Mee Arthur Editors (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. edgeworn boards.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Moderate edge wear on covers. Front cover loosened from spine. First, blank, page is missing. Otherwise in good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Spine quite worn, condition as photographs. 768 pages.

Wraps. Condition: Very good. Prospectus. Octavo; pp; (36); illustrated; original printed paper wrappers; There was a time long before Google when a set of books like this ignited the imagination of a child.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No jacket, as issued. 1910 Publication of "The World's Greatest Books", Vol VI, of 20 volume set, a compendium of the world's best literature in a form accessible to everyone and still faithful to its originals. Navy cloth binding with lamp of knowledge embossed and blind-stamped on front, lamp of knowledge and panels gilt outlined on spine with gilt lettering; clean with one tiny white spot on front, unmarked, with light edge-wear and spine end wear. Tight and solid and square with sewn binding. Text block edges foxed. Pages clean, tanned, no underlining or marking of text. Frontis: Portrait of Edward Bulwer Lytton. Includes works of Edward Lytton Bulwer, Sheridan Le Faun, Rene Le Sage, Charles Lever, M G Lewis, Mrs. Lynn Linton, Henry Mackenzie, Count Xavier de Maistre, Sir Thomas Malory, Anne Manning, Alessandro Manzoni, Capt. Marryat, Charles Maturin, Diego De Mendoza), and others. 346 pages. 7.5 x 5 inches. 1910, McKinlay, Stone & MacKenzie, New York, New York, USA. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No jacket, as issued. 1910 Publication of "The World's Greatest Books" Volume XII, of 20 volume set, is a compendium of the world's best literature in a form accessible to everyone and still faithful to its originals. Navy cloth binding with lamp of knowledge embossed and blind-stamped on front, lamp of knowledge and panels gilt outlined on spine with gilt lettering; pale bluish spotting on front, otherwise clean, with light edge-wear and spine end wear. Tight and solid and square with sewn binding. Text block edges foxed. Pages clean, occasional smudges, no underlining or marking of text. Frontis: Portrait of John Lothrop Motley. Writings by Sameul Eliot and W.H.Prescott on American History; Edward Hyde, Lord Macaulay, Henry Buckle and Walter Bagehot on England; Voltaire, de Tocqueville, Francois Mignet, Carlyle, Lamartine, H.A.Taine on France; Thomas Carlyle on Germany; George Finlay on Greece; J.L.Motley on Holland; Mountstuart Elphinstone on India; Voltaire on Russia under Peter the Great; W.H.Prescott on Spain; Voltaire on Sweden; Henry Milman and Leopold Von Ranke on the Papacy. 312 pages. 7.5 x 5 inches. 1910, McKinlay, Stone & MacKenzie, New York, New York, USA.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Hardcover in Good Condition. No jacket, as issued. 1910 Publication of "The World's Greatest Books", Vol III, of 20 volume set, a compendium of the world's best literature in a form accessible to everyone and still faithful to its originals. Navy cloth binding with lamp of knowledge embossed and blind-stamped on front, lamp of knowledge and panels gilt outlined on spine with gilt lettering; clean and unmarked with light edge-wear and spine end wear. Tight and solid and square with sewn binding. Text block edges heavily foxed. Pages clean, tanned, no underlining or marking of text. Frontis: Portrait of Charles Dickens. Includes works of Charles Dickens, Alphonse Daudet, Thomas Day, Daniel Defoe. Benjamin Disraeli, Alexandre Dumas. 343 pages. 7.5 x 5 inches. McKinlay, Stone & MacKenzie, New York, New York, USA.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No jacket, as issued. 1910 Publication of "The World's Greatest Books", Vol XIX, of 20 volume set, a compendium of the world's best literature in a form accessible to everyone and still faithful to its originals. Navy cloth binding with lamp of knowledge debossed and blind-stamped on front, lamp of knowledge and panels gilt outlined on spine with gilt lettering; boards lightly speckled all over-may be mottled; with light edge-wear and spine end wear. Tight and solid and square with sewn binding. Text block edges foxed; few foxing marks internally. Pages clean, no underlining or marking of text. Frontis: Portrait of James Boswell. Writings of James Boswell, Sir Samuel Baker, George Borrow, James Bruce, Sir Richard Burton, James Cook, Charles Darwin, Richard Hakluyt, Carolus Linnaeus, David Livingstone, Mungo Park, Bernadin de Saint Pierre, Warburton, and others. 338 pages. 7.5 x 5 inches. 1910, McKinlay, Stone & MacKenzie, New York, New York, 1910. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. edgeworn boards. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. slightly worn tips; worn spine ends. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. McKinlay, Stone & MacKenzie, 1910. Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No jacket, as issued. 1910 Publication of "The World's Greatest Books", Vol VIII of 20 volume set, a compendium of the world's best literature in a form accessible to everyone and still faithful to its originals. Navy cloth binding with lamp of knowledge embossed and blind-stamped on front, lamp of knowledge and panels gilt outlined on spine with gilt lettering; slightly soiled on front, with light edge-wear and spine end wear. Tight and solid and square with sewn binding. Light foxing on top edge. Pages clean, tanned, no underlining or marking of text. Frontis: Portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray. Includes works of Sir Walter Scott, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Sir Philip Sidney, Tobias Smollet, Mme. de Stael, Stendahl, Laurence Sterne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Eugene Sue, Jonathan Swift, Thackeray, Tolstoy, Trollope, Turgenev, Verne Jules, Horace Walpole, Emile Zola. 330 pages. 7.5 x 5 inches. 1910, McKinlay, Stone & MacKenzie, New York, New York, USA.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The Children's Encyclopedia.

Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Volume VII (Volume 7). 327 pp. (**1939-2266** pp.) Vol. VII/7th Volume of the series only! Solidly bound copy with moderate internal & external wear & use concurrent with age. Edges & surface lightly worn, but solid for age. Clean text; no markings. Light foxing around page edges. No dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. This a set of six volumes (Vols. 1-6) of the History. Condition varies from Fair to Poor. The volumes have green boards, some of the front covers being clean and bright, others having white fade marks. Spines are sun-faded with some loss to the spine cover of Volume 6.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, blind tooling to the front cover. 8vo. 10'' x 6½''. Contains 768 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and full-page colour plates throughout. Rubs to the spine ends and corners and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1900-1925.…

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Binding is sound; typical shelf rubbing to the corners and spine ends but very good. Bound in tan half-calf over cloth boards. Contents including stories of Longfellow, Captain Cook, Hans Andersen, Constantine, Leonardo da Vinci, Robert Louis Stevenson, Raphael, Sir Henry Layard, The Cathedral Builders, Pasteur, Garibaldi, William Morris, Robert Bruce, Daniel Boone, Mozart, Marconi, Prince Bismarck, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Charles Stuart's Wife (Charles I. & Henrietta Maria), Haydn, Beethoven, John Wesley, Augustus St. Gaudens, Daniel Webster, Sir Francis Drake, Sir John A. Macdonald, John Trumbull, Alexander Hamilton, George Morland, Sir Douglas Mawson, David Livingstone (the missionary), Cervantes, Andrew Jackson, Hans Holbein. A wonderful book for a lazy afternoon for the historically inclined. Profusely Illustrated. 328 pages. 9.75 inches tall. Size: 8vo - over 7ž" - 9ž" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good 20 volume set. The Children's Encyclopedia. Shelf wear on covers. Black-and-white and color illustrations. Good blue boards with gilt lettering along spine. Binding and hinges tight and slightly cocked; Contents clean and unmarked. No dust jackets. Some covers lightly soiled. Gilt on some spines fading. Damp staining on first few pages of volume 11.…

Condition: Good. Plates (colour frontis + illustrated titlepage) + 6 further colour plates by E. Wall-Cousins + 6 plates printed in various mono-tints. Large octavo blue ribbed cloth with gilt spine (covers with slight marks of former damp but spine in bright gilt and no marking) half title + frontispiece + title +768pp.Cutting from Manchester Guardian 1 Decmber 1910 laid in. Contents clean, book tight, no loose pages, no tears. *Works grouped in 8 catagories: Fiction, Life/Letters, History, Philosophy/Religion, Science, Poetry/Drama, Travel/adventure and Miscellaneous. Within each section the works are in alphabetical order of author, so this volume includes A & B authors for 5 groups with Science A-G & Miscellaneous A-E. The History section is the only one with grouping by chronology. Thus Authors here include Josephus, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon et al. *A short biography of the author precedes each book here reduced to its quintessence, thereby tempting the reeader to further investigation. 1 volume. Hardcover.…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1910. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 348, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 348 348.…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1910. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 356, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 356 356.…