W J Austen (25 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:0485105039.…

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 103, pp. 701-714, Illus, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, VG.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Copyright 1965. 399 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Relevant newspaper article included from previous owner. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Oblong, 11 by 8.5. Corners rubbed, light creasing, children's scribble on back cover, else clean. Judie Shore (illustrator).

Condition: Good. Volume 3. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:9780192547033.…

Condition: Poor. Volume 4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen markings In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:9780192547040.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Fourth printing. London: The Folio Society, fourth printing 1992. xx,202pp. §The text is from the second edition, as edited by R.W. Chapman in 1926 for the Clarendon Press. Portrait frontispiece and eighteen illustrations. Original pink cloth, silver lettering, black and silver decoration in illustrated slipcase. Splash-marks to rear of slipcase. In other respects a very good copy in a very good slipcase.…

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original trade card with a color illustration of a young woman wearing a blue dress and pink, ribboned hat as she picks flowers in a field. She holds a bouquet of flowers in one hand and looks down at a flower on plant, about ready to pick it with her other hand. No date, circa 1878-1885. 2 3/4" x 4 1/2." Trade card is very clean and intact except for some age toning and small spots of discoloration on front and back which may be from the perfume. A Very Good copy. A truly unique trade card that was once scented with Austen's Forest Flower Cologne as a marketing technique. However, the scent is so considerably faded by now as to be almost, if not entirely, imperceptible. Trade card for W. J. Austen & Company and its signature "Forest Flower Cologne" as sold by "G. Jeff. Cross, Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Toilet and Fancy Articles, etc., Morrisville, N. Y." Additional text on back promotes the cologne and advertises Austen's "Swageh or Oswego Bitters, The True Tonic." "Swageh" is an Oswego word. The "Swageh" or bitters was a patent medicine with questionable claims of being able to heal a host of medical ailments. Among them, "Malaria, Dyspepsia, Nervous Prostration, all Kidney and Liver Troubles and Female Complaints." W. J. Austen & Company was founded in 1878 in Oswego, New York. W. J. Austen had previously owned a drugstore and also sold baking powder products. In 1886, the company was sold or transferred to T. Kingsford, a perfume manufacturer. Trade cards are antique business cards that first became popular during the late seventeenth century in Paris and Lyon, France and London, England. Trade cards were often given by business owners and proprietors to patrons and customers as a way to promote their businesses. Prior to the use of street addresses, some trade cards had maps so clients could locate the associated business. Many of these cards also incorporated elaborate designs, illustrations, and other decorative features. Trade cards became popular in the United States during the nineteenth century in the period after the Civil War. The late nineteenth century also saw the advent of trade card collecting as a hobby. While they are no longer in use, trade cards influenced the formation of trading cards and were the predecessors of modern-day business cards.…

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original trade card with a color illustration of a young girl holding a bouquet of roses. 2 3/4" x 4 1/4." Trade card is very clean and intact except for some age toning and small spots of discoloration on front and back which may be from the perfume. A Very Good copy. Other printed text on front: "W. J. Austen & Co., Proprietors, Oswego, N.Y." A truly unique trade card that was once scented with Austen's Forest Flower Cologne as a marketing technique. However, the scent is so considerably faded by now as to be almost, if not entirely, imperceptible. Trade card for W. J. Austen & Company and its signature "Forest Flower Cologne" as sold by "James Mitchell, Dealer in Dry Goods, Notions, Boots, Shoes, Groceries, Provisions, &c." of West Eaton, New York. W. J. Austen & Company was founded in 1878 in Oswego, New York. W. J. Austen had previously owned a drugstore and also sold baking powder products. In 1886, the company was sold or transferred to T. Kingsford, a perfume manufacturer. Trade cards are antique business cards that first became popular during the late seventeenth century in Paris and Lyon, France and London, England. Trade cards were often given by business owners and proprietors to patrons and customers as a way to promote their businesses. Prior to the use of street addresses, some trade cards had maps so clients could locate the associated business. Many of these cards also incorporated elaborate designs, illustrations, and other decorative features. Trade cards became popular in the United States during the nineteenth century in the period after the Civil War. The late nineteenth century also saw the advent of trade card collecting as a hobby. While they are no longer in use, trade cards influenced the formation of trading cards and were the predecessors of modern-day business cards.…

