Collier peter fenelon (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Stamped and decorated brick colored cloth in black and gilt. Several very small speckles on front cover, paste downs and flyleaves with light foxing. Illustrated with nearly 400 fine engravings. Includes: Griffins Collegians. Banim's Peep O'Day. Crohoore and the Billhook. Lover's Handy Andy. 501 pages. No listing of publication date. WorldCat estimates between 1880 and 1900. Contents clean and tight with no marks or inscriptions. PayPal accepted.…

Unbound. Zustand: Very Good. 1st. full page with 3/4 page photo of Mr. Collier with his hounds and in hunting garb, along with 1/4 page obituary.one page suitable for framing Size: 10.5" x 15.5". b/w Photoengraving (illustrator).

A fill-in-the-blanks job-printed receipt for this California publisher, detailing layaway terms. Verso with blanks to record customer's payment record. 3-7/8" x 10" One Francis Cutting has deposited One Dollar, as of February 19, 1887, towards purchase of "1 Set Dickens" at a list price of $10.00. The set was paid in full March 21st of that year. As background to this transaction, we find that in the 1870s, Collier started work as a salesman for P. J. Kenedy, publisher of books for the Roman Catholic market. When Collier wanted to boost sales by offering books on a subscription plan, it led to a disagreement with Kenedy, so Collier left to start his own subscription service. P. F. Collier & Son began in 1875, expanding into the largest subscription house in America with sales of 30 million books during the 19001910 decade." [Wiki] So here offered a surviving 1880s receipt of Collier's very successful subscription business. Age-toning. Vertical fold line. Very Good. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. …

Approximate dimensions: H 12 inches x L 9 inches. Sheet toned with center horizontal fold-line, top corners creased, short minor tear at lower right edge. Front side (recto) with varying fonts and font sizes: UNRIVALED! UNEQUALED! UNEXCELLED! | THE MOST WONDERFUL LITERARY ACHIEVEMENT OF THE 19TH CENTURY! | THE NINTH IMPROVED AND REVISED EDITION OF | COLLIER'S CYCLOPEDIA | OF COMMERCIAL AND SOCIAL INFORMATION. | TREASURY OF USEFUL AND ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE. . . . [various laudatory hyperbole] . . . TO SUBSCRIBE AT ONCE. | SOLD AT THE INSTALLMENT PLAN OF 25 CENTS A WEEK. | BEDARD & HORTON, AGENTS. IN THE CITY FOR A WEEK. Verso side has two column list of contents. Undated but should be circa 1890-1895 as New York publisher P.F. Collier first issued his Cyclopedia in 1882 according to OCLC. Per the broadside's concluding phrasing, Bedard & Horton were likely travelling sales agents rather than a physical bookstore as a Google search does not turn up any information on them. The broadside was acquired from a Tuscaloosa, Alabama estate which had a number of mid to late nineteenth century books most of which were apparently purchased either in Tuscaloosa or Mobile, Alabama so perhaps the Bedard & Horton partnership hailed from that region as well.…

13758 COLLIER, PETER FENELON - 1898 1ST EDIT. - THE HISTORY OF THE WAR OF 1898 - ILLUSTRATED - OVER SIZED - HARD COVER - PAGES AND COVER LOOSE - FAIR/GOOD CONDITION AGE CONSIDERED - 248 PP (478A).

16pp. Folio. Profusely illustrated, the front cover with a Nast cartoon: "The Almighty Bob," depicting a balding, overstuffed man with a halo above him: "Thou shalt have not Other God But ME." Very Good with light wear. This illustrated Weekly Newspaper, which commenced publication in 1888, became the well-known household staple known as Collier's in 1905. Stories, contemporary news, articles, and advertisements, with a plethora of illustrations fill the pages. Lomazow 973.…