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Harper & Brothers, 1878. Hardcover. Collectible Very Good. 1st Edition (1878) No marks or writing observed in text. Binding lighlty shaken. Brown boards with red lettering on cover and spine. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.

New York: Harper & Brothers Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. People's Edition. Normal age wear. Bound in dark blue cloth with red lettering..

Harper & Brothers, 1894-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1894. Hardcover, 214 pp. Portrait Edition. Originally published in 13 volumes, this is Volume VI ONLY. Includes: Bunyan by James Anthony Froude, Johnson by Leslie Stephen and Bacon by R. W. Church, Dean of St. Pauls. Each biography includes a black and with portrait illustration of the writer. In good condition / NO dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with cream label on spine. Light bumping to edges of covers and light overall scuffing and soiling. Thin crack at half-title page but binding is still tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks.

London: MacMillan and Co., 1895. Book. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. These are biographies of Scott, Burns & Coleridge. Dark blue covers with gilt lettering on backstrip. Covers are bright, clean and only slightly scuffed. Some foxing on endpapers. Some pencil marks..

London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. Front hinge detatched, Three parts in oneFormer owner's bookplate on fep, tape peeled marbled paper on bep, light wear down the gutters, light foxing or age toning, else clean and tight with marbled endleaves. All edges marbled. Red leather with gilt stamped decoration/illustration on front cover, gitl stamped decoration on back cover and on spine, 5 raised bands, usual rubbing to the edges, corners, and spine. Thackeray is 210pp. Goldsmith is 160pp. Daniel Defoe is 171pp.. Red Leather. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

New York: Macmillan Company, Ltd, 1906. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Volume 2. Near fine in boards as issued with slight scratch to back board.

New York: Macmillan and Company, 1902. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Volume 1. Near fine in boards as issued with slight edgewear.

Macmillan and Co., Limited (London), 1900. Leather Bound. Good. 3/4 leather with No Dust Jacket (as issued). Boards with shelf wear, bumped at corners and spine ends with fraying. Gold gilt to top page edges. Toning to page edges. Decorative marbled to end papers. Pages unmarked. Binding with no separations. Hinges intact.

London: Macmillan and Co Limited, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Reprint. Ex Walsall Municipal Institute Union Library with usual stamps and label. Beige cloth boards with black titles to front and spine. Binding tight. Boards lightly soiled and spine sunned. Content clean and bright. No names, notes or annotations. 131 pp. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.

New York: John Wurtele Lovell , 1881. Edge and corner worn, scuffed and scratched, corners are bumped and rubbed, shelf worn, tear in the top of the spine with a small portion worn away and a small portion worn from the base as well, ffep is missing and former owner's inscription on the sfep, front hinge is beginning to crack, overall a clean used first edition! Wonderfully well-preserved! Decorative brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 479 unmarked and uncreased historical pages. "'I was of a low and inconsiderable generation, my father's house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all families in the land.' 'I never went to school, to Aristotle or Plato, but was brought up in my father's house in a very mean condition, among a company of poor countrymen.' 'Nevertheless, I bless God that by this door He brought me into the world to partake of the grace and life that is by Christ in His Gospel.' This is the account given of himself… Read More

Macmillan and Co, 1879. Minor scuff marks to the binding edges This book has hardback covers. Privately owned, In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:

harper & bros, 1900-01-01. Hardcover. Good.

Coleridge (English Men of Letters Series)Traill. H.D.Macmillan and Co. London, 1884, hardback GD+,from the library of Gordon Wordsworth and signed by him, part of the English Men of Letters series edited by John Morley, 211 pp, red, embossed boards, black end papers. Crease on front board and at corners, spine tanned, pen inscription on title page, binding shaken, one loose page, otherwise pages clean and in good condition. A life and literary critique of Coleridge's work.Literary biography, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge and Wordsworth43254 ANTI/BIOG/C £26.50

MacMillan. Good+. 1895. Hardcover. ; Provenance: This book is from the estate of Michigan Senator Jack Faxon and comes with a letter of provenance. Three quarter tan calf leather is worn and soiled with loss to gilt on spine but overall in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Marbled end sheets and paste downs very good. Foxing to white end papers. Pages are unfoxed, clean and near pristine. .

