Old Chester Tales

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. Howard Pyle (illustrator). The stories of different folks who live in a comfortable turn-of-the-century town. Pictorial front cover depicting the town in green by noted Brandywine artist / author and dulled gilt with a little soil and edge wear.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1899. Signed by author on title page.Book measures 19x14.cm. 359,[1]pp, 4pp catalogue. Bound in original publishers green decorative cloth. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Housed in chemise and slipcase, wit has very minor wear. A very nice clean signed copy.F. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus. 8vo.… Read more about this item

New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899., 1899. First edition, first state. 8vo. 16 b/w illustrations by Howard Pyle. Original gilt stamped green pictorial cloth, pictorial upper cover stamped in white, gray, brown, yellow and blind with a view of a university town. Very good. 360 pages + 4 pages of publishers advertisements at end. Enclosed in a folding blue-gray… Read more about this item

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1898. Hardcover. Good. First edition, second state with "Chester" on page five, six lines from the bottom. Pictorial green cloth stamped in color by Thomas W. Ball, unsigned. Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Frontispiece and title loose and laid in, spine faded with some loss affecting the spine title, thus good… Read more about this item

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, 2nd printing. Hard cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall in illustrated green cloth. Very Good/No DJ. Ex-lib. w/call sticker at heel, pocket part and due date slip at rear, frayed corners… Read more about this item

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1899. First Edition . Hardcover. First issue, with "Chelsea" on page 5, 6 lines from the bottom, very good+ with no dust jacket. Bucolic illustration on front board just slightly dulled; paper covering the front hinge is slightly torn, but the hinge is tight. Spine is a little darkened. With 16 illustrations by Howard Pyle.… Read more about this item

New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1899.. First edition.. publisher's cloth (lacking jacket).. Ink name on front free endpaper; cloth soiled and a little rubbed; very good. . 8vo,. With Illustrations by Howard Pyle.

Grosset & Dunlap. Good with no dust jacket; Light corner wear.. 1898. Hardcover. 8vo; 360 pages; A vivid yet delicate portrayal of characters in an old New England town. Sr Lavendar's fine, kindly wisdom is brought to bear down upon the lives of all, ........... .

New York & London: Harper & Brothers. Good with no dust jacket. 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Rear inner hinge cracked, front inner hinge starting to crack. Front endpaper has some smudging. ; First edition, first state. .

Grosset & Dunlap, New York: (1898)., 1898 360 p. + Advertisements + Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Slightly age stained. Given to Francis from Elsa, 1913, written on first fly leaf. Sm. 8vo. Original decorated pictorial cloth binding, soiled with a "F" on spine. PA 29 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Hardcover. Howard Pyle. 8vo. vii, 360 pp. Publisher's decorated cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. The corners and spine ends lightly bumped and the cloth lightly rubbed. Neat gift inscription dated 1904 on the front endpaper, with a small rubber ink bookseller's stamp to the lower inside edge. The binding slightly cocked,… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers , 1899 & 1903 & 1915. First editions of all three titles. Octavos. Illustrated. Publisher's pictorial cloth of various hues. Each volume chemised and the whole housed in a partitioned half green morocco over green cloth slipcase with faux spine bearing gilt lettering. An exceptionally clean and attractive grouping in a very handsome presentation.With… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset&Dunlap, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Later. Very good hardcover hardcover has slight shelf rubbing, sunning on pages. 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.

NY: Harper, 1899. First Edition. Howard Pyle. 8vo, pp. 360. Illustrated by Howard Pyle (all present). Light green cloth, with pictorial stamping in yellow and red. Ex library with pocket and date slip in back. Cover little worn and soiled, front flyleaf missing, o/w VG.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. Bound in green decorated cloth; illustrations by Howard Pyle; previous owners label on front paste down; 360pp.. Early Reprint. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket. Illus. by PYLE, Howard.

New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, 1899. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: vii, 359p. ; 20cm. Subjects: English literature -- United States -- Fiction.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. First edition, first issue, with the misprint "Upper Chelsea" instead of "Upper Chester" on p. 5, line 29. Illustrations by Howard Pyle. vii, [1], 360, [2, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original decorated cloth. About fine. Pyle, Howard. First edition, first issue, with the misprint "Upper Chelsea" instead of "Upper Chester" on… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. First Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. First edition, first issue with "Chelsea" on page 5 instead of "Chester". All 16 Pyle illustrations are present in fine condition. OVERALL A NEAR-FINE COPY. BRIGHT, CLEAN FRONT PICTORIAL BOARD WITH GOOD COLOR, REAR BOARD CLEAN AND BRIGHT, SPINE SIGHTLY DARKENED WITH BRIGHT GILT LETTERING. HINGES STRONG,… Read more about this item

NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1898. Howard Pyle. 8vo, pp. 360. Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Light green cloth, with full label stamped in dark green, black and gilt. Spine little faded and worn, cover little soiled, o/w VG.

New York: Harper & Brothers. A collection of short stories featuring life in small town America in the 1890s from Deland, a popular and bestselliing author in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She wrote a number of books set in Old Chester and populated with many memorably described small-town characters. Second edition, early printing 1899).… Read more about this item