James Fields Biographical Notes Personal, Used (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Foxing is present on one or more pages. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Binding is very loose. The binding has separated on one side of the leaves. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Badly faded due to exposure to sunlight. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good, clean, tight condition. Red cloth. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Text is clean. Previous owner name on front free endpaper. Cover shows wear, ends of spine beginning to frey. Corners bumped. 1882 printing. Cosmetic damage to rear interior gutter. ; 275 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Nearly Like New. Pages bright, crisp, clean. Missing DJ. Previous owner bookplate. Binding tight.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint Edition. Hansebooks, Norderstedt, Germany. 2022. Softcover/Trade Wraps. This book is a facsimile copy of the 1882 copy by Houghton , Mifflin and Company titled . For some reason this publisher has chosen to title this book James T. Fields; A Biography. Print on Demand Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light tip bumping; small stain to fore edge at bottom. No DJ. Printed card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 285 pp 8vo. Annie Fields compiled this book shortly after Fields' death in 1881. She was widow of this publisher (Ticknor and Fields), editor, poet and lecturer and herself an author of some renown. The book is full of diary notes tributes from his cohorts and admirers. The book closes with a poem written specifically for Fields by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Auf Wiedersehen," which appears here for the first time. A clean very presentable copy.

Hardcover. 8vo. Rebound in teal green cloth with gilt spine lettering. 275pp. Very good. Modern binding near fine, while internally tight and moderately, lightly age toned throughout. Ex-library, with very few and discreet markings and rectangular inkstamped "Young Men's Library Association Dubuque, Iowa" lightly inkstamped on title page and last text page. A tight and nice first edition, despite faint ex-library markings. Annie Fields (1834-1915), who compiled this shortly after Fields' death, was widow of this publisher, editor, poet and lecturer (1817-81) and herself an author of some renown. Since a signed copy of this posthumously-published collection is impossible, here's the next best thing: Tipped to front flyleaf is a clipped (4½" X 7/8") letter closing, a hurried "Truly Yours J.T. Fields" and a few partial words above penned in his usual purple ink. The volume closes with a poem written specifically for it by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Auf Wiedersehen," which appears here (pp. 274-75) for the first time.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First English Edition. 275pp., grey fine diagonal ribbed cloth, stamped in gilt and black, bevelled boards. Nice copy; bookplate of the Dickens collector Samuel T. Mills and a tipped-in leaf of Dickens references in his hand. The life of America's foremost publisher written annonymously by his widow, with memorial poems by Whittier and Longfellow and the first printing of letters from dozens of authors from both sides of the Atlantic.

Reprint. Octavo (22cm). Maroon cloth titled in gilt, top edge gilt; grey coated endpapers; [vi],285,[1]pp. Straight, lightly rubbed, with one or two small scuffs and spots to cloth, internally clean: Very Good. Fields was the junior partner and literary expert for Ticknor and Fields, and ran noted literary salons. The first printing appeared in 1881; this 1882 reprint was the first to contain the index. See BAL 5987.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Mary A. Livermore et al. (illustrator). First Edition. Sketches by Mary A. Livermore, Henry W. Longfellow, J.G. Whittier, and others. History of the Old Corner Bookstore. Binding is qtr. leather.

Condition: Good. 1881 first edition. G. Sunning to spine and boards. Edge wear to top of spine. Binding is sound. Himges starting. Bookplate on front pastedown. Small tear to ffep. Note on editorship and contents in pencil on the rear of the front flyleaf. Text is clean. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.