Publisher:
London: Chatto and Windus, 1925. First edition.
Seller ID: 57132
Orange cloth, printed paper spine label. Light edge wear, a clean very good copy. This copy is signed to Lennox Robinson with an inscription: "To Lennox / from Gigi / 5 October 1926". Our research has not revealed the identity of Gigi, thus far. This came from a small group of books recently received, from the library of Lennox Robinson. View More...
Original printed wrappers. Back cover lacking, spine ends chipped, old stain to front cover, name stamped in ink on front cover, very good otherwise. Issued as No. 15 in the Minerva Series, November, 1889. Evidently a cloth edition exists as well, as it is listed in Wright III: 31 (HEH only). Scarce. A society novel in which a man's bride-to-be dumps him upon learning that he was born out of wedlock. View More...
London: Routledge, [c.1874]. Large 8vo. Blue decorative cloth, designed and lettered in black and gilt. Light brown printed end papers, containing ads for the series. Frontispiece, vignette title page, and 20 inserted plates. Issued as a volume in the series: Routledge's Octavo Novels. Fraying to spine ends, inner hinges cracked, some shelf wear, about very good otherwise, internally quite fresh. Engravings are attractive, good quality impressions, some have onion skins. First published in 1841. View More...
Portland, Maine: Mosher, 1899. 8vo. Stiff ivory-paper wrappers, overlapping edges, designed and lettered in dark brown. Frontispiece. This is one of 100 numbered copies on Japan Vellum. Small bookplate on inner front cover, creased where overlapping covers meet page edges, a nice clean copy. The preface is by John Ruskin, dated 1883. The frontispiece is dated 1872. This is a sentimental tale of a virtuous young woman, first published in 1883; after reading it, John Greenleaf Whittier wrote a sonnet of the same title. View More...
[Victoria?]: Cormorant Press, (1980). First edition. Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Tan end papers. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, some tiny tears at edges, but basically as-new. A study of the group which included Yeats, Arthur Symons, Ernest Dowson, and others. View More...
Black boards, spine lettered in gilt, paper covers pasted on. Tan end papers. A fine copy. This is the hardcover issue of this collection of 14 stories. View More...
Paris: Delalaine, 1790. 12mo. Green half-calf & marbled boards, covers ruled in gilt, spine designed and lettered in gilt. Marbled end papers. Engraved title leaf. 330 pages, plus one leaf of addenda/corrections at rear. Contemporary patterned wrappers are bound in. Some damage to the last couple of leaves, at the gutter, with very slight loss; binding rubbed at joints and tips; in general, a clean very good copy. Chateaubriand contributes a poem at page 205: L'Amour de la Campage [ as M. le Chevalier de C*** ]. Pages 303 - 330 contain detailed ads for poetry and other works, entitled: Notice ... View More...
Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Sumtibus et Typis Caroli Tauchnitii, 1829. [100] pages. 3.5 X 5 inches. Brown marbled boards, green calf spine designed in gilt. Scattered foxing throughout, heavier towards the later leaves; some small nicks to edges, but a very nice copy. Selections from Anacreon; the text is in Greek, the preface and notes in Latin. View More...
Publisher:
Arbroath: Brodie & Salmond, 1897. First edition.
Seller ID: 56656
Brown cloth designed and lettered in gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Angus. Modest edge wear, cup ring on the front, a very good copy. In the introduction Rev. Campbell notes that Angus published poetry under the nom-de-plume of Secunder. Angus was struck and killed by an express train in 1896. He had joined the Queen's Army at the age of 15, and served in India. A scarce book. View More...
Red cloth lettered in gilt. A few blemishes to cloth, in general a bright, very good copy. A survey of literary patronage, much to do with 19th century British authors. An uncommon book. View More...
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, (1924). First edition, Colonial Issue (so stamped on the copyright page). Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in blind. Some pen marks and small marks to end papers; a bright and attractive copy. An anonymous epistolary work of fiction, consisting of letters from a woman to her love, Ronald, written in the 1920s. Touches on politics, love, social issues. View More...
NY: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1856. First edition, later or remaindered issue. 8vo. 324pp. Original blue-green printed wrappers, with the 1859 imprint of S.H. Colesworthy, Portland, on the front wrapper. Much chipping at edges, most of spine lacking, only the upper of three stitch-holes still containing thread, puncture through front cover and first 10 pages (affecting the first letter of the imprint); very good otherwise. Offsetting on many pages where leaves were pressed between. Issued in cloth by Putnam, but rarely seen in this wrappered issue. Many stories, some of which look to be criminous, no... View More...
London & NY: John Lane, 1912. First edition. Blue cloth, front cover ruled and lettered in white, spine ruled in white and lettered in gilt. 16-page publishers catalogue at rear, plus a 4-page Anatole France ad section (order form intact). Upper edge stained blue. Small Canadian bookstore label in rear, a clean and very attractive copy. Historical adventure, of the Spanish in the Canary Islands during the reign of Isabella. View More...
London: Secker, 1917. First British edition. Black cloth lettered in red, top edge stained black. Small bruise to upper page edges, spine slightly faded, but a fresh and attractive copy. Five stories. The American edition appeared the same year from Huebsch. View More...
Original green cloth designed and lettered in gilt. Title page printed in black & red. Some dust soiling of cloth, a number of pages have small corners torn off (used as bookmarks?), not affecting text, otherwise a very good copy. Wright III: 208, citing a NY edition published by the author, but also mentioning this Boston imprint. The title page in this copy is a cancel, indicating that the sheets of the first edition were likely utilized for this issue. Also the binding bears no publisher's imprint. A musical novel concerning Franz Liszt. View More...
NY: Published by The Longworths, Aug - 1812. First American edition. 12mo. 67 pages. [bound with] Thomas Otway: The Orphan; or, The Unhappy Marriage. NY: David Longworth, 1818 [bound with] Thomas Morton: The Knight of Snowdoun: A Musical Drama. NY: D. Longworth, 1811. [bound with] Thomas Morton: Speed The Plough; A Comedy. Philadelphia: Carey, 1807 [bound with] William Dimond: The Aethiop; or, The Child of the Desert. NY: D. Longworth, March - 1813. The five works bound in one volume, 12mo., full calf, the spine ruled and numbered (16) in gilt. Upper cover lacking, some old stains to lower... View More...
NY: Coward-McCann, (1942). First American edition. Blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Top edge stained red. A very nice copy in dust jacket, just some light edge wear. Published in the UK as: ALLANAYR (1941). A highly-regarded music novel. View More...
Publisher:
Aberdeen: William Smith & Sons / The Bon-Accord Press, [1917?].
Seller ID: 56779
Small pictorial wrappers, sewn, designed in black and lettered in red. [28]pp. Some light edge wear, a very good copy. Contributors listed within are John Imlah, James Greig, William Skea, William Anderson, William Smith, John Ewen, William Cadenhead, William Forsyth. A scarce booklet. View More...
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