longfellow ralph waldo (33 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Nice bright and strong copy with clean pages. Only the slightest bit of wear. Maroon and white dust jacket is lightly rubbed at the corners with a 1" closed tear at the top left corner of the front.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Ships quickly. Almost like new. Minimal shelf/reading wear. Orphans Treasure Box sells books to raise money for orphans and vulnerable kids.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Used - Good.

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Hard Cover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Jacket has edgewear, chipped at tip, closed tear on fold. Boards have a bumped corner. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Condición: Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed gray wraps. The wraps are lightly bumped with their edges somewhat darkened & with light soiling to the rear wrap. There is a pencil notation at the top of the front wrap. 41 & [1] pages, including rear wrap. Illustrated with facsimiles in the text. The top page corners are slightly bumped. Good.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. A few small chips from jacket edges, jacket price clipped. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1946 Hard Cover. xii, 121 pp. A collection of wisdom from various literary greats such as Charles Dickens, Francis Bacon, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, with woodcut illustrations by Rockwell Kent.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 358 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. ; LCCN 95050472 ; LC Z2014.P7 B39 1997 ; ISBN 9780847819584, 0847819582 ; OCLC 33818867 ; black and tan cloth in photographic dustjacket ; The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture ; Contents: Foreword / by Paul LeClerc -- Introduction / by Rodney Phillips -- The magical value of manuscripts / Dana Gioia -- Poems and papers. John Donne -- Alexander Pope -- William Blake -- Robert Burns -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Leigh Hunt -- George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Emily Bronte? -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry David Thoreau -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- James Russell Lowell -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Alfred Lord Tennyson -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Lewis Carroll -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rudyard Kipling -- Thomas Hardy -- Charlotte Mew -- Hilaire Belloc -- Oscar Wilde -- Ernest Dowson -- William Butler Yeats -- James Stephens -- Robert Frost -- Edward Thomas -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Rupert Brooke -- Issac Rosenberg -- Humbert Wolfe -- Anna Wickham -- D.H. Lawrence -- Robert Graves -- Elinor Wylie -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Robinson Jeffers -- William Faulkner -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Ezra Pound -- T.S. Eliot -- Marianne Moore -- E.E. Cummings -- Vladimir Nabokov -- W.H. Auden -- Louise Bogan -- Kay Boyle -- Lorine Niedecker -- Louis Zukofsky -- Charles Olson -- Stanley Kunitz -- Jean Garrigue -- May Sarton -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Delmore Schwartz -- Dylan Thomas -- Randall Jarrell -- John Berryman -- Robert Lowell -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Howard Moss -- Richard Wilbur -- Jack Kerouac -- Allen Ginsberg -- Gary Snyder -- Robert Duncan -- Denise Levertov -- Robert Creeley -- James Schuyler -- Frank O'Hara -- Kenneth Koch -- Ted Berrigan -- Ron Padgett -- Anne Waldman -- Donald Justice -- Samuel Menashe -- James Merrill -- Amy Clampitt -- James Wright -- W.S. Merwin -- Anne Sexton -- Sylvia Plath -- Philip Levine -- Jean Valentine -- Adrienne Rich -- Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Mark Strand -- Louise Glu?ck -- Charles Simic -- Ai -- Dana Gioia -- Julia Alvarez -- The Prado of poetry : a history of the Berg Collection / Dana Gioia -- Suggestions for further reading -- Checklist of illustrations/permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Index ; Based on an enormously successful exhibition at The New York Public Library, The Hand of the Poet draws the reader into the real world of the poet - ink spots, tobacco stains, and all - by presenting a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia. One hundred writers from the seventeenth century to the present day are represented. Biographies and portraits of each poet - alongside manuscripts of such legendary works as Yeats's "The Wild Swans at Coole" and W.H. Auden's "Stop All the Clocks"--Make up a mosaic that offers powerful and often surprising revelations of the person behind the poem ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 55 PAGES. TURQUOISE- BLUE COVER. GOLD GILT & BLACK LETTERING AND DESIGN ON THE COVER AND SPINE. THREE EDGES GOLD GILT. OCTAVO.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. This book published in England the same year of American publication. Binding tight. Text block has no marks or writing. Pages are tanned. Light shelf wear to covers. Front hinge was repaired. Satisfaction guaranteed. Ships in 24 hours. Selling quality books since 1991.

