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Published by Boston & New York. Phillips, Sampson, and Company. 1856, 1856
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo, 23cm, 307p., engraved frontis portrait the author in his hunting jacket, printed in double columns, in the original half drak brown calf, tall raised bands, double black leather labels gilt, small blind deice decorations in the panels, marbled boards and endpapers, some wear at the edges, very good attractively bound copy (Lds). - A selection, originally published in 1842, of John North's essays published in "Blackwood's Magazine". Wilson was one of the founders of the magazine in 1817 and as a contributing editor wrote under the pseudonym Christopher North.
Published by D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1867
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Still clean and tight in green buckram with light shelfwear; namplate to inside front cover; double-column format; tissue-guarded frontispiece of John Wilson; "John Wilson" written in ink on title page. ; 307 pages.
Published by Carey and Hart, Philadelphia, 1845,, 1845
Seller: John W. Doull, Bookseller, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
NORTH, Christopher. The Recreations of Christopher North. Complete in One Volume. Philadelphia : Carey and Hart, 1845. Pp 307. Frontis. Double Column. 8vo, pressed brown cloth. Being Volume IV of The Modern British Essayists, edited by John Wilson. Christopher North was the pen-name of John Wilson, Scottish essayist, poet, fiction writer and editor. Rubbed, light foxing, else vg 60.00.
Hardcover. In two volumes. A New edition. 8vo., orig. green cloth. Name o/w a near fine copy.
Published by Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood And Sons, 1865., 1865
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
8vo. pp. 3 p.l., 440; 1 p.l., iv, 433. frontis. portrait engraved by Armytage. original blind-stamped cloth (insitutional markings on front paste-downs & lower margins of 2 leaves, inner hinges starting to crack). cfNCBEL III 1309.
Published by William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1842
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: VG-. First Edition. Pages are in good, clean condition; edges yellowed. In volume 2, there is some damage to the top corner and fore-edge in the first 65 pages. Previous owner's name on the half title pages. Green cloth; gilt titles and design on the spines; blind stamp on covers. Spines a little faded. Water stain at head of spine on volume 2. Corners and edges bumped. Covers lightly scuffed. Bindings tight. VG-.