Category: Beautiful Bindings

D'ri and I: A Tale of Daring Deeds in the Second War with the British. Being the Memoirs of Colonel Ramon Bell, U.S.A. [War of 1812]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Lothrop Publishing Company : 1901

Seller ID: 002222

Condition: Near Fine

Full red cloth binding with central oval paper onlay with gilt decorative frame, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, 7-3/4" x 5-1/4", 362 pp. Owner's inscription to front endpaper; tips lightly worn. Red silk cloth covers with gilt lettering and rose flower & stem frame around paper onlay by F.C. Yohn, who also did the plate illustrations within. Laid in is an original publisher's announcement for the book, which includes this statement: "In appearance this book will be BY FAR the MOST BEAUTIFUL in color and ornament that has been published in cloth binding, and it is sure to be one of t...
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Naval Actions of the War of 1812

By: Barnes, James

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers : 1896

Seller ID: 002293

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Navy blue cloth with bright gilt borders designed as ropes, anchors forming the background to a central medal (the medal which was presented by Congress to Captain Stephen Decatur) on front board; spine also bordered with rope; H & B logo stamped in gilt to rear board, 9-1/4" x 6-1/2", 263 pp. Very faint wear and bumping to tips and spine ends. A beautiful production of this history of naval warfare, including two accounts of American privateers, complete with reproductions of the various medals presented to the victors.
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A Border Shepherdess

By: Barr, Amelia E.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company : 1887

Seller ID: 002196

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Small volume in blue cloth with silver stamping, 6
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Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor

By: Blackmore, R.D.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers : 1900

Seller ID: 002219

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Hardcover, full blue cloth binding with green and light blue design and gilt lettering to front cover and spine, 8-3/8" tall, 560 pp. + publisher's ads, portrait frontispiece, black and white photographic plates. Faint wear to spine ends, "Xmas - 1901" in ink to front endpaper, bookseller's label to rear endpaper, else fine. A beautiful Art Nouveau design.
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The Cruise of the Cachalot, Round the World after Sperm Whales

By: Bullen, Frank T

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company : 1899

Seller ID: 002226

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Hardcover, full green cloth with black, white, and yellow pictorial front cover, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, 7-5/8" tall, 379 pp., black and white plate illustrations, folding map. Slight darkening to spine and top edge of pages. The cover picture is based on the painting opposite page 74, although in mirror image. The only real change is the upper-most sailor is wearing a hat in the original painting.
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Romance of the Feudal Chateaux

By: Champney, Elizabeth W.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons : 1903

Seller ID: CS00641

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Grey pictorial cloth decorated in black and dark grey ink with gilt titles, 8vo, 436 pages, illustrations and photogravures throughout text; boards are very lightly rubbed, head and tail of spine turned in, deckle edge pages are clean, each photogravure protected by a tissue guard printed with the title of the image it's protecting.
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The Home Garden (Appletons' Home Books)

By: Church, Ella Rodman

Price: $30.00

Publisher: D. Appleton and Company : 1881

Seller ID: 002180

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Full brown cloth with vignette of farmhouse within arched frame; series title above, book title below; the whole within decorative borders. This is an early example of multiple colors being used for a publisher's series binding: the vignette is black, the arched frame and lettering in russet, and the borders in blue. Rear board blindstamped with borders. Modest foxing to first few and last few pages, very light wear to extremities. Near fine. Described by the publisher as having an "illuminated design," this is one of the first three books Appleton produced in this handy series. This title has...
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The Legionaries: A Story of the Great Raid.

By: Clark, Henry Scott

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Bowen-Merrill Company, Publishers : 1899

Seller ID: 002218

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Second edition. Hardcover, full green cloth with gilt lettering and frame around painted scene, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, top edge gilt, 7-3/4" tall, 385 pp., plate illustrations. Faint rubbing to front cover, light wear to spine ends, pencil name & date (1899) to front endpaper. A simple example of color blending, which was not often practiced on book covers. In this case, it presents a nice horizon for the silhouetted cavalry. An historical novel based on Morgan's Raid, an impressive one thousand-mile march of the Confederate Army into the North as a diversionary tactic.
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Weeds and Wild Flowers: Some Irreverent Words

By: Colt, Arminda Maria-Theresa; wood-engravings by George Mackley; designed by Will Carter

Price: $400.00

Publisher: London, The Two-Horse Press : 1965

Seller ID: 001886

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Signed by George Mackley, limited edition #18 of 250 copies. Yellow handmade paper over green cloth spines, separately bound suite of engravings, house in slipcase. Near fine condition with owner's inscription and a few notes in pencil, suite near fine with faint crease to four of the prints, slipcase has toning at edges, light wear, ink scribble to bottom panel. -- Named by the Grolier Club as one of the best books of the 20th century (A Century for the Century.) A beautiful combination of natural history and fine art.
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The Martian

By: Du Maurier, George

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Harper & Brothers : 1898

Seller ID: 000798

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Hardcover; 8 x 6 inches; viii, 471, [4] pages; frontis portrait of the author; illustrated. Blue cloth decorated in gilt, top edge gilt with remaining edges untrimmed, boards rubbed with mild wear at extremities, faint damp stain to spine near head, dark blue clay coated end papers, scattered foxing and tanning at page edges, rear internal hinge just starting to crack near tail, binding a little tender but intact. Overall a beautiful volume. The Martian is a largely autobiographical novel that describes the lives of two long-time friends, Barty Josselin and Robert Maurice, beginning with th...
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Candle-Lightin' Time

