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John Greenleaf Whittier. Snow-Bound : A Winter Idyl. Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dampstaining to boards along bottom, otherwise clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
John Greenleaf Whittier. Snow-bound. A Winter Idyl.. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, MA, 1866.
Price: US$9.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The cover has brown cloth. The spine strip's top and bottom edges are frayed; an edge has a 1/4 in. tear. Three of the boards' corners are threadbare, up to 1/4 in. The front FEP has a gift inscription, including Christmas 1866, in pencil. The copyright page states, twenty-fifth thousand. The printer did not include the 52 on the last page. The bottom ends of the front FEP and the following four blank pages have water stains. The frontispiece, Whittier's portrait, and its leaf guard are heavily foxed. Stains on most of the pages are sparse, light, and small. Two text pages and two blank pages in the back have larger stains.
Seller: Books from the Past, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound a Winter Idyl. TICKNOR AND FIELDS, BOSTON, 1866.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: gilt on cover and spine, princeton antiques book plate on inside of front cover, previous owners signature on fornt end paper DATE PUBLISHED: 1866 EDITION: 51
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound; a Winter Idyl. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 52 pages; string binding; no markings; pages and end pages show extensive smudges, staining, and soiling. Page edges darkened; rear end pages particaly removed from spine. Inner spine creases weakened and split but pages intact. Portion of front end page torn out. Previous owner name and note on front end page. Dark green hard covers with gild lettering on front and spine. Several smudges; discoloration areas; rubbing on covers. Corners bumped and frayed. Few b/w illustration. RARE VINTAGE COPY-IN POOR CONDITION BUT READABLE.
Seller: Attic Treasures Book Shop, Mt. Carmel, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Description: 51, [1] p.; front. (engr. port.), title-page vignette; 18.5 cm. (Currier, Bibliography of John Greenleaf Whittier, p. 98) Fair, heavily abraded, lacks spine. Prior owner's date: 1866
Seller: Alec R. Allenson, Inc., Westville, FL, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greeleaf. Snow-bound. A Winter Idyl. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Description: 52p.,frontis. BAL 21862 Very good condition in brown cloth
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
John Greenleaf Whittier. SNOW-BOUND. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
Price: US$24.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, second state without page # on page 52. 12mo in publisher's green cloth. 52 pp. G. Rubbing and soiling to boards. Binding is strong. Light foxing. Dampstain to top corner of pages. Gift inscription on front flyleaf. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.
Seller: Lost Time Books, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
John Greenleaf Whittier. Snow-Bound. Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
Price: US$28.70 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: pages foxed with handful of stains, brick cloth covered boards worn through at corners and ends of spine, spots on boards
Seller: CKBooks, Bussey, IA, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: FIRST EDTION, later printing ("25th thousand" on copyright page). Full brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Moderate wear wit hsome frayin of the cloth, slight foxing to the paper. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in FAIR condition. Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl is a long narrative poem by American poet John Greenleaf Whittier first published in 1866. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound. Ticknor & Fields, 1866.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: (1866; Ticknor) Sixth Thousand. First Edition, Second State. Page 52 not numbered. Hardcover with No Dust Jacket (as issued). Boards with shelf wear, bumped at corners and spine ends with rubbing. Dust soil/ toning to page edges. Yellow end papers with toning. Free pages with heavy foxing. Rear free pages with small semilunar chip to top edges. Pages unmarked with minimal foxing. page 21 the crack (not complete tear) at top edge. Binding with no separations. Hinges intact
Seller: Never Too Many Books, West Poland, ME, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. SNOW-BOUND A WINTER IDYL. Ticknor And Fields, 1866.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The sun that beief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon.Etc. Good to good+ tight condition with slight wear to cover edges and corners. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0
Seller: Fritz T. Brown - Books, Georgetown , MA, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, MA, 1866.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gilt-stamped forest-green cloth, 51 pp., engraved frontispiece portrait, title page vignette, headpiece and decorative initial. First edition, second state, of Whittier's fantastically popular and oft-reprinted narrative poem. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped, with head of spine chipped at frayed, mild fraying at corners; page edges tanned, discoloration to endpapers, gift inscription (dated 1867) on front free endpaper, short closed tear at fore-edge of one leaf.
Seller: Crane's Bill Books, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.. Ticknor And Fields, 1866.
Price: US$39.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sixth thousand stated on the copyright page
Seller: Mark Henderson, Olathe, KS, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl. Ticknor & Felids, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hard to find 1866 Hardcover book in better than good condition. Black and white illustrations on title page and one full page black and white engraving of Whittier. Gilt lettering and ornaments on front board and spine. Some foxing on front and back endpapers and one small hole in the back endpaper. Otherwise, overall, in better than good condition.
