Melvin h bernstein ed (2 risultati)

hardcover. Condizione: fine. 12 volumes, v.1 quarto, remainder octavo; uniform blue cloth with gilt spine titles. A fresh, unread set. Weston: M & S Press, Weston, 1970 First Edition. First printing of the Collected Works. Fine.

First Edition. First printing of the Collected Works. Twelve volumes; v.1 quarto, remainder octavo; uniform blue cloth with gilt spine titles. A fresh, unread set. Collected edition of works by the iconoclastic essayist, poet, dramatist and progressive reformer John Jay Chapman (1862-1933). Includes all twenty-seven of Chapman's published works, running to more than 4,500 pages total, plus a Memoir by the author's son, Chanler Chapman; introductions by Melvin H. Bernstein, and a bibiographical checklist of Chapman's writings by David M. Stocking. The M&S Press, publishing arm of the Rhode Island antiquarian bookseller Dan Siegel (M&S Books), specialized in high-quality facsimile editions of hard-to-find 19th-century works of radicalism, reform, and social history. Lorne Bair Rare Books has acquired the surviving inventory of the M&S Press and now makes these long out-of-print titles once again available to readers, researchers, and scholars. *NB: This set weights 21 lbs, and will require additional shipping.…