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Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1892
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Print on Demand
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ condition. Metcalf, W. L.; & Edwin A. Abbey, Joseph Pennell, Howard Pyle, A. B. Frost, Frederic Remington, Charles Dana Gibson (illustrator). First Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. This is the original 1892 printing -- NOT print on demand edition or modern reprint. A handsome copy. Very Good+ condition. Inner hinges are perfect. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1892. First Edition, Thus. SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE, PUBLISHED MONTHLY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS, VOLUME XI (11), JANUARY - JUNE 1892 complete [i.e. numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; January, February, March, April, May, June, 1892]. Contains contribution by Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robert Grant, Ida M. Tarbell, Thomas Curtis Clarke, Jacob Riis, Frank Mandy, et al. Contents include: THE WRECKER -- chapters 14 to 23 (Stevenson/Osborn); AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION TODAY (including art by Edwin A. Abbey, Joseph Pennell, Howard Pyle, A. B. Frost, Frederic Remington, Charles Dana Gibson); SPEED IN LOCOMOTIVES (Forney); REFLECTIONS OF A MARRIED MAN (Grant); RAPID TRANSIT IN CITIES (Clarke); CHILDREN OF THE POOR (Riis); etc. Printed from the original plates, this is the publisher's edition with all of the text, illustrations and editorial material of the separate monthly issues, but without the advertisements and individual covers. Top edge gilt. Bound in the original gilt-stamped olive cloth with bevelled edges. Gilt stamping on the spine and front cover is still as bright and shiny as new. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ condition/No dust jacket, as issued. Illus. by Metcalf, W. L.; & Edwin A. Abbey, Joseph Pennell, Howard Pyle, A. B. Frost, Frederic Remington, Charles Dana Gibson. vi, 792pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1888
Seller: Steven Edwards, Coalmont, TN, U.S.A.
First Edition
1/2 leather. JCharles Stevens, Alfred Kappes, Robert Blum, Francis Day, C. Jay Taylor etc. (illustrator). First edition. 768 p. Includes illustrations. Contains: "Gravelotte to Sedan" by General Philip Sheridan, seven pieces from Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James on London Life, Augustine Birrell on Matthew Arnold, "Fair Day" by Sarah Orne Jewett, John Bogart of Railway Engineering, N.S. Shaler on Yellowstone, poetry by Percival Lowell, George Parsons Lathrop, and much more. Many engraved illustrations. Spine and corners are leather on pebbled boards. Leather is scuffed up. Decorative mottling on page edges. Sticker on inside cover from Auburn Community College Library. Pages clean and unmarked. One page is loose. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library.