D Laing Purves Editor (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Reprint. 351 pp printed in double columns, engraved frontispiece, publisher's catalogue at rear, bound in brown cloth with black grey and gilt titles and decorations, brown endpapers, Salford Central Mission prize label in front dated 1910. Cloth a little rubbed, fore edge spotted otherwise very good.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair to Good. No Jacket. 624 pages plus advertsing pages with catalogue of popular and standard books published by William P. Nimmo, Edinburgh. "Edited for popular perusal with current illustrations and explanatory notes by D. Laing Purves." Gilt top edge. Heavy green cloth over bevel-edged boards. Corners and edges of backstrip rubbed with one small tear at top edge of backstrip. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Published w/out dj. Later edition. Edinburgh, Scotland: Nimmo, 1873. Later edition, printing unknown, VG+ Rebound in dark yellow, full leather binding with gilt trim, five raised bands, black leather label with gilt lettering, gilt designs on spine, all edges gilt. General overall rubbing with some scraping, some wear (not bumping) to spine ends & corners. Spotting starting on first blank page and continuing through age 8, starting again on page 603 and continuing to the end (32 pages affected front & back). Marbled end-papers. Subtitle: carefully selected: with a biography of the author and original and authentic notes. The preface is dated 1868. Double-columned print. Bookplate on front paste-down of Russel Wilson Chatham. Contains all his major works, plus journals, memoirs, papers and selected poems. Looks handsome on the shelf, very sturdy binding.…