Hardcover. Condición: Good+. No Jacket. All in good to very good condition. A group of undated books published by Cornell with no copyright page: Series, (of about 300 books over time), dates: 1898-1927. I believe this series was issued with dust jacket that contained the copyright information. Size: 5? x 7.25?. Titles: Hawthorne: Moses From an Old Manse, The Blithedale, The Marble Faun, Grandfather's Chair, Tanglewood Tales, Twice Told Tales, The Scarlet Letter. Black: A Princess of Thule, Wings. Longfellow: Hyperion. Cooper: Wing and Wing. Emerson: English Traits.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. xii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm ; OCLC 793852836; art nouveau design with thistles and in green and brown on brown cloth ; no dustjacket ; missing first four pages (replacements provided); "Reading with appreciation is a fine art. This volume contains some of the gems of literature which the race has learned to love. Some of the 'old fashioned selections' and some of the most charming new short classics, are offered as a basis for study and appreciation. The average pupil will study his reading lesson with zest if he is given some definite work to do. In these studies, the brief introduction to each selection is intended to whet the pupil's appetite.The exercises following each study make his study definite and to the point. Helpful notes are added wherever necessary, and additional readings are given. ; Contents: America -- Our native land -- The young witness -- Your first duty -- The blind men and the elephant -- Washington's rules of conduct -- The captain's daughter -- What do they say? -- The whistle -- My dog Blanco -- None of the beauty is wasted -- Arthur's prayer at Rugby -- All is beauty -- Life -- Woodman! Spare that tree! -- Why do bells for Christians ring? -- Expert dervice -- The Three Graces -- Professor Frog's lecture -- Flower in the crannied wall -- The High Court of Inquiry -- A prayer -- To a waterfowl -- The mystery of life -- Song -- Santa Filomena -- The country's call -- How t he crickets brought good fortune -- The flag -- In school days -- Four things -- The flag goes by -- A message to Garcia -- The Brook -- The barefoot boy -- The old Puritan lawmaker -- Work done squarely -- Is there a Santa Claus? -- Nathan Hale -- Kind hearts and simple faith -- De. John Goodfellow-Office Upstairs -- The procrustean bed -- The book our mothers read -- Horatius at the bridge -- True courage -- The house by the side of the road -- The eagle -- The name of Old Glory -- The North American Indian -- The glove and the lion -- How sleep the brave? -- The bloodless sportsman -- An old Armenian gate -- Press onward -- A defense of teh crow -- Our national banner -- The builders -- Nature's song -- Hail to the harvest -- The wonderful one-hoss seat -- Portia's plea -- The sport of my life -- The ship of state -- The landing of the Pilgrims -- Courage -- A psalm of life -- My mind to me a kingdom is -- The barmicide feast -- The man that wins -- Books -- Leonainie -- A parable on brotherly love -- A thing of beauty -- A boy's song -- The legend of St. Christopher -- The sandpiper -- The man wihtout a country -- The seed growing secretly -- Spartacus to the gladiators -- On his blindness -- The rising in 1776 -- We seek for beauty -- Somewhere -- A call to arms -- Dare to do right -- The burial of Moses -- Service -- Think for thyself -- Truth -- The prodigal sopn -- We thank Thee -- The bishop and the convict -- A call to courage -- The Christ of the Andes -- Dear land of all my love -- Antony's oration -- Three gates of gold -- True dignity -- Lincoln, the great commoner -- Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? -- Unweaponed peace -- For a that and a that -- Lo, the poor Indian! -- The vision of Sir Launfel -- My symphony -- The great stone face -- The shepherd psalm -- The Lord's prayer. ; authors: Samuel Francis Smith, C T Brooks, S H Hammond, David Starr Jordan, John G. Saze, George Washington, James T. Fields, Benjamin Franklin, J G Holland, William A McKeever, Thomas Hughes, Robert Browning, James Russell Lowell, George P Morris, Lydia Atery Coonley Ward, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sait Paul, MAL Lane, Alfred Tennyson, Samuel Wilberforce, William Cullen Bryant, John Ruskin, Henry Ladsworth Longfellow, Thmpson, PJ Stahl, George Hoar, Jphn greenleaf Whittier, Henry Van Dyke, Henry Holcomb Bennett, Elbert Hubbard, Robert E Lee, Charles A Dana, Francis Miles Finch, James Ball Naylor, Charles Kingsley, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Sam Walter Foss, James Whitcomb Riley, ;scarce ; FAIR. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Good - Cash. Set of 12, Hawthorne volumes 1 - 6, Emerson volumes 1 - 3, Whittier, Longfellow and Bryant, Holmes and Lowell. All volumes have general reader wear to the corners, edges, and cover. Corners have been bumped a bit. The pages show some general reader wear as well. The books are in good condition with some normal reader wear. Some discoloration to the spines. