Putnam G P Editor (5 results)

Cloth - Hard Cover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 181 pages. Fairly solid and tight copy showing light rubbing on covers. Light general use/wear, though clean and free of markings, etc. Ralph Barton (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. SIGNED first edition with matching dates, first printing, 1850. Presentation copy from the editor/publisher. Tightly bound in ornate blind-stamped blue cloth. The contents include a very good five-panel, color foldout timeline titled "A Chart of History to accompany the "World's Progress". Rubbing to the covers and splitting to the paper of the inner hinges. The pages show age-toning but are generally unmarked. The front endpaper is lacking and the endpapers show remnants of pasted pieces of paper, writing and scuffs. A good copy only. This copy is from a 19th Century private lending institution, the Mercantile Library of New York City. There are no external indications of the library's ownership. A handwritten number and Mercantile Library stamp are on the title page and some of the internal pages. International shipping and domestic Priority Mail may require added postage charges. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Publisher's cloth, faded to brown, binding otherwise very good, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, tight. iv, [4], 691 pages, foxing. Has a folding hand-colored chart, "A Chart of History." "What is here aimed at is simply to indicate, in brief and suggestive terms, the succession of the prominent occurrences and of the governments in the chief nations of the world - enough merely to recall to the reader of history the full pictures of these events, and to enable him to classify them correctly in his memory." - Preface.The contents are Ancient History and Modern History (pp. 2-145); Dictionary of Dates (pp. 146-608); Literary Chronology (pp. 609-647); Heathen Deities, &c. (pp. 648-656); Biographical Index (pp. 657-691). George Palmer Putnam (1814-1872), b. Brunswick, Maine; d. New York City. Putnam entered the publishing trade in New York City in the 1830's. He was a partner in several firms before establishing his own in 1848. In 1852 he founded Putnam's Magazine, later merging it with Scribner's Monthly. His publishing firm was extremely successful and remains today as part of the Penguin publishing group. He strong interest in art led him to become one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; he was the author of several books on history, biography, and reference.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st reprint edition. 643 pages. 9.00x5.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Good. New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1856. 1st American edition. Abridged version of three-volume English edition. 12mo. 492pp. Illus., map. Good book. Owner's name on front free endpage veso, and stamped on frontis. Title page and p. 23 detached. Binding cracked at middle. (Arabian peninsula, Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages) Inquire if you need further information.…