Search Results: American Literature from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

Holliston MA: Privately Printed, 1996. Illustrated by photographs. First edition. Copy 90/370 Numbered and Signed . Tan wraps, pictorial gloss cover. Quarto. pp. 275, tipped-in errata slip pp. 275. As New. Unread copy with tiny straightened corner fold. Historical and biographical account of the Breezy Meadow and Gooseville property mentioned in Sanborn's books leading up to its destruction in 1993. Never before published letters, interviews, postcards and archival records from Dartmouth College, Massachusetts and California Historical Societies, Town Halls and Newspapers. ISBN: 0965294900..

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1897. Translated by b/w frontis and title vignette. First edition. c. [August] 1896 Lippincott [magazine]. First issue with "train" omitted from title page. Blue cloth, pictorial top picture in red and black, gilt lettering, teg, uncut. 12mo. pp. vii, 200, [2] blank. VG/No jacket. Some cap and corner rubbing, foxed spot rear ep. BAL 6213..

New York: MacMillan, October 1929. First edition. Green cloth, gilt print, uncut. 8vo. pp. vi, 303, [5] ads. VG-/No jacket. Spine sunned, several board stains yet internally VG, small bookseller ticket. The New York Bartender writing on..

New York: MacMillan, 1903. First American edition. Green cloth, decorated and embossed light green and gilt on spine and top, t.e.g. 12mo. pp. 396, 4 Ads. VG. Light wear to caps and corners, foxing starting. BAL 4218..

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. Illustrated by Tissue Frontis and 26 plates by H.C. Christy, A.I. Keller and others. later edition. c.1901. Sage ribbed cloth, stamped gilt with red topboard"H", uncut, unopened, t.e.g. 8vo. pp. v, [3], 273, [1], [1] blank, [1] Ad (Browning Letters). VG/No jacket. One bumped corner, light cap crushing, short gift inscription, lightly edge darkened pages. (Reprint not in BAL)..

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1899-1902. Illustrated by b/w engraved frontis. (Introduction by Katharine Lee Bates). 2 volumes. Red cloth, quarter black calf, gilt print and decorated spines, t.e.g. 12mo. pp. xix, 302; [16]. VG/No jacket. Near fine internally with edge and cap wear to leather, large heel chip, bookplate of former owner. Includes 8vo pamphlet: House of the Seven Gables Portrait of a Landmark, History and Pictures by Virginia Grilley (1977, [16] pages illustrated wraps)..

New York: W. A. Townsend (C. A. Alvord), 1861. Illustrated by Double engraved frontis by F.O.C. (Felix Octavius Carr) Darley 1822-88, head & tale vignettes . c.1832 (c.1861 from Cooper's Novels, published in 32 volumes). Brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt stamped and decorated spine and topboard, yellow eps, beveled boards. 8vo (22.5cm). pp. 464. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Slightly sunned spine, edgewear, small head chips, torn tissue. Foxed newspaper clipping of George F. Root's lyrics to "Just Before the Battle, Mother", undated in a column entitled Songs of the Civil War laid in on pp. 312-13. [Note: uniform with James G. Gregory binding]..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. First (SD) edition. Decorated tan cloth, B state paper. Globe 8vo. pp. [viii], 445, [1] blank, [8] Ads, [2] blank. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Soiled, streaky spine. Several beginning pages with thumb soil. BAL 2093..

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company (Riverside Press Cambridge MA), (1896). Illustrated by black and red title page with vignette. First edition. State A spine print (CO.). Green decorated cloth. 8vo. pp. [viii], 388. Appendix. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Lightly sunned boards, color armorial bookplate (Spielmann) with several foxed spots, internally near fine. BAL 7928..

