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Published by Gramercy Books, New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0517093464ISBN 13: 9780517093467
Seller: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Published by Oxford University Press H. Milford, 1925
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1925. Reprint. 149 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Thumb-marking present. Visible creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Small marks to boards. Boards are slightly bowed.
Published by New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1898., 1898
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1898. 1898. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed gray wraps. The wraps are lightly bumped with their edges somewhat darkened & with light soiling to the rear wrap. There is a pencil notation at the top of the front wrap. 41 & [1] pages, including rear wrap. Illustrated with facsimiles in the text. The top page corners are slightly bumped. Good.
Published by University of Miami Press, Coral Gables, 1977
ISBN 10: 0870241958ISBN 13: 9780870241956
Book First Edition
Hardcover. 128p., introduction, table of important dates, select bibliography, very good first edition in tan pictorial boards with mild soiling. Readings in Literary Criticism #13.
Published by Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1927
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Revised and Enlarged Edition. 102 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. First two pages are detached from spine but still present. Front cover board and spine detached from book. Sticker on inside of back cover board. No dj.
Published by David R. Godine, Publishers, Jaffrey, NH & Boston, MA, 2006
ISBN 10: 1567922945ISBN 13: 9781567922943
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Softcover Edition: 2006. 227 pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers.
Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1961
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Octavo, xvi, 438 pages. In Good minus condition with a Fair plus dust jacket. Spine is grey and black with black and white print. Dust jacket in mylar, light edge wear, rubbing to spine, peripheral soiling. Price clipped. Boards quarter bound with dark green cloth to spine and light green cloth to boards. Tear at top of spine. Text block has spotting to edges, date in ink on front flyleaf, musty odor. Illustrated with b&w plates. 1370208. FP New Rockville Stock.
Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1968
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Second printing. Octavo, l [50], 430 pages. In Fair plus condition with a Fair plus dust jacket. Spine is grey and black with black and white print. Dust jacket in mylar, rubbing/surface tears to spine, peripheral soiling. Price unclipped: "$10.95". Boards quarter bound with dark green cloth to spine and light green cloth to boards. Light wear to spine caps. Text block has spotting to edges, date in ink on front flyleaf, musty odor. Illustrated with frontispiece and b&w plates. 1370207. FP New Rockville Stock.
Published by Harvard University Press
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Used - Very Good. 1969. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. A little rubbing to extremities of dj. (now in mylar).; not price-clipped. First printing (printed in 1969). Very Good.
Published by J. G. Ferguson Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1975
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine condition faux red leather boards with elaborately illustrated gold front cover perimeter and spine decorations, gold front cover lettering, and gold spine lettering over a black block border. Includes Editor's Comment and Acknowledgments. Major chapter headings are as follows: Wisdom; Benjamin Franklin; History; Beauty; and Business. "Sometimes it seems almost futile to try to write anything new because it has all been said before - and so well said. Of course, any such defeatism must lead to a dead end of accomplishment in terms of literary effort. Fortunately for the living and those to come, there are many bright new stars on the panel of contemporary writers. They are skillfully telling the story of these eventful days and their words will be read with relish by future generations. In fact, the printed word today is so prolific, and the competition with the book, the magazine and the newspaper is so great, future generations will require anthologies in great number to know what our bright literary stars have said. In this anthology there has bee no effort to be erudite, consistent, unusual or educational. The prime purpose is to amuse by exposing the reader to many things he has read before and may wish to read again. Perhaps that poem he [or she] HAD to learn, to pass freshman English, is here. He may even enjoy rereading it under different auspices. It is not possible to include only those things that appeal to him. If he dislikes poetry in any form, we hope he will please forgive us. Some of us like the "well-turned couplet." On the other hand, there are those who love Shakespeare, but just cannot understand how his hallowed words should appear with some of the more commonplace choices that have arrived in this selection. It takes all kinds you know - and we have tried to select all kinds of literature." - excerpt from Editor's Comment.
Condition: gebraucht; wie neu. Ganzleder mit Goldschrift, ungelesen, Coverbild abweichend.
Published by [2000]., 2000
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Condition: Good. 8vo. Stapled Wraps, 12 pp. Very Good. Scarce. From the Peter Selz collection.
