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This is the second page of back advertisements in volume 1 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. This page begins with a header saying, "CHOICE BOOKS FOR FAMILY READING". Underneath this title is an underline and then a listing of authors, their works, and the prices. The books listed are: Leigh Hunt's A Book for a Corner, Imagination and Fancy, and Stories from the Italian Poets, Mayo's Romance Dust, The Berber, and Kaloolah, Kimball's St. Leger; or, the Threads of Life, Lamb's Essays of Elia, and Specimens of the English Dramatists, Myers's The King of the Hurons, and First of the Knickerbockers, Keats's Literary Remains and Life, and Poetical Works, Hewitt's Memorial of Genius and ... [illegible due to damage], Fairfax's Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, Sedgwick's Clarence, and Redwood, Kirkland's Spencer and the Faery Queen, Foque's Undine, a Tale, and Sintram, Gilman's The Sybil; or, New Oracles from the Poets, Goodrich's Poems (illustrated), Hawthorne's Mosses from an old Manse, Howitt's Ballads and other Poems, Lynch's Poems (illustrated), Montagu's Selections from taylor,... [illegible due to damage], Peacock's Headlong Hall, &c. Hervey's Book of Christmas, Cooper's Choice Works, and Clarke's ... [illegible due to damage] Gift Book. 

This is the second page of back advertisements in volume 2 of the 1852 George P. Putnam 16th edition, version 2. The books advertised on this page include: Up the Rhine, Roughing it in the Bush, An African Cruiser, Sicily, Head's Journey across the Pampas, Hood's National Tales: Tylney Hell; Micellanies, Osborn's Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal, Leigh Hunt's Romances of Real Life, Reach's Railway Note Book, Kohl's St. Petersburgh, Douglas Jerrold's Miscellanies, Thackeray's Miscellanies, and Musical Anecdotes.

This is the second page of back advertisements in Volume 2 of the 1852 James Nisbet, Sampson Low, Hamilton, Adams & Co. second edition. There is evidence of foxing along the left margin.

This is the second page of the back advertisements in volume 2 of the 1852 Sampson Low Reprint. It lists seven other books published by Sampson Low:The Whaleman's Adventures, Household Chemistry, Eastern Music, Malleville, The Swiss Family Robinson, and Forest Life and Forest Trees. 

This second page advertisement, which is a continuation of the one appearing on the front page, for the 1853 Charles H. Clarke and Samuel O. Beeton shows the prices of "LITERATURE FOR THE RAIL," available to those on trains in that time period. Bellow a simple zierrat is listed the titles of books for "One shilling each". Those titles include: Marvel's Romance of Forest and Prarie Life and Reveries of a Bachelor, Ware's Pictures of European Capitals, Southey's Life of Nelson, Joan of Arc, Curse of Kehama, Ballads, and Minor Poems, The Cavaliers of England, Uncle Tom's Cabin, D'Arbouville's Three Tales, The White Slave, The Guards, Life in the Woods, Beauties of "Shakespere", The Shot in the Eye, and Adventures with the Texian Rangers, The Sunny Side & a Peep at Number Five, Last Leaf from Sunny Side, The Cossack and the Turk, The Tell-Tale, Lamartine's Wellington and Waterloo, The Czar and the Sultan, Longfellow's Poems on Slavery, and Spirit Rapping in England and America.