Debtor Creditor, First Edition (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition.

Paperback. Illustrated with a few tables, 108p., 7.5x4.5 inch self-wraps with exposed thread, thread and stab-holes original and soundly preserved. Original outer wrap [front and back covers united by spine panel] is also preserved but has been altered for strength, with thick old kraft paper adhered and trimmed to fit its outermost side, and inner text (publisher's menu) open to view and enclosing the textblock. The kraft side is titled by hand in old sepia nib, and it is dust-soiled and foxed, while the "menu" side is even dirtier. As is, texts complete, a reference copy. Trader's & Mechanic's laws of trade.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. In the original pictorial wraps as issued, this is a scarce piece of Civil War fiction. Only one copy is listed in the OCLS--in the Brooklyn Library. Wraps are chipped at the lower spine, with some light creasing and soling to the covers; still attractive and securely bound. The interior and text are clean and unmarked with no signs of previous ownership. A good, solid copy. 451pp. Library of Choice Fiction-Monthly No. 36.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. smaller hardcover, rebound in uniform brown cloth, owner bookplate, not a library book (inv-20FL).

Hardcover. First Edition. xi, 220pp. Original brown cloth stamped in blind on the sides and the spine and lettered in gold on the spine. Former library copy with bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper and blind stamp on the title page, loss to spine ends, cloth split at spine. Internally clean. A good copy. ; Octavo.

First thus. 12mo; 32pp. An unopened string-tied pamphlet in three gatherings with grey paper covers (the strings have perished and the pamphlet is now disbound. "ADVERTISEMENT. The following observations appeared in the month of Dec. 1808 in a daily paper of New York. As the subject of insolvency now excites some attention in Pennsylvania, the author yields to the solicitation of some gentlemen there, who are desirous that those pieces may appear in the more permanent form of a pamphlet. With great deference to the public, these imperfect attempts are now submitted to their animadversion. New York, July 1810." The anonymous author presents in four parts his proposal to ". to explain the means which to him appear best calculated to promote and secure the interest of the fair creditor; to shelter the upright and well-meaning debtor; and to deter, detect and punish the fraudulent." Shaw-Shoemaker 19939.