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By: By the Author of Copsley Annals. [Emily Elizabeth Steele Elliott]
Price: $35.00
Publisher: London:, T. Nelson and Sons,: 1882.<br>
Edition: First Edition.<br>
Seller ID: 004267
Maroon cloth covered boards, gilt titles and stamped decorations. Bindings square and tight. Text Clean. Some toning. Wear top corners and spine tips. 6 3/8 inches tall. 120 pages. Collection of moral and religious short stories. View more info
![Image for <b>Doctor Johns: Being a Narrative of Certain Events in the Life of an Orthodox Minister in Connecticut. Two Volumes [Complete]</b>](/assets/images/product/002555_c73bf680d1cf754d3ddf2306f71aeede.jpg "<b>Doctor Johns: Being a Narrative of Certain Events in the Life of an Orthodox Minister in Connecticut. Two Volumes [Complete]</b>")
By: By the Author of My Farm of Edgewood [Donald C. Mitchell]
Price: $65.00
Publisher: New York:, Charles Scribner and Company,: 1866.
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002555
Green cloth covered boards with stamped gilt spine titles Bindings square, hinges solid. Moderate shelf wear, Top spine bands pulled on both. On laid paper, toning, clean text. 7.5 inches tall. 300 and 295 pages.Donald Grant Mitchell (1822-1908) was an essayist and novelist who often wrote under the pseudonym "Ik Marvel". This publication is a work of fiction. View more info
Price: $345.00
Publisher: London, David Bogue: 1848
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 010718
Publisher's gilt and blind-stamped decorated green cloth with gilt-stamped illustrated spine. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Spine Sun-faded. First Edition, First Printing. 12mo. 6.75 inches tall; viii, 153 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, vignettes. ------ A handsome copy. REF: Westwood & Satchell, 50; Albee, 34; Heckscher 357 View more info
By: Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Everyman's Library: 1992
Seller ID: 010256
No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. [No Jacket as issued] Reprinted from the 1924 Routledge & Sons translation from the French by Richard Aldington with an Introduction by Peter Washington. In the two hundred years since its original publication, Les Liaisons Dangereuses has provoked, on the one hand, shock and censorship, and on the other, the admiration of readers as different as Marie Antoinette, Andre Gide, and Charles Baudelaire. Numerous Contemporary Artists View more info
Price: $245.00
Publisher: William Pickering,, London:: 1829.<br>
Edition: Second Edition. The first edition was of 12 copies. Complete in three volumes.<br>
Seller ID: 005622
Rebound in [Contemporary] 19th-century custom full leather. Showing moderate external wear, with some rubbing and chipping to the spines. Top edge gilt. Bindings firm. Text clean and bright, Printed on laid-paper; an occasional foxing spot noted. The front cover of the third volume displays a small stain in the lower left corner. Antique bookplates can be seen on the front pastedowns. Joints seem tender and books are protected and reinforced by custom clear Myla... View more info
![Image for <b>Private Correspondence of William Cowper, Esq. with several of his most intimate friends. Now first published from the originals in the possession of his kinsman, John Johnson </b><br>[Complete in 2 volumes]](/assets/images/product/008348_f3ccdd27d2000e3f9255a7e3e2c48800.jpg "<b>Private Correspondence of William Cowper, Esq. with several of his most intimate friends. Now first published from the originals in the possession of his kinsman, John Johnson </b><br>[Complete in 2 volumes]")
By: Cowper, William [Johnson, John]
Price: $85.00
Publisher: London:, Printed for Henry Colburn. new Burlington Street. and Simpkin and Marshall. Stationers' Hall Court ,: 1884.
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 008348
William Cowper (1731 – 1800) was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry.Half bound in contemporary aniline calf over marbled boards, four raised bands. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even age-toning, more pronounced in preli... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York:, Harper Brothers Publishers,: 1867.
Edition: Later Edition.
Seller ID: 004020
Brown cloth boards with stamped spine title in gilt, Decorations and blind-stamped decorative boarder. Moderate handling wear, Text clean with a hint of toning. Bindings firm. Rub to spine tips and corners. 7.5/8 inches tall. 214 pages. Essays from an ardent support of Lincoln without his usual political bite. View more info
![Image for <b>Sir John Franklin's Last Arctic Expedition: a Chapter in the History of the Royal Navy Description </b><br> [Polar Exploration]](/assets/images/product/443.jpg "<b>Sir John Franklin's Last Arctic Expedition: a Chapter in the History of the Royal Navy Description </b><br> [Polar Exploration]")
By: Cyriax, Richard J. (1885-1967)
Price: $1,125.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd.: 1939
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: 009495
The first edition of one of the rarest works on the twentieth-century Franklin search. This important scholarly account of Franklin's last voyage is based largely on the account of George McClintock. Scarcity due to many copies being destroyed during WW II London bombing which hit Metheun's warehouse. Only two other copies are recorded by ABPC and RBH. Compiled from both published and non-published sources. Of importance is the account addr... View more info
Price: $39.95
Publisher: New York:, Hurd and Houghton at the Riverside Press,: 1869.<br>
Edition: Early Edition, Second printing.<br>
Seller ID: 003066
Text and drawings of American illustrator's trip to England and the Continent undertaken in 1867-68. Green pebbled morocco leather covered beveled boards, stamped titles and spine decoration in gilt, decoration in circle of travelers in stamped gilt on front. All edges gilt.Bindings square and tight; Light wear. A stripe of bio-predation across front. Three previous ownership marks: bookplate front paste-down; cursive inked name on front free end... View more info
Price: $34.95
Publisher: 1883, Washington Law Book,: Washington D.C.:
Seller ID: 009110
"Shakespeare's persistent and correct use of law terms was long ago noticed and caused the conjecture that he must have studied in an attorney's office. …… but that he was more addicted to the employment of legal nomenclature than any English writer (excepting, of course, the jurists) is incontestable;" From Introduction. The author through example from Shakespeare’s plays gives legal explanation. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light e... View more info
Price: $24.00
Publisher: New York:, Harper & Brothers Publishers,: 1901.
