Fairless Michael Pseud (44 results)

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hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. 1901. Spine sunned, and a slight tan to untrimmed page edges. Contents clear and firm within. A good condition book.…

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Edinburgh: New University Society, not dated - Very Good+/no dust jacket - 16mo - dark red grained leather/buckram, gilt decorated front cover & spine - top edge gilt - b&w frontis dated 1931 - b&w ills by Norman Hepple - ribbon marker - v. light wear to corners, upper right corner light bump, otherwise near Fine - 254pp. Philosophy. Author: Margaret Barber (1869-1901). Hepple, Norman (illustrator).…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Third impression 1911. Book has minor rubbing to boards. Two gift inscriptions to half title. Else a very nice copy. Will G Mein (illustrator).

G faded orig.green linen. Prior owner's sig. on ffep. Lt. foxing. 356 p.; front. (bedfast portrait); 18.5 cm. Contents -- The Roadmender -- The Gathering of Brother Hilarius -- The Grey Brethren -- Four stories told to chindren: The story of the dreadful griffin, The discontented daffodils, The fairy fluffikins, The tinkle-tinkle -- Toutseul: an unfinished story; and letters. 1st edition. Binding is Hardcover.…

17th impression. Very good copy bound in 1/2 leather over cloth. Gilt-blocked with raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dulled as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 158 pages ; 17 cm. Notes: Collected short stories."This series of papers appeared in the Pilot and is now republished by permission of the editor". Contents: The roadmender -- Out of the shadows -- At the white gate. Subjects: Nouvelles; Short stories; Fiction, England; English Writers; English Short Stories, 20th Century. 1 Kg.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. John Murray 1901 edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

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17th impression. Very good copy bound in 1/2 leather over cloth. Gilt-blocked with raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dulled as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 158 pages ; 17 cm. Notes: Collected short stories."This series of papers appeared in the Pilot and is now republished by permission of the editor". Contents: The roadmender -- Out of the shadows -- At the white gate. Subjects: Nouvelles; Short stories; Fiction, England; English Writers; English Short Stories, 20th Century. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover, 142 pages. Condition: Good. Light wear to green cloth boards, corners slightly rubbed. Light soiling to text block edges. Text block top edge gilt. Binding partially exposed between gatherings, pages secure.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1913, Two Books. Large Octavo's. 6.5" x 9" approx. xi, 142pp & ix, 121pp. Both illustrated. Both in original green cloth, gilt titles and decoration. Some fading. Bindings secure. Spotting to text-blocks, and sporadic mild foxing within. A 'Very Good' pair. …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Included. Collins, n.d. # 304 of Collins Pocket Classics hardcover FIne in FIne dj. lavender cloth boards with blind stamped device on cover gilt stamped titling to spin, bright yellow dj with advertising, illustrated grey endpapers 254 pp. clean and unmarked 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.…

First Edition. First edition, second impression, small 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 147; contemporary tan morocco over blue cloth, boards ruled in gilt, decoratively gilt-tooled spine, t.e.g., marbled endpapers; textblock fore edge and preliminaries a bit foxed, contemporary gift inscription on front flyleaf, else a very good, attractive copy. Most of the pieces appeared previously in "The Pilot" (see Prefatory Note, pp. v-vi). NCBEL III, p. 1050. …

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Condition: Very Good. reprint of the 1905 edition, 147 pp., hardcover, very good . - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

First Edition. A good tight binding: Lilac cloth, stamped in green, red and gilt, with yapp fore-edges, t.e.g. Boards rubbed and sunned. Neat ink insrciption to front free-endpaper, otherwise quite a nice copy of her first novel.

197 pp. 16mo, 3/4 brown morocco, gilt spine, marbled sides, t.e.g. Later edition. An ex-library copy with no external markings; bookplate on flyleaf; accession number on dedication leaf; otherwise very fine.

Decorated Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 142p. A lovely copy with decorative cloth. The author was an English Christian writer who suffered with a severe spinal condition but served as a nurse at a children's hospital, and did charitable work in the East End of London until she herself became an invalid. It was during this time she wrote this reliigous romance, followed by her famous work The Roadmender which this book was issued in a matching binding with rich gilt design on front panel and three floral images on spine. The color art of Eleanaor Fortescue Brickdale is represented with eight color plates all with tissue guards that describe the scene represented in the book. Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. 1stUSedn; Small quarto [10 inches high by 7-5/8 inches wide], dark green cloth with titles and a vignette in gilt on the front cover. The binding is bumped & rubbed and the backstrip is MISSING. Ow all the contents is present and in good shape: FAIR/ndj: ix, [iii] & 121 pages. 20 black/white photographic illustrations by Will F. Taylor tipped onto gray stock. The place was West Sussex, the Adur Valley, and Michael Fairless turned out to be a woman- Margaret Fairless Barber (7 May 1869 - 24 August 1901), pseudonym Michael Fairless, who was an English Christian writer whose book of meditations, 'The Roadmender' (1902) became a popular classicDescription of the Sussex countryside North of Shoreham & GoringbySea. "I have attained my ideal: I am a roadmender, some say stonebreaker. Both titles are correct, but the one is more pregnant than the other. All day I sit by the roadside on a stretch of grass under a high hedge of saplings and a tangle of traveller's joy, woodbine, sweetbrier, and late roses. Opposite me is a white gate, seldom used, if one may judge from the trail of honeysuckle growing tranquilly along it: I know now that whenever and wherever I die my soul will pass out through this white gate; and then, thank God, I shall not have need to undo that trail."// The Roadmender, a devotional country book, was very much to early Edwardian taste, clearly touched a melancholy nerve and achieved popular classic status. When the book was published there was a great mystery surrounding who Michael Fairless was, and what locale did he describe with such love? cf Bellerive, Georges(1915) Eloges de l'agriculture dignite et bonheur de la vie rurale.…

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