THE DIGRESSIONS OF V. WRITTEN FOR HIS OWN FUN AND THAT OF HIS FRIENDS by Vedder, Elihu - 1910

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. 1st, 2nd imp. Hardcover. Poor, exlibrary, inner front hinge nearly brokemn, spine ripped, a reading copy only. Green cloth. 521 pp. T.e.g. Decorative gilt embossed greenish cloth cover. A fun book to read.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. 1st. Hardcover. VG. Green cloth. 521 pp., bw illustrations throughout. T.e.g. Decorative gilt embossed greenish cloth cover. A fun book to read.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. 1st, 2nd imp. Hardcover. Good+. green decorative gilt embossed greenish cloth 521 pp. top edge gilt.

E-373: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1910. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 1910. 521 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in decorated gilt cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP, offsetting present to the second page. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "Containing the quaint legends of his infancy, an account of his stay in Florence, the garden of lost opportunities, return home on the track of Columbus, his struggle in New York in war-time coinciding with that of the nation, his prolonged stay in Rome, and likewise his prattlings upon art, tamperings with literature, struggles with verse, and many other things, being a portrait of himself from youth to age..." Elihu Vedder (February 26, 1836 – January 29,… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. hardcover. very good(+). Frontispiece portrait and other black & white illustrations throughout. xxvi + 521 pages. Thick 8vo, original gilt-lettered and decorated olive green cloth, t.e.g.; inneer hinges strengthened and several small spots to outer page edges. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. A very good copy.<br/> <br/>

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. hardcover. very good. Frontispiece portrait and other black & white illustrations. xxvi + 521pp., thick 8vo, gilt-lettered and decorated olive green cloth, t.e.g.; front hinge weakening, rubbed at corners and spine. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Small owner's name on fly-leaf and previous owners bookplates.<br/><br/>

London: Constable & Co. Limited & Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. First UK Edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 521, [1]. photogravure frontis. portrait, illus. dedication, 4 colour plates & numerous other illus. (many full-page). index. cloth, t.e.g. (rubbed & slightly shaken, extremities frayed, traces of a paper label on upper cover). dola2312

Boston and NY: Houghton Mifflin Company. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1910. First Edition Thus. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full light brown cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, elaborate gilt decoration and borders on cover, all designed by Vedder, t.e.g. Illustrated with 108 B&W etchings, engravings, gravures, drawings, and photographs by Elihu Vedder. Elihu Vedder (1836-1923) was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet, born in New York City. He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (deluxe edition, 1884, published by Houghton Mifflin). Vedder had a home in Rome and - after the financial success of his 1884 Rubaiyat work - on the Isle of Capri, then a haven for male aesthetes. He decorated the hallway of the Reading Room of the Washington Library of Congress, and his mural paintings can still be seen there. In 2008, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in… Read More