Edition: Later edition.
Seller ID: 002441
Wine red cloth covered boards with stamped spine titles with black bordered armorial design with gilt titles inside on front. Bindings firm with a hint of a shelf lean. Light shelf wear with a spot of rub at corners and spine tips. Text clean with light even toning. 7.5 inches tall. 349 pages. View more info
Price: $24.00
Publisher: New York:, Harper & Brothers Publisher.: 1892.
Edition: First Edition, First Issue. (blanck 4512)
Seller ID: 002635
Green cloth covered boards with stamped spine titles with black bordered armorial design with gilt titles inside on front. Bindings firm with a hint of a shelf lean. Light shelf handling with rubbed corners and spine tips. Text clean with toning heavier at the edges. Previous owner's name on front paste-down. A small white sticker on verso of title page, believe it is closing a closed tear or thin spot. Did not attempt removal. Minor dampstain text block near lower... View more info
.jpg "<b> A Manual of Music: Its History, Biography and Literature. A Complete History of Music, Illustrated w/ Chronological Charts, Incl. Biographies & Portraits of Eminent Composers with Characteristic Specimens from their Works, Carefully Analyzed and Explained. </b>")
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Chicago:, Manual Publishing Co.,: 1888
Seller ID: 008947
ncludes A Dictionary of Technical and Proper Names with Definitions and Simplified Pronunciations. Folio; 628 pages : illustrations, portraits, music ; 36 cm.Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear with slight beginnings of discoloration on rear board. Slight shelf lean. I View more info
Price: $19.95
Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam’s Sons: 1909
Edition: Later Printing.
Seller ID: 006937
Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Boards are darkened on perimeter and spine. Some spotting to rear board. 7.87 inches tall. 161 pages with publisher's advertisements. William Henry Drummond (April 13, 1854 – April 6, 1907) was an Irish-born Canadian poet whose humorous dialect poems made him "one of the most popular authors in the English-speaking world," and "one of the most widely-read and loved poets" in Canada. View more info
Price: $19.95
Publisher: Boston, American Unitarian Association,: 1893.
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002520
Light blue textured cloth boards with stamped gilt titles. Bindings square and tight, text clean, minor toning. Minimal shelf wear. 40 short biographical lessons from famous people with a character trait emphasized in each lesson. Notables range from the expected Washington and Lincoln to Darwin and Emerson. Each is presented by a different author or editor Edward Horton. A very handsome copy. No other copies were found at time of this listing availabl... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York:, D. Appleton and Company,: 1900
Edition: Later Edition.
Seller ID: 002916
This novel was a best seller at the turn into the 20th century, told in the dialectic. The Syracuse Herald wrote, "A masterpiece of character painting. In David Harum, the shrewd, whimsical, horse-trading country banker, Wescott has depicted a type of character that is by no means new to fiction, but nowhere else has it been so carefully wrought out."Wine red cloth coved boards with lovely oak leaf title block imprint on cover. Binding firm with a slight lean. Pushed... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York:, Orange, Judd and Company,: 1871.
Edition: First Edition - Second State.
Seller ID: 003604
Brown cobbled cloth covered boards. Spine decorated in gilt very faded. Bindings tight and square, Text clean moderately toned; occasional spotting. Shelf wear to spine tips and some to edges. The novel is noted for its realistic depictions of 19th-century American rural life and for its use of local dialect. View more info
By: Fielding, Henry
Price: $18.00
Publisher: New York:, The Century Company,: 1903.
Seller ID: 001182
Top edge gilt, others lightly stained. Brown cloth covered boards with leather paste-on spine label with titles in gilt. Bindings tight with a slight lean. Light shelf wear no breaks in cloth. Illustrated. Some toning to pages. 320 pages. View more info
![Image for <b>Barracks, Bivouacs and Battles.</b><br>[19th Century British Military]](/assets/images/product/005542_f3ccdd27d2000e3f9255a7e3e2c48800.jpg "<b>Barracks, Bivouacs and Battles.</b><br>[19th Century British Military]")
Price: $29.95
Publisher: London:, Macmillan and Co.,: 1891
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 005542
A Collection of anecdotes about army life and adventure witnessed by the British war correspondent previously published in various magazines.Archibald Forbes (1838 - 1900) was one of the most celebrated war correspondents of the 19th century, covering major and minor wars including the Franco-Prussian War, the Russo-Turkish War and the Anglo-Zulu War. This is a collection of 16 Forbes pieces that was published toward the end of his career. Red cloth wit... View more info
![Image for <b>Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in 1819-20-21-22 : with a Brief Account of the Second Journey in 1825-26-27. </b><br> [Four volumes, Complete]](/assets/images/product/1d4.jpg "<b>Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in 1819-20-21-22 : with a Brief Account of the Second Journey in 1825-26-27. </b><br> [Four volumes, Complete]")
By: Franklin, John (1786-1847)
Price: $1,295.00
Publisher: London, John Murray: 1829
Seller ID: 009511
The Coppermine Expedition of 1819-1822 had as its goal the exploration of the northern coast of Canada, which was accessed by way of the Coppermine River. The British expedition was organized by the Royal Navy as part of its attempt to discover and map the Northwest Passage. It was the first of three Arctic expeditions to be led by John Franklin, and also included George Back and Dr. John Richardson, both of whom would become notable Arctic explorers in their own right. ... View more info
