Crayon Porte (51 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 12pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 18 characteristic Harper's engravings, some highlighting the stereotypical, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's Monthly, Volume XLIX, No. 292, September, 1874. A tongue-in-cheek look at the education of American negroes. Housed in protecti…

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 23pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 9 engravings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's Monthly, Volume XXXIII, No. 197, October, 1866. The author's diary-style recollection. Illustrations include a view of Mrs. Bell's at Danestown, the signal station in Montgomery County, the…

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 19pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 10 engravings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's Monthly, Volume XXXIII, No. 196, September, 1866. The author's diary-style recollection. Illustrations include a view of the camp at Sugar-Loaf Mountain, the headquarters near Hyattstown,…

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 38pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 40 characteristic Harper's engravings after drawings by the author, one internal page-only was damaged, and is here presented in reproduction, insignificant closed tear at first page has been discretely repaired with archival tape, leaving a few…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, New York: Harper & Brothers, Volume LV June To November 1877. Quarto, pp. viii, 952, June-to-November issues of the magazine bound in 1/2 black morocco with gilt lettering and rules to spine and black cloth. Recounting a Summer trip in the White Mountai…

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good. 864pp. Brown leather spine and corners. Marbled boards. Some edge wear. Text is in great condition. Contents include: Charlotte Bronte's Last Sketch, Lovel The Widower, Nil Nisi Bonum; Irving and Macaulay, On Two Children In Black, by W. M. Thackery; O'Connors of Castle Connor, by Ant…

1/2 leather. First edition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 490 p. Audience: General/trade. Contents include six installments of The Virginians by Thackeray; William Pitt by Lord Macauley; Popular Sovereignty in the Territories, by Stephen A. Douglas; Proposal by Bayard Taylor; Sonnet by Park Benjamin; Artists' Excursion illust…

1/2 leather. First edition. Marshall Cavendish ed. . Contents include: Life under the ocean wave, by Lyman Abbottt; locomotion--past and present, by S.S. Conant; Life on board a Man-of-War, by Commodore Gibson; The old Romans at home, by Benson J. Jossing; A simpleton, by Charles Reade, A Waif and Estray, by D.R. Castleton, The…

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hard cover, 8vo in blue paper-covered boards, titles in gold to spine, with the original pictorial dustjacket featuring a Currier and Ives print, 479pp. CONDITION: Near Fine, (pages lightly are age-toned, two more so) in a Fine d/j. An anthology of var…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 300 pp. Illustrated & gilded text on the edges. Cover and spine show moderate shelf wear. First page contains ink and pencil writing; second page has a yellowed sheet of paper from 1857 affixed to it, containing a book description. Pages are yellowed and foxing from age. Binding is loose but intact; i…

Hard cover. First edition. 952 pages. Contents include: Two installments of The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy; Afghanistan by Zadel B. Gustafson; E. Mason on Rembrand; A Kitchen Garden by E.P. Roe; Lucy Little on Medelssohn; A Pensinsular Canaan by Howard Pyle with the author's illustrations; The Piano and its Antecedent…

Hard cover. Hardcover Articles on Marco Polo, Idaho, Harem life, the mountains, life aboard a Man o' War, Santo Domingo, Christmas etc., poetry, fiction, current events, hundreds of engraved illustrations. Covered in green library buckram with guilt title. Withdrawn stamp from Winnetka public library, otherwise a clean tight cop…