Change American Notes: First Edition (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xii, 392p. Original green cloth over boards. First edition. Headband rubbed and a little chipped. Old repair to the rear inner hinge. A good reading copy. Includes a tipped in invoice from Bernard Quaritch from 1976.

1843, 1st edition. (Cloth) Near fine. 88pp. In as new modern institutional cloth, gilt printed spine - no ex-lib marks within or without. Some very minor age spotting to pages. See Sabin 2000 4 and note between Sabin 105032 and 105033.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No DW. 1st Edition. Fairly clean tight text is dust marked at edges. Text has been fitted with new endpapers and rebound (about 2000 ?) in brown paper covered boards with a white cloth spine and paper title label. Bookplate. A very good working copy. Covers virtually as new.…

Hardcover. First edition. 8vo., recently rebound in modern cloth, leather spine label, 392pp. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. 1st American. Original Brown Wraps bound into 3/4 leather with greeninsh marbled boards and endpapers. Bound as issued, with original wrappers (small corner missing from front wrapper cover about 1/3 inch on each side). Light foxing spots. 88 pp. The text is preceded by a listing of current titles, which is dated February 1843. The preface is dated July 1843. A nice solid copy in a sturdy, bright binding. It appears as if this was a binding project for an aspiring bookbinder, complete with a board slipcase. An abstract of this publication on Worldcat states "A criticism of English customs, etc., called forth by Charles Dickens' American notes.".…

FIRST EDITION. Recently bound into functional plain brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Written in response to the negative portrayal of America in British literature, with particular reference to American Notes and Mrs Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans. 'That this work will produce any impression on the English themselves the authoress has not for a moment contemplated; for when it is told of themselves they are a people singularly unmoved by - the truth'. The author was not an 'American Lady', but Henry Wood, a journalist from Yorkshire.…

hardcover. Condition: very good(-). First. 8vo, full polished calf, with gilt decorated spine, raised bands, leather labels, gilt top, by Riviere. London: Wiley & Putnam, 1843. First Edition. Written in response to the negative portrayal of American literature by Dickens in his "American Notes". Joints strengthened & inner hinges taped; light foxing on preliminary blank pages, otherwise a good, clean copy. …

FIRST EDITION. Orig. brown cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; neatly recased, spine dulled & carefully repaired. Written in response to the negative portrayal of America in British literature, with particular reference to American Notes and Mrs Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans. 'That this work will produce any impression on the English themselves the authoress has not for a moment contemplated; for when it is told of themselves they are a people singularly unmoved by - the truth'. The author was not an 'American Lady', but Henry Wood, a journalist from Yorkshire.…

FIRST EDITION. Contemp. full tan calf, gilt spine, borders & dentelles, red leather label; hinges expertly repaired. Cortlandt Field Bishop bookplate. a.e.g. A good-plus copy. Written in response to the negative portrayal of America in British literature, with particular reference to American Notes and Mrs Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans. 'That this work will produce any impression on the English themselves the authoress has not for a moment contemplated; for when it is told of themselves they are a people singularly unmoved by - the truth'. The author was not an 'American Lady', but Henry Wood, a journalist from Yorkshire.…

First edition of this rebuttal to Dickens's American Notes, which was published the preceding year. Although purporting to be by "an American Lady", the author was Henry Wood, a gentleman and journalist from Yorkshire. This epistolary work criticizes Dickens's exaggerated depiction of the American national character, and the proportion of his work devoted to "curiosities" rather than larger social issues. CBEL III, p. 446. Octavo. Original grey cloth, ruled and decoratively panelled in blind, spine lettered in gilt, yellow coated endpapers. Later 19th-century ink ownership inscription and shelfmark to front endpapers. Spine gently sunned, ends and corners bumped, with minor wear, rubbing to cloth, front inner hinge cracked but sound, contents clean. A very good copy.…