Thomas prentice kettell ed (5 résultats)

Leather. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. 576p. A hardcover book bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards. Good condition overall. Leather is chafed, especially on the spine. Ink drip stain near bottom of spine, Corners of endpapers tanned and owner's signature on front endpaper. All pages foxed and some have spotty stains, but text otherwise unmarked and binding is tight. Volume 20 of the DEMOCRATIC REVIEW, a mid-19th century American periodical of politics, economics, and literature. Contains all monthly issues from January through June 1847. Some notable features include contemporary commentary on the Mexican War; reviews of the novel JACQUES by George Sand (as translated by Anna Blackwell) and of SUPERNATURALISM OF NEW-ENGLAND by John Greenleaf Whittier; and an installment of THE RED ROSE by Alexandre Dumas.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. First Edition. [POLITICS]. Ed. Thomas Prentice Kettell. Contributors: William Leggett, Anne Arundel, Miss St. Hubert, J. W. Shelton, et al. "Two Volumes of the Democratic Review: The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review, Volume VI, Nos. XIX-XVI, July-December 1839, and New Series, Volume XIX, Nos. C-CII, October-December 1846." Washington, D. C.: Langtree and O'Sullivan, and New York: No. 142 Fulton-Street, 1839-1846. First editions. Two volumes. English language. Hardcovers in quarter leather with tips, one volume over boards, the other over black cloth. Two collected volumes of individual Democratic Review magazine issues with articles, essays, poems, reviews, and portraits. 8vos. 9 x 6 and 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. 45 oz. 540 pp, 496 pp. Bindings fragile, leather and boards worn, numerous other issues. Foxing, smudging. Hole in title of one volume. Text clean. Fair. No ISBN. No ASIN. "'The United States Magazine and Democratic Review' was a periodical published from 1837 to 1859 by John L. O'Sullivan. Its motto, 'The best government is that which governs least,' was famously paraphrased by Henry David Thoreau in 'Civil Disobedience.' In 1837, O'Sullivan co-founded and served as editor for 'The United States Magazine and Democratic Review' (generally called the 'Democratic Review'). It was a highly regarded journal meant to champion Jacksonian Democracy, a movement which had usually been disparaged in the more conservative 'North American Review.' The magazine featured political essays, many of them penned by O'Sullivan himself, extolling the virtues of Jacksonian democracy and criticizing what Democrats regarded as the aristocratic pretensions of their opponents. The journal supported the losing effort of Martin Van Buren in the 1840 presidential election, and in the 1844 election, James K. Polk, the eventual winner.". …

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. 572p. A hardcover book bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards. Good condition overall. Leather is chafed, especially on the spine. Ink drip stain near bottom of spine, Corners of endpapers tanned. All pages foxed, but text otherwise unmarked. Small closed tear in rear endpaper. Otherwise, binding is tight. Volume 23 of the DEMOCRATIC REVIEW, a mid-19th century American periodical of politics, economics, and literature. Contains all monthly issues from July through December 1848. Some notable features include an essay by Edgar Allan Poe about the poetry of Estelle Anna Lewis ("The Literati of New-York: S. Anna Lewis") and a review of VANITY FAIR by William Makepeace Thackeray upon its first release as a complete novel (it was originally serialized).…

Full calf. First edition. iv, 572 pp. Illus. with 6 b/w plates. 8vo. Engraved portraits of Jacob Thompson of Mississippi, Emery D. Potter of Ohio, David T. Disney of Ohio, James A Seldon of Virginia, John McKeon of New York, and F. P Stanton of Tennessee. Articles on Mexico, General Lopez of Cuba, Stephen Davis "A History of the Divining Rod; With the Adventures of An Old Rodsman," and more. Inch chip at head of spine, tears to backstrip and front joint, boards scuffed, pencil doodling on front endpapers and a few leaves, scattered foxing and offsetting, still about good. …

Hardcover. Etat : Good + overall. Subjects include the War with Mexico (Mexican American War, p514 - 524), Washington Irving (p488), Railroads (p338), conditions of China (p397 to 410), and Peru (p129) The Mexican War article, titled "Incidents of the War" from Macao by A.H. Everett recommends Captain W. S. Henry's work titled, 'Campaign Sketches of the War with Mexico'. His obituary is printed next to the article. 8vo, 568 pp. Four mezzotint portraits as frontispiece portraits. Full tan calf, title in gilt on black spine compartments. Covers rubbed, some fox spotting at margins of frontispiece portraits.…