Franklin Square Library (32 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. Disbound, no covers. ; This title is part of the Franklin Square Library, Number 137, September 3, 1880. ; 61 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Disbound, no covers. First page has a couple very small chips. ; This title is part of the Franklin Square Library, Number 162, February 18, 1881.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First page has two tears to the upper edge and is foxed. First page and first leaf have a small crease to the lower outer corner. Pages have traces of foxing. ; With three maps and twenty-eight illustrations. ; 46 + ads pages.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. There is a jagged tear with an approximate maximum length of 1 3/4". It starts on the outside page and penetrates the inside pages within the text. It gradually diminishes and is gone by page 27. Outside pair of leaves have tearing by the staples. Pages are slightly browned, a bit darker at the margins. ; 77 + ads pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. First page is lightly foxed, last page is slightly foxed. There is wear to the lower spine ends. A few outer corners are creased. Formerly folded vertically, now very slight. ; "By the author of 'The Member for Paris,' etc." ; 34 + ads pages.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Lower margin of first page has a small chip and a small slight water spot. First page has some foxing. First page and first few leaves have some chipping and creasing to the lower end of the outer edges. Pages are slightly browned. ; 43 + ads pages.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Pages are slightly browned. Several leaves have small or very small edge tears which have been repaired with glassine tape. ; Bound into cardboard protective covers which are chipped and worn. Contents approx. 8 1/4" wide by 11 1/4". ; 40 + ads pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Title page and last page have very slight foxing. Owner's name written on the first page. ; 70 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Quarto. 41pp. Newsprint wrappers bound in contemporary half leather and marbled papercovered boards. A small tear to the fore edge of the first several pages not affecting the text, more than half of the spine is absent affecting the text, bumping to the spine ends and corners, still very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Scarce; very early American soft cover. Harper's Franklin Square Library No. 698; dated May, 1891. Published contemporaneously with the 1st UK edition and the Lovell US edition. Tan wraps, titled in black, 25 cent cover price and measures approximately 6 1/2" X 4 1/2". Whatmore p. 167; Scott p. 24. New York: Harper & Brothers (1891), 319 pages. Good. Darkened and soiled wraps with numerous chips.

Leather. 2 vols. Ex-library. A set of two large hardcover books bound 3/4 black leather with black cloth boards. Good condition overall. The spine and hinges of volume 1 are reinforced with heavy-duty clear tape. Leather portions visibly rubbed and wearing through. Closed tear on first page of issue no. 121. Staining in the gutters of the endpapers. Various library markings and stickers inside, and pages are age-tanned, but otherwise, text clean. Binding secure in both volumes. The Franklin Square Library published American editions of popular British and European literature. Many were the first American editions of those works. The individual issues of the Franklin Square Library are collected in these volumes, but bound all out of order.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illus.; ads, 11 x 8", half leather; cloth, vp, covers worn, leather skinned or worn, extremities bumped and chipped, outer hinges cracking, first page of text torn vertically about 4.5" from bottom, bookplate of former owner inside front cover, ink name of other former owners on front blank and first page of text, pp browned and a bit brittle. Profiles of Sydney Smith, Charles James Fox, Victor Hugo, and "English Men of Letters".

107pp; leaves now brittle. orig. wrappers, some fraying It states it is printed by arrangement with Messrs J.R. Osgood & Co from their Library edition issued from the author's advance sheets.

Printed self-wrappers, stapled. 44, [4] pp, printed triple column. Adverts last 4 pages. T.p. vignette. Full page map. 12 wood engravings (4 full-page). 11" x 8" Usual bit of browning & foxing to paper. Two stab holes in gutter margin, as if the issue was previously bound with others from the series. A VG+ copy.

