Boston: Wentworth & Company, 1857. Hardcover. 16mo. 106pp. Folding frontispiece plate. Blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt. Gift inscription and stamp of a historical society, small creases and tears on frontispiece, small stains on the front board, very good copy. More
![Item #629509 [Front Cover ONLY]: Elaborately Decorated Album Cover](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/629509.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1790348741)
[circa 1890?]. Hardcover. Album cover. Detached front cover only. Moderate wear, very good. A handsome album cover elaborately stamped in gilt and several colors. More
New York: American Tract Society, [circa 1858]. Hardcover. Early edition. 16mo. 256pp. Frontispiece illustration. Publisher's purple cloth binding, nicely decorated in gilt. All edges gilt. Front fly seems affixed to pastedown from an excess of binder's glue, light wear at the crown, near fine. Appears unsigned but the binding design..... More
New York: Collins & Brother, (1847). Hardcover. New edition. 16mo. 180pp. Frontispiece. Green cloth. Illustrated in gilt on the spine. Lacks front fly, else a near fine and bright copy. Novel by the prolific, moralist author Timothy Shaw Arthur, about the economic realities at play on both the domestic and..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1907. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. Decorated cloth boards illustrated by Wyeth. 278pp., [8] advertisements. Cloth moderately soiled, spine darkened with ends starting to fray, else about very good with a small hand-written note taped onto page 30 (causing offsetting to the facing..... More
Boston: Ginn and Company, (1911). Hardcover. First edition. Translated from the Italian of Cherubini by Angelo Patri, Principal of Public School No. 4, Borough of Bronx, New York City. Original Drawings by Charles Copeland. 12mo. 152pp. Blue pictorial cloth. Owner name, a little rubbing on the bards, very near fine..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [no date, circa 1884-1890s]. Hardcover. Unknown edition. 456pp. [2 advertisements]. Attractive Victorian green cloth binding stamped in black and gilt, all edges gilt. Gutter starting, edges lightly rubbed, small stain on front board, else a very good copy. More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, (1884). Hardcover. First edition, "R.O.&CO" at base of the spine. Olive green cloth decorated in black and titled in gilt. Contemporary owner name of a North Carolina man, hinges neatly restored, some soiling on the boards, very good copy. *BAL* 7912. More
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Chicago: Pascal Covici, (1927). Hardcover. Reprint (first published by Covici-McGee in 1922). Vernacular binding of handsome patterned cloth with new plain pastedowns (over Hecht's illustrated ones). Cloth worn and stained, sound but good only, and still attractive. Possibly attributable to "V and W M Sutton" of Plainfield, New Jersey, whose..... More
New York: Orange Judd Company, 1883. Hardcover. New and Enlarged edition. 12mo. 276pp. Brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Binding with moderate wear and a bit of soil, topedge with some faint staining not affecting the interior, a nice very good copy. First published in 1867. More
New York: Hurst & Co., (1870). Hardcover. Thick octavo. 337; 57 + Index pp. Green decorative cloth illustrated in gilt. A few recipes tipped to front endpapers, and two handwritten pages of recipes bound in, a little rubbing on the boards, else a very good or better copy, with spine..... More
London: "Christian Age" Offices, 1890. Hardcover. New English edition, revised and enlarged, stated "One Hundred and Twentieth Thousand" (the first English edition was 1876, published in wrappers), published well after Henson's original narrative in 1849. Preface by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Edited by John Lobb. xii, 228pp. Frontispiece portrait. Publisher's..... More
![Item #626017 Stories of Authors' Loves: [In Two Volumes]. Clara E. LAUGHLIN](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/626017.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1783455334)
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1912. Hardcover. First edition. Two volume set. Illustrated with 45 photogravure and duogravure reproductions of portraits and views. Decorative green-blue cloth with gilt-stamping designed by "H", topedges gilt. Faint foxing on page edges and on cloth, spines lightly sunned, else a very good set. Tennyson, Charlotte..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1908. Hardcover. First edition. Small octavo. Decorative illustrated green cloth stamped in gilt and black. Tiny owner stamp of David Middleton, owner signature of his mother Fola La Follette, (the wife of playwright George Middleton and daughter of Senator Robert La Follette). Extremities a little bumped and..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead And Company, 1910. Hardcover. Early printing. Translated by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos. Decorative blind embossed green cloth gilt-stamped title on front board and spine, topedge gilt. Minimal ex-library markings with stamp on preliminary pages and spine sticker offsetting, contemporary owner name on front fly, spine ends..... More
(Syracuse, New York: The Mason Press, [1915]. Hardcover. Second edition. Cover by KG[?]. Octavo. 148, [15 ads] pp. A 1936 gift inscription fro Dody to Dollie ("the best fudge maker") on the front pastedown else a bright, fine copy of this charming cookbook with 15 pages of striking ads in..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1902. Hardcover. First American edition. Illustrated. Pictorial green cloth stamped in dark green and gilt attributed to Decorative Designers. A couple of pages lightly foxed or soiled, cocked spine with tears on all edges, thus a good only copy. Uncommon. More
Philadelphia: John E. Potter and Company, [circa 1870]. Hardcover. New edition (as per preface, but technically perhaps a later printing of the first edition using the original stereotype plates for the text). Small octavo. 336pp. Foliate endpapers. Light green cloth elaborately decorated in dark green and gilt. Top corners a...... More
New York: De Witt & Davenport, 1854. Hardcover. First collected edition (first serialized in *The New York Tribune*). With original designs, engraved by N. Orr. Small octavo. 408pp. Publisher's brown cloth elaborately stamped in blind and gilt. Later bookseller ticket on the rear pastedown. Binding cocked with some loss at..... More
Buffalo, N.Y. Grace Carew Sheldon, 1898. Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. 399, [1]pp. Silk endpapers. Yellow cloth beautifully decorated in black. Fine. Copy number 1 of 500 numbered copies Signed by the author. The Dedication Copy, inscribed by the author to her mother: "To My Mother, Sarah Carew Sheldon with the..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1904. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by A.B. Shute. 263pp., [14]pp. Pictorial green cloth stamped in orange, black, and white, gilt-stamped spine title. Page 263 loose and partially glued in, owner stamp on pastedowns, spine lightly toned and cocked, edges modestly rubbed, else a very good copy..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. Hardcover. Early printing. Illustrated from color plates. Decorative blue cloth stamped in cream, green, blue, and gilt only on spine, with design attributed to Margaret Armstrong. Contemporary owner name on front fly, spine ends and corners bumped, spine cocked, small pinhole in rear board..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated from color plates. Decorative blue cloth stamped in green, blue, and gilt with design attributed to Margaret Armstrong. Front hinge cracked, edges rubbed, short tears on spine ends, corners bumped, else very good. Nine short stories. More
New York: Chautauqua Press, 1886. Hardcover. Two parts in one volume. 372pp., 15 color maps in rear. Illustrated. Decorative rust colored cloth stamped in black and gilt. Owner name penned on front fly, page edges soiled, extremities of cloth worn and beginning to fray, spine ends and corners bumped, a...... More
Milwaukee, Wis. Verlag von Geo. Brumber, 1893. Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 736pp. Copiously illustrated. Red cloth elaborately stamped in black and silver. Penciled owner name, slight bumping at the corners, about fine. An excellent decorative cloth binding in exceptional condition. More