Seller: Arch Bridge Bookshop, Bellows Falls, VT, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-bound. A Winter Idyl.. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Later printing of the first edition ("sixth thousand." stated on copyright page). Clean orange-brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Small spots of wear to upper spine corners. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Endpapers intact - there is a name at top corner of front pastedown (in neat pen); previous owner inscription in light pencil on front free endpaper dated Oct 23 - 07 (totally erasable if you so desire). Frontispiece engraving portrait of Whittier - a faint shadow of it has transferred to the illustrated title page. 52 pages.
Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.
WHITTIER, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Portrait frontispiece; title-page vignette. Thin 16mo, terra cotta cloth (worn). Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. First Edition. Some foxing, particularly on the preliminary blank leaves. Penciled inscription, 1866. Second printing, lacking the numeral on p. 52. A dilapidated copy of a much loved poem.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf.. Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$59.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original full green cloth. Later printing. Previous owner's bookplate behind the front cover. Moderate foxing. Overall in GOOD condition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
John Greenleaf Whittier. Snow-Bound. Ticknor & Fields January 1866, 1866.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: owner name, address and date, withe pressed leaf, on 4th blank page; bottom third of tissue guard torn off; otherwise clean unmarked copy
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, Second Issue. Original green cloth. Bookplate, inscription in pencil, two auction records tipped in, Near Fine.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greeleaf. Snow-bound. A Winter Idyl. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 52p.,frontis. BAL 21862: 1st printing, 2d state. Very good condition in brown cloth
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow Bound. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth with bright gilt on spine and cover; second printing with last page unnumbered Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Cornelius Muhilly Rare Books, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow Bound. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brick red cloth; second printing with last page unnumbered Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Cornelius Muhilly Rare Books, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
WHITTIER, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Portrait frontispiece; title-page vignette. Thin 16mo, original green cloth; one corner rubbed. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. First Edition. Some foxing, particularly on the preliminary blank leaves.; gift inscription, 1866. Second printing, lacking the numeral on p. 52.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
John Greenleaf Whittier. SNOW BOUND. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$129.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Some edge wear with rubbed corners. Owner name on fornt end page. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound. Ticknor and Fields, Boston,, 1866.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Snow-Bound by John Greenleaf Whittier. First edition, second state (no page # on page 52) in original reddish-brown cloth. Publisher: Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866. Binding is in very good condition, toning to the spine and slight wear to cover tips, wear to the bottom of the spine. Contents clean, foxing to endpapers front and back and to frontispiece. 52 pages. 4 ¾ x 7 ¼ inches. BAL 21862. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #19-019. Price: $150.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good; see scans and description. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. 'Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.'. by John Greenleaf Whittier. First Ten Thousand; First Edition, second state, with page 52 unnumbered. 12mo, russet textured cloth boards, gilt imprinting at front cover and spine; pale yellow endpapers; frontis portrait of Whittier, tissue guard, title-page homestead engraving, 52 pp. Very Good; spine ends moderately worn, corners touched, very modest cover wear; russet is vivid all around; small foxing spots at most blank endpapers; early gift inscription (5 March 1867) at ffep; 1985 owner's inscription on front pastedown, attesting that this example belonged to the "Sedgwick family in Poughkeepsie, NY" at one time. See all scans. "Snow-Bound" is a narrative poem by Whittier, written as a blizzard raged for three days outside the family homestead in Haverhill, Massachusetts (that homestead now preserved for public visits). Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box, of course - not a bag. See scans. L4
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo., terra-cotta cloth lettered in gilt; a gorgeous copy with the slightest foxing. First edition, second issue (without number on page 52), with portrait frontispiece. BAL 21862 ---- From the library of Milton C. Rose, with the patron of the arts and prominent attorney's bookplate on the front pastedown. Rose (1904-2002), a onetime law partner of Richard Nixon and John N. Mitchell in the firm Nixon Mudge Rose Alexander & Mitchell, was instrumental in bringing Nixon into the firm in 1963 after he had lost the election for governor of California. Rose s collection of art was donated to the Cleveland Art Institute and to the Williams College Art Museum, which has a room bearing his name. A significant work with a most distinguished provenance
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$190.55 + shipping
Description: Small Octavo. . 2nd issue., half-title, portrait frontispiece, engraved vignette title page, pale yellow endpapers, 51(1) pp. This nostalgic pastoral poem recalls the New England rural home where a family of the poet's youth lived and despite the pummeling of the winter winds and snow, he and his family remained secure and comfortable inside their home. A near fine copy bound in green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, spine gilt, very minor wear to spine ends. A very nice clean copy without names or foxing. [BAL 21862].
