Nathaniel P Willis (53 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 1901, pp129-140, illustrated (generally only 1 or 2). Removed from WITH THE WORLD'S GREAT TRAVELLERS, Edited by Charles Morris and Oliver H.G. Leigh. May include a first or last copied page. VG. From the introduction: "From Willis's FAMOUS PERSONS AND PLACES, we select an interesting description of some Scottish scenes which the works of Scott have rendered famous, including the home of Rob Roy, and the lakes Lomond and Katrine, the latter, the scene of 'The Lady Of The Lake.' Passing many famous places on his way north, the traveller at length reached the far-famed and much boasted valley of Glencoe, which he describes in the chapter following.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint Of 1885 edition. 365 pages.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

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Hardcover. Condition: Poor/Fair. No Dustjacket. 260 pages. No dustjacket. Dark green tatty hardback binding - damp lightening to about a quarter of front board which is also lightly spotted. Inner hinges are cracked. Moderate wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Ink name to inside of front board. Big stain to preliminary pages up to title page which has a lighter stain. Page-edges moderately browned/greyed, red ink scribble to pages 192/3 o/w rest of pages are clean. Working/ research copy only. …

Condition: New.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 1836 2nd edition - 3 parts published in one volume. 464pp. Good/None. Green cloth boards with minor rubbing/bumping to edges/spine, very minor scuffing. Contents generally clean and tight but for very minor soiling/spotting, very minor creasing. Owner's name to ffep. 3 B&W engraved plates plus engraved title page. A nice early edition. A collection of romantic descriptions of scenes and ways of life in Europe produced by American writer and poet Nathaniel Parker Willis, during his travels. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4" by 3" book, red cloth binding with intricate stamping and gold lettering along spine. Very good condition despite age, some edge damage to the edges of spine, some corner wear. Mild foxing through the book, binding is still very strong, no visible signs of separation.…

later edition. c.1844. Purple blind-stamped cloth, gilt decorated spine and top board emblem, original pattern eps, aeg. 32mo (11cm). pp. 126. Very Good/Ex-Lib. College withdrawn bookplate, paper topboard label, one embossed stamp, sunned spine, internally near fine. New October, 1846 author preface.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Minor wear on the covers, corners, and the edges. Like shelf wear. May contain some writing and or highlighting within the pages and covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. New York: Clark, Austin & Smith. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1860. . Hardcover. 8vo., 256pp., Shelf lean; shelf wear to corners and spine; gilded edges; broken inner hinge; pages unmarked. . Black & White Illustrations; Frontispeice (illustrator).

Condition: NEW.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Trenton Falls | picturesque and descriptive | Nathaniel P. Willis (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | 128 S. | Englisch | 2019 | hansebooks | EAN 9783337832926 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt, info[at]bod[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.…

Sonstiges. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

New Edition. Provenance: Bookplate of Mary Turner. Previous owner's inscription. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked decorative cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Spine worn. Internally, bright and clean. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: 260p. ; 16cm. Subjects: Willis, N.P. (Nathaniel Parker) ; American poetry. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 304 p. ; Illustrated. Subjects: Willis, N. P. English poetry United States. Works Poetry Miscellaneous. Genre: Poetry. 1 Kg.…

Single Issues. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. 95 Separate Issues, Detached From Previous Binding With Almost No Damage. Sold Only As A Lot. Includes Many Issues 1831-1838, Also 1839: Jan 26; Mar 23; Apr 13, 27; May 4, 11; June 1, 22; 1841: Jan 9, 23; Feb 6, 20; June 5, 12; August 7, 14, 21; Sept 4, 11; Oct 2, 9, 16; Nov 6, 13, 20, 27. Note: No Walt Whitman Or E A Poe Or Charles Clement Moore. But They Do Have A Small Arts And Sciences Column. …

Single Issues. Condition: Good. First Edition. Eleven Separate Issues Of The Short-Lived Literary Journal, Now Scarce. The Group Includes Issues 2, 18, 21, 22, 35, 37, 38, 40, 44, 49 And 52. It Is Sold Only As A Group. [Does Not Include April 13, 1839 Issue].

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. VOLUME II ONLY. Poor condition. Early printing (1850 at foot of title page with 1849 copyright on verso). i-vi, 7-495 pages. Hardcover: H 19.5cm x L 12.75cm. Contemporary green cloth boards rubbed with slender wear at edges particularly at bumped corners; front board and its adjoining ffly and title leaf only tenuously attached (but rear board firm); spine cloth lacking with underlying paper back-strip exposed lengthwise with quires visible at ends. Front free endpaper removed; modest personal hand-numbered bookplate of Tuscaloosa, Alabama banker James H. Fitts (James Harris Fitts, 1830-1912) on front pastedown; foxing/toning strongest on several early and late leaves with mostly light to mild interior occurrences with some stains and soiling; upper fore-edge chips to pages 493-495 but not affecting text. Text block remains firm. Book now presented in a trimmed clear Dura-Lar (polyester film) sheet forming a dj which aids in securing the aforementioned tenuous front board and modestly enhances the book's compromised shelf presence. Stray volume of the first posthumously gathered collection of Edgar Allan Poe's work with poems on pages 7-214 (leading off with "The Raven," and "Lenore" and concluding with "Eureka: A Prose Poem") and miscellaneous writings on pages 215-495. Attesting to early printing (second?) status is that "choir" appears with correct spelling on page 46. Needs to be re-backed and restitched and thus sold as is.…

