Select Circulating Library Containing Best, First Edition (7 results)

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Fair Only. First Edition. Includes memoirs, biography, novels, tales, travels, voyages, etc. This volume includes Schools of the Arts, Ethel Churchill, Augsburg Goldsmith, Satiety, musical history, suicide, New Year's night, memoirs of the Marchioness de Bonchamps, Picciola, George IV and Queen Caroline. etc Cover has significant wear and fading, fairly significant foxing/age-toning within, a few stains, binding is loose. Book.

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Includes memoirs, biography, novels, tales, travels, voyages, etc. This volume includes letters from the south, the Dean of Santiago, Madrid in 1835, a story of winter in lower Styria, sonnets, the Crusaders, two shipwreck stories, etc. Cover has significant wear and fading, fairly significant foxing/age-toning within, a few stains. Book.

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Includes memoirs, biography, novels, tales, travels, voyages, etc. This volume includes the Saracen, Apollo, Libertino Genuchi, Pirate's Song, Sir Isaac Newton, Marmaduke Paull, Mexican antiquities, Chess player's life, the Burney Papers, Incidents at Sea, Euthanasia Medica, Oliver Goldsmith. etc Cover has significant wear and fading, fairly significant foxing/age-toning within, a few stainse. Book.

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Includes memoirs, biography, novels, tales, travels, voyages, etc. This volume includes tales of the great St. Bernard, the Naval Annual, letters from the South, the Crusaders, a captivity in France and Flounders between 1803 and 1809, journal of the Rev. Timothy Flint, poems, England in 1835, etc. Cover has significant wear and fading, fairly significant foxing/age-toning within, a few stains. Book.

First Edition. Good copy in a contemporary binding of leather-backed, marbled boards. Gilt titles tooled directly to spine. Spine bands worn. Wear also to panel edges as with age. General surface rubbing and wear. Marginal foxing and tanning to text. Remains quite well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 416 pages; Description: 416p. 28cm. Subjects: Literature - Periodicals. American periodicals - 19th century. Text in triple columns. 4 Kg.

First Edition. Good copy in a contemporary binding of leather-backed, marbled boards. Gilt titles tooled directly to spine. Spine bands worn. Wear also to panel edges as with age. General surface rubbing and wear. Marginal foxing and tanning to text. Remains quite well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 416 pages; Description: 416p. 28cm. Subjects: Literature - Periodicals. American periodicals - 19th century. Text in triple columns. 2 Kg.

[4], 416 pp. Text triple column. Flint piece, pp. 284 - 288. 'Belles Lettres' - 4pp / issue [usually]. Steel engraved plate of Frederick Marryat, drawn by Behnes, engraved by Lawson, precedes text. 4to. 11-3/8" x 9-1/8" Flint's long letter (11 columns, in small type) is dated Alexandria, La., April 21, 1835, and apparently not known to Kirkpatrick who made no reference to it in his biography of Flint [per Graff]. The cited references make mention of a separate 12mo edition of this work, and of which we find an occasional record, the last being in 1973. Rare. Marryat is represented with The NAVAL ANNUAL, in addition to the engraving. In 'Belles Lettres' is found, JAPHET In SEARCH Of A FATHER. Miss Baillie [no doubt, unknowingly] contributes a number of dramatic pieces, all but two asserted to be original publications, and which, by appearing herein, constitute their first US appearance. "Belles Lettres" also publishes, for the first time, journal entries from an officer of the U. S. S. PEACOCK, which was serving, at the time, in the Far East. The editor introduces his correspondent by saying he begins by "giving the details of the awful disaster which befell the Peacock, from which she escaped almost by a miracle." Joints starting [boards held solidly by cords], with a largish chip to leather at spine crown. Usual bit of foxing. Period pos to top margin of t.p. An About VG copy. Period brown half-calf over brown marbled paper boards. Volume now protected by a custom-cut clear mylar wrapper 1st edition thus (Howes F-202; cf. Graff 1357, Rader 1419 for the separate printing). Not in Sabin.