Macmillan Thomas Editor (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, viii + 203 pages, beige cloth. A fine, clean, sturdy hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, slightly worn dust jacket, with a finger stain on the spine and with the original price present.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Brown linen-like covers and spine with the title, publisher and location in gilt lettering in the center of the front cover, corners are blind stamped with a arty bracket, blind stamped, spine is blank, back cover is blank but has the same brackets blind stamped into the corners and a large artful star blind stamped in the center of the back cover, the double end pages are advertising for machinery and products manufactured by the publishing company (very nice), the book is a kind of almanac of farming facts for the US. large cracks at front and back hinges but no tears in the pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Inter Ocean Publishing Company. Chicago. 1881-1882. January 1881 Binding: Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Three-quarter leather boards with light wear to extremities. solid text block. firm hinges/joints. Entertaining. TM/Reference.

Hardcover. Six consecutive volumes, each about 200 pages. A 'handbook of ready reference, a family library of useful knowledge, with information covering scientific, historical, political, literary, and other subjects' -- from the 1883 edition. Text printed in two columns per page. First editions, except for 1882 (third edition), and 1883 (Second edition). Cloth copies with decorative blind stamp to the covers and gilt lettering on the spines. Very good copies with wear to the edges and corners. The 1885 edition discolored on the cover and split near the rear in the index. Former owner's stamp in each volume.

4to, 1 p. Twenty lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on aged paper, with slight traces of mount on reverse. Having read Humberstone's article on the London School of Hygiene, he is 'sending it to the printers to be set up'. He commends the article for dealing with the subject 'in an interesting and useful way'. He rejects the five plans Humberstone has sent, as they would not 'reproduce satisfactorily', and a photograph which is 'too large to go across a page', and would like 'a photograph of the elevation of the School' and 'either a photograph or an electro of the design of the Seal'.