Search Results: Romance from poor mans books

Portland: Thomas B. Mosher. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1895. Second Edition. Hardcover. frontis; 88 pages; One of 925 by Smith & Sale on Van Gelder paper. 1st Mosher edition and a direct reprint of 1887. Title page in red and black. Frontis with tissue protector. Discrete inked gifting dated 1895 of half title. .

N Y, N Y: Harper & Brothers. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. B/w frontis; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; x, 565, 12 pages; A romance of Friends. Publisher's decorated cloth with worn red paper library label on spine and Haverhill library bookplate, else free of markings. Some fading to cloth and some light foxing scattered in contents. .

Carpentras: Gaudibert-Penne. Very Good with no dust jacket. c1800. Hardcover. Plates; 18th Century; Plates; Woodcuts; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 95 pages; 21 primitive woodcut illustrations, including title vignette. 95 pages. 8vo, contemporary mottled sheep gilt, spine worn, chipped at top, recased, endpapers renewed prob in 1800's; toning. Late provincial edition of a popular prose romance based on a medieval chanson de geste. Rare print of Carpentras, ill. Of 21 vignettes engraved on wood (fairly coarse job) including 1 on the title. World Cat estimates this in the 1780. .

Delacorte Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 0440054591 . We fit archival quality clear acrylic covers for additional protection whenever possible. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 362 pages; Victorian novel commencing in 1854, romance and family .