The Battle of Flodden Field a Poem of the Sixteenth Century with the Various Readings of the Different Copies ; Notes , Glossary, Appendix Containing Ancient Poems , Historical Matter Relating to the Same Event by WEBER H - 1808

[i-viii]+[1]+301+[302-04] pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt title and author's name on spine and embossed "SL" on cover in original jacket. (Pastore: 251) First state, limited to 10,000 copies with title page 1/4 inch shorter at bottom than surrounding leaves, corrected in later print run. Lewis had commented to several parties privately that Doubleday, Doran was putting too much focus on the Nobel Prize and too little on him. Word reached the publisher and the result was the addition of Lewis's initials to the olive branch motif on the cover of this and subsequent novels. The novel in an attack on the Communist left as a response the way It can't Happen Here was an attack on the totalitarian right; it deals with the "generation gap" and was soundly criticized by Lewis's former socialistic associates, Upton Sinclair, in particular, who vied the book as an apologia for middle-class values and mores, those same values and mores which Lewis had so well… Read More

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1897. 515 pages. A Tale of the Time of Nero. Book is in remarkably good shape for being 116 years old. Clear titling on spine and front pictoral cover. Foxing slightly present on inside cover, binding, flyleafs disjoined.. Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by M. De Lipman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Classic.

Golden Treasury Series. London, MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1899Small 6 1/2" X 4 1/2 " blue hardcover with gilt lettering. No DJ. Spine and edges are rubbed and bumped. Title and publishing company in gilt on spinePrinted by R & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh139 pages.Interior clean and unmarked except for previous owner's signature, and penciled 75 and another word that I can't read.Back inner cover has "Harvard Cooperative Society Booksellers" stamp.Back Board is not straight. Pages yellowed. Foxing noted especially on inner boards.

The Prince of India Vol I & II. By Lew Wallace. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York. 1893. First Edition. Hardbacks without dust jacket. Good Condition. Blue cloth with gilt titles on front cover along with embossed red rosary and moon and star in silver-light. Light rubbing at extremities. Covers faded and rubbed. Spine and edges have minor bumping, as well as some shelf/edge wear. The inside of Volume I is clean and unmarked except for 2.00 on fly page. Volume II is clean and unmarked except for previous owner's name and "November 1899" written on fly page. 502 pp + 578 pp are yellowed. Binding is good. Lewis Wallace was a general for the Union army during the Civil War. He went on to become governor of the New Mexico Territory out west. Wallace was also a lecturer who wrote three works during his busy life. Between his tenure as member of the court and holding office as governor, he published The Fair God (1873), while preparing to write Ben Hur (1880), which has since been translated into… Read More

Sixth printing. Cover has some wear and minor, small stains or marks. No dust jacket, believe to be as issued. On the first and second page, there is erased writing that is still faintly visible, and a stamp from a former owner (a church). No other writing or markings noted. Tanning is present. Binding and pages are tight, especially for the age of the book. Overall, a nice copy. Nonsmoking environment.

[i-viii]+[1]+301+[302-04] pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt title and author's name on spine and embossed "SL" on cover in original jacket. (Pastore: 251) First state, limited to 10,000 copies with title page 1/4 inch shorter at bottom than surrounding leaves, corrected in later print run. Lewis had commented to several parties privately that Doubleday, Doran was putting too much focus on the Nobel Prize and too little on him. Word reached the publisher and the result was the addition of Lewis's initials to the olive branch motif on the cover of this and subsequent novels. The novel in an attack on the Communist left as a response the way It can't Happen Here was an attack on the totalitarian right; it deals with the "generation gap" and was soundly criticized by Lewis's former socialistic associates, Upton Sinclair, in particular, who vied the book as an apologia for middle-class values and mores, those same values and mores which Lewis had so well… Read More

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1897. 515 pages. A Tale of the Time of Nero. Book is in remarkably good shape for being 116 years old. Clear titling on spine and front pictoral cover. Foxing slightly present on inside cover, binding, flyleafs disjoined.. Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by M. De Lipman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Classic.

Golden Treasury Series. London, MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1899Small 6 1/2" X 4 1/2 " blue hardcover with gilt lettering. No DJ. Spine and edges are rubbed and bumped. Title and publishing company in gilt on spinePrinted by R & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh139 pages.Interior clean and unmarked except for previous owner's signature, and penciled 75 and another word that I can't read.Back inner cover has "Harvard Cooperative Society Booksellers" stamp.Back Board is not straight. Pages yellowed. Foxing noted especially on inner boards.

The Prince of India Vol I & II. By Lew Wallace. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York. 1893. First Edition. Hardbacks without dust jacket. Good Condition. Blue cloth with gilt titles on front cover along with embossed red rosary and moon and star in silver-light. Light rubbing at extremities. Covers faded and rubbed. Spine and edges have minor bumping, as well as some shelf/edge wear. The inside of Volume I is clean and unmarked except for 2.00 on fly page. Volume II is clean and unmarked except for previous owner's name and "November 1899" written on fly page. 502 pp + 578 pp are yellowed. Binding is good. Lewis Wallace was a general for the Union army during the Civil War. He went on to become governor of the New Mexico Territory out west. Wallace was also a lecturer who wrote three works during his busy life. Between his tenure as member of the court and holding office as governor, he published The Fair God (1873), while preparing to write Ben Hur (1880), which has since been translated into… Read More

Sixth printing. Cover has some wear and minor, small stains or marks. No dust jacket, believe to be as issued. On the first and second page, there is erased writing that is still faintly visible, and a stamp from a former owner (a church). No other writing or markings noted. Tanning is present. Binding and pages are tight, especially for the age of the book. Overall, a nice copy. Nonsmoking environment.