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New York: Robert P. Bixby & Co.. VOLUME 2 ONLY. Hardcover without jacket (as issued). Binding sound, text clean, moderate cover shelfwear. Old library stamp on title page and card pocket in back. Blue-green gilt-stamped cloth. Includes frontispiece of Clay's funeral monument and engraving of his Kentucky home, "Ashland." 600 pages. Heavy book: priority or international shipping may be extra. . Good. Hardcover. 1843.

New-York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1857. Hardcover. Acceptable. . Volume 1 only. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Spine is rebacked but partially detached. Cover shows heavy wear, tear, and rubbing. Pages are tanned.

Silas Andrus & Son, 1855T. hardcover. Good. . Volume 1 ONLY. Decorative brown cloth cover shows moderate wear, tear, rubbing, and soiling. Pages are tanned with some minor staining.

New York: Van Amringe and Bixby, 1844. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. VOLUME TWO ONLY. Handsomely gold-stamped gray cloth. Some edgewear, esp. spine ends & corners. Light foxing. Indexed. Tight, solid. With 2 engraved plates up front. No names, clean text. 37140 shelf

Van Amringe & Bixby, 1844. C 1844 Fair to Good (spine has wear) Vol. 2 only **DC**. Hard Cover. Fair to Good/No Jacket.

New York: Robert P. Bixby, 1843. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. 2 volumes, large 8vo, 9.75 x 6.25 inches, midnight brown cloth with gilt spines and decorations on front covers, good with general moderate wear to bindings, wear and rubbing to edges of boards, occasional wear and light loss along outer joints, spine ends, loss to spine caps, tightly bound, contents very good: endpapers and outermost pages show a bit of foxing but the vast majority of pages bright and free of foxing (plates tend to be quite foxed, including the double frontispiece and engraved title page). 606 & 600 pp.

New York: Van Amringe and Bixby, 1844. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Fifth edition. 8vos, brown cloth, no dust jacket. Books are Good+ with minor institutional markings, including book plates to front pastedowns, faint residue from library pockets to rear pastedowns, and minor markings to front endpapers and title pages. Contents remain unmarked, with mild foxing to margins. Edgewear to exterior of book including chipping to crowns of spines.

Hardback. New.

1843. (CLAY, HENRY). MALLORY, Daniel, ed. The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay, in Two Volumes. New York: Robert P. Bixby & Co., 1843. 1st ed. 8vo. 606; 600 pp., frontises., plates. In orig. cloth. A very attractive set with contemporary owner names on the front free endpaper. Near fine. Sabin 13543. Miles 177. Biography with extensive collection of speeches published in support of what would be Clay's failed campaign for the White House in 1844.

NY: Robert P. Bixby & Co, 1843. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Publishers narrow ribbed dgreen cloth, blind stamped and ruled with gilt-pressed image of Henry Clay monument front cover both volumes, gilt titles to spine. Covers lightly soiled, edges/corners moderately worn, prelims lightly foxed, text bright and clean. Slight loss tips of spine. Solid copies.

Robert P. Bixby & Co, 1843. Second Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Both volumes are bound in dark brown cloth decorated with a gold monument to Henry Clay, edges are worn bare, fabric is dulled with age and worn. Spine is worn to threads at head/tail, god decoration is dulled with age. Some glue spots inside cover of both, foxing and stains, both front hinges are weak. 1843 Second Edition. All orders packed with care, dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011

New York: Robert P. Bixby & Co, 1844. First Edition. First Edition. 4to. (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches). Two Volumes. 605pp; 600pp. Stunning early cloth binding by the acclaimed B. Bradley Binders of Boston, one of the first bookbinders in the U.S. to successfully produce fine gilt-stamped cloth bindings with aesthetically compelling designs. The history is rich and multifaceted for this bindery, founded by Benjamin Bradley. Full rich royal blue cloth with striking central monument design in the center, all-over embossed design in relief, wide triple filet gilt stamped borders, on front and back covers. Signed by binder in embossed seal, front free fly: "B. Bradley/Binders/Boston. Spine with attractive gilt-stamped stylized floral designs comprising most of the space, gilt lettering. AEG. Engraved title-page illustration and full-page engraved frontispiece, in each volume. Foxing only to preliminaries and a few pages at the very end, as nearly always seen. The condition of these bindings is truly amazing.… Read More