Peter Parley Editor (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Engraved Frontispiece & title page (illustrator). 1st Edition. Black cloth on boards, gilt stamped spine faded.Edgewear to cover extremities, covers faded. Early days of balloon travel.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). 1860. Moderate general wear. Dark brown cloth, boards elaborately blindstamped, spine has elaborate gold decor. Cloth worn through at board tips, cloth loss at spine ends. Foxing spots near frontispiece. 295 pages. 6554.

Condition: Good. - Octavo, three-quarter gilt-ruled black calf & black paper covered boards titled in gilt between raised bands & gilt rules on the spine. The binding is rubbed & bumped with small areas of the leather rubbed away. There is staining to the front cover & spine & the head & tail of the spine are chipped. Title & 190 pages; and title & 188 pages. Profusely illustrated in black & white with 1 plate, head-pieces and full-page & textual woodcuts. There is an owner's stamp on the front endpaper with an earlier owner's heavy ink signature on both sides of the endpaper. There is scattered light foxing & occasional staining. The top page corners are bumped & there is light creasing to the upper halves of the leaves. Good only. January-June, 1851 and July-December, 1851, complete, bound in one volume.Two of the full-page illustrations in Part 2 are views of New Orleans. There are also a number of splendid engravings depicting animals and birds--the zebra, the hippopotamus, the coney, the bittern and the pelican, as well as a leopard, a monkey and Arabs with a camel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii, 9-295p. A very good copy, the spine is cocked, the spine ends and the forecorners of the covers are a little rubbed and a little worn, and there is light foxing, mostly near the front and the back. The gold pictorial spine is quite nice and bright. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Black & White/Color Plates (illustrator). London, UK: Darton and Co. Collectible-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1859. Hardcover. Many chromolithographs. Frontis, title page plus 6 color plates . 8vo., 296 pp, 32, Inter hinge repaired. Former owner's inscription . Collectible-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards, with blindstamped decorations on the boards, gold lettering and decorations on the spine. Yellow endpapers. Front endpaper has an 1856 gift inscription. Engraved frontispiece and title page (both foxed) followed by printed title page. Copyright page dated only 1855. 312 pages. Binding good and tight. Pages clean, but with some foxing here and there. Illustrated with engravings. Please email with questions or to request photos. If there is a photo beside this listing, please note that it was placed there by ABE without our permission and is likely what they call a stock photo (whatever that is). This volume is part of a large collection of Aviation and Ballooning books, a catalogue of which is available upon request. Most of the volumes have a small pencil notation on the first blank page - the letters KB and a number. Many have Evelyn Kendall s signature as well.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fair to good condition. Spine tips and cover corners are well worn. Decorated spine and cover edges are darkened. Light to moderate foxing throughout is a little heavier on the seven illustrations. 312 pages.

Condition: Good. Plates on yellow paper (8 including pictorial extra titlepage) + one plate given twice, by Whitney & Jocelyn Sc. Large octavo green cloth spined boards (edges bit rubbed) All Edges Marbled. Half title + frontisplate of the children stepping into the balloon + engraved pictorial titlepage of the balloon flying past a volcano +308pp (includes dated printed titlepage). Brown spots to five leaves near front and a few slight offsetting from plates to text opposite. Three small corner creases but generally a nice tight clean copy. 1 volume. Hardcover.

, iv, 316 pages, frontispiece and illustrated title page First Edition , spine head and tail bumped, two horizontal closed tears to spine, small closed tear to top of rear joint, board edges and corners slightly bumped and worn, small dampstains and light scratches to boards, foxing to book block fore edge, prelims and occasionally throughout book block, inscription to front free endpaper, in fair condition. , red cloth with blindstamped decoration to boards and gilt stamped title and decoration to upper board and spine , Octavo, 17 x 11 cm Hardback ISBN:

Cloth. Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A scarce annual from American author Peter Parley, with colour illustrations. Scarce work. Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, hand-coloured title page, and six hand-coloured plates, with many in-text engravings. Collated complete. A charming annual of short stories and verses, with titles such as: Christmas All the World Round, Dog Tales, Monkey Stories, South African Lion Adventure, and When We Were Boys Together. Written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich, better known under his pseudonym Peter Parley, an American author. Edited by William Martin. With thirty-two pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear, two of which are folding pages. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light fraying to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Splits in the cloth to the joints at the head and tail of the spine. Hinges tender. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd small spot or handling mark and light age toning to the extremities. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper dated Christmas 1861. Good. book.

, viii, 9-180 pages, 2 coloured plates showing maps of the world, black and white in text illustrations throughout Sixth edition , slight rubbing to spine, corners and edges, corners bumped, small tear to top of spine, one page corner torn, previous owner's dedication to front free endpaper dated 1847, occasional marking to pages, good condition , original red blindstamped cloth with gilt title to spine and gilt illustration to front , in sixes, 15 cm x 9.5 cm Hardback ISBN: