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Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two volumes, bound in original muslin-backed boards, cloth spines with paper labels. 251+(12) pp. and 244+(8) pages respectively. Volume I has a four-page publisher's catalogue at front and 12-page catalogue at the rear, Volume II has eight-page catalogue at the rear. Good plus condition: these are generally unworn copies with tight bindinigs and no owner names, but with moderate foxing throughout. There is a mild old moisture stain to the bottom right corner of the title page of Volume I (not affecting the text) and to the first several leaves as well and there is a short edge tear to front free end paper of Volume I. Some of the leaves in the catalogues at the rear are unopened.
Seller: Jim Hodgson Books, Churchton, MD, U.S.A.
[COOPER, James Fenimore]. Monikins. Edited by the Author of "The Spy." Two vols. , 1835.
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Description: [COOPER, James Fenimore]. The Monikins. Edited by the Author of "The Spy." Two vols. Orig. cloth-backed boards with paper labels on spines. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1835. 12mo. 251, [1], [12 (advts.)]; 244, [8 (advts.)] pp. First edition. BAL 3868. Spines sunned. Circulating library bookplate on both front pastedowns. Cloth at the joints of vol. 2 with long closed tears (boards remain stable), else a very good, untrimmed set.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
[COOPER, James Fenimore]. Monikins. , 1835.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: [COOPER, James Fenimore]. The Monikins; Edited by the Author of "The Spy." Original muslin-backed boards, printed paper spine labels, housed in individual custom cloth slipcases with inner cloth chemises. Phila.: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1835. 2 Vols. 12mo. First American edition. BAL 3868. Wright I: 647. With 4pp. catalogue at front of Vol. One and 12pp. at rear; 8pp. catalogue at rear of Vol. Two. The Littell copy with the small oval leather bookplate of Neva and Guy LIttell on front pastedown of Vol. Two. Muslin sunned, labels chipped, Vol. One rebacked with original spine laid down, light scattered foxing, else a very good fully untrimmed set.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.