Dobson Austin Introduction (74 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++/Very Good. No Dustjacket. 298 pages. No dustjacket. Clean bottle-gree hardback binding with dulled gilt-coloured butterfly motifs with pictures of cherubs and young lady with moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Noticeable forward lean to hardback binding. Page-edges gilt. Pages clean and tidy. Illustrated By Hugh Thomson (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. Dark red cloth-covered boards with handsome decorative gilt stamping on the front cover and spine. Cloth is frayed at the head and foot of the spine as well as the corners, exposing the boards beneath. Deckled edges. Front gutter is cracked, muslin is intact; binding is secure. Pencil markings on the front free endpaper. Illustrated frontispiece of four figures and a horse. Title and copyright pages are dated 1903. 411 pages. Interiors are clean and unmarked. 51 illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. Overall, a good and readable copy. …

Navy Blue Embossed Cloth. Condition: GOOD (BELOW AVERAGE). No Jacket. Fifth Edition. Undated Circa 1920. Rubbed board edges. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES AND FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY). Please e-mail for further details Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Not Illustrated (illustrator). Signed by a "Constance Pavie 1.…

Green Cloth. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. Reprint 1926. Everyman's Library No. 415.Faded spine , Contents Near Fine.POSTED FULLY INSURED AT OUR STANDARD RATES (UK ONLY).Please EMAIL for FURTHER DETAILS! Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Not Illustrated (illustrator). Not Signed or Inscribed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Macmillan and Co., London, 1894. Hardcover. First edition thus, first impression. Waxed black cloth. Title label pasted to spine. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Illustrated throughout with monochrome line drawings. No dustjacket. Title label chipped and tanned. Corners of fore edges of boards lightly bumped. 3 cm shallow indentation to upper board. Front free endpapers would appear to have been removed. Paper covering front pastedown split along front inner hinge. Light foxing throughout. Overall, the book is in a fair condition.…

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾. Book. 298 pp. Account of famous English actress of eighteenth century, when a career in the theater was considered ignominious, and Peg Woffington, who was very much a real person, conquered that society. This edition is especially charming for its ornately decorated binding featuring butterflies, the muses, etc. and also Hugh Thomson's interior illustrations. Thomson, Hugh (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. 8vo. Green cloth with black decoration and gilt text to front and spine. Exterior condition is good, though spine is sunned. Top edge gilt. Internally, binding is secure and pages are clean with some light foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp.xxxi,163, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, all edges gilt, smallish format hardback, dark green, (upper cover and spine ornately decorated in gilt), the tiniest defect in the upper joint, a very good+ copy of the First Edition.

12mo.; red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and decorations, hardcover; li, 298 pages with gilt top edge; black and white illustrations; edgeworn boards with spine ends fraying with spine sunned else good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. True first British printing. No jacket as issued. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Introduction by Austin Dobson. All illustrations are present and in very good condition. Green boards with original (bit worn) paper label to spine are very good with a few small marks, a little pushing/bumping to corners, the odd small bump/rub to edges, minor patchy darkening (including to spine), the odd small scratch and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/slight fraying to the cloth) to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Rough cut page edges, tops and bottoms. End-papers tanned. Odd small mark/spots of foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Pages bit tanned. Occasional small marks/scattered foxing to pages. Small crease to top corner of a few pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted. Thomson, Hugh (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. 1908. Hardback. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. Lacking dj, remains very good. . . . .

Quarter Leather Marble . Condition: Good. No Jacket. OLD 033396 CARP 1894 Hugh Thomson illustrations. Solid quarter green leather and marbled paper some worn and soiled. Corners worn through, hinges are worn, spine is darkened. marbled end papers, front end papers split at the hinge. 163pp. with illustrations by Hugh Thomson accompanying each Song (illustrator).…

New York, NY: Doubleday & McClure. Good plus condition: cracked; tips rubbed; box stained, goudged/No Dustjacket. 1899. 12mo., li, 298 pp. . Good plus condition: cracked; tips rubbed; box stained, goudged/No Dustjacket. Black & White Illustrations (illustrator).