Sewn binding. Condition: Very good. Two issues, removed from larger volume. Lightly toned.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Scarce; very early American soft cover. Published contemporaneously with the 1st UK edition and the Lovell US edition. Here is Harper's Franklin Square Library No. 698; dated May, 1891. Tan wraps, titled in black, 25 cent cover price. New York: Harper & Brothers (1891), 319 pages. A good or better copy with off-white pages and tight square binding. Library bookplate and sticker on inside font cover, inked name on cover, loss at bottom corner at spine, small fold at top of back cover and last few pages.

First Edition. Near fine copy bound in half modern leather over marble boards with a gilt title to the spine. Wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; multiple pagings. Contents; No. 91: Dec. 12, 1879: Memoirs of Madame De Rémusat (1802-1808): Part I ; No. 98: Feb. 6, 1880: Memoirs of Madame De Rémusat (1802-1808): Part II ; No. 98a: March 26, 1880: Memoirs of Madame De Rémusat (1802-1808): Part III ; No. 200: Aug. 12, 1881: Letters of Madame de Rémusat to her Husband and son, from 1804 to 1813 ; No. 540: Aug. 27, 1886: The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century (1514-1559) ; No. 320: June 22, 1883: Frederick the Second and Maria Theresa from hitherto unpublished documents (1740-1742) ; No. 191: June 19, 1881: The Corrspondence of Prince Talleyrand and King Louis XVIII during the Congress of Vienna. Subjects; Franklin Square Library. 19th century periodicals. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy bound in half modern leather over marble boards with a gilt title to the spine. Wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Some slight tearing to some of the inner pages. Physical description; multiple pagings. Contents; No. 307: April 13, 1883: Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle ; No. 166: Mar. 11, 1881: Reminiscences by Thomas Carlyle ; No. 245: Thomas Carlyle: a history of the first forty years of his life (1795-1835) ; No. 246: April 21, 1882: Thomas Carlyle: a history of the first forty years of his life (1795-1835) ; No. 414: Thomas Carlyle: a history of his life in London (1834-1881): v. I ; No. 415: Oct. 31, 1884: Thomas Carlyle: a history of his life in London (1834-1881): v. II. Subjects; Jane Welsh Carlyle. Thomas Carlyle. Biography. Letters. Memoirs. 3 Kg.

4to., issues 5735-575 bound together with printed "INDEX" on front pastedown, cont. half leather, cloth. Paper a bit browned o/w very good. Also bound with the Black are "The Bride of the Nile" by Georg Ebers and "Knight-Errant" by Edna Lyall.

4to., issues 355-358 bound together with printed "INDEX" on front pastedown, cont. half leather, cloth. Paper a bit browned, head of spine chipped o/w very good. Also bound with the Payn are issues 355--"The Millionaire"; 356--"Thirlby Hall" by W.E. Norris; 358--"One False." by John B. Harwood.

4to., issues 5735-575 bound together with printed "INDEX" on front pastedown, cont. half leather, cloth. Paper a bit browned o/w very good. Also bound with the Black are "The Bride of the Nile" by Georg Ebers and "Knight-Errant" by Edna Lyall.

First Edition. Near fine copy bound in half modern leather over marble boards with a gilt title to the spine. Wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; multiple pagings. Contents; No. 91: Dec. 12, 1879: Memoirs of Madame De Rémusat (1802-1808): Part I ; No. 98: Feb. 6, 1880: Memoirs of Madame De Rémusat (1802-1808): Part II ; No. 98a: March 26, 1880: Memoirs of Madame De Rémusat (1802-1808): Part III ; No. 200: Aug. 12, 1881: Letters of Madame de Rémusat to her Husband and son, from 1804 to 1813 ; No. 540: Aug. 27, 1886: The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century (1514-1559) ; No. 320: June 22, 1883: Frederick the Second and Maria Theresa from hitherto unpublished documents (1740-1742) ; No. 191: June 19, 1881: The Corrspondence of Prince Talleyrand and King Louis XVIII during the Congress of Vienna. Subjects; Franklin Square Library. 19th century periodicals. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy bound in half modern leather over marble boards with a gilt title to the spine. Wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Some slight tearing to some of the inner pages. Physical description; multiple pagings. Contents; No. 307: April 13, 1883: Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle ; No. 166: Mar. 11, 1881: Reminiscences by Thomas Carlyle ; No. 245: Thomas Carlyle: a history of the first forty years of his life (1795-1835) ; No. 246: April 21, 1882: Thomas Carlyle: a history of the first forty years of his life (1795-1835) ; No. 414: Thomas Carlyle: a history of his life in London (1834-1881): v. I ; No. 415: Oct. 31, 1884: Thomas Carlyle: a history of his life in London (1834-1881): v. II. Subjects; Jane Welsh Carlyle. Thomas Carlyle. Biography. Letters. Memoirs. 1 Kg.

