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Published by The Century Co.; New York, 1883
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover. Green and black marbled binding with green leather spine and corners and gold lettering on spine. In very good condition considering its age, with some light wear on front cover and some wear and scratches on back cover. Some wear and tearing on green leather corners and spine. Bumped and frayed corners and spine top and bottom. Front and back red end-papers and free end-papers slightly discolored due to binding glue. 960 pages. Copyright page dated 1883. This is a bound collection of six issues of the Century Co. literary magazine and this volume contains authors such as W.D. Howells, G.W. Cable, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Burroughs, and Henry James. Contains numerous black and white illustrations throughout, as well as a black and white photographic plate of Florence Nightingale opposite the title page. Binding good and tight. Pages clean and square. Due to the weight of this volume, extra shipping will be required for international or priority shipping.
Published by Literary Licensing, LLC, 2014
ISBN 10: 149800329XISBN 13: 9781498003292
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New.
Published by Harper & Bros, New York + London, 1907
Seller: sonalsorises, Los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrations, Frontispiece (illustrator). First Edition. Red cloth edition, first edition. Original red cloth, very good. Contains a tipped in bookplate, also frontispiece of "Peggy" and various other illustrations throughout the novel. Red cloth edition scarce.
Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London, 1908
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors Henry James (First Edition) Wear with some fraying to the cloth spine edges and corner tips, white paper bits stuck to back cover. Owner's name and address dated 1908 to front endpapers. Inner hinge starting. No jacket present. Published October 1908, stated. Blue cloth with decorative gilt. illustrated. 12 black and white plates, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece, Title page printed in black and blue. BOOK.
Published by Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1910
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. 232pp. Purple cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine lightly toned, modest soiling on spine and rear board, near fine. Laid in is a small printed "ancient Egyptian song" asking, "What is death?". A collection of musings on the subject of the afterlife, exploring various religious and philosophical ideas about what happens to us when we die.
Published by Fields, Osgood, & Co., Boston, 1870
Book First Edition
Sewn Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1870. First edition. 8vo. Sewn wrappers, 641-764 pp, Atlantic Advertiser 4 pp plus 8 pp of advertising. Contains the first appearance of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House", a story that appeared in "Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories" published two years later. Wear along page edges, rubbing to top of front cover. Very good.
Published by Houghton Osgood, Boston, 1878
Seller: Steven Edwards, Coalmont, TN, U.S.A.
1/2 leather. 812 p. Contents: Three pieces by Mark Twain--Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton--About Magnanimous Incident Literature--Rambling Notes of an Idle Life Excursion; A little tour in France and Recent Florence by Henry James; Four poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; My Aviary by Oliver Wendell Holmes; A Lost Lover by Sarah O. Jewett; Days in June and May Days by Henry D. Thoreau, and much more. Beautifully bound by Mills, Frew and Co. Brown leather spine and corner covers over brown pebbled boards, with five raised bands on spine with gold borders, marbled endpages, and marbled page edges. A painted number on the spine suggests ex-library, but there are no other such marks. There is an insect tract in the leather on the front cover. A number is marked through on the third endpage. Otherwise clean, tight, and unmarked. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.
Published by H.O. Houghton, Boston, 1876
Seller: Steven Edwards, Coalmont, TN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard cover. First edition. 764 p. Contents include: A Literary Nightmare, by Mark Twain; Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut, by Mark Twain; The American by Henry James, Six installments of Old Woman's Gossip by Frances Anne Kemble; Five installments of Private Theatricals, by W.D. Howells; Quaintness of the Judicious Hooker, by Caroline D. Swann; The Currency Crisis by James A. Garfield; poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others, and much more. Black leather spine cover and corner over textured boards. Ex library with usual marks. Some edgewear to spine and corners. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.
Published by Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1941
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Cedric Wright; David R. Brower; Weldon F. Heald; Henry E. Timby; David Burd; Raffi Bedayan; Spencer Austin; Richard M. Leonard; Thomas Morley; W.E. James (illustrator). 1st Edition. Near Fine - very. See scans and description. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1941. The February, 1941 issue of the Sierra Club Bulletin, that being Volume XXVI, Number 1. Tall octavo (9 1/4"), printed perfect-bound wraps, 193 pp. (158 pp. numbered, 34 plates, one onionskin). Quite Near Fine, with in fact no salient flaws to point to; this example is, in all likelihood, in the same condition in which it was originally received in 1941. See all scans. This issue feature a 16-plate section of majestic photos of the King's Canyon National Park by Cedric Wright (as well as two other Wright plates elsewhere); a fold-out reproduced map of the San Joaquin Valley, originally created by Lieutenant Jose Maria Estudillo in 1819; and onionskin foldout map of the Mt. Whitney Region, executed by the Sierra Club itself, new for this issue; an 1875 article on the King's River Valley by John Muir, originally published in The Daily Evening Bulletin; two 1875 photos by W.E. James which may be the first photographs ever taken in the King's Canyon National Park; sketch-illustrated pieces on climbing and camping; and a lot more. See scan of contents page. Photographers: Cedric Wright; David R. Brower; Weldon F. Heald; Henry E. Timby; David Burd; Raffi Bedayan; Spencer Austin; Richard M. Leonard; Thomas Morley; W.E. James. Writers of the above-mentioned pieces and others on Mountain Wind, King's River Sierra, Mount Avon, End of the Rope, High and Dry, Little Gem Company, Snowpatch, the legislative history of Sequoia and King's Canyon National Park, Botany, Mountain Photography, and Mountaineering Notes include: Francis P. Farquhar; John Muir; Ansel Adams; Joseph N. LeConte; Norman Livermore; Charlotte E. Mauk; Weldon F. Heald; Blanche Stallings; Fritz Lippmann; John Thomas Howell; May Pridham; Cedric Wright; Bestor Robinson; Leland Curtis; John D. and Ruth Mendenhall; Arthur B. Johnson; Braeme Gigas; Howard Koster. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LSC2.