Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 552pp. collection of the letters of Henry Adams, author of Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, and The Education of Henry Adams among many other works of history and several novels. Covers the period of his life from age 20-53, his period of.....
New York: Harper and Row, 1967. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 246pp. stated first edition. translated by Priscilla Johnson McMillan. from front flap: "...The author has used one of the oldest and most flexible literary forms--the letter to an unidentified friend, who is, essentially, each reader of her book--to relate the.....
New York: Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1897. hardcover. 12mo 194pp. humorous letters to the editor of The Weekly Statement by pseudonymous "Amicus" #03258.
Boston: Ginn and Company, 1900. hardcover. 12mo 315pp. College Series of Latin Authors. letters in Latin with notes in English. from Preface: "Cicero's letters are of such wide range and varied interest that it is an exceptionally difficult task to edit a limited number which shall be fairly representative of.....
London: Folio Society, 1997. hardcover. 8vo 198pp. eighth printing 2015. Selected, edited and introduced by Rivers Scott. features Paradoxes and Problems, Biathanatos, Letters, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Notes in Divinity, Sermons. #01961.
New York: Viking Press, 1980. Muriel Foster. hardcover. 16mo. oblong. unpaginated. illustrated in color and b/w. includes publisher pamphlet. #02575.
Prentice Hall, 1946. J Alphonso Koenig. hardcover. 8vo 169pp. 15th printing. from front flap: "SMOOTH SAILING LETTERS has been written for busy people who have to budget their time. There are no long-winded discussions--just the simple facts and fundamental principles that everyone needs to know in order to write friendly.....
St. Martins Press, 1971. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 164pp. Collection of letters associated with murder cases, with brief annotations by the author. from front flap: "Some of the cases in which letters played an important part are well known; others are remembered, if at all, only by a few students.....
Vantage Press, 1955. first edition. hardcover. 12mo 68pp. from front flap: "Nothing is quite so final as death, and yet man seldom discusses seriously the matter of his own departure from this life. For the first time in book form, the present volume considers the whole subject as a natural.....
London: Nonesuch Press, 1967. hardcover. 8vo 1156pp. seventh impression. from front flap: "The Nonesuch WHITMAN in the Compendious Series. The aim in this series is to give, by clever editing and appropriate critical apparatus, a true conspectus of certain great writers in one volume, and, by proper planning of the.....
New York: The Press of the Readers Club, 1942. hardcover. 8vo 302pp. Introduction by Carl Van Doren see pictures for synopsis. #02070.
Norwalk, CT: Heritage Press, 1990. Lima De Freitas. hardcover. 8vo 417pp. Sandglass pamphlet laid in. Translated and Edited by Samuel Eliot Morison. Illustrated by Lima De Freitas. #02638 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1987. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 352pp. from front flap: "Through their painstaking research, the editors of this work have uncovered nearly three times as many Alcott letters as were previously known to exist. More than 260 of them have been selected and annotated for this.....
New York: Heritage Press, 1942. William Sharp. first thus. hardcover. 8vo Volume I for the years 1659-64, Volume II for the years 1665-1669. Transcribed by the Rev. Mynors Bright from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College Cambridge and edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A......
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1956. hardcover. 8vo 657pp. from front flap: "The Search Within is designed as the first of a series of volumes of selections from Theodor Reik's works. This initial volume is a synthesis of his frank reminiscences of his personal life, his training, practice and.....
London: Folio Society, 1980. hardcover. 8vo 127pp. #03444.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1987. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 264pp. Stated first edition. from front flap: "In 1972, the premier issue of Ms. Magazine elicited an astonishing 20,000 letters from readers. Fifteen years later, Ms. still receives more mail each month than magazines ten times its size. Readers.....
New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989. first American edition. hardcover. 8vo 288pp. from front flap: "Throughout the fifteenth century the Pastons were a family on the make--accumulating property and jostling for power and patronage. They were soldiers and students, lawyers and landowners, courtiers and members of parliament. This comprehensive collection.....
New York: Longmans Green and Company, 1956. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 255pp. stated first edition. from Introduction: "Born in Boston in 1817, Fanny Appleton was married to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1843, and died in 1861. This volume contains selections from her extensive journals and correspondence." includes references and written.....
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1902. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 485pp. printed December 1902. from To The Reader: The aim in this volume is simply to present some transcripts of the remarkable life in Boston during the nineteenth century,--the latter years of which came within the personal observation and experience.....
Clingstone, 1979. first edition, association copy. hardcover. 8vo 251pp. Biography and collection of letters of Mary Mapes Dodge, who wrote childrens books, known especially for Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates, and for being the long time editor and contributor to St Nicholas Magazine for 30 years, publishing children's stories.....