Wallace and Frances Rice Compilers (9 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Discolored cover scuffed at edges and almost half of spine missing. Gift presentation on title page dated 1929. Pages light and tight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Soft leather covers. The original box is present but is falling apart. Not all the page edges have been cut through. The text is in very nice condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Lower corner of front cover has quite noticeable wear, otherwise light edgewear, light wear and small creases at extremities.

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. (1912). Thoughts of home by various authors including Daniel Webster, Myrtle Reed, Francis Holden, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, etc. Covers show light wear and soiling with a small chip at bottom of spine, 1/2"; back cover has chip, 1" x 1", at top corner. Internally, clean and tight. Very good, wrappers. (081).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ] Soft leather binding, 12mo, appx 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, gilt and embossed green leather (yapped edges), 127 pages, Near VG condition. Leather tanned unevenly at edges + spine completely tanned. Silk-finish endpapers (green and fragile) show cracking (pastedowns) and some chipping (free endpapers). Interior clean & mostly very nice, incl frontis portrait and tissue overlay. Fore-edges opened manually with at least a couple of very short tears into the margin and one slightly longer tear along one fore-edge. Green place-mark ribbon bound in. A Stevenson quotiation for every day of the year - some only a couple of lines, while some are nearly a full page. RWR5 Literature Quotations.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. First Edition. Green cloth; white and gilt decorative floral binding by Decorative Designers, creators of ornate publisher's bindings from 1895-1931. Top edge gilt. With frontispiece tissue-guarded sepia-tone portrait of Robert Browning. Poems organized from January through December. Light rubbing to cover extremities. Light-to-moderate loss of gilt and white to portions of front board due to general wear. Some rear text pages uncut. Clean and tight.…

Hardcover. 16mo. Lavender cloth spine with black lettering and purple pictorial paper over boards, original presentation box with pictorial paper label. 62pp, (2pp). Color frontispiece, green and purple decorative text page borders, pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Non-authorial 1912 gift inscription on inner flyleaf; presentation box lightly rubbed and age toned, with minor expert archival restoration to 1" side panel of box bottom. Handsome first edition of this slim verse gathering of more than one hundred poems celebrating kisses, with contributors ranging from the Brownings and Christopher Marlowe to Paul Verlaine and Ben Jonson. A lovely production rarely found in the delicate presentation box.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. pp.62 clean tight copy purple covers with lady picture bumping to corners and some shelfwear to board extremities title on spine some soiling to covers Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Edition not stated. Possible first. 12mo. 126 pages. Frontis sepia toned portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes with tissue guard. Leather covered flexible covers. All lettering stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Cloth place marker bound in. Brief gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Diagonal crease on tissue guard. Not a library discard. A lovely copy in near-fine condition. A collection of Holmes aphorisms for every day of the year.…