E Plaisted Abbott (33 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Less common title. Illustrated. Boards with heavy wear and soiling; staining to rear panel; end pages torn and hinges weak; pages dusty with light damp staining to the lower thirds. Fair only. Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861 - 1920) was a journalist, historian and adventure writer. E. Plaisted…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition with matching dates on the title and copyright pages. Brown cloth with dark brown lettering/border, 79 pages collecting 7 stories set in New England and told, in part, in dialect,…

Illustrated Cloth. Condition: G+. No Jacket. 305 pp, b/w illustrations, the top of page edges is gilded, the contents are clean and solid, the front endpaper has a bookplate, the covers are lightly worn and soiled, the lower right cover corner is bumped and lightly affects the first several pages, the front cover is nicely decor…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Contains 32 classic stories in 489 pages, with a lovely watercolor frontispiece by British children's book illustrator Elenore Plaisted Abbott (1875-1935) & vintage endpapers featuring a girl, boy, & castle. No publication date, but research places it c. 1920, this being a Grosset…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Sixth printing, July 8, 1901. A wealthy man with no children is found murdered and his will burned. Gently handled, spine a bit darkened. Hinges beginning to crack but still square and solid. Inscribed on the front pastedown "To Dora from Ed. Aug. 16th, 1904.". Abbott, E. Plaisted (il…

BRADY, Cyrus Townsend. WHEN BLADES ARE OUT AND LOVE'S AFIELD. Illustrated by E. Plaistad Abbott & Edward Stratton Holloway. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1901. Sm. 8vo., decorative cream cloth. Second Edition. Signed presentation from Brady on front endpaper, dated Easter Day, 1901. Very Good (some soil cloth). $25.00. ABBOTT, E. Pl…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 305 pages; HC in yellow cloth with title lettering and pictorial design in brown to front cover and spine. Square, sound and neat. Gilt top edge. Spine lightly toned. B&W illustrations by Abbott. Warm; y and humorously inscribed by the author,…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting,…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - When a young woman inherits a small fortune, she finds herself the target of several con men, each with their own designs on her money. But she is not to be underestimated, and she devises a plan to turn the tables on her would-be exploiters.This work has been selected by scholars as being cultura…