Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of ...
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Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
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Near Fine. No Jacket. Book Bright gold-stamped embossed navy cloth. 7" x 4.25." Gilt top edge. No names, clean text. With ads, frontispiece w/ tissue guard. "Twenty-seventh thousand" printed on title pg. Chapters: John Ruskin, Victor Hugo, Wordsworth, Goldsmith, Shakespeare, et al. 31, 000 PB shelf.
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Fair. Fair hardcover. Brown leather covers with title in gold on cover and spine. Text unmarked. Covers show edge wear with rubbings/scuffing and bumped corners. Spine edge wear. Hinges cracked but binding still intact. Fourth page is loose.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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Near Fine. Shakespeare, Thackery, Swift, Dickens, J. M. W. Turner, Gladstone, Goldsmith, Wordsworth, etc. Very pretty copy in blue cloth covers with blind stamped and gilt decorations; previous owner name dated "Christmas '98" on front end paper. Top edge gilt, untrimmed (deckeled) fore edge. Portraits with tissue guards. Stated as the "10th thousand."; B&W Portraits; 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 366 pages.
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illustated. Very Good. 4 1/2 x 7 1/4 The soft leather binding has hard leather title inserts in front and on spine. Top edge is gilt. Only slight damage to the leather edges of the rear where it overhangs the text. Eliot, Carlyle, Ruskin. Gladstone, Turner, Swift, Hugo, Wordsworth, Thackery, Dickens, Goldsmith, Shakespeare. emerson, Bryant,
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Very Good. pp.366 clean tight copy but for wife and husband's names on inside front cover and frontpiece. Oddly enough their last names are Hubbard. from Hamilton, Ontario. former bookstore in Hamilton small stamp on lower edge of frontpiece. Some research shows that these two names COULD be the parents of Canadian artist Robert Hamilton Hubbard (1916). book shows front and back spine gutter cracked but all pages intact, etchings of authors discussed have a piece of onion skin paper protection, top and bottom spines shows small tears and creases, top front spine hinge 1/4" tear down, wear to corners and shelf wear to board edges, gold gilt top edge and on front cover and spine for title, 3/4" rubbing to lower spine taking off the blue color of cloth Size: 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall.
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Good. The Roycroft Shops, 1908. Leather strap intact, leather spine with raised bands; cover very lightly rubbed/bumped/sunned/soiled, spine detached at front board spine juncture (still attached at rear spine juncture), front board coming detached from binding (still attached by binding threads) otherwise intact; edges faintly rubbed/bumped/sunned/soiled, top edge faintly foxed; pastedowns/endapers faintly sunned, endpapers lightly foxed, text block faintly foxed/age-toned; binding tight; interior intact and clean, except where noted; due to the size/weight of this item, additional shipping charges may apply for Expedited or International orders. hardcover. Good.
Perhaps not a very d&m work, but of interest to those who want to learn more of the C19 social areas. Enjoable, though not a work for serious students already familiar with this area.
Withall, covers ground not often covered, and well written.