ARTHUR, Timothy Shay

The popular tales of Timothy Shay Arthur

Glasgow, Thomas D Morison, 1894. Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in green cloth . Cedarville series, undated, with prize inscription dated Nov.1894 on verso of title page. Pages browned; page fore-edges foxed; edge of first pages worn; some wear at head & foot of spine. Photo:.

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Book number: BOOKS198260I

[Timothy Shay Arthur]

Pride or Principle, Which Makes the Lady

Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. 71pp. Brown cloth stamped in blind on the sides and lettered in gold on the front panel. Heavy foxing, two stains affecting cloth and the margins of the last few pages, a few smaller stains to covers. A good copy. Wright I.137. ; Twelvemo. .

Parigi BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 22190

Catalogue: Fiction and Literature

Keywords: FICTION, ANTIQUARIAN, ROMANCE Antiquarian

Arthur, Timothy Shay.

Sketches of Life and Character.

Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, 1850. 0. Hardcover. Large octavo. vi, 7-416pp. Second edition. Contemporary red cloth, with 3 rules in blind. A floral design in blind surrounds a gilt floral design in the center of both covers. Spine decorated in gilt. All edges gilt. On the lower cover, in the center of the bottom rules, blindstamped by the binder's mark: "Nicholson & Cook, Binders. Philada." With 16 engravings and a portrait of the author. First edition was published in 1849. Presentation copy. Good.

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Book number: 2353

Catalogue: Decorative Bindings, Nineteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

Arthur, Timothy Shay.

The Sons of the Temperance Offering for 1850.

New York: Nafis & Cornish, 1850. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 320pp. Red sheep in imitation of morocco, lavishly gilt-stamped front and back with a large fountain in the midst of foliage, olive branch-bearing doves, and arabesque swags; spine pictorially gilt-stamped with a figure of Justice, another fountain, and a man and woman taking the pledge of temperance. All edges gilt. With 9 plates engraved by W.G. Jackman of New York and a colored frontispiece. Faxon 761 & 762 for known editions; Sabin 87106. Good.

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Book number: 2354

Catalogue: Decorative Bindings, Nineteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

Arthur, T S [ Timothy Shay ]

Ten Nights In A Bar Room, And What I Saw There ; And Three Nights With The Washingtonians

W Nicholson & Sons, 26 Paternoster Square, nd c 1880, reprint. Cloth, VG+. 378pp+8pp publishers adverts, cloth bright, endpapers a little foxed, prize label to front pastedown, a nice copy. Hardback , no dustjacket.
¶ Two, much reprinted, Temperance novels, which did much to help demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public. Timothy Shay Arthur [ 1809 - 1885 ] popular 19th-century American author.

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Book number: 59126

Keywords: american literature, temperance