Category: Antiquarian

View Categories / Antiquarian

Sort

Showing 41-60 of 76

The Song of Hiawatha

By: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL, W. B. Conkey Company: c1900

Seller ID: 027681

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

edge wear to boards, corners bumped, some light soiling, age toning. pages heavily tanned. undated circa 1900. In the summer of 1854, Longfellow wrote in his diary" I have at length hit upon a plan for a poem on the American Indians, which seems to me the right one and the only. It is to weave together their beautiful traditions as whole." What emerged the next year was "The Song of Hiawatha," a composite of legends, folklore, myth, and characters that presents, in short, lilting lines (who can forget "By the shore of Gitche-Gumme/ By the shining Big-Sea Water"?) the l...
View More...

The Magee Readers Book One

By: Magee, Anna F.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston, Ginn and Company: 1916

Seller ID: 029949

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

edge wear, corners bumped, light soiling to boards; 2 color ink and designs on front board; many interior illustration in color and b&w. some b&w illustrations hand-colored by a previous owner (child). pages worn lightly, a couple corners torn without affecting text. Beginner reader featuring songs, stories and poems.
View More...

American Education, Its Principles and Elements: Dedicated to the Teachers of the United States

By: Mansfield, Edward D.

Price: $29.00

Publisher: New York, A. S. Barnes & Co.: 1851

Seller ID: 028822

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

spine chipped at tips, edge wear to boards, corners bumped, embossed brick red boards, gilt spine lettering; foxed throughout; 1" round stain (oil?) through first 30 pages;
View More...

Reveries of A Bachelor or A Book of The Heart

By: Marvel, IK.; Mitchell, Donald G.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry Altemus: 1894

Seller ID: kb004855

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Facsimile signed and inscribed by the author Donald G. Mitchell (aka IK. Marvel); Inscription reads '' -- as much truth in them as in most Reveries'' There is a second (handsigned) signature under Mitchell's but I am unable to work out the name from it... Condition: book block is clean and tight with a small amount of yellowing; boards are a bit rubbed, corners bumped. spine edges a worn - particularly at the ends. Bottom edge of spine has a 1/4'' piece of cloth missing.
View More...

Multitude and Solitude

By: Masefield, John

Price: $9.00

Publisher: London, T. Nelson & Sons: c1910

Seller ID: 029908

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

front hinge split, some soiling and rubbing to boards, corners bumped; 4th novel from British Poet Laureate.
View More...

The Sherrods

By: McCutcheon, George Barr

Price: $5.99

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1903

Seller ID: 021905

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

343 pages; rubbing to extremities, front board illustration is faded, corners bumped;
View More...

Songs and Rhymes for the Little People

By: Morrison, Mary Whitney

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page and Company: 1912

Seller ID: 029899

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

hinges split, edge wear to boards and spine tips, corners bumped. illustrated in b&w. 2 illustrations loose from binding;
View More...

Practical Etiquette

By: N. C.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Chicago, A. Flanagan: 1881

Seller ID: 029152

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

light soiling and light rubbing to pebbled red cloth boards, corners bumped, light edge wear, gilt titles, decorative endpapers; "A Sensible Guide to Good Manners for All People"
View More...

Civil Government for Common Schools: Prepared as Manual for Public Instruction in the State of New York

By: Northam, Henry C.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Syracuse, NY, C. W. Bardeen: 1883

Seller ID: 022162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

185 pages; very heavy edge wear and rubbing, binding loose;
View More...

Dikes and Ditches: Or Young America In Holland and Belgium; A Story of Travel and Adventure

By: Optic, Oliver; Adams, William Taylor

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard: 1870

Seller ID: kb019290

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

346 pages; spine cloth heavily sunned and worn, beginning to separate. Boards edge-worn, corners bumped; binding loose; Optic (Adams) wrote nearly 100 novels for boys, most in short series (4-6 titles). This volume, Dikes and Ditches, is fourth in the "Young America Abroad" (first series.)
View More...

The Right of Way

By: Parker, Gilbert

Price: $3.99

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1901

Seller ID: 039863

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

heavy edge wear to boards, spine tips frayed, rubbing, scuffing;
View More...

Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West

By: Parrish, Randall

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, A. L. Burt Company: 1907

Seller ID: kb018482

Condition: Good

341 pages; corners bumped, edge wear, some soiling to spine cloth; color frontis by Wyeth. beige cloth boards with color decorations.
View More...

