Ainger Alfred Editor (18 results)

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item for full refund. Ships USPS Media Mail.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Owner name (presumably) cut out from blank facing page, otherwise good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontis (illustrator). 2nd Printing. red c w/gilt titles; 404+396 clean, unmarked pages; owner's name.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Printing. Cloth. 2 Volume set. Spine ends rubbed on both volumes.; Octavo.

Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Cloth, VG. xiv+411pp+4pp publishers catalogue, only the first 90pp are open the remaining pages un-opened, cloth a little rubbed & spne sunned, stamped 'Presentation Copy' to the title, a nice copy. A collection of the less common of Lamb's writings along with his stories for children which was originally published in 1809 with the title "Mrs. Leicester's School : The Histories Of Several Young Ladies, Related By Themselves". 500 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Fine. Original publisher's black cloth binding with red lettering on covers and spine. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 182 pages, complete. Seven additional pages of advertisements in the back. Small square sticker on front pastedown with a library call number. A few numbers are written in black ink on the blank flyleaf preceding the half-title. There is one pink stamp each on the title page and Page 182 that reads, "Library, State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind, Berkeley, Cal." The stamps do not affect text. Tipped-in pocket label on the back pastedown lists the terms of checking out books from the library and instructs patrons to place their cards in the pocket when the book in on loan. A card is included in this pocket. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Some dust on the top edge of the text block not affecting pages internally. No external markings, except for slight rubbing. A Fine copy. This book is part of a thirty-six-volume biographical series titled, English Men of Letters, which was edited by John Morley and written by different authors. This book is no. 28 of 36 in the series. One ad in the back lists other books in the series that had been released to date. Biography of Charles Lamb (1775-1834), an English writer, poet, essayist, and antiquarian. He is perhaps best-known for his Essays of Elia. Lamb was highly involved in literary circles and was best friends with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 120pp. A book of poems from Tennyson presented in a manner to encourage young people to appreciate them. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 6 x 4 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Near Fine in full blue leather with gilt titles, decorations and top edge. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Red leather spine label. 12mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Library edition. One of 1000 numbered sets. Complete in 12 volumes bound in matching tan cloth. Some stains to the cloth edges, perhaps old water damage, although all the covers are tight and strong, and are not water damaged. The spines are sunned. Nicely printed on uncut paper, the contents are clean except for about three water stained pages only out of say 3000 pages. Additional postage.

Condition: Good. Cover is worn, scuffed and scraped from use with some small marks to the textblock and covers from use. Edges of the cover are worn.

Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dustjacket as issued. Reprint. Brown full leather binding with all edge gilt, marbled endleaves, and ornate decoration to spine. Mild wear to both panels and light chipping to extremities, bottom corners rubbed. Light scratches to gilt edges. Browning to edges of both endpapers. Text is unmarked. Place marker sewn in. A handsome copy. 368pp. Photos available upon request.

2 volumes: lxxxi, [1 (blank)], 355, [1 (blank)]; xii, 415, [3] pp. 2 page advert at rear of Vol II. Frontispiece portrait in each volume. Crown 8vo. Average wear. Spines a bit sunned. Bookplate of Arthur Quiller-Couch. A VG set. Original publisher's maroon cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine 1st Edition. "Presentation copy" circular blindstamp to title leaf.

First reprint. Edited, with introduction and notes by Alfred Ainger. Newly arranged, with additions. In two Volumes. Vol I - xxviii, 343 pp. Frontispiece - tissue-guarded engraving of Charles lamb. Vol II - xiv, 377 pp + 6 pp ads. Previous owner's inscription and book stamp on ffep of both volumes. Vol II only - front hinge cracked. Contents of both volumes very clean and tight. Bound in matching maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spines. Tops of both spines rubbed away. Bottom of spines and corners rubbed. Split of about two inches in centre of spine of vol II at bottom. Overall condition VG. A nice set.

Shakespeare's plays re-told as stories for children. Two Volumes with continuous pagination. Pp.xxvi/395, 2 frontispiece portraits + 20 black & white illustrated plates, gift message to front free endpaper of volume one, foxing to tissue guards and spotting to adjacent pages and plates. Dark green cloth, gilt decoration and title to front and spines. G+.

