Dr Oliver Goldsmith (89 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. (1927), 23pp, illus. to title pg, facsimile edition, usual lib. markings, botom corners bumped, slight soiling to cover, heavier to spine, slight shelfwear to cover, no dj, contents clean & unmarked. Ex-Library.

Hardcovers. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. -----------This Goldsmith book was originally published in London 1770. --- THE BOOK WE OFFER is a 1927 copy of the British Museum Goldsmith book which is a First Edition- - -- - Cream hardcovers, about 10" x 8", a very thin hardcover book. 23 pages includes 3 page letter from Goldsmith to Sir Joshua Reynolds and followed by the poem----------VERY GOOD CONDITION, - - no dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 5th or later Edition. no boards 32mo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Printed for Mathew Carey, Philadelphia 1808. Two volumes in one. Significant foxing throughout. Scribbling in front and back. FEP and BEP and the last page are missing. Good candidate for repair.

Condition: New.

Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. First Thus. "THE GRECIAN HISTORY FROM THE EARLIEST STATE TO THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT by Dr. Goldsmith, TWO VOLS. IN ONE. REVISED AND CORRECTED, AND A VOCABULARY OF PROPER NAMES APPENDED; WITH PROSODIAL MARKS, TO ASSIST IN THEIR PRONUNCIATION. by WILLIAM GRIMSHAW." 1830 , There are two pages of ADVERTISEMENT following the copyright page. It states that "Accompanying this edition, there is a small Book of Historical Questions, for the use of schools; also, for the convenience of Teachers, a Key, containing the Answers." NOTE: This is a seperate book and in this case does not accompany the book herein mentioned. Grimshaw provides his corrections to Goldsmith's history, noting that Goldsmith as an Historian failed miserably. Full-leather, outer hinges are split but still bound tightly, 4 spine bands with a black leather title label in the second compartment (total of 5 compartments), 322 pp. includes the 4 pages of vocabulary mentioned earlier. Very light intermitent foxing otherwise complete and tight. None (illustrator). …

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. pictorial Soft Cover. Seven tipped-in colour plates Front cover loose, else very good. Title page darkened. some foxing, more at the back. Price One Shilling. Caldecott, Randolph (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. photos actual book.R Caldecott's Picture Book.price one shilling on front cover.colour cover.inside colour and b / w illustrations.24 pages. clean no marks.no tape still in original condition.On back cover details of more R Caldecott picture books.will be packed with care.accept pay pal.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1824 American edition. Bound in full tan calf. We have treated the leather with a professional book conservator's leather dressing to good effect. Book is 12mo 7inches tall. Light wear to the binding. The spine title is a black leather label with gold stamping. Half inch tear to the bottom of the front hinge. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. No foxing. No name of previous owner. No musty odor. No water stains. No soiling. No sun fading.…

Illustrated by 8 full page color author illustrations by Randolph Caldecott, text line drawings. Later Warne edition. [c.1766 poem by Oliver Goldsmith] "One of R Caldecott's Picture Books" No. 4/16. Pictorial paper boards. Square 8vo. pp. 26. Very Good. Corner and edgewear to paper boards; light toning to end sheets. Rear cover format began April 1917 and is identified by the Edmund Evans address.1917 by the E1. Black bookseller ticket: City Book Store, Collyer Quay, Singapore. ELE116513.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. New Edition. The book is in about good condition with numerous problems. However, the binding is tight and the book seems to be complete. Quarter bound in leather with marbled paper boards, the book has scuffed and rounded corners and two sections of loss on the spine, each about 1 1/2" The paper is toned with some foxing and staining especially along the edges, but the paper is still fairly supple. The gilt title and decorations on the spine are bright. Hinges may have been reinforced. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 265. 6 ads pages; Famous abridged version of Oliver Goldsmith's Roman history which he prepared as a school text. This is a copy of the relatively scarce edition published in Dublin. It includes exercises at the end of each section.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 2 Vols. (different bindings). 389p; 284, [62]p. Vol. 1: 22 cm full leather binding with red and gilt impressing on front board for "Quebec Library." Vol. 2: 21 cm Half leather binding with marbled boards. Ex-library with bookplates, stamps, and labels on endpapers. Front board detached from vol. 1 with some wear along edges, extremes, and bumped corners. Pages clean. Text unmarked. Front board detached from vol. 2 with deterioration and missing pieces from spine leather, bumped corners and faded boards. Text is heavily marked with underlining throughout. Sold "as-is.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition as Such. *** BOOK in very good clean tight and unmarked condition. Grey card boards with black title on spine and upper board. Upper board has black bordered paste in colour illustration. Pictorial endpapers, the free pages of which are browned. Quality dense art paper throughout. Unpaginated. 6 full colour bordered illustrations on brown card and many line illustrations. Undated but thought to be about 1885, before Warne handed control of the company to his sons. This is a charming book in a highly collectable condition. Size: 185x185mm. Randolph Caldecott (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. 229 + 4pp, Vol 6 only of miscellaneous works of Goldsmith, neatly and expertly re-spined in new binder's boards, paper label, uncut, R.Morison, Junior, Perth, 1792. * being volume 6 of the Miscellaneous Works, complete in itself.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair / Good. No Dustjacket. 104+98+73+76 pages. 4 plays in one volume. No dustjacket. Light brown leather boards, wear to corners, darkened cross-banded and decorated leather to spine which has surface fissures , small losses to spine-ends, outer hinges cracked. Browned/discoloured end-papers, ink name/address to each title-page, occasional brown spots to pages and some foxing to frontispieces and illustrations pages, text-block binding sound. …

