Edited Moncure Daniel Conway (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Firm green textured covers with gilt lettering on spine and lightly bumped on spine-ends, sound binding, clean slightly darkened pages and end-papers, black and white frontis portrait. No dust-jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 14823101033. All our books are sent by tracked mail.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. SELECTED WRITINGS THOMAS PAINE FRANKLIN LIBRARY LEATHER 1979 LIMITED. Here is another of the very nicely made leather-bound books of the Franklin Library, this one titled: Selected Writings Common Sense, The American Crisis & The Age of Reason, edited by Moncure Daniel Conway. This medium-sized leather-bound book (6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches, 386 pages) was published by the Franklin Library of Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, dated 1979, as part of its 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series. These books were published as limited editions under the auspices of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. It is bound in bright red full leather with elaborate gilt decorations on the covers and gilt titles on the spine with two bands. The endpapers are a fine bright red mauve and there is a similarly colored satin page marker ribbon bound-in. The page edges are full gilt. Condition: This book is in near fine condition. The leather boards are pristine and handsome and so too, the spine with just a few faint and tiny bruises (you will have to look carefully to see them). The leather and its gilt are astonishingly handsome. Inside, a former owner has left his neat bookplate on the first blank page but that is the only mark I found in the book. The interior pages and plates are bright white and clean throughout. Both hinges are intact, and the binding is tight and sound. This book is not ex-library or a remainder. …

First Edition. Hardcover. (Pebble cloth, topedge gilt - with gilt titles on spine still bright). Trace of minor wear or fraying to some extremities - but more severe toe of spine. Tight. No names or other markings. Washington's portrait frontispiece. 8vo. (XCII) + 352pp. "A Collection of Washington's unpublished Agricultural and Personal Letters" V.Good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. A Limited Edition. Slight wear along the edges, tips, and along the spine. Slight rubbing wear to covers. Robert Borja (illustrator).

Hard back publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt stamping to spine, all edges untrimmed, black end papers. 8vo 8" x 5½" xviii, 530 [pp]. New Preface to fifth edition. Couple of small worm holes and rubs to foot of spine gutters, page edges tanned, solid binding. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEOLOGY & RELIGION. …

Hardcover, Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. This limited edition is part of the 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature, a limited edition collection published under the auspices of The American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. Red leather with gilt lettering and decoration of spine and both covers. Moire endpapers, all edges gilt. Ribbon place marker. Interior text is clean and binding tight, no ownership or other markings. Very slight bump to the upper corner of the front cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. G. P. Putnam's Sons 1894 hardback gilt titles to spine and signature to maroon boards, iii 523 pp, slight fading to spine, neat name to fep and light tan spots to extremeties but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.…