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. 64mo - up to 3" tall. 1st edition. A Fine copy. 64mo.(3" tall), 44 pp., with engraved title page and illustration throughout. Bound in simulated wood grain, with title on the front board as if burned in. All edges gilt. A Fine copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Julian Brazleton Ilustrador. Literary Classics Edition xiv, 655 p. illus. (facsim) 17 cm. LCCN 43051076 OCLC 944648 LC PS507 .W64 Dewey 810.82 ; grey-green boards with blue designs and lettering, in color dustjacket ; Contents: [1.] American fiction. The devil and Daniel Webster/ Stephen Vincent Bene?t -- Tom Whipple / Walter D. Edmonds -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- Missionary journeys / Willa Cather -- The duke and the daupin come aboard / Mark Twain -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- A preacher goes to war / John W. Thomason, Jr -- Uncle Remus / Joel Chandler Harris -- A last will / Williston Fish -- One arrowhead day / Harry Leon Wilson -- The skylight room / O. Henry -- Rupe Collins / Booth Tarkington -- Our new telephone / Ruth Gordon -- Some like them cold / Ring Lardner -- At the end of the car line / Ben Hur Lampman -- The Japanese / Ogden Nash -- Fifty grand / Ernest Hemingway -- The waltz / Dorothy Parker -- You mean common / Arthur Kober -- Address Unknown / Kressman Taylor. -- [2.] American verse. -- Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Death and General Putnam / Arthur Guiterman -- Home, Sweet Home / John Howard Payne -- To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- Battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe -- Nancy Hanks / Rosemary Bene?t -- Ethiopia saluting the colors / Walt Whitman -- As toilsome I wandered Virginia's woods / Walt Whitman -- Little boy blue / Eugene Field -- The last leaf / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement C. Moore -- American laughter / Kenneth Allan Robinson -- Plain language from truthful James / Bret Harte -- Little Willie / Eugene Field -- The mystery of Gilgal / John Hay -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- The old man and Jim / James Whitcomb Riley -- John L. Sullivan, the strong boy of Boston / Vachel Lindsay -- Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- I have a rendezvous with death / Alan Seeger -- my sweet old etcetera / e. e. cummings -- Two-volume novel / Dorothy Parker -- Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight / Vachel Lindsay -- The maid-servant at the inn / Dorothy Parker -- The death of the hired man / Robert Frost -- Lament / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- Early moon / Carl Sandburg -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Grass / Carl Sandburg -- Shenandoah Road / E.B. White -- Aged four / Mildred Focht -- Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- To fight aloud is very brave / Emily Dickinson -- Song in exile / Alice Duer Miller -- Scum o' the earth / Robert Haven Schauffler -- My city / James Weldon Johnson -- Farewell, my friends / Clarence Day. -- [3.] American fact. -- The declaration of independence -- A letter from Franklin to Washington -- Under a cloud of sail / Richard Henry Dana -- Where I lived and what I lived for / Henry David Thoreau -- The hunting camp / Francis Parkman -- The only one / Maude Barnes Miller -- The death of John Quincy Adams / Carl Sandburg -- For us, the living / Alexander Woollcott -- The second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- The Confederate army / John W. Thomason, Jr -- The first G.A.R. parade / Lloyd Lewis -- Three speeches / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr -- The Trawnbeighs / Charles M. Flandrau -- Thanksgiving proclamation / Wilbur L. Cross -- Mary White / William Allen White -- A wedding notice from the Fountain inn tribune / Robert Quillen -- A letter from Nicola Sacco to his son -- Mon pays / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Coon hunt / E.B. White --A visit to London / Frank Sullivan -- The turtle / Ogden Nash -- The Norse travel again / W.L. White -- First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A talk to young men / Robert C. Benchley -- P.S. he got the job / Anonymous -- The new colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Inscription on the tomb of the unknown soldier ; FINE/VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good- condition. First Edition. viii, 192 pages of text. Original decorative hardcover cloth binding is moderately shelfworn and soiled, remaining intact and attractive. Illustrated with portraits of the poets, facsimiles of handwritten poems, and illustrations of their homes. Essays are written by H. N. Powers, F. B. Sanborn, and R. H. Stoddard. Previous owner's name neatly on a front endpaper. Minor yellowing/browning/aging to the text. First edition. Size: Quarto (4to). Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 314 pages ; OCLC 927145016 (online version); art nouveau design with sunflowers and in green and brown on brown cloth ; no dustjacket ; "Reading with appreciation is a fine art. This volume contains some of the gems of literature which the race has learned to love. Some of the 'old fashioned selections' and some of the most charming new short classics, are offered as a basis for study and appreciation. The average pupil will study his reading lesson with zest if he is given some definite work to do. In these studies, the brief introduction to each selection is intended to whet the pupil's appetite.The exercises following each study make his study definite and to the point. Helpful notes are added wherever necessary, and additional readings are given. ; Selections include: The American Boy -- The Light That Is Felt -- The Tiger The Brahman, And The Jackal -- A Kind Word -- Little Brown Hands -- The Lame Man And The Blind Man -- The Owl And The Pussy-cat -- September -- The Arab And His Camel -- The Shepherd Boy And The Wolf -- Needless Pain -- Because He Loves Us -- Marjorie's Almanac -- The Brown Thrush -- Truth -- God Bless Our Flag -- The Quails -- The Discontented Stonecutter -- The Cloud -- All Things Beautiful -- Labor -- The Matsuyama Mirror -- Work While You Work -- The Pen -- The Quest -- God Bless The Commonplace -- A Bright Chinese Boy -- The Grapevine Swing -- Beautiful Joe -- Forget-me-not -- October's Bright Blue Weather -- Daisies -- So Much Of Goodness -- The Breaking In Of Black Beauty -- The Children's Hour -- The Magic Mill -- The Corn Song -- Daniel Webster's First Case -- The Day Is Done -- The Image And The Treasure -- Somebody's Mother -- Look For Goodness -- The Code Barbarian -- The Discontented Pendulum -- True Success -- Which Loved Best? -- Hope -- The Story Of King Midas -- T Is The Last Rose Of Summer -- Home, Sweet Home -- The Fight -- A Simple Recipe -- The Angels Song -- A Visit From St, Nicholas -- Ring Out, Wild Bells! -- Beauty In Common Things -- Letters Of Recommendation -- A Song For Flag Day -- The Stone In The Road -- Answer To A Child's Question -- Paul Revere's Ride -- The Dream Of Home -- The Choice Of Hercules -- Thomas Jefferson's Ten Rules -- After The Shipwreck -- The Lost Camel -- The Planting Of The Apple Tree -- We Should Smile -- The Humbug -- Sky-born Music -- The Pebble And The Acorn -- The Tree -- Service -- The Sleeping Beauty -- A Wholesome Tongue -- The Village Blacksmith -- Genuine Heroism -- The Legend Of Indian Corn -- Robert E. Lee -- The City Mouse And The Country Mouse -- Our Birth--The First Roses -- A Little Sermon -- Four-leaf Clover -- Love's Nobility -- A Prayer -- Casabianca -- Be What Thou Seemest -- Thor And The Giants -- The Spider And The Fly -- The Mouse And The Moonbeam -- The Schoolhouse And The Flag -- The Snow-image -- Index Of Authors ; Numerous Biblical references appear in Searson's Studies in Reading (1923), but the movement is toward secular stories with a moral emphasizing social values. This reader, published after World War I, begins with a poem, "The American Boy." It is a dialogue between a father and son about patriotism. According to the author of this reader, the influence of the story "The Poor Little Match Girl" "founded many an orphan home and organized hundreds of societies for relief of the worthy poor," which indicates an emphasis on philanthropy and social work during the era of the Social Gospel.80% of selections taught traditional values."-- Sharon Vincz Andrews ; signature of a youthful Gerald Grout, later a Kansas Ophthalmologist ; GOOD. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good condition. 1st printing of First Collected Edition. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1879. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. No owner's name or bookplate. Inner hinges are firm. Scattered speckles (foxing) on preliminary blank pages. These works originally appeared between 1832 and 1868 in the journal, North American Review. There are 12 essays by: William Hickling Prescott, Caleb Cushing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Bancroft, John Lothrop Motley, Washington Irving, Charles Francis Adams, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George William Curtis, Francis Parkman, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Some of the essays are published here for the first time in book form. For example, Bancroft's The Last Moments of Eminent Men is BAL 679. Washington Irving's essay [The Northmen] is cited in BAL (volume 5, page 91). Lowell's contribution [Shakespeare Once More] is also in BAL (volume 6, page 94). John Milton by Ralph Waldo Emerson is item G94 in Myerson. Also included is Mechanism of Vital Actions by O. W. Holmes (1857), although this first appeared in book form in 1861 (See Currier/Tilton 469). Original dark green cloth, gilt decorated. 1st printing of First Collected Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. 8vo. vi, 482pp + 6 pages of ads.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good+ binding. Miniature Book. #161/500. No pencil or ink markings in text. Brown flexible cover. Very Good+ binding.

