Michael Fairless E W Waite (34 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. E W Waite (illustrator). Reprint. This work by the author was first published in 1902. Printer: Ebenezer Baylis & son, Worcester, UK. Printed on good quality paper. PAGES, untrimmed on base edges: Preliminary section + 150 with additional section pages 123 - 150 headed 'A biographical Note, with letters and an unfinished story by the author. ILLUSTRATIONS: 8 full page colour plates, including the frontispiece with all in place and near perfect. CONDITION: Light browning on endpapers and page edges and less significantly through the book. Bright, clean interior with no inscriptions. Tight binding. A little wear and minor discolouration to the green cloth cover. Gilt lettering on the spine and blind embossed title on the front. WEIGHT: 459 grams unpackaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. E. W. Waite (illustrator). Gold titles and decoration on green cloth, 121 pages plus 8 full page color illustrations tipped in including frontispiece by E. W. Waite. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. E.W. Waite. (illustrator). Reprint. 150 pages. Illustrated, some foxing, gift inscriptions, spine extensively flexed and frayed. Containing biographic note and letters February 1926, complete with the eight coloured illustrations by E.W. Waite.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear. Book has clean and bright contents with no markings, 121pp with 8 tipped-in colour plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus/No Jacket. E. W. Waite (illustrator). 4th Printing of New Edition. London: Duckworth & Co. Good Plus/No Jacket. 1914. 4th Printing of New Edition. Hardcover. Slight to moderate wear and slight soiling of covers and spine. Rubbed corners. Previous owner ink inscription on front free endpaper. Otherwise, contents clean and tight. Size: 8vo - over 7-1/2" - 9-1/2" tall . 8vo. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by E. W. Waite (illustrator). Reprint. Dark green bds with gilt titles and decoration, wear to spine ends and corners, with light fade to top edge of rear panel, spotting to text block edge, light v occasional internal spots, name& date to second free end paper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 121 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. E. W. Waite (illustrator). Tight clean copy of Duckworth Edition dated 1923. Green covers with gilt decoration to front and spine. Shows slight signs of shelf wear including some scuffing to corners and top and bottom of spine. Internally slight foxing to page edges, otherwise clean and tightly bound. Wrapped in tissue, bubble wrap and securely packaged. Posted daily from UK, first class within UK and airmail world-wide.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Waite, E. W. (illustrator). Later Printing. 8vo, Top corner of front and rear board frayed, 1" along top of front board, 1/8" on rear. Previous owner's name on front free page. All eight illustrations present. Browning from inlaid paper on pages four and five. Green board gilt design and lettering. 121 pages. 01.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. E. W. Waite (illustrator). British Edition. Pages unmarked. No jacket. Small smudge over part of title on front cover. Corners and ends of spine moderately scuffed. Binding square & firm. Book.

Fabric & Board. Condition: Good. No Jacket. E W Waite (illustrator). Reprint. Green fabric on board covers with gilt titles & decoration to front & spine, some edge wear, damp bleaching & a scab of fabric removed from bottom back cover. 121 numbered pages with full page colour illustrations, unmarked but with sporadic foxing. Binding tightish. Size 16.8 x 22.2 cm.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. E. W. Waite (illustrator). Reprint. Lightly bumped boards, a little wear to spine ends. Some wrinkling to cloth. Owner's name to ffep.

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. E. W. Waite (illustrator). New Edition Reset Reprinted. A Christian spiritual book written as a series of meditations on the road to heaven. Top page edges gilt. ix, 121 pages. 8 illustrations. Tear to joints at top of spine. Wear to extremities and edges. Some foxing and browning to free endpapers.

New edn reprint. Tall 8vo. Original gilt decorated green cloth (small tear at headcap - in protective glassine wrapper). Pp. 121, illus with coloured tipped-in plates by E. W. Waite (endpapers and prelims tanned; no inscriptions).

hardback, large 8vo, x,121pp, 8 colour plates, slight foxing, owner's inscription on endpaper, otherwise clean and sound, green cloth, gilt decorations and titles, Very Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Waite, E W (illustrator). Reprint. Copy in green cloth on boards with gilt title and decoration on cover and spine. Spine slightly rubbed at head/foot. Corners lightly bumped. Light tanning to front and rear end papers. Previous owners inscription and bookplate on FFE. Clean text with colour illustrations.

by E.W. WAITE tipped in (illustrator). bookplate on endpaper, slight wear, gilt decorated F. cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. WAITE, E. W. (illustrator). Very good condition, small quarto, green cloth with gilt decoration, slight cockle to bottom edge of front cover, sunning to spine and wear to top of spine, top edges gilt, slight foxing to other edges and occasionally internally, illustrated with eight tipped in full colour plates by E. W. Waite, protected by printed tissue guards, 121 pages. "The book is written as a series of meditations on the road to heaven with the author adopting the persona of the roadmender. Some editions were illustrated by E. W. Waite including "tipped in plates"". [QP].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by EW Waite (illustrator). 121pp, 8 coloured plates by EW Waite tipped in, bound in green cloth decorated with gilt; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

hardcover, decoative boards, all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but secondhand; Frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.

