payson willis (15 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Birket Foster (illustrator). 1st Edition. Sm 8vo, vi + pp186 with 6 plates by Birket Foster ("Scott farm" and "the little tambourine player" are sadly missing). Hardcover no dust jacket. Original dark blue cloth binding with gilt titles and design to front board and spine with dentelles in good condition with a little rubbing to spine and edges. Inside text block detached mostly from spine leaving some pages a little loose. All pages with top edge gilt however are in very good clean condition.

hardback, 12mo, vi,186pp, title page and 7 plates by Birket Foster, owner's inscriptions on flyleaf, edges browned and light foxing, glued repairs to inner hinges, gilt-decorated cloth, spine ends and corners bumped and scuffed, Good condition.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked green buckram, blind-bordered panels; edges very slightly dust-toned and somewhat worn as with age. Minor scattered marginal foxing. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 312 pages; Description: 312 p. Subjects: Ginger-Snaps - F. F. 3 Kg.

Zustand: Good. At head of title: "Twentieth Thousand" and beneath title "with original designs by Fred M. Coffin." First ed. 1853; 400 p., clean and unmarked--not ex-lib., no former owner's name--small bookstore label on upper corner of paste-down and one small ink spot on upper corner of blank front end page; many lovely engravings; paper fine quality and strong but foxed; binding firm; blue embossed boards with gilt lettering and ornamentation on spine have moderate wear with some bumping and rubbing.

hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Cover has moderate shelf wear. Foxing/staining has occurred on the pages. Pages are splitting but remain intact.

hardcover. Zustand: good. First. 12mo, original brown cloth, spine ends and edges of corners worn, cloth lightly soiled, scattered foxing, mostly to margins. New York: H. Long, 1855. First Edition A novel.

With Original Designs by Fred M. Coffin. (illustrator). First Edition, thirty seventh thousand. Very Good (little wear head of spine; little scattered foxing). 8vo., embossed green cloth, stamped in gilt; 400 pages.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Third Edition, Revised. 8vo about 1853, pp 337. Original publisher's green cloth deccorated gilt leaves & in blind, vignette title page & 5 engraved plates by Fred M. Coffin. First book by first American woman newspaper columnist, proto feminist originator of the saying "The way to a mans heart is through his stomach". Spine ends and corners worn, some foxing throughout, one signature starting ; good to vg copy. Very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Auburn and Buffalo: Miller, Orton & Milligan; Thirty First Thousand (1854). 298 pages + Ads. NEARFINE Hardcover, no dj. Embossessed all over Gray cloth Decorated with Gilt stamping and lettering. Very light rubbing and soiling to the cover. Clean Unmarked Interior Excellent binding and hinges. 6.75"4.6"x1.0". be16335.

Front., (8)pp ads. Orig. red cloth, blocked in blind, front board dec. & lettered in gilt. Presentation inscription on leading f.e.p. December 1860. 64pp. This title not on Copac; the first appearance of 'Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio' was in 1853. The other titles in 'Knight's Juvenile Library' are The Lost Lamb, Margaret Jones, The Dairyman's Daughter, Bright-Eyed Bessy and the Gentle Boy all dated 1860-61.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Birket Foster (illustrator). First edition. A collection of short stories from the American children's writer and columnist, Fanny Fern, with illustrations from Birket Foster The first UK edition.Illustrated by Birket Foster with a monochrome frontispiece, illustrated title page, and six monochrome plates.This volume features a collection of stories by Fanny Fern, the pen name of Sara Payson Willis. Fern was a popular American novelist, children's writer and columnist, being the highest paid US columnists of her time. The stories in this work were first published in her columns.In the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally smart with fading to the spine and extremities, bumping to the extremities, and the odd mark to the boards. Hinges tender with light spotting to the endpapers and a bookseller's label to the rear. Internally generally firm with only slight strain in places. Pages generally bright with spotting. Very Good. book.

Tinted front. & engr. title (with imprint of Ingram, Cooke & Co.) & plates, final ad. leaf. Lacks leading f.e.p. Orig. olive green morocco cloth, attractively blocked in blind & gilt, lettered in gilt; spine sl. faded, small nick at head of leading hinge. Moral and religious tales, attractively illustrated by Myles Birket Foster, 1825-1899.

Haarlem, De Erven F. Bohn, 1870, VIII,158 pag., original gilt and blindstamped cloth by D.G. van Bommel, 19,3 x 12,7 cm. = Binding trifle dampstained.

Original full burgundy embossed cloth. Spine ends worn / damaged, edges chafed, some minor discolouring, pages partly browned / foxed, else a (very) good copy. Rare first edition of a 19th century American classic. Please see description or ask for photos.

Original full green embossed cloth. Corners worn / damaged, edges a bit chafed, some minor discolouring, else a (very) good copy. Rare first edition of a 19th century American classic. Please see description or ask for photos.