Language: English
Published by Meredith Bridge / Charles Robinson, 1843
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Two volumes, complete. Brown leather with gilt spine titling and decoration; leather has heavy shelf-wear, spines rubbed to the point the titling is gone or obscured, with frayed corners and minor loss to spine ends at both volumes. Front outer hinge of volume two cracked; front hinge of volume one cracked through with exposed threads, although the threads appear strong and the front board's connection to the book, while delicate, is holding. Pages foxed. Interior else unmarked.
Published by Adolf Johnsons Forlag, Stockholm, 1902
Seller: Homeward Bound Books, Campbellcroft, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Anton Blomberg (illustrator). 427 p. 21 cm. Square binding with cloth covered spine and paper-covered, illustrated boards. Endpapers are split along front hinge but binding is still holding well. Worn through along the edges and spine ends. Spine faded. Darkening to edges of lower board. Text block edges are somewhat grimy. Shelf rubbed overall. Previous owner's name and a couple of tiny stamps on the front endpapers. Inside pages are clean and unmarked, with some toning mostly along edges. Presents better than it sounds. A Swedish edition of Frederick Marryatt's 1840 novel Poor Jack. Illustrated with black and white engravings. No. 69 of the publisher's Ungdomens Bibliotek.
Published by Adolf Johnsons Forlag, Stockholm, 1904
Seller: Homeward Bound Books, Campbellcroft, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Illustrated by J. Granlund (illustrator). 176 p. 20.5 cm. Sound and square binding with cloth-covered spine and paper-covered, illustrated boards. Front free endpaper is missing and rear hinge is split, but is still holding fairly well. Worn through along the edges, and at the corners and spine ends. Spine titles and decoration is dulled. Lower board shows soil. Shelf rubbed overall. Previous owner's name on the front endpaper. Inside pages have occasional staining and soil and toning to the edges. A Swedish edition of Frederick Marryatt's 1836 novel The Pirate. Illustrated with black and white engravings. No. 80 of the publisher's Ungdomens Bibliotek.
Published by NY: D. Appleton and Co., 1851
Seller: Braintree Book Rack, Cohasset, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Two volumes bound together in original publisher's cloth, 6.25" x 4.25", 179 and 198pp plus a bookseller's catalogue. Each volume has a title page and frontis illustration. The hinges have been inexpertly repaired following the endpapers; there are some pencil notes inside the covers and on a few blank leaves.
Published by Simms and McIntyre, 1849
Seller: Sally Smith Books, Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Hardback in brown textured cloth binding with gilt spine titles. First edition, 1849. 303pp. Corners knocked and cloth rubbed at extremities. Mild marking to cloth. Binding slackening, but holding, with crack to hinge of rear ep. Fep partly cracked. Ownership name in pencil to reverse of fep. Internally just occasional foxing spots, else clean. A fair copy.
Published by New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1869., 1869
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Early edition. 8vo. Two volumes bound as one. Old 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, from the Book Binding Shop of Becher & Eitel, Hartford, Connecticut; marbled edges. Very good. Heraldic engraved bookplate of C.L.F. Robinson by E.D, French, 1900. Pencil signature of Robinson, December 14th, 1871 on the page before title. 399 pages + 407 pages. Charles Leonard Frost Robinson was President of The Colt Patent Firearms Co., he died in 1916. Small book blinders label on the verso of the front free endpaper.
EA. Lane, Sandhorton, 1837. 209/225 S., orig. Leder. (etwas bst./Rücken einger./1 Rücken mit Fehlstelle.)---Lane s Uniform Edition, Maryatt s Novels Bde. 8/9 750 Gramm.
Lane, Sandhornton, 1837. 237 S., orig. Leder., Duodez. (berieben u. bst./Rücken fehlt/Papier teils gebräunt.)--- 750 Gramm.