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Published by W. B. Conkey Company, 1895
Seller: Mark Henderson, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book.
Published by W. B. Conkey Company, 1895
Seller: Light and Shadow Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hinges repaired. Stain to outer edge of leaves, bleed a little into top corner of some pages. Text is clean. Book.
Published by J. B. Ford & Company, New York, 1875
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA, Carrollton, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Uncle Consider (illustrator). First Edition. Uncle Consider. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 5 1/8". 248pp, plus 18pp ads. Presumed first. Red cloth over boards, stamped in black to upper board and spine. Heavy wear to binding, with heavy edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed to boards, chipping to head and tail of spine, heavy scattered rubbing, and heavy soiling. Previous owner's inked note to front free endpaper. Occasional smudge to pages, else clean and unmarked. Tissue guarded frontispiece. Profusely illustrated throughout by "Uncle Consider" after models by "those designing young men," Nast, Darley, Fredericks, Eytinge, White, Stephens, and others.
Published by Werner Co., Akron, OH, 1899
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. Illustrated by Frontis. (illustrator). First Edition. VG- in pict. cloth (ink inscr., some foxing & wear) 8vo 305pp Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall. Book.
Published by Star Publishing Co., 1892
Seller: Royal Oak Bookshop, Front Royal, VA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Embossed graphic cover, marbled page tips, frontispiece, illustrated, cover loose/apart at front gutter, heavy edge wear and corner bumps, marble page tips, pencil marks to rear end papers, content clean.Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975!.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Gray covers with gilt titles and gilt and black decoration with similar features on spine. There is light edge and corner wear with some scuffing at top of spine. Overall aging and light toning/soiling on covers (see scan. ) Book is square and binding is secure which is unusual in this book. ; B&W Photographs & Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 570 pages; Book features short, several page biographies, reminiscences, photos and illustrations of famous speakers of the day, including: Twain, Bill Arp, Josh Billings, Bret Harte, Robert Ingersoll, Dwight Moody, Sam Jones and many more. This is an entertaining read as well as a great reference work on celebrities around the turn of the 20th century. This is a later, non-specified, edition, possibly the Second. The First appears to have been in 1893.
Published by Cassell NY 1891, 1891
Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. VG condition. Bound in brown cloth with decorative cover and spine. Page tops are dusted.
Published by Star Publishing Co., Chicago: (1901)., 1901
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. pp. 754 + Plus Index and portrait photo frontis of contemporary humorists. Illustrated with full page drawings. Text beginning to brown. Tall 8vo. Original full yellow cloth binding, slightly soiled. HUMOR 7 0.0.
Published by The Werner Company, Chicago, 1900
Seller: James F. Balsley, Bookseller, Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Later Printing. This is the third printing by this publisher, originally published by Belford-Clark in 1890. Green decorative cloth cover with gilt lettering and gilt with black decoration is clean with light wear at head, tail of spine. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Lacking DJ. ; Drawings, photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 570 pages.
Published by The John C. Winston, Philadelphia, 1952
Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Book
Wraps. Condition: Very Good +. Floyd James Torbert (illustrator). Reprint. slimmed down tom sawyer with pictures.
Published by Thompson & Thomas, Chicago: (1901)., 1901
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. pp. 438 + Plus portrait frontis. Numerous drawings. Paper browned. Front inner hinge cracked. Tall 8vo. Original full pictorial green cloth binding embossed in dark green and red. A nice copy in spite of the browning. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! HUMOR 7 0.0.
Published by The Werner Company, Akron, Ohio, 1899
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Werner edition. Originally printed in 1891 by Cassell. Pictorial yellow cloth decorated in brown and red, gilt-stamped lettering on front and spine. Cloth moderately soiled, else still very good.
Published by Sheldon & Company, New York, 1872
Hardcover. Condition: Used - Acceptable. NY: Sheldon & Company, 1872. vii,(250) pages. Many comic drawings. 8 x 5.5", black, gold & blind stamped pictorial orange cloth. 'To M.A.L. Munson, Treasurer "Jockey Club" from The Author, "Eli Perkins", Melville D. Landon, Fifth Avenue Hotel, Oct. 1, 1874' on blank & pencil lines along few passages about jockeys. Letters to New York Commercial Advertiser on horse races, gambling, Congress Spring, Round Lake Camp Meeting, poker, dress, park benches, Clarendon Hotel, preaching, flirting, etiquette, ball, hop, intemperance, cant words. Wright, American Fiction 1505. Edges frayed, cloth soiled, text foxed, few adhesive marks on blank, G.
Published by The Werne Company, Akron, Ohio, 1899
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. First Edition. xi, 305 pages; portrait; illustrated publisher's cloth with wear to the exterior. Eli Perkins, pen name for Melville Landon, noted for his platform humour, opened speaking engagements for the famous Beechers. See= Blanck - Bibliography of American Literature #11226. Very good clean copy.
8°. VII, 249 (1) pp. Illustrated with 200 photo-etchings by Arthur Lumley. Original-cloth. (Binding rubbed, two owners stamps on the preliminary page, one leaf with small tear / Einband etwas berieben, zwei Besitzerstempel auf Vorsatz, ein Blatt mit kleinem Einriß). -- Englischsprachige Ausgabe / Language: English. Sprache: Englisch.
Published by San Francisco: Law, King & Law, 1884
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated cloth cover shows minor wear, tear, rubbing, edgewear, and soiling. Decorative endpapers and marbled edges. Illustrated frontis portraits of the 5 primary authors. Pages are lightly tanned and mostly clean.
Cloth(Hrdcvr). Condition: G/NO DUSTJACKET. Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). New York, NY: Sheldon Company. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1872. . Cloth(Hrdcvr). 12mo., 250 pp., cover rubbed, owner's inscription .
Published by New York.Sheldon & Company. 1872, 1872
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo, 19.5cm, first edition, vii,250p., with 200 drawn illustrations from wood engravings, in the original orange cloth,gilt titles and black stamped illustrations and decorations on the spine and upper cover, top and bottom spine edge chipped otherwise a very good to fine clean sound copy. (am) A satire on upper crust society in Saratoga, New York by American humorist, Melville D. Landon(1839-1910), Writing much in the style of Mark Twain, Landon was given the pseudonym, Eli Perkins, by Artemus Ward. The extensive Lumley drawings were printed by Leggo & Co., Photo-Steam Litho, Montreal.
Published by Law, King & Law Publishing House, San Francisco, 1884
Seller: Malcolm Books, Thetford, United Kingdom
Luxury Leather HB. Condition: Very Good. 776 pages. Luxury Red leather & embossed gilt designs all round, & title to spine. (see all scans) Almost Good condition as detached . Contents mostly good, clean & tight , starts at what looks like page 7, which is in fact the Title page.(so not sure what if any pages are missing) in front of title page are 2 blank (4 sides) end pages. To page 11 are loose/detached. No inscriptions. Remains of old brown tape to inside covers ( as the binding/book was protected in Brown paper), various illustrated pages full with pages of between about 5 -7 portraits of authors protected by tissue paper. , Heavy book, so surcharge for outside the UK. 13 x 22.5cm Approx.