J S C Abbott (53 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 11pp extract, printed in double columns, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume XLIII, #253, June, 1871. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve. Very scarce.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Oct, 1868, pp. 667-682, Begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, VG, 1st ed.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. May, 1869, pp. 721-741, Nicely Illust, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, stapled & trimmed, thus is like a pamphlet, VG, 1st ed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cover worn and darkened. Page edges tanned. Scattered foxing to endpapers. Else clean and tight.

Large Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Wrappers a bit rubbed. 1962 Large Softcover. 96 pp. Black-and-white photographs and diagrams throughout. A collection of articles originally published in Yachting, selected 'because of their lasting and practical value.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. 628 pages. Original 1869 but rebound in modern green covers. Ex-university library marks, the pages have some discoloring and foxing; a good tight reading copy. Includes the original portraits. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Inventory No: 213365.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. some cover fading solid and tight.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Handsome dark blue cloth with gold titles and a decorative design on spine. No marks in text. Not a library book. Ships in a cardboard enclosure, with tracking. Tim's Used Books, open shop in Provincetown, Massachusetts, buying and selling good used books at fair prices since 1991.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Brown boards with ornately decorated gilt spine. Tissue protected engravings, maps. Binding is solid. Pages are browned.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo 16 pp. Original self-wrappers. Very good.

Condition: New. In English.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dec, 1869 to May,1871, in 18 Parts, Variously paged (1 Inch thick), Nicely Illust, Extracted from Orig Vols, Begins with Title Pages, trimmed & stapled, thus each is like a pamphlet, VG, 1st ed (Complete in 18 Successive Issues of Journal).

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good++. Dark green boards with gold and black decoration, corners frayed and creasing to top and bottom of spine. Black endpapers, crack to front hinge with netting exposed, undated but prize bookplate dated 1896. gilt edges to pageblock, lean to spine. Contents complete with nine etching illustrations including frontispiece with tissue guard. All proceeds of sale go to LOROS, a Hospice Charity serving Leicestershire and Rutland. Various (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover in original red cloth with gilt titles and details, some light shelfwear to head and foot of spine and corners, light foxing to endpapers but otherwise in Near Fine condition. C.1900s, pp x, 627, b&w illustrations including frontis with tissue guard, publisher's adverts to rear. …

1/2 leather. . Contents: An Artist in Alaska, by Alfred H. Guernsey; Christopher Columbus, by J.S.C. Abbott, ; Freaks of Lightning, by Jacob Abbott; A Brave Lady by Dinah Mulock Craik, also Several installments of Woman's Kindgom: A Love Story, by Craik; The Plains as I Crossed Them Years Ago, by Horace Greeley; A Sleigh-Ride Through Eastern Russia, by Thomas W. Knox; The Sacred City of the Hindus, by H.M. Alden; The Witches of Hazelcopse, by H.H. Weld, etc. Many engraved illustrations. Black leather spine and corners over marbled boards. Signed in pencil on first free endpage by former owner. Pages clean, binding tight. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Alfred H. Guernsey and many others (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. 1862. No edition remarks. 222 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Gilt text block edges. Miniature. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown and endpaper. Mild water staining to pages throughout. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Moderate tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Boards are mildly warped.…

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Good. 864pp. Black leather spine and corners, splitting at the spine edge, worn down at the extremities. Brown pebble cloth boards. Text is in great condition. Contents: A Nightly Scene In London, Birchknoll, Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens. ; Conquest of Mexico, George Washington, by J. S, C, Abbott. ; Remembrances of the Mississippi, by T. B. Thorpe. ; The Juniata, by T. Addison Richards. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Thorpe, T. B. (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good (Book condition). Frontispiece detached, else Very Good indeed. With several contemporary clippings laid in. [Our rating system: 1.Fine; 2. Near fine; 3. Very good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good (Book condition). Frontispiece detached, else Very Good indeed. With several contemporary clippings laid in. [Our rating system: 1.Fine; 2. Near fine; 3. Very good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book.

Hard cover. First edition. 864 pages. Six installments of Dicken's Bleak House. Also a short article, "Drooping Buds, " by Dickens. Six installments of Lytton's, "My Novel, or Varieties in English Life. " "Palaces of France" by J.C. Abott. "Auld Robin Gray" a poem by Lady Anne Lindsay (although not credited here). Prison Scene in the Reign of Terror, etc. Contains 229 engraved illustrations. Leather spine and corners, well-scuffed, top of spine covering is frayed. Edgewear on boards Foxing on first few pages, damp stain on the last 30 pages or so. Good. No dust jacket as issued.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dark navy blue cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine and multiple white border rulings to front and a design to spine. Book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of major flaws or markings other than some minor white markings to front.

Decorated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Corner and spine end wear, no frontis but other 13 engravings present all with original tissue, pon and address dated Dec, 1890 on 2nd ffep. Nice copy.

In-8° gr. pp. 191 con fig. n.t. Bross. edit. Ottimo stato.

1st edition; 8vo. green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering, hardcover; 628 pages; 14 steel engravings ot the women; edgeworn covers have been neatly taped and reinforced else it is a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 628pp, 4pp adverts; 14 black and white engravings. Grey cloth-covered boards, violet titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends and corners. Shelf wear to covers. Evidence of previously erased text on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. No dust jacket. 8vo. Collection of short biographies drawn from life by outstanding biographers and writers who knew their subjects personally. Facsimile copy of the original which was published in 1869. Subjects include Florence Nightingale, Lydia Maria Child, Fanny Fern - Mrs Parton. Lydia Sigourney, Sarah and Amanda Gremke, Francis Gage, Queen Victoria, etc. …

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No Edition Stated, Presumed First. American Pioneers and Patriots. 359 pp. Book has bumped corners, rubbed spine ends, 1" long moisture stain at top of front board. Spine has black, gilt edged bands head and tail, author on gilt band under the title in red text on gilt background, over black flintlock and bow (5 1/2" ). 2 page b/w frontispiece by May shows crew in lifeboats while their ship burns. Preface by Abbott. Dedication: To The Officers and Seamen of the United States Navy This Volume Commemorative of the Heroic Achievements of One of the Most Illustrious of Their Number, is Respectfully Dictated by John S.C. Abbott. dated 1874 at Fair Haven, Conn. Curiously, the illustration, verso p. 120 reappears verso p. 144. Bookseller's Inventory # 071599. J. B. Power (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Library binding with ink stamps on a few pages inside. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1929 Hard Cover. 768 pp. A collection of numerous articles on current political and social events, along with letters to the editor, music and drama reviews, books of the month and book review sections, etc. This volume discusses everything from birth control to the dangers of cocaine to telepathy to the failure of the Federal Reserve.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

paperback. Condition: New. Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2014-8-1 Pages: 650 Publisher: Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Chemical Industry Press. Professor Smith. eds affect the chemical industry is the world's largest and most widely distributed chemical thermodynamics textbooks. This book is based on the original English book Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics 7th Edition adaptation. Adaptation of the book selected 13 chapters of the original book. which covers the chemical.…