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Price: US$33.15 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback, no dust jacket.
Seller: Transition Living, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.
Cooper, James Fenimore. Home As Found [2 volumes]. Lea & Blanchard, 1838.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, Second Printing without the printed notice regarding the paper quality. 2 volumes, complete as issued. A Very Good copy in the original plum muslin, printed paper spine labels (spines cocked with some fading, darkening and wear to labels; portions of the rear endpapers have been torn away in each volume; some foxing to text). PROVENANCE: Early ownership ink stamps of Oliver Eldridge (perhaps the notable Captain Oliver Eldridge); ink ownership inscription in each volume of noted American poet William Mattchett.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE.. Home as Found. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1838, 1838.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition; BAL 3884 (identifying this as the second printing, without the printed notice regarding the paper); two volumes; publisher's muslin boards with paper spine labels (worn). Bookplates; a good set in a cloth clamshell box. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Cooper, James Fenimore. HOME AS FOUND [2 Volumes]. Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1838.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 2 Volumes. In Good plus condition. Bound in green cloth with black text on tan paper spine labels. Boards have rubbing to corners, bending to spine edges, toning to spine labels, and mild edge wear and shelf wear. Textblocks have light age toning, moderate foxing to pages, writing in pencil to some pages, and tearing to top corner of front endpapers. Shelved Room A Volume I 239 pages. Volume II 253 pages. 1372524. Special Collections.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, without notice about paper quality, 2 vols, 12 mo (7.5 in x 4.5 in), pp. i-v, (vi), 7-239, (1) blank, (14) adv; (1-2), 3-253, (1) blank. Original green cloth, printed paper lettering pieces. BAL 3884. Wright I-610. Very good with wear to paper lettering pieces, general light natural wear to cloth edges and corners, water stain to first 6 sheets of volume 1 diminishing as it proceeds, shetts with some moderate foxing, unmarked, complete. H10162 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Home As Found. By the Author of Homeward Bound, The Pioneers, &c. & c, Complete in Two Volumes, Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1838, 239 pp, 253 pp, full original cloth, 7.75 x 4.75 , 12mo. In fair condition. Ex-library of the North Bradford Library antiquarian markings on front pastedowns. Soiled overall with water dampness staining to boards, discoloration, fading and rubbing. Corners rubbed to boards along with end bands. Spines very slanted from improper storage/crushed bindings. Heavier foxing throughout. A few instances of finger soiling. Bindings are shaken. Original paper spine labels are missing. Top edges dust soiled. Free of known markings. Please see photos. First American Edition, second printing. The first appearance of baseball in any work of literature in America. Without the notice of poor paper quality. ****COLL1838DJKZ-FORN-TUB0007 04/24 HKREVISION
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
[Cooper, James Fenimore.]. Home as found. Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1838.
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, second printing, without the notice on paper quality, 2 vols; 12mo, pp. [6], 7-239, [1]; 253, [1]; original purple muslin, printed paper labels on spines; spines faded and labels rubbed, 2 gatherings in volume II extended, light foxing, early owner's signature of "G. Jewett" on title page of volume I; good and sound. The novel closely paralleled Cooper's life and his dispute with neighbors, and triggered a flood of litigation as Cooper sued negative reviewers. During one trial the entirety of the novel was read aloud. BAL 3884; Wright I, 610; Spiller & Blackburn, 28.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Description: [COOPER, James Fenimore]. Home as Found. By the Author of Homeward Bound, The Pioneers, &c. &c. Original cloth, printed paper spine labels. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1838. 2 Vols. 12mo. First edition, second issue without the notice about paper quality. BAL 3884. Wright I: 610. Spine lightly sunned, some chipping to labels, minor wear to spine ends and corners, light scattered foxing, else a very good set.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Cooper, James Fenimore. Home as Found, in Two Volumes. Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1838.