Translator mary booth (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards with blind decorative stamping on covers and spine. Title page dated 1859. 172 pages. In good condition. Cloth appears faded, especially along spine and edges. Some darker soiling on front and back cover. Chipping to cloth at head and foot of spine. Lettering on spine is quite faded, almost completely unreadable. Previous owner's blind stamp on title page and bookplate on front attached endpaper. Some light foxing throughout. Otherwise pages are free of marks or tears. Frontispiece is a portrait of Marie de Rohan, protected by tissue guard. Binding is strong. A good reading copy overall.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Very Good set of 3 hardcovers, no DJs. Maroon covers with gilt and black decoration. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Edges show some foxing. Bindings are tight, hinges strong. Covers are in great condition with only minor edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day. …

Zustand: Near Fine. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing of a noteworthy French abolitionist treatise. [1], x, 413 pp. Bound in publisher's fugitive purple wave-grain cloth, stamped in blind on front and rear boards and lettered in gilt on spine. Near Fine with sunning to spine and dulling to gilt lettering, light rubbing to extremities, and small stain to front board. Light foxing to endpapers, two small labels and consequent offsetting to front endpapers, chipping to four preliminary leaves resulting from printer's error (leaves are tipped in and protrude from textblock). Scarce. A crisp copy of this translation of the second part of Cochin's two-volume work L'Abolition de l'Esclavage, published in 1861 in France. "The chapters devoted to the slaveholding countries other than the United States, the slave-trade, the immigration of free negroes, and the colonization of Africa," writes translator Mary Booth in her preface, "afford much useful and interesting information touching the beginning, growth, and effects of slavery." Mary Booth spent the Civil War translating texts that could help the Unionist cause, and went on to become the first editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar. Augustin Cochin, who had been knighted by Pope Pius IX for his service to abolitionism, died before he turned fifty. "He had done so much, and yet so little!" wrote the diplomat Charles de Gavard. "We were looking for so much from him that we forget he has left behind him a well-filled life.".…