Life of Edwin Forrest with Reminiscences and Personal Recollections by James Rees - 1874

Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers, 1874. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Presumed first edition, 1874, hardcover with gilt stamped green cloth boards, octavo, 524pp. + ads, frontispiece portrait of Forrest in b&w, otherwise not illustrated. Book VG with some staining and bunching to cloth on front board, mild edgewear, rubbing and mild soil, binding tight, previous owner's stamp to front endpapers, otherwise text clean and unmarked. No DJ.

Philadelphia: Peterson, (1874).. First edition. Ex-library with school library regulations bookplate inside front cover as only indication. Green cloth. Edge wear, few leaves with corner folds, else VG. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1874.

Philadelphia, PA: T. B. Peterson & Brothers. G/No Dustjacket. (1874). ........ Cloth. Sm 8vo., 524, [4] pp., cover bumped, ffe chipped, page toning .

T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1874. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1874. No Edition Remarks. 524 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with plastic cover. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Some staining to gutters of a few pages. Occasional thumb-marking present. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with heavy splits and loss to cloth. Light tanning to spine and edges. Faint pale marking to boards. Plastic cover has some dark rubbing with some loss and heavy tears.

Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1874 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Olive drab pebble-grained cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, blind titles on rear board, olive drab end papers, sewn two-sections-on on sunk cords, [6], 21-524, 4 pp. Spine detached at rear joint, front joint about half gone, head of spine missing, cloth crumbling, rubbed through to boards at corners and bottom edge near hinge, War Service Library bookplate on front paste-down, frontispiece lacking, otherwise internally clean & bright--paper shows little sign of aging. Although pagination starts at page 21, the table of contents starts at page 23, the first gathering is complete and the second gathering has signature 2, so there is no apparent loss of text. Perhaps it was intended to accommodate additional preliminary matter that never materialized? Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Reading Copy/No dj. 19½ X 14 cm.

T.B. Peterson and Brothers, Philadelphia: 1874., 1874 524 p. + Portrait Frontis + 4 p. Publisher's advertisements. Damp stained. 8vo. Original gold decorated publisher's cloth binding, worn. Corners worn with loss. Spine worn with loss at head and tail. A contemporary account of the great actor's life and thoughts. Sadly, this is a reading copy only. PA 9 Language: eng. Hardcover. Good.

Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, 1874. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/No dust jacket. 8vo. 524pp + 4pp (adds). Illus. Frontispiece. Full Brown Pebbled Cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, stamped lines in front cover gilt border on spine, modest wear at extremities. Brown endpapers. Edwin Forrest was American actor, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of Scottish and German descent. Donation stamp on first blank page.

Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Brothers, 1874. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Publisher's cloth gilt. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Owner's signature repeated twice (with a single editorial word in ink: "rare"), spine uniformly sunned, else a handsome, very good or better copy. Biography of the actor.