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Fiske, John. OLD VIRGINIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS In Two Volumes, Volume II (Standard Library Edition Vol. 5). Houghton, Mifflin, and Company / The Riverside Press, Boston and New York / Cambridge, 1902.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1902 edition. Volume II of 2 only (SLE Vol. 5). A Near Fine copy. 8vo., xxiv, 504 pp., illustrated with a frontispiece, plates, and maps, with tissue guards. Maroon cloth with title on the spine and front board in gilt. Top edge gilt. Very light shelf wear, particularly at the spine's crown and foot. Spines very lightly sunned. Front hinge weak, internally clean. An attractive copy, Near Fine. *** Part of the publisher's Standard Library Edition. The Historical Writings of John Fiske, in twelve volumes. ***.

Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.

Fiske, John. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to its Origins The writings of John Fiske ; v. 24. Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1902.

Price: US$16.00 + shipping

Description: xxxiv, 427 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm. No. 316 of 1000 copies printed Very good condition, spine ends lightly worn

Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.

Fiske, John. The American Revolution 2 VOLUME SET (volumes 10 and 11 of John Fiske's Historical Writings). Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1902.

Price: US$37.45 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very Good 2 VOLUME SET of hardcovers. No DJ's. PAGES CLEAN AND UNMARKED. Covers show very light edge wear with minor rubbing. Bindings tight, hinges strong. Previous owners bookplate on inside front covers.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.

FISKE, John. The Critical Period of American History. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: From a 24 volume edition: The Writings of John Fiske, this is volume 12 only, but it stands alone as a complete work in itself. Beautifully bound in 3/4 burgundy leather and marbled paper over boards.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

FISKE, John. A Century of Science. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: From a 24 volume edition: The Writings of John Fiske, this is one volume only, but it stands alone as a complete work in itself. Beautifully bound in 3/4 burgundy leather and marbled paper over boards.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

FISKE, John. Studies in Religion. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: From a 24 volume edition: The Writings of John Fiske, this is volume 21 only, but it stands alone as a complete work in itself. Beautifully bound in 3/4 burgundy leather and marbled paper over boards. Spine sunned but otherwise in very nice condition.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

FISKE, John. The Beginnings of New England. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: From a 24 volume edition: The Writings of John Fiske, this is volume 6 only, but it stands alone as a complete work in itself. Beautifully bound in 3/4 burgundy leather and marbled paper over boards.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

FISKE, John. Myths and Myth-Makers. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: From a 24 volume edition: The Writings of John Fiske, this is volume 17 only, but it stands alone as a complete work in itself. Beautifully bound in 3/4 burgundy leather and marbled paper over boards.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

FISKE, John. The Unseen World and Other Essays. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: From a 24 volume edition: The Writings of John Fiske, this is volume 18 only, but it stands alone as a complete work in itself. Beautifully bound in 3/4 burgundy leather and marbled paper over boards.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

FISKE, John. New France and New England. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902.

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Condition: Fine

Description: From a 24 volume edition: The Writings of John Fiske, this is volume 9 only, but it stands alone as a complete work in itself. Beautifully bound in 3/4 burgundy leather and marbled paper over boards.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

FISKE, John. The Mississippi Valley and the Civil War. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: From a 24 volume edition: The Writings of John Fiske, this is volume 23 only, but it stands alone as a complete work in itself. Beautifully bound in 3/4 burgundy leather and marbled paper over boards.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

FISKE, John. Civil Government and The United States. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: From a 24 volume edition: The Writings of John Fiske, this is volume 24 only, but it stands alone as a complete work in itself. Beautifully bound in 3/4 burgundy leather and marbled paper over boards. Spine sunned but otherwise in very nice condition.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

FISKE, John. The American Revolution (2 volumes). The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: From a 24 volume edition: The Writings of John Fiske, these are volumes 10 & 11 only, but it stands alone as a complete work in itself. Beautifully bound in 3/4 burgundy leather and marbled paper over boards.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

FISKE, John. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours (2 volumes). The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: From a 24 volume edition: The Writings of John Fiske, volumes 4 & 5 only, but it stands alone as a complete work in itself. Beautifully bound in 3/4 burgundy leather and marbled paper over boards.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

FISKE, John. The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America (2 volumes). The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: From a 24 volume edition: The Writings of John Fiske, these are volume 7-8 only, but it stands alone as a complete work in itself. Beautifully bound in 3/4 burgundy leather and marbled paper over boards.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

FISKE, John. The Discovery of America. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: From a 24 volume edition: The Writings of John Fiske, these are volumes 1-3 only, but it stands alone as a complete work in itself. Beautifully bound in 3/4 burgundy leather and marbled paper over boards. Spines sunned but otherwise in very nice condition.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

Fiske, John. The Historical Writings of John Fiske, Illustrated with Many Photogravures, Maps, Charts, Facsimiles, Etc. in Twelve Volumes (Standard Library Edition). Houghton, Mifflin / Riverside Press, Boston and New York, 1902.

