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Philadelphia, 1807. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - 9"x5.5. Book Vols. I & II Rebound ca. 1950 w/black hardboards w/gold lettering. Vol I First few pages (title and preface) have small tears, and remainder are good. Good minus, overall. pp 260 plus cxvii (117) in appendix; Vol II Title page has cloth tape along inside edge, and remainder are good. Good, overall. 242 pgs. plus cxxix (129) in appendix; To see picture, click to next;

Philadelphia, 1824. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - 7.25"x4.5. Book Vols I & II First Edition American pub'l 1824 by Abraham Small, Philadelphia, Vols I & II complete. Hardboard w/leather spines. Boards weakly attached; cloth taped inside, vol II spine split still attached. Pps. in good condition w/a tear on a blank page; pp vol I xxii, 257, vol II iv, 256; To see picture, click to next;

Philadelphia, 1849. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo 6" x 4. Book First Edition (Lib. of Congress has no earlier); pub'l Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1849 (dedication page dated March 10, 1849), Philadelphia; pp 139; 12mo 6" x 4"; Title pg. missing, 1st pg. is dedication page, #3 and back blanks gone. Fabric covered Dark brown hardboard w/impressed design. Bottom 3/4 of spine fabric gone w/top gilt decoration and two line end letters ------N / PREACHER remaining. Boards are about good w/tip wear and remainder of pgs. are tight; To see picture, click to next;

Hardcover. Poor. 16mo 6.75"x4. Book 3 books in one binding Hardback w/tan cloth covered boards, containing three Welsh vols. by William Williams. (1) Aleluia, &c.; 251 hymns (fst pub'l 1744); pp 179 (2) Bywyd Marwolaeth Theomemphus o'i Enedigaeth i'w Fedd.; Rhyfeddu i'm cof i ddala wrth feddwl pa fawl ton, O mewn o maes a redodd yn genllif tros fy mron.; gan Wiliam Wiliams; yr Ail Argraphiad; Aberhonddu, argraphwyd dros yr Awdwr gan (printed) E. Evans; 1781 (1st ed. 1764); William Williams of Pantycelyn (1717 - 11 Jan 1791) was an itinerant evangelist, poet and apologist for the great (Methodist) awakening in Wales. He is today considered to be one of Wales greatest writers, and is generally acknowledged as Wales most important hymn writer. Theomemphus is a narrative and allegorical poem on the pilgrimage of the soul; pp 180 (3) pgs 5 - 54 (w/inscription "only 1 leaf lost at the end"); Contains hymns 3 - 33 + 2 poems, the last being the beginning of Pennillion, wrth… Read More

"American Indian Fairy Tales", copyright 1921, 14th Ed, by W T Larned, pictures by John Rae, Fair, front cover loosely attached, Pages complete with light foxing on lower corner and no age toning.
Stories are taken from "Algic Researches" by Schoolcraft, 1839, and are "Iagoo the Storyteller", "Shin-ge-bis fools The North Wind, "The little Boy and Girl in the Clouds", "The Child of the Evening Star", "The Boy who snared the Sun", "How the Summer came", "Grasshopper", "Mish-o-sha the Magician" and "The Fairy Bride".

Boston, 1793. 1st Edition . Leather Bound. Poor. 8vo - 8.5"x5.5. Book Part I Part I only; 1st edition; Has two foldout maps, frontis map of two hemisphers of the world (showing Calif. as a peninsula & Fla as a stub) and at pg. 642 the map of S. America, w/one full pg. engraving at pg 32; printed by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews; 1793 Boston; pp 696; 8vo 8.5"x5.5"; Full leather, tears on spine at top & bottom, spine title, "Morse's Universal Geography" is readable, binding tight, fst & lst few pgs. w/some foxing, remaining pgs. good, two maps comlpete; To see picture, click to next;

London, 1810. Leather Bound. Fair. 9.5"x6.5. Book Vol. II Vol. II only. A book of plays. London pub'l by William Miller printed by James Ballantyne and Company, 1810, 9.5"x6.5" 614 pp Bound in full leather w/gold gilt, but with both boards detached. Spine present, wear to leather and boards, but w/most gold gilt title & decoration intact. The pages are very good with the gold edging virtually complete. Printed mostly in double column. Has 19 plays done ca. 1600 by John Marston, George Chapman, Ben Johnson, Cyril Tourneur, Lewis Machin, George Wilkins, Anthony Brewer, T.B.?, Thomas Middleton, etc.

Boston, 1823. Leather Bound. Fair. 4to - 11"x9. Book Pub'l & printed by Samuel Walker; Two Volumes complete; has (2) engraved pictorial title pgs, 6 maps (4 fold-out) & 15 full page engravings; pp Vol I, frontis, 7, Li, 624, Vol II, frontis, 3, 630; Full leather, boards loose but attached, top of spine leather chipped 2" on vol II, scuffing, end papers present, page binding tight, fold-out maps in good condition; To see picture, click to next;

London, 1810. Leather Bound. Fair. 9.5"x6.5. Book Vol. III Vol. III only. A book of plays. London pub'l by William Miller printed by James Moyes, 1810, 9.5"x6.5" 598pp + adver. pg. Bound in full leather w/gold gilt, but with both boards detached. Spine present, wear to leather and boards, but w/most gold gilt title & decoration intact. The pages are very good with the gold edging virtually complete. Printed mostly in double column. Has 18 plays done ca. 1600 by John Webster, Robert Tailor, Thomas Heywood, Shakerlay Marmion, William Cartwright, Richard Brome, Thomas May, James Shirley, J.T., Robert Davenport, etc.