Oliver Goldsmith. The Citizen of the World or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London to His Friends in the East. Berber and Southwick for Thomas Spencer, Albany, NY, 1794.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo. 1st American Edition. Bound in leather. Edgewear with scraping to forecorners and spine ends. Bumping and rounding to forecorners. Large chip to upper spine end with exposed spine binding. Chips to tail of spine. Rubbing and light scraping to leather binding. Fading to binding. Rubbing and scraping to spine. Wear and rubbing to spine title. Rippling to text block. Hinge repair to front hinge. Previous owner's signature to f.p.d. Foxing to leaves. Staining to first and last few leaves around edges from leather cleaning. Dampening to several leaves throughout. Cracking to rear hinge. Previous owner's inscriptions to r.f.e.p. and r.p.d. Condition has been noted. VG.

Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Citizen of the World: or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, residing in London, to his Friends in the East. Re-printed by Barber and Southwick, for Thomas Spencer, book-seller, Albany, 1794.

Price: US$194.25 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 458, vii, [1] p.; 17 cm. Contemporary calf with six spine compartments between gilt-rolled bands; red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title. First American edition. Early American Imprints, 1st ser. (Evans), 27057. Attributed to Oliver Goldsmith in the Dictionary of National Biography. Former owner's name at head of title page: "Francis Blakes." Faint circular stamp on title page. Another former owner's name at head of first page of Preface: J.B. Caldwell. In Very Good- Condition: slightly rubbed; lacking upper corner of front free endpaper and title page, without loss of text; light soiling, foxing, and browning; solid.

Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.