Language: English
Published by American Book Company, 1907
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. New York, 1907; red cloth covered boards with gold cover titles and spine titles; spine is faded; corners slightly bumped; mild wear and discoloration; corner and edge wear; 16mo, 5 3/4" to 6 3/4" tall; no jacket; Ex library with typical stamps and markings. 245 pages.
Language: English
Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1905
Seller: SuzyQBooks, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Cloth binding separated from pages. Cloth soiled and frayed.
Language: English
Published by American Book Company, 1907
Seller: TNT ENTERPRIZES, Libertyville, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Red cloth cover with gold gilt has worn boards that have minor bleaching, staining, and wear throughout. Top and bottom of the spine are crushed, and the spine has soiling and wear. Inside front flysheet has previous owner's notations that are faded on the upper third of the flysheet. The pages are lightly discolored due to age, have some minor foxing throughout and notations through the entire book. This is a former library book that still has the due date stamp panel and the library card pocket on the back fly sheet and inside back cover. This book is in good condition.
Seller: Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller, New Castle, CO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Well loved by millions, the writings of Henry van Dyke are among the most captivating descriptions of nature ever written. This collection of his essays, short stories, and poetry, taken from such turn-of-the-century classics as Days Off, Fisherman's Luck, and Little Rivers, also includes an informative biography and beautiful etchings throughout. Henry van Dyke was a short-story writer, critic, poet, essayist, journalist, professor clergyman, and minister. He wrote profusely in the fields of religion, literature, diplomacy, education, nature, and public service. His dual love of religion and nature left a strong impact on his writing as well as his literary criticism. Most of his themes are related to nature and love of the outdoors.
Published by Nelson Doubleday, 1924
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Dark red cloth boards are chipped at tip, edges rubbed. Front inside hinge weak. Pages are clean and lightly tanning, text has no markings. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾".
Published by Nelson Doubleday, 1924
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Dark red cloth boards are chipped at tip, edges rubbed. closed tear on back hinge. Front inside hinge very weak. Pages are clean and lightly tanning, text has no markings. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾".
Published by Nelson Doubleday, 1924
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Dark red cloth boards are chipped at tip, edges rubbed. closed tear on back hinge. Front inside hinge very weak. Pages are clean and lightly tanning, text has no markings. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾".
Published by Nelson Doubleday, 1924
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Dark red cloth boards are chipped at corner, edges rubbed. Front inside hinge very weak. Pages are clean and lightly tanning, text has no markings. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾".
Published by Nelson Doubleday, 1924
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Dark red cloth boards are chipped at tip, edges rubbed. Front inside hinge very weak. Pages are clean and lightly tanning, text has no markings. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾".
Published by Nelson Doubleday, 1924
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dark red cloth boards are chipped at tip, edges rubbed. Pages are clean and lightly tanning, text has no markings. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾".
Language: English
Published by Nelson Doubleday, Inc., New York, 1926
Seller: Weatherby Books, Pawlet, VT, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The blue cover has what looks like a water spot, which does not detract from cover, there is a gilt geometric design on the front with "The Pocket University" in the center of it, the corners are lightly bumped, the spine has the title in what was gilt and now has faded, the top edge is gilt, the back cover has a white mark on it. The end papers are age yellowed, but clean except for a penciled price on back page. The frontispiece is a portrait of Walter Scott, Bart, there is one other portrait also a painting of Dryburgh Abby and one of Benawe, Loch Etive in Argyleshire, the interior is very clean.
Language: English
Published by Plough Publishing House, Walden, New York, 2002
ISBN 10: 0874869242 ISBN 13: 9780874869248
Seller: WF Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. David G. Klein; (illustrator). Later Printing. (vii) 332 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with woodcuts by David G. Klein. This story collection contains: Transfiguration by Madeleine L'Engle; Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck; The Other Wise Man by Henry van Dyke; Brother Robber by Helene Christaller; Three Young Kings by George Sumner Albee; The Cribmaker's Trip to Heaven by Reimmichl; The Guest by Nikolai S. Lesskov; The Miraculous Staircase by Arthur Gordon; No Room in the Inn by Katherine Paterson; The Chess Player by Ger Koopman; The Christmas Lie by Dorothy Thomas; The Riders of St. Nicholas by Jack Schaefer; Grandfather's Stories by Ernst Wiechert; The Vexation of Barney Hatch by B. J. Chute; The Empty Cup by Opal Menius; The Well of the Star by Elizabeth Goudge; A Certain Small Shephard by Rebecca Caudill; The Carpenter's Christmas by Peter K. Rosegger; What the Kings Brought by Ruth Sawyer; and The Christmas Rose by Selma Lagerlof. Size: 8vo. Book.
Language: English
Published by Doubleday Page & Company, New York NY, 1905
Seller: OddReads, Harper, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. minor fading to leather spine edge.
Language: English
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. New York, 1932. Green cloth covered boards with gold titles; mild edge wear; jacket is worn and soiled with small chips and tears in edges; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 419 pages.
Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, NY, 1926
Hardcover. Condition: Good Only. Inner hinge cracking; shaken spine; large dampstain on front board; text block is clean and very readable. 348 pages. Book.
Published by American Book Company, 1904
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 258 p., plus catalog, clean and unmarked within on strong paper only mildly age-toned; former owner's stamp on front paste-down and front end page, plus signature in pencil and finger-sized smudge in front gutter; frontis. map of City of London; binding firm; red boards with gilt lettering and deocration are sunned with small white stains on rear panel; lightly bumped corners, slight rubbing at crown of spine.
