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New York: The New Mirror, 1844. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. W. H. Dougal, et al.. This set has two volumes labeled II and II and is presumably missing a volume I which would contain bound version of th earlier 1843 version. Volume II contains editions from 10/7/1843 to 3/30/1844; while volume III contains editions from 4/6/1844 to 9/28/1844 (the final date of this periodical).. the three volumes are uniform and are clean, basically tight, square and unmarked. The New Mirror Library volume has the front board separated at the joint, but held well by the binding strings. They are rubbed at the edges, through in places. and have splits at the edges of the spine covers. They have pale blue end papers and volume II is paginated by issue while volume III and Mirror Library volumes have 416 pages. Vols. II and II are illustrated with steel engravings most with tissue guards. The pages are foxed ranging from mild to moderate… Read more

Troy, NY: H. B. Nims, 1884. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. W. H. Bartlett, et al.. This book is clean, basically tight, square with good corners and unmarked. It has scattered damp stain on the end paper and the margins of several pages near the front and rear. The signature at page 51 is loose at the bottom and consequently rubbed at the edges. The book is lightly rubbed at the edges with minor wrinkling on the cover cloth. It has 96, clear pages with scattered foxing illustrated with 25, tissue guarded, steel line engravings bound in brown cloth covered beveled boards with black designs on the front and black & gold titles on the spine and front.

New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co., 1845. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This book is clean, basically tight, square and unmarked. It is split at the front joint, but held tight by the strings. It is rubbed at the edges, a bit more so at the bottom of the spine. It includes Melalia and other poems by Eliza Cook. It has pale blue end papers and 216 and 80 (Cook's works) pages with occasional foxing in a three-quarter binding with blue leather on the corners and spine. The spine has four raised bands with gilt titles in one of the panels. The boards are covered n marbled blue paper. Dashes At Life has 3 parts: Pat Iis High Life in Europe and American Lif; Part II is Inklings of Adventure

London: Encounter, 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It has light edge wear. It contains Two Stories (Naoum), Beyond Satanic Verses (Green), A Photograph of Kafka (Kirkup), among other works. Glossy green wraps with white and black titles and colored designs on the front.

London: Encounter, 1969. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It has some light edge wear. It contains Open House (Gordimer), Thinking About the Future (Shonfield), Love Song (Daniels), among other works. Purple and orange wraps with white and black titles on the front.

London: Encounter, 1977. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It has light edge wear and some light toning. It contains A Hunting Accident (Gordimer), The Last Hurrah (Mount), The Hinterland (Scupham), among other works. Brown wraps with black titles on the front.

London: Encounter, 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It has only minor edge wear and some light toning. It contains Golden Reclining Nudes of the Desert (Nadine Gordimer), Can the Devil Be Saved? (Leszek Kolakowski), Hong Kong (Jan Morris) among other works. Blue wraps with Blue, white and black titles on the front.

London: Encounter, 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It has only minor edge wear and some light toning. It contains Golden Reclining Nudes of the Desert (Nadine Gordimer), Can the Devil Be Saved? (Leszek Kolakowski), Hong Kong (Jan Morris) among other works. Blue wraps with Blue, white and black titles on the front.

London: Encounter, 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It has light edge wear and some light toning. It contains Siblings (Gordimer), How Virtues Become Vices (MacIntyre), The Uninvited (Joseph), among other works. Red wraps with green, white and black titles on the front.

London: Encounter, 1959. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It is lightly rubbed/bumped at the edges and there is some light surface soil. It contains, The Tourist (Mitford), Elephants for Everybody (Sieburg), On the Isle of Capri (Barzini), among other works. White and red wraps with red and white and black titles on the front. There is also a caricature drawing on the front associated with a set or articles under the heading "Turismo".

London: Encounter, 1978. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It has light edge wear and some light toning. It contains In Transit (Shepherd), Legends Spies Tell (Cecil), Selective Silence (Fenton), among other works. Red wraps with black titles on the front.

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This book is clean, tight, square with sharp corners and unmarked in an about good dust jacket. The dust jacket is rubbed at all edges, through in places, and the spine is sunned. The glue lines show on the end papers. It has 347, minimally toned pages bound in red cloth covered boards with red titles in a gilt box and gilt figures on the spine.

London: Encounter, 1970. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It has some light edge wear. It contains A Diary (Herzen), The Abuse of Psychiatry (Miller), The Abomination of Moab (Conquest), among other works. Red, white and black wraps with red, green and black titles on the front.

Boston: Henry Hoyt, 1876. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. This copy is clean and tight. It has an inscription on a front end paper (:be faithful to the end"); otherwise it is unmarked. It is basically square with only a slight roll. It is lightly bumped corners and ends of the spine. The boards are covered in brown cloth with black decorations on the boards. The titles are elaborate gold, spine and front. There is no author or date noted. We found a copy published in London in 1882 with Neame as author, but we believe Hoyt stopped publishing in 1876 so we used that date. A very rare book for people interested in this genre.

New York: Macmillan, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This book is clean, tight, square with sharp corners and unmarked in an equally fine dust jacket. It has 138, bright, clear pages in a one-quarter binding with blue cloth and orange titles on the spine. The boards are orange This book feels as if unread.

London: Encounter, 1980. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It has light edge wear and some light toning. It contains The Pig May Fly (Foster), Mission to Ireland: After the Pope (Kyle), Two Poems (Brownjohn), among other works. Green wraps with white and black titles on the front.

London: Encounter, 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This copy is clean, tight, square and unmarked. It has only minor edge wear and some light toning. It contains Confessions of a Master-Spy (Neilson Graham), WH Auden (Golo Mann), Allende & The Myth Makers (David Holden) among other works. Blue, green and yellow wraps with black and white titles on the front.

New York: The Crowell Publishing Company, 1936. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Neysa McMein, John H. Crossman, et al.. This magazine is very lightly rubbed and has minimal surface soil. The cover has a beautiful McMein, color drawing of a young woman admiring a bunch of grapes. It has 102, clear pages illustrated with drawings and photos with a large number of period ads, many in color. It contains "Saturday Afternoon" by White and "The Most Perfect Thing" by Chilton among many other stories and articles.

New York: The Crowell Publishing Company, 1936. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Neysa McMein, Ritchie Cooper, et al.. This magazine is very lightly rubbed and has minimal surface soil. The cover has a beautiful McMein, color drawing of a young blond woman at the theater. It has 160, clear pages illustrated with drawings and photos with a large number of period ads, many in color. It contains "I Must Tell You" by White and "Not Too Sensible" by Weber among many other stories and articles.

New York: A. J. Stasny Music Co., 1918. First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. This copy is lightly rubbed. There is some light surface soil. Blue wraps with white titles over a full page drawing of returning dough boys being welcomed by their adoring families. On the rear wrap are a few bars of "Its Never Too Late To Be Sorry" in an ad.