Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1883. Half Leather. Half leather with marbled boards. 860 pp. Bound volume, lacking any original wrappers issued. July through December issues of the Atlantic Monthly, for 1883. Includes several pieces by Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Mary Moody Emerson," "Historic Notes on Life and Letters in Massachusetts," "Ezra..... More
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1977. Full Leather. Full tan leather with ornamentation in gilt. 678 pp. Illustrations by Ben F. Wohlberg throughout. A collection of nine stories by Henry James, part of the 100 Greatest Books of All Time Series. VERY GOOD+ condition. Very light fading. Gilt on..... More
New York: The Century Co, 1883. Half Leather. Half leather with marbled boards. 960 pp. Illustrations throughout. Bound volume of this monthly magazine including a piece on the John Brown raid, with an eyewitness account; a look at outdoor industries in Southern California; an article on striking oil; a look..... More
New York: Henry C. Bowen, Publisher, 1874. Tabloid. Side folding tabloid journal. No wrappers, if issued. 32 pp. The Independent was a long running newspaper that promoted Congregationalism and advocated for abolition and women's suffrage, among other social issues. This issue with a piece by Henry James, "Florentine Notes," providing..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1869. Half Leather. Half leather with brown pebbled cloth. 764 pp. Lacking any original wraps issued. A bound volume of this magazine featuring work by Henry James, poetry by Celia Thaxter, James Russell Lowell and others. Also included is an article describing a visit to an..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. Half Leather. Half leather with brown pebbled cloth. 780 pp. Lacking any original wraps that may have been issued. A bound volume of this noted literary magazine featuring poetry, stories and essays. This includes 'Chimney Corner for 1866,' by Harriet Beecher Stowe; 'English Opinion on..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1969. Cloth. Second printing, stated. Blue-green cloth in dust jacket. Price intact, but clipped at lower front flap corner. 111 pp. Illustrations by Newbery Medal winner James Daugherty throughout. A selection of writings by Henry David Thoreau, including Walden. Presumably intended for a juvenile/young adult audience..... More
Boston: H.O. Houghton and Company, 1876. Half-Leather. Black half-leather with black pebbled cloth. 764 pp. A bound volume of this literary journal, covering January to June of 1876. With 'The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut,' and 'A Literary Nightmare,' by Mark Twain; 'I, The American,' by..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1880. Half Leather. Half leather with marbled boards. 868 pp. Bound volume, lacking any original wrappers issued. July through December issues of the Atlantic Monthly, for 1880. Includes two pieces by Mark Twain, "Edward Mills and George Benton: a tale," and "Mrs. McWilliams and the..... More
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co, 1878. Half Leather. Half leather with marbled boards. 812 pp. Bound volume, lacking any original wrappers issued. January through June issues of the Atlantic Monthly, for 1879. Includes three pieces by Mark Twain, "Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton," "About Magnanimous-Incident Literature," and..... More