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By: N/A
Price: $33.00
Publisher: London, William Mackenzie: circa 1880
Seller ID: 13252
Volume 11 (eleven) only. By writers of eminence in the various branches of literature, science, and art. Gilt blind-stamped maroon boards. Gilt still brilliant, 2 full page engravings with tissues. Front free endpaper missing, with front gutter beginning to crack. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 769-960 pages; 13252 View more info
By: N/A
Price: $33.00
Publisher: London, Cassell: 1907
Seller ID: 12157
Illustrating the Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1907. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering, tissued frontispiece, top edge gilt, index, ads in back. Corners frayed, large faded spot on front board, spine soiled, title page dog-eared, previous owner's name, 1" stain upper spine edge of first several pages. ; B&W Illustrations; 4to - 11" to 13" tall; 160+ pages; 12157 View more info
By: N/A
Price: $33.00
Publisher: London, Cassell: 1913
Seller ID: 12158
Illustrating the Hundred and Forty-Fifth Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1913. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering, tissued frontispiece, top edge gilt, index, ads in back. Corners frayed, spine soiled and stained, previous owner's name, hinge cracking. ; B&W Illustrations; 4to - 11" to 13" tall; 157+ pages; 12158 View more info
By: N/A
Price: $13.00
Publisher: London, 1909
Seller ID: 12333
Illustrated. Color frontispiece of girl holding puppy, captioned "who dares now?". Burgundy boards, gilt spine lettering of title and nothing else. Contains short stories, articles, ads, novelettes, games, etc. No copyright page, no table of contents or title page, minor soil and edgewear. Page 145 torn, page 81 soiled. Front gutter is cracking but remainder of book is in clean, tight condition. ; Small 4to - 9" to 11" tall; 192 pages; 12333 View more info
Price: $16.50
Publisher: The Century Co.: 1913
Seller ID: 16919
Rubbed and worn at extremities, minor foxing; Small 8vo - 7½" to 8" tall; 276 pages; 16919UU View more info
By: Adams, Henry
Price: $21.00
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1899
Seller ID: 27019
Minor age wear. ; American Statesmen Series, Volume XVI Series; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 326 pages; 27019 View more info
By: Addison, Scott, Lamb, Campbell, Macauley, Tennyson, Thackeray
Price: $21.00
Publisher: American Book Company: 1900
Seller ID: 15962
Spine lettering beginning to fade. Published around the turn of last century. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 15962Naq --img View more info
By: Aldrich, T. B.
Price: $38.00
Publisher: Boston, MA, Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1883
Edition: 1st Edition; 13th Printing
Seller ID: 25999
Prologue: The reader will probably not find Ponkapog set down in any but the very latest gazetteer. It is the Indian name of a little New England village [in Massachusetts], from which the writer sallied forth, a while ago, on a pilgrimage beyond the sea. Ponkapog scarcely merits a description, and Pesth [pronounced Pest, in Hungary]-- the farthest point east to which his wanderings led him -- has been too often described. He is thus happily relieved of the onus of makin... View more info
By: Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (editor-In-Chief) , and George Frisbie Hoar (editor)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Boston, MA, Hall & Locke Company: 1902
Edition: 3rd Edition
Seller ID: 30122
Includes "The Strenuous Life" by Teddy Roosevelt. Six colored plates, all in excellent condition, and 110 B/W illustrations. Front cover still bright but spine is a little faded. Edgewear. Gilt top edge. The number 714 printed on bottom of title page, private library name on front pastedown. ; Young Folks' Library Series; Ex-Library; Vol. 18; Color Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 395 pages; 30122 View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, J. B. Lippincott: 1893
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 12438
Illustrated frontispiece of author, this being his first novel. Gray decorated cloth boards, gilt spine lettering. Binding loose, previous owner's name. Two small holes on ffep. Fold on rfep. ; 12mo - 7" to 7½" tall; 218 pages; 12438 View more info
Price: $13.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1895
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 30970
Frontispiece loose at bottom edge, 3 more illustrations; faint stains on boards and front pastedown. Gift note to Waldo's Mother at Christmas 1901. ; Harpers Little Novels Series; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 147 pages; 30970 View more info
By: American Sight-Seeing Car and Coach Company
