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Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Novel. Covers rubbed and soiled, corners bumped, spine ends frayed with a little loss. Bookplate inside the front cover, otherwise the book is clean, rear hinge cracked, pages toned.
Seller: R Bryan Old Books, Sewell, NJ, U.S.A.
Joel Chandler Harris. On the Plantation. D. Appleton-Century, 1892.
Price: US$29.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Sturdy library binding has held up well. Looks like the book was checked out 5 x and discarded from Las Animas Library (Colo) sometime after the last checkout in 1961. Hs lib pocket and a label at the front. Title page has a few spots but the rest of the interior is actually pretty good, especially considering its age. Hinges still tight.
Seller: hcmBOOKS, Pueblo, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Boards have light chipping to edges, heavy shallow insect damage to spinecover.Gift inscription on ffep. Closed tear to tissue over frontispiece. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Harris, Joel Chandler. On the Plantation. D. Appleton and Company, 1892.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book condition: VG-. Internally clean but loose binding. The name of the previous owner on the first title page. The cover is lightly worn and the spine is tilted. Very good reading copy. Presumed first edition, no subsequent printing dates listed. No number on the last written page. BP. First edition cabinet
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$88.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and front cover pictorial of a large seated rabbit smoking a pipe in gilt. Cover title and author's signature in brown. Two small white spots near top edge of front cover. Very light rubbing at extremities. 8 pages of publisher's ads in back. A clean tight copy with no marks or inscriptions.
Seller: Diamond Island Books, Gorham, ME, U.S.A.
Harris, Joel Chandler. On The Plantation. D. Appleton and Company 1892 New York, 1892.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: First edition; Textblock near fine; some yellowing, minor smudges on prelims; bottom corner folded on 2nd ffef; binding good plus; some wear and spotting, spine somewhat frayed top and bottom, but tight and clean inside; 233 pages plus adverts; illustrations by E.W. Kemble; quite a nice addition to the collector's shelf;
Seller: Book Den East, oak bluffs, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: xii, 233 [10, ads] pp. Frontispiece portrait. With twenty-three illustrations by E. W. Kemble. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth. First edition. Slightest of darkening to the spine and light dust-soiling to the cloth; an attractive copy, tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown, bright gilt decorated cloth t rabbit smoking); 7 full page plates and numerous other illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James Moser. Decorated endpapers. Front flyleaf with reparied torn corner. Very minor soiling. 231 + ads
Seller: Blue Heron Books, Claremont, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, xii, 233, [10] pages. In Very Good condition. Full binding of mustard cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Minor shelfwear. Some soiling to front and rear covers. Chipping at head and tail of spine. Age-toning to textblock. Signature of previous owner on half-title page. Ten pages of advertisements in rear. Features frontispiece of Chandler. Twenty-three illustrations throughout by Kembler. Shelved in Case 2. BAL 7124. 1371060. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
HARRIS, Joel Chandler. On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures. , 1892.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: HARRIS, Joel Chandler. On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures during the War. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892. 1st American ed. xii,233pp. Portrait frontis., illus. Orig. pictorial cloth. Very good. BAL 7124. Wright III: 2489. Includes "Something about Sandy Claus" not in the London edition. "A fictional treatment of Harris's early teen-age years as printer's devil for The Countryman, a remarkable country paper roughly modeled after The Spectator that was published during the war years by Joseph Addison Turner at Turnworld Plantation near Eatonton, Georgia. Harris dedicated On the Plantation to Turner"-In Tall Cotton, 80. Includes "Deserters and Runaways" and "The Relief Committee" about the Civil War.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.