Paperback. Condition: G+. Listed 15th out of 16 unnumbered titles on rear cover. Book is in good plus condition with very noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Condition: lacks entire binding - front & rear boards & spine lacking. First free endpaper & blank leaves also missing; title page present but detached; top edge of title page clipped off, probably to remove previous owner's name - not affecting text. Scattered foxing throughout. A reading copy only. Volume I only present. Illustrated by no illustrations. Early reprint edition. Binding is none present.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xvi + 296pp, half blue calf, gilt lettered, raised bands, marbled boards and edges, attractive Prize Binding - Harrow School with Harrow gilt crest on front board, PROVENANCE: 'L Amery, July 1891, Harrow', VERY GOOD CONDITION, Walter Scott, London, circa1888.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. First Edition thus, xi + (1) + 308pp, 12 tipped in photographic plates, hardcover, a splendid Victorian binding in brown cloth and gilt decorated front board and spine, all edges gilt, head of spine slightly frayed o/w very good condition, Provenance: with previous owner's name within: 'Alfred Shipley Elmfield' dated 12 September 1888, Bickers and Son, London, 1883.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1810. Published 1810. From the Thirteenth Edition. Worn but sturdy in full brown leather with gilt lettered red spine label, gilt ruled spine, 369 pages. Covers uniformly rubbed and scuffed, good hinges, firm text block, lightly age-toned pages with occasional foxing, no names or other markings. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Lund Humphries/Noel Douglas. London. 1927. Reprint of the 1906 Noel Douglas facsimile. Tall slim 8vo. Pages uncut, therefore unread. Some light foxing. Art vellum boards are a little marked. A lovely clean copy.

Condition: Very Good. Hbk, 12mo, full leather with red spine label and gilt bands, front endpaper clipped horizontally, prev ownerÕs name on remains of front endpaper, small loss to head of spine, otherwise the leather is very good and only slightly rubbed here and there, hinges remain strong, a few pages have been toned where (probably) newspaper clippings have been laid in, but overall the text is clean, free of foxing or blemishes, and legible, a very good, clean, tight example.…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket issued. Engraved frontispiece, xii+228pp; another engraved portrait tipped in. 12mo contemp. embossed calf gilt, maroon leather spine labels, worn, covers loose.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cookes Edition. Cookes Edition Leather & Gilt 12 mo 2 vols. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition in This Form. 72 pages. Condition grey paperback binding, fair, aged, rear corner folds, wrong cover so bound inside out (see scans). Contents, mostly good, clean & tight, edge ageing/folding etc. quickly produced, contains 6 illustrations within text, pages not all the same size. Size: 8 x 13cm Approx.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardback, half-calf with marbled boards. 54pp, 76pp, 75pp, 25pp. Frontis for each part. Joint of spine cracking, front board loose but still attached. Previous owner's details to front free end-paper. Private ownership. (now on shelf A5).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. In attractive, slightly marked, green calf, gilt edge tooling, corners bumped. Spine raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt titles to red cal label. Internally, additional engraved title with B&W illustration by R Westall, [8], 9-194 pp, 1 vignette (of 4?), marbled endpapers & text block edges, small binders label to fep (Marshall), a little light edge browning & some offsetting to fep, occasional light spot. (153*94 mm). The Vicar of Wakefield follows the life of a wealthy vicar and his family who lie an idyllic life in their country parish thanks to the vicar's clever investments. The evening that his son is to marry an heiress, the vicar discovers that his merchant investor has lost all his money in bankruptcy. WESTALL R [Richard] 1765-1836 (illustrator).…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual.

Publisher's original sewn stiff illustrated card covers, lemon end papers, all edges gilt. 5½" x 4½" 32 pp. Eight full-page colour illustrations, pen sketches to all the pages with text around. The sewing cotton has all but disappeared leaving the contents loose with tape to the outside of the spine and inner gutters, sporadic foxing throughout. Member of the P.B.F.A. ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book).…