Central Asia: Travels in Cashmere, Little Thibet, and Central Asia by Bayard James Taylor - 2001-02-13

Univ Pr of Colorado, 1989-10-01. Paperback. Good. 0.5000 6.9000 4.7000.

NY: Happy Hour Library, Inc., 1919. Undated [1919]. Happy Hour Library Series. Blue textured wraps.. Wraps. Very Good.

New York: Happy Hour Library. Paperback. Poor/None. Blue textured softcover, soiled and edgeworn, front cover separating from spine. Binding is otherwise firm. Interior unmarked and very good, pages toned with age. Undated, c. 1919. Uncommon. The Diamond Lens tells the story of a scientist who invents a powerful microscope and discovers a beautiful female in a microscopic world inside a drop of water. with Friend Eli's Daughter by Bayard Taylor, the story of an outsider proclaiming his love for a young Quaker woman, set against the backdrop of a farm in Bucks County.

Santa Clara / Berkeley: Santa Clara University / Heyday Books, 2000. Paperback. xvi, 411p., no illustrations except for a fullpage portrait of journalist-author Taylor; sizeable softbound in glossy decorated wraps. A former owner has annotated the first three chapters with pencilled (mostly legible) marginalia, else looks to be in good condition. A sound, clean, but marked-up copy.

Jerome B. Parmenter, 1878. Hardcover. Good. . Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover shows minor wear and tear, pages are clean.

University Press of Colorado, 1989. Paperback. Near Fine. 12 mo., softcover, near fine, clean and unmarked, in orange pictorial wraps. 185 pp. First published in 1867 -- describes his descent into a gold mine, construction of Union Pacific RR, Colorado's becoming "America's Switzerland", his escapades and asides are delightful to read.

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1976. Reprint. Hardcover. 0824022254 . Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Facsimile reprint of 1868 edition, New York: G P Putnam & Son. Original subtitle concludes: From Paintings by Cole, Church, Cropsey, Durand, Gignoux, Kensett, Miller, Richards, Smillie, Talbot, Weir. The essays, with the exception of III, V, VIII, XI, and XV, were written for this volume in its original shape, as "The Book of the Picturesque." -- Publishers. Contents: 1. English and American scenery compared / James Fenimore Cooper -- 2. The Catskill Mountains / Washington Irving -- 3. Catterskill Falls / William Cullen Bryant -- 4. The Mountains / Bayard Taylor -- 5. The Adirondack Mountains / Alfred B Street -- 6. Valley of the Housatonic / William Cullen Bryant -- 7. Scaroon or Schroon Lake -- 8. Summer By The Lake-Side / John Greenleaf Whittier -- 9. The Scenery of Pennsylvania / Bayard Taylor --… Read More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Complete and original issue near fine in wrappers.

Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. Good in original wrappers with dampstains throughout and a bookseller's rubberstamp. Contains Henry James' Travelling Companions (part 1), "Captain Kidd's Money" by Stowe, and a serialization part of Taylor's "Joseph and His Friend" as well as Taylor's "A November Pastoral". Strong content from major authors of the period.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Louis A. Godey, 1851. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Six individual issues bound in one volume without monthly covers and ads. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, vi + 574 pages with many intertextual black and white illustrations + 6 hand-colored plates, 11 black and white steel plates, three-quarter leather. A good copy overall, cover leather worn through to boards at fore-corner tips, leather back strip rubbed at hinge fold, hinges secure but cracked, front illustration plates, contents page and first page are loose together, internal binding is solid, endpapers lightly foxed, internal pages generally clean and lightly yellowed, but with scattered foxing mostly at the margins and gutters, most tissue guards present.