Rokeby by Sir Walter Scott - 1813

Boston: John L. Shorey. Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, bubbling to front boards, front . hinge reglued, owner bookplate (S. C. Hodges, Oxford, Massachusetts) on . front pastedown.. 1866. Hardcover. Green ruled cloth binding. Title stamped in gilt on spine. Vi, 3-316 pp. A nineteenth century gift book containing short stories, poems, essays, and other writings culled from contemporary sources that are “la creme de la creme...for “readers who, in seeking intellectual relaxation, prefer not to waste their time on light literature of an inferior stamp. ” (publisher’s advertisement). Includes contributions by Alfred Tennyson, Robert Chambers, Leigh Hunt, Dinah M. Craik, William Mudford, Henry A. Blood, and William Allingham, among others. BAL 17257. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Charles Dickens' Nicolas Nickleby complete in four volumes. Part of Sheldon's "Works of Charles Dickens. Household Edition." One B&W illustration in each volume with tipped-in protective tissue. Black cloth (faded) with gilt lettering and publisher medallion on spine; gilt medallion on front.FON on FFEP of each volume.Covers are faded, stained, and bumped, with wear on the top & heels of spines (volumes 1 & 4 top spines are frayed). Pages are age tanned with occasional stains. Volume 1 & 2 are cracked at half-title page, volume 1 is also cracked at back endpaper.

NY: Harper & Bros, 1857. First edition. Complete issues of Vol 14; December 1856- May 1857. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: Harper & Bros., 1857. thick 8vo., 7" x 10", viii+864pp., numerous illustrations throughout. Contents include: Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit; Sunnyside, The Home of Washington Irving; Discovery of the Northwest Passage; Erie Railroad; North Carolina Illustrated; Patrick Henry; Albany 50 Years Ago; From Thebes to the Pyramids; Animal Declaration of Independence; Editor's Table; Fashions; Literary Notices; Monthly Record of Current Events; Blind embossed brown cloth with gilt spine and cover titles, marbled endpapers. Light fray at the crown, some rub at the upper tips, else very good plus, clean, pages bright, binding tight. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. BAL 10569. First Edition.359 pp. 8vo, original brown cloth in the earlier state of the binding. Some minor rubbing at head and heel of spine. Hinges solid; Top of textblock is soiled. Pages clean and unmarked; title bright. Very slight spine lean.

Hardcover. VG. First American Edition, 12mo, pp. 311. BAL 19448. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Brown coated endpapers. Textblock edges have tanned browned. Owner inscription on FEP, otherwise clean internally. Written under the pseudonym Christopher Crowfield. BAL 19448.

London: Richard Bentley, 1848. New Edition . Green Embossed Cloth. Very Good +. 8" Tall. Frontispiece, Illustrations. Frontispiece, Xii, 392 Pp. Original Embossed Green Cloth, Spine Lettered And Ruled In Gilt. Original Yellow Endpapers. Cloth Clean, Some Wear, Professional Repairs To Edges. Small "Ida" In Ink At Top Of Title, Later Inscription Dated 1941 On Recto Of Frontispiece. The"Advertisement" Page From The Publisher, Dated May 1948, States That This Is The First Edition To Identify Morier As The Author. Scarce, Apparently Only 4 Institutional Copies Recorded In Worldcat.

Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend complete in four volumes. Part of Hurd & Houghton's "Works of Charles Dickens. Household Edition." One B&W illustration in each volume with tipped-in protective tissue. Black cloth (faded) with gilt lettering and publisher medallion on spine; gilt medallion on front.FON on FFEP of each volume.Covers are faded, stained, and bumped, with wear on corners and the tops & heels of spines. Volume 4 has a tear up the spine hinge and across the spine. Endpapers are discolored. Pages are age tanned and foxed. Volume 1 & 2 are cracked at half-title page.

London:: Smith, Elder and Co.,. Hardback. Full tree calf binding with raised bands to spine, gilt titles to spine and gilt decorated compartments. Decorative gilt twisted border to both boards. Gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers and marbled to all page edges. Illustrated by Richard Doyle. The narrator is Arthur Pendennis, the protagonist of Pendennis. Leather to spine is very slightly faded and there is a hint of rubbing to spine hinges which remain strong. Text is particularly clean and crisp. Very good copy . Hardback. 1903.

First edition hardcover. 1866, New York. Condition is Very Good: Library sticker on spine, pencil note on copyright page, no other library markings. Some pencil notes on front blank, none elsewhere. Occasional foxing in text. Binding is sound. Light general wear to boards. A nice copy of an uncommon book. Author aims to offend as many people as possible and succeeds. Paginates: blanks, frontis, 312, [2], blanks, plus 11 unpaginated plates. Extremely obscure item. Please see images of the book you will receive. Notes: Author is brother of Samuel Comstock - infamous mutineer of the whaleship Globe. Such a lovely family. More notes: Satire aimed at (?) Charles Farrar Browne who was a humorist working under the name Artemus Ward. Browne (Ward) was reportedly a favorite of Abraham Lincoln. More notes: Most, but not all, first editions of this time period have the date on the title page and this copy does not. I have looked at WorldCat, online libraries and sale copies; I cannot locate any copy with a date… Read More

London: George Routledge and Sons 1867. (Hardcover) 310pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Finely bound school prize book. Brown leather elaborately stamped front and back, raised bands on the spine, and the crest of Thanet Collegiate School, Margate stamped in gilt on the front cover. Marbled endpapers, all edges stained red, illustrations, including engraved plates. The book has been damp at the top with some penetration to the pages and a previous owner's inscription inside. (Religion, Religion).