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Denver, The American Sight-Seeing Car and Coach Company: 1904
Edition: 3rd Edition
Seller ID: 30016
Rear cover, gray, has spots around the perimeter. Insects have had dinner on the covers, leaving holes here and there. Wonderful old photos of mansions and buildings and rails in Denver at the turn of the last century are on all the pages. A photo/picture in the box on cover is missing, leaving evidence in 3 corners. This is not a reprint, print-on-demand or facsimile. It is an original, with a price of 25-cents. Originally bound with string, the string has long since di... View more info
Price: $28.20
Publisher: Crocker & Brewster: 1859
Edition: 65th Printing
Seller ID: 17445
Top portion of title page torn. Leather spine, cloth embossed boards. Rubbed, soiled, stained. ; 12mo - 7" to 7½" tall; 17445Frcb View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $17.01
Publisher: Unknown: 1910
Seller ID: 11807
Inscribed by Uncle Jay (1950s children's TV show host). No publisher, author, illustrator or date and unpaginated; title page seems to be missing. Contents are listed on front pastedown, editorial column on rear pastedown (and ends with a hyphenated word, as if continued) . Circa 1910. Sampling of contents: Forest Land Tales (Fourth Installment) ; Uncle Sam's Page (Congressional Library) ; Abdallah or The Magic Rug (Ninth Adventure) ; New Feature--Child Play Natural Hist... View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $28.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1906
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 30526
Although the author's name appears absolutely nowhere in the book, it shows "by the author of the Martyrdom of an Empress" on front board which research shows to be written by Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen, therefore I can safely assume this book is also written by her. The color illustrations (by the author) are all present and the color frontispiece is tissued. Old handwritten price and even older name of previous owner on flypage. Edges worn, frayed and bumped, dam... View more info
By: Anthon, Charles
Price: $18.00
Publisher: NY, Harper & Brothers: 1852 [1847]
Seller ID: 21954
Simply put, an altogether falling apart book which holds only the value of the content: A Greek soldier and writer as well as a disciple of Socrates, Xenophon, joined Cyrus the Younger in an attack on Persia. After the death of Cyrus, Xenophon led the Greek troops to the Black Sea, an ordeal he recounted in Anabasis. Greek text, english notes. The boards have separated, the leather has dried up and fallen off with the exception of a few remaining pieces on the spine. One... View more info
By: Anthony, Luther B. , editor
Price: $33.00
Publisher: Easton, PA, Unknown: 1913
Seller ID: 20510
Contents: Charles Frohman, Brander Matthews; Henry Arthur Jones; Arnold Bennett; *To-Morrow; *Anti-Matrimony; Are You a Crook? ; Broadway Jones; The Easiest Way; *Caste; *L'Aiglon; *Such is Life; *The Play of Today; *The Dramatic Index; Three Seasons Compared; That Right Word; Plots of the World's Best Plays; Complete Index to Vols. I, II, III and IV. *The asterisk indicates that the work is published. Edgewear, tear at spine edge. New York Theatrical Season at a Glance ... View more info
By: Atherton, Gertrude Franklin
Price: $33.00
Publisher: NY, Macmillan: 1903
Edition: 8th Printing
Seller ID: 23013
A fictionalized biography of the colonial politician and US President. Extremities worn and fraying, front gutter split at top edge, previous owner's name. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 546+ads pages; 23013 View more info
By: Austin, Jane G.
Price: $98.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1892
Edition: 6th Edition
Seller ID: 26003
Historically accurate fictionalized accounts of the early colonization of America, this book gives rare insight into the lives of Miles Standish and Betty Alden. An original publication, not a print-on-demand book. Foxing throughout; pocket removal residue (from years ago, having been placed in the research collection and noted as "not to be removed from the Rosenberg library, Galveston, Texas"). Slight slant, burgundy leather spine rubbed. Gilt spine lettering. ... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Boston, MA, Lothrop Publishing Company: 1901
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 20888
Gilt blind-stamped decorations around paper paste-on picture of main character with 1812 printed below the title. Gilt decorated spine, top edge gilt, deckled edges, tissued frontispiece. Minor bumping to corners and wear at extremities, rubbed spots on boards, faint evidence of name erasure. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 362 pages; 20888 View more info