Hardcover. Condition: VG-. First Edition. A 3 page letter to a publisher (ALS), concerning this book, SIGNED by Ainger, is laid in the book. Two volumes: 343 and 377 pages. Six pages of advertising at the end of volume 2. Pages are in very good condition; clean and white. Top edges gilt. Previous owner's bookplate on the feps. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles on the spines. Spines faded; small tears at head/tail. Corners bumped, light scuffing on the covers. Signed By Editor. Book.

Leather Binding. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. 8 volumes, complete as issued. One of 1000 sets of the Edition De Luxe (this copy unnumbered). Bound in 3/4 green morocco over matching cloth by Brentano's, spines with raised bands and gilt floral and geometric tooling, covers sectioned with a single gilt rule, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers (some darkening and wear to spines, some wear to corners and edges of boards). NOTE: This publisher also issued a 12-volume set with the same works included.

All hardcover, H 18cm x L 12.75cm, uniformly bound in full red polished calf, five raised bands on each gilt-tooled spine with title and author/editor compartments as well as gilt dates at heels; slender gilt lines at board edges; inner gilt tooled dentelles. Top edges gilt; deckle fore-edges. Marbled endpapers. Sewn-in red silk ribbon page markers (although marker in ELIA is separated). All six volumes have "Bound by Zaehnsdorf for A.C. McClurg & Co." discreetly stamped at each front free endpaper verso's bottom left. Some rubbing and light soiling to boards; scuffs to spine ends and bands as well as at board corners and along joints; a few volumes have edge chipping to their title and/or author brown compartment labels; LETTERS VOL. I and MRS. LEICESTER'S SCHOOL have very shallow chipping at their spine heads with latter having tearing at top of front joint with surface leather slightly pulling away from underlying backstrip. Light toning at margins of leaves with some still uncut at their fore-edges; "7" handwritten in pencil on a rear page of each volume but no other such marks readily apparent upon a quick perusal. MRS. LEICESTER'S SCHOOL AND OTHER WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE BY CHARLES LAMB WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ALFRED AINGER. London-1897; third printing of the 1885 edition; xiv, 411 pages. POEMS PLAYS AND MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS OF CHARLES LAMB WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ALFRED AINGER. London-1902; fourth printing of the 1882 edition; xxiv, 408 pages. TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE BY CHARLES AND MARY LAMB EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY ALFRED AINGER. London-1903; seventh printing of the 1886 edition; xx, 368 pages. THE LETTERS OF CHARLES LAMB NEWLY ARRANGED, WITH ADDITIONS EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY ALFRED AINGER. VOLUME I and VOLUME II. Both London-1904; both second editions as stated on their respective copyright pages; xxxvi, 404 and xvi, 396 pages respectively. THE ESSAYS OF ELIA WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ALFRED AINGER. London-1906; thirteenth printing of the 1883 edition; xxvi; 425 pages. Still a handsome set and sold with all six volumes as found. As five of the six have different copyright dates it would seem that this set was compiled by Zaehnsdorf-McClurg rather than being a group simultaneously issued by Macmillan - other contemporary Lamb-Ainger Macmillan sets found online vary as to number of volumes but a few have as many as twelve. London bookbinder Joseph William Zaehnsdorf (1853-1930) continued the Covent Garden bookbindery founded by his father Joseph Zaehnsdorf (1816-1886). Please note that this set has an approximate shipping weight of 8.25 pounds (3.74 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition Thus. 12 volume set, complete, uniformly bound in autumn leaf leather, with identical gilt front and rear covers, ruled dentelles, more gilt to spine, five raised bands, gte, sides untrimmed. Binding unsigned. Limited to 130 sets for subscribers only, this set numbered 177 in all volumes. Volume 1 notes that this set was printed for A. Jaekel, with his name artistically painted in water color on the limitation page. Frontispieces are mezzotints by S. Arlent-Edwards, with printed tissue guards, in each volume, 62 plates in all. Near fine set, untrimmed sides a bit tanned/ browned. Internals fine. Covers quite nice, a few very minor abrasions here and there.