Webster Genealogy Compiled Printed Presentation (4 results)
Published by The Author, Brooklyn 1876
- Softcover
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. Condition: Fair. Paperback. Wraps half title and last prelims loose, but present. Dampstain to left edge of signatures text not affected]. Fifteen leaves printed on rectos only, five vignette illustrations of fable, but lacking the one showing Webster at work.
Published by Privately Printed, Brooklyn, NY 1876
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.Barry Cassidy Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 195.08
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Soft cover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. First Edition. BAL 6140. Ford's first book, written and published when he was eleven years old. 250 copies were printed. BAL locates only four libraries holding copies. 9 1/4" x 12". Nine pages plus two pages of brief descriptions of "Great-Grandfather's Books and Pictures". Wrappers… and paper folder.
Published by Privately Printed, Brooklyn, NY 1876
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Wrappers. 16 leaves printed recto only [final leaf blank]. 4to. 16 leaves printed recto only [final leaf blank]. 4to.
More imagesPublished by privately printed, Brooklyn 1876
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB)
Contact seller5-star sellerFolio, 15 leaves printed on the rectos only, engraved frontispiece portrait of the lexicographer after the painting by Samuel F.B. Morse, engraved title-page of A Dictionary of the English Language with a vignette showing Webster at work in his library (note: these two engravings are not in all copies of the Genealogy); 5 vignet…te illustrations of fables taken from early American editions of Webster's Spellers; original plain gray paper wrappers, some splitting along top edge and spine, but generally very good. The first book by the eleven-year-old great-grandson of Noah Webster, which he printed himself at his home in Brooklyn in an edition of 250 copies. The original edition of the Genealogy, published by Webster himself in octavo format and without illustrations, appeared in 1836. BAL 6140; Skeel 752.
