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Alphabetical Catalogue
Æsop’s Fables, complete, illustrated. Ideal Edition, cloth, 25c. (6c),
*Abbott, Jacob. Rollo’s Tour in Europe. 10 vols., ill., 16mo, $10.00, reduced to $5.60 (50c)
– *The Florence Stories. 6 vols., 12mo, ill., $5.00, reduced to $3.50 (50c)
A’Kempis. Imitation of Christ, The. By Thomas A’Kempis. 12mo, cloth, 45c. (10c);
Alden’s Illustrated Juveniles
Alden. Stories and Ballads for Young Folks. By Ellen Tracy Alden, Illustrated, cl., 45c. (15c);
Alden’s Juvenile Story Book. 12mo, 302 pages, illustrated, fine cloth, ornamented, 45c. (15c);
– Juvenile Gems of Song and Story. Ideal Edition, extra cloth, ornamented, red edges, 45c. (15c);
– Juvenile Book of Knowledge, illustrated, 12mo, cloth, ornamented, 45c. (15c);
Alden’s Home and Handy Atlas
Alden’s Home Atlas of the World. In one large quarto vol. 11x14 inches in size, containing 112 pages of handsomely engraved and colored maps. Also an index of over 5,000 cities, rivers, mountains, etc. throughout the world, showing exact location. Cloth, $2.25 (80c); Agents Wanted.
Alden’s Handy Atlas of the World. 133 colored maps, diagrams, tables, etc. Price, 30c. (8c);
Alden’s Manifold Cyclopedia
Alden’s Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and Language is publishing in 30 or more volumes, with thousands of illustrations. Ideal Edition, about 640 pages each, Brevier type. Price per vol., cloth, 60c. (20c); half Morocco, marbled edges, 75c. (25c). A specimen vol. may be ordered and returned if not wanted. sixteen vols. now ready. Volumes issued at intervals of about one month. Price of the sixteen vols., cloth, for cash received before July 1, 1889. $8.00 For half Morocco, add 15 cents a volume. AGENTS WANTED.
Alden’s Literary Cyclopedia
Alden’s Cyclopedia of Universal Literature is publishing in volumes of about 500 pages each. Ideal Edition, large type. It will be completed in not less than 15 nor more than 20 volumes, issued at intervals. Price per volume, cloth, gilt top, 60c. (20c); half Morocco, 70c. (25c). A specimen volume may be ordered and returned if not wanted. 13 vols., now ready. Price of the first 18 vols., cloth, for cash received before July 1, 1889, $6.50 For half Morocco, add 10 cents a volume. AGENTS WANTED.
Alden’s “New” Ideal Revolver
Alden’s Ideal Revolving Book-Case, No. 3. Has four shelves, adjustable, giving 136 inches of shelf room, size of case 19 inches wide, 12 inches deep, 48 inches high, or four feet, including the base. Is made of perfectly kiln-dried cherry birch, with birds-eye maple panels; hand carved; built on ingenious but simple interlocking principles, doing away, mainly, with screws, nails or glue; may be knocked down and set up again in five minutes; price $10.00 at store.
No. 4, similar to No. 3, but without the birds-eye panels, and “solid” instead of “knock down,” price $8.00 at store.