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
John Greenleaf Whittier. Snow Bound. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: a very good copy in the rarer green deep cloth of the 1st edition of Snow Bound - A Winter Idyl. with steel engraved frontis of Whittier signed in the plate with the original tissue guard still in place. a tight copy, only a former owner Ms. Rose gifted this copy to her daughter in ink on a prelim sheet, else no distractions, this is the assumed 2nd issue lacking a final 52 on the 52nd leaf, a issue point removed by the publisher perhaps, with the assumed 1st issue has the number at the end, however, either issue appears to be about the same in priority and exact the same in nature. a tiny bump at the tip of spine, else very good with the gilt bright and clear. Boston - Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition. A first edition of Whittier's best known poemThis is the first edition, second issue with the final page (52) unnumbered as shown above. With the original binding bound into the book at the rear, as shown above. Bound by Stikeman & Co. Bound in half leather with green cloth covered boards and gilt lettering. John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 1892) was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. He is usually listed as one of the Fireside Poets. Whittier was strongly influenced by the Scottish poet, Robert Burns. This poem takes place in what is today known as the John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead, which still stands in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The poem chronicles a rural New England family as a snowstorm rages outside for three days. Stuck in their home, the family members exchange stories by their roaring fire.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
WHITTIER, John Greenleaf (1807-1892). Snow-bound. A Winter Idyl. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo (17.8 x 11.2 cm). 52 pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Whittier by H. W. Smith after a photograph by Hawes (foxed), with tissue guard. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt-titled on front cover and spine. Provenance: Edward S. Marsh (engraved bookplate by W. F. Hopson). FIRST EDITION, second state (p. [52] unnumbered). Whittier's best-known, and most enduring poem, a long narrative work presented as a series of stories told by a family during a snowstorm, idealizing a return to peace after the Civil War. BAL 21862; Currer, pp. 198-200; Grolier American 100, 73; JWG 277. 1/4-inch chip at head of spine, old newspaper clippings mounted on front flyleaves, some foxing at beginning and end
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hard cover,12mo (measuring 4 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches) in original terra-cotta cloth, blind stamped border, with the title to top board and spine in gold, publisher name at foot of spine. Triple flyleaves. (3) 51, , (3) pp. This is the Second State of the First Edition, as described by Jacob Blanck, with the page number at the bottom of page 52 missing. Condition: Very Good Plus, with a minor bump at head of top board, and some offset from author portrait to Title page. Otherwise, mildly toned but firm, and showing very minimal wear. Clean within. Collector's remarks on edition on rear pastedown in neat pencil. **Engraved bookplate to front pastedown of a former owner, author and local historian Cornelius E. Durkee (1837-1897) who wrote a number of genealogical and local history titles about Saratoga County, New York. ** Whittier's best-known narrative poem, "Snow-Bound," was set at his birthplace, a homestead in Haverhill, Massachusetts. It describes a family's storytelling entertainments by fireside after a classic New England white-out. The few engraved illustrations help make this a wonderful object. (And many fond memories for this local-area bookseller of winters gone by. ) BAL 21862.
