Marvel I K (82 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: no jacket present. The book is bound in decorative red cloth with black embellishments, showing signs of wear, particularly at the spine edges. The pages are aged but intact, with no significant tears or markings beyond the author's inscription. There is no dust jacket, and the binding remains firm despite the visible wear.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This book is slightly better than good condition. It is an average used book with visible wear. All pages and cover are intact; It is really in fine shape for being over 100 years old.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No statement of prtg. HC. Light blue cloth stamped in silver. 264pp. 24mo (5 x 4 & 1/4 in). VG wi/leaf edges light-mod. browned/soiled in bright/tight cover wi/light wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Covers stained; rubs and bumps on corners, tears on top and bottom of spine, front hinge is torn, binding is tight, slight foxing on pages Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Green boards with white decorated spine shows some edge wear. Pages tan but not brittle. No markings. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo in maroon cloth, spine title in gilt. p.o. name in crayon on the front pastedown.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Green cover with gilt title. Slightly shaken binding with clean pages and a couple pencil marks. General cover fading & few stains and lightly rubbed edges. Surface creases to inside cover with pencil notes at rear endpapers. About 7-1/4 x 5 with 286 Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.…

hardcover. Condition: Fair. New York, 1893; green cloth covered boards; white spine; heavy edge and corner wear with board exposed; 16mo, 5 3/4" to 6 3/4" tall; hinges split with webbing exposed; Previous owner's name on front end papers; interior is clean and unmarked; 210 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket is soiled/darkened with small tears at the corners and along the edges, small hole on front close to spine, spine has small tears head/tail, sticker was removed from middle of spine. Boards decorated nicely with black, green and pink, pastedown has some wear on bottom edge, extremities worn. Interior is tanned, front hinge is weak. No publication date. All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.…

Paperback. Condition: VG / G. Paperback in disintegrating leather wrap.

Hardcover. Very good+ in purple cloth covered boards with black text on the spine. A 24mo measuring 5 3/4" by 4" with an early prior owner's name on the first free end page. Without a dust jacket. A collection of 29 short stories. 306 pages of text followed by two pages of ads by the publisher.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Maroon boards with glit letting on spine. Some shelf wear to edges and boards. The author preface is dated 1850. Pictures available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This is from Reveries of a Bachelor, beginning with the single man's thoughts about the future, 50 deckle-edged pages. The frontispiece is illustrated. Two color art nouveau illustration at the side margins every page. The binding is light blue cloth with art nouveau stamped floral illustration in pink and green along with gilt lettering. 6-1/2 x 9-1/4. Good condition. Wear at extremities. Binding loosening but intact.". Book.…

Condition: Good. Good condition. Mildly shelfworn. (boyhood, country life style, marriage, travel, dreaming).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Later Edition. 260pp. Green cloth. Gold stamp. White cameo of a man's head on front cover. Worn at the edges with a few small tears. The text is clean. The gaurd paper over the frontispiece has yellowed the title page. An old resale sticker is on the back end paper. Sentimental essays, examining the dreamlike lives Americans were living at the time (1840s). A favorit book of poet, Emily Dickinson. The author was a member of Skull and Bones at Yale, class of 1841. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" Tall Y4. Moran, Percy (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. ***please read*** no marks on text - ex-school library - cover are worn all the away around - name sticker inside cover - so-f-81*.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Binding firm, some edge wear, interior clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1/4 bound red cloth binding with embossed title on front panel, tan cloth gilt decorated spine cover, binding tight with rubbing on edges and corners, front hinge cracked but connected, text clean and unmarked no names no stamps.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Bound in publisher's green cloth. Hardcover. 271 pages ; 17 cm. Reprint of the 1863 ed. Gift inscription on fep.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Revised. Reveries of a Bachelor; or, A Book of the Heart. Writing as "Ik Marvel," the Connecticut-born farmer and essayist collects his whimsical essays of a bachelor's musings on marriage, love, and friendship, which had originally appeared in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1849. His most popular work, Reveries would prompt another collection blending fiction and the essay "Dream Life" (1851). Donald Grant Mitchell ("Ik Marvel") (April 12, 1822 - December 15, 1908) was an American essayist and novelist. Mitchell, the grandson of politician and jurist Stephen Mix Mitchell, was born in Norwich, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1841, where he was a member of Skull and Bones and studied law, but he soon took up literature. Reveries of a Bachelor or A Book of the Heart is a book by American author Donald Grant Mitchell, published in 1850 under the pseudonym Ik Marvel. In the text, the author theorizes on boyhood, country life style, marriage, travel, and dreaming.VERY INTERESTING BOOK AND COLLECTOR ITEM. GREEN COVER WITH GOLD ON SPINE. SOME WEAR AROUND EDGES AND TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE. LIGHT BROWNING AROUND OUTER PAGES. SOLID CONSTRUCTION STILL INTACT. Donald Grant Mitchell (April 12, 1822 December 15, 1908) was an American essayist and novelist who usually wrote under the pen name Ik Marvel. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VERY GOOD/NEAR FINE Hardcover 1894 Green embossed decorated boards with silver trim and lettering. Altemus Edition. Small Book. Book is wrapped in clear glassine cover.

First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 55pp. Gily yiyles abd floral decoration. Tight. No names or other markings. Illustrated throughout with one plate loose from the binding. Front cover with a few slight blisters to the cloth., No D/J. V. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Thomas Y Crowell pocket size edition bound in clean ribbed red cloth with title and design stamped in gilt on the front cover. The bottom corner of the front cover is creased. Binding is square and tight. Top edges tinted red. Pages are lightly age-toned, clean, smooth and unmarked. American author Donald Grant Mitchell's musings on American life in the mid 19th century. Frontis illustration in black and white by American illustrator Charles Copeland.244pp 4.25 x 6.25. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. New York, NY: Charles Scribner. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1852. . Hardcover. Sm 8vo., 256pp., Foxing on front free end papers; penciling by previous owner on fromt paper and back; shelf wear. . Frontispiece (illustrator).

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. HARDBACK - Pictorial cover has light wear, name inside cover, binding tight. From private collection. Ships same or next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Later. Good, corners and spine are bumped, lightly frayed, large area darkened on back, text edges smudged, front hinge starting to crack.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 282 Pages. No dust jacket, though it is covered with a leather encasement that remains in quite good shape. Publishing date not mentioned in book, but from research. This book contains the musings and feelings of a bachelor in the mid 1800's regarding love, marriage, life, travel etc. They are divided up into four Reveries in the book. The book's leather exterior has folding on some of its corners, some wearing at the top of its spine and a smallish thin stain on the upper part of the spine. The interior book has some cover paper tearing inside the front cover and a small part of the upper right top cover paper inside the rear cover is missing. Outside of these items and some light tanning of the book's pages, there are no further visible detriments, or visible distractions or extraneous markings throughout it and thus all of its printing is in a very well-preserved and enjoyable condition and the interior remains tightly glued into its leather cover. If you order this neat set of musings on life, love, marriage and living from us, we will carefully wrap it up in either foam or bubble wrap, then pad and box it and mail it right away to you with both insurance and tracking on it. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. ***please read*** name inside cover with light pencil - no marks on text - some chipping on top and bottom of the spine - foxing - my shelf location 34-F-14*.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. book has moderate wear around edges of cover, moderate wear to corners and ends of spine, moderate/heavy smudging and shelf wear across cover and spine, light sunfading to spine, single slight crack in binding to text, otherwise in solid presentable shape.