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Owner's gift inscription dated 1899 to both title pages, spines sunned, but for sunning a near fine and bright set in custom mylar covers. Olive cloth decoratively stamped in gilt. Seller Inventory # 204236
Title: Cape Cod [Two Volumes]
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin & Co.
Publication Date: 1896
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Color illustrations by Amelia M. Watson.
Edition: First printing thus.
Seller: Edmonton Book Store, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dustjacket. 8vo pp.173,208, sunning to spine and back cover, TEG, silk markers. book. Seller Inventory # 330766
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Booklore ., Holt, NORFO, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Small octavo. First edition thus. Original cloth boards with gilt and blind art-nouveau design. Colour faded from olive green to tan. No names, inscriptions or damage. A handsome set with the charming water-colour illustrations by Watson. Very good condition indeed. Seller Inventory # ABE-1735042457910
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Avenue Victor Hugo Books, Newmarket, NH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Without dust jacket (if issue. First thus. This is, in our estimation, the most beautiful edition of Cape Cod, with a gilt and blind stamped art-nouveau cover design and the delicate and completely appropriate color vignettes by Watson scattered throughout. This example is in very good condition only with its flaws. 2 volumes, octavo, 7 1/2" tall, vol. 1: color frontispiece + vii + 173 pages; vol. 2: color frontispiece + 208 pages with index, gilt top fore-edges, titles and decorations on olive-green cloth. A very good, generally clean, neat original hardcover edition with minor shelf wear but cloth color faded at the spines; binding tight, paper lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 63223
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Amelia M. Watson (illustrator). 1896, 2 volumes. A Very Good set. 12mo., 173, 208 pp., bound in publishers green cloth with decorations and titles in gilt, top edge gilt. Spines very lightly sunned. Very light shelf wear. Full color, charming illustrations. Seller Inventory # 37041
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Two Volumes, [viii], 173; [viii], 208 pp., 18.5 x 12 cm., delicate color illustrations by Amelia M. Watson, green cloth with gilt art nouveau decorations, spot on back cover, spines sunned, overall very good. Seller Inventory # 000314
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 2 volume set. Hardcover. No dustjackets. Significant fading & some marks to covers. Ribbon markers a bit frayed. Light tanning to pages, darker at edges/endpapers. Content very good. Seller Inventory # 114842
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Both volumes are Very Good plus in green cloth binding aged to brown with gilt lettering and floral decorations. Previous owner name in both volumes. Based on several trips to the Cape and originally published as a series of articles, Henry David Thoreau's Cape Cod is a remarkable work that depicts the natural beauty of Cape Cod and the nature that surrounds it. Thoreau, a consummate lover of the outdoors and nature is right at home in the Cape and he details his excitement of the area with naturalist portraits of the indigenous species and animals. With illustrations from sketches in color by Amelia M. Watson. Seller Inventory # 28945
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First thus, illustrated edition in two volumes. Bright, vibrant gilt to front with gilt titles to spine less shiny and just a touch faded. Very light wear to spine; hinges firm and solid and free of any cracks or tears. Corners sharp with just hints of wear. Small spot to front board singular flaw. Handsome, glowing set. BP/Case/Nature. Seller Inventory # ABE-1682650766592