•  Sternick 496.4 (describing binding as red).   Publisher's blind-stamped green textured cloth, spines gilt extra; bindings fresh and clean. Eight vols. of 12 present. Each volume with inked ownership inscription dated 1863 on front free endpaper. Pages slightly age-toned with occasional faint offsetting from illustrations, generally clean. A beautiful set, virtually as new.  (24423)

Binding:  Publisher's limp dark blue-green cloth, front cover and spine with black-stamped title, front cover with yellow-stamped palm diagram.

•  Cloth slightly wrinkled over front cover, corners and spine extremities showing minor rubbing. Pages clean.  (26696)

Binding: Publisher's red cloth, front cover with elaborate black-stamped frame and gilt-stamped title.

•  Bound as above with extremities rubbed, spine sunned, spine and back cover with spattered staining; front hinge (inside) tender yet holding. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription dated 1955 and with considerably older, rubber-stamped owner's name lined through. Pages clean. Advertisement leaves at end, fascinating.  (26620)

•  Publisher's cloth, front cover and spine stamped in green, white, and gilt with arabesque designs; binding cocked, otherwise showing next to no wear. Owner's name, partially erased, inked on the front free endpaper. (12602)

•  Publisher's green cloth binding, front cover stamped in black and gilt; bright and clean, with cloth showing only very minor wear to corners and extremities. All edges gilt. (14437)

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•  Publisher's teal cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title and decorative floral motifs; back cover and corners showing very slight scuffing. Back hinge cracked and front hinge starting; front free endpaper excised. Still, an attractive copy. (18393)

Binding:  Publisher's red cloth, covers and spine gilt-stamped with avian and foliate designs; all edges gilt.

•  Faxon 786.   Spine and edges moderately rubbed with front hinge cracked; spots of staining to bottom part of front cover. Front free endpaper with portion torn away, back free endpaper lacking; waterstaining in varying degrees to lower outer corners after p. 120. One signature extruded.  (12944)

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with inked inscription: “Miss Alice A. Chamberlin. Presented by her Grandfather Joel Chamberlin,” dated 1865, Sennett (in New York State).

Binding:  Publisher's brown cloth, covers blind-stamped with foliate decorations, spine almost fully and in fact rather gorgeously gilt-stamped with title and pictorial vignette.

•  Bound as above; corners rubbed, front cover with small spots of discoloration, spine gilt lightly rubbed. Front free endpaper with inscription as above. Some light spotting, foxing, and offsetting.  (25804)

•  Scott, A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Henry Haggard 1856–1925, 10. Publisher's red pictorial cloth, issued without frontispiece. Spine a bit darkened, a few leaves with faint spots of foxing, endpapers lightly discolored. Spine slightly cocked. (8614)

•  Publisher's pebbled cloth, front cover blind- and gilt-stamped, back cover blind-stamped, spine gilt extra with vignettes and decorative title; corners and spine extremities lightly worn. Scattered light spots of foxing to first few leaves; one text page with inked ownership inscription in outer margin, offset onto next page; pages otherwise clean. (5783)

•  BAL 7841.   Publisher's tan cloth, front cover with affixed color-printed paper illustration; binding somewhat darkened (especially spine), corners and spine extremities rubbed, a few small spots of discoloration to front and back covers. Front pastedown with pencilled gift inscription, front free endpaper with bookseller's small ticket. Pages clean. A very nice book. (20839)

•  Publisher's orange cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in green and gilt, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities lightly rubbed, sides with small areas of minor discoloration, spine sunned. Ex–social club library: call number in 19th-century hand on front pastedown, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Pages and plates clean and fresh.  (26364)

Provenance: With a tipped-in, printed slip reading “With the kind regards of The Author.”

•  Publisher's purple cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped; spine and edges sunned, back cover with its double layer of cloth partially torn through the top layer (interesting, as to binding structure). Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, preliminary leaf with early inked ownership inscription and pressure-stamp of a religious institution, title-page with small rubber-stamp. Pages clean. (20829)

•  BAL 9401. Green publisher's cloth, front cover stamped in white and gilt, spine with gilt-stamped title; clean and solid, with only very slight traces of wear to extremities. Front free endpaper with inked owner's name. (16665)

Binding:  Publisher's green cloth elaborately stamped in gilt on front cover with an overall pattern of torches with bows, surrounding a central cartouche with the title and author in gilt.

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•  BAL 9577 (for first edition).   Binding as above, lightly rubbed at base of spine, small area of minor discoloration on spine. Ex–social club library: call number on endpaper, rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings.  (26805)

Binding:  Publisher's green cloth front cover elaborately stamped in black with a center oblong in gilt leaving the title and author in revers color, i.e., in the green of the binding.

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•  BAL 9617.   Binding as above, spine with overall lightening. Ex–social club library: call number on endpaper and front fly-leaf, rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings.  (26806)

Binding:  Publisher's textured denim blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped vignette of Friendship, Love, and Truth personified within an architectural frame; back cover with Truth stamped in gilt within the same frame stamped in blind. All edges gilt.

•  Faxon 608.   Binding as above, front cover and spine lightened to an attractive dark robin's egg blue, gilt showing minor rubbing and oxidizing. Presentation leaf unused. Guard leaves foxed, pages and plates generally clean.  (26749)

Provenance: The front free endpaper bears a neatly inked ownership inscription dated 1860 (J.C.W. Kempe) and an additional inked “sold to” inscription dated 1871 (Aden Mc Bowman); Bowman also signed another blank, and the presentation leaf is made out to Kempe as “P.G.J.C.W. Kempe.”

Binding:  Publisher's deep blue/black diced sheep in imitation of morocco, covers with gilt-stamped vignette of Friendship, Love, and Truth personified within an architectural frame; spine gilt extra with column motif. All edges gilt.

•  BAL 6877; Faxon 609.   Binding as above, joints and extremities rubbed, spine gilt slightly dimmed. Inscriptions and presentation leaf as above. Poetry clippings, fabric swatch, and lock of hair laid in. Scattered staining, generally light, throughout; chromo very bright and nice.  (27041)

Binding:  Publisher's gray cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and green-stamped grass vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title. Binding signed “HP.”  Top edge gilt.

•  Binding as above, sunned and stained/spotted; front hinge (inside) cracked; frontispiece and title-page with small waterstain along inner margin. Pages mostly clean, with scattered light spotting. A copy with faults, but not faults to devastate its interest.  (26629)

•  Publisher's tan cloth, front cover stamped in black and white; binding a bit darkened overall, lacking dust wrapper. Top edges gilt.  (16736)

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•  Edel & Laurence, Bibliography of Henry James (3rd. ed.), A4 (for first ed.); Wright, III, 2909 (for first ed.).   Publisher's brown cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt and maroon; a bit cocked, rubbed, spine with area of discoloration from now-absent label, and some light patches to cover cloth. Ex–social club library: call number on blank side of preliminary advertisement, rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Pages age-toned, with faint staining in upper margins towards back of volume.  (26559)

As described by the title-pages, the volumes are “Illustrated by upwards of three hundred engravings, from sketches by the author. The steel plates executed [by J. Hamilton and others] under the superintendence of J.M. Butler, the wood engravings by Van Ingen & Snyder.” The plates total 20 altogether, including frontispieces.

•  Very good; board edges, corners, and spine extremities showing light wear, spine slightly dimmed. (1957)

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Binding: Publisher's green cloth elaborately stamped and decorated in black on front cover and in black and gold on spine. Rear cover modestly embossed in blind. All edges red.

•  Bound as above. Ex–social club library: call number on front fly-leaf, two rubber-stamps on title-page, no other markings. A clean, bright copy.  (26367)

Binding:  Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and airplane vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title; airplane endpapers.

•  Binding slightly shaken, spine gently sunned. Two leaves each with one tear from lower margin, not touching text.  (25989)

•  Contemporary gilt-stamped green cloth with a bit of light wear to the head and foot of the spine, otherwise bright and lovely. Some page edges uncut. (10569)

Binding:  Publisher's purple cloth, elaborately blind-embossed on covers. Gilt center device on each cover and spine lettered in gilt with modest gilt decoration.

