Beattie William Editor (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Second printing of the first edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($27.50) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. F2000A.

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Cloth, G. xxiv+298pp, b/w frontis, attractive bevelled edge binding with deep blind stamped patterning, hinges weak, head of spine frayed, cloth rubbed, Ex Library with library numbers to the spine & occasional stamps inside, old library ticket [ with return dates of 1908 ], a good copy. The poetical works of James Beattie [1735 - 1803], a professor of Moral Philosophy who also wrote poems containing much beautiful descriptive writing. His most famous, the Minstrel, won him the favour of Johnson. Robert Blair, [1699 - 1746], Scottish poet wrote a single poem, The Grave, in blank verse. William Blake was inspired to produce 12 works to illustrate the poem. William Falconer [1732 - 1769], sailor & poet. His experience as a sailor helped him produce his most famous work 'The Shipwreck'. ironicaaly Flaconer was to die abourd the Aurora, which was lost with all hands of the Cape of Good Hope in 1769. 700 grams.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very good copy copy of this 1979 reprint of Robert Burns poems. Selected and edited by William Beattie and Henry W. Meikle. It is in very good condition, considering age, spine is worn and some shelf wear.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 424 pages. 7.76x5.04x1.10 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 424 pages. 7.76x5.04x1.10 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover with gilt decorated boards, no dust jacket, and gilt lettering on the spine, in good condition for its age. Boards are marked, with two small chips at the front fore-edge. Board edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block is tanned, blemished and foxed. Spots of foxing noted on most of the pages, however this does not affect the legibility. Several pages are uncut at the upper edge. Binding is sound and pages are otherwise clear. LW. Used.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good book in a Good dust jacket. General wear.

Hardbound Clothbinding. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. Paul Luna (Design) (illustrator). 6th Edtion. 1882 + xlvi (Vol. 1, A-M) ++ 1860 + xlvi (Vol. 2, N-Z) pp. Vol. 1, A-M & Vol. 2, N-Z issues only! Two-Volume-Set! Please inquiry for individual Volumes. A rare, hard-to-find, out-of-print, scarce, true collectible gem! Wonderful copies! Superb study or work or reading or research copies! An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket for both copies! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copies and dust jackets with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and very light shelf wear. Over-sized and/or over weight books; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Both Volumes Very Good in brown cloth with gilt titles on sunned spines. Foxing throughout. 1st U.S. Edition. Vol.1 556pp Vol.2 521pp 8vo.'s.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. London: Moxon, 1850. Second edition. Volume I and II. Blue cloth decoratively blindstamped, gold titles. 8vo. 556 pp., 521 pp. including index. Frontispiece engraving, protective tissue in vI. Light foxing. Spine sunned. Very good condition.

Condition: Very Good. Three hardcovers bound in polished calf, gilt rules to covers, black leather labels on spine with orate gilt decorations. Pages: xx+480+viii+464+viii+460, appendix, index. Marbled endpapers and text edges. Aside from previous owner's bookplate on inside cover of each volume, a bright, clean set. Biography of the Scottish poet, incorporating many of his letters. Record # 378495.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fair. First Edition. London: Moxon, 1849. First edition. In three volumes, complete. 8vo. Dark green cloth decoratively blindstamped, gold titles. [xvi, preface and dedication], 480 464, 460 pp. including index. These books are from the personal library of William F. Sturgis (1782-1863) of Barnstable County, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Sturgis was a sea captain, engaged in the China trade and the booming fur trade on the Northwest coast of the United States. He died October 21, 1863 at the age of 81 leaving a great legacy including the famous Sturgis Library in Barnstable, renowned for its archival and genealogical works. He had bought the house, where he had been born and donated it to Barnstable to establish a public library for the village, along with his personal collection of 1,300 books and $15,000 to establish an endowment. These books are included in the Catalogue of the Sturgis Library (CSL), Barnstable, Mass. 1867-1877. Boston: W. F. Brown, 1877, p. 35. They are hand-numbered #912 and hand-dated June 1, 1868 on antique Sturgis Library bookplates. All boards are very scuffed, bumped. Volume I: tear along spine, front and rear hinges cracked, foxing to front endpapers and table of contents, chipping top of spine with .5 cm. loss of material, good condition. Volume II: Similar to Volume I, 7.5 cm. tear along spine cloth, fair condition. Volume III: Simlar to Volume 1, 3 cm. tear along spine cloth, fair condition.