New York: Burdick, Reed & Roberts, n.d. [1853 on newspaper backing]. Illustrated by 12 steel engravings facing 12 color flower plates separated by tissue guards. First edition. Red blind stamped cloth decorated gilt, original yellow endpapers. New spine and label on red Japanese kozo with black and gold swirl producing a marriage of 19th and 21st century embellishment. 8vo. pp. 218. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Characteristic of these annuals, combinations of acid free paper signatures mixed with non populated the pages alternately. Frontis plate bound upside down but all 12 steel engravings and 12 color plates present. Foxing on most plates. The publication merged Ladies' Wreath and Family Circle Parlor Annual. The first entry is sheet music Quartet entitled "When the Joys of Youth are O'er"; last entry is poem "Early Memories" by Loomis..

New York: G. P. Putnam & Son, 1869. Illustrated by tail vignettes. First printing of cheap edition. Original green cloth, beveled edges, olive endpapers. 8vo (19cm). pp. [2] blank, [5], 6-256, [4] Ads, [2] blank. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Edgewear, top edge has light fray, overall toning to pages. (BAL 1707 first cheap edition, edges not gilded, ads)..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. Edited by R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis. Illustrated by b/w plates. First American edition. Tan boards, quarter brown cloth printed gilt. 8vo. pp. 654. Writings, Life, Index. Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. A selection of 400 of the surviving 4,000 letters, including some of the 300 believed destroyed to Morton Fullerton. (Postage as 2 books)..

New York: Random House, 1995. Stated First edition. Burgundy boards, quarter cloth, red topstain, uncut. 8vo. pp. [vi], 242, [2] blank, [4] Note on Text, Acknowledgement, Note on author, text and type, [2] blank. As New/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Novel written prior to Little Women 1868, unpublished until now..

New York: Random House, 1995. Stated First edition. Burgundy boards, quarter cloth, red topstain, uncut. 8vo. pp. [vi], 242, [2] blank, [4] Note on Text, Acknowledgement, Note on author, text and type, [2] blank. As New/Near Fine/Clipped price in mylar. Touch of wear at jacket edges. Novel written prior to Little Women 1868, unpublished until now..

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. Stated First (separate) edition. Brick cloth printed gilt. 8vo. pp. liv, 637, tipped-in errata slip. Appendices (4). VG/In like jacket/Clipped price in mylar. Edge foxing starting, jacket has rubs and soiling. "A book of modern critical essays" on jacket title. Fifty critical essays of the previous 20 years including T.S. Eliot, George Satayana, Robert Penn Warren and Crowley's essay on Dos Passos..

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1974. First Separate edition. The Minnesota Library on American Writers (separately published essays). Gray cloth, silver print spine. pp. [iv], 301. Bibliography, Index. Near Fine/VG/No price in mylar. One spot to bottom edge and one spot to top board in rubbed jacket with closed tear and edge wear and shallow chipping. Henry Adams by Louis Auchincloss, William James by Gay Wilson Allen, H.L. Mencken by Philip Wagner, Randolph Bourne by Sherman Paul, Van Wyck Brooks by William Wasserstrom, Kenneth Burke by Merle E. Brown, Reinhold Niebuhr by Nathan A. Scott, Jr. (American Literature)..

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1899). Illustrated by Harrison Fisher frontis and 7 plates. 28th Thousand edition. Decorated cloth by "S". 8vo. pp. 401. Very Good. BAL 6294. One of the three 1899 printings..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, April 1908. First edition. Salmon boards printed black, black quarter cloth. 12mo. pp. 84. Good. Owner stamp, worn boards, pencil notation. Nice reading copy..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin (Riverside Press), (1891). Illustrated by b/w ports. First thus edition. Olive blind stamped cloth, topboard black decoration, spine gilt print. Cr.8vo (19cm). pp. viii, 504. Near Fine/No jacket. Minor cover wear, light end paper toning, internally fine, no ownership or marking. Compiled via school committee as a text-book for reading in the first class (advanced) in the Boston grammar schools..

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987. Edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers. First edition. Blue boards, blue quarter cloth. 8vo. pp. 551. Near Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Light edgewear..