Melba's Gift Book of Australian Art and Literature

By: Peterson, Franklin (editor); Melba, Nellie

Price: $28.00

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: nd circa 1915

Seller ID: kb013371

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

123 pages; Published on behalf of the Belgian Relief Fund. Heavily illustrated with tipped in color plates, B&W line drawings, wood cuts, engravings and photographs accompanying stories and poems. Conceived by and with an introduction from Nellie Melba, one of the greatest of the 19th century vocalists for whom Peach Melba and Melba Toast were created and named. Age toning opposite color plates, some foxing throughout. binding is somewhat loose, rubbing to extremities, corners bumped.
View More...

Out of Step: A Novel

By: Pool, Maria Louise

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1894

Seller ID: 028702

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

front hinge cracked, edge wear, corners bumped;
View More...

Hot Corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated. Including the Story of Little Katy, Madalina, the Rag-Picker's Daughter. Wild Maggie, &c

By: Robinson, Solon

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, De Witt and Davenport: 1854

Seller ID: 039913

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

strictly a reading copy. all pages and apparently all engravings present. staining to various and sundry pages (most have at least some staining but all are readable.) Heavy edge wear to boards, heavy rubbing, cloth split in various areas including hinges - binding nevertheless still holding well.
View More...

Sesame and Lilies

By: Ruskin, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Wilmore-Andrews Publishing Co.: 1882

Seller ID: kb019156

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

244 pages; Mayflower Series. beige cloth with red and silver decorations/letter in front board and spine; corners bumped, some edge wear, soiling to boards;
View More...

A Literary Scrapbook 1924-1928 containing poems and illustrations by Wyeth, Sandburg, Guest, Frost, Browning

By: Scrapbook

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Unknown: c1929

Seller ID: 027682

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

An original scrapbook assembled by an unknown hand using a Looseleaf English Notebook of Current Literature binding. The "notebook" is a looseleaf binder intended to house handouts on current literature for students in the 1920s. This one was co-opted as a scrapbook of poetry and illustrations from periodicals in the late 1920s. Many N. C. Wyeth illustrations, poems and color & B&W illustrations - Robert Frost, Edgar Guest, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Carl Sandburg and many more. newspaper clippings are yellowing, the softcover binding is edge-worn. approximately 25 pages;
View More...

The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore

By: Seton, Ernest Thompson

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page & Company: 1913

Seller ID: 029893

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

binding shaken; significant rubbing and some soiling to boards and spine cloth. green cloth with moose decoration on cover, bobcat on spine. with over 500 drawings by the author. 567 pp;
View More...

Referees and Sheriffs Fees in the State of New York

By: Sheehan, Simon Garrett

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Rochester, NY, Williamson Law Book: 1893

Seller ID: 034620

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

edge wear to boards and spine tips, some light scuffing and soiling to boards; 48 pages; Referees and Sheriffs Fees in the State of New York Exclusive of the City and County of New York AND In the City and County of New York. A brief treatise on what fees are allowed referees appointed to sell real property and the circumstances of law.
View More...

Image for Christian Herald Library 10-Volume Set + 5 Bonus: the Children's Portion; Readings & Recitations for Winter Evenings; a Budget of Christmas Tales; a Book of Golden Deeds of all Times & all Lands; The Golden Treasury of Texts for Every Day of the Year; How to Behave & How to Amuse: a Handy Manual of Etiquette & Parlor Games; Hand Book for American Citizens; Or, Things Every Patriot Should Know; How to Get on in the World; Or, a Ladder to Practical

Christian Herald Library 10-Volume Set + 5 Bonus: the Children's Portion; Readings & Recitations for Winter Evenings; a Budget of Christmas Tales; a Book of Golden Deeds of all Times & all Lands; The Golden Treasury of Texts for Every Day of the Year; How to Behave & How to Amuse: a Handy Manual of Etiquette & Parlor Games; Hand Book for American Citizens; Or, Things Every Patriot Should Know; How to Get on in the World; Or, a Ladder to Practical

By: Shoppell, Robert W; B. J. Fernie; Charles Dickens; Charlotte M. Yonge; Louis Klopsch; G. H. Sandison; Henry Mann; Major A. R. Calhoun; T. De Witt Talmage; Mark Twain, Et Al

Price: $120.00

Publisher: New York, Christian Herald: 1895

Seller ID: 032869

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Christian Herald Library. Complete 10 Volume Set: the Children's Portion; How to get on in the World or A Ladder to Practical Success by Major A. R. Calhoun; Readings and Recitations for Winter Evenings compiled by B. J. FernieThe Book of Golden Deeds of All Times and All Lands by Charlotte Yonge; A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and others; Capital Stories by American Authors (Twain, Hawthorne, Irving, Barr, etc.); Handbook for American Citizens or Things Every Patriot Should Know by Henry Mann; The Children's Portion selected and edited by Robert W. Shoppell; Parlor Amusements...
View More...

$0.00 (0 Items)

Category: Antiquarian