James Adams Compiler (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ***Please Read*** no DJ no marks on text - my shelf location 13-C-13*.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan pictorial cloth (issued without dust jacket). vi, pp. 275-596 (322pp). Map. Very good. Faintest bit of rubbing. Edited by William E. Keller. Occasional Publication Number 54, being the first separate printing of this important study (first published in the April, May and June 1968 issues of "Illinois Libraries," Vol. 50, Nos. 4-6). Rather uncommon -- and an especially tight and handsome copy.…

Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan pictorial cloth (issued without dust jacket). vi, pp. 275-596 (322pp). Map. Very good. Faintest bit of rubbing and slightest bit of edgewear. Edited by William E. Keller. Occasional Publication Number 54, being the first separate printing of this important study (first published in the April, May and June 1968 issues of "Illinois Libraries," Vol. 50, Nos. 4-6). A bit uncommon, and a tight, attractive copy.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint Edition. Hansebooks, Norderstedt, Germany. 2022. Softcover/Trade Wraps. This book is a facsimile copy of the 1882 copy by Houghton , Mifflin and Company titled . For some reason this publisher has chosen to title this book James T. Fields; A Biography. Print on Demand Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light tip bumping; small stain to fore edge at bottom. No DJ. Printed card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 285 pp 8vo. Annie Fields compiled this book shortly after Fields' death in 1881. She was widow of this publisher (Ticknor and Fields), editor, poet and lecturer and herself an author of some renown. The book is full of diary notes tributes from his cohorts and admirers. The book closes with a poem written specifically for Fields by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Auf Wiedersehen," which appears here for the first time. A clean very presentable copy.…

Leather_bound. Condition: Good. Early American printing of this compilation (see below). 12mo, in full original plain calf, hubbed spine. Each of the three treatises inpendently paginated. Good, boards with rounded corners, some cracking to one spine compartment, embrowning to the text with occasional stains, significant tidemarking to the final aprox. 45 pages. Ownership signature "Sarah Beckett's Book 1797" repeated three times on the front free endpaper and pastedown and a later (1881) notation in red ink, "Left to George Stahler(?) March 11th 1881 by his mother". Three treatises are: "A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers, in which." by William Penn. The Seventh Edition (James Adams, Wilmington imprint dated 1783) (pp: (4-Epistle to the Reader, Contents)+ [1]-88); "The Anarchy of the Ranters, And other Libertines, The Hierarchy of the Roamnists, and Others." by Robert Barclay (similar Wilmington imprint and date on title page) vii (Preface) (1) Contents+ 111 pp.; "An Epistle to the National Meeting of Friends, in Dublin, Concerning good Order and Discipline in the Church" by Joseph Pike (also Wilmington 1783 imprint on this title page. 24 pp.) Penn's essay was first published in 1694; Barclay's in 1674, and Pike's circa 1717.…