Published by Dolphin Press, Philadeliphia, 1907
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Good- in boards. Hinge has started. Ex-library with the usual markings. ; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.
Published by R.H. Russell, New York, 1903
Seller: Capricorn Books, Oakville, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr., photography. (illustrator). First Edition. v, 50 pp, 14 1/2" H. Grey cloth spine, beige paper-covered boards with black lettering and pastedown illustration on front board. Over 50 b&w reproductions of works by Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. (1862-1932), one of the first American photographers to be admitted to the Linked Ring. All on the theme of 'Winter', the photographs are accompanied by poems by William Shakespeare, William Cullen Bryant, Alfred Tennyson, William Cowper, James Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadswoth Longfellow, Robert Burns Wilson, Christina Rossetti, William Morris, et al. Previous owner's name, Easter, 1920 in ink on front free endpaper; very light browning and some foxing on endpapers; a few tiny foxing marks on page opposite title page; tiny stain on title page; small closed puncture in bottom margin of page leafe 47/48 - archivally taped; boards have scuffs, rubbing, browning and a few light liquid/ink stains; Number written at top of front board; moderate edge/corner wear; wrinkling at top/bottom of spine.
Published by Fields, Osgood & Co, Boston, 1868
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition Thus; Vintage Copy. Book condition is Very Good- in marbled boards, 1/2 leather binding. Marbled end papers. Edge wear, a few bumps and scuffs to exterior. Text is unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Published by Manchester : printed for the directors, 1888
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Very good copy in a contemporary binding of gilt-blocked, leather-backed boards. Some wear and rubbing to spine bands, with panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Light staining to boards. Decorative endpapers. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages; Physical description: viii, 222 p ; 17 cm. Includes addresses by Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Richard Cobden and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Subjects: Manchester Athenaeum (Manchester, England) - Speeches. Great Britain - Politics and government - Social life and customs - 19th century. Referenced by: Podeschi, J. B. Dickens B123, 1st-2nd copies. Text with borders, with decorative head and end-pieces for each section. 1 Kg.
Published by Manchester : printed for the directors, 1888
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Very good copy in a contemporary binding of gilt-blocked, leather-backed boards. Some wear and rubbing to spine bands, with panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Light staining to boards. Decorative endpapers. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages; Physical description: viii, 222 p ; 17 cm. Includes addresses by Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Richard Cobden and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Subjects: Manchester Athenaeum (Manchester, England) - Speeches. Great Britain - Politics and government - Social life and customs - 19th century. Referenced by: Podeschi, J. B. Dickens B123, 1st-2nd copies. Text with borders, with decorative head and end-pieces for each section. 1 Kg.
Published by Boston, 1864
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No. 1 (November 9, 1864) to No. 10 (November 19, 1864), comprising ten daily issues, a complete run, bound in leather and marbled boards. Large Quarto. Binding near fine, professionally rebacked. Contents VG, fragile. This peculiar genre of magazine literature, the Civil War Fair daily, reached its apex in 1864 when a half dozen titles were published throughout the northeast to benefit Union forces relief efforts. This daily, published in conjunction with the National Sailor's Fair, was edited by Julia Ward Howe, with counsel from such notables as John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell. Such an impressive editorial contingent could not help but produce a magazine with significant literary content. The Whistle contains original poetry and prose by Holmes, Whittier, Lydia Sigourney, Charles Godfrey Leland, and Richard H. Dana, Jr. The two most important contributors were Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose poem "Sea-Shore" appeared in the ninth issue, and Henry David Thoreau, whose short prose "Looming of the Sun" appeared in that issue as well. Emerson was responsible for both submissions as he was Thoreau's literary executor (Thoreau had died two years earlier). The poem "Carpe Diem," signed "H.T.", which appeared in the seventh issue has also been attributed to Thoreau, but some Thoreau scholars disagree. Far more likely to be by Thoreau is the prose piece "History," which appeared in the eighth issue. This essay, signed "H.T.", is an impassioned plea for a view of history as it was lived by the common man, not by the ruler or by historic dates. This sentiment is quintessentially Thoreauvian. Adding weight to the argument of attribution is that the essay refers to the sweep of history as running "from 1492 to 1862." This is a perfectly natural date to use if one were writing in 1862, the last year of Thoreau's life, but why would a living writer use that date in 1864? Arguing that it was just a typo begs credulity. A scarce run.
