Product code: Nye hotsell & Riley's Railway Guide
Author: Edgar Wilson Nye, James Whitcomb Riley, Illustrators: Multiple, 1888, 1st Edition, Illustrated Gold cloth boards with gold gilt emblems with the authors facsimile and numerous embossed illustrations with black lettering. Double frontispiece with tissue guard of caricatures of the authors. The spine shows rubbing and wear plus bumping to the corners with the top rear corner showing wear down to the boards. Board edges have only minimal shelf wear. The spine is firm with the hinges firmly attached to the decorative red flower pattern endpapers. Text block is hotsell firm and all pages are firmly attached. Age tanning throughout and some darkening at the page edge. There is a previous owner book plate on the front end paper that speaks to collecting books to build a library. The interior pages are in very good condition with no chips, tears or other previous owner markings. 203 pages plus advertisement for Bill Nye's next book Dimensions: H – 7-3/4” W – 5-1/2”.
Author: Edgar Wilson Nye, James Whitcomb Riley, Illustrators: Multiple, 1888, 1st Edition, Illustrated Gold cloth boards with gold gilt emblems with the authors facsimile and numerous embossed illustrations with black lettering. Double frontispiece with tissue guard of caricatures of the authors. The spine shows rubbing and wear plus bumping to the corners with the top rear corner showing wear down to the boards. Board edges have only minimal shelf wear. The spine is firm with the hinges firmly attached to the decorative red flower pattern endpapers. Text block is hotsell firm and all pages are firmly attached. Age tanning throughout and some darkening at the page edge. There is a previous owner book plate on the front end paper that speaks to collecting books to build a library. The interior pages are in very good condition with no chips, tears or other previous owner markings. 203 pages plus advertisement for Bill Nye's next book Dimensions: H – 7-3/4” W – 5-1/2”.