Search Results: works of fisher ames compiled by by fisher ames

Boston: T.B. Wait & Co. 1st edition. Leather. Good. 1st edition. A Fair to Good copy. 8vo., (iv), 519 pp. Bound in mid-19th century Half leather and cloth over boards, title on spine in gilt. All text block edges coated red. Very light edge wear to the boards. Hinges tight. Regrettably lacking the frontispiece and title page, else it could easily be judged a Near Fine copy. Priced with the missing title page factored in. Frederalist congressman from Massachusetts, ratifier of the Constitution.

T. B. Wait & Co, 1809. Three-Quarters Leather. Good+/No Jacket. Rebound in 3/4 green leather and marbled boards. Nice and tight. Gilt title to spine, some rubbings and heavy scuff to top edge of spine otherwise vg. Frontispiece and tissue present, interior is toned but clean, unmarked

Boston: T. B. Wait & Co, 1809. First printing. Hardcover. Fair. First edition, 1809. Rebound in library buckram, new endpapers, 519 pp., Fair ex-library copy with typical treatments (bookplate, bar-code sticker, due date slip, writing on the spine, etc.), some foxing and soiling to the pages and page-edges, rubbing to the edges of the book's covers, no dust jacket.

Paperback / softback. New.

Boston: T. B. Wait, 1809. First printing. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, old calf, good solid copy, spine drying and rubbing, newer paper spine label. 519 pp, frontispiece.

Gale, Making of Modern Law. paperback. New. 7x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Boston: Ptd & Publ by T.B. Wait & Co. pp. xxxi,[9],519. full calf with red leather label intact,. 1809. 1st. sm.8vo head of spine & corners worn with loss, spine scuffed, edges & joints rubbed with 3-1/2" crack in front joint apparently the result of a slightly warped front board, early library bookplate, endpapers, prelims, frontisp & title page browned, scattered light foxing & staining throughout, 1" tear in lower margin of frontisp & 1" tear in gutter margin of title page, still a good usable copy. Fisher Ames (1758-1808) was a lawyer, a New England Federalist, & U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts 1789-97, who "wrote extensively on current affairs, and had a wide reputation both as a writer and an orator". (DAB). Cohen 2212; Sabin 1303 .

Boston: T. B. Wait & Co, 1809. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; 319 pages; G; Bound in brown leather with gilt lettering on light brown spine label; Rubbing to corners, splitting along joints, rubbing to edges, cracking to spine leather; Textblock has age toning and foxing to pages, stickers on front pastedown, marking in pencil on front pastedown, waviness to pages, splitting to interior hinges, spotting along edges; Sabin 1303; RWO. 1359966. Special Collections.