Lot(8) of RARE old books - Emerson, Longfellow, Dickinson
Estate Sale Find (more photos below)
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Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - including
The Spanish Student, Evangeline, The Golden Legend and Hiawatha Hurst and
Company publishers
722 Gilt page edges - cover binding is loose - 2 previous owners names written
on the first blank page 1901 and 1962 - 1 torn and 2 dog-eared pages.
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson -
The Modern Library -
the poems of this volume are selected from Poems, First, Second and Third series
published in 1890, 1891, and 1896
Good binding - 231 pages, none torn, 1 dog-eared owners name on inside cover
page.
Woman's Work in The Home - Archdeacon F. W. Farrar copyright 1895 by Henry Altemus 115 pages no torn or dog-eared pages -solid binding - no stains.
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith copyright 1899 by Henry Altemus 271 pages the 2 blank pages in the front of the book have small tares - no dog-eared pages -solid binding - no stains.
Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Ralph Waldo Emerson copyright 1899 by Henry Altemus 294 pages in very good condition. no dog-eared pages -solid binding - no stains only minor age discoloring.
Slain by the Doones - by R. D. Blackmore copyright 1895 by Dodd, Mead and Company 244 pages - no dog-eared pages -solid binding - no stains only minor age discoloring.
Rollo in Geneva by Jacob Abbott - Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858 by Jacob Abbott 220 pages no dog-eared pages -solid binding - no stains but overall age discoloring 28 pages have slight margin damage from a insect (see photos below)
The Light of Asia or The Great Renunciation by Edwin Arnold, M.A. London, July, 1879 - 239 pages 1 dog-eared page -solid binding - no stains but some age discoloring Times New Roman - previous owners name written on the first blank page.
