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LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1858 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 294 Language: English.

LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1856 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 316 Language: English.

Hardcover. First edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858. 12mo. 276 pages, plus [4] pages publisher's ads at rear. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt on spine, and with gilt and blind rules on covers; yellow-coated endpapers. [19.4 cm.] Good only. Head of spine chipped to headband; shallow chip to cloth at base of spine and exposed paper colored to match cloth; wear to hinges and corners; tiny hole to rear hinge; some faint spotting to boards. Early owner's lightly penciled inscription on front endpapers: "Annie H. Stephens, Baltimore, Sept. 27, 1863." Corner chip to front free endpaper. Moderate foxing to title. Perhaps two dozen other pages similarly affected; the rest with only light scattered foxing. Slight wrinkle to some leaves along gutters. Mesh starting to show between two leaves, but signatures holding well and binding otherwise sound. FIRST EDITION. The author's third book, a diverting account of his travels in Italy, Austria, and France. Much of the work is devoted to De Forest's effort to find relief from his health problems by seeking the water cure in the spas of Graefenberg (in present day Czechoslovakia) and Divonne (in eastern France). There he "found eccentric characters. The water sanitariums of Europe were apparently among the habitats of quaint humanity and . De Forest wittily captured some of these human oddities." --Light, "John William De Forest," p. 45. One chapter describes other unusual treatments he encountered in Graefenberg, including the "curd cure," the "straw cure," and the "wine cure," and another chapter discusses an experience with Mesmerism in Divonne. There is also a narrative of life in Florence, where De Forest spent a long, pleasurable sojourn, and descriptions of his visits to Venice, Rome, and Paris. In Florence, "he frequented the best restaurants, listened to Verdi's music, attempted to translate `The House of the Seven Gables' into Italian, and collected tales of Italian religious superstitions. A stay in Paris excited no rhapsodies, but provoked some Yankee satire from this early innocent abroad." --Gargano, "Critical Essays on John William De Forest," p. 7. John William De Forest (1826-1906) is best known for his first novel, "Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty" (1867). Smith, American Travelers Abroad, D35. BAL 4602.

Hardcover. First edition. New York: Dix, Edwards, & Co., 1856. 12mo. [viii], 285 pages plus [8] pages publisher's ads at rear dated Sept. 1, 1856. Original embossed dark purple cloth with gilt-stamped spine. [18.5 cm.] Spine sun-faded and with shallow chips to ends, light spotting to cloth, wear to corners with small areas of the boards showing. Light scattered foxing. Good plus. FIRST EDITION. The author's second book. Scarce in the trade. A sometimes humorous account of De Forest's travels in Ottoman Syria in the 1850's. Unlike many contemporary Western accounts of the Holy Land, the book emphasizes realistic descriptions of daily life, rather than observations of ancient relics, and the author is plainly critical of pilgrims and their reverence for sacred monuments. De Forest first visited Syria for health reasons in the 1840's and later returned to spend several years with his brother, a missionary. He includes descriptions of Smyrna, Rhodes, Beirut, Mount Lebanon, and Jerusalem. "One of the more entertaining nineteenth-century American treatments of the Middle East." --Brian Yothers, Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, p. 88. "A pleasantly written book descriptive of persons and scenes encountered in his travels." --Smith, American Travelers Abroad, D36. John William De Forest (1826-1906) is best remembered for his first novel, "Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty" (1867). BAL 4600.

12mo. xii, 208 pp. Frntsp. Blue cloth, gilt lettrng (vry slght shlfwr), an excellent 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 of this exceedingly scarce collection of poetry by the noted American author -- praised by William Dean Howells as a writer of realistic fiction, and best known for his Civil War novel, Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty. The first half of this book is devoted to an epic poem recalling the author's service during the Civil War.

12mo. xii, 206 pp. Frntsp. Dark green cloth, red lettrng (vry slght shlfwr, mnr spttng, slght toning to interior), still a 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 of this exceedingly scarce collection of poetry by the noted American author -- praised by William Dean Howells as a writer of realistic fiction, and best known for his Civil War novel, Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty.

hardcover. Etat : Good. with white paper dustjacket Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

12mo, pp. [i-v] vi [misnumbered "iv"] [7] 8-521 [522: blank] [523-528: ads], double flyleaves at front and rear, original lavender bevel-edged cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, brown coated endpapers. First edition. The first realistic novel of the American Civil War, written by a veteran who recruited a company, the Twelfth Connecticut volunteers, and served through the war. "There is little glamour in MISS RAVENEL'S CONVERSION . it is war in its sordid reality, with no attempt to conceal the inefficiency and corruption that prevented so long the success of the Union forces . Long before Stephen Crane's RED BADGE OF COURAGE, De Forest had pictured the real feelings of the troops with a more authentic knowledge and with fewer journalistic touches . The work of . De Forest ., perhaps the most truly a realist of the novelists who began to write in the early 'fifties, has not been accorded its proper significance, except by William Dean Howells, and his novels are now difficult to obtain." - Quinn, American Fiction, pp. 166-8. BAL 4605. Wright (II) 709. Cloth faded, light wear at spine ends and corner tips, small chips from rear free endpaper and last flyleaf, a very good copy of an elusive book. (#131334).