Condition: Very Good. Reprint. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 230mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 150pp. Colour plates. Green / gilt hardback cloth cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. E. W. Waite (illustrator). Reprint. NO JACKET. Hardback 1920 reprint. 8 Colour plates by E. W. Waite. Front paste-down has a bookplate. The 2nd front end paper has written a name & "1921". Clean & tight book. NO JACKET. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref q66456.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprinted hard cover book in good- condition. No dust jacket. Bumps to head and foot of spine. Boards slightly bowed. Front free endpaper removed with front hinge cracked. Spotting to edges of text block with foxing to page edges. Pages tanned. 8vo. 121pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. E.W.Waite (illustrator). This much loved tale was first published in 1902 but did not appear in this edition illustrated by E.W.Waite until 1911. It is unusual to find a copy still with a dustjacket. 121pp with eight full page illustrations in colour.

Hard Back Green. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. E. W. Waite. (illustrator). Reprint. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt titles and flowers on the spine and front board the coloured plates are fabulous.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. E. W. Waite (illustrator). Limited Edition to 350 copies. This being No. 94 Page ends uncut. Bright gilt. Clean and tight copy.

Fine Binding. Condition: Very Good. E. W. Waite (illustrator). Reprint Reset Edition. This copy is in very good plus condition bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine and decoration to the upper board. This copy is bright, tight, white and square, there is an interesting inscription to the f.e.p. dated 1917 noting the book as a gift to a V.A.D. nurse for work she did caring for British and New Zealand soldiers. This edition has the benefit of eight full colour, tissue guarded plates of the West Sussex countryside. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. 1920. 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? The place was West Sussex, the Adur Valley, and Michael Fairless turned out to be a woman-Margaret Barber. Margaret Fairless Barber (7 May 1869 - 24 August 1901), pseudonym Michael Fairless, was an English Christian writer whose book of meditations, 'The Roadmender' (1902) became a popular classic Ref LLL 5 Size: 122pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback copy in green cloth boards with gold gilt lettering and design to front and spine, no dustjacket. 121pp. Colour tipped-in frontispiece and 7 illustrations with titled tissue guard. Gold gilt top page edges, untrimmed fore-edge pages. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (47/6).

, 121 pages, complete with 8 tipped-in colour plates, this being number 141 of 350 Limited Edition of 350 copies , some light marks and spots to covers, spine lightly tanned, binding firm, neat owner's inscription on front blank, text and plates nice and clean, the book is in good+ condition , white buckrum with gilt decoration and titles to front and spine, top edge gilt 28 x 22 cm Hardback ISBN:

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. E. W. Waite (illustrator). A nicely and colourfully illustrated copy of Margaret Barber's Christian work on meditation and the road to heaven, illustrated by Edward Wilkins Waite. 'The Roadmender' is a spiritual book, written as a series of meditations on the road to heaven. Written by Margaret Barber under the pseudonym Michael Fairless. Barber is best known for this work, which became a classic upon its publication, the book going through thirty-one editions in ten years. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece, and seven coloured plates. Illustrated by Edward Wilkins Waite, an English landscape painter. In a signed Bumpus biding. Bookplate to the front pastedown, 'C. O. Clarke'. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front free endpaper, 'A. T. Poynton from Paddy Pole-Careur'. Collated, complete. In a half calf singed binding by Bumpus, with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, generally smart. Light fading to the spine and joints. Some light marks to the spine and boards. The odd light spot to the fore edges. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd scattered spot. Very Good Indeed. book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. E. W. Waite (illustrator). A very smart illustrated edition of this popular classic published under Margaret Barber's pseudonym. An illustrated edition of this work, in the publisher's original cloth binding.With eight tipped in colour plates illustrated by E. W. Waite. Collated complete.'The Roadmender' is Margaret Barber's most popular work, an English Christian author who published under the pseudonym of Michael Fairless.It provides a social commentary on the time in which it was originally written in 1902, from the perspective of the natural world from the eyes of a roadmender. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with slight sunning to the spine and light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with offsetting to the endpapers. The occasional spot, heaviest to the first and last few leaves. Very Good Indeed. book.