Allen, History and Mystery of Common Things. By W. C. Allen. 12mo, cloth, 50c. (15c);
Allerton, Poems of the Prairies. By Ellen P. Allerton. Ideal Edition, cl. gilt top, 60c. (25c);
American Humorists – American Patriotism
American Humorists. Sketches, with illustrative specimens, of the six most famous of American humorous writers, Irving, Holmes, Lowell, Artemus Ward, Mark Twain, and Bret Harte. By H. R. Haweis. Elzevir Edition, cloth; price reduced from $2.00 to 25c. (9c);
American Patriotism. Famous Orations and Patriotic Papers connected with American History. Compiled by S. H. Peabody, President of the University of Illinois. 12mo, 681 pages, Brevier type, half Morocco, marbled edges. 85c. (25c);
Greek and Roman Classics, in English
Ancient Classics for English readers. The volumes contain about 200 pages each, Brevier type, leaded, and are sold separately, in paper, at 10c.; cloth, 25c. (6c). Also bound three volumes in one, arranged in the order given below. Price per volume, half Russia, 60c. (17c); per set of 6 volumes, $2.85 (70c). 1. Cæsar; 2. Herodotus; 3. Cicero; 4. Demosthenes; 5. Aristotle; 6. Plato; 7. Horace; 8. Juvenal; 9. Tacitus; 10. Virgil; 11. Homer’s Iliad; 12. Homer’s Odyssey; 13. Xenophon; 14. Æschylus; 15. Sophocles; 16. Pliny; 17. Aristophanes; 18. Greek Anthology; 19. Euripides; 20. Livy; 21. Ovid; 22; Thucydides; 23. Lucian; 24. Plautus and Terrence; 25. Lucretius; 26. Pindar; 27. Hesiod and Theognis. Volumes numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 cannot be supplied in half Russia. Nos. 6 and 10 cannot be supplied in paper.
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor
Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius. The Thoughts of, translated by George Long, with a sketch of his Life and a view of his Philosophy. Ideal Edition, cloth, 30c. (7c)
Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Large 12mo, cloth, 30c. (7c)
Argyll, Arnold, Bacon, Locke
Argyll; The Unity of Nature. 12mo, 354 pages, Long Primer type, leaded, cloth, 75c. (25c)
– Primeval Man. Uniform with The Reign of Law. Cloth; price reduced from $1.50 to 40c. (15c)
Arnold. Light of Asia, by Edwin Arnold, cloth, 30c. (7c)
– Indian Song of Songs, by Edwin Arnold, cloth, 25c. (6c)
– Pearls of the Faith, by Edwin Arnold, cloth, 25c. (6c)
*Arthur. Home Stories. By T. S. Arthur, 6 vols., ills., 16mo, cloth, per set, $3.40 (50c)
1. Sunshine at Home.
2. Hidden Wings.
3. Sowing the Wind.
4. Not Anything, or Peace.
5. The Peacemaker.
6. After a Shadow.
Bacon’s Essays. With notes of Devey. Elzevir Ed., cloth. 3Oc. (10c)
Bacon’s Essays, and Locke on the Understanding, in one vol. half Russia, 45c. (15c)
Baldwin. Maurice Rossman’s Leading. A Novel. By Mary R. Baldwin, 12mo, cloth, 60c.
Baring-Gould. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. By S. Baring-Gould. Elzevir Ed., cloth, 40c. (15c)
– Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets. By S. Baring-Gould. Elzevir Ed., cloth. 50c. (15c)
Beecher, Beckford, Birrell
Beckford. Vathek. By Wm. Beckford. Ideal Edition, Small Pica type, cloth, 30c. (10c)
Beecher, Henry Ward. Lectures to Young Men. A new and handsome edition, large type, large 12mo, cloth, gilt top. Price reduced from $1.50 to 60c. (20c)
Bernard. Civil Service Reform. By Geo. S. Bernard. Ideal Ed., cloth, 30c.
