Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Seller's Description:
Good. 490 pages, illustrations throughout by True W. Williams, green embossed cloth over boards with gilt spine title and decorations, illustration in gilt on front board. All edges worn, spine ends softened, corners curved, page edges and endpapers lightly soiled, contents near fine and binding is tight. American humorist commenting on social mores in the nineteenth century. Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975!
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True W. Williams. Good+ No Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 490+2 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Lightly soiled and rubbed w/ some wear to corners and spine ends. Corners bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block and throughout. Illust. w/ b/w drawings.
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Near Fine. Early reprint. 490pp. Decorative green cloth with blind and gilt stamping. Illustrations by True W. Williams. Spine ends nicked, corners lightly bumped, a very good copy.
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8vo, pp. 490 + 2 pages of adv. Illustrated with 36 plates and in-text engravings. Frontis portrait, Bound in green cloth, stamped in gilt. A very good copy of a book usually found in "well-read" condition. "Author humorist and popularizer of woman's rights and temperance doctrines"[NAW] was widely read as Josiah Allen's Wife. Her 20 humorous works, written in dialect belong to the tradition of Yankee humor established before the Civil War. Holley however, took the convention a step further to present a rustic philosopher who was a woman and who had strong opinions supporting woman's rights and temperance.