The set was first published (the "first edition") by Smith, Elder in 1882. The Putnam set you have is probably the first AMERICAN edition, 1883 -...
Roaring20s has the names correctly. Harlan, Silverberg, & Larry's signatures match those I have - no reason to doubt the others; none of these...
Thanks all for thoughts & help. I think it's NOT Fullwood - if he went by Henry, as his bio says, he's unlikely to have used AF rather than AHF or...
Anybody know the full name for this AF monogram? Skilled watercolorist; dated 1892. Not in my one (inadequate) reference of American painters, so...
Thank you. I think one of the important tasks of the bookseller (or antique dealer, for that matter) is educating the public on WHY things are...
That "culturally appropriate" language is boilerplate used by POD (print-on-demand) hucksters who are trying to sell public domain material. While...
Grosset & Dunlap were mainly reprinters, but they did do the first editions - and hundreds of later printings - of many children's series,...
Addall is not the best tool for refined searches. Here's one of your tracts on abebooks:...
19th century isn't too old, as books go - an 'old' book, to a high-end bookseller, is from the 16th century or earlier; "incunabula", or books...
Eh, mostly it's just proof the thing's never been read. Also a long-time bookseller here. Incidentally, the correct term, as moreotherstuff notes,...
Incidentally, persons interested in a humorous if colonialist view of Cameroon and the Fon of Bafut might try Gerald Durrell's books 'The Bafut...
Is no one going to mention that the second document refers to the main sculpture as "the great worrier of the land", which I thought I was?
I would expect the LC number to be on all copies of this, since it's normally issued prior to publication, especially by large publishers. If it...
Thanks, all. Seems enough to describe it as a presentation inscription by the author. He was, as it turns out, a professor at the University of...
Thanks for the help. Could that be a katakanization of "Jane Poor"? (It can be tricky knowing which estate a book is from if several are combined...
Thanks for the tags & assistance!
This is in a copy of The Art of Arranging Flowers by Shozo Sato. I assume (hope?) that the bit on the lower left, by the seal, is the author's...
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There are a couple copies of this Dove edition on Abebooks for a bit over $100, in considerably better shape. Rebinding in an appropriate period...
In good shape, I've sold similarly ornate bibles for $200 +/- 50, which might be around the cost of repairing it.
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