Edward Garnett Intro (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. Hardcover without jacket. Tiny nick to spine label and former owner's inscription on front endpaper, else very good condition. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Ex-library copy, usual stamps, stickers, labels, and markings. Book club paper glued to fep. Blind-embossed seal on title/copyright page, rear withdrawn pocket. Else minimally aged and worn. Mapped end pages. Lightly bowed, shelf soiled and worn, folding to corners as well as to head and foot of spine, library label along upper edge of front cover and one on the spine. 358pp., including appendix. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Frontispiece/Mapped End Pages (illustrator). Ex-Library Copy/Hardcover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary marks. Sound binding and hinges. Tanned pages with occasional marginal notes. Cloth over boards has general shelf wear, label at lower spine. English language. Ex-Library; 6.25" tall; 312 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Good plus light soiling of panels/spine, bumped corners/ends, browning of spine label, frontispiece and pgs opposite of it show blotchy yellow stains, pgs113-128 show small section of bottom edge bumped/slightly torn.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Offering this decorative transatlantic co-published edition of "Adventures of a Younger Son," by Edward John Trelawny, with an introduction by Edwin Garnett. London & New York: T. Fisher Unwin and Macmillan & Co., and printed by Gresham Press/Unwin Brothers in Chilworth & London, 1890, 1st edition thus. A title in the popular late-19th-century illustrated series, The Adventure Series, by publisher T. Fisher Unwin. The title page shows both publishers, but only Macmillan is on the spine, designating this copy for the late-Victorian American market. Original red cloth with black stamped design and gilt lettering on front and spine, pp. 521. Features 6 full-page plate illustrations in b/w, including a frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, and a fold-out facsimile of an autographed letter written by Edward John Trelawny himself, tipped into the text pages (it's a 3-page letter on two pages, the 2nd page being double in size). This story blends real-life maritime experiences with romantic fiction, as it follows a rebellious English youth escaping a tyrannical father to live a turbulent life as a sailor, privateer, and adventurer in the Indian Ocean, East Indies, and-beyond. Overall condition is Very Good. Binding is secure. Spine is faded with some tears at the top. Cover is brighter with some scattered grazing and bumped corners. Inside front are two previous owner marks: one in pencil on the pastedown, the other a personalized blind emboss library stamp at the bottom corner of the front free endpaper. Inside joints are splitting but holding. Pages are mildly age toned, else clean and unmarked. Letter has small tears on each page at bottom left edge where one pulls upward, else in great shape. Plates are crisp and clean. A nice solid copy! [C4].…

Condition: Good. 12mo. Red Cloth, 461 pp., Very Good. Everyman's Library.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 336. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered green on spine and front cover. Slight tape ghost marks on the front and rear pastedown with slight browning to endpapers, otherwise clean, very good plus.

Condition: Near Fine. Very Good +. London: Martin Secker, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (19 cm); vii,87pp. Dark green cloth-bound boards with paper label to spine wrapped in publisher's intact jacket (5s). Green top stain. Jacket gently rubbed at joints with toning and dust-soiling overall. Verso heavily toned. Board corners and spine ends very gently bumped and interior lightly toned at margins with bookseller's label to rear pastedown, otherwise a Near Fine copy in a Very Good or better dust jacket. First written in 1909, this play wasn't published until after Lawrence's death. It had been left with his mentor and friend Edward Garnett, who submitted it to Bumpus bookshop's exhibition of Lawrence's work in 1933. Roberts & Poplawski A69.…