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Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company, 1839. First American edition. Illustrated title, frontispiece and floral tail-pieces. 1 vols. 12mo. Green cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine ends chipped, scattered foxing. First American edition. Illustrated title, frontispiece and floral tail-pieces. 1 vols. 12mo. NCBEL 1286 which gives an [1855] date for this work; DNB gives the correct date of 1838 for the first edition

Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1843. Second U.S. edition. Bookplate of Major James Edwards Poore. Pictorial title page hand colored. Also a number of appropriate pencil illustrations added at beginnings of a few poems. Cover shows wear but the copy is still tight and good or better. EXTRA ILLUSTRATIONS

[London] : [Darnton and Clark], 1838. Cloth. Very Good. 6.5" by 4". None . A very scarce copy anthology of poems relating to the natural world written by Mary Howitt. An early edition.Very scarce. Dated 1838 from copies on JISC held by the University of Cambridge Libraries. Mary Howitt was an English poet. She was the author of the famous poem The Spider and The Fly. Some of her works were written in collaboration with her husband William Howitt.Many of her verse and prose was aimed at young people. In the Preface, it states that this work was written for The Christmas Library. Mary Howitt includes a charming piece of information that this work was written in nature. The poems reflect the beauty of the natural landscape. In the original publisher's cloth. Externally very smart. Two small cracks to the front joint. Internally firmly bound. The odd spot on the first and last pages but generally the pages are bright and clean. Contemporary gift inscription to the front pastedown. A small tide mark on… Leer más