If I Were King
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, ca.1920s. Cloth. Reprint. An attractive Grosset & Dunlap edition, early 20th century, originally published in 1901 by Robert Howard Russel, in chipped dust-jacket, primarily to..... (Book #24904) More
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Prior to the 1820s, most books were issued as unbound sheets or with disposable board covers. Customers would buy the text-blocks and commission bindings themselves--often to match the other titles in their library.
During the 1820s, publishers began encasing annuals and gift books in a sort of wrapping paper, printed with just enough text to identify the volume. It is difficult to ascertain when, exactly, paper wrappers were employed first by publishers, since they were intended to be discarded. In fact, the wrappers were frequently destroyed in the process of opening them. If only for this reason, early dust jackets are exceptionally rare and valuable for collectors.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, ca.1920s. Cloth. Reprint. An attractive Grosset & Dunlap edition, early 20th century, originally published in 1901 by Robert Howard Russel, in chipped dust-jacket, primarily to..... (Book #24904) More
New York: Hurst & Company, early 1900s. Hardcover. A charming publication by Hurst & Company, board edges yellowed, little foxing to page edges in lightly chipped and soiled dust-jacket. By..... (Book #24902) More
New York: Cassell & Company, Limited, c1888. Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. A Near Fine first edition in lightly sunned illustrated wrappers. In the rare, lightly chipped dust-jacket. "I have..... (Book #24940) More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, c1898. Hardcover. Reprint. A charming Grosset & Dunlap illustrated edition, mid 20th century, originally published in 1898, board edges lightly sunned in chipped and rubbed..... (Book #24903) More
Illustrated by H. Bürkner. Stuttgart: Loewes Verlag Ferdinand Carl, [ca.1900]. Cloth. An charming early edition of Pletsch's popular work, 4-8. , Nr. 499. Volksausgabe in Schwarzdruck. Assumed to have been..... (Book #22295) More
London: Methuen & Co., 1907. Cloth. First Edition; First Printing. A Very Good+ first edition, limited foxing to first and last pages in Good+ dust-wrapper, separation to folds, supportive restoration..... (Book #24883) More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1916]. Cloth. First Edition; First Printing. A fine first edition in the original green pictorial cloth, stamped in dark green and gold. Tinted frontispiece..... (Book #26717) More
Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1892. Cloth. First Edition. A just about fine first edition, Binding variant B, S cloth, bicolor, maroon at top, brown at bottom, top edges gilt. Printing..... (Book #26776) More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, c1905. Cloth. An attractive Grosset & Dunlap reprint, following the 1901 edition by Bowen Merrill. Very Good condition, foxing to endpapers in lightly chipped and..... (Book #24882) More
Illustrated by A. B. Frost. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, c1894. Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. A Very Good+ first printing (of three) of the first edition, BAL 18917, in..... (Book #24941) More
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., c1888. Cloth. An attractive publication in Very Good+ condition in little chipped dust-jacket with stamped price of $1.50 to otherwise blank flaps. Copyright 1888..... (Book #22283) More
New York And London: Harper & Brothers, 1905. Original Cloth. First Edition; First Printing. First edition/first printing in bright red cloth in about Fine condition, only light acidic staining to..... (Book #29142) More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, c1917. Original Cloth. A Fine Harper & Brothers edition in the original red, gilt decorated cloth, published in May 1917 (E-R) and..... (Book #29167) More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1903. Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. A handsome first edition in Very Good+ condition, boards a little rubbed in the rare, only lightly chipped and..... (Book #24814) More
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, ca 1917. Cloth. An attractive, Very Good+ copy of the Companion Library for Boys and Girls, in Very Good, little edgeworn and rubbed dustwrapper. Overall, a...... (Book #24873) More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1907. Cloth. An attractive Grosset & Dunlap edition in Near Fine, slightly rubbed condition in a Good+, little tattered dust-jacket, early owner's name to verso..... (Book #24887) More
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