Condition: good. USED book in GOOD condition. Great binding, pages and cover show normal signs of wear from use.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 70 pages. 8 1/2 x 12 in. Tan paper binding, black printing on paper label, 3 staples. Condition of the book is GOOD: wear and soiling to covers- esp. heavy to cover edges, edges of text block darkened, pages lightly tanned- several dogeared, binding fine. fiction, RGR.

4to., issues 359-363 bound together with printed "INDEX" on front pastedown, cont. half leather, cloth. Paper a bit browned o/w fine. Also bound with the Russell are issues 359--"Hester" by Mrs. Oliphant; 361--"Susan Drummond" by J.H. Riddell; 362--"The New Abelard" by Robert Buchanan; and 363---"Pretty Miss Neville" by B.M. Croker.

First Edition. Near fine copy bound in half modern leather over marble boards with a gilt title to the spine. Wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; multiple pagings. Contents; No 449: Feb. 6, 1885: George Eliot's Life related in her letters and journals: vols. I & II ; No. 451: Feb. 6, 1885 George Eliot's Life related in her letters and journals: v. III ; No. 61: June 6, 1879: Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot ; Standard Series: Class C: July, 1879: The Light of Asia ; No. 17: 1878: Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold ; No. 254: June 2, 1882: Three volumes of the English Men of Letters ; No. 144: Oct. 22, 1880: Three Volumes of the English Men of Letters. Subjects; George Eliot. Biography. Matthew Arnold. Poetry. English Men of Letters. 3 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very uncommon early collection (perhaps unauthorized) of Kipling's work published in 1890 when the author was just 25 years old. Includes frontis portrait of Kipling. Original blue-green printed paper wraps with moderate wear and light soiling; some of the spine cover is missing but the binding is complete as printed; pages dusty with a few pages dog-eared. Very good version of this fragile compilation published by Harper with an interesting early biographical sketch by Lang before the author reached critical fame: "I do not anticipate for Mr. Kipling a very popular popularity.he is not in tune with our modern civilization, whereof many a heart is sick; he is more a home in an Afghan pass than in the Strand."Andrew Lang himself was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales.

First Edition. Near fine copy bound in half modern leather over marble boards with a gilt title to the spine. Wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; multiple pagings. Contents; No 449: Feb. 6, 1885: George Eliot's Life related in her letters and journals: vols. I & II ; No. 451: Feb. 6, 1885 George Eliot's Life related in her letters and journals: v. III ; No. 61: June 6, 1879: Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot ; Standard Series: Class C: July, 1879: The Light of Asia ; No. 17: 1878: Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold ; No. 254: June 2, 1882: Three volumes of the English Men of Letters ; No. 144: Oct. 22, 1880: Three Volumes of the English Men of Letters. Subjects; George Eliot. Biography. Matthew Arnold. Poetry. English Men of Letters. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 4to., issues 465-468 bound together with printed "INDEX" on front pastedown, cont. half leather, cloth. Paper a bit browned o/w fine. Also bound with the Braddon are "Captain Brand" by H.A. Wise; "Russia Under the Czars" by Stepniak; and "Diana of the Crossways" by George Meredith.