Price: US$155.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Twelve volume set. Dark-red cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, gilt top edge, each volume has a frontispiece with tissue cover, 5098 pp. (12 vols. combined). Light wear, no owner names or gift notes, clean texts, tight bindings. Vol. I with small top edge bump on rear cover; vol. III with last 2 leaves uncut; vol. X with small top corner bumps; vol. XII with ink spots on fore edge. **These 12 volumes weigh 20 lbs (9.07 kg). Shipping limited to U.S. media mail.**

Seller: Bob's Book Journey, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

FISKE, John. Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy (4 volumes). The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: From a 24 volume edition: The Writings of John Fiske, these are volumes 13, 14, 15, & 16 only, but it stands alone as a complete work in itself. Beautifully bound in 3/4 burgundy leather and marbled paper over boards.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

FISKE, John. The Writings of John Fiske in Twenty-Four Volumes. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902.

Price: US$1200.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Limited Edition, number 810 of 1000. Two Signed, handwritten letters by author tipped in, one in Volume I and another in Volume X. Letter in Volume I dated "Aug 19/85" and addressed to "My Dear Shepard," explaining author's inability to pay a debt until his lecture season two months later in October. He writes, "I have / almost forgotten how a dollar looks. / Last week I was even bare of / stamps and postal cards as / well as nickels, and could send / no letters. // It does not look . / as if there were much show / of making my literary work / turn into anything of a / legal-tender character." John fiske was an American philosopher and historian, and popular lecturer early in his career. Complete set of twenty-four volumes of his works containing historical, philosophical, religious, and scientific writings together with essay, lectures, and addresses. Letter in Volume X, includes envelope stamped and addressed to A. H Dooley of the Saturday Herald in Indianapolis. Letter dated "Feb. 28/84" and describes military history of 1776, as well as a brief description of a work of his History, which "will fill / 3 or 4 vols., + will not be / out for 2 or 3 years yet." He also boasts, "I have had audiences of 1000 and more here in/ Boston, and have had to repeat the lectures even a third time, /beginning on my third course before 1st was quite finished!" First twelve volumes present the country's history from its "discovery" to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, and includes maps, facsimiles of documents, charts, and illustrations. Second twelve volumes contain his miscellaneous writings, also illustrated. With vintage bookplate of Walter M. Parker, of Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, the Delegate to the Republican National Convention from New Hampshire in 1916. Complete in twenty four volumes, octavo, original dark blue cloth, paper spine labels, illustrated throughout with black and white plates, some partial color maps. Very Good plus, firmly bound volumes with yellowing to spine and some volumes with visible staining to spine and spine stamps, some light surface wear and wrinkling to cloth, some volumes with modest staining to rear cover, textually clean.

Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.

Fiske John. The Writings of John Fiske in 24 volumes - I, II, III. The Discovery of America, in 3 volumes - IV, V. Old Virginia and her neighbours, in 2 vols - VI. The Beginings of New England - VII, VIII. The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, in 2 vols. - IX. Ne. Cambridge, at the Riverside Press, 1902.

Price: US$1229.37 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: R300316642: 1902. In-8. Relié cuir dos-coins. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos abîmé, Quelques rousseurs. 400 pages environ par volume - quelques gravures en noir et blanc hors texte, et en frontispice, sous serpente. Texte en anglais. Ex libris collé sur le 1er contreplat de chaque volume. Contreplats jaspés. Tranches de tête dorées. Dos cuir à 2 nerfs, titre, auteur et motifs dorés. Coiffes et nerfs frottés. Coins et tranches des plats frottés. Taches sur certains plats. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France

Fiske, John (and Edgar A. Guest). THE WRITINGS OF JOHN FISKE, in Twenty-Four Volumes, Edition de Luxe [edgar a. guest's set]. The Riverside Press: Cambridge, 1902.

Price: US$2760.00 + shipping

Description: 24 vols. Illus incl b/w & color examples of some illus, 9 x 6". 3/4 brown morocco; marbled boards, teg, minor extremity wear, vols 1 & 2 & 24 water stained, but still an attractive set. LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES, EDGAR A. GUEST'S SET WITH HIS BOOKPLATE IN EACH VOLUME. Guest was one of the most popular poets fo his day; he was the staff poet at The Detroit Free Press.

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

FISKE John. Works. , 1902.

Price: US$4700.00 + shipping

Description: FISKE, John. The Works. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1902. Twenty-four volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter red morocco gilt, raised bands, uncut. $4700.Superb limited "Edition de Luxe" set of Fiske’s works, number 313 of 1000 copies. Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of full-page maps and plates, many in color.Fiske was considered "one of the most important intellectual influences in the last quarter of the 19th century. He was probably the most admirably fitted among all his contemporaries to lead the fight for evolution among his countrymen, and the charm of his historical writings and lectures not only instilled an interest in the subject into a vast number of people but was the prime cause of not a few of the distinguished scholars of today first turning to history as their life-work" (DAB). Includes Fiske's classic historical works on America, as well as his scientific and philosophical writings. BAL 6067. Fine condition.

Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.