New York: The Macmillan Company 1911. Octavo pp. 1-10 1 2-330 331-336: ads 337-342: blank note: last three leaves are blanks six inserted plates with illustrations by B. J. Rosenmeyer and Maud Tousey original pictorial powder blue cloth stamped in green black and gold. First edition. Nine linked stories showing the development of a young American girl. Cloth of spine panel dusty else a very good copy. #133199 The Macmillan Company unknown
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1903. Octavo pp. 1-10 1-2 3-290 291-292: ads 293-294: blank note: first and last leaves are blanks; title leaf is tipped in inserted frontispiece photographic portrait of the author title page printed in red and black original charcoal gray boards stamped in gold t.e.g. other edges untrimmed. First edition. Mrs. Bacon 1876-1961 was a prolific author of adult and children's fiction whose best-known work was MEMOIRS OF A BABY 1904 a satire on modern methods of child training. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 B-60. Boards rubbed corner tips worn a sound good copy. #133321 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
Washington: Columbia Historical Society 1912. 1st ed. 8vo.; viii 277pp. 1. Frontis. portrait & illus. Author's presentation copy "Complements of the writer" at head of title page. Blind-stamped brown cloth; gilt lettering on spine. Lower corner of front cover & bottom of spine slightly mottled else a very good copy. <br/><br/> Columbia Historical Society hardcover
Houston TX: Normandy House Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0970831900 . Black cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine is clean with very minimal wear. Lightly bumped lower rear corner. Binding sound. Inscribed and signed by author on ffep. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. DJ has very minimal wear at edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 448 pages; Signed by Author . Normandy House Publishers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 11508 ISBN : 0970831900 9780970831903
New York: P.F. Collier & Son Corporation 1961. 54th Printing: 1961 . Decorative Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo or 8� Medium Octavo: 7�" x 9�" tall. 332 pp. Vol. 3 issue only! A great almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages spotlessly clean text and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Gold lettering on spine. No dust jacket. <br/> <br/> P.F. Collier & Son Corporation hardcover
New York : The Peter Pauper Press C.1965. Hardcover. B000SEOMNY Missing Dust Jacket Otherwise Clean And Tight . Good. The Peter Pauper Press [C.1965] hardcover
Boston: Published by Oliver and Munroe No. 78 State-Street 1807. First American edition of the first complete edition of Bacon's "Essays" and first separate American edition. xv xvi blank 2 Contents 270 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary tree calf board edges worn. New morocco spine with black morocco label. Sound clean copy. First American edition of the first complete edition of Bacon's "Essays" and first separate American edition. xv xvi blank 2 Contents 270 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. In 1688 William Bradford had printed the first American appearance of Bacon's essays in the third part of a collection edited by Daniel Leeds entitled "The Temple of Wisdom for the Little World". Bacon's theories and his reasoning methods were popular during the Jeffersonian era. Jefferson was a strong advocate and believer in his inductive scientific methods and Baconian theory was evident in many of his actions he even catalogued his library using "Bacon's classification of the human mind into 'Reason' 'Memory' and 'Imagination.'" Brown "Thomas Jefferson" p.196. The Baconian theory "that one is educated partly by teachers studies and books but mostly by experience carefully observed and thoughtfully considered was especially appealing in America where Bacon was virtually canonized during the eighteenth century. as one of the true progenitors of the modern world." Cremin L. A. "American Education" 1970 p. 102. Lilly "Grolier 100 Books Famous Books in English Literature" 13; Shaw and Shoemaker 12020. For the first complete edition of 1625: Gibson 13; Pforzheimer 30 Published by Oliver and Munroe, No. 78, State-Street unknown
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co 1934. First edition. 1 vols. 4to. Two-toned cloth. Minor wear to spine ends a corners a little sunned else very good. First edition. 1 vols. 4to. With an ALS from the Author. A collection of sketches of various people with humorous descriptions. Laid in: ALS to "Mr. Wescott" from Peggy Bacon: "Thank you for your kind note. I am delighted that you enjoy "Off with Their Heads". And as for the title you suggest it is so perfect that I think I will certainly use it and am all gratitude for the idea." Dated Jan. 16th 1935. Robert M. McBride & Co unknown
Oxford: e Typographiceo Clarenoniano 1813. viii 318 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full polsihed tan calf edges uncut. Bookplate. About fine. viii 318 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. e Typographiceo Clarenoniano unknown
New York London: D. Appleton and Company 1919. Octavo pp. i-iv v vi vii-ix x xi xii 1-339 340 original green cloth stamped in gold. First edition. First printing with "1" at base of text on page 340. Ten short stories of love and romance. Light popular fiction. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 B-63. 1919 owner's signature and gift inscription on front free endpaper. Slight spine lean cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips several light stains to cloth a sound good copy. #119578 D. Appleton and Company unknown
New York London: D. Appleton and Company 1923. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-352 353 354-356: blank note: last leaf is a blank original green cloth stamped in gold. First edition. First printing with "1" at base of text on page 353. Presentation copy with full page inscription by Bacon signed "Josephine" dated Easter 1923. Seven short stories of love and romance. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 B-48. Several small stains to cloth else a bright very good copy. #116890 D. Appleton and Company unknown
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