Nothing to Wear: An Episode of City Life by [BUTLER, William Allen] - 1857

New York: Rudd & Carleton. Fair. 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacks front endpaper; some foxing; cloth Is soiled. ; Bal 2228 .

New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1857. Hardcover. Good. 68 p., frontispiece and 7 leaves of plates (included in page count); 18 cm. Publisher's gray-green cloth with gilt-stamped cover title and publisher's emblem on front cover. Blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Dark green endpapers. Bound in at the front a sheet with "Recent Publications" of the publisher, printed on one side only. BAL, 2228. Half title and title page are printed in red. Green bookseller's stamp on front free endpaper verso for E. S. R. Butler, Wilmington, Delware. A humorous poem about well-to-do women in antebellum New York City and their struggle to find the right thing to wear. In Good Condition: edges rubbed; loss at ends of spine; front hinge cracked; back fixed endpaper scraped; foxing and light soiling.

New York, NY: Rudd & Carleton. G/No Dustjacket. 1857. ........ Cloth. 12mo., 68 pp., rubbed, bumped, frayed, spine faded, page foxing .

NEW YORK: RUDD & CARLETON, 1857 Book. Illus. by Illustrated by Hoppin. Good (-) Book. Hardcover. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Green blind-stamped cover with gilt title. String binding slightly shaken with a few cracks to the inner binding and a shifted spine. Some off-color stains to the cover. Moderately foxed pages. About 7 x 4-1/2 with 68 pages. Illustrated. .

Rudd & Carleton, New York, 1857. Hardcover. Used - Good. NY: Rudd & Carleton, 1857. 68 pages, advertising broadside inserted at front. Titlepage in red, frontispiece, 7 plates. 7 x 4.75'', blind & gold stamped red T cloth, dark brown endpapers, no publisher's monogram on rear cover. 'Albert J Jones, Florence, 1860' on upper blank. Bibliography of American Literature 2228; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators 873. Flora M'Flimsey shops for clothes in verse. Spine tips chipped, cover rubbed, soiled, edge damped, foxed, G.

NY: Rudd & Carleton, 1857. First Edition. Hoppin. 12mo, pp. 68. Red cloth, blind-stamped with gilt lettering. Cover worn, owner's bookplate on pastedown, interior VG. Satirical poem about young women whose only interest seems to be clothing.

NY: Rudd & Carleton, 1857. First Edition. Hoppin. 12mo, pp. 68. Red cloth, blind-stamped with gilt lettering. Page of advertisements tipped in, plus clippings from dealer's catalogs. Cover somewhat worn, VG. Satirical poem about young women whose only interest seems to be clothing.

[BUTLER, William Allen]. Nothing to Wear: An Episode of City Life. Illustrated by Hoppin. Orig. cloth. N.Y.: Rudd & Carleton, 1857. First edition.A very good copy. A Merle Johnson High Spot.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 5x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: Sampson, Low and Co, 1858. 1 vols. 12mo. Orange printed wrappers. Very good. 1 vols. 12mo.