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UsedVeryGood. Hardcover, Dark Red cloth w/ gilt lettering on cover and spine. Previous owners stamp on flyleaf. Pages are clean and unmarked. Sturdy binding. Given age, Excellent condition!

Hartford, CT: A. D. Worthington & Co., 1897. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Narrative of her early life and struggles for education, three years experiences on a southern plantation among white masters and black slaves, her courtship, marriage, domestic life, etc. Incidents and recollections of three years experience as an Army Nurse in the Great Civil War. Six of her most popular lectures". Gilt lettering & decorations on fleur-de-lis embossed red cloth covered boards. 8vo, 730pp plus ads. Gift inscription o the first free end paper. Front inner hinge started. Frontispiece & one other illustration (Pg. 442) loose.

Hartford: A. D. Worthington & Co, 1898. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. xxxiv, 35-730 pages, [4] pages advertisements. Illustrated. Faded blue green cloth hardcover with blind stamped border decorations. Gilt title on spine. Green floral end sheets. Light insect damage to the cloth binding. Rear hinge cracked. Interior contents are clean.

Hartford: A.D. Worthington & Co., 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket, as issued. lightest wear to book, spine sunned. Civil War era memoir. Broadfoot, 345. Mary Livermore, born Mary Ashton Rice, (1820 – 1905) was an American journalist, abolitionist, and advocate of women's rights. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. 

Mary Livermore's own description of her life as a "Teacher, Author, Wife, Mother, Army Nurse, Soldier's Friend, Lecturer, and Reformer," including her experiences as a nurse in the American Civil War. Illustrated with portraits and 120 engravings. i-xxxiv; 35-730 pp. plus 2 advertisements for other publications from A.D. Worthington & Co. Publishers. One of the blank end pages is missing in front, and there is a niche taken out of the blank end pages in back. Otherwise this book is in quite good condition.

Hartford, Conn.: A.D. Worthington & Co. Publishers, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Dust Jacket. Three-quarters leather with cloth, floral endpapers, frontispiece with tissue guard, fully illustrated, 730 pages plus ads. Narrative of her early life and struggles for education, three years experiences on a southern plantation among white masters and black slaves, her courtship, marriage, domestic life, etc. Incidents and recollections of three years experience as an Army Nurse in the Great Civil War. Six of her most popular lectures. Clean unmarked copy, front hinge cracked but holding, three pages at front loose but still attached [seems to be a common fault with this title], gilt titles and decorations on spine nice and bright, leather very nice with just a touch of rubbing at edges, overall a handsome copy and rather scarce in leather.

Hartford, Conn: A. D. Worthington & Co., 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. 22.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. xviii 730pp [4] ads. 122 illustrations including some full page plates. Bound into 1/2 black leather, gilt spine labels and decorations. Early printing with 1897 on copyright page and 1898 on title page. There is a damp stain to the bottom of both of the frontispieces, not quite reaching the illustrations themselves. The stain is also present on the foredge but besides the frontispieces does not effect the interior. Some scuffing to edges.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2005-03-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hartford, CT: A. D. Worthington & Co, 1899. fair, ex-lib.. 730, illus., frontis mostly separated, boards scuffed, library stamps, bookplate, & pocket, raised library stamp on title page. Some foxing to fore-edge and a few pages, library call number on spine, small piece missing at top of spine, spine edges worn.

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Paperback / softback. New.

HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE-STAR SELLER, presents a DOUBLY-SIGNED, FIRST PRINTING of THE STORY OF MY LIFE, or THE SUNSHINE AND SHADOW OF SEVENTY YEARS, by MARY A. LIVERMORE. Hartford, CT: A. D. Worthington & Co., Publishers, 1897. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING via matching dates. Signed "Yrs. Truly, ...[signature]" underneath author portrait on 2nd fep. Signed by author second time following preface. 730 pages, 6" x 9." No Jacket. Pages = Very Good: Gold gilt to top edges, splotching from a liquid to all edges, very light yellowing, else sharp, tight and clear with no marks. Cover (red cloth boards with debossed title in red on gold frame front, embossed gold gilt designs and remaining particulars both front and spine) = Good: Tight and square, with little rubbing to corners, much outside spotting from a liquid. Overall book = Good Plus. "Superbly Illustrated with Portraits and One Hundred and Twenty Engravings from Designs by Eminent Artists, Made Expressly for this Work." Illustrators… Read More

Hartford, CT: A. D. Worthington & Co.. Fine+ with no dust jacket. 1897. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. This is a salesman's sample book. I has samples of the three different bindings inside the covers, along with a representative sample of the pages of the book. IT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE CONTENTS!! This was only intended to get folks to order a copy of the book. There is space in the back for customers to sign up for purchase, with space to indicate which binding they wished. The only defect is a rubbing through the cloth at the bottom center of the spine, about 1/4" high. This sample is in the red binding, with brigh gilt title.; Salesman's Dummy; 6x9 .

Hartford, Conn: A.D. Worthington & Co., Publishers, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [2], vii-xxxiv, 35-730, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) [4] pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine; all edges decoratively speckled in red. With green floral endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with two full-page photographs at the beginning, and with thirty-one additional full-page illustrations, also with numerous in-text illustrations and head and tailpieces. Completing the title page: "A narrative of her early life and struggles for education, three year's experiences on a southern plantation among white masters and Black slaves, her courtship, marriage, domestic life, etc. With hitherto unrecorded encidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the Great Civil War and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform, including thrilling, pathetic, and humorous incidents of platform life,… Read More