Search Results: Vintage Nonfiction from Stone Soup Books

R J Dodsley, 1756. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Rebound in green cloth with gilt on spine. 4th Edition in two volumes re-bound together. Previous owner's bookplate to front endpapers. Toning throughout

Lakeside Press, 1933. Limited. Cloth. Good/Poor. Sylvain Savage. Limited Edition Club, #1202 of 1500 copies. Endpapers are tanned. Interior is unmarked. Spine is has tanned heavily to a medium brown from original blue cloth. Lovely illustrations throughout. Box Cover is poor with taped edges and many chips, box is mostly separated on all sides

Grand Chapter, 1916. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Twentieth edition. Green cloth with black imprint & lettering. Some light smudging, edgewear. Previous owner's name on ffep, text lightly toned

Nordeman Publishing, 1939. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardcover, translated and revised by T. W. J. Taylor and A. F. Millidge. Nice, colid copy: clean and tight. No marks apparent but small inscription on front endpaper, and a few pencillings to contents page. Binding sound. Light general wear to boards.

Elsevier, 1947. hard cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardcback. In Very Good condition: clean and tight. Light general wear.

Elsevier, 1946. Good/No Jacket. Hardcover, translated by A. J. Mee. In Good condition: clean, no marks apparent but for small inscription to front endpaper. Binding separating at front hinge. Light general wear.

Cooke. Full-Leather. Poor. 2 Volumes full calf. Heavy wear to covers, chipping and cracked at hinges. Vol1 front cover, front endpaper and frontispiece fully detached but remaining binding is tight. Previous owner's name and date on ffep, foxing throughout and frontispiece engraving clipped and creased on vol II.

Pryor Russell, 1966. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. Tan wraps with clean interior. Moderate wear to covers with creases at spine and rubbing at corners. 171 pp

The World Publishing. hard cover. Good/Fair. No date. DJ has many chips and tears,clipped but still bright. Toned heavily and previous owner's name and city, state but nice and tight

John Lane, 1907. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Stars of the Stage with sixteen full page illustrations. Green cloth with gilt title. Teg. Light wear at edges and lightly toned to spine. Previous owner's bookplates on fep and frontispiece photo beginning to separate otherwise tight and square.

G.S. Appleton, 1868. Cloth. Fair/Good/No Jacket. Firmly bound copy of this classic textbook. Dark green/black boards well worn with moderate chip from top of spine, smaller chip from bottom. Spine has gold-gilt lettering and raised design. Pages well foxed with occasional light staining but clean and readable, with occasional little pencil mark. Front flyleaf torn away.

Ginn, 1900. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering and black decorative stamping. Covers is scuffed heavily, fraying and fading on spine. Front hinge is cracked and previous owner's name on front end paper. Still tight binding. 141 pp + advertisements

J & H Miller, 1859. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Ohio School library with black cloth binding and partial leather to spine. Heavy wear to boards with spotting, cloth fraying at corners. Marbled text edges and endpapers. Missing ffep, previous library bookplate to endpaper. Unmarked and illustrated with a number of engravings. Foxing to text.

Bentley, 1855. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 3 Volumes. 10th Edition. Rebound in blue leather with gilt border. Ribbed spine with gilt decoration, gilt lettering completely faded. Some moderate wear at spine edges and corners bumped. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Gift inscription on Vol I and front cover are fully detached on all three volumes

Lucis, 1931. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Blue with gilt lettering. Boards weak with corners bent and some chipping. Interior is clean and unmarked. 190 pp tight and square

Smith, Elder & Co, 1883. First Edition. Three-Quarters Leather. Good/No Jacket. 2 Volumes with portrait and map. 3/4 leather & marbled covers with gilt. Top edge gilt Rubbed at spine edges and fraying at corners. Interior is clean with small bookplate on front endpaper. Endpapers marbled. Vol I - Title page separated & 1st few pages starting to separate at top otherwise tight. 536 pp, Vol II - tight, 654 pp. Front hinges on both are week and worn at cover.

Macmillan & Co, 1891. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Good+, Tight and square, couple heavy spots on front cover else very good. Red cloth with gilt imprint to cover and gilt lettering to spine, 1/2" tear at top edge of spine. Interior is clean and unmarked, light toning

BIDDLE PRESS, 1914. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. VG with clean unmarked text. Brown covers with black lettering. B/W photos throughout with interesting captions. Tight and square. Small stain at top edge front cover

The University Society, 1927. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Red cloth heavily worn. Faded at spine, cannot read title. Slightly shaken to right and toned but unmarked text. Spotting to back cover and text edges.

American Book Company, 1896. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Black tape repair at spine with newly typed spine title. Book in protective mylar. Hinges exposed, pencil marks throughout and 1 page torn in 1/2 but torn section present.