Search Results: 19th Century American Literature from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. First edition, second impression of this collection of nine short stories by this ninteenth century American writer. Original green cloth with top edge gilt. One illustration as called for and seven page publisher's catalog appended at end. Number 5 written on front free endpaper in felt marker, else a near fine copy. BAL 18888.. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: J.B. Ford & Company, 1876. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, small octavo bound in publisher's red brick cloth over beveled boards, lettered in gold and decorated in black [binding B]. Illustrated with frontispiece, with tissue guard, and 3 additional plates. First American edition, preceded by a British edition a year previous (1875) of a similar collection issued as "Deacon Pitkin's Farm, etc." Mild wear to spine ends and some rubbing to tips and outer joints. Incidental brief sporadic foxing. No previous ownership marks. Not ex-library. A clean, solid and unmarked copy. Very good. BAL19484; Merle Johnson's American First Editions, fourth edn., p. 482. .

New York: Penguin Classics, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Trade paperback. 385 pages. Introduction by Frederick Busch. Penguin Classics reprint. Includes: Billy Budd; Bartleby; The Encantadas; Benito Cereno and The Piazza. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, unmarked copy with sharp corners. Mild toning to margins as per usual with this edition. Near fine. .

Londion: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. New edition of this classic, published London circa 1870; bound from the British sheets and distributed by J.B. Lippincott of Philadelphia with their imprimatur on lower spine. Original red cloth. Two illustrations by George Cruikshank. Mild age toning to spine and slight bump to boards at fore-edge. A very good copy.. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Ticknor & Fields, 1859. Hardcover, publisher's brown embossed cloth, lettered in gold on spine. 215pp. 12pp. publiher's catalog appended at rear. Brown coated endpapers, with ad for Waverly Novels tipped in at front endpaper. First edition, second printing, BAL 12122. Contemporary owner's signature at top of titlepage, light shelf-wear to cloth, light wear at spine ends and tips, and old marginal dampstain not affecting text. A good+ copy.. Second Printing. Good+.

Boston: Silver, Burdett and Company, 1900. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original black cloth stamped in silver. Illustrated with 4 plates. Light wear to extremities of cloth and moderate finger soiling to text. By the a uthor of "Looking Backward". Good+. BAL 970. First Edition. Original Cloth. Good+/Near Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Jordan, Marsh & Company, 1888 Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition, second state. Brown pictorial cloth stamped in black and gold. Illustrated. A classic nineteenth century childrens title, scarce in this condition. BAL 2071. Even with faults listed above, an attractive, very good copy.. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Jordan, Marsh & Company, 1888 No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition, first printing. Mustard pictorial cloth stamped in black and gold. Illustrated. Small chip lacking from top of backstrip. Rear inner hinge repaired . A classic nineteenth century childrens title, scarce in the first printing. BAL 2071. Even with faults listed above, an attractive, very good copy.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Robert Bonner's Sons, 1888. First Edition. Original pictorial cloth stamped in black. First published in the New York Ledger in 1856, this is the first printing of this tale in book form. Published the same year by Bonner in buff wrappers, priority unknown. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece. Cobb was by all accounts a prolific writer of "pulp" fiction and was associated with the New York Ledger for 31 years, contributing literally thousands of pieces for publication. Only two of his works ever progressed to book form however. A scarce printing of this story and a representative sampling of mid-ninteenth century American popular fiction. Front inner hinge cracked, but cover still firmly attached, light wear to extremities of cloth, front free endpaper soiled and slightly chipped--along with following prelim leaf, on foredge. Internally clean and sound. A good copy.. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Pocket Books, Inc. Hardcover. Small 12mo, bound with raised maroon faux leather spine over patterned paper covered boards. Spine decorated and lettered in genuine 22kt. gold. Matching patterned endpapers. Collectors edition. 370pp. No name, no book-plate, etc. A clean, near fine copy.. First Thus. Half-Leather. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. Hardcover, light green cloth lettered in darker green. Illustrated with full page plates. Cloth lightly age toned at spine. No name, no book-plate, etc. A sound copy, very good. BAL 721. Wright (III) 273. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1896 No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First edition. Green decorative cloth stamped in silver. A collection of six authors whose arcadian writings have extolled pastoral and bucolic themes, among the m Walton, Thomas Hardy, Thoreau and Burroughs. Cloth age soiled and spine darkened. T.e.g. Fore-edge untrimmed. Tight sound copy, internally clean. Good or better.. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Westvaco, 1986. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, dark green bind-stamped cloth lettered in silver on spine, housed in original pictorial slipcase. 343 pages. Fabric place marker bound in. Illustrated with 44 steel engravings by F.O.C. Darley. Limited edition, privately printed by Westvaco as a Christmas gift, 1986. Signed presentation card from publisher laid-in loose, with two signatures, unidentified. A selection of short excerpts and chapters from Cooper's writings. No previous ownership marks. Book is pristine, like new. Slipcase is clean and solid with no splits or marking. Fine in a fine slipcase. .

