James t fields editor (9 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Softcover. Includes 'The Snow-Walkers' by John Burroughs (9pp), 'Poor Chloe: A True Story of Massachusetts in the Olden Time' by Lydia Maria Child (12pp), Poems by Richard Realf, Hiram Rich and Thomas Bailey Aldrch, plus the third part of Hawthorne's NoteBooks, the second part of The Freedman's Story by William Parker and the third part of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'The Chimney-Corner for 1866'. Sewn wraps. Some pages unopened V.g. copy. Together with a second copy of the same a little worn and creased.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Bound in three-quarter leather and paper boards. Small portions of the front paper and the spine are missing. Twenty-four engraved portraits of the contributors are present. Wear at the tips and light soiling. Twenty-four engraved plates (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. NOTE: This oversize/heavy book will require additional charges for international shipping, please inquire prior to ordering; xxx, 998 pages; green cloth, gilt and black spine and front titles and elaborate decorations, beveled extremities; all edges gilt; black endpapers; black & white frontispiece with tissue guard, black & white plates with guards; rubbing to extremities, fraying to head & tail of spine, scattered blemishes, bookplate of previous owner to front pastedown, slightly shaken; a very good copy. …

iv. + 326pp. illustrated in black & white BAL 3776,5249,7630. 1st Printing of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'The Titmouse'. Also Whittier, Carlyle, Goethe, Mrs. Gaskell, Dante, George Ticknor, Milton, Southey, Blake, Longfellow, and Scott Some Blake poems appear to make their 1st US appearance here. Remembrance card pasted to front endpaper, text lightly stained throughout, stamping faded, covers sunned/rubbed: Good+. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. The Boston Book. Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. 364 p, original decorated cloth binding measures 8 x 4.75", 8vo. Featuring First Printings of: The Morning Visit by Oliver Wendell Holmes (page 89), Resignation by Henry Longellow (page 123). In good condition. Binding slightly cocked. Boards scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine collapsed with frayed cloth; spine tanned from shelf-wear/sun-exposure. Gilt lettering and deco normally dulled on spine, but overall legible and attractive. All edges of text-block gilt. Ownership bookplate on front paste-down: "Harry Little". Front gutter cracked at vignette title page with some cording exposed. Normal toning and age-staining through text-block. Some spots of light finger-soiling. Binding intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Vignette title page of the "Great Tree" on Boston Common with a fountain and a flagpole in the forefront. COLI1850ABDB - 01/26 - HK3116.…

First Edition. James T. Fields, editor The Boston Book. Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature First edition, 1850, Ticknor, Reed and Fields, includes work by Hawthorne, Holmes, Whittier, Longfellow, Dana, Emerson, and others. Rubbing to the spine, otherwise intact, Good condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. Oxford Complete Edition / First Edition. 1) Handsome hardcover edition, bound in decorative quarter vellum at spine with brown cloth. Solidly bound and clean inside and out. Top edge gilt (slightly dulled). The book is a British reprint of the 1894 edition issued by Houghton Mifflin. With notes, index of first lines, and chronological list. "From E.S. from W.F. 15.4.09" neatly inked on half-title page. Soiled reading ribbon present. An Oxford Complete Edition. A very nice copy. 8vo. 598 pp. 2) Included in the sale is an entry in the Harper's Black & White Series "Whittier," by Mrs. James T. Fields, in near fine condition, clean and solidly bound. Lacking a dust jacket. Illustrated. Affixed to inside pastedown page is a newspaper clipping with the headline "Whittier's Birthplace Before the Recent Fire." 24mo. 103 pp.…

One page, 12mo, bifolium, minor chips, good condition. Text: "I should at this time address a letter to Miss Thackeray 'care of' Mr George Smith, Publisher of the Cornhill Magazine, London.".

Hardcover. First edition. Tall 8vo., orig. blue cloth stamped in gilt, iv, 326pp. Name, some minor wear to spine ends o/w near fine.