First Edition. First edition. Miniature book that measures 2.5" x 3". Copy 81 of 500. Includes stories by William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Ralph Waldo Emerson. An about very good copy with some wear to the top of the spine and bottom of the front corner. No dust jacket as issued. Internally, a clean copy.

1st Edition. The album is divided into sections, each section devoted to one of these 6 iconic American poets & authors. First, affixed to the page, is an original silver gelatin portrait photograph of each taken at that time, except for Whittier's photo is an albumen taken at an earlier time as he had died in 1892, Lowell's is also an albumen as he died in 1891; and Holmes is also an albumen.Next isa description of their place of birth and a photograph of the home they were born in and grew up in. Some historical details are provided of what life was like when they were growing up. Next are photos of their "get-a-ways" where they did much of their writing (that were preserved as historical landmarks) and the specific poems or stories that were written there by them. There are also some details of their personal lives. Included are photographs of homes in Salem, MA, where Hawthorn grew up, that were built in the 17th C - houses of witchcraft fame - including the "House of Seven Gables"; a photo of "Custom House", Salem, where Hawthorne was appointed Collector of the Port in 1846; aphotograph of "The Old Wayside Inn", built in the late 1600s, a tavern that Longfellow made famous in his "Tales of the Wayside Inn"; a photo of Emerson's grave in "Sleepy Hollow", just a few feet away from the graves of the Alcotts, Hawthorne, and Thoreau. All-in-all, there are 32 tipped-in photographic images, both albumen & silver gelatin, one per leaf, recto only. Images preceded by a printed caption sheet. Landscape format: 7-1/4" x 8-5/8" A rare testimonial publication celebrating these 6 New England authors. not found on OCLC, nor in the NUC. No records of this book on RBH. Given the lack of any institutional record, or sales record, for this volume, we posit itâs publication was done privately, in very limited numbers. General wear & scuffing to binding. Later poi to preliminary blank. Front hinge cracked. Withal, a Very Good copy. Photographs have aged well, generally Very Good. Period brown full leather binding, with gilt stamped title lettering to front cover, with both covers having a perimeter rule to the edges. Floral patterned-paper eps. TEG.

Unbound. Condición: Near Fine. Portfolio. Twenty engraved plates and one contents card laid into a four-fold chemise of leather over watered silk. The engraved cards are nicely printed on either white or pale pink cards measuring 5" x 7" with rounded corners and gilt edges. The engraved cards are bright and about fine with the author's name penciled neatly in a tiny hand on the unprinted verso (and one with a small penciled note on the front); contents card a trifle foxed with one tiny edge nick. Housed in the worn remains of the four-fold chemise that is lacking several panels, including the front cover. We located a couple of examples in the trade of the same engravings but bound accordion-style into cloth. In that case, the publisher's information was printed at the bottom of the contents card; we are unsure why it was removed for this iteration.

Rare collection of albumen silver print portraits of eminent 19th century poets and American authors. Octavo, three volumes, original pictorial covers, bound with the original ribbons. Including the portraits of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George William Curtis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louisa May Alcott, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. In very good condition. Rare and unique. The albumen print, also called albumen silver print, was published in January 1847 by Louis Dà sirà Blanquart-Evrard, and was the first commercially exploitable method of producing a photographic print on a paper base from a negative. It used the albumen found in egg whites to bind the photographic chemicals to the paper and became the dominant form of photographic positives from 1855 to the start of the 20th century, with a peak in the 1860-90 period.

Leather Bound. Condición: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1850. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: - 388, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 388 388.