New Edition. Provenance: Bookplate of Mary Turner. Previous owner's inscription. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked decorative cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Spine worn. Internally, bright and clean. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: 260p. ; 16cm. Subjects: Willis, N.P. (Nathaniel Parker) ; American poetry. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 304 p. ; Illustrated. Subjects: Willis, N. P. English poetry United States. Works Poetry Miscellaneous. Genre: Poetry. 1 Kg.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A vanishingly scarce tragi-comedy drama play by noted American author Nathaniel Parker Willis, the first edition. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work.Original wraps are bound in.Part of Colman's dramatic library.'Tortesa the Usurer' is a romantic tragi-comedy, following a love triangle between a usurer, a young daughter of a Count, and a painter.Written in blank verse, this was a popular play for around a decade after its premier in Philadelphia, at the Walnut Street Theatre, on the 20th June 1839.Among this plays admirers was Edgar Allan Poe, who called it "by far the best play from the pen of an American author".Willis was a notable American author of the nineteenth century, writing both prose and poetry. He also worked as an editor, working with various eminent American figures of the day, including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. During his career, he was the highest paid magazine writer.Two pages of adverts to the rear. Rebound in a cloth binding, with the original wraps bound in. Externally, smart, with light fading to the spine and extremities of the boards. Very light rubbing to the spine. Label residue to the front paste down. Stamp to the verso of the rear endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with scattered spots. Tidemark to the head of the first few pages. Small tidemark to the front wrap. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

WILLIS, Nathaniel P. Cabinet Card Engraving. A 5-inch by 7-inch cabinet-size engraving of Willis, with a gold border and a facsimile signature printed beneath the image. Victorian era publication. Original cabinet card- not a reproduction. $45.00.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Near Fine. Second Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ in. - 7¾ in. Hardcover, stated Second Edition. Moderate fading to spine and board edges, moderate foxing to endpaperse and prelims, some foxing to interior pages yet text remains legible, page block separated from boards at rear inner hinge, front inner hinge lightly weak yet remains attached. Fair copy.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. First edition. The first U.S edition of this very scarce collection of poetry by Nathaniel Parker Willis. The first U.S edition.A very scarce work.In the publisher's original embossed cloth.This poetical work was written by Nathaniel Parker Willis, an American author, poet and editor who worked with many noted poets, including Edgar Allan Poe. This collection of poetry features poems such as 'Melanie', 'Florence Gray' and 'The Soldier's Widow'. In the publisher's original embossed cloth. Externally generally smart with a slight lean, fading to the spine and extremities, marks to the boards, bumping to the extremities and very small closed tears to the head and tail of the spine. Offsetting and spotting to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with spotting throughout and generally bright pages. Good. C. Harding (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Marled green boards with quarter leather. Gilt raised bands and lettering on spine. 768 total pp. with no illustrations. The Mirror Library was a periodical edited and published by Morris and Willis, beginning in the 1840s. They also published the New Mirror. This volume contains complete sections from different editions, but there is no publication information in any of the text material. There are 21 total stand-alone sections mostly of either 16 or 32 pages in length. The focus of nearly all "articles" centers on poetry and song/ballad lyrics: Irish Melodies, Lall Rookh, Gems of Scottish Song, Sacred Poems of Mrs. Hemans, Songs of Hebrew Melodies, Evenings in Greece, and more. One section, pp. 1-32, is followed by an "extra", continuous section, pp. 33-48, but it is from the New Mirror. The final three sections are Pencillings By the Way: Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel - Franch, Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, Turkey, and England (N.P. Willis, viii + 216 pp., the first complete edition), all narrative letters; Letters from Under a Bridge, also by Willis (32 pp.); Lecture on Fashion (Willis, 16 pp. - a lecture delivered to the New York Lyceum); and The Epicurean: A Tale (32. pp). Customary reading for the era. Wonderful condition. VG, clean and bright interior but with inscription in pencil. Covers wearing at edges and spine edges. Binding tight. Individual parts of The Mirror Library bound together in original 19th C. binding.…

First edition. With a later presentation inscription from the publisher's wife, reading "To___ with Mrs. Virtue's Kind love, August 1843." Sm. 4to., orig. brownish green cloth with decoration in blind on the boards, gilt decoration on the spine, 333, (6)pp. ads. With an engraved titlepage, a frontispiece portrait and 9 plates (the 9 plates are all by Bartlett. A two damp marks in the margin of the plates, a bit of rubbing to the lower corner, some darkening to portions of the boards, but this is in fact a very nice, attractive copy.…