John Wilson Christopher North (47 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. mild edge wear, front hinge starting, otherwise clean and sound, about very good, firm binding, 12mo, 582 pages, dark green cloth with gilt titles on spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover, red cloth spine over slate gray paper covered boards. 133 pages. Introduction by William Aspenwall Bradley. Illustrated with 7 of 8 black and white full page line drawings, plate facing page 46 not bound in at publisher. First edition, one of 2500 published, possibly an out of series copy. A first appearance in book form of an autobiographical tale of youthful sporting life in Scotland, originally published in Blackwood in 1828, and likened to Walton's "Compleat Angler". Light pencil erasure to fly, else no previous ownership marks. Mild toning to fore-edge of boards. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Near very good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Limited. 1901 Limited edition hardcover, one of 2500. Red cloth and grey paper covered boards with gold and black titles show rubbed corners. Front hinge paper cracked, 132 pp text tight and bright. Professionally photo-reproduced dj in new mylar has one chip near foot of spine on front board, a 1/2" chip at head of spine and light rubs to corners. This vintage book contains John Wilson's 1901 work, "Christopher in his Sporting Jacket". Originally published in "Blackwood" in 1828, it is a delightful chronicle of sporting life and exquisite idyll of natural boyhood. This volume will appeal to those with a love of the outdoors and rural pursuits, and it would make for a charming addition to any collection. Contents include: "Crash Goes the Top-Timber of the Five-Barred Gate", "She is a Salmon, Therefore to be woo'd-She is a Salmon, therefore to be Won", "Up Runs the Tyro Ready-Cocked", "Well, then, After Cat-killing comes Coursing", "Hark Forward, Tantivy", "Well Done, Fro!", "What a Twinkling of Fists and Shillelas!", and "A Red-Deer-A Stag of Ten". Signed.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. 1st edition. 344pp, octavo, brown embossed boards are edge/corner/surface worn, heavy foxing to endpapers and pastedowns, toned pages throughout, tight binding, no marks to the text.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Pages lightly foxed. Name and date written on the front endpaper. Covers slightly faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library with typical markings. Text is clean. A serial drama in the form of convivial dinner conversation, originally published in Blackwood's magazine from 1825 to 1835. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Good. First American Edition. Brown cloth, bordered and with decorative front cover device in blind, spine panel lettered/decorated in gilt. Ex-library copy, minimally marked/stamped, modest shelf wear. Small call label on spine panel, rubbed spine extremities with thin strip of loss to cloth at head, some exposure at corners. xix,582,6 pp. Institutional book plate mounted on front pastedown. Text block edges darkened by age, interior a bit toned, hinges fully intact, binding firm. Scarce imprint, printed at Lake Champlain Press, Rouses Point, NY. Undated, given date approximate; appears to precede the Worthington (NY) edition, thus likely the 1st American edition, following the 1876 British. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. This set is offered as is, despite the condition. 3 vols, complete. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, with with gilt title and decoration on spines, dark green cloth. Previous owner's signature on the title page of each volume. A good hardcover first edition set overall; vol. I: 388 pages; vol. II: 403 pages; vol. III: 416 pages. All three volumes show wear at the edges, fore-corner tips through to boards; all hinges are broken and covers loosening or loose. with external damp staining to the forward portion of cover cloth of vols. 1 and 2. Internal bindings on all volumes are solid and secure, text paper is generally clean and lightly yellowed (the first volume has some marginal finger soiling to the first few pages). These are still useful volumes. Priced accordingly.…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo, 23cm, 307p., engraved frontis portrait the author in his hunting jacket, printed in double columns, in the original half drak brown calf, tall raised bands, double black leather labels gilt, small blind deice decorations in the panels, marbled boards and endpapers, some wear at the edges, very good attractively bound copy (Lds). - A selection, originally published in 1842, of John North's essays published in "Blackwood's Magazine". Wilson was one of the founders of the magazine in 1817 and as a contributing editor wrote under the pseudonym Christopher North.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. 1st Limited edition; one of 2500 copies; slight wear at top spine; 133 clean, unmarked pages. 8 handcolored Plates. Alexander M. McLellan (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair+. Hard cover grey cloth bds, red cloth strip to spine, corners and spine ends rubbed, a little age-darkening to bds in places, Fair+, no dust jacket, neat inscription to ffep, tissue-protected frontis.,contents fine and tight, eight etchings by Alex. M. McLellan, states coloured by hand, but they are not, some pges rough cut at edges others still need cutting, pp133.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. . . . . Ltd. edition, 2500 copies printed. 8vo, hardcover, red cloth spine w/ grey paper-covered boards, no dj. Vg condition. Illustrations not colored; 1 plate bound in upside-down. Thin chips across upper & lower spine cloth, board corners rubbed through, else contents clean, binding tight. xviii, 132 p., 7 plates + frontis.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Very good condition. Top and bottom of spine are worn. 133 pages plus eight illustrations. Illustrations are not in color, although they are called colored prints.

