Original full brown calf on boards. Gilt title and five raised bands on spine. Dentilled edges with gilt decoration. Hinges strong. Leather cracking at spine edges. Wear to leather at top of spine (threads visible), and minor rubbing at top corners. Text is large and easy to read, if you can get past the old practice of replacing "s" with an "f"-like character! Thomas Pichon was the Secretary to the Comte de Raymond, Governor of Cape Breton. Written from Louisburg from 1750 on, Pichon's letters describe the geography, manners and customs of the Natives (who he was very sympathetic to, c... View More...
Original full brown leather on stiff boards. Title page missing, and pp. 367-8 separated but present. Binding shaken, but holding. 800 pp. Heavy book might need extra postage. View More...
Original two-tone full leather, gilt lettering. No DJ. Possibly first edition. Both hinges badly cracked, but cover not separated. Three-inch top spine tear. In three parts: Fortune or Success in Business Life, Happiness in Social and Family Life, and Eternal Life. Interesting previous owner bookplate. High-quality portrait engravings of Lincoln, James A Garfield, and others. Corner and edge wear. 687 pp. View More...
Yes, Virginia ! All three "city" titles in one beautiful old (undated) volume. Padded, black, pebble-grained leather, gilt edges, gilt lettering, 566 pp.(separately-paginated). Christmas, 1928 inscription in ink. OW clean. A prize for Carleton fans ! View More...
Original full dark green leather with gold pictorial and titles. Backstrip split full length, but holding together well. The best known of the meditational works of this young woman who died in 1901 at the age of 32 years. None of them was published until after she died. Some gutters of this book are strained, but none is separated. 158 pp. View More...
Original full red leather over boards, blind-stamped in floral pattern surrounding full-length figure of Ada Rehan on both covers. Gilt lettering, cover and spine. Leather at the top of spine is ragged. Front cover nearly detached. Rear hinge broken. Interior very good, with only a few small repaired edge tears. No DJ. Suggested rebind so as not to miss the choice theory and expressions of the interior! Scarce. View More...
