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

Chicago: W. B. Conkey, (1900). First thus edition. c.1858. Art Deco blue decorated cloth. 16mo. pp. 341, [2] ads. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Charming reading copy..

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… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1916. Illustrated by frontis and 3 color plates; b&w frontis. Works edition. c. 1901; c.1909. Two uniformly bound titles from the 10 volume works edition. Green ribbed decorated cloth, teg. 8vo. pp. 413; 644. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Traces of cap and corner wear, overall page toning. Nice, clean and tightly bound reading… Read more about this item

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.… Read more about this item

New York: James G. Reed Publishers, 1851-52. Illustrated by XIII: 6 tissue steel engravings, 4 lithographs and 2 wood cuts, extra illustrated title for Vol. 14; XIV: 6 steel engravings, 6 colored, 2 music (collated). First thus edition. Original red blind stamped cloth, gilt decorated spine and topboad emblem. 8vo. pp. 218; 218. Very Good. Joint repaired, cap chips and… Read more about this item

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)..

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: G. P. Putnam & Co. 12 Park Place (John F. Trow), 1855. Illustrated by Darley engraved frontis separating illustrated (J.W. Opp Sc N) title with tissue. First American edition. c.1854 London. Originally 3/4 leather over marbled boards, endpapers and edges; added cloth backing. Cr.8vo (18.3cm). pp. [2] blank, [vii], 8-383, [3] blank. No Advertisements. Near Fine/No jacket, as… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1907 November). Illustrated by Tissue frontis and 12 plates by Will Vawter, page vignettes and cover by Franklin Booth. First edition. Green ribbed cloth decorated topboard, yellow printed eps. 8vo. pp. [55]. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Traces of cover rubbing. Verse and plates recto throughout. (BAL 16683, Binding A)..

Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. (University Press, John Wilson & Sons, Cambridge), 1902. Illustrated by b/w port frontis with double tissues. Library edition. [c.October delayed until December 1863 Atlantic Monthly]. c.1898, 1900. From "The Works of Edward Everett Hale, Library Edition, Volume 1". Green cloth, gilt pr & dec spine. Signed by author. Inscribed by author (pictured). 12mo (20cm). pp.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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..

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..

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin (The Riverside Press, Cambridge), 1899. Illustrated by Tissue frontis and 7 b/w plates. First Trade edition. Red cloth, stamped in green, black and gilt, teg. Spine with question mark and Houghton Mifflin & Co. at bottom in gilt. Cr.8vo. pp. [xiv], 218, [1] blank, [1] colophon, [1] blank. Good/No jacket. Cap and corner… Read more about this item

New York: The Lamb Publishing Company, (1902). Illustrated by Frontis with caption tissues and additional duotone plates by Frederick Simpson Coburn, vignettes, illuminated first letters. Raven edition. (c.1902 Putnams for introductions and design) Limited to 1000 sets, this set not numbered. 10 volumes. Half brown morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, gilt decorated and printed (works of, title, vol.#) spine, teg,… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

New York: James G. Gregory, Successor to W. A. Townsend (C. A. Alvord), 1864. Illustrated by Double engraved frontis by F.O.C. (Felix Octavius Carr) Darley 1822-88, head & tale vignettes . c.1831 (c.1859 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. 460. Very Good/No… Read more about this item

New York: James G. Gregory, Successor to W. A. Townsend (C. A. Alvord), 1864. Illustrated by Double engraved frontis by F.O.C. (Felix Octavius Carr) Darley 1822-88, head & tale vignettes . c.1840 (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. 530. Very Good/No… Read more about this item

New York: W. A. Townsend (C. A. Alvord), 1861. Illustrated by Double engraved frontis by F(elix) O(ctavius) C(arr) Darley 1822-88, head & tale vignettes . c.1847 US title/(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. 12mo. pp. 474. VG/No jacket, as issued. Slightly sunned spine, bumped… Read more about this item

New York: W. A. Townsend (C. A. Alvord), 1861. Illustrated by Double engraved frontis by F(elix) O(ctavius) C(arr) Darley 1822-88, head & tale vignettes . c.1844 (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. 12mo. pp. 467. VG/No jacket, as issued. Slightly sunned spine, bumped corners,… Read more about this item