Translator mary booth (7 resultados)

232pp. Translated by Mary L. Booth. "New American Edition." Spine sunned, light cover wear/soil, text clean/tight: VG+/no dj.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards with blind decorative stamping on covers and spine. Title page dated 1859. 172 pages. In good condition. Cloth appears faded, especially along spine and edges. Some darker soiling on front and back cover. Chipping to cloth at head and foot of spine. Lettering on spine is quite faded, almost completely unreadable. Previous owner's blind stamp on title page and bookplate on front attached endpaper. Some light foxing throughout. Otherwise pages are free of marks or tears. Frontispiece is a portrait of Marie de Rohan, protected by tissue guard. Binding is strong. A good reading copy overall.…

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo. Rebound in green cloth. Light brown endpapers. Treatise on issues relating to the impending American Civil War. Translated from the French. Very good, general wear.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Apparently First Edition. ---------Original brown cloth covers, bright gilt spine lettering, thick books, 9 1/2" tall.----Though complete in 2 volumes, these books are part of a larger set entitled HISTORY OF FRANCE FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO 1789 by Henri Martin-- these 2 books are part VII of the larger set. The spines of the books do NOT indicate that they are part of a larger set. These books are translated from the 4th Paris edition by Mary L. Booth. 563 pages, 543 pages---------VERY GOOD CONDITION, Handsome Books, solid tight bindings and inner hinges, clean books, heavy original bindings--- no wear---- the spines are somewhat sun-faded- - no dust jackets- - - - - PRESENTATION COPY , SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR MARY L BOOTH, New York June 1, 1865-- " Hon. Simeon Draper, With the Respectful Compliments of the Translator, New York, June 1, 1865"--- on a blank page after the front flyleaf of volume I- - - - - - -. Signed by Translator. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Very Good set of 3 hardcovers, no DJs. Maroon covers with gilt and black decoration. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Edges show some foxing. Bindings are tight, hinges strong. Covers are in great condition with only minor edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.…

Condición: Near Fine. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing of a noteworthy French abolitionist treatise. [1], x, 413 pp. Bound in publisher's fugitive purple wave-grain cloth, stamped in blind on front and rear boards and lettered in gilt on spine. Near Fine with sunning to spine and dulling to gilt lettering, light rubbing to extremities, and small stain to front board. Light foxing to endpapers, two small labels and consequent offsetting to front endpapers, chipping to four preliminary leaves resulting from printer's error (leaves are tipped in and protrude from textblock). Scarce. A crisp copy of this translation of the second part of Cochin's two-volume work L'Abolition de l'Esclavage, published in 1861 in France. "The chapters devoted to the slaveholding countries other than the United States, the slave-trade, the immigration of free negroes, and the colonization of Africa," writes translator Mary Booth in her preface, "afford much useful and interesting information touching the beginning, growth, and effects of slavery." Mary Booth spent the Civil War translating texts that could help the Unionist cause, and went on to become the first editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar. Augustin Cochin, who had been knighted by Pope Pius IX for his service to abolitionism, died before he turned fifty. "He had done so much, and yet so little!" wrote the diplomat Charles de Gavard. "We were looking for so much from him that we forget he has left behind him a well-filled life.".…

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 156 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.36 inches. This item is printed on demand.