Seller: Dark and Stormy Night Books, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, MA, 1866.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Issue. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Protected in mylar. Very slight chipping at top of the spine and slight rubbing at bottom of the spine. Slight darkening to spine and edges of covers. A couple minuscule spots on back cover. Occasional light pencil marks in the margins. Bright, clean, Near Fine copy in a custom-made leather clamshell case. Leather case has beautiful blue and white marbled boards backed with blue leather. Book measures 4 3/4" x 7 1/4." Leather case measures 5 1/4" x 8." Fifty-two pages, complete. One black-and-white frontispiece portrait of the author and one black-and-white title illustration, complete. Former owner's bookplate tipped in on front pastedown: "Otto Orren Fisher." Bookplate features a black-and-white illustration. Excerpt from a laid-in description from a former owner (a book dealer): "First edition, first issue with page 52 numbered. . in the rarest color cloth (except for two copies bound in white cloth for Whittier). The first issue of this book is so rare that it attracted forgers as early as the 1920s. This nostalgic poem shares a distinction with only five other American works of being on both the Grolier English Hundred (100) and the Grolier American Hundred (73). BAL 21862." Referenced in the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL) as no. 21862. John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was an American poet and abolitionist. He was one of the Fireside Poets, a group of poets mostly from New England who were very popular during the nineteenth century among critics and the general public alike. Many of their poems centered upon domestic and moral themes. Whittier is best-known for his anti-slavery writings and this book, Snow-Bound (1866). Snow-Bound is a narrative poem about members of an unnamed family who gather indoors after a snowstorm and tell stories of their life experiences until they are no longer snowed in. The poem tells of bucolic and nostalgic times past before the Civil War. The setting is Whittier's childhood home, John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Otto Orren Fisher (1881-1961) was an American industrial surgeon for the Hudson Motor Company and a nationally renowned book collector. His personal library contained over 80,000 volumes.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-bound. A Winter Idyl.. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With a tipped in signed autographed letter from Whittier tipped into the prelims. The letter, dated 1883, states that the "Household Edition" and the "Red Luxe Edition" are both complete, along with a few other words. 8vo. 18.5 by 12 cm. 52 pp. Light wear to book itself. Slipcase has moderate wear, with some rubbing of the leather. Still an asset. Quarter Leather slipcase. Cloth boards. Book itself is full cloth
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Green. Snow-Bound. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first state. 52 pp. Author's portrait frontispiece with tissue guard at title. 12mo. Original green cloth boards with blind-stamped borders on covers and gilt titles and title box on recto, decorative gilt titles on spine, some soiling along edges with some discoloration to cloth on upper rear board, and heavy rubbing on foot of spine. Handsome original owner's bookplate on upper pastedown and label applied to rear pastedown, tender binding but all leaves intact; overall a very good copy with portrait frontispiece, housed in navy morocco backed blue cloth box with ornate gilt boxes and titles on spine 52 pp. Author's portrait frontispiece with tissue guard at title. 12mo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound. Ticknor and Fields, Boston,, 1866.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Snow-Bound by John Greenleaf Whittier. First edition, first state (with page # on page 52) in original green cloth. Publisher: Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866. Binding is in near fine condition, slight wear to cover tips, else fine. Contents clean, rear endpapers with large circular stain extending through 4 blank endpapers. 52 pages. 4 ¾ x 7 ¼ inches. Overall a nice attractive copy. BAL 21862. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #19-018. Price: $300.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
John Greenleaf Whittier. Snow Bound A Winter Idyl. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition of Whittier's best known poem This is the first edition, second issue with the final page (52) unnumbered as shown above. With the original binding bound into the book at the rear, as shown above. Bound by Stikeman & Co. Bound in half leather with green cloth covered boards and gilt lettering. John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 1892) was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. He is usually listed as one of the Fireside Poets. Whittier was strongly influenced by the Scottish poet, Robert Burns. This poem takes place in what is today known as the John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead, which still stands in Haverhill, Massachusetts.The poem chronicles a rural New England family as a snowstorm rages outside for three days. Stuck in their home, the family members exchange stories by their roaring fire. Whittier began the poem originally as a personal gift to his niece Elizabeth as a method of remembering the family. Nevertheless, he told publisher James Thomas Fields about it, referring to it as "a homely picture of old New England homes". Snow-Bound was first published as a book-length poem on February 17, 1866. Snow-Bound was financially successful, much to Whittier's surprise. By the summer after its first publication, sales had reached 20,000, earning Whittier royalties of ten cents per copy. He ultimately collected $10,000 for it. Its popularity also led to the home depicted in the poem being preserved as a museum in 1892. Bound in half leather with green cloth covered boards and gilt lettering. There is some slight wear to the extremities including slight bumping, and discolouration to the spine. The front inner hinge is slightly strained. The binding is tight and firm. There is some slight offsetting from the frontispiece. Internally the pages are clean and bright with the odd handling mark. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue of this poetic description of the pleasant isolation of âthe inmates of the family at the Whittier homesteadâ with the final page properly numbered 52. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, pale yellow endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and title page vignette, headpiece and initial letter by Harry Fenn. BAL 21862. In near fine condition. Rear endpaper clipped. Housed in a custom clamshell and folding chemise case. âWhittier is the voice of the middle 19th-century New England farmer and small town dweller. In loving, careful detail he speaks for the inarticulate, for the humble and the commonâ (Kunitz & Haycraft, 813). In his introduction to Snow-Bound, Whittier writes, âThe inmates of the family at the Whittier homestead, who are referred to in the poem, were my father, mother, my brother and two sisters, and my uncle and aunt both unmarried. In addition, there was the district schoolmaster who boarded with us.â Snow-Bound was greeted with many favorable reviews that focused on the simplicity and power of Whittierâs writing. The reviewer for The North American Review writes, âWe are indebted again to Mr. Whittier, as we have been so often before, for a very real and very refined pleasure. It is true to nature and local coloring, pure in sentiment, quietly deep in feeling, and full of those simple touches that show the poetic eye and the trained hand.â Another reviewer acknowledged that âWhittier is a poet who deserves to be better known⦠He might be called the poet of the bright side of human nature.â Allibone, 2704. BAL 21862.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Offered are two volumes of "Snow-Bound". First Edition, First Issue with page number 52 below printers name. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, 52pp. bound in reddish brown cloth, upper board centrally stamped in gilt, spine lettering gilt; head chipped just a bit and small area of discoloration near center of spine; doesn't appear to be an ex-library but there are 5 numbers that appear faded on the dedication page, last page and rear pastedown. Together with the 1867 edition without the 52 on the last page; bound in green cloth centrally stamped in gilt, spine lettering gilt; list of Whittier's writings before the half-title; yellow endpapers and neat owner's inscription in the year of publication. This copy is nearly fine. Both volumes housed in a custom cloth slipcase.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with page 52 numbered beneath the printer's slug. Publisher's original gilt-stamped purple cloth. But for a minute touch of dulling to the spine, a short tear in the frontispiece tissue-guard, and an elegant contemporary ink gift inscription on the front free endpaper, this is a NEAR FINE copy. The Arthur Swann copy, with his bookplate tipped to the front pastedown. Additionally, laid in is an Autograph Note Signed by Whittier, dated 1881, in Fine condition. BAL 21862.
Seller: Clarel Rare Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.. Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue of this poetic description of the pleasant isolation of âthe inmates of the family at the Whittier homesteadâ with the final page properly numbered 52. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, pale yellow endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and title page vignette, headpiece and initial letter by Harry Fenn. BAL 21862. In fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise case. âWhittier is the voice of the middle 19th-century New England farmer and small town dweller. In loving, careful detail he speaks for the inarticulate, for the humble and the commonâ (Kunitz & Haycraft, 813). In his introduction to Snow-Bound, Whittier writes, âThe inmates of the family at the Whittier homestead, who are referred to in the poem, were my father, mother, my brother and two sisters, and my uncle and aunt both unmarried. In addition, there was the district schoolmaster who boarded with us.â Snow-Bound was greeted with many favorable reviews that focused on the simplicity and power of Whittierâs writing. The reviewer for The North American Review writes, âWe are indebted again to Mr. Whittier, as we have been so often before, for a very real and very refined pleasure. It is true to nature and local coloring, pure in sentiment, quietly deep in feeling, and full of those simple touches that show the poetic eye and the trained hand.â Another reviewer acknowledged that âWhittier is a poet who deserves to be better known⦠He might be called the poet of the bright side of human nature.â Allibone, 2704. BAL 21862.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-bound: a winter idyl. Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1866.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first state with page 52 so numbered; 12mo, pp. 52; steel-engraved frontispiece portrait with tissue guard (tissue with tear but no loss); wood-engraved vignette title page; publisher's maroon cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover; mild foxing to prelims and terminals, spine ends rubbed with small breaks in the cloth and spine slightly sunned; all else very good. BAL 21862.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
WHITTIER, John G.. Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl. , 1866.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: WHITTIER, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl. Original red cloth, housed in custom red morocco slipcase with inner cloth chemise. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition, first issue with page number at the foot of p.52. BAL 21862. Grolier American 100, 73. Minor speckling to cloth, small amount of faint foxing, else a near fine copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-bound. A Winter Idyl. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Two volumes. Original terracotta and blue cloth. A little wear and sunning. A very handsome set. Morocco case. FIRST EDITION, FIRST AND SECOND ISSUES. These are the fine Bradley Martin copies of both issues of the poem that brought Whittier his greatest fame. Tipped in are two letters from Whititer to publisher James T. Fields, both dated 1866, discussing the reception of the book. In one the poet writes in part, I am amazed at what thee say about the sale of Snow Bound. It must be that each one who parts with his [money] for it finds he is humbugged & has a malicious satisfaction in getting his neighbor into the same predicament by recommending it. A stellar provenance: Charles Albert Horne (bookplate in first series) Frank Maier (bookplate in first series) Frank Brewer Bemis (bookplate in both volumes) Harold Greenhill (bookplate in both volumes) H. Bradley Martin (bookplate in chemises of both volumes; his sale, Sotheby s New York, 31 January 1990, lot 2275).
Seller: 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop, Stevenson, MD, U.S.A.