Birrell. Obiter Dicta. By Augustine Birrell. Ideal Ed., cl., 30c. (7c); half Mo., 45c. (12c)
Book-Lover’s Rosary. Elzevir Edition, gilt edges, ornamented, 30c. (10c)
*Book of the Ocean, and Life on the Sea. Thrilling adventures of ocean life. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, 672 pages, $1.25, reduced to 80c. (15c)
Berkowitz. Judaism on the Social Question. By Rabbi H. Berkowitz, D.D. Ideal Ed., cl., 60c. (20c)
Boswell, Bronte, Bryant, Buffon
Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Croker’s Edition, in 4 volumes, large 12mo, cloth, $2.75 ($1.25)
Brooklyn Bridge, Orations at opening, by Hewitt and Dr. R. S. Storrs, cloth, 25c. (10c)
Bronte. Jane Eyre. By Charlotte Bronte, 12mo, cloth, 30c. (6c)
Brown. A Sea-Island Romance. By William Perry Brown, 12mo, cloth, 60c. (20c)
Bryant’s Poems. Ideal Edition, cloth, 3Oc. (7c)
Buffon’s Natural History. Large 12mo, 588 pages, numerous illustrations, Cloth. 60c. (20c)
Bulwer’s Wit and Wisdom. Compiled by Callie L. Bonney, 12mo, cloth, 60c. (20c)
Bunyan, Burke, Burns
Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. New Ideal Edition; cloth, 20c. (4c)
Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful. New Ideal Edition, Long Primer type, cloth, 30c. (10c)
Burns, Robert: Poetical Works. Elzevir Edition, complete in three volumes, of 353, 330 and 356 pages. Bourgeois type, leaded. The set, fine cloth, $1.40 (45c); full Russia, gilt edges, $2.25 (60c)
– The same complete in one volume, large octavo, large type, 65c. (15c);
Caesar, Life of. By Liddell. Ideal Edition, Long Primer type, cloth, 25c. (7c)
Calhoun, Life of John C. Calhoun, by Jenkins. Large 12mo, 454 pages. Cloth, price 60c. (17c)
Campbell’s Interest Tables. 16mo, cloth, price reduced from $2.50 to 60c. (25c) Showing interest on any sum from $1.00 to $10,000 at 3, 7, 8, 9 and 10 per cent. Also Time Table, etc.
Carlyle’s Choice Works – Cheap
Carlyle. Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History. By Thomas Carlyle. Ideal edition Brevier type; cloth, 30c. (11c)
– Popular Works. French Revolution, Elzevir Edition, Brevier type, leaded, 2 volumes, cloth $1.00 (30c) Past and Present, 12mo, cloth, 40c. (10c)
Carlyle – A Fine Edition
– Essays. Containing Portraits of John Knox: Signs of the Times; Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, again; Schiller; Characteristics, and Other Essays. Price $1.00 (20c)
– Essays: Goethe, Burns, Scott, and other Essays. $1.00 (20c)
– Heroes, Early Kings of Norway, etc. Containing Early Kings of Norway; Heroes and Hero Worship; Life of Heyne; Jean Paul Richter: Chartism. Price $1.00 (20c)
– Sartor Resartus; Past and Present, etc., $1.00 (20)
– Life of Frederick the Great. 4 vols., $4.50 ($1.00)
– Life of Cromwell, and of John Sterling; 2 vols. $2.25 (50c)
The Faith Cure
Carter. Divine Healing: or, The Atonement for Sin and Sickness. By Capt. R. Kelso Carter. Small quarto. Small Pica type, paper, 25c. (10c), cloth, 60c. (20c)
*Chambers’s Encyclopedia, edition of 1885. Nearly 13,000 pages. With revised American statistics. Containing 27,000 distinct Articles and index to 17,000 incidentally mentioned subjects. 12 vols. Crown, 8vo, nonpariel type, $18.00, reduced to $8.00 ($1.50); at store
– Chambers’s English Literature. Edited by Robert Chambers, LL.D., revised by Robert Caruthers, LL.D. 8 vols. in 4, cloth, $2.50 (70c)
Charles. The Schonberg-Cotta Family. Small quarto. Paper 15c. (7c); cloth, 30c. (10c)
*Chavasse. Advice to a Wife. By Henry P. Chavasse. 16mo, cloth, 75c. (15c)
– *Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children. 16mo, cloth, 75c. (15c)
Chinese Classics. The works of Confucius and Mencius. Translated by James Legge, D.D. Library Ed., Pica type, small octavo, cloth, 85c. (35c)
The Great Classics, for Young Folks
*Church, Alfred J. Stories from the Classics. Each 1 vol., 12mo, cloth, $1.50, reduced to 75c. (25c)
Stories from Homer,
Stories of Virgil,
Stories from the Greek Tragedians,
Roman Life in the Days of Cicero,
Stories from Livy,
Stories of the Persian War from Herodotus,
Two Thousand Years Ago; or the Adventures of a Roman Boy,
Stories from Herodotus,
Classic Comedies. Goldsmith, Sheridan and Jonson. Ideal Ed., cloth, 50c. (15c)
Classic Poems, Ideal Edition, Cheap
Classic Poems, first series. Ideal Edition. 364 pages, large type, cloth, 45c. (14c), half Mco. 60c. (15c)
Classic Poems, second series. Ideal Edition, 445 pages, cloth, 45c. (14c), half Mco. 60c. (15c)
First Series: Oliver Goldsmith, Robert Burns, George Eliot, Jean Ingelow, Schiller, Alfred Tennyson, Campbell, Coleridge, Macaulay, Aytoun, Edgar A. Poe, Goethe.
