Thomas W Handford, First Edition (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Children. Covers rubbed and worn, corners and spine ends bumped and frayed. Owner name in blue wax pencil on the first endpaper, otherwise the interior is clean, binding shaken.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. 160 p. Audience: Children/juvenile.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Burgandy boards with gold lettering, patterned endpapers, clean pages, pages yellowing but not brittle, boards are bright with slight rubbing at the corners. 314pp. plus index.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. First edition: *date same on the title page and the manufacturer's page." Blue boards with gold title and embossed graphic on front cover and spine. The cover and spine are worn all around. Small tears between the front cover and the front cover page at the spine. Spine split on pages 208 and 288. Pages 193 to 208 are separated from the spine. Tear at the top of page 441. Pages are yellowing and have some foxing. 543 p. Not ex-library. Shelf: A-2.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Pictorial paper covered boards [4]+v-vi+7-96p,illus. Slight water stain horiz top and bottom edge interior One page torn in half Corners frayed with spots of paper loss on front board Small stains rear board.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Inscription and 1886 date on front end flap. Stories, Poems and Sketches. Good for this age inside and out. Hinges loose in some locations. Pages good throughout with some handling and tanning. Boards good with wear to all perimeters. See pictures for further description.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. True Williams. Frank Bromley. Arthur Vaughan. Geo. Clarke. (illustrator). First Edition?. Original blue decorated cloth. Cracked inside front cover and somewhat tender, previous owner's name in ink, Good. Internals nice. Frontispiece colored illustration. Heavily illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. True Williams, Frank Bromley, Arthur Vaughan, Geo. Clarke (illustrator). 1st Edition. Good, brown embossed cloth, gilt title on front. Front hinge is loose but unbroken. penciled name and "a Xmas present from Kate/Xmas 1889" on ffep. Color frontispiece and profusely illustrated with b&w full page plates on every second page. 224 pgs.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fair, no DJ. Scarce thus (only copy from this publisher on AbeBooks at time of posting). First edition (same date on title and copyright pages). Moderate signs of wear and blemishing to exterior, shelfworn, bumping to corners and spine ends, binding cracked but still holding, gilt edges, interior clean and unmarked. A decent copy. first edition (same date on title and copyright pages).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. also the life of Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, candidate for Vice-President. 297 pp., publisher's grey/green cloth in black and gilt. Illustrated. First Edition,

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 255 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. Published while Roosevelt was Governor of New York and before he ran as McKiinley's vice president. This copy in the original blue cloth, but showing some wear and a few problems: a black streak across the front cover and weak gutters, still holding. Some fraying to the top of the spine. Still a decent copy of a very rare book.

TRUE Williams, H.N. Cady, Arthur Vaughan, Charles M Bowles, et al. (illustrator). FIRST. FAIR+. Fully decorated boards, spine weakening, board separation starting. This very rare children's publication - content done in the illustrated style of Harpers, but here, by the Canadian/American publishing house of Belford (various corporate names), ties together some of the best loved illustrators/artists of the age with literary connections to one of the giants of the age, Mark Twain, and events as monumental as Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. --- Belford, Clarke & Co., Chicago, 1875-1892. Canadian Alexander Belford started "Belford's Magazine" in 1873. He used a new marketing concept of selling "cheap twelvemos.", placing displays in general stores & others to compete with books-only stores. Even selling through temporary stores to unload inventory in a technique called 'hippodroming'. They also marketed by announcing (artificially) impending price increases to push sales 'before looming deadlines'. The company was embroiled in constant law suits and their Chicago plant was razed by fire in 1886. But that didn't stop Belford. He contracted with the Encyclopedia Britannica to promote a reduced price American version of the famous British work that made it a success in the States. In the meantime, Mark Twain constantly sued the company for using his personal illustrator True Williams in their publications. But the wiley entrpreneur always seemed to escape culpability. Williams is prominent in this current offering of Belford's Annual 1888-89. Additionally, Belford had a knack for bringing important people onboard his staff. Colonel Donn Piatt served as an editor in 1888. Piatt was renowned for being a Union officer who devised the formation in Maryland of a full regiment manned "solely by slaves". The legal effect was to at once emancipate every slave in Maryland - BEFORE Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was made political currency. It caused a wave of slaves to enlist for service and turned Maryland "Free". The book for sale here includes articles by Theodore Roosevelt, Gen. Lew Wallace, and other notables. Art contributors included True Williams, N.H Cady, Arthur Vaughn, Charles. M Bowles, among others. An extraordinary surviving memento of 19th century publishing and personalities. [B87-43].