Ainger Alfred Introduction (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. De luxe. Good cloth covers lightly worn, tanned/discolored, paper spine plate edge worn with small scratches. Front hinge cracked, else binding tight and pages clean and very good. Two black and white portraits of Lamb. Limited edition - only 1,000 copies printed. No date.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Significantly worn exterior; text block has light age toning and waving, as well as slightly shaken spine, but is readable. 368 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This is a small format hardback book (approx. 6" x 4"). The book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and wear. The text pages are generally clean, though there is some light generalized toning / yellowing. "Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (17641847). Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth and William Hazlitt, Lamb was at the centre of a major literary circle in England. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature". ".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. reprint, originally published in 1891, small, slim book, previous owner details inside front cover in pencil, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. 1890 EDITION, OWNER'S NAME.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; Tenth Printing. 10th Printing (1904) of the First edition of 1878. Dates of all previous printings given on copyright page. Printed by R. Clarke, Edinburgh. (xvii, 377pages, 4 page of ads in rear, all advertising the Golden Treasury Series, dated "10.12.04") Very good minus in royal blue cloth with gilt titles on spine, and gilt "GTS" lozenge on front board; edgewear and scuffing to head and tail of spine, gutters and corners, two 1/4 inch drip spots on front board; tidemark on bottom corner of front endpaper, frontis and tissue guard (about one inch by one inch, not affecting text; text is unmarked. Literature. ; Golden Treasury Series; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 368 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. The Life and Works of Charles Lamb in Twelve Volumes; Volume V. Edition de Luxe. Publisher's brown leather binding with gilt stamping on front board and gilt titles on spine. Boards with solid edges and gently rubbed corners. Spine sunned and gently rubbed. Tight binding. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Otherwise, interior bright and clean. A beautiful copy. Photographs available upon request. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. green boards with titles to spine and front board, minor bumping to corners, pen name front end-paper, xiii + 100pp, pages clean and good plus condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Owner's name.

Hardcover. Octavo, 380 pages. In Good condition. Spine is green with gold print. Boards in green cloth, gold print, gilt medallion; wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has has gilt top edge. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W. 1407320. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Boards rubbed and marked, spine sunned, ink inscription to front free endpaper. Clean throughout. Good. Book.

Condition: Very Good. First Reprinted edition hard back binding in publisher's original ruby red cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [xiv] 377 printed pages of text. Shallow rubs to the softened spine ends and corners, ghosting to the end papers and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. PAGES: XXVI, 425. BINDING: Full green leather binding by Bumpus, Oxford; with gilt decoration and lettering to spine, marbled endpapers and all edges. CONDITION: Covers and spine a little rubbed; the armorial bookplate of Mountgarret to front pastedown; inscription dated 1898 to blank front endpaper; foxing to endpapers; otherwise a very good and attractive copy.