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original trade card with a color illustration of a maiden in a blue dress who is holding a wreath of leaves and flowers. No date, circa 1878-1885. 2 3/4" x 4 1/4." Trade card is very clean and intact except for some age toning and small spots of discoloration on front and back which may be from the perfume. A Very Good copy. A truly unique trade card that was once scented with Austen's Forest Flower Cologne as a marketing technique. However, the scent is so considerably faded by now as to be almost, if not entirely, imperceptible. Trade card for W. J. Austen & Company and its signature "Forest Flower Cologne" as sold by "James Mitchell, Dealer in Dry Goods, Notions, Boots, Shoes, Groceries, Provisions, &c., West Eaton, N. Y." Additional text on back promotes the cologne and advertises a promotional item at extra cost, a facsimile of the illustration on the card in the form of a banner. The card notes that the illustration of the banner (and perhaps the card as well) was designed by Kaulbach and colored by Joseph H. Wilson. W. J. Austen & Company was founded in 1878 in Oswego, New York. W. J. Austen had previously owned a drugstore and also sold baking powder products. In 1886, the company was sold or transferred to T. Kingsford, a perfume manufacturer. Trade cards are antique business cards that first became popular during the late seventeenth century in Paris and Lyon, France and London, England. Trade cards were often given by business owners and proprietors to patrons and customers as a way to promote their businesses. Prior to the use of street addresses, some trade cards had maps so clients could locate the associated business. Many of these cards also incorporated elaborate designs, illustrations, and other decorative features. Trade cards became popular in the United States during the nineteenth century in the period after the Civil War. The late nineteenth century also saw the advent of trade card collecting as a hobby. While they are no longer in use, trade cards influenced the formation of trading cards and were the predecessors of modern-day business cards.…

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original trade card with a color illustration of a maiden in a blue dress who is holding a wreath of leaves and flowers. No date, circa 1878-1885. 2 3/4" x 4 1/4." Trade card is very clean and intact except for some age toning and small spots of discoloration on front and back which may be from the perfume. A Very Good copy. A truly unique trade card that was once scented with Austen's Forest Flower Cologne as a marketing technique. However, the scent is so considerably faded by now as to be almost, if not entirely, imperceptible. Trade card for W. J. Austen & Company and its signature "Forest Flower Cologne." Additional text on back promotes the cologne and advertises "Austen's Swageh, or Oswego Bitters! Nature's Own Tonic." "Swageh" is an Oswego word. The "Swageh" or bitters was a patent medicine with questionable claims of being able to heal a host of medical ailments. Among them, "Malaria, Biliousness, Lassitude, Nervous Prostration, and All Kidney and Liver Complaints." W. J. Austen & Company was founded in 1878 in Oswego, New York. W. J. Austen had previously owned a drugstore and also sold baking powder products. In 1886, the company was sold or transferred to T. Kingsford, a perfume manufacturer. Trade cards are antique business cards that first became popular during the late seventeenth century in Paris and Lyon, France and London, England. Trade cards were often given by business owners and proprietors to patrons and customers as a way to promote their businesses. Prior to the use of street addresses, some trade cards had maps so clients could locate the associated business. Many of these cards also incorporated elaborate designs, illustrations, and other decorative features. Trade cards became popular in the United States during the nineteenth century in the period after the Civil War. The late nineteenth century also saw the advent of trade card collecting as a hobby. While they are no longer in use, trade cards influenced the formation of trading cards and were the predecessors of modern-day business cards.…

