Macveagh Lincoln Editor (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Collectible 1st edition presumed, stated first printing Tight and Sound Cover has corner bumps and rubs Spine is faded compared to front with black lettering No inside markings or underlinings Please see our photo as some book sites use stock images.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition: 1925 on the title page and on the copyright page. No wear to the binding. No slope, no twist from reading or improper shelving. Book will stand upright on its own. No bumped corners. No broken hinges. Pages are tight and clean with no marks Lacks the front blank flyleaf. No name of previous owner. No musty odor. No water stains. No soiling. No sun fading. No dust jacket.…

[10], 350 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 16.25cm. No dust jacket. Art Deco influenced green pebbled leather binding; unfortunate surface loss to leather at spine heel with much scuffing/wear along joints and at board edges particularly at corners; spine leather quite darkened but with gilt stamping still fairly bright; triangular black leather and gilt stamping to slightly darkened front board; undecorated green rear board slightly darkened with some discoloration occurring along joint margin. All edges gilt; staining and some scuffing loss to bottom edge gilt. Floral patterned endpapers; front and rear free endpapers have strong bands of toning at top, bottom and fore-edge margins caused by respective board's leather overlaps on pastedowns. Impression from past bookseller's erased pencil note at top of front flyleaf recto; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Only a good copy per the adverse exterior spine cosmetics. Brief Acknowledgements essay states "The translation of 'The Princess of Babylon' is by H. I. Woolf . . . The translations of 'Candide,' 'Zadig' and the other romances were done by R. Bruce Boswell originally for Bohn's famous classical library." Table of Contents cites slightly different pagination than what is actually presented which, via collation, is precisely: "Candide" (pages 1-95), "Zadig" (pages 97-170), "The Princess of Babylon" (pages 171-233), "The Child of Nature" (pages 235-304), "Micromegas" (pages 305-325), "Cosi-Sancta" (pages 327-334), "Memnon" (pages 335-342), and "The One-Eyed Porter" (pages 343-350).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. SCARCE 1ST EDITION. Sturdy cloth-bound hardcover in Very Good condition, with dustjacket in Good only condition. Published by Princeton University Press, 1980, 1st Edition, 784 total pages, with black-&-white photographs. Thick, heavy book, large octavo (8vo). The book has obviously been read, but has no major flaws, does show brief, occasional, minor signs of use and age (scattered faint age speckling/foxing to exterior page edges). Cloth binding shows almost no wear at all, no tears, no rubbed or worn spots. The book is clean and stain-free, sound and solid, complete and intact, square and straight, firm and tight in its binding, no pages are loose, missing, wrinkled, folded, or torn. Internally Fine condition, all pages clean and stain-free, bright and white, all text crisp and legible. There is no writing, underlining, highlighting, or any other such markings anywhere in the book. Dustjacket is clean and stain-free, is complete and intact, with no pieces missing, but the jacket is a bit ragged and rubbed at the extremeties, with some closed edge-tears and creasing along the top edge, . Buy with confidence, five-star seller, professional booksellers for 35 years, selling books online since 1995. LR4. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Cash. 12 vol set. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed with some creasing. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Unmarked pages. Secure pages, solid binding. Decorative green paste down with images that match the topic of each volume. Decorative spine spells 'The Champlin Encyclopedia' when shelved in volume order. Decorative image on from covers with image based on topics of each volume. Volume 12 has water marks on textblock and top corner of pages, pages are not stuck together and ink is not smeared or blurred. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.…

Condition: Good. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, (1980)., (1980). Good. - Octavo, 9-1/2 inches high by 6 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in light blue cloth titled within a white panel on the spine, laid into a blue & white dust wrapper. The edges of the rubbed dust jacket are chipped with a short tear to the top of the jacket's front panel repaired with tape. xi [5] & 770 pages with a portrait frontispiece of Lincoln MacVeagh. The text block is cracked at the title page. Good. First edition. Inscribed on the verso of the endpaper to the Ambassador's step-son: "To Colin MacVeagh: you do deserve the thanks I give you in the acknowledgments! / With my warmest regards, John O. Iatrides. New York City 26 Sept 1980.".…