By: Dunbar, Paul Laurence

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co. : 1901

Seller ID: 002230

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth decorated in red white and dark green with gilt titles and embellishments, 8-7/8" x 5-7/8" inches, 127 pages, illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club, title page and green page border decorations by Margaret Armstrong, title page decorations and title in black, top edge gilt. A bit of wear at tips and spine ends including fraying at head of spine, a few scattered tiny, faded spots along joints. Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first widely read African American poet. He self-published his first book while working as an elevator operator. Dodd, Mead signed him ...
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Men, Women & Manners in Colonial Times. Illustrated with Photogravures and with Decorations by Edward Stratton Holloway

By: Fisher, Sydney George

Price: $75.00

Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company : 1898

Seller ID: 002182

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Designed by Edward Stratton Holloway. Two volumes, full blue cloth with gilt design, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, 7-1/4" x 4-5/8", photogravure plates, headpiece illustrations, fading to blue cloth at spines, gift inscriptions. A social history of colonial through nineteenth century America, this is a good book to skip around and browse through, with a consistent stream of anecdotes. The decorative covers and page decorations by Holloway do a lovely job of recreating a sense of the Golden Days of early America.
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The Vicar of Wakefield

By: Goldsmith, Oliver

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell : 1898

Seller ID: 002175

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Wood veneer covered boards backed in green cloth, titles on spine in gilt, 6" x 4", 280 pages, in-text illustrations throughout. Corners wearing through, spine ends turn in. This is an example of Crowell's novelty binding known as The Oak Leaf Edition and issued 1898-1900. The binding was designed by the Decorative Designers firm.
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The Vicar of Wakefield

By: Goldsmith, Oliver; Saintsbury, George (prefatory memoir)

Price: $60.00

Publisher: George Routledge and Sons : 1885

Seller ID: 002301

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

[1885-86]. Illustrated cover based on drawings by V.A. Poirson. Hardcover with beveled boards, full brown cloth with gilt and black lettering, illustrations colored in pink, white, and blue to both covers and spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, clay-coated endpapers, 10-1/2" tall, 291 pp., colored illustrations by V.A. Poirson. Light wear to tips, spine ends turned in, faint water ring to rear cover, foxing to some pages, binding somewhat shaken. The illustrations are dated 1884-5, pencil gift inscription of 1886.
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The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni. Illustrated with Photogravures.

By: Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company : 1899

Seller ID: 002227

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Binding designed by Sarah Whitman, two volumes. Hardcovers, white cloth spines over red cloth-covered boards, gilt decorations and borders to front and rear covers, gilt lettering and decorations to spines, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed, 8-1/8" tall, 527 pp., plate illustrations with tissue guards. Mild discoloration to white spines, small stain to bottom section of front board of volume 1, light spot to bottom corner of front board of volume 2. Extra postage required for international or priority shipping.
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Along the Trail: A Book of Lyrics.

By: Hovey, Richard

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Small, Maynard and Company : 1898

Seller ID: 002178

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Binding designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue with his monogram to front cover, second edition. Hardcover, full brown ribbed cloth with gilt rules, lettering and decoration to front board and spine, 7" tall, 115 pp.. Modest bump to head of spine. Bertram Goodhue was primarily an architect, but he is probably best remembered in the book world for designing the Cheltenham typeface. Although he was involved in the Arts & Crafts movement, it is his architectural style which is most influential in this book design featuring an array of bugles within ruled borders with maple-leaf corners.
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[Kipling's] Indian Tales. Oriental Edition

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Dodge Publishing Company : 1899

Seller ID: 002229

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Hardcover, full red cloth binding with black, white, and green Oriental carpet design to both boards and spine, lettered in gilt to front cover and spine, white lettering to rear cover, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, 8-1/8" tall, 750 pp., portrait frontispiece, plate illustrations by L.J. Bridgman and others. Slight rubbing.
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Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush

By: Maclaren, Ian

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company : 1900

Seller ID: 002197

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Binding designed by F.B.S. with their monogram on front cover. Hardcover, full green cloth with black and blue design and silver lettering to front cover and spine, 6-3/8" tall, 218 pp., frontispiece, title page in black and red. Minor speckling to spine, prize inscription to recto of frontis. The FBS monogram is within a barbed box.
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Lucile

By: Meredith, Owen [Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton]

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell : 1900

Seller ID: 002199

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Tan cloth decorated in green and red with gilt titles, 7
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In the Bishop's Carriage

By: Michelson, Miriam

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, he Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers : 1904

Seller ID: 002193

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

No additional printings listed. Binding designed by Margaret Armstrong with her "MA" monogram to front cover. Hardcover, full red cloth with green and white lettering and decoration to front cover and spine, 7-5/8" tall, 280 pp. + publisher's ads, plate illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Some dulling and flaking to spine, minor spine slant.
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Category: Beautiful Bindings