From Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 01 March 2010
Sunbeams for All Seasons: A Selected Series of Precepts, Counsels and Cautions Relating to the Hopes, Pleasures and Sorrows of Life. Edited by Mrs Clara L. Balfour. Includes frontispiece (complete with detached tissue guard). With preface (dated 1867), plus index to subjects. THIRD EDITION, 1877. Printed by Duncan Grant & Company, Edinburgh. BEAUTIFUL BINDING. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with elaborate bright gilt lettering & design to front board & spine, black border design to front board, blind-embossed design to rear board, all edges gilt, blue endpapers. With interesting school prize BOOKPLATE to front pastedown, from Drummond Street School, Carlton [inner city suburb of Melbourne], dated Christmas 1878. Very slight handling wear, mild trace of margin foxing, otherwise a very nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. xvi + 320pp. RARE. SB-4. Seller Inventory # 029012
Title: Sunbeams for All Seasons: A Selected Series ...
Publisher: Houlston & Sons, London
Publication Date: 1877
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: Third Edition
Seller: Claude Cox Old & Rare Books ABA, ILAB, Saxmundham, United Kingdom
FIRST EDITION, pp.xvi,240; original grained cloth decorated in blind & gold, faded to tan, all edges gilt, by Burn with his ticket; inscriotion at head of title. A well preserved copy of this uncommon collection of good words & anecdote. Also issued in 8 parts and subsequently enlarged by Clara Balfour. Commonplace Book Quotation Literature. Seller Inventory # 20700
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Seller: WellRead Books, Northport, NY, U.S.A.
16mo; brown cloth covered boards with gilt decoration and lettering; all edges gilt; 320 pages; toned pages else a very good, clean, tight copy. Seller Inventory # 43094
Quantity: 1 available