Tale Jacqueline, Signed (2 results)

Leather_bound. Condition: Fair. 432p. A 3/4 leather hardcover book with marbled boards. Hinges worn but secure; corners and spine ends worn and lightly scuffed. Paper on boards has some dark patches with fine scratch marks. BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY MARY LOWELL PUTNAM on front endpaper; her initials embossed into rear leather panel of the spine, and "Putnam Library" embossed into the front leather panel. Punam Library blindstamp on title page; there are no further ex-libris markings. Tissue protector over frontispiece torn; frontispiece and tissue are loose but remain attached. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. In overall nice shape for its age. From the library of Mary Lowell Putnam, with her signature. She was an American author and the sister of James Russell Lowell. Mary Lowell Putnam's son died in the American Civil War and she established a library in his honor at the National Veterans Home in Dayton, Ohio. The library was founded with books from her library, of which this is one. The Putnam Library was dispersed during renovation of the Home following her death.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. One volume edition (originally published in three volumes in 1831). 12mo. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. Joints professionally mended, slight wear at the spine ends, a handsome very good copy. Inscribed by the author on the front fly: "James Lawson, Esq. with the Author's best regards.".