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Price: US$9.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Faded green cloth binding, 248pp. Spine label present. Light wear and fading, dampstain to back cover and last 17 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Valley Books, AMHERST, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Damp staining to upper outer corners through 100, approximately. Binding is badly split between the title page and the preface. Front free endpaper is missing a large piece of paper. Outer hinges have small splits. Pages have slight or light foxing, mostly to the margins. Covers have uneven discoloration. Only fragments of spine label remain. ; Volume One, out of 2, only. BAL 3883.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Octavos, 2 Volumes. In Good minus condition. Bound in brown cloth with black text on brown paper spine labels. Boards show bumping to corners, rubbing to corners exposing boards, cocking to spines, bending and fraying to spine edges, wear to spine labels, and damp staining to covers. Textblocks have light age toning, moderate foxing to pages, and writing in pencil on title pages. Volume I has splitting to front interior hinge, damp staining throughout, writing in pencil on front endpaper, and library stamp on both pastedowns. Shelved Room A Volume I 223 pages, Volume II 287 pages. 1372382. Special Collections.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. 2 vols. 12mo. BAL 3883 Contemporary brown sheep, spines gilt with black morocco labels. Joints rubbed, internally fresh, else very good. Half red morocco slipcase and chemise
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2 volumes. [i]-vi, 13-276 pages; "A New Edition" 248 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's plum cloth with spine label lettered in black. (BAL 3883 and 3887) First edition and New Addition. First published in Britain the same year. From the author of The Last of the Mohicans comes this classic nautical adventure tale that follows a sea voyage gone horribly awry. When a group of well-born British aristocrats set sail for the United States, they couldn't possibly imagine the mishaps that lie ahead of them when they find themselves coming ashore in Africa. Condition: Mixed set both published in 1938, volume one first edition with volume two being the "New Addition". Previous owner's name to front board, front end paper and title of volume one. Volume two name to front end paper. Foxing, spine label chipped and worn, boards sunned and faded, corners bumped, spine ends rubbed, small split at heal hinge else a good set.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, 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.
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.
James Fenimore Cooper. Homeward Bound, or the Chase. Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1838.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: a very good plus set in the original purple cloth 12mo housed in a fine custom cloth slipcase, paper spine labels fine. I am not sure of the priority of the 1st English versus the 1st American edition of Homeward Bound, or the Chase, a Tale of the Sea, I do have both. This is a particularly pretty set 1838. [COOPER, James Fenimore]. Homeward Bound: or, The Chase. A Tale of the Sea. By the Author of "the Pilot," "The Spy," Phila.: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1838. 2 Vols. 12mo. First American edition. BAL 3883. Wright I: 612.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
[COOPER, James Fenimore]. Homeward Bound: or, The Chase. A Tale of the Sea. , 1838.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: [COOPER, James Fenimore]. Homeward Bound: or, The Chase. A Tale of the Sea. By the Author of "the Pilot," "The Spy," etc. Original cloth, printed paper labels, housed in custom green morocco-backed cloth slipcase, with individual inner cloth chemises. Phila.: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1838. 2 Vols. 12mo. First American edition. BAL 3883. Wright I: 612. With the bookplates of novelist and playwright, George Barr McCutcheon. Labels sunned and chipped, cloth speckled, light wear to spine ends and corners of Vol. One, some wear to foredge of front board of Vol. Two, light scattered foxing and toning, else a very good set.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.