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Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st thus, Limited, Numbered; #674 of 1000 copies printed; brown c w/paper labels; owner's plates; Size: 8vo; .2 Pounds
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st thus Limited, Numbered; #674 of 1000 copies printed; brown c w/paper labels; owner's plates; Size: 8vo; .5 Pounds
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 16 volumes."Edition Deluxe". Olive green cloth with publishers paper labels on spine. Some labels show some wear otherwise the volumes are very good to near fine condition. With portraits and illustrations in line engravings and photo. With Lowell's signature and date of 1834 embedded in page after the set title page. #776 of 1000 copies. Lowell (1819-1891) was a popular 19th century poet, critic, editor, Harvard professor and ambassador to Spain and then England. Considered a "Romantic" poet and one of the group called the Fireside Poets which included Longfellow, Bryant and Whittier. He was a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law. His poem from 1845 "the Present Crisis" was often quoted by Martin Luther King.
Seller: Carl Blomgren Fine Books ABAA, petaluma, CA, U.S.A.
James Russell Lowell. The Complete Writings of - Fireside Travels. Cambridge: , 1904, 1904.
Price: US$254.00 + shipping
Description: "With portraits, illustrations, and facsimiles. Edition de. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1904. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies (this one is 372 and all 16 volumes are n u mbered the same). Sixteen octavo volumes. Photogravure frontispieces and plates. Descriptive tissue guards. Title-pages printed in red and black. Brown Linen boards. Spines uniformly faded to a ligh te r brown. Printed at the Riverside Press. Very good plus. """
Seller: Indian Hills Books, Blountville, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Pleasant Street Books, woodstock, VT, U.S.A.
LOWELL, J.R.,. The complete writings. Edition de Luxe. 16 Bde.. Cambridge The Riverside Press, 1904.
Price: US$352.66 + shipping
Description: Gr.-8vo. Zus. über 5600 S. in zweifarbigem Druck m. 16 (wiederholten) Titelvignetten in Stahlstich, zus. 83 Portraits u. Faksimile-Illustrationen in Radierung, Lichtdruck u. Heliogravure, teilw. auf aufgewalztem China. Olivgrüne OLwdbde m. gedruckten Rückenschildern (Rückenschilder etwas gebräunt, unbeschnitten). Eins von 1000 numerierten Exemplaren.- Maßgebliche Gesamtausgabe des amerikanischen Schriftstellers James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891), der als neuromantischer Dichter in europäischer Tradition, als bedeutender Kritiker seiner Zeit, als Humorist und politischer Satiriker glänzte, auch als Diplomat sehr erfolgreich war. Befreundet mit Poe, Longfellow, Hawthorne u.a., ungemein auch in europäischen Sprachen belesen, versuchte er wie Longfellow breiten Kreisen in Amerika europäisches Kulturgut nahezubringen.- 1. Fireside Travels. 2. My Study Windows. 3-5. Among my Books. 6. Political Essays. 7. Literary and Political Adresses. 8. Latest Literary Essays etc. 9-13. Poems. 14-16. Letters. Sprache: Englisch
Seller: Zentralantiquariat Leipzig GmbH, Leipzig, Germany
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: In Sixteen Volumes, complete. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1904. First printing of this collection, "The Elmwood Edition", this is the large paper version, one of 1,000 numbered copies of 1,020 printed. Original olive cloth, paper spine labels printed in red and black, original printed laid paper dust jackets. Series titles and titles printed in red and black, laid paper, illustrated, all edges uncut, largely unopened. With an autograph letter, signed, in a paper frame tipped to the obverse of the frontis in volume one, dated 68 Beacon Street, Boston, 21st Jan., 1886, to "My dear (Charles)Hodson", asking him to find and send copies of several of his addresses, as his publisher wishes to print a volume of them, and specifying several, including "the addresses at Taunton (Fielding), Birmingham (Democracy), Exeter Hall (Garfield)-- these appeared in 1887 in Houghton, Mifflin's "Democracy and Other Addresses". There are some personal sentences of greeting, and Lowell's itinerary for an up-coming voyage to England -- after his retirement he spent part of most winters in England -- and a plea for Hodson to find him lodging. Charles Hodson was Head Clerk at the U.S. Embassy in London for 28 years. He and Lowell became friends when Lowell was Ambassador to England. Three pages on one sheet, folded. Though not a rare set, it is a lovely example of quality book-making in the golden age of deluxe sets. This one is distinguished the sixteen jackets and its condition, overall Fine, with most volumes and their jackets essentially "as new". Volume 1 has some edge wear and edge toning to the jacket; V.3 with a square inch of jacket missing from the rear bottom edge.
Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Edition De Luxe, one of 1000 copies, complete in sixteen large octavo volumes. Illustrated from drawings and photographs, including many in two states, one in color. Richly bound at the Riverside Press in three-quarter green crushed morocco over marbled boards. Spines with raised bands and richly gilt in compartments; top edges gilt, others uncut. Spines uniformly mellowed to brown. A very fine set in a beautiful binding.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1976.00 + shipping
Description: 222 x 146 mm. (8 3/4 x 5 3/4"). 16 volumes. Last three volumes (containing "Letters") edited by Charles Eliot Norton. VERY HANDSOME DARK GREEN MOROCCO, EXTRAVAGANTLY GILT, covers with a wavy gilt border and charming floral ornaments at corners, central panel (with square-notched corners) formed by six parallel gilt lines; raised bands, spine compartments attractively gilt with scrolling flowers and foliage enclosing a floral fleuron centerpiece, wide turn-ins with elaborate gilt decoration featuring many large and small roses and leaves on stylized lattice work, the turn-ins enclosing SCARLET-COLORED POLISHED MOROCCO DOUBLURES, crimson watered silk free endleaves, top edge gilt, other edges rough trimmed, MOSTLY UNOPENED (six of the volumes entirely unopened, and all but one of the others largely so). With 80 mounted photogravure illustrations on India paper (including frontispieces, one double plate, and one plate with four portraits). Original tissue guards. âJoints of volume I with a hint of wear, (a half dozen other joints with very slight rubbing), spines evenly sunned to an attractive olive brown (though a handful of spines a bit lighter than the others), one small cover scuff, two leaves roughly opened (with no serious consequences), other isolated trivial imperfections, but a nearly fine set in quite attractive bindings, the leather lustrous, and the (mostly unopened) text essentially undisturbed. Though not to be found atop the Mt. Olympus of American literature, James Russell Lowell (1819-91) made significant contributions over a long period of time as a journalist, editor, critic, poet, philosopher, and essayist. He was the first editor of the "Atlantic Monthly" and later co-editor of the "North American Review"; he was the second president of the Modern Languages Association; and he achieved literary prominence not only in America, but abroad, where he enjoyed a triumphal European tour from 1872-74. He was at his best when dispensing folk wit and wisdom, something that obviously informs his first significant work, "The Biglow Papers," which Day describes as "a masterpiece in the genre of folksy philosophizing in American dialect." Among other important contributions is his long poem "A Fable for Critics," which includes--in not always laudatory terms--his personal characterizations of major contemporaneous American writers and his reviews of their work. These bindings look extremely good on the shelf, and the doublures of scarlet--especially as they face crimson-colored watered silk--are a bold highlight of the flamboyant decoration.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Houghton Mifflin and Company. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press MCMIV. "Edition limited to One Thousand Copies This is Number 14". Sixteen volumes; size of the bindings: 6 inches x 9 in., autograph letter mounted in a paper frame, and bound in the front of the first volume, frontispiece; some of the illustrations are in both hand-colored and black & white forms. Most pages are unopened. Bound in full, red-brown, crushed morocco leather at The Riverside Press, with their stamp. Five raised bands on the spine, with gilt-lettered titling, gilt floral decorations in compartments, gilt floral borders around the covers; brown marbled endpapers; top-edges gilt, red silk bookmarker ribbons bound in. Some of the cover corners and edges show light rubbing, else, a fine, lower-numbered set in the full leather binding with color plates, and the autograph letter, written in both English and Spanish, and both written and initialed by James Russell Lowell. With the bookplates of Cleveland, Ohio based book collector, William G. Mather (1857-1951), on the front paste-downs. Partial contents of the letter, written on both sides of a sheet of black-edged note-paper, with printed address: Deerfoot Farm, Southborough, Mass., U.S.A. 25th Oct. 1885. Dear Charles, In our hurry at parting I have a blot in my memory as to whether I was to tell the Capellan that you did know Bandelier's address or that you didn't. I think it was didn't. So I have written my note accordingly-but add another form which will answer the other contingently. Cambridge, el 29 de Octobre 1885 Reverendo y muy Senor mio, tengo el gusto de acusas scribo de grata del 12 corriente [-] noticias de estimable Senor Bandelier [and this continues in several other lines in Spanish] To give the address, add after the first sentence (ending with "Bandelier". Las ultimas que tengo del son estas (here the address) y creo que una carta asi dirigida la alcanzeria. I have told him in the first version that if you learned the address you would send it him, so I return his letter sure that you won't mislay & forget it as I would. Love to all. Always affectionately J.R.L. [James Russell Lowell] This letter is not published in the three volumes of this set which contain Lowell's Letters (Volumes 14-16). Approximate weight: 48 lbs. Postage is extra on this item.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.