A Life in Letters: Ann Landers' Letters to Her Only Child

by Howard, Margo

Description: Near Fine; Near Fine Jacket. LARGE PRINT. 2003 Warner Books-Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition. Contains the complete, unabridged text of the original publisher's edition. Hardcover book has black paper-covered boards and gold spine lettering. Very small smudge on bottom of front cover. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine gently bumped. 690 pages. Glossy illustrated dust jacket has very light edge and surface wear. Large Print edition. Includes dust jacket. Read More

Letters and Miscellanies of Robert Louis Stevenson: Correspondence Addressed to Sidney Colvin, November 1890 to October 1894 (Volume 17, Vailima Letters)

by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Description: Good; No jacket. 1901 Charles Scribner's Sons. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has red cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering and decorations. Spine has gold thistle flower pattern in three sections; front cover has gold ruled border. Top page edges gilt. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Black & white frontispiece portrait has tissue guard. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. Spine slightly faded. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned ... Read More

Botelho's Spanish-English Master Letters: With Explanatory Footnotes on Spanish Usage and Foreign Trade Terms, Practice and Procedures

by Botelho, Francis M.

Description: Very Good; Good Jacket. 1943 Macrae-Smith Company. Seventh printing. Hardcover has black cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering. NOT ex-library. Spanish and English on opposite pages. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. Covers have a few light smudges. Name and address in ink on front free endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked. 292 pages. Dust jacket has overall surface rubbing, chipped and nicked edges, small ... Read More

The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page. 3 Vols

by Hendrick, Burton J.

Description: Good +; No jackets. Doubleday, Page & Company. 3 volumes, all marked first edition. Blue cloth binding with gold spine and cover lettering. Top edges gilt. Illustrated with black & white plates. Frontispieces. Corners lightly bumped; some corners a little frayed. Spine of volume 1 has remains of a name written in pencil and a small spot; spine of vol. 2 has a small spot. Spine ends bumped and lightly worn. Hinges a bit loose, but NOT cracked. Top edges lightly faded. Name and gift inscription ... Read More

Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches With Elucidations: in Three Volumes

by Carlyle, Thomas; Cromwell, Oliver

Description: Very Good; No jacket. Colonial Press Company. Circa 1895. No date stated. Three volumes. Beacon Edition of the Complete Works of Thomas Carlyle. NOT ex-library. Hardcovers have maroon cloth-covered boards with paper spine labels. Deckle fore edges. Top edges gilt. Tissued frontispiece. Tissued black and white plates. Bindings tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. Covers have a few light smudges and specks: volume 1 more so on the back ... Read More

Mary Russell Mitford: Correspondence With Charles Boner & John Ruskin

by Mitford, Mary Russell; Lee, Elizabeth (Editor)

Description: Good; No jacket. 1914 T. Fisher Unwin. First Edition. "Presentation Copy" embossed on title page. Hardcover has blue cloth-covered boards with gold stamped spine and cover lettering. Black and white frontispiece. Seven additional black and white plates. Top edges gilt. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Hinges NOT cracked. Binding cracked at page 17, still intact. Binding a bit loose in places, but good overall and still functional. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with some fraying at ... Read More

Remember the Distance That Divides Us: the Family Letters of Philadelphia Quaker Abolitionist and Michigan Pioneer Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, 1830-1842

by Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret; Mason, Marcia J. Heringa (Editor)

Description: Near Fine; Very Good Jacket. 2004 Michigan State University Press. SIGNED by editor on half-title page, with a personal inscription. First Edition. First printing. Full number line on verso. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has tan cloth-covered boards with brown spine lettering. Binding tight. Appears to be unread. No visible wear to book. Pages clean and unmarked. 458 pages. Dust jacket has very light edge and surface wear, with some wrinkling at the top edge. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. ... Read More

Correspondence Between Frances, Countess of Hartford, and Henrietta Louisa, Countess of Pomfret, Between the Years 1738 and 1741, in Three Volumes, Second Edition

by Seymour, Frances; Pomfret, Henrietta Louisa

Description: Fair; No jackets. 1806 Richard Phillips, London. Three volumes, complete. Bound in full brown leather with speckled surface pattern. Covers have narrow floral gilt borders and gilt tooled edges. Spines have six panels, four with gilt stamped floral ornament. Gilt title on each is on red leather spine label and volume number on black label. Spines have gilts stamped bands which are not raised. All page edges are blue speckled. Black and white frontispiece. Red silk index ribbons in each volume; ... Read More

Letters of Horace Walpole Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann, in 7 Volumes

by Walpole, Horace

Description: Good; No jacket. 1833 and 1843-4 Richard Bentley, London. Seven volumes with matched late 19th-century bindings. NOT ex-library. First series (3 vols, 1833) is Second edition, Edited by Lord Dover. Concluding series (4 vols, 1843-44) appears to be first edition, no edition stated. Uniformly bound and numbered Vol I-VII on spines. Bindings marked "Birdsall & Son, Northampton" on verso of front free endpapers, along bottom edge. Half-bound in tan calf with ruled borders over red, blue, and white ... Read More

Correspondence Between the Right Honble. William Pitt and Charles Duke of Rutland Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1781-1787

by Pitt, William; Charles Duke Of Rutland

Description: Very Good; No jacket. 1890 William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. Late 19th-century contemporary binding. NOT ex-library. Binding marked "Birdsall & Son, Northampton" on verso of front free endpaper, along bottom edge. Half-bound in maroon leather with gold ruled borders over maroon, black and gold marbled paper-covered boards. Matching marbled endpapers. Gilt spine decorations, with gilt title on a green panel; spine has two raised bands. Top edges gilt. Binding tight. Hinges NOT ... Read More

Letters of William Wheeler of the Class of 1855, Y. C.

by Wheeler, William

Description: Good; No jacket. 1875 Printed for private distribution, printed by H.O. Houghton and Company, Riverside, Cambridge (Mass). First Edition. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has brown cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering and black cover decorations. Black coated endpapers. Tissued frontispiece is pasted-in photographic print. Tissue guard and photo lightly foxed. Name in ink on first blank page after endpaper, dated 1876. Binding cracked inside, with two ... Read More