First Edition. Ownership inscription. With a 32-page publisher's catalogue at rear dated February 1860. Original red cloth. Some rubbing to spine, a very good copy with the gilt-stamping on the cover still bright. View More...
Publisher:
Paris, Printed For Hector Bossange : 1827
Seller ID: 15308J
True First Edition, First Printing published in Paris in English preceding the editions printed in England and America. Three volumes. Original paper boards with gilt-stamped leather labels. 19th century bookplate in each. Some light foxing, a very good set of a rare book that has not appeared at auction in over two decades. Enclosed in a handsome clamshell custom box. View More...
Publisher:
Boston, James R. Osgood and Company : 1875
Seller ID: 11435J
First Edition of the Author's First Book. Original gilt-stamped green cloth skillfully rebacked with the original cloth laid down. Very good. View More...
First Edition - American. Published less than a month after the London edition, in an edition of 1500 copies. An unusually bright and fine copy, with only slight wear. View More...
Early Edition. This set belonged to the great actor John Barrymore and volume one contains his bookplate. This large engraved bookplate is a striking design drawn by Barrymore, himself, with his initials at the bottom showing the masks of comedy and tragedy, entwined in a thorny tree with flowing banners reading: ÒJohn Barrymore - Ex LibrisÓ beneath which is a pen and an artist's brush. A two volume set; volume one - 405 pages, volume two - 426 pages. A handsome set bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and front boards and gilt, white and blue decoration and ÔPeace on Eart... View More...
Publisher:
New York, Harper & Brothers : June to November 1866
Seller ID: 11093J
First Edition. Publisher's collected volume of six months of the magazine with index. Two issues contain the first appearance in print of Herman Melville's Civil War poems, ÒChattanoogaÓ and ÒGettysberg.Ó Modern gilt-stamped half morocco and cloth boards. Neat 19th century library stamp at head of contents page. Very good. View More...
First Edition, First Printing. Three volumes in original blue decorative cloth, covers designed in reddish-brown stamping, spines lettered in gilt. 32-page publishers catalogue at the end of Volume I, dated March, 1883. A well-worn copy rebacked with the original cloth laid down. The tops and bottoms have spine cloth spines are mottled, and there is moderate overall wear. All three volumes contain bookplates, and a note inside the first volume indicates that the set was the property of Morris L. Parrish (distinguished collector of Victorian novels), then John C. Eckel (bibliographer of Dickens... View More...
Vintage 1904 edition published in the author's lifetime. Original red cloth decorated in gilt. Tiny bit of sunning to spine but with the gold bright all around. Very good plus clean tight copy. View More...
Original wrappers. Containing ÒMy Late Senatorial SecretaryshipÓ, ÒThe Facts Concerning the Recent ResignationÓ and ÒHow I Edited an Agricultural NewspaperÓ. IssuedÓ...for our Senators and Congressmen, who, in these troubled times, may find much needed distraction in the refreshing humor of Mark TwainÓ. Fine. View More...
First Edition. One of 1000 numbered copies. Original lavender gilt-stamped and decorated cloth. Ownership inscription and bookplates of Chauncey Lawrence Williams and Scott Cunningham on the front pastedown. A little trace of sunning to spine with some rubbing near bottom of spine, some dust-soiling to the boards, else a very good copy. View More...