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1898. Hardcover, mustard cloth stamped in black and gold on front board with image of an aristocratic man carrying young girl on his shoulder, spine letered in black. Cloth moderately dusty from age and backstrip slightly darkened, not affecting black lettering. No name, no book-plate. etc. Very good.. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by C.D. Gibson. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1886. Decorative brown publishers cloth. First edition, second issue [BAL 18884]. Cloth on outer joint rubbed through at upper front and s tain on rear board at upper foredege. Else covers, text and endpapers clean. But for faults noted, a very good copy.. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, dark blue cloth with spine lettered and decorated in gold. 481 pages. Top edge gilt. Volume IX [of 25} in the National Author's Edition of Twain's Writings. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece of the author and two full page plates by E.H. Garrett. Circa 1911. No previous ownership marks. Very mild dulling to spine. A clean, tight and unmarked copy. Very good..

Londion: Penguin Books, 1954. Mass market paperback. 384pp., Notes on Further Reading, Index. First paperback edition. An introduction to the main themes and figures of the American literary scene rom colonial times to the present day. No previous ownership marks, no writing or underlining. Some folding to lower corners and text pages toned at margins, as per usual. A sound, tight, clean copy. Near good.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883. Hardcover, brown cloth. From the Riverside Edition of his works. Collected and revised by the author. Includes Earlier Papers, Spanish and Americ an Legends, Tales of the Argonauts, etc. Front free end[paper torn at bottom, approximately 4" along inner gutter. Good+ solid reading copy.. Revised Edition. Cloth. Good+/Near Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Lyle Stuart, 1961. No Jacket. Privately Printed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A special collector's limited edition [printed on slipcase.] Red cloth in red cardboard box with full cover pastedown in pink. With an illumina ting intrduction, facetious footnotes and a bibliography by Franklin Meine. This is the 1961 reprint od the 1937 edition. text taken from 1880 edition {BAL 3388} and originally produced as a facsimile of the 1882 authorized edition {BAL 3407}. Lacks wraparound band on slipcase announcing pre-publiscation price. Slipcase begiining to split along botton edge and showing mild age wear. Book fine.. Limited. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1890. Two voulme set bound in two-toned cloth with white spine over redish boards. Spines lettered in gold and covers bear decorative gilt embossing. Top edges gilt. Endpapers toned and paper on inner hinges cracked, though hinges are quite sound. Both volumes illustrated with full page photogravure plates complete with tissue guardes, [vol. I 27 plates]; [vol. II 24 plates]. Publishers advertisement and Introductory Note by George Parsons Lathrop in vol. I. No name, no book-plate, etc. A very nice set with mild darkening to white spine cloth and minor shelf wear, but overall a superior set of the American classic.. Two-toned Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Photogravures. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.