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Plantation Songs - For My Lady's Banjo and Other Negro Lyrics & Monologues by Eli Shepperd. Pictures by J. W. Otts. Published by R. H. Russell. Copyright by Robert Howard Russell. New York. 1901.
Boards have light soiling. Boards have general edge and corner wear. Board corners are exposed and sloped. Spine face has chipping along edges. Outer page fore edges have toning. Front board feels loose though is fully attached. Front end page has tear at top edge along with small, scribbling inscriptions. Title page has "Specimen Copy" stamped at very top edge. Pages have light soiling throughout. See pictures for condition references and please ask any questions before purchasing!

Trappers Of New York or a Biography pf Nicholas Stoner & Nathaniel Foster; Together With Anecdotes Of Other Celebrated Hunters, And Some Account of Sir William Johnson, and his style of Living. By Jeptha R. Simms, Author of The History of Schoharie County, And Border Wars of New York. "He lifts the tube, and levels with his eye; Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky." - Pope. Albany: Printed By J. Munsell. 1850. Stereotyped.
Black cloth boards. Gold gilt stamp of a bear in a trap on the front board. Wear to the boards, edge and corner wear, corners exposed. Some chipping of the boards. Bottom and top spine bands are not present. Heavy chipping/exposure of the spine's edges. Pages have small sporadic stains, no foxing. There is some toning and smudging within. Four plates counted within the book. Previous owners name neatly penned to the end page.

History of New York City, From Discovery to The Present Day by William Stone. Virtue & Yorston, New York 1872. 20 engravings and 85 woodcuts, many beautiful portraits of American historical figures.
Marbled boards with 3/4 brown leather corners and spine/edge. Board edges have rubbing and chipping. Board corners are exposed and slightly sloped. Spine face/edges have creasing/lightly stressed. Outer page fore edges have marbling design as well as toning. Inner boards and end pages also have marble pattern. Some plates/surrounding pages have foxing. Most plates have original tissue-guards. Tissue-guards have transfer staining from plates. Pages have light toning around the edges. Front end pages, title pages, frontispiece/tissue guard all have foxing. Book held well. See pictures for condition references and please ask any questions before purchasing!