Decorative Covers from WellRead Books

Tours: A MAME ET C, IMPRIMEURS-LIBRAIRES, 1856. 8vo; cloth covered boards with gilt decorations and lettering; all edges gilt; hardcover; 482 pages; b&w illustrations; French text; board edge is bumped with rubbing and some foxing else a good, clean copy;.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1900. First edition; 12mo.; brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration, hardcover; xvii, 234 pages with gilt top edge and deckled side and bottom edges; black and white frontispiece; boards are very lightly rubbed on corners and spine ends and the former owner's name neatly written in ink on front endpaper else… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company [ca. 1902]. 16mo; gilt decorated cloth covered boards with pictorial pastedown; hardcover; 233 pages; black and white illustration; former owner's name on free front endpaper; sunned and rubbed boards else a very good clean tight copy.

Philadelphia: Triangle Books/The Blakiston Company (1947). Small 8vo; cloth covered boards; hardcover; 216 pages; tanned pages else a very good clean tight copy in a sunned and edgeworn decorative dust jacket.

NY: Street & Smith, Publishers (1902). 16mo; pictorial cloth covered boards with gilt top edging of pages; hardcover; 180 pages; black and white illustrations; very lightly soiled covers else a very good tight copy.

NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1900. Small 8vo; pictorial cloth covered boards; hardcover; 325 pages; lightly rubbed covers else a very good clean tight copy.

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1906. Second Edition; 8vo; pictorial cloth covered boards with deckle edged pages; hardcover; 378 pages; color and black and white illustrations; "illustrations from photographs taken expressly for this book"; illustrations laid in; decorative designs by Ralph Fletcher Seymour; non-authorial inscription dated X-mas 1906; bumped corners else a very good clean tight copy.

NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. 12mo., blue and red decorative cloth, gilt lettering, hardcover; page edges lightly foxed else a clean tight copy.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Later printing; 12mo.; green decorative cloth covers with gilt lettering on cover and spine and top page edge, hardcover; Cover by Margaret Armstrong; black and white illustrations and frontispiece; boards are lightly rubbed on corners and spine ends else a very clean tight copy.