marvel 1822 1908 (12 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. ***please read*** no marks on text - ex-school library - cover are worn all the away around - name sticker inside cover - so-f-81*.

New edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine worn, panel edges bumped and rubbed as with age. Frontispiece is accompanied by a guard sheet. Remains well preserved overall. Physical description: 260p; Subjects: Bachelors -- Fiction. Bachelors. Genre: Fiction. Novel. 3 Kg.

Fourteenth Edition. Good copy in the original elaborately blind-bordered and gilt-blocked cloth. Spine sun-toned with some minor dust-dulling to the panel edges. Minor marginalised foxing inside. Remains uncommonly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 298 pages; Description: 1 p. L. , xi, [15]-298 p. Front. 20 cm. Illustrated with a copper-engraved, tissue-protected frontis. 3 Kg.

1906 Edition. Very good copy in the original [period] pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 338 pages; Description: 7 p. L. , 3-338 p. Col. Front. , col. Plates. 21 cm. Subject: Dime novels. 3 Kg.

New edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine worn, panel edges bumped and rubbed as with age. Frontispiece is accompanied by a guard sheet. Remains well preserved overall. Physical description: 260p; Subjects: Bachelors -- Fiction. Bachelors. Genre: Fiction. Novel. 1 Kg.

Fourteenth Edition. Good copy in the original elaborately blind-bordered and gilt-blocked cloth. Spine sun-toned with some minor dust-dulling to the panel edges. Minor marginalised foxing inside. Remains uncommonly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 298 pages; Description: 1 p. L. , xi, [15]-298 p. Front. 20 cm. Illustrated with a copper-engraved, tissue-protected frontis. 1 Kg.

