first edition Hardcover
1906 · Boston
by James, George Wharton
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Carl Eytel. 547pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] 1/4 tan cloth with bluish-gray cloth covered boards, gilt stamped titles on the spines, and gilt stamped vignettes on the front cover. Top edges gilt. Large fold-out map present in volume 1. Moderate rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Several small faded spots to the boards. Some light spotting to the backstrip of volume 1. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedowns. Contemporary gift inscription on the front flyleaf of volume 1. With upwards of Three Hundred Pen-and-Ink Sketches from Nature, by Carl Eytel. Eytel (1862-1925) was a German–American (truncated)