Price: US$52.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. 318pp., dark brown fine diagonal ribbed cloth, stamped in black, gilt and blind, t.e.g. Very nice copy; small press cutting on Buchanan's 1894 bankruptcy at corner of paste-down end-paper. His first prose work, the principal source for the life of the ill-fated Gray and important too as one of the earliest British assessments of Walt Whitman. Not in Colbeck. One of at least two later bindings, with all edges trimmed.
Seller: Charles Cox Rare Books , Bude, United Kingdom
Price: US$126.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original green embossed coves are bumped at spine, worn at edges with fraying at corners and spine ends. Hinges are starting. Front paste-down endpaper has small address type label torn off at top with two ownership bookplates. 366 pages with 24 pages of ads show wear with slight spotting and some fingerprinting. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: All Booked Up, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover with no DJ. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Title page dated 1868. No date on copyright page. 366 pages. Fading along edges of boards. Spine also faded. Gold lettering on spine is shiny and legible. Shelf cocked. Pages are very lightly toned but otherwise clean and tidy. Illustration of Audubon on title page. Binding strong and tight. Very Good condition. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1868. Quarter leather on paper-covered boards, red spine label with gilt title. The interior is lightly age-darkened, but there is no foxing. Both hinges are cracked, but the binding is holding tightly. The top corner of the front board is heavily rubbed and chipped. Not an unattractive copy.
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With an albumen print photograph frontispiece of a painted portrait of Audubon wearing a fur collared cape. 8vo, frontispiece portrait, vii, 366pp, ads (24), uncut. Original green gilt decorated cloth, with highly decorative gilt title at spine. Slim damp mark along the back cover hinge, two chips with slight loss in the adverts at the rear, a small newspaper clipping laid down inside rear cover. Overall a very nice copy of our America's greatest bird portrait artist.
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$416.05 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A first edition biography of this important American ornithologist and naturalist. A biography of the American ornithologist, naturalist and painter John James Audubon. With a full plate frontispiece illustration of the subject, as well as an illustrated title piece with a vignette self-portrait by Audubon.Audubon's combined interests in art and ornithology turned into his major work, a complete pictorial record of all the bird species of North America, titled 'The Birds of America'. It is considered to be one of the finest ornithological works ever completed. Audubon is also known for identifying twenty five new species.With a twenty four page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Extensive tide marks to the rear board. Bumping to spine head and tail. Internally, generally firmly bound though slightly strained in places. Pages generally bright and clean. Tidemarks to rear few pages and pastedown. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$448.56 + shipping
Description: First edition 8vo. rebound in half dark brown morocco, raised bands, gilt, with clothbound boards. Albumen print frontispiece of a painted portrait of Audubon wearing a fur collared cape, vii, 366pp. Ex. Public Library with minimal markings. Overall a Good Copy. (Shelf 4) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.
Seller: Chaucer Bookshop ABA ILAB, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$468.06 + shipping
Description: pp.vii, 366, [1], 24 page publishers catalogue. 8vo. A small amount of foxing to last few pages of the publishers catalogue at rear of book, to the tissue guard facing the frontis. and to the fore-edges of the text block, o/w. contents very clean and in fine condition. In original green cloth boards, with gilt decoration and lettering to spine, all in thor. vg. condition. A thoroughly vg. copy of the 1st edition. Was £400.00.
Seller: C. Arden (Bookseller) ABA, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom