Edited by Charles Townsend (23 results)

Paperback. Condition: As New. New paperback from bookstore stock. An unread copy. May have May contain a price sticker.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Paperback. Condition: Good. no dust jacket. The book is in good condition with some wear visible on the cover edges. There is no dust jacket present. The binding remains intact, and the pages are clean, making it a well-preserved edition for its age.

Green Cloth with Gilt. Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. 642pp. Textblock is clean and tight. Lightly character and shelf worn. no dust jacket; includes Thomas Carlyle, Samuel Pepys, Jonathan Swift, Colley Cibber, Edward Gibbon, Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Robert L. Stevenson, Izaak Walton, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Robert Southey, John G. Lockhart, Thomas Macaulay, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Philip Sidney, John Bunyan, Sir Richard Steele, Richard Sheridan, Charles lamb, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Robert Browning. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Volume V of Copeland's anthology, A Panorama of English and American Poetry and Prose From The Earliest Times To The Present (time of publication). For the student, the book-lover, the reader. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Monochrome illustrations. Red cloth gilt titled and decorated on spine with three low ridges and two medium. Front with blind stamped design and triple borders. Very clean and unmarked. Sight wear at tips of corners and spine edges. Sewn binding is tight and solid, square. Pages very clean, unmarked, no tears, evenly toned. Brief sample of contents in Volume V: from Francis Bret Harte, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry James, Owen Wister, O. Henry, Robert Frost, Ring Lardner, Conrad Aiken, Benchley, and others. 8 x 9.5" tall. 371 pages. Indexes for all five volumes. 1947, Charles Scribner, New York, New York, USA.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Volume IV of Copeland's anthology, A Panorama of English and American Poetry and Prose From The Earliest Times To The Present (time of publication). For the student, the book-lover, the reader. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Monochrome illustrations. Red cloth gilt titled and decorated on spine with three low ridges and two medium. Front with blind stamped design and triple borders. Very clean and unmarked. Sight wear at tips of corners and spine edges. Sewn binding is tight and solid, square. Pages very clean, unmarked, no tears, evenly toned. Brief sample of contents of Volume IV: from Galsworthy, Masefield, Padraic Colum, Benjamin Franklin, Irving, Prescott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Abraham Lincoln, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Twain, and others. 8 x 9.5" tall. 376 pages. 1947, Charles Scribner, New York, New York, USA.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Volume III of Copeland's anthology, A Panorama of English and American Poetry and Prose From The Earliest Times To The Present (time of publication). For the student, the book-lover, the reader. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Monochrome illustrations. Red cloth gilt titled and decorated on spine with three low ridges and two medium. Front with blind stamped design and triple borders. Very clean and unmarked. Sight wear at tips of corners and spine edges. Sewn binding is tight and solid, square. Pages very clean, unmarked, no tears, evenly toned. Brief sample of contents of Volume III: from Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Edward Lear, Bronte, Matthew Arnold, Lewis Carroll, Swinburne, Stevenson, Conrad, Yeats, Kipling, and more. 8 x 9.5" tall. 374 pages. 1947, Charles Scribner, New York, New York, USA.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Volume II of Copeland's anthology, A Panorama of English and American Poetry and Prose From The Earliest Times To The Present (time of publication). For the student, the book-lover, the reader. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No jacket. Monochrome illustrations. Red cloth gilt titled and decorated on spine with three low ridges and two medium. Front with blind stamped design and triple borders. Very clean and unmarked. Sight wear at tips of corners and spine edges. Sewn binding is tight and solid, square. Pages very clean, unmarked, no tears, evenly toned. Brief sample of contents in Volume II: from Sir Walter Scott, Coleridge, Landor, Lamb, Austen, Hazlitt, Shelley, Keats, Carlyle, Macaulay, Tennyson, Gaskell, Thackeray, and more. 8 x 9.5" tall. 310 pages. 1947, Charles Scribner, New York, New York, USA.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. Copyright © 1996 by Bedford Books of St. 148 + xii pp. Flawless copy. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request. Claire Seng-Niemoller (Text Design); Richard Emery Design, Inc. (Cover Design); Likeness of Nat Turner From A Print (Cover Art) (illustrator).…

Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. (xxxiv),(4)-385 Pp. B&w. frontis, 19 b&w. illus. Introduction by Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell Facsimile Reprint of 1911 Dana Estes edition.

