Search Results: The Life and Letters Of Washington Irving - Vol … by Pierre Irving

New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1869. Book. Fine. Cloth. Three volumes in duodecimo (12mo), kelly green cloth covered beveled boards with decorative gilt spine titles Top edges gilt. pp. 442, 438, 425. Each volume with frontispiece portrait engraving of Washington Irving with tissue guards in place. The Author's Revised Edition (Riverside Edition) These volumes are all very nicely preserved with very solid, bright gilt top edges, clear, undimisihed decorative gilt spine titles, fresh green cloth and bright, crisp, clean and unmarked interiors. All volumes so tight as to suggest that they are unread. The tissue guards are all uncreased, untorn and crisp, but each shows a touch of faint foxing with even less affecting the margins but NOT the images of the frontispieces. Volume 2 has a pea sized spot of fading/soil, else fine. No dust jackets. The set Very Near Fine..

G.P. Putnam, NY, 1862. 1st edition. hardcover. Good . Washington Irving (1783-1859) was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and the first to enjoy international acclaim. In addition to his long public service as a diplomat, Irving was amazingly prolific. His collected works fill forty volumes that encompass essays, history, travel writings, and multi-volume biographies of Columbus and Washington. But it is Irving's mastery of suspense, characterization, tempo, and irony that transforms his fiction into virtuoso performances..." [Pub. Info] This biography of Irving was written by his nephew. The volumes are in Good to Very Good condition. [Please check for shipping cost on multi-volume sets and larger format books.]