The Fifth Reader Of The School And Family Series; Harper's Series by Marcius Willson - 1861

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Nabu Press, 2012-04-16. Paperback. Good.

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1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Harper's Series, School and Family Readers; Illustrated; NY, 1861, 1st edition, Harper & Brothers, Pub., very good condition, bound in half leather and cloth, pencilled notes on end-pages, else contents are very good, minor wear to corners, else binding

Franklin Square, New York: Harper & Brothers , 1861. Stated at copyright: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, by Harper & Brothers to the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York." This mid-nineteenth century reader contains early inclusion of Edgar Allan Poe's classics "The Raven" and "The Bells". Dark brown pebbled boards, leather spine wrap, gilt spine titles between seven ribbed bands, moderate shelf wear, rub. Light pink and blue marble patterned text block at all sides. Pages generally very good w/toning, small sticker-pull at endpapers, very old oak leave set in w/toning to these pages; no writing. Scarce near very good nineteenth century educational material from the Harper's School and Family Series. Illustrated throughout in effortless instructional simplicity reminiscient of classical encylopedic style. String-bind good; hinges intact. Prefatory poem by… Read More

HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET, 1865 on Title Pg, & 1861 ON COPYRIGHT PG. , VG/GOOD, AS-IS, NO JACKET ,CLEAR TAPE TO REINFORDCE OUTSIDE SPINE BK & BACK INSIDE ENDPAPERS,, 540pp; b/w illustrations; foxing / faint stains on a few pages, previous owner name on front ep; marbled edges; binding shaken; 7.25 tall; crack to spine with gilt lettering; chipping to edges & tears to gutters of black leather back strip; heavy wear to edges of black cover with boards showingFEW DOG EARED PG, Ichthyology or Fishes, Chemistry of a Candle, ILLUSTRATED IN B/W, Health of Brain, Ruins of Coliseum in Rome, Chemistry of Cataracts, Vision of Moses, , ETC

HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET, 1863 on Title Pg, & 1861 ON COPYRIGHT PG, VG/VG-, AS-IS, NO JACKET, Spine has been replaced with new leather . Measures approximately 7.5 x 5-inches; , BLACK CLOTH with few stains edge wear , some Interior fox & stainsa very early, rare, illustrated appearance of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven," marked by Purple sewn in ribbon bkmark in addition to excepts from Dickens, Darwin, Coleridge, Emerson, and myriad others. It also includes an early appearance of Poe's classic, "The Bells". The book was published by Harper and Brothers, New York, in their "Harper's School and Family Series" as a "reader", which is designed to round out a student's exposure to a variety of different types of prose. Stained endpages have new acid-free hinges. Added placeholding ribbon. Light foxing throughout. A few dog-ears and light stains. Binding is very tight and square. Text and illustrations are very bright and crisp. 539 pages, indexed. Alphabetical List of writers in back, HERPETOLOGY OR… Read More