Second Series: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Southey, De Morlaix, Keats, Shelley, Matthew Arnold, Chaucer, Hood, Cowper, Gray, Addison, Spenser, Richard H. Dana.
Cooper, Peter. Life of, by C. Edwards Lester, cloth. 25c. (8c)
Cooper. The Last of the Mohicans. By J. Fennimore Cooper. 12mo, cloth, 35c.
Cottin. Elizabeth; or, the Exiles of Siberia. By Madame Cottin. Ideal Ed., 7c.; cl., 25c. (7c)
The Kalevala – A Great Literary Discovery
Crawford. The Kalevala. The National Epic Poem of the Finlanders. Translated into English Verse, by Dr. John Martin Crawford. In two volumes, small octavo, Small Pica type, leaded, cloth, gilt top, $2.25 (75c); half Morocco, $2.75 (85c); in one volume cl., gilt top, $1.70 (60c)
Cromwell, Life of. By Lamartine. Ideal Edition, paper, 8c., post-paid; cloth, 25c. (7c)
*Cruden’s Concordance to the Holy Bible. Unabridged. 872 three-column pages, imperial octavo, bound in cloth, price $1.50, reduced to $1.10 (20c)
The Lamplighter
Cummins. The Lamplighter. A Novel, by Maria S. Cummins. New Edition. Cloth, 50c. (20c)
Curtis. The Fate of a Fool. By Emma Ghent Curtis. 12mo, cloth, 60c. (20c)
Dante’s Divine Comedy, The Story of. By Harriette R. Shattuck. Ideal Ed., cloth. 20c. (4c)
*D’Aubigne. History of the Reformation. By J. H. Merle D’Aubigne, D.D. With about 200 wood engravings. 727 large double-column pages, $3.00, reduced to $1.75 (60c)
Daudet’s Great Satirical Novel
Daudet. The Immortal. By Alphonse Daudet. 12mo, cloth. 60c. (20c)
Davidson. The Poetry of the Future. By Jas. Wood Davidson. Elzevir Ed., cl., gilt top, 60c. (25c)
Dawson’s Story of Earth and Man
Dawson. The Story of the Earth and Man. By Sir John W. Dawson. Small quarto, cloth, illust., price reduced from $1.50 to 50c. (20c) Cheap edition in paper, without illust., 15c. (4c)
De Foe: Robinson Crusoe. 12mo, cloth, 30c. (7c)
De Stael. Corinne. A Novel. By Madam De Stael, 12mo, cloth, 30c. (9c)
De Quincey: Confessions of an Opium-Eater. Elzevir Ed., cloth, 25c. (7c)
The “Boz” Dickens – $3.00!
*Dickens. Charles Dickens’ Complete Works, “Boz” Edition, in six vols., small 8vo, good type, with numerous illus., well printed on fair paper, cl., $3.00 (75c)
– Illustrated Edition of the works of Charles Dickens, published in small octavo volumes, fine cloth, gilt tops, far superior in quality to any “cheap” edition in the market. Closing out at 50c. (10c) per volume, 1. Pickwick; 2. Oliver Twist, Pictures from Italy, and American Notes; 3. Old Curiosity Shop and Hard Times; 4. Great Expectations; 5. Barnaby Rudge; 6. Child’s England.
Dickens’ Works. Caxton illustrated edition; per vol., cloth. 40c. (10c) 1. Pickwick Papers; 2. Martin Chuzzlewit; 3. Child’s History of England; 4. Little Dorrit.
Dickens. Three Christmas Stories, Carol, Chimes and Cricket. Cloth, 30c. (11c)
Donohue. Idyls of Israel and other Poems. By D. J. Donohue. 16mo, cloth, gilt top, 80c. (30c).
