18th & 19th Century American Fiction
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New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. First edition. Octavo. Original publisher's plum colored ribbed cloth, blind-stamped borders and center diamond shape. [8], 597, [4] pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard intact. Nine plates, printed on recto only, one vignette in text. Four pages of advertisements follow the text.....
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. First edition. Small octavo. [4],289,[3] pp. T.e.g. Marbled endpapers with bookplate of the poet and children's author Eugene Field affixed to the front pastedown four full years after his death. Half crimson pebbled morocco over pink and cream mottled paper boards.....
New York: The Century Co., 1894. First American edition. Octavo. Publisher's original green cloth, gilt lettering and elephant on upper panel, gilt tiger on rear, blindstamped designs, gilt animal vignettes and lettering to the spine. t.e.g. xvii,[3],303,[3] pp. Frontispiece, and 34 illustrated plates. Designated as a "Printers Copy" on front.....
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First edition, second state. Thick octavo. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt-decorated and embossed front board; greige endpapers. [2],624,[2] pp. Illustrated with 316 illustrations by John Harley, Edmund Henry Garrett, and A. B. Shute. Wear to the spine at crown and toe, and fore.....
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899. First edition. Octavo. Cloth and printed boards in black and red. Twenty-five original woodcut illustrations by the author (Q & V are both for Queen Victoria). Ostensibly an alphabet book for the savvy adult. Border and initial letters by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and end.....
[Chicago]: Belford & Co., 1880/81. Later edition. Maroon cloth, gilt stamped titles to upper panel and spine. viii,9-319,[1] pp. Front hinge slightly cracked, erratically printed, yet a very good copy of this pirated edition, the subject of a lawsuit regarding non-copyrighted material by the author; without a dust jacket. Some.....
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1899. Limited edition. Cream-colored card wraps with lapped edges, printed in brown on upper panel and spine. 88pp. Old World Series. First edition, thus; edition limited to 925 on Van Gelder paper. Title page in red and black; ribbon bookmark laid in. About fine, enfolded.....
New York City: Privately Printed, 1927. Decorative paper over boards, orange paper back, spine stamped in black. 36 unpaginated pages, many unopened, glassine dust jacket. Edition limited to 125 copies, this copy unnumbered. Slight loss of color on bottom edge of spine (seems to be transferred to interior of glassine).....