THE POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS HOOD by Thomas Hood

E. Moxon, 1890. Vellum boards framed in gilt metal on 3 edges. Spine strip missing and boards are very loose but the sewn binding still holds the book together.. Hard Cover. Good/Decorative Boards.

George Routledge and Sons Ltd., 1895. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1895. No Edition Remarks. 552 pages. No dust jacket. Burgundy cloth. Heavy tanning and foxing to pages and text block edges. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed netting. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Cracking to front hinge. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean. Moderate tanning overall.

Ward, Lock & Co, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 400 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with decorations. Heavy cracking to gutters and hinges with exposed netting, pages are loose with pages 161-176 detached but still present. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Slight staining overall.

Ward, Lock & Co, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Stated. 475 pages. No dust jacket. Second Series. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Previous owner's name to front paste down. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with tanning to spine and board edges. Sticker remnants and scuff to front board. Minor soiling and marking to boards.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

John Wurtele Lovell, New York. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. > Edition/Printing: First edition | Illus. Cover, edge & corner wear, spine top frayed, soil to cove. Interior is lightly tanned, no markings found. Creasing inside front cover. Gilt edges. Title page has 2 in rip to bottom at spine. 608 pp. Publ. late 18--'s or early 1900's. > Language: English | > Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4 in - 9 3/4 in Tall | > Media/Binding: Hardcover | > Publication Date Unknown |

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1868. Hardcover. Very Good. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1868. Very Good. Volume 3 only of a 4 volume set. Deep brown quarter leather with marbled boards and endpapers. Wear at extremities, a scuff on front board, gold lettering on spine. Former owner's bookplate inside front cover. Gilt top edge, tightly bound and clean.

James Miller, Publisher. Good. 1873. Hardcover. One volume edition, gilt edges. Name inside, front hinge a bit loose, spine faded .

Frederick warne & co, 1890. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1890. No Edition Remarks. 615 pages. Quarter bound leather with cloth covered boards. Front board is detached. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Heavy tanning to marbled text block edges. Heavy foxing and inscriptions to half title page and front endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and moderate crushing to spine ends. Binding remains firm. Heavy tanning overall.

Boston, Massachusetts: D. Lothrop & Co, 1883. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate and name in ink on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Spine and boards toned, page base smudged, some pages foxed. 1883 Hard Cover. 608 pp. Light blue boards with gilt decor, all edges gilt. Thomas Hood (born May 23, 1799, London—died May 3, 1845, London) was an English poet, journalist, and humorist whose humanitarian verses, such as “The Song of the Shirt” (1843), served as models for a whole school of social-protest poets, not only in Britain and the United States but in Germany and Russia, where he was widely translated. He also is notable as a writer of comic verse, having originated several durable forms for that genre. The son of a London bookseller, Hood became a… Read More