New York: Harper and Brothers, no Date. cloth, no DW, some volumes show slight signs of wear, VG

New York: Arkell Weekly Company, 1895. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. Portraits With Tissue Guards. Seven Volumes Bound In Matching Quarter Tan Calf, Top Edges Gilt, Marbled Boards And Matching Marbled Endpapers, Spines Elaborately Gilt In All Compartments, Red And Black Morocco Spine Labels. 1895 Date On Title Pages Well Made Books, Good Quality Paper And With Tissue Guards To The Frontispiece Portraits In All 21 Volumes. All Volumes With Only Light Rubbing, A Few Beginning To Fray At Top And Bottom Edges, Joints Cracked Or Starting On All Volumes, One Spine Split Away At Top Half, The Detached Half Laid In Loosely And Repairable, One Spine Coming Loose Along Front Joint But Can Be Re-Glued Without Bindery Work; All Gilt Brilliant, Morocco Spine Labels Clean And Bright. International Postage At Usps Priority Mail Box Rate.

Macmillan, London, 1908. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 7 3/8" x 5 1/8". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Bound in tree-calf leather, gilt-stamped spine and cover decoration with the Hoosac School coat of arms on the front board, marbled text block edges and end papers, bound by Bickers & Son, London, reward of merit on front paste down, inked name and inscription on front flyleaf indicates this book was a reward for the Sanford Prize Essay of 1928. Book includes James Anthony Froude's "Bunyan" published 1908, Edmund Gosse's "Gray" published 1906, and J. Cotter Morison's "Macaulay" published 1903. Corners lightly worn. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 0 oz. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 014783. .

New York/ London: Harper & Brothers, 1901 37 volumes of this standard series on English authors; all in full red cloth with silver titling, black border. Light general wear, pages tanned; very nice. Volumes present: Joseph ADDISON by W.J. Courthorpe; Francis BACON by R.W. Church; Richard BENTLEY by R.C. Jebb; John BUNYAN by James A. Froude; Edmund BURKE by John Morley; Robert BURNS by Principal Shairp; Lord BYRON by John Nichol; Geoffrey CHAUCER by Adolphus W. Ward; Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE by H.D. Traill; William COWPER by Goldwin Smith; Daniel DEFOE by William Minto; Charles DICKENS by Adolphus W. Ward; John DRYDEN by G. Saintsbury; Henry FIELDING by Austin Dobson; Edward GIBBON by James C. Morison; Oliver GOLDSMITH by William Black; Thomas GRAY by Edmund W. Gosse; David HUME by Professor Huxley; Samuel JOHNSON by Leslie Stephen; John KEATS by Sidney Colvin; Charles LAMB by Alfred Ainger; Walter Savage LANDOR by Sidney Colvin; John LOCKE by Thomas Fowler; Thomas B. MACAULAY by J. Cotter Morison;… Read More

London : Macmillan and Co., 1882-1990. Vellum. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". None. A lovely complete set of the first series of the English Men of Letters, across twenty volumes. English Men of Letters was a series of literary biographies written by leading literary figures of the day under the general editorship of John Morley. This set includes thirty nine volumes spread across twenty books, with each including two volumes bound in one apart from Bentley by R. C. Jebb which is on its own. This is a complete set of the first series of these volumes across the twenty volumes. These volumes have been bound together by Hatchards and bound in the following way: Milton by Mark Pattison (1896) and Cowper by Goldwin Smith (1898). Hume by Professor Huxley (1895) and Burke by John Morley (1897). Byron by John Nichol (1894) and Landor by Sidney Colvin, (1888, new issue). Bentley R. C. Jebb (1889, new edition). Shelley by John Addington Symonds (1895) and Keats by Sidney Colvin (1899). Locke by Thomas… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co, 1904. Limited Edition. 12mo. Limited to 1000 copies. The present set is number 68. Each volume contains a biography of each authors life and works along with their various characteristics. Each edited by those whose specialty was of a particular author such as Chaucer, Spencer, Hume, Goldsmith, Johnson, Gray, Sterne, Swift and etal. All bound in 3/4 brown morocco over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers, top edges gilt, a few volumes with light dampstaining, no foxing, From the library of E.C. Converse with his bookplate.