1906 Edition. Very good copy in the original [period] pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 338 pages; Description: 7 p. L. , 3-338 p. Col. Front. , col. Plates. 21 cm. Subject: Dime novels. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. viii pages, 2 leaves, 337, [2], [2] pages ;19 cm ; LCCN: 43-40894 ; LC: PZ3.M692; PS2404; Dewey: 814 ; OCLC: 642707223 ; red cloth, with gold lettering and designs, no dustjacket ; large dig on spine ; red textured cloth, decorative endpapers ; Contents: First reverie. Smoke, flame, and ashes: Over a wood fire -- Second reverie. Sea-coal and anthracite: By a city grate -- Third reverie. A cigar three times lighted: Over his cigar -- Fourth reverie: Morning, noon, and evening: Morning, noon, and evening. ; name on dedication page ; Fair. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Darley and others Ilustrador. 5th or later Edition. Eleventh edition. Octavo. 8 page preface by IK: Marvel. Frontispiece and full page illustrations and small vignettes by Darley and others. Original ribbed gilt stamped blue cloth with gilt stamped blue thistle on the front and back covers and four thistles on the spine, yellow endpapers, t.e.g. No dust jacket. Very good. 294 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Volume I only. Printed by R. Craighead. See BAL 13926 and 13991.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Reissue of the 1847 volume, with a new preface ; vii, [2], 336 p. 19 cm. ; Bal 13930 ;LCCN: 03-15494 ; LC: D919; Dewey: 914 ; OCLC: 1711142 ; green stamped cloth, gold designs ; no dustjacket ; no lines present on copyright page ; edges trimmed; "You know that I had learned to use the sickle on our farm-land in the valley, before I went away;-and could bind up the ears at harvest, with the stoutest of any men. Now here, I bring back these Gleanings from beyond the Waters:-I have plucked a grain-head here, and a grain-head there; but only since I have come home, and only at your request, have I bound a few together in a Sheaf. Here it is, homely and rude as our pastures upon the hills: but it has a fragrance for me-dare I hope it can have as much for you? In the binding up, it has made scenes come back, and stir my soul, as I thought it could not be stirred twice. Yet is it useless-altogether useless-the effort to make words paint the passions that blaze in a man's heart, as he wanders for the first time over the glorious old highways of Europe! This sheaf, Mary, is a sheaf of tares. You might pardon it: but there is that sly-faced step-dame-the Public-whom, as yet, I do not know at all,-whom as yet, I tremble to face; and I fear greatly, that she will look with a colder eye than yours, over these Gleanings, thrown together with the same free and careless hand, with which I used to tie up the last sheaves before a shower. But it is too late now to waver: and if I have not one kind look save yours, I hope I may have the courage to say, in the submissive spirit of Medea:- Eatur-nihil recuso-merui."--Preface ; "Your gleanings are a better gift, than most of the heavy-legged reapers, who have had the field to themselves, have been able to make up from the first cuttings. They have been usually such a dash-a-head, bungling set, that half the best grain has been left on the ground. Besides, they have altogether neglected many little nooks & hollows. Nor are your gatherings any the less charming, or gift-worthy, that you have tied them up quietly in a corner of the fence-and left, too, some odd flowers among the heavy grain-heads. Only give the public the thrashing of your sheaf & wait the result. Speaking critically, it is as pleasant a book as one could desire for summer reading-as pleasant as he will easily get, if he be unreasonable enough to desire a better. It comes to us, too, in a guise of quaint elegance; a something half way between the finical rudeness of the old style & the hard monotonous brilliance of modern typography-an appearance which happily accords with the matter & manner of the writing, a mixture, as it is, of fastidious simplicity and quaintness, an intense love for nature in art, a quiet liking for the unique, an occasional conceit, and some touches of to affectation 'e like the old-looking title-page;- there is as much difference in title-pages, as in the tying of different persons' cravats-we like the apt motto from Herodotus-we like the little vignette, a simple sheaf of grain, not too bulky, tied with a wisp of its own straw-an unaffected emblem of the author's modest "gleanings," which he has gathered wanderingly, at random & bound them up under the shadow of a tree, with an air of indolent nicety. We like, too, the dividing of his briefly-noticed topics, by neither chapter or figure, but plain captions & a large plain initial-a style of the last century, unassuming & beautiful enough to be brought back again for books of a certain kind.He has, therefore, in his jottings, a little more of what he has seen, than of what he has found out-he is more observant than inquiring-the reverse of most American travellers." ---A. L American Whig Review, Volume 6 1847 ; Contents: First step toward the continent. Paul Pry. Torquay. Inn by the bridge. Zebra. Saint Hiliers. Island of Jersey. La Hogue Bie. La Solitude. World of Paris. etc ; covers somewhat worn ; G [DANGER:Probable Poison Book! - Arsenic in cover]. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1866 printing ; x, 319 pages ; 18 cm ; by the author of "Reveries of a bacholor."; National Library: 001035366; 016826569 LCCN: 03-12399 ; LC: S521; Dewey: 630.1 ; OCLC: 35185021 ; green stamped cloth with gold lettering and designs ; brown endpapers ; no dustjacket ; Contents: The search and finding -- Taking reins in hand -- Aroudn this house -- My bees -- Clearing up -- What to do with the farm -- Dairying -- Laborers -- A sunny frontage -- Farm building -- The cattle -- Crops and profitts -- The hill land -- The farm flat -- An illustration of soiling -- An old orchard -- The pears -- My garden -- Fine tilth makes fine crops -- Seeding and trenching -- How a garden should look -- The lesser fruits -- Grapes -- Plums, apricots and peaches -- The poultry -- Is it profitable? -- Debit and credits -- Money-making farmers -- Does farming pay? -- Hindrances and helps -- The argument -- Agricultural chemistry -- A gypseous illustration -- Science and practice -- Lack of precision -- Knowing too much -- Opportunity for culture -- Isolation of farmers -- Dickering -- The bright side -- Business tact -- Place for science -- Aesthetics of the business -- Walks -- Shrubbery -- Rural decoration -- Flowers - L'Envoi ; foxing, else VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing, 1st state with sterotyper's colophon on copyright page, 5 flat dots before "56" on page vi, broken "World" on page vii ; frontispiece ; 1 preliminary leaf, vii, [11]-286 pages frontispiece 20 cm ; textured blind-stamped green cloth with gold decorations & designs ; no dustjacket ; LC: PS2404; Dewey: 818 ; Ik. Marvel was the pseudonym of Donald Grant Mitchell ; BAL,; 13931; Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1851-1875,; 1721 ; OCLC: 947726521 ; a beautiful copy ; copy of N. B. Heath, historian of Company E, 355th infantry, AEF, 1918 ; Contents: With My Aunt Tabithty - With My Reader - DREAMS OF BOYHOOD - Spring - Rain In The Garret - School Dreams - Boy Sentiment - Friend Made & Friend Lost - Boy Religion - New England Squire - Country Church - Home Scene - DREAMS OF YOUTH - Summer - Cloister Life - First Ambition - College Romance - First Look At The World - Broken Home - Family Confidence - Good Wife - Broken Hope - DREAMS OF MANHOOD - Autumn - Pride Of Manliness - Man Of The World - Manly Hope - Manly Love - Cheer & Children - Dream Of Darkness - Peace - DREAMS OF AGE - Winter - What Is Gone - What Is Left - Grief & Joy Of Age - End Of Dream ; "12 years ago, this autumn, when I had finished the concluding chapters of this little book, I wrote a letter of Dedication to Washington Irving, & forwarding it by mail to Sunnyside, begged his permission to print it. I think I shall gratify a rational curiosity of my readers (however much they may condemn my vanity) if I give his reply in full: 'Mr Dear Sir, "Though I have a great disinclination in general to be the object of literary oblations and compliments, yet in the present instance, I have enjoyed your writings with such peculiar relish, & been so drawn toward the author by the qualities of head and heart evinced in them, that I confess I feel gratified by a dedication, over flattering as I may deem it, which may serve :it's an outward sign that we are cordially linked together in sympathies & friendship.Ever, my dear Sir, Yours, very truly, Washington Irving.'Nov,1851. I had been personally presented to Mr. Irving for the first time, only a year before, under the introduction of my good friend, Mr. Clark (the veteran Editor of the old Knickerbocker in its palmy days). Thereafter I had met him from time to time, and had paid a charming visit to his delightful home of Sunnyside. But it was after the date of the publication of this book, & during the summer of 1852, that I saw Mr. Irving more familiarly, & came to appreciate more fully that charming bonhomie, and geniality in his character, which we all recognize so constantly in his writings, & if I set down here a few recollections of that pleasant intercourse, they will, I am sure, more than make good the place of the old letter of Dedication, & will serve to keep alive the association 1 wish to cherish, between my little book & the name of the distinguished author who so kindly showed me his favor. I saw Mr. Irving afterward repeatedly in New York & passed two delightful days at Sunnyside. I can never forget a drive with him upon a crisp autumn morning through Sleepy Hollow, and all the notable localities of his neighborhood, in the course of which he kindly called my attention in the most unaffected & incidental way to those which had been specially illustrated by his pen & with a rare humor recounted to me some of his boyish adventures among the old Dutch farmers of this region. Most of all, it is impossible for me to forget the rare kindliness of his manner, his friendly suggestions, and the beaming expression of his eye. I met it last, at the little stile, from which I strolled away to the station at Deamian; and when I saw the kind face again, it was in the coffin, at the little church, where he attended service." ; a near FINE copy, with a very few marks, slight foxing, scarce important 19th century American popular fiction. [DANGER:Reported Univ. of Delaware: Poison Book! - Arsenic in cover]. Book.