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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Books for Libraries Press Reprint; American Fiction Reprint Series; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 400 pages.

Paper Covered Booklet. Etat : Good. A Good, internally clean, solid 30 page stapled paper-covered booklet. The frontis is foxed.The rear cover has some fold marks.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. [Conduct of life Fiction] xiv, 417 pages. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Library stamps and markings.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Birket Foster (illustrateur). 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 spine and edges. Inside text block detached mostly from spine leaving some pages a little loose. All pages with top edge gilt however are in very good clean condition.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Text is clean. Cover shows obvious wear. Spine ends chipped. Corners rubbed exposing boards. Front interior gutter repaired. Date on title page is 1868.; 355 pages.

Decorative Cloth. Etat : Very Good -. No Jacket. Birket Foster (illustrateur). 1853, 337pp, illus., slight shelfwearw to cover, corners lightly bumped, owner's name to fep, a couple signatures are beginning to pop up, no dj, a few pgs w/ light foxing, otherwise contents clean.

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 and other magazine before collecting her articles in books. She wrote a weekly column for The New York Ledger, which furnished material for her books. "Her work was critical of conventional religion and focused on woman's issues, including the double standard, excessive housework and large families"[Blain p. 367].

hardback, 12mo, vi,186pp, title page and 7 plates by Birket Foster, owner's inscriptions on flyleaf, edges browned and light foxing, glued repairs to inner hinges, gilt-decorated cloth, spine ends and corners bumped and scuffed, Good condition.

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. F. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. (second series), ills by Fred. M. Coffin Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

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 engravings; paper fine quality and strong but foxed; binding firm; blue embossed boards with gilt lettering and ornamentation on spine have moderate wear with some bumping and rubbing.

hardcover. Etat : Acceptable. Cover has moderate shelf wear. Foxing/staining has occurred on the pages. Pages are splitting but remain intact.

hardcover. Etat : good. First. 12mo, original brown cloth, spine ends and edges of corners worn, cloth lightly soiled, scattered foxing, mostly to margins. New York: H. Long, 1855. First Edition A novel.

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. F. 1 Kg.

With Original Designs by Fred M. Coffin. (illustrateur). First Edition, thirty seventh thousand. Very Good (little wear head of spine; little scattered foxing). 8vo., embossed green cloth, stamped in gilt; 400 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. contemporary half-leather over marbled boards, decorated in gilt, leather label, minor rubbing, bright, a nice copy. first edition; 195 pages.

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 through his stomach". Spine ends and corners worn, some foxing throughout, one signature starting ; good to vg copy. Very good.

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 binding and hinges. 6.75"4.6"x1.0". be16335.

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 Jones, The Dairyman's Daughter, Bright-Eyed Bessy and the Gentle Boy all dated 1860-61.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Birket Foster (illustrateur). 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 collection of stories by Fanny Fern, the pen name of Sara Payson Willis. Fern was a popular American novelist, children's writer and columnist, being the highest paid US columnists of her time. The stories in this work were first published in her columns.In the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally smart with fading to the spine and extremities, bumping to the extremities, and the odd mark to the boards. Hinges tender with light spotting to the endpapers and a bookseller's label to the rear. Internally generally firm with only slight strain in places. Pages generally bright with spotting. Very Good. book.

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 best seller. A second volume appeared in 1854 and Parton was offered a weekly column in the New York Ledger, making her the nation's leading woman columnist. Blain notes that her work was critical of conventional religion and that she focused on woman's issues.

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, 1825-1899.

Haarlem, De Erven F. Bohn, 1870, VIII,158 pag., original gilt and blindstamped cloth by D.G. van Bommel, 19,3 x 12,7 cm. = Binding trifle dampstained.

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 in green cloth with gilt lettering and motif on the spine. CONDITION. VG. The pages are clean and tight. The corners, hinges and ends of the spine are rubbed. Owner's name on free end paper.

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 in 1854 and Parton was offered a weekly column in the New York Ledger, making her the nation's leading woman columnist. Blain notes that her work was critical of conventional religion and that she focused on woman's issues.

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 appeared in 1854 and Parton was offered a weekly column in the New York Ledger, making her the nation's leading woman columnist. Blain notes that her work was critical of conventional religion and that she focused on woman's issues.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Etat : Good. Fred M. Coffin (illustrateur). 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 here available upon request. Inventory No: 26018.

Original full burgundy embossed cloth. Spine ends worn / damaged, edges chafed, some minor discolouring, pages partly browned / foxed, else a (very) good copy. Rare first edition of a 19th century American classic. Please see description or ask for photos.

Original full green embossed cloth. Corners worn / damaged, edges a bit chafed, some minor discolouring, else a (very) good copy. Rare first edition of a 19th century American classic. Please see description or ask for photos.

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 perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 277 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: 277.