Pike rev gustavus d (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. revised edition. 12mo, 7 2/3? tall, xiv + frontispiece + 273 pages, gilt titles on decorative embossed brown cloth. A good, generally clean, neat original hard cover edition with moderate shelf wear, cover cloth worn at all corners, fraying started at back strip top and bottom, binding shaken with loosened signatures, paper moderately yellowed, and with a library and private bookplate on the front end paper.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good-. No Dust Jacket. 274 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed w/ wear to corners and spine ends. Covers cocked. Previous owner's name in pencil on front blank endpaper. Edges of leaves a bit age toned.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition (?). Blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration. This copy has some moderate corner wear but is otherwise bright and attractive with some light interior aging. A name and date (E. Coolidge, 1874) are barely visible on the black endpapers. Book is square and binding secure. VG. This is, I think, the first edition of the book on the Fisk Jubilee Singers first tour in Great Britain. The Jubilee Singers were formed in 1871 and travelled in the US to raise money for Fisk. In 1873, they travelled to Great Britain where they sang for, among many others, the Royal Family. This is the Hodder and Stoughton edition from 1874 which appears to precede the American Edition which has an 1875 date. WorldCat locates fewer than 20 copies of this edition. I find none in the trade. LAFISK ; B&W Frontispiece; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 202 pages; Sold FABA 3.1.24 BTC.…

First Edition. Rev. Gustavus D. Pike. The Singing Campaign for Ten Thousand Pounds; or, The Jubilee Singers in Great Britain. New York: American Missionary Association, 1875. New edition. Octavo. 272pp + 1p index of songs and 1p ads. Illustrated. Publisher's brown pictorial cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, rear cover in blind, yellow endleaves. From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History. Spine rubbed and edgeworn, slight loss at spine ends, visible repair at center; joints gently cracked; boards rubbed and edgeworn; endleaves a bit soiled; moderate toning throughout, still very good. Spine slightly rubbed and darkened; boards lightly rubbed and edgeworn; foxed to endleaves; minor toning; early pencil ownership signature to front free endpaper dated 1851. Very good. .…