•  Binding as above; spine a little faded; light wear at extremities. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. A nice copy.  (26259)

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The volume is illustrated with an added engraved title-page and three steel-engraved plates, done by O. Pelton after designs by T.B. Read and Beaume, and by Charles Phillips after Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Signed binding: Hunter green embossed morocco, covers with cherub vignette in foliate frame; the embossed panel was designed by Francis N. Mitchell and engraved by Alex C. Morin, and the binding was done by Benjamin Bradley, with all three names stamped in panel. All edges gilt.

•  Faxon 713. On binding, see: Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks, 178; Spawn & Kinsella, American Signed Bindings, 53.   Binding as above, extremities with very minor rubbing; frontispiece lacking. Offsetting from plates, two pages with offsetting from now-absent laid-in item, scattered light spotting elsewhere. A gorgeous example of the binding, with interesting reading inside.  (26737)

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The volume is illustrated with four steel-engraved plates and an additional engraved title-page by various hands.

Signed binding: Hunter green embossed morocco, covers with cherub vignette in foliate frame; the embossed panel was designed by Francis N. Mitchell and engraved by Alex C. Morin, and the binding was done by Benjamin Bradley, with all three names stamped in panel. All edges gilt.

•  Faxon 714. On binding, see: Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks, 178; Spawn & Kinsella, American Signed Bindings, 53.   Binding as above, showing virtually no wear. A few light spots, pages mostly clean. Dried flower laid in. It is hard to imagine a better copy of this lovely annual.  (26743)

•  Publisher's dark blue cloth, front cover and spine stamped in silver; corners and spine extremities slightly rubbed. Front hinge (inside) cracked and back hinge tender; endpapers partially adhered to pastedowns.  (22222)

Published in Funk and Wagnalls' series The Standard library as its number 108, this includes “Notes from an Old Journal,” “In California,” “In Oregon,” “In Colorado,” “Rhymes for the Right,” and “In Memoriam.”

Binding: Publisher's tan cloth, elaborately stamped with an “Adirondack”-inspired bent-wood motif in black and gold. Bevelled edges.

Provenance:  From the library of the German Society of Pennsylvania.

•  BAL 13795.   Ex–social club library: call number in a 19th-century hand on front free endpaper, rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings. A bright and very nice copy.  (26279)

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Prize copy: Front free endpaper with inked presentation inscription from a school principal, noting the recipient's perfect attendance in 1905–06.

•  Publisher's orange cloth, front cover and spine with black-stamped title, front cover with black-stamped pictorial vignette; binding showing minor wear but overall very clean and attractive. Front free endpaper with inscription as above. Pages clean.  (26697)

Binding:  Publisher's embossed brown cloth in pattern incorporating foliage, heraldic shields, and the words “National Illustrated Library”; spine with gilt-stamped title and floral decorations.

•  Binding as above, cloth gently faded and partially split over joints, corners and spine tips rubbed. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, inked call number on front free endpaper, no other markings. Back pastedown with London bookseller's ticket. Sewing going, two signatures separated and other leaves starting. One leaf with tear from lower margin, extending into text with loss of one or two letters; one section with small edge chips. Pages age-toned.  (26411)

Binding:  Publisher's brick red cloth, elaborately stamped in black and bold on front cover (“Catholic Presentation Library”) and spine; stamped in blind on rear cover.

Prize book / Provenance: In manuscript on a slip of paper attached to the front free endpaper, “Premium / awarded to / Master Frank Von Au / for / Regular Attendance. / June 30, 1898.”

•  Bound as above, cloth of front joint starting to open; bright and fresh. Presentation slip as above, and presentee's name also rubber-stamped on front fly-leaf. Light foxing to guard tissue between frontispiece and title-page; offsetting to these, therefrom. A clean, nice copy.  (25786)

•  Publisher's brown cloth, stamped in black and silver; front and spine with decorated with a frontier scene showing Conestoga wagons in a wilderness landscape with rising sun in the background. (We can't seem to get a photograph of this that doesn't “glare out.”)  Bright with a few flecks of white (paint?). Spine slightly rubbed on joints and at head and base. Pages toned. Good+. (20739)

•  Publisher's red cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black, spine with gilt-stamped title label (gilt just showing in our photograph); cloth very slightly rubbed over corners and spine extremities, with a small smudge to front cover near head of spine and spine stamping a bit dimmed. Reverse of frontispiece with inked gift inscription dated [18]87. One leaf with short tear from outer margin, not quite touching text. (14353)