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Gilt decorative buckram cloth hardcovers. Unopened (ie. gatherings have not been slit). Edges uncut. This is the large-paper edition of 200 copies on hand-made paper. Slight rubbing to covers, and a little sunning to spine. Some moisture and bumping to lower fore-corners, with attendant staining to same part of endpapers and a few leaves, front and rear. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book. Very neat. Illustrated. lii,298p. Thomson, Hugh (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Front inner hinge of Volume One is cracked. Top spine end of Volume One has a small split extending into the spine label. For all three volumes, the front and rear blanks and the half-title pages have varying amounts of foxing. Spine labels are browned. The one on Volume Three has a very small scrape. ; In three volumes.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. limited edition. Octavo, xxi + 227 pages. #195 of 500 copies. Printed on handmade paper. Gray boards with vellum spine, spine darkened, cover edges tanned. Some offset browning on endpapers as well as on title page and frontis. 010608A.

Condition: Good. Hardcover, 163 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Hugh Thomson. Unfortunate foxing throughout text. Minor wear to illustrated boards with light soil to rear cover. Record # 856820.

Hardcover. Condition: Nr. Very Good. No Jacket. Issued in Cassell's National Library. Covers have light rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, xxi + 163pp, very well-illustrated by Hugh Thomson, hardcover, bound in gilt decorated blue cloth, gilt lettered, alledges gilt, very good condition, Macmillan, London, 1894. * the twenty page 'Angler's Song' is particularly good. THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator). …

hardcover. Condition: Good. Deckled edges. Some foxing and tanning to pages. Markings to cover.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 1907. First edition thus - Oxford World's Classics volume 149. xxiii, 260pp. At the end of the book is an 8-page catalogue, dated November 1910, of other volumes in the Oxford World's Classics series. Top edge gilt. Joshua Reynolds' "Discourses on Art" consists of lectures he delivered to students at the Royal Academy in the late 18th century, focusing on art theory and the education of artists. These discourses summarize three centuries of art theory and influence attitudes leading into the 19th century. These discourses were primarily aimed at educating students at the Royal Academy of Arts, which he helped establish. This edition also includes three letters to 'The Idler', and an introduction by Austin Dobson. The book is bound in the original green cloth covered boards with gold titling and designs on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some light soiling to the boards. The top front corner is lightly bumped and the spine ends are rubbed. The spine is slightly cocked. The contents are tight and the original red marker ribbon is present but faded and frayed at the end. The free endpapers are browned and a name and date (1911) has been written on the front free endpaper.…

Condition: Very Good. 1908. Hardback. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. Lacking dj, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardback. Condition: VG. No DW. 1st Edition. Name of owner at front of book. Green cloth, gilt. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. Corners a bit bumped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No Edition Stated. Red cloth bindings with gold colored print on spine. Spines are slightly sunned. Set has been wetted at some time. Water stain with red ink from covers has run on multiple pages in front of book I.Iinner rear endpaper is foxed. Genealogy of the Evelyn family pull out page in center of book. Vol. II is good. Vol III has foxing of front and rear endpapers. Red stain on top of four rear pages and rear inner cover. Otherwise books are tight, sound and unmarked. Some pages uncut. 72 pages of Introduction, 355 pages in Vol. I. Vol. II is 420 including Appendixes. Vol. III has 372 pages plus 106 pages of Index. Major english "Diary" of this period. Portraits (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Large folio in full, tan leather binding. Full page plates and illustrations in text. Condition: spine strip missing; front cover detached but present; considerable wear, rubbing & staining to covers; although binding is poor, internally, the book is in good+ to very good condition. 177 pages.…

Condition: Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original olive green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, gilt vignette to the front, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. 12mo. 7'' x 4½''. Contains tissue-guarded frontispiece, (xxviii), 220 pp with embellishments cut in wood from designs by John Thurston. Top corners and spine ends bumped and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. NINETEENTH CENTURY.…

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Third impression. Octavo. Red decorated cloth. Gilt lettering and design to cover and spine. 412pp & ads. Black and white illustrations by Hugh Thomson.Very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Some fading to spine. Some minor flecks of dampstains to front board. Occasional pencil underlining.; 1929 reprint. xviii, (437), [1 (blank)], [3 (advertisements)], [3 (blank)] pages + frontispiece. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and front board. Top page edges gilt. Page dimensions: 172 x 106mm. With an 8 page Introduction by Austin Dobson. Series: Illustrated Pocket Classics.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. removable cover protection, previous owner's name inside, some foxing, see photos.