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Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Front hinges have splitting at each end, front cover is loosely attached. Spine is missing much surface paper. Spine label is chipped. Covers have some wear and bumping to the outer corners and some light staining. First 36 pages have a small light damp stain to the upper outer corners. Pages are slightly foxed, a little darker on a few. Owner's gift inscription on the title page. ; Volume One only, out of Two. BAL 3858.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$68.49 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fair hardcover, no DJ. 1832, Volume 1. Half-leather, marbled boards. Text appears unmarked, but shows foxing, though very readable. End papers show remnants of pasted flaps from protective cover (not original). Binding is tight, hinges strong. Covers are heavily rubbed.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Rebacked. Earlier spine backstrip retained. Title page leaf is present. Pages of introduction through vi, inclusive, are missing. Damp staining to upper portion of last 40 leaves, approximately. Diminished on preceding pages. Covers have general edge and corner wear and slight rubbing. Rear cover has a long scrape of surface paper loss. Front and rear endpapers are foxed. Page have very slight to light foxing. Title page has the owner's written name. ; Volumes One and Two, out of Two, complete, bound together. BAL 3858.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. 2 vols. 8vo. BAL 3858; Spiller and Blackburn 16 Nineteenth century quarter black calf and marbled boards. Some rubbing. Ladies Library Association ink inscription on flyleaves, bookplate. Very good plus. Half red morocco slipcase and cloth chemise
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$429.81 + shipping
Description: Philadelphia, Carey & Lea, 1832. 1 Bl. (Vortitel), 1 Bl. (Titel), V-XIII, (1), S. 25-226; 1 Bl. (Vortitel), 1 Bl. (Titel), S. 5-248. Kl-8vo (18 cm). Glattes HLdr d. Zeit m. dekorativer Rückenvergoldung und floral geprägten Gewebe-Deckelbezügen. Erste Ausgabe des Romans, der die Zerstörung des Klosters Limburg bei Bad Dürkheim in der Refomationszeit spielt. Cooper hatte ihn nach einem Aufenthalt dort verfaßt und eine dichte Schilderung des Lebens im Pfälzerwald im 16. Jahrhundert geschaffen. Jedem Kapitel seines Romanes stellte Cooper ein Zitat voran, meist aus Dramen Shakespeares, aber auch von Byron und Rogers. Noch 1832 erschien die erste von mehreren deutschen Übersetzungen. - Papier wenig stockfleckig. Schmuckes, sauberes Exemplar
Seller: Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel, Hamburg, Germany
[COOPER, James Fenimore]. Heidenmauer; or, The Benedictines. A Legend of the Rhine. , 1832.
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Description: [COOPER, James Fenimore]. The Heidenmauer; or, The Benedictines. A Legend of the Rhine. By the Author of "The Prairie," "Red Rover," "Bravo," &c. &c. Contemporary full sheep, gilt-decorated spines, black morocco spine labels, housed in custom cloth slipcase. Phila.: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1832. 2 Vols. 12mo. First American edition. Wright I:601. BAL 3858. Two small scorch marks on front board of Vol. Two, else a near fine set.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.