E R Scidmore (10 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Boards rubbed and lightly soiled, edges exposed, a few internal holes to cloth spine, pages toned, binding a bit shaken but holding, publisher's advertising insert entitled Best Books for Boys and Girls laid in. 1899 Hard Cover. Color frontispiece, color pictorial boards, engraved illustrations throughout. An illustrated collection of stories and poems for young readers by various authors, including: The Mysterious Choir Boy; Fluffy's Easter Joke; Phillip de Valogne; The Sea-Serpent; The American Coracle; The Ah-Goo Tongue; Arithmetic Among the Greeks; How the News Came; The Squeaking Fern; A Boy's Ideal; The Diver; An Iconoclast; The Doll-Lady; Chin Chin, Huang Ta-Ta!; Kevin the Fisher; Australian Tree-Climbing; An Old Stager; Boston's Girl-Sculptor; An Evening at Home; How Easter Came to the Little Nuremberg Maids; Egg-Rolling at the White House (A Bit of Washington Folk-Lore); A Primitive Form of Vise; Upper Nine (A Sleeping-Car Story); High Tea at Low Tide; A Pet Seal; How Jack Sailed with Leif Ericsson; The Pessimist; Almost a Deserter; Frog Music; A Masquerade; On the Shores of the Dead Sea; A Boy Editor and How He Runs the Sunny Hour; A Woodland Custom; The Child's Treasure; Raglan's Substitute; The Elf's Thanksgiving; The Legend of the Rhode Island Greening; Dandelion's Time; The Babies of the Zoo; The Narration of Irish Will of Galway; Somebody.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: n/a. Reprint. Originally published in 1899, and subsequently re-issued many times, this late-nineteenth century travel book, written by an American visitor, has been described as a 'seminal work', opening as it did to Western eyes the glories, curiosities and mysteries of Java, an island little known in the Western world at that period. xiv, 339 pp., 39 b&w plates, 1 map, index. New/unread copy in original shrinkwrap. Size: 20 x 13 cm. …

Red Hard Back with Cover Decor. Condition: Good +. First Edition. xvi + 400 pp. with index. Illustrated. Photos upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Missing. Yellow cloth covered boards with red title blocks; edges and covers worn and lightly soiled; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; no jacket. Illustrations in black and white; interior clean and unmarked; 466 pages.

Condition: Good. Hardcover, 400 pages, b&w plates. Red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to cover corners, small stain on front cover. Front hinge cracked; frontispiece loose. Rear hinge weak. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else pages clean and tight. Record # 851617. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. New York, NY: The Century Co. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1899. . Hardcover. Sm 8vo., 339pp., cover some shelf wear, shelf wear on edges and corners, bumped corners and spine tips, light fading on edges, otherwise quite good; very light foxing/soiling on some pages (infrequent), partial small bookplate on front pastedown (measures approx 1.25x.75 in.), otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. . Black & White Plates (illustrator).…

Hard Back. Condition: Fair. No D/W. FIRST. RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR. PAGES TANNED, AND FOXED ON EDGES. OCCASIONAL GRUBBY MARKS. REMAINS OF SOME PENCIL MARKINGS ON FRONT END PAPER. THE COVERS ARE VERY WORN.

8vo, pp. xv, [3], 466; plates and text illustrations; original full yellow cloth with red details; boards soiled and slightly cocked, text clean and sound, owner's signature on free endpaper; very good.

Reprint of 1897. 339 p., 37 full page illustrations; index ((Orig. cloth. Fiirst blank end paper removed. VERY GOOD). An account of travels in Java at the end of the nineteenth century.

xiv, 339 p., 37 pls, frontispiece, publisher's hcloth (sides of cloth somewhat worn). Name of previous owner written on title-page. Lower end of last pages near spine with some worming but not affecting the text.