Ada Ellen Bayly (94 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Eleanor Foster?s copy, with her name in pencil on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near U.S. Secretary of state Robert Lansing's birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). No publisher date (pencil date dated 1898). Pages toned. 360 pp. Lyall was an English novelist, who supported the women's suffrage movement. Excerpt: "Herr Falck lived in one of the pretty, unpretentious houses in Kalvedalen which are chiefly owned by the rich merchants of Bergen. The house stood on the right-hand side of the road, surrounded by a pretty little garden; it was painted a light-brown color, and, like most Bergen houses, it was built of wood. In the windows one could see flowers, and beyond them white muslin curtains, for æstheticism had not yet penetrated to Norway. The dark-tiled roof was outlined against a wooded hill rising immediately behind, with here and there gray rocks peeping through the summer green of the trees, while in front the chief windows looked on to a pretty terrace with carefully kept flower-beds, then down the wooded hill-side to the lake below?the Lungegaardsvand with purple and gray heights on the further shore, and on one side a break in the chain of mountains and a lovely stretch of open country. To the extreme left was the giant Ulriken, sometimes shining and glistening, sometimes frowning and dark, but always beautiful; while to the right you caught a glimpse of Bergen with its quaint cathedral tower, and away in the distance the fjord like a shining silver band in the sun.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 462, [16] p.; 18 cm. Paperback with covers printed in dark blue and light blue. No copyright date but front cover dated 1892. This is no. 122 in the publisher's American Series. Back cover contains an illustrated advertisement for Walter Baker & Co.'s breakfast cocoa. Inside back cover contains the contents of Standard Comic Recitations by Best Authors, no. 7. Publisher's advertisements on 14 unpaginated pages following text. Former owner's name at head of front cover, title page, and first page of text: Schall. The second novel by this English writer, first published in 1882; its sequel was We Two, published in 1884. In Fair Condition: front and back cover are detached but present; significant loss of paper over spine; cover is soiled; edges are rubbed and chipped; significant loss to the edges of the back cover; pages are clean and tight. A very scarce late 19th-century paperback. …

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Green hardback cloth cover. Condition: Fair. Reprint. Worn reading copy. Ink inscription on front pastedown. 160mm x 100mm (6" x 4"). 320pp.

Black hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Spine rubbed. Page edges browning. 180mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). 288pp.

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Brown hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed with minor marks. Slight lean to spine. Inner hinge cracking. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 395pp + ads.

Cloth. Condition: VG+. Good Plus. 160th Thousand. Historical novel of the days of 'good King Charles'. Hurst and Blackett 'Cheap and Popular Edition' - 160th thousand. Undated - early 1900s. 248ppInterior is clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and square. the brown closhow only very minor wear. The colorful pictorial dustjacket is quite clean with a VG front panel but with bottom edge wear and a littel internal tapeing [acid-free tape]. Weight, 184g. Size: 4.5" by 6.75". Book.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover 3/4 leather with marbled boards in Goodcondition.No DJ. First page is title page.Probable first edition. One prior owner name.Front board almost separated, a third of spine missing (but title and most of author name present), tape on spine. One inch sticker on FFEP with a price and notes.Top edge gilt. Shelf1101 // Boards and spine are straight.//Pages are clean, legible, and bright //No writing in the book margins or blank spaces// No underlining.No highlighting// Not remainder marked // Not Ex Library// Not Book Club//.…

Boards. Condition: Very good. Twenty-third Edition. 8vo. pp. vii, 456, 8, publisher's ads. In the rich brown boards, black rules to upper board and gilt titles to spine. Head and tail of spine lightly bumped, spotting to page edges, crack to paper at joints of inside front hinge. Overall, still a very nice, well kept and collectable copy.…

English novelist (1857-1903). Paper dimensions roughly four and a quarter inches by two and a quarter inches. Very good, but grubby and with a few light glue stains. From autograph album and mounted on larger piece of light blue paper. Reads '[.] | it will save confidencce. | In gt. haste | Yrs. truly | A. E. Bayly.' Docketed '(Edna Lyall)' in pencil beneath signature. Image on application. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Olive cloth w/gilt lettering and lovely red and black borders. Mild wear head and heel of spine, corners ever so slightly bumped, previous owner signature to front endpaper, else no marks, save the occasional thumb smudge, tight, bright. Based on the life of Charles Bradlaugh, a social reformer and advocate of free thought.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. no date given (circa 1930?); dj w/lite chipping in mylar; maroon c. w/gilt titles; top edges gilt; lite wear only; lite toning of end papers; 442 clean, unmarked pages+pubisher's listigs. B/W Frontis (illustrator).

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Published 1890. No dust jacket. Minor edge wear to brown cloth boards, with gilt titles at the spine. A tan to the page edges. Ex-library copy with the usual stamps/stickers. Contents otherwise clear and firmly bound within. A lovely copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. original cloth, spine bumped and a trifle chipped, advertisement leaves, lower joint cracked, good. first published in three volumes 1894 [1893]; 370 pages; keywords: fiction - women authors.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. original decorated cloth, spine bumped, good. same year as the first US edition; 143 pages; keywords: fiction - women authors.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. original decorated cloth, spine bumped and a trifle chipped, hinges a trifle rubbed, publisher's catalogue dated 12/95, a nice copy. first published 1894; 496 pages.

First American edn. 8vo, pp. 403. Green cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Cover somewhat worn, o/w VG.See Wolff 4220; Sadleir 1462 (for the English editions). Bayly (1857-1903) combined her liberal Unitarian background with a powerful storytelling technique in this enormously successful sequel to her Donovan (1882), a story of religious intolerance which was losely based on the story of liberal politician Charles Bradlaugh.…

See her entry in the Oxford DNB. Clearly written in response to a request for an autograph. On 11.5 x 5.5 piece of wove paper, cut from an album. In good condition. Reads: 'Yours very truly / Ada Ellen Bayly / "Edna Lyall." '.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 13th edition. 7" x 5". viii + 403pp. Foxing to prelims. Very good hardback in contemporary, half calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt ornamentation to compartments.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. original cloth, spine bumped, publisher's catalogue, small adhesion mark front free endpaper, upper joint cracked, a nice copy. first published in three volumes 1894 [1893]; 370 pages.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.…