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Published by Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1860
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Complete and original issue near fine in wrappers.
Published by Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1865
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with light edgewear. The text pages have a light dampstain, but the wrappers do not. Holmes contributes "No Time like the Old Time" followed by Taylor's "The Author of 'Saul'", and Longfellow's "Noel".
Published by Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1867
First Edition
1/2 leather. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 764 pages; 1867 Ticknor & Fields, Boston. Volume 20 collects six monthly issues from July - December, 1867. Snugly bound in black half leather backed spine and corners with titles and decorative horizontal rules brightly in gilt to spine. Contents page at front. Just mild toning to the page stock and occasional foxing and spotting. Bright and solid. VG.
Published by Fields, Osgood & Co., Boston, 1869
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with corner creases.
Published by Each in original printed wrappers, January through December, 1872, 1872
Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.
Each in original printed wrappers, January through December, 1872. Contains Hawthorne's "Septimius Felton", complete in 8 parts; Holmes' "Poet of the Breakfast Table", complete in 12 parts; Taylor's "Diversions of the Echo Club", complete in 7 parts. Generally worn at most edges and spine ends, some issues soiled, three with rear wrappers detached, but two of those are still present. Overall a Good set.
Published by Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1867
Seller: The Wild Muse, Granville, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st. Original paper issue for December, 1867. Published Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. 8vo. wrappers, 6 3/8" x 10", 124pp.+iv+xiv ads, plu 3 tipped in sheets of ads on color paper. Includes: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: The Guardian Angel; BAYARD TAYLOR: By-Ways of Europe: A Visit to the Balearic Islands; THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH: A Young Desperado; JOHN NEAL: A Mysterious Personage; JAMES K. MEDBERY: Our Pacific Railroads; CHARLES J. SPRAGUE: What We Feel. Minor edge fray, chipping to covers, flattened crease to upper corner. Very good plus, clean bright. Size: 8vo.
Published by Derby and Jackson, New York, 1859
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, octavo, brown leather boards, decorated in gilt, with full gilt edge; publisher's decorativebinding. Collection of short stories by prominent authors of the mid-19th century, including William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and others, with 12 engraved portraits of some of the authors. Very good, moderate shelfwear, front spine hinge cracked for 1.5' from the top.
Published by Samuel Hueston, New York, 1855
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Full brown morocco elaborately stamped in gilt on all aspects. xiv+15-505 pages. Forty-eight steel engravings (portraits of the editor and many of the contributors) and engraved title-page vignette. Gilt edges. Some shelfwear, spine extremities and tips rubbed, front endpaper removed, nineteenth-century bookplate, front hinge starting a bit. A very attractive volume that is itself a snapshot of a large segment of the intellectual / literary community in America during the mid-nineteenth century.