Bliss publishing co (5 Ergebnisse)
- Softcover
Anbieter: Boomer's Books, Weare, NH, USABoomer's Books
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EUR 19,40
EUR 5,56 VersandVersand innerhalb von USAAnzahl: 1 verfügbar
Softcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Second Edition. A crisp, clean, tightly bound softcover copy presenting light creasing to spine from having been previously gently read and presenting light shelf wear only. Gordon Morrison (illustrator).
- Softcover
Anbieter: Boomer's Books, Weare, NH, USABoomer's Books
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EUR 22,04
EUR 5,56 VersandVersand innerhalb von USAAnzahl: 1 verfügbar
Softcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Second Edition. A crisp, clean, tightly bound softcover copy presenting light creasing to spine from having been previously gently read and presenting light shelf wear only. Gordon Morrison (illustrator).
Verlag: F. C. Bliss Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1888
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Alkahest Books, Deerfield, IL, USAAlkahest Books
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EUR 57,31
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 224 pages,12mo hardcover, first edition. Illustrated, woodcuts in text, frontis. Cloth with gold stamping. Not in Howes, Decker, Streeter, Eberstadt, or Graff. Some staining on rear cover, some rubbing at cover edges, but overall, a very nice copy of a fragile book. 042407C.
Weitere BilderVerlag: American Publishing Company (R.W. Bliss and Co.(Newark New Jersey), and H.H. Bancroft and Co. (San Francisco, California), Hartford, Connecticut, 1869
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Aardvark Rare Books, EUGENE, OR, USAAardvark Rare Books
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EUR 533,42
Versand gratisVersand innerhalb von USAAnzahl: 1 verfügbar
In den WarenkorbLeather-bound. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. A study and commentary of dozens of aspects - historical, social, occupational, varying strata of society, of huge, varied, great bustle of an American city -- New York, New York. Small quarto (though at 700 pp., massively thick). Original sheep, with four raised bands to spine,…and contrasting spine label, titling in gilt, to second compartment (down). Fabulous frontis of Churches of New York, an illustrated title page, and 24 additional illustrations, a number of which are full-page. Recent conservation and touch up, with both boards being reattached. Light rubbing to extremities, and remnants of four gilt highlights to bottom and top edges. Brown clay-based endpapers. Textblock is bright, clean, and pages supple to turn. The book is LOADED with fabulous anecdotes and historical tidbits. Lively storytelling! Some chapters include -- there are 90 Chapters in all!): The Rich and The Poor; New York Society; Wall Street; The Police;The Shipping; The Roughs; The Street-venders; The Ferries; The Parks; The Bowery; The Fortune-Tellers; The Bohemians; The Lager Beer Gardens; The Churches; The Theaters; The Dead Beats; The Boarding Houses; Horace Greeley; The Fifth Avenue; The Battery; The Gambling Houses; The Restaurants; The Five Points; The Morgue; The Daily Press; The Concert Saloons; Cornelius Vanderbilt; Broadway; The Thieves; Sunday in New York; Bleecker Street; The Gamins; The Demi-Monde; The Clubs; The Beggars; Street Railways; The Pawnbrokers; The Tombs; The Midnight Mission; Working Women's Home; Racing and Fast Horses; Gift Enterprises and Swindles; The Wickedest Woman in The City; The Child-Adopting System; Fanny Fern; Two Strong-Minded Women (Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton); Young Men's Christian Association; Public Schools; Distinguished Women; City Charities.and more! SABIN: 8667.
Weitere BilderVerlag: American Publishing Company; F. G. Gilman & Co.; W. E. Bliss, et al., Hartford, CT, 1872
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USAKen Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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EUR 881,68
EUR 6,42 VersandVersand innerhalb von USAAnzahl: 1 verfügbar
In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good +. First American edition, mixed state. xviii; [19]-591pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Rebacked with a large portion of the original gilt stamped spine laid over. Brown cloth boards with decorative stamping in gilt and blind. Light peach endpapers, with reinforced hinges. Triple flyleaves at front. Two flyleaves at… the rear. Two frontispiece illustrations (with a single tissue-guard), and six inserted full-page plates. One leaf of publisher's advertisements at the rear (p. 592). Merle Johnson states with regards to the advert- "Most copies of the first edition examined have this feature but whether or not the very first copies have it present or not cannot be stated with any degree of certainty." General mild rubbing to boards. Underlying boards exposed periodically along the edges. Normal darkening of the pages due to age. Top fore-edge corners of the pages have very occasionally been folded over. 3" closed tear to p. 485/6. BAL 3337. Zamorano 80, 18. Merle Johnson, pp. 13-16. McBride's, p. 83. First word of first line of contents p. xi- "My" appears to be perfect. Page 19, line 1- "My" imperfect. With "premises- said he / was occupying"- (no His). P. 156 has "Trees" and "thirteenth." "Eastern" on p. 330. With content concerning the Mormons and Salt Lake City, and a section on The Mountain Meadows Massacre. Fully illustrated by eminent artists. A slightly later state of the first edition of Mark Twain's personal narrative of his years spent vagabonding. The English edition preceded this American edition by just a few days.
