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Unstated. The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a Life and Notes Vol. I. H. G. Bohn, 1854.
Price: US$8.96 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1854. No edition remarks. 325 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering and blind stamping. Black and white frontispiece. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Binding remains reasonably firm. Minor pencil marking to front paste-down. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Small splits to head of spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: H. G. Bohn, London, 1854. First Edition Thus. Complete 4 volume set. Beautifully bound in 3/4 leather and marbled paper over boards. Raised bands and gilt decoration to spines. All edges marbled. Glossy marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of the author. Additional illustrations by George Cruikshank. More than 300 pages per volume. Inscribed and dated 1865. Light scuffing and wear. Good+ condition. Very attractive set.
Seller: Ellery Center Books, Greenhurst, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: 4 volumes, 8vo; steel-engraved frontispiece and bookplate on front paste-down in each volume, some toning on endpapers; extremities lightly rubbed, else a very good set in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, black morocco gilt-lettered labels on spine with raised bands. From the library of Mr. Curtis Hussey Pettit ('C.H'), a Minnesota legislator and prominent bussiness man (lumber and flour milling) in the mid-1800's. The bookplate on volume 1 is a photograph of the Pettit residence in Minneapolis, along with his daughter's annotations.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Goldsmith, Oliver.. THE WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH with A Life and Notes.. Bohn, London, 1854.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London: H. G Bohn, 1854. 4 Volumes. Small Octavo. 6 7/8 x 4.5", approximately. Frontispiece and engraved title page in Volume 1: vi, 325 pp; Volume 2: vi; 319pp; Volume 3: x, 341pp; Volume 4: vi, 346pp. Period quarter green calf in marbled boards, with matching marbled end papers and edges, gilt spine with red stamped title labels. A very handsome set, with clean pages. Very fine. Includes all the works of the Irish writer, who is best known for the Vicar of Wakefield; Includes his poems, plays, letters, essays and various other works.
Seller: Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller, Vancouver, BC, Canada