Search Results: pages and pictures from the writings by susan fenimore cooper

USA: Castle Books, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Previous owners name and date on fly leaf.

New York: W. A. Townsend and Company, 1861. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. See photos for condition details. Large hardcover. Thick original tooled brown leather boards with decorations filled in black, gilt lettering on all sides. Five raised bands on spine. All exterior page edges gilt. Marbled end pages and front and rear as well as gilt decoration on leather edges of pastedowns. Edges of exterior spine show wear with top edge chipping. Contains high quality steel engravings, illustrated on steel and wood from original drawings. First edition, showing the date 1861 on both copyright and title page. Book interior condition is VG+, pages are toned of the below foxing is present and there are no signatures or bookplates. Unfortunately, front cover detached itself when we were inspecting the book for photographing. Because of this we have lowered the condition down to fair. See photos.

New York, New York USA: W. A. Townsend and Company, 1861. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 8" x 10.3. Good/No DJ. Book is bound in brown, tooled leather with gilt lettering on both front and back covers as well as the spine. The spine has five raised ridges. The front cover has some looseness and there are a number of worn away areas on both covers as well as spine. Corners are bumped. There are marbled pages inside front and back covers. Illustrated on steel and wood, from original drawings. The text block is gilt on all three sides. Interior pages are clean, clear and complete. Book is heavy and extra shipping may be required.

New York: W.A. Townsend and Company, 1861. Professionally rebacked with original spine laid-down, hinges repaired. Blind-stamped cover and spine designs, lettering in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Most pages toned, some foxing occurring, usually peripherally. A large and heavy book of 400 pages. Illustrated throughout with forty steel engravings, seven wood engravings, and 120 head and tail vignettes, many by F.O.C. Darley. Illustrated title-page and frontispiece portrait of Cooper. The full-page illustrations are protected by tissue-guards. A nicely-repaired and preserved tribute to the author by his daughter. See photos. . First Edition. Full Brown Leather. Edges and Corners Worn./No Dust Jacket. Small Thick Quarto.

Palala Press. hardcover. New. 6x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

New York: W. A. Townsend and Company, 1861. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Quarto (10 1/2" x 8 1/4"); in the publisher's full brown morocco binding with an elaborate border stamped in blind to the upper and lower boards, and titling in gilt; raised bands with blind stamping in compartments and titling lettered in gilt; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; there is the beginning of separation (about 1/2") at the top and bottom of the front gutter, though the boards are holding quite well; with 40 steel engravings, including the frontispiece and vignette title page, all protected with tissue guards; there are also vignette engravings on wood. Several leaves have minor off-setting from now removed leaves. ~~Overall, a nice copy of a handsome book. Beautifully illustrated excerpts from Cooper's writings. Very Good binding.

New York: W. A. Townsend and Company, 1861. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto. (2) 400pp. 40 plates. Original brown leather with blind-stamped decorative ruling an tooling, and gilt lettering on cover and spine. Raised bands. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving. Half-title engraving. Decorative and historiated head and end pieces. Seven woodcuts by N. Orr & Co., J. Cox, and J. H. Richardson. "The writings of Mr. Fenimore Cooper... flow from a fountain more copious than any other opened, until now, on the same soil; it is believed that no author this side of the Atlantic has written so fully. A long succession of works possessing merit in themselves, reaching to so large a number, and covering, in their composition, so long a period of time, must always possess a degree of importance which cannot belong to ant isolated book. Each work, in a series of this nature, appears not only in its individual character, but also as a member of a group;..." (S.F.C.) Illustrated with… Read More

USA: Castle Books, 1864. Castle Books 1864 Reprint Fine/Near Fine DJ Reprinted in 1980. Green cloth like boards. Black embossed spine lettering. Slightest shelfwear to upper edges of jacket o/w Fine. Size: 9 1/2 x 7 x 1 5/8 inches. HEAVY ITEM.. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine DJ. No Exp.

New York 1865 James MIller. 4to., 400pp., steel and wood engravings from original drawings, full maroon cloth . All edges gilt. VG, some foxing.

New York: James Miller, 1865. Full dark brown elaborately blind stamped morocco leather with five raised bands and tooled designes on spine. Gilt titling to spine and front cover. All edges gilt. Spine bumped with moderate wear. Endpages inexpertly glued, front board starting. Marginal closed tears to front flyleaf. Numerous full page, tissue guarded steel plate engravings. Spine slightly cocked. Thumbing to a few pages, First pages pulled slightly but still well attached. Overall a GOOD book. Photos available upon request. UncleAndy. Full Morocco Leather. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.