THE GOLDEN GEMS OF LIFE by S. C. FERGUSON and E. A. ALLEN - 1881: GATHERED JEWELS FOR THE HOUSE CIRCLE 1881

New York: Rudd & Carleton. Good+. 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean brown blind stamped original cloth with lightly faded gilt lettering on spine. Text tight & intact. Rear cover has faded areas.. Damp stain on only the last six leaves, "The Catalogue of the Publications of Rudd & Carleton", Prior owners book plate. USiana; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 250 pages .

Santa Rosa, CA: MARQUARD GARDENS. Very Good. 1991. Softcover. Cover has barely noticeable scuff at corners and edges. ; Cover and text are unmarked and clean, except as noted. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 32 pages .

London: Seeley and Co.Ltd, 1910.. True Stories of the Intrepid Bravery and Stirring Adventures of Missionaries with Uncivilized Man, Wild Beasts and the Forces of Nature. Pp.163/12(ads), black & white frontispiece + 7 further black & white plates, presentation notation to front free endpaper, spotting to endpapers. Blue cloth with green and red 'art nouveau' floral decoration to front and spine, gilt illustration of tribesmen to front and gilt title to spine. Scarce. VG.

This book is an antique. It is in good condition considering it is over 100 years old. There is some wear to the cover and scuffing. The corners are also worn. Pages are tanning and spotted. There are some pencil markings inside the book.A summary of Catholic modernism by a Protestant, with a plea for it as the basis ... is found in Newman Smyth's Passing Protestantism and Coming Catholicism.

New York: Random House. Near Fine. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean blue cloth with gilt title. Limited edition #298 of 300. Interior of text is tight, clean and intact. Near fine slipcase. No DJ issued . Crisp white, clean pages. Fiction, literature. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages .

Subjects: Children's literature. Very attractive book with many stories and illlustrations.

Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Leather rubbed and flaking at edges.. 1897. Hardcover. Original brown pebbled and blindstamped leather with decorative gilt titles on front boards and spine. Gilt-stamped turn-ins, all edges gilt. Floral patterned endpapers. Index, 28 portrait plates. Surprisingly tight and clean. A compilation of biographies of upstanding male citizens of Hillsboro and Cheshire Counties in New Hampshire, most notably home boy Horace Greeley, newspaperman and politician. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 481 pages .

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New York: Partisan Review, 1935. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. Rare early issue, includes writing by Nelson Algren, Muriel Rukeyser, et al. Unmarked copy, chip at lead of spine, a bit of wear to lap edges, last two leaves have some edge tearing.

This early American textbook has a quarter leather binding, with the spine in leather and heavy paper boards. The boards show considerable wear, with the marbled paper cover stripped away in places and heavily worn in others. However, both boards are firmly attached to the spine and the binding is still tight with all pages intact. The pages are heavy textured paper, some staining, but in amazingly good condition, considering the age of this obviously much-used volume. Except for some long-hand division on the inside of the back board, the book is unmarked. The best feature of the text is its content--besides all sorts of mathematic information, problems and measurements, it also has instructions/examples of all sorts of things mathematical--eg. the correct way to design a graph, calculations for different forms of weight, motion. measures of all kinds and an entire section of the appropriate forms of notes, deeds, bonds, receipts and wills--all in the erudite, charming language of the age. This is a… Read More