Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly (volume 2 only- of 2 Volume set) by Stowe, Harriet Beecher - 1852

2015 Berkeley, University of California Press. Full numberline, "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" appears on the copyright page. Not remainder marked, dj is not clipped. Dj clean with no rips, no discoleration, looks fine in Brodart protective sleeve. Boards clean & square. Pages clean, unmarked & bright. Black cloth binding firm & straight, gold lettering on spine fine.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, bookseller label on front . pastedown, top corner of front free endpaper removed, 1902 owner signature . on front flyleaf.. 1899. Later Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth with decorative torch design stamped in gilt on front boards, signed with initials "MP". Titles stamped in gilt on spine. Top edges gilt. Frontispiece photogravure portrait of the author by H. G. Rogers. xiii, 217 pp. Originally published in 1893 when she was still married to her first husband, Charles Walter Stetson, this is Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first published book of poems. She later became renowned for her feminist writings, most notably, her much reprinted short story "The Yellow Wallpaper".; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

"LITTLE PAUL" from the "Dombey and Son" of Charles Dickens. Circa 1850's (there is no date of publication stated); Redfield; New York. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. Scarce volume from the 6-volume "DICKENS' LITTLE FOLKS" series which was "undertaken with a view of supplying the want of a class of books for children, of a vigorous, manly tone, combined with a plain and concise mode of narration." "With this view, the career of [Little Paul has] been detached from the large mass of matter with which [he was] originally connected, and presented, in the author's own language, to a new class of readers, to whom the little volumes will, we doubt not, be as attractive as the larger originals have so long proved to the general public."Condition:Clean covers and spine with no stains; 1" cloth tear at the top-right corner of the spine; horizontal crease across the front cover which is also visible on the opposite side of the board. Occasional foxing and staining to the pages (heaviest on end… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. In contemporary fine binding, signed "Bound by Launder", half morocco over marbled boards, matching marbled end pages, back with gilt lettering, tail date and ornate decorations in gilt, top edge gilt. Very Good, light wear at spine ends and fore edges. 464 pp, with illustrations by the author. First appeared as a serialization in "Harper's Magazine", this First American Edition is the first edition in book form. . First American Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Longmans, Green and Co.,. Hardback. 11 volumes, very attractively bound. Includes Venetia, Coningsby, Edymion, Lothair, The Young Duke and Count Alarcos, Vivian Grey, Tancred, Sybil, Henrietta Temple, Contarini Fleming and the Rise of Iskander, and Alroy. Light brown cloth with gilt and black titles and decorations to spines, and dark blue and gilt cartouche to the front with gilt and blue border, and further gilt boarder to the edges of the front board. Each page has a red border line around the text. Title pages each with a different engraving showing an aspect of Disraeli's county house, Hughenden Manor, the lake, the terrace, the study, etc. Edward Buckton Lamb had done the remodelling of the house for Disraeli and his family. Very clean. Cloth is rather softened and a little worn to spine ends, some corners are slightly bumped. Some rubbing to corners. Just a little faded to spines. Text is clean. Bindings are sound. Still very pretty, tight, clean, square set. Good+ set… Read More

2015 Berkeley, University of California Press. Full numberline, "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" appears on the copyright page. Not remainder marked, dj is not clipped. Dj clean with no rips, no discoleration, looks fine in Brodart protective sleeve. Boards clean & square. Pages clean, unmarked & bright. Black cloth binding firm & straight, gold lettering on spine fine.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, bookseller label on front . pastedown, top corner of front free endpaper removed, 1902 owner signature . on front flyleaf.. 1899. Later Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth with decorative torch design stamped in gilt on front boards, signed with initials "MP". Titles stamped in gilt on spine. Top edges gilt. Frontispiece photogravure portrait of the author by H. G. Rogers. xiii, 217 pp. Originally published in 1893 when she was still married to her first husband, Charles Walter Stetson, this is Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first published book of poems. She later became renowned for her feminist writings, most notably, her much reprinted short story "The Yellow Wallpaper".; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

"LITTLE PAUL" from the "Dombey and Son" of Charles Dickens. Circa 1850's (there is no date of publication stated); Redfield; New York. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. Scarce volume from the 6-volume "DICKENS' LITTLE FOLKS" series which was "undertaken with a view of supplying the want of a class of books for children, of a vigorous, manly tone, combined with a plain and concise mode of narration." "With this view, the career of [Little Paul has] been detached from the large mass of matter with which [he was] originally connected, and presented, in the author's own language, to a new class of readers, to whom the little volumes will, we doubt not, be as attractive as the larger originals have so long proved to the general public."Condition:Clean covers and spine with no stains; 1" cloth tear at the top-right corner of the spine; horizontal crease across the front cover which is also visible on the opposite side of the board. Occasional foxing and staining to the pages (heaviest on end… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. In contemporary fine binding, signed "Bound by Launder", half morocco over marbled boards, matching marbled end pages, back with gilt lettering, tail date and ornate decorations in gilt, top edge gilt. Very Good, light wear at spine ends and fore edges. 464 pp, with illustrations by the author. First appeared as a serialization in "Harper's Magazine", this First American Edition is the first edition in book form. . First American Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Longmans, Green and Co.,. Hardback. 11 volumes, very attractively bound. Includes Venetia, Coningsby, Edymion, Lothair, The Young Duke and Count Alarcos, Vivian Grey, Tancred, Sybil, Henrietta Temple, Contarini Fleming and the Rise of Iskander, and Alroy. Light brown cloth with gilt and black titles and decorations to spines, and dark blue and gilt cartouche to the front with gilt and blue border, and further gilt boarder to the edges of the front board. Each page has a red border line around the text. Title pages each with a different engraving showing an aspect of Disraeli's county house, Hughenden Manor, the lake, the terrace, the study, etc. Edward Buckton Lamb had done the remodelling of the house for Disraeli and his family. Very clean. Cloth is rather softened and a little worn to spine ends, some corners are slightly bumped. Some rubbing to corners. Just a little faded to spines. Text is clean. Bindings are sound. Still very pretty, tight, clean, square set. Good+ set… Read More