Item #0601
Antique (pre-1903) Books
 
 
 
0601. Edmond Rostand. L'Aiglon: A play in Six Acts. NY: R.H. Russell, 1900 1st amer. edition. VG some edgewear and fraying blue boards, beautiful gold embossed cover, deckled edges 8vo Translated from French by by Louis N. Parker $20. USD 

0602. Franz Von Loher & Mrs. A Batson Joyner. Cyprus, Historical and Descriptive. London: W. H. Allen & Co. 1878. Good.  Adapted from the German of Franz von Loher with additional matter by Mrs A. Batson Joyner. With 2 maps.Fold out map present and intact a tear has been repaired with archive docment tape. Library Sticker to front board (Nudie's Select Library). Wear to boards, extremities. $500. USD

0603.Evelyn Whitaker.(Anonymous on Title Page) Lil. Roberts Bros. Boston 1891 16mo. 301pp. Green decorated cloth hardcover with slight spine endwear and corner bumps and a small stain on cover. Slight endpaper foxing. A Near Very Good copy  $15. USD 

0604. Capt. George B. Herbert. The Popular History of the Civil War in America. N.Y.: F. M. Lupton, 1885. Second printing, Good with toning, rubbingHinge crack and previous owner's Signature and address.  $15.USD 

0605. J.G.Holland.Seven Oaks  N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894 Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Scarce reprint of 1875 original $15. USD 

0606. C. J. Cutliffe Hyne. Thompson's Progress.  London: Grant Richards, 1902. Good First Edition binding loose but still sound. Precedes both Nelson and Macmillan editions. $30. USD 

0607.  John Frost. A History of the United States for the Use of Schools and Academies. Philadelphia:  Charles Desilver, 1860. Second edition of a text used throughout the nineteenth century, Very Good with some scattered foxing. $25. USD

0608.Louis Fasquelle. A New Method of Learning the French Language.  New York: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. 1879.  Cloth. Good/No Jacket.  New York: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. 1860  Cloth. Good. Minor scorring on end papers; minor foxing. Brown cloth with black spine, gold lettering spine. $10. USD

0609.  William Garrot Brown. A Gentleman of the South.  New York: Macmillan, 1903. First edition./ Limited 76/100, specially bound for presentation in yellow silk top edge gilt, large paper edition preceding first trade. very good with some minor chipping to spine label/ $100. USD 

0610. Reuben Post Halleck. Psychology and Psychic Culture.  New York, Cincinnati and Chicago: American Book Co. (1895)  A very good copy with a rubbed spine. $10. USD 

0611. George Du Maurier. Trilby. New York Harper & Brothers Publishers 1894.Good-/noDJ Light wear, cover soil, spine darkened, front hinge start, previous owner's bookplates. no DJ 464pp Gilt highlighted cover decor of spider's web. Illustrated by Author. 1st US edition. $25. USD 

0612. Thomson Jay Hudson. The Law of Mental Medicine.   Chicago  1903  HB  Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903. Very Good. 2nd printing some staining to cover and previous owner's signature and address. $25. USD 

0613. W. F. Johnson. Poco A Poco. Akron, OH: The Saalfield Publishing Co., 1902. Very good First Edition in green decorated cloth illustrated byW. H. Fry. $15.USD 

0614. John Ruskin.Sesame and Lilies. Lovell Coryell, New York. Undated (c.1890). Pirated edition no copyright. Navy blue cloth stamped with gilt on the front and spine, headband. 12mo. Lightly rubbed at the extremities. $10.USD 

0615.  Albion Tourgee. Bricks without Straw. New York  Fords, Howard, & Hulbert  1880  First Edition  Decorative Cloth  Very Good with spine fade and edgewear. $25. USD 

0616. Mrs. Gaskell. Cranford. Boston: L.C. Page, 1898. Hard Cover. Front hinge start else VG/No Jacket.  $10. USD 

0617. G. C. Tenney . Journeys by Land and Sea. Chicago,Battle Creek & London. International Tract Society.1895. First edition. Very Good . $10, USD 

0618. Edgar Allen Poe. Tales. Leipzig: Berhard Tauchnitz, 1884. Edge worn, but binding is tight will not lie open flat. Overall Near Very Good. $125. USD 

0619. Alfred Ollivant. Bob Son of Battle. NY: Doubleday & McClure 1898. Badly damp staioned but solid tight readable copy. No DJ 356 Pages. FIRST EDITION $25. USD 

0620. F. L. Nason. The Blue Goose.  NY: McClure Philips & Co. 1903. Very good first edition with previous owner's bookplate and gift card laid in. $20. USD 

0621. William Taylor. Our South American Cousins.  NY/London: Nelson and Phillips/Hodder and Stoughton, 1878. Very Good first edition with spine frays. $25. USD 
 
