Select Circulating Library, First Edition (13 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.

Disbound. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Complete original disbound issues in near fine condition with foxing and an old small dampstain along the spine.

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.

First Edition. Good copy bound in worn and starting marble boards. Wear and tear to the spine and panel edges as with age. Physical description; multiple pagings. Subjects; Circulation library. 1835. Memoirs. Biography. Novels. Tales. Travels. Voyages. 4 Kg.

First Edition. Good copy bound in worn and starting marble boards. Wear and tear to the spine and panel edges as with age. Physical description; multiple pagings. Subjects; Circulation library. 1835. Memoirs. Biography. Novels. Tales. Travels. Voyages. 2 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Philadelphia, quarto (8.75 x 11.25 inches), [two parts: Part I, 13 numbers, 208 p.; Part II, 13 numbers, 208 p.], plus 2 additional numbers of \"Waldies's Select Circulating Library, 1836\". ***CONTENT: As the title proclaims, this serial publication contains an amalgam of reports, reviews and commentary designed to interest, inform, and entertain the American reader. Topics covered include moral and spiritual essays, tales, articles of information, book reviews, ancient and current history, biographical sketches, arts, poetry and music, nature, medicine, and science, popular culture, foreign and domestic travels and scenery, warfare, shipwrecks, and calamities, and so much more. ***CONDITION: This a complete, Good+ copy bound in the original 3\/4 brown leather and marbled boards. The covers are clean and sound but show mild edgewear and drying and chipping to the leather backstrip and corners. The original gilt-lettered spine label is largely complete, joints and hinges tender but holding, binding firm. The text pages are near pristine: fresh, clean, and bright. No evidence of previous ownership. This is a sound copy of a scarce, informative volume that broadly illuminates the era. International shipping will be extra, but only at my cost.

[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.

Text in three columns. A single issue, pp129-144, sewn as issued in orig. brown printed wrappers. Exceptionally well-preserved in custom-made double slip-case. 'Mrs. Joseph Porter' was the very first of Dickens's stories to be printed in America, appearing in the March issue of The Albion. Here it is printed without acknowledgement or permission, identified only as 'from the London Monthly Magazine'. Though not the first American edition, this does, nevertheless, represent a very early pirated example of Dickens in America, in first rate condition. Its earliest appearance in book form was as the thirteenth chapter in Volume II of the first series of Sketches By Boz (1836).

First edition. First edition. [iv], 208; [iv], 208 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary three-quarter calf, marbled boards. Upper board detached but present, spine chipped. Internally about fine [iv], 208; [iv], 208 pp. 1 vols. 4to.