Heroes, Hero Worship and The Heroic In History

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. Half Leather - Hardbound. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 255 pages. Red leather over spine and corners, with raised spine bands. Gilt stamped lettering and decoration on spine. Marbled paper over boards. Marbled end leaves. Top edge of text is gilded. Contents are un-opened and un-cut. … Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Y Crowell & Co. Not dated.. 1/4 leather. Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Signed by previous owner. Inscribed neatly: "Merry Christmas to my dear sister May from Nena, 1892. " Label inside only library marking Spine ends, minor damage. Solid edition.. 1 241pg. Index. 5x7.5in. Marbled decorated edges, paper over boards; 1-qtr burgundy leather,… Read more about this item

Chicago and New York, USA: Rand McNally & Company. Hardcover. Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 241pp w Index. Prev owner stamp on ffep. Dark grey cloth w red lettering and red borders on cover and spine. Moderate surface scuff to bottom edges, head and tail. Light bumping to corners.… Read more about this item

New York. American Book Exchange. Hardcover. 1881. 12mo. 17cm, 184p., index, half bound in contemporary crushed crimson morocco, gilt rules and titles on the spine, marbled boards, t.e.g., some slight wear at the edges else a fine copy (lgc) Carlyle, 1795- 1881, British historian and essayist.

Chapman and Hall, 1901. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1901. No Edition Remarks. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Minor pencil inscription to front pastedown. Light pencil underlining and marginalia to pages.… Read more about this item

A. L. Burt Company. Fair. ca. 1900. Leather. A. L. Burt Company. No issue date, but probably 1895-1910. Binding solid. Pages unmarked but slightly tanned. Old bookstore sticker on back inside cover. Flexible leather cover is worn at edges, especially along spine, with a little cracking and other general scuffing. Top of spine is missing two… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Crowell, No date. Reprint. HC, no DJ. MV Good+. Red cloth, gilt titling & spine decoration, boards spotted, red topstain, FO name/date(1903) to FFEP, B/W frontis w tissue, leaves age-toned and brittle, dog-ears, binding sound. Handy Volume Classics series. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND… Read more about this item

New York: A. L. Burt Company Book. Good+ (Book Condition). Hardcover. A nice copy. Undated. Owner's stamp to fore-edge. Front hinge starting. Light wear to covers and bumping/fraying to spine extremities. Text clean. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.].

N .Y.: John B Alden, 1883. Hardcover. Poor. pp. foxing to text pages, old waterstains top edge of text, spine broken at lecture I, but pages still intact, 6 lectures in total wear/tears to top/bottom spines, bumping to corners and some stains to covers Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall

New York: American Book Exchange, 1881. Bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards. Spine is worn. Cloth tape at the top and bottom of the spine. Boards are scuffed. Text and paper are very good. . Hard Cover. Good.

Rand, McNally. Very Good. gently used HC, no DJ, some shelf-wear to cover, age tanning and foxing, binding clean and tight, free of markings Minor Shelf wear to exterior. Inside text clean and free of any writing. Gently used with modest show of wear. Condition is considered in pricing. If you would like to see additional pictures or… Read more about this item

Wm. L. Allison Co., New York. Collectible - Acceptable. Collectible - Acceptable. Reading copy only. Rear cover detached, but present. From the library of American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter William Safire. (philosophy, essays)

Charles Scribner's Sons. Hardcover. B0008C1FX6 Very Good hardcover. . Very Good.

Frederick A. Stokes, 1893. Light edge wear to boards. Blue and marbled design. . Hard Cover. Good Plus/Decorative Boards. Illus. by Linson, Corwin Knapp & Gunn, A..

Boston: Standard Publishing Company, 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Boston: Standard, 1899. 8vo. Reprint. Red cloth binding, top edge gilt, leather label, grey coated endpapers, 151pp. Frontispiece, protective tissue. Ex-library. Spine label quite rubbed. Solid copy in very good condition..

A. L. Burt. Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1900. Hard Cover. (A402) Circa 1900 .

NY, John B. Alden, 1887, green cloth hardcover, good attractive copy, previous owner name in eraseable pencil, there were a few underscores in the text in pencil, which I erased, but I may have missed a few, mild wear to cover extremities, inner hinges sound and uncracked, 241 pages, text moderately age-toned, not brittle. An attractive older copy.

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