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Condition: Acceptable. Doubleday, Page, and Company 1905 18mo. 324 pages. reading copy. soft leather boards with gilt emblem to front. boards are worn with rubbing and heavy chipping along edges. chip to crown and heel of spine. G-.
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Condition: Acceptable. Doubleday, Page, and Company 1905 18mo. 318 pages. reading copy. soft leather boards with gilt emblem to front. boards are worn with rubbing and heavy chipping along edges. spine chipped away.
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Condition: Acceptable. Doubleday, Page, and Company 1905 18mo. 315 pages. reading copy. soft leather boards with gilt emblem to front. boards are worn with rubbing and heavy chipping along edges. heavy chipping to spine. hinge cracked at ffep.
Published by American Book Company, 1904
Seller: Basement Seller 101, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.
Published by Auxiliary Education League, Chicago, 1944, Revised Ed., 1944
Seller: Virginia Martin, aka bookwitch, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Octavo, hardcover, beige and black boards with yellow and green decorations Light wear to boards, front hinge cracked else VG. 374 pp. Seven color plates and 102 black and white pictures in text; discusses history and the novel; last days of Pompeii, return of Richard Coeur de Lion, for Wallace or King Edward, the rescue of Florence, the trial and execution of Sir Thomas More, defeat of the Armada, battle of Edgehill, the taking of Quebec, General Washington, taking of the Bastille, Waterloo and more.
Published by Nelson Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1925
Seller: Gibson's Books, New Hope, AL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. ; Pocket University; 348 pages.
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Doubleday, Page, and Company 1905 18mo. 286 pages. reading copy. soft leather boards with gilt emblem to front. boards are worn with rubbing. corners bumped.
Published by Northfield Publishing, 1995
ISBN 10: 1881273288 ISBN 13: 9781881273288
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN 1881273288. Hardback. First Printing of this 1995 edition as designated on the copyright page with a decending number line going down to the number 1. Very Good to Near Fine condition in a Very Good to Near Fine condition dustjacket. Tight bright attractive copy with no markings to the book. We have placed the dustjacket in a Brodart clear plastic protective cover and it looks much better than described. No Signature.
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Doubleday, Page, and Company 1905 18mo. 283 pages. soft leather boards with gilt emblem to front. boards are rubbed and chipped along edges. binding secure.
Language: English
Published by Hall And Locke Co Pub, Boston, 1902
Seller: Wabash Museum Books, Mount Carmel, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 376 Pages; 22 Storie; Biographical Notes And Suggestions For Supplementary Reading In Rear Of Book; History And The Novel By Editor, Dr. Henry Van Dyke In Front Of Book. Pages Tight; Minor Page Wear; No Markings On Pages; Ornate Green Design On End Pages. Slight Darkening On Page Edges. Tan Hard Covers With Gild Lettering And Illustration On Front Cover And Spine. Moderate Shelf Wear. Slight Rubbing And Few Darkened Spots On Cover. Stories By: Sir Walter Scott; George Eliot; Daniel Defoe; Nathaniel Hawthorne Thackeray; Charles Dickens; J Fenimore Cooper, Etc Numerous B/W Illustrations Including Full Page Color Illustrations Including Frontispiece, "Emperor Maximilian Visiting The Studio Of Albrecht Durer" Very Rare Vintage Copy.
Language: English
Published by Nimbus Publishing, 1998
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Association Member: MWABA
Paperback. Condition: As New. With original contribution by Van Dyke in the form of an eulogy. A tight, unmarked copy. Uncommon in this nice condition.
Published by The Colonial Press, NY, 1901
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Photogravures/Etchings/Colored Plates & Full Page Portraits of Great authors/Clarence Cook (art editor) (illustrator). Revised Edition. #728 of 1000 copies of the revised Edition Deluxe. Retired library copy, stamped, and labeled; lightly aged, else textblock is clean and tight. Top Edge Gilt; Sunned binding, lightly edge and corner worn and scuffed; 462p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library Hardcover.
Published by Doubleday, Page and Company, New York, 1911
Seller: Burke's Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ex-library w/usual stamps inside. Prev. owner's name/date on front end paper. Dark green covers with gilt lettering and decorative border and photo plate of sea surf on front. Light rubbing to extremities/edge of spine. Binding is very good, and book appears lightly handled. 148 pgs. Book.
Language: English
Published by M. Walter Dunne Company: The Colonial Press, 1899
Seller: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Editors and Artists Edit. Limited Editors and Artists Edition is number 256/1000 copies printed. This three volume set is bound in matching taupe publisher's cloth. Covers are plain with each bearing an off-white paper label with black and red lettering on each spine. Top edges guilt. Deckled foredge and foot. Illustrated occasionally throughout with illumined plates in color. Volume I is xii, 430 pp. Volume II is 478 pp. with a large, fold-out map of The British Empire at the back in color. Volume III is 220 pp. On a shelf, this set spans a little over 5 inches. CONDITION: Moderate external wear and some soiling. Inner hinge of front board shows mild crack, yet all boards are firmly affixed. All plates are present except for one missing plate within Volume III at page 50. Many pages are uncut at the foredge. Even still, bindings are sound and plates are wonderful. A nice little set. Due to size and weight, an additional shipping charge will likely apply and will be requested after purchase. Full refund if not satisfied.