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original trade card with a color illustration of a young woman wearing a woolen bonnet decorated with a wreath of flowers. 2 3/4" x 4." Trade card is very clean and intact except for some age toning and small spots of discoloration on front and back which may be from the perfume. A Very Good copy. Other printed text on front: "T. Kingsford, Successor to W. J. Austen & Co., Proprietors, Oswego, N.Y." A truly unique trade card that was once scented with Austen's Forest Flower Cologne as a marketing technique. However, the scent is so considerably faded by now as to be almost, if not entirely, imperceptible. Trade card for W. J. Austen & Company (under new ownership of T. Kingsford) and its signature "Forest Flower Cologne" as sold by "L. C. Leavenworth, Dealer in Ready-Made Clothing, Dry Goods, Notions, Boots, Shoes, Groceries, Provisions, &c., Eaton, N. Y." W. J. Austen & Company was founded in 1878 in Oswego, New York. W. J. Austen had previously owned a drugstore and also sold baking powder products. In 1886, the company was sold or transferred to T. Kingsford, a perfume manufacturer. This trade card represents the unique time period when W. J. Austen & Co. had been recently acquired by T. Kingsford. Trade cards are antique business cards that first became popular during the late seventeenth century in Paris and Lyon, France and London, England. Trade cards were often given by business owners and proprietors to patrons and customers as a way to promote their businesses. Prior to the use of street addresses, some trade cards had maps so clients could locate the associated business. Many of these cards also incorporated elaborate designs, illustrations, and other decorative features. Trade cards became popular in the United States during the nineteenth century in the period after the Civil War. The late nineteenth century also saw the advent of trade card collecting as a hobby. While they are no longer in use, trade cards influenced the formation of trading cards and were the predecessors of modern-day business cards.…

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original trade card with a color illustration of a young woman wearing a woolen bonnet decorated with a wreath of flowers. 2 3/4" x 4." Trade card is very clean and intact except for some age toning and small spots of discoloration on front and back which may be from the perfume. A Very Good copy. Other printed text on front: "T. Kingsford, Successor to W. J. Austen & Co., Proprietors, Oswego, N.Y." A truly unique trade card that was once scented with Austen's Forest Flower Cologne as a marketing technique. However, the scent is so considerably faded by now as to be almost, if not entirely, imperceptible. Trade card for W. J. Austen & Company (under new ownership of T. Kingsford) and its signature "Forest Flower Cologne" as sold by "H. A. Rouse, Dealer in Dry Goods, Notions, Boots, Shoes, Groceries, Provisions, & c., Cazenovia, N. Y." Additional text on back describes the cologne, "Forest Flower Cologne. The Richest and Most Fashionable Perfume Known. Its Permanence and Delicacy of Odor have won for it the Front Rank." W. J. Austen & Company was founded in 1878 in Oswego, New York. W. J. Austen had previously owned a drugstore and also sold baking powder products. In 1886, the company was sold or transferred to T. Kingsford, a perfume manufacturer. This trade card represents the unique time period when W. J. Austen & Co. had been recently acquired by T. Kingsford. Trade cards are antique business cards that first became popular during the late seventeenth century in Paris and Lyon, France and London, England. Trade cards were often given by business owners and proprietors to patrons and customers as a way to promote their businesses. Prior to the use of street addresses, some trade cards had maps so clients could locate the associated business. Many of these cards also incorporated elaborate designs, illustrations, and other decorative features. Trade cards became popular in the United States during the nineteenth century in the period after the Civil War. The late nineteenth century also saw the advent of trade card collecting as a hobby. While they are no longer in use, trade cards influenced the formation of trading cards and were the predecessors of modern-day business cards.…

