Payson willis (36 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. 1st Edition. Sm 8vo, vi + pp186 with 6 plates by Birket Foster ("Scott farm" and "the little tambourine player" are sadly missing). Hardcover no dust jacket. Original dark blue cloth binding with gilt titles and design to front board and spine with dentelles in good condition with a little rubbing to spin…

First Edition. 8vo, pp. vi, 312. Maroon cloth. Ex library, with bookplate and stamps, owner's name on blank. Cover faded, and worn at spine and corners, a little foxing, rear hinge just beginning tender at top, o/w a VG copy. Essayist and novelist, Parton (1811-1872) was born in Portland, Me. She wrote for The Mother's Assistant…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked green buckram, blind-bordered panels; edges very slightly dust-toned and somewhat worn as with age. Minor scattered marginal foxing. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 312 pages; Description: 312 p. Subjects: Ginger-Snaps - F.…

Etat : Good. At head of title: "Twentieth Thousand" and beneath title "with original designs by Fred M. Coffin." First ed. 1853; 400 p., clean and unmarked--not ex-lib., no former owner's name--small bookstore label on upper corner of paste-down and one small ink spot on upper corner of blank front end page; many lovely engravin…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked green buckram, blind-bordered panels; edges very slightly dust-toned and somewhat worn as with age. Minor scattered marginal foxing. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 312 pages; Description: 312 p. Subjects: Ginger-Snaps - F.…

Hardback. Etat : Very Good. Third Edition, Revised. 8vo about 1853, pp 337. Original publisher's green cloth deccorated gilt leaves & in blind, vignette title page & 5 engraved plates by Fred M. Coffin. First book by first American woman newspaper columnist, proto feminist originator of the saying "The way to a mans heart is thr…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Auburn and Buffalo: Miller, Orton & Milligan; Thirty First Thousand (1854). 298 pages + Ads. NEARFINE Hardcover, no dj. Embossessed all over Gray cloth Decorated with Gilt stamping and lettering. Very light rubbing and soiling to the cover. Clean Unmarked Interior Excellent bi…

Front., (8)pp ads. Orig. red cloth, blocked in blind, front board dec. & lettered in gilt. Presentation inscription on leading f.e.p. December 1860. 64pp. This title not on Copac; the first appearance of 'Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio' was in 1853. The other titles in 'Knight's Juvenile Library' are The Lost Lamb, Margaret…

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. First edition. A collection of short stories from the American children's writer and columnist, Fanny Fern, with illustrations from Birket Foster The first UK edition.Illustrated by Birket Foster with a monochrome frontispiece, illustrated title page, and six monochrome plates.This volume features a coll…

First edn. 12th thousand. 8vo, pp. 400. Little worn and dusty publisher's cloth, some foxed, lacks front free e.p., a good copy. Born in Portland, ME., Parton (1811!72) was educated at Catherine Beecher's seminary and later wrote for The Mother's Assistant. The articles were collected into the present volume, which was a runaway…

Tinted front. & engr. title (with imprint of Ingram, Cooke & Co.) & plates, final ad. leaf. Lacks leading f.e.p. Orig. olive green morocco cloth, attractively blocked in blind & gilt, lettered in gilt; spine sl. faded, small nick at head of leading hinge. Moral and religious tales, attractively illustrated by Myles Birket Foster…

Original Cloth. 1st Thus. 13 x 8 cm., xvi, 381 pp. With 32 pp. catalogue of books. No date - date 1878 taken from inscription on front end paper. The additional sketches (all very short) are Mary Lee; Self-conquest; Thorns for the Rose; Thanksgiving Story; The Little Pauper; Little Charley; The Test of Love. The book is covered…

First edn. 8vo, pp. 400. Little worn and dusty publisher's cloth, some foxed, a good copy. Born in Portland, ME., Parton (1811!72) was educated at Catherine Beecher's seminary and later wrote for The Mother's Assistant. The articles were collected into the present volume, which was a runaway best seller. A second volume appeared…

43rd thousand. 8vo, pp. 400. Little worn and dusty publisher's cloth, some foxed, a good copy. Born in Portland, ME., Parton (1811!72) was educated at Catherine Beecher's seminary and later wrote for The Mother's Assistant. The articles were collected into the present volume, which was a runaway best seller. A second volume appe…

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Etat : Good. 1st Edition. 1853 on tp and cp. No other printings noted Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Top edge gilt in good condition. boards a bit rubbed/worn. Illustrator: Fred M. Coffin. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Pictures of this item not already displayed her…

LeatherBound. Etat : New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1857 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…