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Edition: First edition. (NAP)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston
Date Published: 1899
Description: Fair. No dust jacket. 378 p. Ex-lib w/usual marks, cover wear, inner hinges cracked, title page loose, last page of index appears missing, o/w intact, good reading copy. Includes sketches of Emerson, Alcott, Parker, Whittier, Whitman, Lanier, Hawthorne, Child, Jackson, Holmes, Harris, Brown, Garrison, Phillips, Sumner, Howe, Grant, other information. read more
Edition: 1st edition
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Date Published: 1899
ISBN-13:9780548571699ISBN:0548571694
Description: Very Good. 1899 Houghton Mifflin, 1st Edition, 1st Printing--Same date on title page and copyright page. Hardcover, green cloth binding with gilt lettering & gilt to top fore edge. Previous owner's name on first blank endpaper, very light age toning, o/w internally tight & unmarked. Wear to head/foot of spine & corners, o/w VG condition. NO REMAINDER MARK; NOT X-LIBRARY. Includes essays on Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amos Bronson Alcott, Theodore Parker, John Greenleaf Whittier, Walt Whitman, Sidney ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin
Date Published: 1900
Description: Good. Exact item, 1899 (Houghton, Mifflin & Company, Riverside Press, Cambridge), MDCCCXCIX, FIRST EDITION, Hardcover. Cover shows wear at top and bottom of spine with tiny tears and some light rubbing. A light scratch to back cover. Inside endpapers show aging and discoloration. Back endpaper is splitting at hinge. Clean pages show aging to edges; dings and wear to bottom, closed edge has caused some minor tears/bends to edges of several pages. Top edge is gilt. Edges show wear/aging. Tight ... read more
Edition: \N
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: BiblioLife
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780559464898ISBN:0559464894
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 8 by 5 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00392 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00388 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback) read more
Edition: \N
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: BiblioLife
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780559464911ISBN:0559464916
Description: BRAND NEW HARDCOVER. 9.21 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00392 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Hardcover ) read more
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 9 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00388 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Hardback) read more
Edition: 1st Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Date Published: 1899
Description: Description: 379 p.; 20 cm. Subjects: United States--Biography. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked wine cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Ex-libris copy with bookplate attached. 1. pp. 379. read more
Edition: 1st Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Date Published: 1899
Description: Physical desc. : 3 p. l., 379, [1] p; 20 cm. Contents include: Ralph Waldo Emerson. --Amos Bronson Alcott. --Theodore Parker. --John Greenleaf Whittier. --Walt Whitman--Ulysses Simpson Grant. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked wine cloth. Panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. 1. pp. 379. read more
Edition: 1st Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Date Published: 1899
Description: Description: 379 p.; 20 cm. Subjects: United States--Biography. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked wine cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Ex-libris copy with bookplate attached. read more
Edition: 1st Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Date Published: 1899
Description: Physical desc. : 3 p. l., 379, [1] p; 20 cm. Contents include: Ralph Waldo Emerson. --Amos Bronson Alcott. --Theodore Parker. --John Greenleaf Whittier. --Walt Whitman--Ulysses Simpson Grant. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked wine cloth. Panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin & Company / The Riverside Press, Boston / New York / Cambridge
Date Published: 1899
Description: G/NONE. Nice fat library boards, moderate rubbing to backstrip ends and board corners, paperwork removed from front, section of upper front endpaper off horizontally across, several pages detached with heavily chipped edges and laid in, several lower corners bent, minor toning to pages, moderate to heavy toning to pastedowns.; Ex-Library; 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 379 pages; General literary criticism, green/gold, fictcat tem. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin, Boston
Date Published: 1899
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall Antique ex-library First edition. Cloth binding, 379 pp. including index. Antique ex-library with hand-numbered and hand-dated bookplate, library pocket. Chapters on contemporaries: EMERSON, AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT, THEODORE PARKER, JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, WALT WHITMAN, SIDNEY LANIER, LYDIA MARIA CHILD, HELEN JACKSON, JOHN HOLMES, THADDEUS WILLIAM HARRIS, JOHN BROWN, WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, WENDELL PHILLIPS, CHARLES SUMNER, DR. HOWE, and ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT. Good ... read more
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