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original trade card with a color illustration of a winged cherub holding flowers in one hand and a basket of the same flowers in the other. No date, circa 1880s-1910s. 3" x 4 1/4." Trade card is very clean and intact except for slight age toning, a few faint marks on front and back, and almost imperceptible dampstaining on back. A Very Good copy. Trade card for Austen's Forest Flower Cologne by W. J. Austen & Company in Oswego, New York and dealer O. E. Dunham in West Eaton, New York. The front highlights the main product advertised, Austen's Forest Flower Cologne. W. J. Austen & Co.'s location also listed on front. The back has other promotional text including a description of the dealer, additional information about the Cologne, and "Swageh or Oswego Bitters," a medicinal tonic and patent medicine by W. J. Austen & Co. Patent medicines are medicinal products whose healing or curative properties are questionable at best. Historically, many were actually dangerous and contained unsafe levels of alcohol and undisclosed substances such as narcotics. The history of patent medicines in United States begins at its inception but it was not until the years leading up to the Civil War that they became popular. Despite the misleading and even dangerous nature of patent medicines, they achieved peak popularity during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Around the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Progressive movements led by journalists, watchdog groups, and legislators began to stem the tide of patent medicines. 1906 marked the passing of the first federal Food and Drug Act which required medicinal products to disclose their active ingredients, be accurately labeled, and not fall below certain purity levels set by the U.S. Pharmacopeia and National Formulary. Subsequent legislation over the years helped solidify food and drug safety measures that made it difficult for misleading and dangerous medicines to reach the general public. Trade cards were antique business cards that first became popular during the late seventeenth century in Paris and Lyon, France and London, England. Trade cards were often given by business owners and proprietors to patrons and customers as a way to promote their businesses. Prior to the use of street addresses, trade cards had maps so clients could locate the associated business. Many of these cards also incorporated elaborate designs, illustrations, and other decorative features. Trade cards became popular in the United States during the nineteenth century in the period after the Civil War. The late nineteenth century also saw the advent of trade card collecting as a hobby. While they are no longer in use, trade cards influenced the formation of trading cards and were the predecessors of modern-day business cards.…

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original trade card with a color illustration of a winged cherub holding flowers in one hand and a basket of the same flowers in the other. No date, circa 1880s-1910s. 3" x 4 1/4." Trade card is very clean and intact except for slight age toning and a few tiny dots on front and back. A Very Good copy. Trade card for Austen's Forest Flower Cologne by W. J. Austen & Company and dealer Abel Comstock. W. J. Austen & Co. was based in Oswego, New York. Abel Comstock was based in Smyrna, New York. The main product advertised on front is Austen's Forest Flower Cologne. The back has other promotional text including a description of the dealer, additional information about the Cologne, and "Swageh or Oswego Bitters," a medicinal tonic and patent medicine. Patent medicines are medicinal products whose healing or curative properties are questionable at best. Historically, many were actually dangerous and contained unsafe levels of alcohol and undisclosed substances such as narcotics. The history of patent medicines in United States begins at its inception but it was not until the years leading up to the Civil War that they became popular. Despite the misleading and even dangerous nature of patent medicines, they achieved peak popularity during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Around the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Progressive movements led by journalists, watchdog groups, and legislators began to stem the tide of patent medicines. 1906 marked the passing of the first federal Food and Drug Act which required medicinal products to disclose their active ingredients, be accurately labeled, and not fall below certain purity levels set by the U.S. Pharmacopeia and National Formulary. Subsequent legislation over the years helped solidify food and drug safety measures that made it difficult for misleading and dangerous medicines to reach the general public. Trade cards were antique business cards that first became popular during the late seventeenth century in Paris and Lyon, France and London, England. Trade cards were often given by business owners and proprietors to patrons and customers as a way to promote their businesses. Prior to the use of street addresses, trade cards had maps so clients could locate the associated business. Many of these cards also incorporated elaborate designs, illustrations, and other decorative features. Trade cards became popular in the United States during the nineteenth century in the period after the Civil War. The late nineteenth century also saw the advent of trade card collecting as a hobby. While they are no longer in use, trade cards influenced the formation of trading cards and were the predecessors of modern-day business cards.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1974 reprint in The Penguin English Library. Pictorial wrapper. Memoir of Jane Austen by J.E. Austen-Leigh. With Introduction by D.W. Harding, and Notes. Condition: Very Good. Light edge wear. Light age toning . Size: 7 x 4.5 inches / 18 x 11 cm. 399 pages. Weight: 255g. …

