Ballantine Serjeant (51 results)

Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Light tan cloth binding. No markings in the text with a few light scattered soil spots. There is a name printed on the front end paper. The hinges are cracked and the front end papers and frontispiece are loose but present with the book. The cover has soiling and light corner wear. The spine is darkened, the print is heavily rubbed and has light end wear.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3rd edition . Third edition, Volume 2 only, 1882. Ex-library couple of stamp marks .Heavy book may require extra postage unless posed within South Africa. There is gilt on the spine of the book. Red pages edges around the block. The front free end paper page has been removed. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and faded marks on the front cover. There is foxing on the early and last few pages, little within the body of the book. All pages are accessible. The binding is secure. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Condition: Fair. 1882. No Edition Remarks. 321 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece. Volume I. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper and half title page. Heavy tape repairs to hinges. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Gilt lettering is darkened. Heavy tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Heavy splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Fascinating legal (and other) reminiscences from high profile counsel. Stock toned with some occasional foxing, but in general all in VG internal order. Signature of A Champness neatly to title page. Dark red cloth, a little shelfworn, with black decoration front and rear and gilt titling to spine. 12mo. xxiv, 394pp + ads.…

HARDBACK DEEP PURPLE. Condition: good considering age. shelf worn, gilt on cover and spine, pages yellowing, some foxing DATE PUBLISHED: 1882 EDITION: 527.

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Cloth - Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Reprint. Facsimile reprint of the 1882 Henry Holt and Company edition published in New York. General very light wear/use, though overall a tight and clean copy.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket. From the collection of C. W. Moulton, Civil War Quartermaster and brother-in-law of General Wm. T. Sherman. The author was a barrister in London's Inner Temple. 527 pages, Spine top chipped, some tape remnants; otherwise Very Good condition.; 5 x 7 1/2 ".…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 2 volume complete set. Less common and important title related to the history of English law. Brown cloth hardcover boards with gilt lettering. Boards with moderate wear and soiling; edges torn; pages dusty with light age toning. 321 + 308 pages. Laid-in is a paper brochure from the author's American book tour in 1883 promoting the author's speaking engagement at the Meionaon in Boston on January 4, 1883 which makes this set quite unique.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST U. S. EDITION hardcover, bound in dark green cloth, with stylized initials of author in gilt on front cover, and slightly dulled gilt lettering on spine, is in POOR condition, having considerable wear to top and bottom spine; corners quite bumped and worn; some light staining to covers and spine; considerable shaking to volume, with first and last endpaper gutters very cracked (see photo), and broken sewn binding between pages 144 and 145--in fact this book must be handled very gently, or it could easily fall apart; occasional small stains throughout book; pp. 493 to 498 show a crease at top corner; first page after reverse of first free endpaper has small corner piece missing and small tears near it. One illustration, a frontispiece sepia photograph of the author. Biography and autobiography. British. Barristers. Sergeant-at-Law. Law. DB.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good reading / reference copy. No jacket. First Edition. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1884. Good reading / reference copy. This book has several condition problems: The tissue-guard is stuck to the frontispiece. Moisture stains on the cover. Wear to spine ends. Pages are a bit wavy and have light damp stains at the edges (in the margins only - text is NOT affected). However the text is perfectly legible. Not in collector's condition, but suitable for reading / reference. Frontispiece is a tipped-in photographic portrait. After about 28 autobiographical pages of Ballantine's early life in England, he begins a detailed account of his travels in America. There are chapters on the Streets of New York; Journalism and Fashion; Theater in America; Plays and Players; Charles Dickens' Performances; his meeting with General Grant; New York Society; Courts, Crimes and Punishments; American Prisons; Law and Lawyers; Boston; Philadelphia; The Clover Club; Buffalo, Niagara, and Chicago; Ogden, Utah; Salt Lake City and the Mormons; the widows of Brigham Young; a Murder Trial; his conversations with President Taylor; the return trip to Liverpool; his associations with Anthony Trollope, Charles Reade, etc. Original purple cloth, gilt. Flake 264: "Utah and the Mormons, pp. 134-168." Not in Howes, Soliday, Decker, Eberstadt, or Graff. First Edition. Hardcover. Good reading / reference copy/No jacket. 8vo. xvi, 259pp. + 48 page publisher's catalogue.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First US Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 532 pages; (INSCRIBED) 1883 J M Stoddart (NY & Phil) HC Original US edition, from the 6th London edition. . Inscibed presentation note from the author on the title page: "Mrs B Eveline Walton, from the author." . Inscription unsigned and undated. Original buff cream cloth with titled paper label to spine. Boards shelf soiled and a bit grubby. Drink ring impression on rear board. Label to spine rubbed but complete and generally bright. Front endpg corner clipped, missing a large triangular piece. Frontis tissue guard torn at margin. Deckled edges of text block dust stained. Otherwise sound and clean. G+ to VG-.…

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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