Books And Men by Agnes Repplier - 2007-10-09

Gay and Bird, 1893. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1893. 224 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green and brown cloth with gilt lettering. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1893, later edition, 12mo, 224pp. Top edge gilt, extremities worn, moderate soiling, else Fair. A book of essays; the author's first book..

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890. Hardcover. Good. Hardback. No dust jacket. Award presentation pastedown inside front cover along with 19th century Baltimore bookstore label (John Murphy & Co.). Moderate aging to exterior boards. One corner bumped.

Houghton Mifflin. Red cloth boards with gold border on face and lettering on spine. Top outer page edges are gilded. Some fading down spine. Back inside hinge is cracked. Inside covers, end papers and free pages are full of pasted on interesting paper clippings and quotes on the joy of books and reading. Also several paper clippings included freely within the pages. Text within is clean. Very interesting notations by the previous owner makes this book very appealing. . Good. Hardcover. 1888.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. c.1888. Hardcover. Cloth spine, paper spine label. 12mo. 224pp. Ex-Library with minor library markings - library bookplate with 'Withdrawn' stamp, call number in pencil on copyright page, stamp on rare pastedown. Very Good. Spine label rubbed / darkened, spine darkened, rubbing at spine-ends, mild darkening to boards.

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Boston MA: Houghton, Mifflin And Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Corners worn. Spine ends compressed. Spine label worn. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Boston: Houghtom Mifflin Company. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1888. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full gray linen, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g. Agnes Repplier (1855-1950) was an American essayist. She was born in Philadelphia in 1855 and was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Eden Hall at Torresdale, Philadelphia, and later at the Agnes Irwin School. Repplier was reputedly expelled from two schools for "independent behaviour." Despite her school experiences, she became one of America's chief representatives of the discursive essay, displaying wide reading and apt quotation. Her writings contain literary criticism as well as comments on contemporary life. These characteristics were already apparent in the first essay which she contributed to the Atlantic Monthly (April 1886), entitled “Children, Past and Present.” Repplier's earliest national publications appeared in 1881 in Catholic World. Although she did… Read More

Book. Good. Binding see description. London, 1893. 224pp. + 15pp adverts. Cloth.*Contains a.o. a chapter: What Children Read (= pp. 64-94). 0.