Newspaper. 10p., 15x22 inches, folded tabloid newspaper, articles, news, reviews, events, opinion, ads, photos, minor toning, light wear, else good on newsprint. Early issue of the long-running LGBTQ newspaper. Parries & Thrusts (short reports). On one page, left & right columns, Neruda From the Left and Edwards On the Right Side. Edwards chastises and berates Harvey Milk for his stupid Liberal stance on police. On the final pages an extensive list of LGBTQ organizations.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Twelve tight clean crisp books, very good or better; unmarked but for Emma with name to front endpaper; matching volumes with copper spines topped with black logo of modern library. Each volume with an introduction by a celebrated author. A 14" span of matching classics. The font size is significantly larger than Penguin classics.; Modern Library Classics.…

Hardcover. With illustrations. 8vo. Spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. a nr. fine hardback. With informed notes in pencil to front endpapers and occ. to contents. Faithful facsimiles of these three important early works, published in 1618, 1625 and 1653, respectively. With introductory notes by John Dixon Hunt.…

Paperback. Condition: Very good condition. First edition. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, the complete monthly issue for February 1884. 8vo, (ii), pp57-112, large color folding map of the Great Tasman Glacier, & 2 other maps. Original blue printed wrappers spine tips a little chipeed otherwise very bright and unblemished.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1ST THUS, 1947 , Very Good- in Good dust jacket. SOLD AS-IS, FEW PGS SMALL PINK MARKS . Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket which IS GLUED TO BOARDS , EX-LIBRARY USUAL WEAR , FLAWS, POCKET ETC INNER DJ FLAP GLUED TO BOARDS SMALL PRICE CLIP, decorative cloth binding, a few minor flaws: the front hinge has a bit of play, the colored top page-edge has several tiny areas of fading and there are a few corner-creased pages, the binding is tight and clean and the contents areVG-, the colorful jacket is slightly tanned on the spine and has edge-wear at the corners and spine-ends, the jacket is clean and FAIRLY presentable.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Knife-Haft Clue - a tale of murder at Cavadiera Camp in Brazil; The War in the Dolomites - article and photos of extremely challenging terrain in Italy; Stalked! - L. Rogers was stalked on a lonely trail by a big mountain lion; The Return Match - follow-up to October 1915 article "A Prize-Fight in Mexico" by N.E. Guthrie, one of the principals in the fight; Two Girls in Camp in British Columbia - Miss H.W. Paul and her friend Fatima, two English nurses, describe their month-long holiday in the wilds of the B.C. coast; In the Grip of the "Hip Sings" - part III - an American businessman was also a member of a Chinese tong; The Mutiny of the Z.___ - part I of a tragic story related by the first mate; On the Trail in Wonderland - Part II - exploring America's newest national reserve, Glacier Park in North-Western Montana; The Disappearance of Charlie Westcott - WWI story of a lucky escape; From Job to Job Around the World - Part IX - Alfred C.B. Fletcher recounts his voyage to Spitzbergen, his coal-mining experiences in the Arctic, and his final return to the U.S., with fascinating photos; "Mike" - The Story of a Mounted Police Sled Dog that rescued a man who had fallen unconscious in a blizzard; and more. pp. 5 [ads], [2], 96, 6-24 [ads]. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Wood, Stanley L.; Somerfield, Thomas; Pride, Sid; Evison, G.H.; Gilbert, A.; Wigfull, W.E.; Gillett, F.; Austen, Winifred; Dovaston, Margaret (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 5 volumes, cloth, gilt cover-device, 8vo, 23 cm, various paginations, maps, plans, facs. Chapman's edition remains one of the most sought-after. The set comprises: I. Sense and Sensibility; II. Pride and Prejudice; III. Mansfield Park; IV. Emma; V. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Each volume of the Novels has a reproduction of the original title-page and carefully chosen illustrations chiefly from contemporary sources such as Ackermann's Repository. Chapman provides an Introduction and notes to the text for each Novel. Each volume also includes an Index of Characters and three Appendixes, some of which are substantial such as Chapman's Essay on Miss Austen's English in the first volume. Top edges duststained and spines faded, some scuffs to rear boards, a few pages of Pride and Prejudice carelessly opened with slight tears to the deckle edges, otherwise a Good set.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. T-Fransix. Illustrated by Pape, F. C.; Austen, J.; Nachshen, D. (illustrator).