Published by 1822 - 1849, 1822
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. First Edition. Two 5-1/4" x 8-1/2" volumes identically bound in half calf and marbled boards with matching gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. All the pamphlets are complete except for the original wrappers which were not bound in. Both volumes with Edward Everett's bookplate on the front pastedown along with a presentation bookplate of Frederick W. Putnam to Hamilton College, both stamped "Withdrawn." In addition to Emerson and Story, other contributors include James Kent, Charles Sumner, Alexander Everett, Theopholis Parson, James Percifal, William J. Spooner, Denison Olmstead, Thomas S. Grimke, Benjamin Toslin, Theron Metcalf, Asher Robbins, Seth Hawley, Virgil Maxcy, and Asher Ware. Story's DISCOURSE (SABIN 92300) is INSCRIBED "The Honorable/Edward Everett/from the Author" on the title and has a partial correction in the author's hand on page 26. In addition to Story's INSCRIPTION to Everett, Maxcy and Ware have also INSCRIBED their addresses to Everett. Emerson's address is certainly the most important present in these volumes. Published in an edition of only 500 copies, all of which were sold within a month s time, it was generally well received and was later described by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "our intellectual Declaration of Independence." When Emerson included this essay in his seminal collection in 1841, he renamed it "The American Scholar": "The clarion cry, to think, to create, to become a productive scholar, and above all to fulfil yourself as an individualist." BAL 5183; GROLIER AMERICAN 100: 43. Each volume also with the owner inscription of Frederick W. Putnam dated 22 November 1910, Binghamton, NY. Putnam, a student of Louis Agassiz, was the first director of the Peabody Museum of Salem, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, president of the American Folklore Society, and president of the American Anthropological Association, among other honors. He is widely known as the "Father of American Archaeology." A remarkable collection with an exceptional provenance and association. Edward Everett--a Unitarian minister, member of both the United States Congress and Senate, and also a governor of Massachusetts--is perhaps best known for his oratory powers. It is he who gave the "other" address at Gettysburg on 19 November 1863. The next day he wrote Lincoln saying, "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." Occasional foxing or staining; "withdrawn" stamps on front and rear pastedowns where there are minor remnants of a pocket. Paper library labels on the spines, rubbing to joints, slight edgewear. Overall Near Fine.
Published by University Press, Cambridge, 1864
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition of this scarce volume dedicated to the commander of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Robert Gould Shaw, with contributions by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison, Edwin M. Stanton, and James Russell Lowell and with extracts from Colonel Shaw's letters. Octavo, original publisher's half leather over red boards with gilt titles to the spine, tipped in tissue-guarded oval carte-de-visite frontispiece of Shaw. In very good condition. Scarce, with only a handful of copies having appeared at auction in the last century. On January 26, 1863 Stanton issued an order to Andrew to raise further volunteer regiments to fight for the Union, adding the new recruits "may include persons of African descent, organized into special corps." Andrew immediately set about doing so, and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry began to be formed. For the unit's officers, Andrew sought a certain type of white gentleman, "young men of military experience, of firm antislavery principles, ambitious, superior to a vulgar contempt for color, and having faith in the capacity of colored men for military service." Most importantly, he wanted men who understood the stakes, that the success or failure of the endeavor would elevate or depress the manner in which the character of African Americans were viewed throughout the world for many years to come. Robert Shaw was at first hesitant to take the post, as he did not believe that authorities would send the unit to the front lines, and he did not want to leave his fellow soldiers. Finally he agreed to take the command. In July 1863, he led the 54th Massachusetts regiment at the Second Battle of Fort Wagner. They attacked a beachhead near Charleston, South Carolina, and Shaw was shot and killed while leading his men to the parapet of the Confederate-held fort. Although the regiment was overwhelmed by firing from the defenses and driven back, suffering many casualties, Shaw's leadership and the regiment became legendary. They inspired hundreds of thousands more African Americans to enlist for the Union, helping to turn the tide of the war to its ultimate victory.