Condition: Very Good. 22 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

xix, 133 pp. Illustrated with eight hand-colored etchings by Alex. M. McLellan, plus black and white vignettes. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed printed boards; gilt spine. Special edition; one of 2500 copies. Old bookseller's description tipped onto front free endpaper; light shelf wear; tight and sound.…

Hardcover. First edition. 133 pages. Eight hand-colored etchings by Alex M. McLellan, and with a host of black and white vignettes by the latter. Introduction by William Aspinwall Bradley. Orig. published in BLACKWOOD for September, 1828. An exquisite idyll of natural boyhood in Scotland. Limited edition, one of 2000. The hand-colored etchings capture the mood of the story. Tan cloth spine and thick gray boards. Very good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xix 577p terracota cloth with black lettering and design, portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard, additional plates, first section a little loose, still very good Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1854. 367 pages. Engraved frontispiece: 'Christopher North in his Sporting Jacket'. Text in 2 columns. 9.5 x 6", gold lettered, blind decorated black cloth, tiny ticket: 'Bound by B. Bradley & Co, Boston'. From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Corner chewed, few bugholes, tips worn, text clean, tight, else VG.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Still clean and tight in green buckram with light shelfwear; namplate to inside front cover; double-column format; tissue-guarded frontispiece of John Wilson; "John Wilson" written in ink on title page.; 307 pages.

Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1858. A reprint. Original half-calf, black-stamped, leather labels, gilt-lettered, marbled paper boards. Some wear, bookplate, a Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, 1876. Original binding in good condition, rubbed at edges, with wear at head and heel. No dust jacket. Decorated board and spine. A few minor chips at inner hinge. The Noctes Ambrosianae, a series of 71 imaginary colloquies, appeared in Blackwood's Magazine from 1822 to 1835. The earlier ones had several different authors, including John Gibson Lockhart, William Maginn, James Hogg and Professor John Wilson, but from 1825, with the 19th in the series, the contributions by Wilson predominate, and he eventually wrote all or most of 39 of the dialogues, as well as parts of some others. The scene is usually set in Ambrose's Tavern in Edinburgh, and the central characters are "Christopher North" (Wilson himself), "Timothy Tickler" (based on Robert Sym, 1750?1840, previously a Writer to the Signet), and the "Ettrick Shepherd" (based on James Hogg). Several other characters, imaginary or based on real people, including the "English Opium Eater" (Thomas De Quincey) and "The tailor o' Yarrow Ford" (David Brunton) occur in some episodes. The series is particularly noted for the expressive Scots dialogue of the Ettrick Shepherd. John Wilson was professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1820?1851.…

307pp. + catalogue. Black & white frontis engraving. Double columned text. of a series: Modern British Essayists. Title page cracked along gutter, binding lightly cracked at page 303, spine top has 2" tears, pages 277-300 have 5/16" tears mid fore-edge margins: VG-.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xix, 133 pp. Illustrated with eight hand-coloured plates by Alex. M. McLellan, plus black and white vignettes. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed printed boards; gilt spine. Special edition; one of 2500 copies.

Thhre sets of tales, in a new edition. Bound in half leather . Title label faded otherwise VG.