettering and vignette on front board and at spine. Six charming full page illustrations (not coloured). OCLC 67409811 A charming edition of this classic for very young readers. View more info
By: Aiton, William
Price: $99.95
Publisher: Hamilton, W. D. Borthwick and Co.: 1821
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39094
Condition: Good
131 pages; With an account of what is correct, and What is Fictitious in the Tales of my Landlord, respecting these engagements, and Reflections on Politcal Subjects . OCLC: 6386611 The Battle of Drumclog is celebrated by some in Scotland as a victory for religious freedom over the oppressive policies of the contemporary government. Folding frontispiece plate and text block clean and tightly stitched, front board detached, backstrip and ffep lacking. Excellent candidate for rebacking. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical hi... View more info
By: Allston, Washington; Jared B. Flagg (editor)
Price: $39.95
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1892
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 40909
Condition: Very Good+
435 pages; An attractive example in the handsome buckram binding. Former owner's name on ffep, otherwise clean and tight in original tan buckram binding with gilt lettering at spine and a gilt silohuette on front cover; cloth worn at head of spine. Washington Allston (1779 – 1843) was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston was a pioneer of the American Romantic movement in landscape painting. He was well known for his dramatic subject matter and bold use of light and colour. After graduating from Harvard College in 1800, Allston moved to Charleston,... View more info
By: American, An
Price: $19.95
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1838
Seller ID: 38721
Condition: Very Good
Eighth Edition, with additions. Former owner's name on ffep, scattered foxing, cloth chipped at spine ends and corners, slight lean, otherwise unmarked and tight in original pink/brown cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. Ten full page black and white plates. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $10.95
Publisher: Lowell, MA, Dr. J. C. Ayer & Company: 1880
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 36970
Condition: Very Good-
40 pages; In original pictorial wrappers. Bottom interior corner of "October" clipped, otherwise Very Good. Starts off with an astrological chart and cures (Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, etc) for various ailments, then presents the month by with astronomical information and various interesting and humorous anecdotes and notes on historic anniversaries. OCLC: 823514973; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $24.95
Publisher: Boston, Oliver Ditson & Co.: 1874
Seller ID: 36994
Condition: Very Good-
A collection of the most favorite tunes of Billings, Swan, Holden, and others; to which is added a variety of anthems and choruses, and divers patriotic and other songs of the greatest and best composers. Kemp was a major figure in 19th century American popular music. He first organized singing gatherings based on the revival of neglected old-time songs, these eventually grew into a national phenomenon, making Kemp and his Old Folks a household word. Blue pictorial wrappers chipped at spine. OCLC: 4446682; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has i... View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $49.96
Publisher: Middletown [CT], Printed By T. & J. B. Dunning: 1802
Seller ID: 37135
Condition: Very Good
8vo: 15 & [1, blank] pp. Stitched (appears to be disbound, the sewing imay be later, using the old stab-holes in the gutter margin) . This offprint is identified on the title page as having been 'For David Parsons, D. D. Amherst' -- in an old ink inscription [likely written by Parsons]. David Parsons [1749-1823] was born in Amherst, New Hampshire, and was graduated from Harvard in 1771. He was pastor of the Congregational Church in Amherst from 1782-1819, (during which period, he declined the Chair of Divinity at Yale, in 1795. He donated the land on which Amherst College sits, and played a ma... View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Lowell, MA, Dr. J. C. Ayer & Company: 1866
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 37137
Condition: Very Good-
Former owner's name at top of front wrapper, corners of wrappers creased with marginal chipping, string loop run through upper left corner, general light dust soiling. Starts off with an astrological chart and cures (Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, etc) for various ailments, then presents the month by with astronomical information and various interesting and humorous anecdotes and notes on historic anniversaries. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $29.95
Publisher: Leiden, R. Fuik: 1880
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38591
Condition: Very Good
96 p., [2] bl. pages; Date is approximate. Publisher's brown cloth, covers decoratively stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Colored frontispiece and three full page chromolithographed plates. (The frontispiece and the first of the plates are mounted on heavier coated paper stock; the first plate appears to have been mounted over another plate, of which just a tiny bit of the border is now visible). Very minor wear and rubbing to the spine ends, just a hint of cracking to the inner hinges, text paper is slightly toned thorughout, but a very good copy of this scarce Dutch book for children... View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $99.95
Publisher: Aberdeen, Lewis Smith: 1868
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 39090
Condition: Very Good
129 pages; along with Wood Engravings of Some of the Wells, etc. Brown cloth over pictorial boards showing the Gateway to the Old Trades Hall (repeating the engraved titlepage inside). All engraved plates and maps present, lightly age toned. Boards lightly soiled, rubbed and bumped at edges. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $24.95
Publisher: Philadelphia, Paine, Diehl & Co.: 1888
Seller ID: 39654
Condition: Good+
85 pages; Contents unmarked, shallow marginal stain at lower edge of rear pages. Pictorial light green wrappers are rubbed and soiled with some chipping. Front wrapper shows a woman standing at a table in her kitchen using a Keystone Beater with a large fireplace and tall cabinet in the background with the phrase: "Better the Utensil; Better the Cook." OCLC: 166594332 Illustrated with images of the Keystone Beater and the Keystone Ice Cream Freezer manufactured by Paine, Diehl & Co. The Keystone beater was invented and patented in 1885 by Edwin Baltzley, who was then working for Senate... View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $24.95
Publisher: London, Rock and Co.: 1880
Seller ID: 40004
Condition: Very Good
Contents clean and secure in original cloth cover with extensive gilt lettering and decoration to front board, gilt a bit rubbed along edge. This charming accordion paged viewbook contains 24 images of Windsor with dates ranging from 1852 to 1880. All images clean and clear; hinges firm. This edition not located in OCLC. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $37.95
Publisher: New York, A. S. Barnes & Co.: 1870
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 40976
Condition: Very Good
167 pages; Publisher's green cloth, beveled edges, decorative lettering in gilt on front cover and spine, additional decorative stamping in black and in blind, chocolate brown endpapers, all edges gilt. Date is approximate, none printed. A handsome copy, the binding shows just a bit of the lightest rubbing at the tips of the spine ends and points of the corners. Some diffuse foxing scattered throughout the text leaves, which are elegantly set within decorative framed borders of rules and type ornaments at the corners. [Cover title is: "Poems of Consolation"]. There is an engraved o... View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $39.95
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott: 1875
Seller ID: 41114
Condition: Very Good-
110; 50 pages; With 225 Illustrations and a double-page map of Philadelphia. OCLC: 3661579 Original brown cloth binding worn at spine ends and corners, lacks free endpapers. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $74.95
Publisher: New York, Hurd and Houghton: 1869
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 41151
Condition: Very Good
570 pages; An anthology of the best works from the nineteenth century periodical London Society. Clean and tight in original brick red cloth binding with faded gilt lettering at spine. Binding worn at corners and spine ends. "London Society - An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for Hours of Relaxation" was a Victorian era illustrated monthly periodical published between 1862 and 1898. No listing for this volume found in OCLC. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a chara... View more info
