18th- And 19th-Century Books from Odysseus Books

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1849. Book. Very Good +. Half-Leather. First Edition. First European edition in English. Two-volume set, complete. Both title pages are dated 1849. Author on title pages is "Currer Bell" without mention of Charlotte Bronte. Title pages state "Copyright Edition. In Two Volumes." Original red half-leather fine binding with red-cloth boards. Gilt lettering and decoration on spines with… Read more about this item

New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1872. Book. Very Good +. Cloth. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Five-volume complete set of "Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales, Household Edition." First edition, first printing, with all five title pages dated 1872. Publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering, gilt title blocks with raised lettering and black decoration on spines and black… Read more about this item

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1900. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two title pages dated 1900. One volume in the seven-volume illustrated Haworth Edition of the Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters. Introduction by Mrs. Humphry Ward. "Emma, A Fragment of a Story by Charlotte Brontë" with an introduction by William… Read more about this item

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1900. Book. Very Good +. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two title pages dated 1900. One volume in the seven-volume illustrated Haworth Edition of the Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters. Both novels complete in one volume with a preface and memoir of both authors by Charlotte Bronte and… Read more about this item

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First edition, first printing, with title page dated 1897 and 1897 copyright date. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Gilt edging. Gilt-covered top edge. Frontispiece engraving protected with tissue. 482 pages. In NEAR FINE condition. Bright and clean, tightly bound… Read more about this item

Troy, New York: H. B. Nims, 1886. Book. Illus. by W. H. Bartlett, et al.. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. "A Series of Twenty Steel Line-Engravings by W. H. Bartlett and Others With Descriptive Text by H. P. Willis and Others, Including Poems by American and Foreign Authors." First edition, first printing,… Read more about this item

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1880. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. "One Hundred and Fifty Engravings from the Best Artists." First edition, first printing, as identified by title page dated 1880, with 1879 copyright date. Huge folio-size hardcover bound in dark-brown embossed cloth ornately decorated in gilt on front cover and spine… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1842. Book. Very Good -. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First edition, first printing, in two volumes. Both title pages dated 1842. Copyright 1842. Publisher's original brown cloth binding with tan paper labels on spines. J. Fagan, stereotyper / I. Ashmead and Co., printer. (3) xii + 236 (2) and (2)… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Book. Very Good +. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two-volume complete set. First American edition of Vols. XIII and XIV of the original 27-volume deluxe illustrated Library Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens, with title pages dated 1868. Statement from Charles Dickens on copyright page authorizing this edition… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two-volume complete set. First American edition of Vols. V and VI of the original 27-volume deluxe illustrated Library Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens, with title pages dated 1868. Statement from Charles Dickens on copyright page authorizing this edition dated… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. Book. Illus. by H. K. Browne / G. Cattermole / F. Walker. Very Good +. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two-volume complete set. First American edition, first printing, of Vols. IX and X of the original 27-volume deluxe illustrated Library Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens, with title… Read more about this item

Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1869. Book. Illus. by H. K. Browne. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two-volume complete set. First American edition, second issue, with title pages dated 1869 (first published in 1868 by Ticknor and Fields, which became Fields, Osgood and Co. in 1869). Vols. XIII and XIV of the… Read more about this item

Edinburgh / London: Robert Cadell / Whittaker & Co., 1832. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Vol. 2 only of a two-volume set. "Waverly Novels, Volume 17." First collection of the author's novels under his name. Frontispiece engraving and engraved illustrated title page both dated 1832. Printed for Robert Cadell, Edinburgh, and… Read more about this item

London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co., Shakspeare Press, for John Porter, Bookseller to Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte, 1814. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. "With memoirs of his life and writings by William Mason. To which are subjoined extracts philological poetical and critical from the author's original manuscripts selected and… Read more about this item

London: J. Dodsley, 1768. Book. Very Good +. Full-Leather. First Edition. First edition, first printing, of Thomas Gray's first collected poems. Title page dated 1768. Includes the scarce half-title page. 120 text pages followed by a "Contents" page with 10 titles listed. Three original blank pages precede and one original blank page follows the text. 19th-century signed fine binding by… Read more about this item