Master by Bacheller Irving, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 302 pgs. Inscribed by author, "Yours Sincerely, Irving Bacheller, Riverside Conn. 12/8 '09" Green cloth boards with stamped tree design and gilt titles on cover and spine. Corners bumped. Bottom edges of boards shelf bumped. Topstain faded. Spine straight and tight. Pencil price on front pastedown, otherwise Free of marks. Clean bright pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. viii, 302pp. Decorative green cloth blind and gilt-stamped on front board and spine. The tree is blind-stamped and there is no top staining as shown in other copies. Extremities lightly rubbed with spine mildly cocked, else a near fine copy. Inscribed by Irving Bacheller on front flyleaf: "Yours for peace, Irving Bacheller.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4 7/8 inches x 7 1/8 in., half-title; title-page; 176 pp. +[8]pp. publisher's catalogue with a notice of this title, and some of Webster's Mark Twain & Civil War titles. Dark green cloth with gilt titling and device on the spine, and a series design stamped in darker green, and with gilt titling and a larger series title design stamped on the front cover. In a red morocco leather-backed slipcase, with five raised bands, and gilt-lettered titling on the spine, with red cloth-covered sides, and a red cloth-covered chemise. Light rubbing to the spine ends, cover corners, edges, small tan stain in lower margin of p. 53. With the early owner's printed book label on the upper right of the front paste-down endpaper: John W. Hull, and his signature and date on the facing endpaper: Jno W Hull 1892; inserted in this copy is a signed letter, on a folded 4 1/2 inch x 6 7/8 in. sheet of blue note paper, with printed monogram; this letter is carefully written in a calligraphic hand: My dear Doctor: Thanks for your thought of me in connection with Watch Night. I fear I must be out of town that evening and dare not therefore, engage for the job you offer. With best wishes Sincerely yours Irving Bacheller Sound Beach Ct. Dec. 21. The letter shows folding from being mailed, a light paste spot in the upper left corner. The author's first book. Wright III, 197. Inscribed by Author(s).