Letters from SmarterRat Books

Richard Bentley. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1833 and 1843-4 Richard Bentley, London. Seven volumes with matched late 19th-century bindings. NOT ex-library. First series (3 vols, 1833) is Second edition, Edited by Lord Dover. Concluding series (4 vols, 1843-44) appears to be first edition, no edition stated. Uniformly bound and numbered Vol I-VII on spines. Bindings… Read more about this item

Richard Phillips, 1806. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Fair ; No jackets. 1806 Richard Phillips, London. Three volumes, complete. Bound in full brown leather with speckled surface pattern. Covers have narrow floral gilt borders and gilt tooled edges. Spines have six panels, four with gilt stamped floral ornament. Gilt title on each is on red leather spine label and volume… Read more about this item

Michigan State University Press, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Near Fine ; Very Good Jacket. 2004 Michigan State University Press. SIGNED by editor on half-title page, with a personal inscription. First Edition. First printing. Full number line on verso. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has tan cloth-covered boards with brown spine lettering. Binding tight. Appears to be unread. No visible… Read more about this item

Printed for private distribution, 1875. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1875 Printed for private distribution, printed by H .O. Houghton and Company, Riverside, Cambridge (Mass). First Edition. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has brown cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering and black cover decorations. Black coated endpapers. Tissued frontispiece is pasted-in photographic print.… Read more about this item

Doubleday, Page & Company. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good + ; No jackets. Doubleday, Page & Company. 3 volumes, all marked first edition. Blue cloth binding with gold spine and cover lettering. Top edges gilt. Illustrated with black & white plates. Frontispieces. Corners lightly bumped; some corners a little frayed. Spine of volume 1 has remains of a… Read more about this item

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1901 Charles Scribner's Sons. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has red cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering and decorations. Spine has gold thistle flower pattern in three sections; front cover has gold ruled border. Top page edges gilt. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Black & white frontispiece… Read more about this item

Macrae-Smith Company, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good ; Good Jacket. 1943 Macrae-Smith Company. Seventh printing. Hardcover has black cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering. NOT ex-library. Spanish and English on opposite pages. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. Covers have a few light smudges.… Read more about this item

William Blackwood and Sons, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very Good ; No jacket. 1890 William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. Late 19th-century contemporary binding. NOT ex-library. Binding marked "Birdsall & Son, Northampton" on verso of front free endpaper, along bottom edge. Half-bound in maroon leather with gold ruled borders over maroon, black and gold marbled paper-covered… Read more about this item

Warner Books, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Near Fine ; Near Fine Jacket. LARGE PRINT. 2003 Warner Books - Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition. Contains the complete, unabridged text of the original publisher's edition. Hardcover book has black paper-covered boards and gold spine lettering. Very small smudge on bottom of front cover. Binding tight. Pages clean and… Read more about this item

T. Fisher Unwin, 1914. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1914 T. Fisher Unwin. First Edition. "Presentation Copy" embossed on title page. Hardcover has blue cloth-covered boards with gold stamped spine and cover lettering. Black and white frontispiece. Seven additional black and white plates. Top edges gilt. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Hinges NOT cracked. Binding cracked… Read more about this item

Colonial Press Company. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very Good ; No jacket. Colonial Press Company. Circa 1895. No date stated. Three volumes. Beacon Edition of the Complete Works of Thomas Carlyle. NOT ex-library. Hardcovers have maroon cloth-covered boards with paper spine labels. Deckle fore edges. Top edges gilt. Tissued frontispiece. Tissued black and white plates. Bindings tight. Hinges… Read more about this item