The Famous Dore Galleries
Dore Bible Gallery. Containing one hundred superb illustrations and a page of explanatory text facing each. Large quarto (10x12 inches), cloth, ornamented, price $1.80 (50c) In full Morocco, $7.00; $3.50 (75c)
*Dore: Paradise Lost. By John Milton. With the celebrated illustrations of Gustave Doré, fifty in number, size 10x12 inches. The whole richly bound, extra cloth, beveled boards, gilt edges, gold title and ornamentation, $1.80 (50c) In full Morocco, $7.00; $3.50 (75c)
– *Dante. Inferno. Translated by Carey. Portrait and 75 full-page engravings from designs by Doré. Cheap edition, cloth, $4.00; $1.80 (30c) In full Morocco, $7.00; $3.50 (75c)
Douglas. Strange Threads. A Novel. By J. Douglas. 12mo, cloth, 60c. (15c)
Drake. The Indians of North America. By S. G. Drake. 800 pp., 8vo, cloth, $1.25 (40c)
Drisler. Seven Infelicities and One Felicity. A Humorous Story. By Mary Drisler. Paper, 5c.
Drummond’s Natural Law
Drummond: Natural Law in the Spiritual World. New Edition, cloth, 12mo, 50c. (15c)
– The same. Cheap Edition, cloth, 30c. (9c)
George Eliot’s Works
*Eliot. George Eliot’s Complete Works, popular edition, eight vols., 12mo, cl. $3.75 (60c)
– *Eliot, George, complete works, a fine library edition, in 8 vols., large 12mo, elegantly bound in half Russia, $5.75 ($1.00)
– Eliot, George, Works of. Small octavo edition, cloth, gilt top. Per vol. 60c. (10c); 1. Felix Holt, and Poems; 2. Adam Bede.
– Essays and Leaves from a Note Book. Caxton ed. 40c. (15c)
Eliot, George: Silas Marner. Small Pica type, small quarto, paper 10c. (4c); cloth, 25c. (7c)
– Romola. 12mo, cloth, 35c. (7c)
Elzevir Classics. Type always large. Each vol. complete in itself. Vol. I. See Classic Poems.
Vol. II. 342 pages. Cloth, 35c. (12c) Contents: By Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle. The Spectre Bridegroom. By Canon F. W. Farrar, The Burning of Rome. By Andrew Wilson, The Sea Serpents of Science. By James Parton, Sir Isaac Newton. By W. Mattieu Williams, World-Smashing, Meteoric Astronomy, Lunar Volcanoes. By Frank H. Norton, Paul Gustave Dore. By Bertha Thomas, Richard Wagner. By Dean Swift, The Battle of the Books. By Orpheus C. Kerr, “Puts” and “Calls,” At Easter, Hygeia in the South, The “Last” Man-Epithalamium, In Lent, A Fable of Finance, Condensed Tragedies, A Stoop to Conquer, Squibs for “The Fourth,” Beauty and Booty. By S. Baring-Gould, Legend of the Wandering Jew. By J. H. Merle D’Aubigne, Erasmus and Henry VIII. From Blackwood’s Magazine, James Ferguson, “Astronomer.”
Vol. III. Contains 330 pages. Cloth, 35c. (12c) Contents: By George Rawlinson. The Civilizations of Asia. By John Caird, Buddhism. By Charles Kingsley. The Celtic Hermits. By Cunningham Geikie, The Crucifixion. By Frederick W. Farrar, Seneca and St. Paul. By Conybeare and Howson, A Half Hour with St. Paul. By Franz Delitzsch, Jesus and Hillel. By F. Godet, The Four Chief Apostles. By Mrs. Müller, Life of George Müller.
Vol. IV. Contains 363 pages. Cloth, 35c. (12c) Contents: By Herbert Spencer, The Coming Slavery, Philosophy of Style. By Matthew Arnold. Numbers, Emerson. By George William Curtis, Wendell Phillips. By Wendell Phillips, The War for the Union. By Robert Giffen, Progress of the Working Classes. By T. H. Huxley, Evidences of Evolution. By John Tyndall, Count Rumford. By Edward Orton, Public Health.
