Snelling William J (14 results)

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. ISBN:0880290641, hardback, 1st printing of reprint edition, Fine in a Fine DJ; no names or internal markings, 8vo., 252 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0.

Hard. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in dust jacket. Published Dorset Press, 1985. Very good plus in VG dust jacket.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Very Good/VG: book straight, clean, unmarked; jacket clean, rubbed around spine ends, 1/8" chip at each corner, in new archival mylar protector. Hardcover in jacket. Snelling, son of the Colonel, wandered among the plains Indians in the 1820's, learning their language; these vivid realistic tales, mainly based on true incidents, were their first appearance in American literature. With notes by John Flanagan.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 2nd Edition Revised & enlarged. Dampstaining to front and rear blanks. Much of spine backstrip is missing. Covers are loosely attached. Covers have tiny spots of foxing. Pages have scattered very slight foxing. Front cover title label has an edge chip and is browned.

Gebunden. Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThis book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. Full calf, (8.5 x 5.5 inches). First Edition. xii, 501 pages with Appendix; illustrated frontispiece map, two title pages, and eight pages of plates. "Including a particular description of the countries, the seas, inhabitants, and animals of those parts of the world; also a minute account of the whale fisheries, and the dangers attending them; with remarkable adventures of some fo the whale fishers, descriptions of Mount Hecla, and the other Volcanoes of Iceland; together with the adventures, discoveries, dangers and trials of Parry, Franklin, Lyon, and other Navigators, in those Regions." Showing overall general wear and foxing, spine rubbed, head of spine chipped, some closed tears. Provenance: Former owner's name, Luman Chamberlin on front fly.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1831 FIRST EDITION. Bound in pattern decorated papered boards, grained brown morocco leather spine with black morocco title patch lettered in gilt. The book has rubbing to papered covers, minor rubbing to spine ends, small lightly scuffed area base of spine likely where label removed, distinctive bookplate of 19th Century polar explorer and author Adolphus Greely on front pastedown, Massachusetts copyright protection notice pasted to verso of title page, old glue stains from bookplate(?) on rear pastedown, no other marks or writing on any other pages, foxing and browning to pages ( a few pages with heavy foxing, most pages little to moderate foxing), tan offsetting at short-title page illustration and facing map pages, solid binding. The book measures 217mm tall x 137mm and has 501 pages, engraved vignette title page, engraved illustration short-title page, map (single page) opposite short-title page, 12 b/w woodcut illustrations on 8 plates, PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

First Edition. First edition of the author's first book of poetry, 16mo, pp. vi, [7]-52; without the errata slip (not present in all copies); a nice copy in original muslin-backed drab boards, the cloth a little nicked and brooken along the spine. Snelling (1804-1848) was the son of Josiah Snelling, commandant of the fort that bears his name at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers in St. Paul. William lived at Fort Snelling for seven years (1820-27) where he became familiar with the Indians, their language and habits. After returning east, he wrote many newspaper and magazine articles, and several books which drew on his experiences with the Indians, and this poem, a satirical commentary on the state of American poetry and poets "that rocked the small literary world of Boston for a time. [But] the onslaughts of his political and literary foes, combined with personal misfortunes, gradually drove him to dispair, and he took refuge in drink. To the great delight of his ill-wishers, he spent four months in the House of Correction, but he emerged broken, rather than in health or in spirit. He continued as an independent journalist and in 1847 became the editor of the Boston Herald, which he conducted with great vigor for one year before he died, in Chelsea, at the age of forty-four, burned out. Snelling is best remembered as . the author of Truth, which is one of the best verse satires ever written in America" (DAB). BAL 18413.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Truth, a gift for scribblers by William J. Snelling. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1832 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.