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Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Ex-library with typical library markings/labels. Unmarked text pages. Age-toned. Cracked at both hinges. Pages secure. Reddish boards scuffed. No DJ. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.
Seller: Booksavers of Virginia, Harrisonburg, VA, U.S.A.
Sparks, Jared. THE WORKS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - VOLUME 10. Hilliard, Gray & Company, Boston, 1840.
Price: US$20.94 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine Strip Missing, Cover Wear, Ex. Library Book; 540 pages
Seller: Neil Shillington: Bookdealer/Booksearch, hobe sound, FL, U.S.A.
Sparks, Jared. THE WORKS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - VOLUME 8. Hilliard, Gray & Company, Boston, 1840.
Price: US$20.94 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine Strip Partially Missing, Cover Wear, Ex. Library Book; 554 pages
Seller: Neil Shillington: Bookdealer/Booksearch, hobe sound, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Octavo. Volume III only. xiv, [1], 578 pages, [2]. Missing the frontispiece portrait. Brown leather hardcover with title labels on the spine. Leather darkened on the spine and covers. Light edge wear to the covers. Moderate foxing throughout the text. Fair condition only.
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Sparks, Jared. The Works of Benjamin Franklin Volume IX. Hilliard, Gray and Company, Boston, 1840.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This book has been bound in a very dark brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. There is corner bumping and chipping, board showing. The cloth has begun to part on the hinges of the outer spine. Text has yellowed with age, some minor foxing. The binding is very solid and uncocked. Interestingly, this book is mostly uncut signatures. Surprising given it's age. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Sparks, Jared. The Works of Benjamin Franklin Volume VIII. Hilliard, Gray and Company, Boston, 1840.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This book has been bound in a very dark brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. There is corner bumping and edge wear, board showing. Cloth has begun to part at head and foot of spine. The text has yellowed with age, some foxing. The binding is solid and uncocked. Interestingly, the book contains mostly uncut signatures. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Sparks, Jared. The Works of Benjamin Franklin Volume IV. Hilliard, Gray and Company, Boston, 1840.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This book has been bound in a very dark brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. There is a chip in the front board - lower section, also rubbing and scratches. There is corner bumping with board showing. Chiping at head and foot of spine. The interior text has yellowed but is quite clean with slight foxing near end papers. Frontispiece illustration retains protective tissue. Interestingly the text of this book is mostly uncut signatures. Surprising given the age of the book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
. THE WORKS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - VOLUME 9. Hilliard, Gray & Company, 1840.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This is an 1840 printing. NOT print on demand. This book shows it's age including fading, rubbing, scuffing, browning, chipping, fraying, tearing, corner bumping and browning from age. Spine has some chipping, fading, browning and rubbing as well as some tearing on edges. Pages show some moderate foxing as well as some moderate to heavy browning and edge wear. Corners show some fraying, rubbing, scuffing and bumping. Overall the book is just very old and shows it.
Seller: Half Moon Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Jared Sparks' authoritative compilation of Franklin's works and letters. Octavo, ten volumes bound in full contemporary polished calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the spine, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Franklin, illustrated. In good condition. Benjamin Franklin earned the title of "The First American" for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity, initially as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies. As the first United States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation. Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition of "The Works of Benjamin Franklin" [FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. SPARKS, Jared, [editor]. The Works of Benjamin Franklin. Containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition, and many letters official and private not hitherto published; with notes and a life of the author. Boston: Hilliard Gray, and Company, 1836-1840. First edition on Franklin's Works. Ten octavo volumes (9 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 234 x 143 mm). Six of the volumes with engraved frontispieces, five of which are portraits, and one is a facsimile of a letter. Some engraved plates throughout, a few of which are folding. Title-pages with dates ranging frm 1836-1840, volume I states 1840. Modern blue morocco. With Franklin's signature on front board in gilt. Some stamped with gilt eagles and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. The final leaf of Volume II with outer corner torn, not affecting text. Frontis portraits in volumes IV and VII are toned, with some minor toning to following few pages. A plates in Volume IV also toned. Generally very clean throughout. An about fine set. HBS 68457. $5,000.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.