19th Century American Literature from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: Penguin Classics, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Trade paperback. 385 pages. Introduction by Frederick Busch. Penguin Classics reprint. Includes: Billy Budd; Bartleby; The Encantadas; Benito Cereno and The Piazza. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, unmarked copy with… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, dark blue cloth with spine lettered and decorated in gold. 481 pages. Top edge gilt. Volume IX [of 25} in the National Author's Edition of Twain's Writings. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece of the author and two full page… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, dark blue cloth with spine lettered and decorated in gold. Top edge gilt. 315 pages. Volume XV [of 25} in the National Author's Edition of Twain's Writings. Illustrated with frontispiece and two full page plates by… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, dark blue cloth with spine lettered and decorated in gold. Top edge gilt. 424 pages. Volume XIX [of 25} in the National Author's Edition of Twain's Writings. Illustrated with frontispiece and two full page plates by F.B.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcovers, two volumes complete, dark blue cloth with spines lettered and decorated in gold. Top edges gilt. 314 and 319 pages respectively Volumes III & IV [of 25} in the National Author's Edition of Twain's Writings. Illustrated with frontispiece… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, dark blue cloth with spine lettered and decorated in gold. Top edge gilt. 324 pages. Volume XIV [of 25} in the National Author's Edition of Twain's Writings. Illustrated with frontispiece and two full page plates by … Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Westvaco, 1986. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, dark green bind-stamped cloth lettered in silver on spine, housed in original pictorial slipcase. 343 pages. Fabric place marker bound in. Illustrated with 44 steel engravings by F.O.C. Darley. Limited edition, privately printed by Westvaco as a Christmas… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: N. Tibbals , 1869. Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, publisher's green cloth decorated in black and gold. 355 pages. Pale yellow end-papers. Frontispiece. Later printing, 1869, of the title first published in 1866. A novel set in Ireland revolving around the division of Catholic and Protest.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: J.B. Ford & Company, 1876. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, small octavo bound in publisher's red brick cloth over beveled boards, lettered in gold and decorated in black [binding B]. Illustrated with frontispiece, with tissue guard, and 3 additional plates. First American edition, preceded by a British edition a… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1891. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, binding (A) olive green cloth with gold stamping on upper cover and spine, and blind-stamped floral boarder on rear cover. <i-iv>, <1> -319. All edges stained yellow, with manila yellow end-papers. First edition. … Saber más sobre este artículo

Londion: Penguin Books, 1954. Mass market paperback. 384pp., Notes on Further Reading, Index. First paperback edition. An introduction to the main themes and figures of the American literary scene rom colonial times to the present day. No previous ownership marks, no writing or underlining. Some folding to lower corners and text pages toned at margins,… Saber más sobre este artículo

United Kingdom: Wordsworth Classics, 1994. Trade paperback. 210pp., Complete and unabridged. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good or better.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Pocket Books, Inc. Hardcover. Small 12mo, bound with raised maroon faux leather spine over patterned paper covered boards. Spine decorated and lettered in genuine 22kt. gold. Matching patterned endpapers. Collectors edition. 370pp. No name, no book-plate, etc. A clean, near fine copy.. First Thus. Half-Leather. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾"… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hubbard Brothers, Publishers, 1887. Hardcover, pale green cloth printed win black with a variety of characters, and lettered in gold. 575pp. llustrated. No name, no book-plate, etc. A good copy.. Hardcover. Good/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1929. Hardcover, cloth spine lettered in gold over marbled paper covered boards. Limited numbered edition, this being no. 575/1,000. 189pp. Introduction by Emily E. F. Skeel. Printed at the Harbor Press. Weems was well known during the early nineteenth century as a writer of wit, though his most famous book was a biography, "The Life… Saber más sobre este artículo

Ticknor & Fields, 1859. Hardcover, publisher's brown embossed cloth, lettered in gold on spine. 215pp. 12pp. publiher's catalog appended at rear. Brown coated endpapers, with ad for Waverly Novels tipped in at front endpaper. First edition, second printing, BAL 12122. Contemporary owner's signature at top of titlepage, light shelf-wear to cloth, light wear at spine ends and tips, and old… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York [and] London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895 No Jacket. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Two volume Buckthorne Edition bound in original white decorative publishers cloth, stamped in green and gold. Black endpapers. T.e.g. Cover designs, t wo color elaborate decorative borders, and design for titlepage by George Wharton Edwards. Decorative initials from designs bt… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. Full-Leather. No Jacket. First edition. Full publisher's decoratively stamped brown leather over beveled boards. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated with vignette engravings and full page plates. All edges gilt and embossed. Old margianal dampstain along top edge, not affecting text or illustrations. Front board completely detached, but present. Leather covers rubbed and spine ends… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York [and] London: Harper & Brothers, 1897. Decorative Cloth. Original green cloth stamped in white and gold, Backstrip faded to brown but gilt lettering still quite readable. Illustrated wi th frontispeice by A.B. Frost. Very good. BAL 735. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Robert Bonner's Sons, 1888. First Edition. Original pictorial cloth stamped in black. First published in the New York Ledger in 1856, this is the first printing of this tale in book form. Published the same year by Bonner in buff wrappers, priority unknown. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece. Cobb was by all accounts a prolific writer of "pulp"… Saber más sobre este artículo