Search Results: conversations on some of the old by james russell lowell

David McKay, 1893. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good+ ; No jacket. 1893 David McKay. Third edition, enlarged. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has burgundy cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering and blind-stamped ruled borders. Top edges are gilt. Green satin index ribbon. 294 pages. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners rubbed. Spine ends bumped. Light scuffing to rear cover. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Name in ink on title page. Text pages clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Introduction by Robert Ellis Thompson. Spine title: "Lowell's Prose Works. The Old Poets". Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Thomas Y Crowell Company Publishers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1901. unk.. hardback. 24mo 5" - 6" tall .

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good plus Hardcover. Spine faded just slightly. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Henry G. Clarke & Co. Publishers, 1845. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1845. No Edition Remarks. 271 pages. Half bound leather with brown cloth covered boards. Book has been rebound. No advertisements. Marbled text block edges, patterned endpapers and pastedowns. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Previous owner's inscriptions to title page. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with cracking to front hinge. Binding remains firm. Occasional pen annotations throughout. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Boards are slightly bowed and tanned. Leather slightly peeling to all surfaces with noticeable scuffing. Faint marks overall with occasional water drops.

Various, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. Quarter bound red leather with marbled paper covered boards. Conversations on Some of the Old Poets; The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Two volumes bound together each paginated separately. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Sticker to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Tears to leather to spine. Wear marks overall.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Cambridge: John Owen, 1945. First edition. Leather. Good. 6.5" by 4.5". None. A scarce first edition of this book of literary criticism by James Russell Howell. First Edition. A scarce work by James Russell Lowell. Howell belonged to a group of critics and poets known as the 'Fireside Poets, who were notable as the first American poetry group to rival the popularity of their British counterparts. In cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally sound, though with wearing to extremities and joints and marking to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean aside from some minor foxing. Good

Lowell, James Russell. CONVERSATIONS ON SOME OF THE OLD POETS. Cambridge: John Owen, 1845. First edition. Contemporary three-quarter tan calf, raised bands, gilt, marbled boards. Near fine copy, inscribed by author, editor, translator, and Harvard professor Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908) to his oldest sister Louisa Norton (b. 1823) on January 1, 1845. The earliest inscribed copy noted by BAL was also dated January 1, 1845. The Nortons were close friends of the Lowells, among many others in Boston literary circles. Norton and Lowell co-edited the `North American Review' and Norton served as Lowell's literary executor.… Read More

Cambridge: John Owen, 1845. First edition, small 8vo; pp. [2], [i-iii], vi-viii, [1], 2-263; contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine in 5 compartments with a black morocco label in 1; bound by H.T. Crofoot of Newburyport, Mass. around the same time of publication, binder's stamp on the front free endpaper; very good with a few hints of wear to the extremities, bacfk free endpaper excised, and a few small spots of age darkening to the flyleaves. BAL 13049. Bound with: Longfellow's The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems, John Owen, 1846. First edition, pp. [2], [i-v], vi-vii, [3], 3-151. Half-title bound in. This imprint of Longfellow's poems marks the first publications of: "The Arrow and the Song", "Autumn", "Dante", "Drinking Song", "The Evening Star", "The Old Clock on the Stairs", "Poetic Aphorisms", "To a Child", and "To an Old Danish Song-Book". BAL12083.