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Description: Thomas Bailey Aldrich's Poems, complete in two volumes. From the larger eight volume set of the writings of Aldrich's Writings. Portrait frontispiece. Previous owner's name and blindstamp on the first flyleaf. A clean copy, with no other marks of any kind. Minor wear to the binding. Half green morocco over marbled paper boards. Raised bands, with lettering and devices in compartments. Top edges gilt. (BAL I 379). Very Good binding.
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. Writings. , 1897.
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Description: ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. The Writings. Eight vols. Orig. half cloth and paper boards with paper labels on spines. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1897. Limited to 250 numbered large-paper sets, signed by the author in Volume I. BAL 379. Some material here first collected. Covers somewhat soiled, else a very good set. BAL does not mention the signature.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$349.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A beautiful, complete, numbered (limited edition), finely bound and autographed set, The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. The set includes his classic works, such as The Story of a Bad Boy. Each book is numbered 225 of 250. Aldrich's autograph is bound into volume one, with matching numbering; "autograph copy no. 225". About the Author - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836 1907) was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor. He is notable for his long editorship of The Atlantic Monthly. He is also known for his semi-autobiographical book The Story of a Bad Boy, which established the "bad boy's book" subgenre in nineteenth-century American literature, and for his poetry, which included "The Unguarded Gates". Physical Attributes - Each volume measures 22.5 x 15 x 2.75 cm. Together they are 25 cm wide (shelf space). Beautiful 3/4 leather fine bindings; the paper is framed by double fillet of gilt. The spines have five raised bands, with compartments; four compartments are framed in fillet with sprays of leaves in the corners; two of the compartments have the name, volume, and works within in gilt. Every volumes sports beautiful marbled endpapers and handsome, wide margins. Top edges are gilt. Each volume includes a ribbon. A very attractive and well executed set. Condition - See pictures. A little fading at edges and spine. Light shelf wear with an occasional rub, and worn edge/corner. Overall the bindings are still quite handsome and clean. No writing or ownership marks/plates/etc. Many unopened pages. Occasional thumbing in Vol 1 (noticeably at back of title page and pages 9-10. Vol 4, red mark in margin of page 120. Volumes 7 & 8 have a moisture mark at the very bottom right corner (foreedge/bottom edge); this extends in a little over a cm at its worst, and often very little; the mark never gets anywhere near the text and is confined to the very corner region of the books. Vol. 8 has the same moisture intrusion at the gutter for the first 40 pages (in last picture). 6200 grams
Seller: Rare Tome, Newberg, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Front inner hinges of the two poetry volumes and one prose volume are cracked. Another volume is mostly cracked right before the title page. Slight browning to page edges. The last volume has slight foxing to the endpapers. Previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper of each volume. ; Poem handwritten and signed by Aldrich on the fly leaf of first volume. Additional signature by Aldrich "Christmas 1897" on a following blank page. ; First edition of this set, in eight volumes.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1897.
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Description: Frontispiece portrait. 8 volumes, slim 8vo, 3/4 red morocco, ornately gilt spines, marbled boards, top edges gilt. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, Riverside Press, (1897). Very good (+). Small inscription on front fly-leaf.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1322.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 10 vols. Frontispieces, 9 x 6", 3/4 crushed Morocco, marbled boards; aeg, spines a little sunned but still a nice, clean, beautiful decorative binding set. Volume 10 is Ferris Greenslet's biography of Aldrich. LIMITED EDITION, NUMBERED "188", SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, WITH HIS BOOKPLATE LAID IN LOOSE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1467.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1897-1908 (Vol.I-VIII: 1897. / Vol.IX 1907. / Vol.X: 1908.). In 10 vols. Large Paper Edition. Autograph Copy. 250 copies printed, No.123. With a portrait of some vols. & many illus. of Vol.X, singed by author of Vol.I. Full green morocco with gilt title on spine. T.e.g. Red & green morocco e.p. & red silk fly leaves. 22.8x15.8cm. Covers sl.sunned of some vols. Spine partly sunned & sl.rubbed. All edges sunned. Front & rear fly leaf sl.sunned. Texts are fine condition. Some pages unopened of some vols. [Vol.II]: Corner of front fly leaf to P.24 sl.chipped. Sl.spotted on half totle page to P.19. [Vol.V]: Front fly leaf started. [Vol.IX]: Gutter of half title page cracked. [Vol.X]: Coner of frontis. to P.64 sl.chipped & torn. [Contents as follows] Vol.I. The Poems, vol.I. / Vol.II: The Poems, vol.II. / Vol.III: Marjorie Daw and Other Stories. / Vol.IV: Prudence Palfrey, and A Rivermouth Romance. / Vol.V: The Queen of Sheba, and My Cousin the Colonel. / Vol.VI: The Stillwater Tragedy. / Vol.VII: The Story of a Bad Boy, The Little Violinist and Other Sketches. / Vol.VIII: From Ponkapog to Pesth and An Old Town By The Sea. / Vol.IX: Ponkapog Papers, A Sea Turn, and Other Matters. / Vol.X: The Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. By Ferris Greenslet. [02466-102704]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan