Search Results: By Year Of Issue / 1890s from Books Tell You Why, Inc.

Philadelphia: Hahnemann Publishing House. Very Good. 1891. Hardcover. Very Good condition, little edgewear, previous owner's signature on front pastedown; This book is a compilation of information on various liver diseases and their treatments. It is written by J. Compton Burnett and is a valuable resource for anyone interested in liver health.; 8vo; 186 pages .

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. c1896. First Edition. Hardcover. An attractive, Very Good, limited edition of 400 copies, this being number 179. Book plate to front paste down, ghosting of jacket flaps onto endpapers. Most pages still unopened. In the rare, lightly tanned dust-jacket ; Robert Seymour Bridges was a British poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. The Growth of Love, originally published in 1876, is his first poetry collection, a sequence of sonnets; 8vo; lxxix, [9] pages .

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1898. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. An attractive first edition in original cloth in Very Good+ condition, top edges gilt. In the scarce, lightly chipped and soiled dust-jacket. Issued at $2.00; Gillman's hero is a Syrian peasant and "this is no ordinary romance. It is full of passion and life; ot will appeal to Bible students because it throws light on many interesting Scriptural customs; but even the blasé reader of fiction will not soon forget the character of Hassan." - The Bookman, July 1898; 8vo; [vi], 597, [1] pages .

New York: The A. S. Barnes Company. Good. 1896. Anniversary Edition. Cloth. Later edition in Good condition with previous owner's inscription to front free end paper, rubbing to extremities, front hinge starting, and scattered pencil markings and marginalia without dust-jacket (as issued). Laid in are fourteen old post-cards depicting art masterpieces such as the Madonna del Granduca by Raffaello, Il Redentore by Leonardo da Vinci, and David by Michelangelo. [iii] iv-v [vi-vii] viii [ix] x-xvii [xviii], [1] 2-394 pages; This book is a history of art for classes, art students, and tourists in Europe. It covers a wide range of artists and art movements, from the ancient Greeks and Romans to the modern era.; 8vo .

Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers. Good+. 1895. Cloth. Good+ condition with some edgewear and soiling to the decorative red cloth boards, aging to the pages, and the body of the book beginning to detach from the spine; The Battle of Bunker's Hill on June 17, 1775, was the first and only major battle of the American Revolutionary War fought in Massachusetts. The Patriot forces, led by General George Washington, were successful in driving the British out of Boston and winning an important victory in the war.; 152 pages .

Paris: Plon-Nourrit & Cie. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. [1896]. First Edition. Cloth. An attractive first edition in linen cloth binding, stamped in green & gilt, blue endpapers, edges stained orange, in the publisher's printed paper dust-wrapper, close to near fine with minor, unobtrusive stain to front panel; illustrated in full color throughout, minute tape repair to one page, the occasional, rather negligible foxing. Quite scarce in dust-wrapper; Boutet de Monvel's masterpiece, "beautifully printed and exquisitely composed; " the author/illustrator is ranked alongside Caldecott & Greenaway "as a major figure in the 19th Century Golden Age of children's book illustration" (Silvie, Children's Books and Their Creators). ; Oblong 4to; 47, [1] pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1892. Hardcover. A fine copy housed in a near fine paper dust jacket. The book itself only has some sunning to the board edges. The dust-jacket does sport some discoloration and soiling with tears to the outer edges; ; B&W Pictures; 8vo; 152 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine. 1892. Hardcover. A near fine copy with some discoloration and rubbing to the fabric of the outer boards. Volume also has some sunned pages; ; B&W Pictures; 8vo; 152 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1896. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A first edition/first printing in Very Good condition, little edgewear and light soiling. Top edges gilt; Lectures on the Council of Trent is a three-volume work by English historian and critic James Anthony Froude. The lectures were delivered at Oxford between 1892 and 1893 and cover the history of the Council of Trent from the perspective of the Protestant Reformers.; 8vo ; 294 pages .

Cleveland New York: International Fiction Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. c1899, [1930]. Cloth. An attractive publication of the International Fiction Libary in Very Good condition, minor staining and foxing, chiefly to endpapers, in little chipped dust-jacket. While copyright stating 1899, this wasn't published until 1930 as indicated by mention of Edgar Wallace's "The Stretelli Case and Other Mystery Stories" and "Silinski Master Criminal" on the dust-jacket ; In November 1887 Kipling was transferred from the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore to the Pioneer in Allahabad. The results were these nineteen articles which can be said to be Kipling's description of life in the semi-independent States of India; 8vo; 254 pages .

Edgewood Publishing Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1892. Cloth. Brown boards with gold lettering is scuffed with corners worn, text is acid toned; A biographical sketch, co-authored with Hon. Murat Halstead; 8vo; 530 pages .

New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1891. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A Very Good- first edition in lightly soiled, original boards. Front flyleaf torn but included, else Near Fine. In the rare, heavily chipped dust-jacket with front and back panel present but separeted. Charmingly illustrated by Miss Almira George Plympton; Following "Bonnie Little Bonibel", "the little Miss Polly of this story would like me to explain to my young readers , that she is 'very own cousin to that Bonny 'Little Bonibel''. I hope Miss Polly will be as warmly welcomed and as well liked as her cousin Bonibel." - from the Mary D. Brine's preface ; B & W Engravings; 8vo; 84, [2] pages .

New York: Longmans, Green, and Co.. Very Good-. 1898. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A first edition/first printing in Very Good- condition, light soiling and rubbing to boards; Arthur Rogers' Men and Movements in the English Church is a study of the various movements that have influenced the English church throughout its history. Rogers examines the Puritan movement, the Anglican revival, the Oxford Movement, and the Catholic revival, among others, and considers their impact on the English church. He provides a comprehensive overview of each movement and its impact on the English church, as well as an analysis of the reasons behind each movement's success or failure. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of the English church, and will be of great interest to students and scholars of church history.; 8vo; 374 pages .

London: Crosby Lookwood and Son. Near Fine. 1894. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A handsome first edition in Near Fine condition, bound in period gilt decorated cloth, minor foxing to page edges. Two color plates and more than two hundred illustrations, especially drawn and engraved for this work. Bound together with Crosby Lookwood and Son 1907 list of works on Agriculture, Farming, Gardening, Land and Estate Agency, Valuation, &c; John Oliver's handbook on Milk, Cheese and Butter, science, properties and production processes, including a chapter on cream and the methods of its separation from milk. John Oliver was the late Principal of the Western Dairy Institute in Berkeley; B & W and Color Illustrations; 8vo; xiv, 362, vi, 8 pages .

London: F. Tennyson Neely. Very Good. 1896. Hardcover. An edition in very good condition with general wear from life on a shelf; ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo .

London: John Lane. Very Good+. 1896. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A first edition in very good+ condition. The covers are dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and detail on the front and spine. There is a 16 pp publisher's catalogue at end of book ; Part of the Bodley Head Anthologies edited by R. H. Case. ; Etchings; 8vo; xxiv, 107 pages .

New York: Villard Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0679415831 . An attractive first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. SIGNED by author Whitney Otto directly on the title page; Now You See Her is Author Whitney Otto's second novel. At the onset of middle age, Kiki Shaw discovers that she is slowly starting to disappear ; 8vo; [xi], xii, [3], 4-303, [5] pages; Signed by Author .

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1928. Hardcover. A bright copy in Very Good condition with cocked spine and page edge soiling in Very Good- price-clipped dust-jacket with chipping, rubbing, and soiling; The book is a comprehensive guide to collecting old English porcelain. It covers the history of the porcelain, types of porcelain, where to find it, and how to identify it. The book also includes photographs and illustrations of examples of old English porcelain.; 8vo; 292 pages .

Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company. Very Good+. 1896. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A charming first edition/first printing in Very Good+ condition with some minor edgewear and bumped corners. There is a previous owner's library stamp on the front pastedown; This novel set in the late nineteenth century provides heartwarming tales of faith and love. Gossip, family failures, and errors in judgement threaten the lives of Ralph Bramlett and Estelle Douglass, but hope is found in the darkest of times; B & W Illustrations; 8vo ; 347 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. c1894. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A Very Good+ first printing (of three) of the first edition, BAL 18917, in tight binding A in the light green cloth. Top edges gilt. Little sunning to boards, mainly along spine (ends). In the rare, illustrated dust-jacket, tanning predominantly to spine, chipped edges with about 1" perished from bottom of spine and parts of rear panel; Originally published in Ladies' Home Journal, in Stockton's series of letters, written by Pomona of "Rudder Grange" to her former mistress, Euphemia, Pomona and Jone travel to England and Scotland. Along the way, Pomona tangles with wild pigs, haymaking, hotels great and small, Pullman cars, comparison-makers, and a Duchess; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; xii, 275, [5] pages .