0622.  Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley).  Samantha at Saratoga. Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1887 Hard Cover. Good /No Jacket. First Edition.  Bumped Corners, Bumped Spine (Top and Bottom), tear Front free page, slight foxing on the edge. Illustrated by Frederick Opper $25. USD 

0623. E.A.Andrews and S, Stoddard. A Grammar of the Latin Language. ; for the Use of Schools and Colleges.  Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1866. Original brown binding, skimmed leather spine. Covers slightly warped. Tight and complete. GOOD Once the standard text in this area. $15. USD 

0624.  Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley).  Samantha Among the Brethren. Funk & Wagnalls 1890 1st ed. G hardcover, no DJ.Edgewear,  Feels a little loose, . previous owner's sig ffp $20. USD 

0625. Mark Hopkins. An Outline of the Study of Man. NY: Scribners, 1889. A Very good copy of the first revised edition of the 1878 original. $35. USD

0626. Abby Sage Richardson. Familiar Talks on English Literature. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg and Co., 1884. Fourth Edition Very Good with some toning and bottom spine fray. $15. USD 

0627. J. W. McGarvey. New Commentary on Acts of the Apostles. CinCinnati:   Standard, 1892 . Original Two volume edition hinge crack in volume One overall good foldout map intact in Volume 2. $25. USD 

0628. Amber. Rosemary and Rue. Chicago and New York: Rand McNally, 1896. fep ripped out else VG. Intro by Opie Read. Poetry and advice from America's first "sob sister" "Her column held the news of the heart". Sort of an antique Anne Landers. $75. USD 

0629. William M. Taylor. The Boy Jesus and Other Sermons. New York: A.C. Armstrong, 1893.  Very Good First Edition  with spine frays and sticker residue to spine. $25.USD
 
 0630. William Godwin. Deloraine. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1833 First American edition Volume two of two Fair lacking fep.  $15. USD 

0631. Harriet Hubbard Ayer. Harriet Hubbard Ayer's Book New York: Home Topics Book Company, 1899. Patterned Green cloth lettered and decorated in still bright gilt. A Very Good copy of a scarce original. $65. USD

0632. J.H. Bates. Christian Science and it's Problems. NY / Cincinnati: Eaton & Mains / Curts & Jackson, 1898. NVG/ No DJ. 1st edition with edgewear. $25. USD 

0633. J. W. Brodie- Innis. True Church of Christ. London, NY, and Madras: Theosophical Publishing Society/The Path, 1892. VG/ No DJ age toning about Good with stamp of the Bristol Lodge of the Theosophical Society on Title page. $125. USD 

0634. Bret Harte. Sally Dows and Other Stories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1893. First edition, state "B" (with blank leaf at the end.) Cracked hinges, age toning anshelf wear. Good/ No DJ $20. USD 

0635. Pansy (Mrs. G. R. Alden). Ester Reid Yet Speaking.   Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, (1884). A "Pansy Books Series" edition  in Good condition $15. USD

0636. Gen. Garfield from the Log Cabin to the White House.  Chicago:  Rhodes & McClure, 1881  First Edition  Decorative Cloth  Good Original green cloth. $15. USD
 
0637. Franklin B. Gardner. The Painter's Encyclopedia.   New York: M. T. Richardson, 1887.  Good with a broken hinges and rubbed with scattered foxing. $50. USD 

0638. James Whitcomb Riley.  Pipes O' Pan at Zekesbury.  Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Co., (1888). A Very good copy in green cloth with still bright gilt. $15. USD 

0639. Charles Foster Kent. A History of the Hebrew People V. 2 From the Division of the Kingdom to the Fall of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. NY:  Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. First Printing of the Second Volume of this standard history. Maps and charts intact, good with some edgewear and rubbing. $45. USD 

0640. Paul Laurence Dunbar.  Poems of Cabin and Field. New York:  Dodd, Mead & Co. 1899. Very Good.Ex-Library.Library binding worn at top of spine.Small raised stamp on title page.Illustrated by photographs supplied by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Decorations by Alice Morse.First Edition.Text and binding tight and clean.Illustrated by Alice Morse. $125. USD 

0641. Alfred Tennyson. Gareth and Lynette. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872.  first US edition, with illustrations, frontispiece portrait, light foxing, corner bumps and spine sunned. conclusion of The Idylls of the King $45. USD 

0642. Rev. Charles Cuthbert Southey (ed.). The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey.  NY, Harper, 1851. Rebind in 1/2 Leather now cracking. Intact interiorally including steel engraved frontespiece with scattered foxing  Good $35. USD 

0643. Margaret Sherwood. Daphne. Boston  Houghton Mifflin  1903  First Edition  First Printing  Very Good with a damp stain uneffecting text rubbing  and edgewear.  $12. USD  

 
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