Offering by Odd Fellows, Used (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Condition: Very Good; Hardcover. Bound in pebbled red cloth with gilt decorations on both covers and spine. Color Presentation page and 10 other engravings, all with tissue guards. Book has clean covers that are a little dulled along with a tight, square binding. Heavy foxing to the endpages and tissue guards. Some foxing on plate edges not covered by tissue guards. Photos upon request.

Condition: Fair. Red leather boards with elaborate gilt decoration are rubbed and soiled. Heavy shelfwear to edges, corners bumped with boards exposed. Top half of backstrip missing, exposing paper guard. Tail of spine chipped away. Interior age-toned with foxing throughout. Scattered soiling. Previous owner's name in pencil to FFEP and to presentation page. Worm hole or punch to top corner of FFEP and flyleaves. Illustrations and tissue guards present but foxed. Gilt edges still bright, top edge a bit dust-dulled. Binding rather tight.

Condition: Fair. New York: Edward Walker, 1850. 8vo hardcover. 298pp. Plates. Fair book. Heavy shelf wear. Front hinge cracked. Frontispiece partially detached. Writing on endpages. Most tissue guards for plates missing. (Odd Fellows, Secret Societies, Literature Collections) Inquire if you need further information.

8vo. 288 pp. Engravd frntsp., dedication page, engraved title, numerous engravd plates (some foxng). Full embssd & decorated tan sheep, gilt decorated spine, a.e.g. (mnr chppng hd & ft of spine, mnr edgewear), still VG- copy, from the family library of Major John William De Forest (1826-1906), served with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, and was a noted American author and poet. First edition, thus, of this anthology of morality tales and Odd Fellows literature.