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good, first edition book in original boards. Maroon, cloth covered boards with paper labels affixed to spines. Volume II includes 16 pages of ads prior to the text. Two blank pages at the beginning of each book; volume I has two blank pages at the rear, volume II has three blank pages at the rear. Several chips on front pages of Volume II. Volume I includes a "Notice to the Public" on the page facing the title page, apologizing for the poor paper quality, which is darkened overall. Cloth covered boards are mottled in appearance and sunned, spines heavily sunned. Edges at head and tail of board spines are weakened, and with some slits and light fraying. Board edges are scuffed and with minimal rub-throughs on the fore-edge corner tips. External pages on both volumes are soiled and with age-toning and foxing. Both volumes have several pencilled notations, including on front blank pages, title pages and back free end-paper. Foxing throughout both volumes. Pages 231-238 is detached in Volume I. Front internal gutter in Volume II is partially separated from spine. Volume I has a crescent-shaped stain of up to 3/4" in the upper margins of pp. 108 - 211. Volume II has damp-staining towards the lower 1/3 of the FFEP through the ads and page 13. Except as noted above, text block is secure. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
James Fennimore Cooper. Home As Found. Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1838.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In all probability this incident in Cooper's novel reflects a real event when James Fenimore Cooper, having bought back and remodelled Otsego Hall in Cooperstown (which, with its grounds, had lain vacant since 1817), moved in about 1835. It thus come before the supposed 1839 date of Abner Doubleday's "invention." Original tan cloth with the rare original paper spine labels some wear, else very good 2 volumes 8vo mounted in a fine custom made burlap buckram slipcase and folding chemise. Some usual browning but light foxing with the original note from the publisher in the first volume about the paper condition with a apology. Rare thus. The first appearance of baseball in any work of literature in America ---------------------- As [the Effingham family] came in front of the hall windows, a party of apprentice-boys were seen coolly making their arrangements to amuse themselves with a game of ball, on the lawn directly in front of the house. "Surely, Mr. Bragg," said the owner of the wigwam., "you do not countenance this liberty?" ".Do you refer to the young men on the lawn, Mr. Effingham?" "Certainly to them, sir; and permit me to say, I think they might have chosen a more suitable spot for their sports. They are mistaking liberties for liberty, I fear." "Why, sir, I believe they have always played ball in that precise locality." ".Well may this house be termed a Wigwam if this whooping is to be tolerated before its door. I beg, Mr. Bragg, that you will, at once, desire these young men to pursue their sports somewhere else." Aristabulus received this commission with a very ill grace,.for.he too well knew.that the order would do violence to all the apprentices' preconceived notions of their immunities. In passing the ball-players, he called out in a wheedling tone to their ringleader, a notorious street brawler "A fine time for sport, Dickey; don't you think there would be more room in the broad street than on this crowded lawn, where you lose your ball so often in the shrubbery?" "This place will do, on a pinch," bawled Dickey, "though it might be better. If it warn't for the plagued house, we couldn't ask for a better ball-ground." "Well, Dickey., there is no accounting for tastes; but in my opinion, the street would be a much better place to play ball in than this lawn. There are so many fences hereabouts. It's true the village trustees say there shall be no ball- playing in the street, but I conclude you don't much mind what they think or threaten." "Let them sue for that, if they like," bawled a particularly amiable blackguard, called Peter, who struck his ball as he spoke, quite into the principal street of the village. "Who's a trustee, that he should tell gentlemen where they are to play ball." The bait took; for what apprentice -- American apprentice, in particular -- can resist an opportunity of showing how much he considers himself superior to the law? The lawn was now evacuated, en masse. --------------------------- [Thus did baseball makes its literary debut, if not its debut as a game, on the site of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Like the street games of youths today, it originally attracted public notice only when it became a nuisance to grownups. But that was soon to change.]
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Cooper, James Fenimore. Home As Found; 2 Volume Set. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1838.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. First printing with apology for poor quality paper opposite title page but without the catalog in volume two. 239pp., 253pp., bound in original purple cloth with some staining, paper spine labels chipped and rubbed, spines sunned, small worm hole in lower margin of leaves 15-25, scattered foxing, wear to head at upper joint of volume two, inner hinges somewhat cracked. In all, a good set housed in a custom slipcase trimmed in black leather.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.