PB. Condition: very good, wraps (softcover). 88pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later printing. 5 volumes. Illustrated with black and white plates. Very faint, slight dampstains on the spines of a few volumes, cover corners lightly bumped, very good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Undated, but late 19th century. Part 10 of an edition of 40 parts. This part has pages 361 to 400, and an illustration by H.J.Townsend of 'Ariel' (The Tempest), engraved by C.W.Sharpe. Contains the conclusion of 'Measure for Measure', and the first part of 'Winter's Tale'. Condition: There is moderate fading to the edges, but internally the book is clean and unmarked. Every book is sent in a rigid cardboard posting box. Size: 38 Cm x 28 Cm. H.J.Townsend, C.W.Sharpe (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Hardback. Letters of Thomas Carlyle to His Youngest Sister. Numbers written in pen to inside back cover. Slight foxing to end inside covers. Preface: The letters printed in this volume were mainly written by Thomas Carlyle to his youngest sister, Mrs. Robert Hanning, who died in Toronto on the thirteenth day of December, 1897. Other members of the family are represented in the correspondence; there are a few letters - these perhaps the most interesting - from Carlyle to his mother; a few, also, from the mother to her oldest and to her youngest child. The collection extends from 1832 to 1890, when Mr. John Carlyle Aitken wrote to inform his aunt Mrs. Hanning, of the death of James Carlyle, her youngest brother. Frontispiece. 270 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Back board marked. Top, side and bottom of text block light soil. Name of previous owner in ink on FFEP. Spine slightly uneven. Otherwise text block is clean and unmarked in very good condition. 1687 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. New edition. 1906 with 104 plates of English mansions. Binding tight with moderate wear to the board edges, pages dusty and soiled, age toning to the pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback. Slight foxing to end inside covers. Couple of small marks to back cloth. From the library of Alfred, Viscount Milner, K.G. with his ex-libris name sticker to inside cover. The letters printed in this volume were mainly written by Thomas Carlyle to his youngest sister, Mrs. Robert Hanning, who died in Toronto on the thirteenth day of December, 1897. Other members of the family are represented in the correspondence; there are a few letters - these perhaps the most interesting - from Carlyle to his mother; a few, also, from the mother to her oldest and to her youngest child. The collection extends from 1832 to 1890, when mr. John Carlyle Aitken wrote to inform his aunt, Mrs. Hanning, of the death of James Carlyle, her youngest brother. Illustrated. 270 pp. Hand cut pages. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic, Scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…

Condition: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original peach paper yapp wraps [soft back]. 10" x 7". Contains 104 printed pages of text. Illustrated. Includes: A critical review of John Masefield's book 'The Taking of the Gry' by H. E. Bates. Edges of the wrapper a little ragged. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERARY CRITICISM.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original orange yapp paper wraps [soft back]. 10" x 7". Contains 104 printed pages of text. Illustrated. Includes: A critical review of John Masefield's book 'The Taking of the Gry' by H. E. Bates. Edges of the wrapper a little ragged. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATES, H. E. (1906-1974).…

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original waxed ivory cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine and upper panel, all page edges gilt. Quarto 11'' x 8¼'' pp. Full-page monochrome illustrations throughout. Age tarnishing to spine and edges, corners slightly turned-in, very minor foxing to end papers and in Very Good clean and firm condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. WOODCUTS & ENGRAVINGS.…

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Copyright 1926, 1927. 5-volume set. Red leatherette, gold decoration and titles. Each volume with frontispiece and several illustrations. 341, 310, 372, 376, 371 pp. Volume V includes index to all five volumes. An anthology of prose and poetry in English. Spines sunned, very good plus condition. Illustrated (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Oversized cloth-bound hardcover book WITH dustjacket. ** 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING ** As New book in As New jacket. Book is unmarked and appears unread. Gift quality. With xxv+737 pages. Mumerous illustrations, many in color and full-page. Very well-made book, bound in heavy-duty beige cloth-covered boards, silver foil lettering on the spine, pages of coated, high-grade, glossy paper. Large, thick, very (very) heavy book. Book stands 11.25 inches tall, 8.75 inches wide, and is 1.5 inches thick. International shipping will require additional postage. Neith book or jacket have any notable flaws. The book is quite clean and stain-free, square and straight, very firm and tight in its binding, no pages are loose, torn, folded, creased, or missing. The hinges are sound and undamaged, the corners are sharp and unbumped. All pages are clean and stain free, bright and white, and all text is sharp and legible. There is no writing, underlining, highlighting, or other such markings anywhere in the book. The dustjacket is clean and stain-free, complete and intact, has no tears, no pieces missing, no edgewear, no creases. Five-star seller, buy with confidence, professional bookseller for 35 years, selling books online since 1995. B51.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, first edition, pp,viii,276, tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece and other illustrations, green cloth titled in gilt to the spine and top cover, uncut, title-page in red and black, some mild foxing to prelims.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. SD. NAP. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Light rubbing, light bumping at spine extremities and tips of corners; with a tiny tear at the spine tail. Just a bit of sun-darkening to the spine and the top edges of the boards. A bit of very light surface rubbing to the rear board. Overall though, fairly clean, with bright gilt on the front board. Bookplate on the front pastedown, and an owners inkstamp on the front flyleaf. Some transparent staining along the hinges on the endpapers. A bit of speckling to the rear endpapers. Else pages clean. Partially unopened. Overall, a fairly nice copy. Folding map at page 11 present.; EXH16C; 385 pages.…