Pendennis Arthur Editor (16 results)

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. dark green leather c w/gilt spine titles; moderate wear at extremities; top edge gilt; satin marker; sunned spine; 928 clean, unmarked pages. frontis (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1906. Soft leather cover. First edition thus, first impression. Soft green leather. Gilt lettering and gilt decoration to spine. Top edges gilt. Black and white frontispiece with tissue guard. Ribbon marker (loosely inserted). No dustjacket. Head and foot of spine rubbed. Spine dulled. Top corner of fore edge of front cover lightly creased. Back cover slightly scuffed. The paper is thin, so the pages are lightly creased. Overall, the book is in a good condition.…

Half-Leather. Condition: Poor. First Edition. Half-leather binding. First edition in two volumes - Volume I from 1854 and Volume II from 1855. Both volumes have very badly damaged spines. Volume I has some loss with the remainder of the surface chipped and torn with pieces likely to come off. Volume II is in better shape with tearing and chipping to the top half. Title panels long gone. The boards are worn with fraying to the edges and some staining to the front panel of the first volume. The page edges are a little worn. Brown endpapers with the owner's bookplates to the pastedowns. Quite heavy staining to the first 150 or so pages in the first volume with some warping to these pages and page 15 is detached with creasing to the edges. Staining and warping at the back of this volume as well. Volume II is in better shape with only some spotting in places. Both volumes have quite heavy spotting to the half-title page and frontispece and also quite heavy spotting to all the illustrations. First printing. Heavy item due to the two volumes so there will be an additional postage charge for overseas orders. Doyle, Richard (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. viii / 380 & viii / 375 pp each volume with frontispiece, illustrated title page and 22 further plates, numerous vignettes, bound in half green calf with marbled paper sides, five raised bands with gilt detail. Leather rubbed and scuffed, title labels missing from spine, plates foxed to various degrees, front hinge to volume 1 a little weak, otherwise sound. HEAVY SET WILL NEED EXTRA POSTAGE OUTSIDE UK. Richard Doyle (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book has very mild toning to spine, very mild rubbing to edges of spine, very mild rubbing to corners of cover, and very slight toning to pages.otherwise book is in excellent condition with a bright cover, clean pages, and a solid binding. Doyle, Richard (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 8vo. Front board detached. Rubbing to edges. P.o. bookplate to verso of front boad. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Date unknown.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slipcase. Hardcover no date stated, illustrated boards with black spine and gilt lettering. Includes an Introduction by Angela Thirkell and b/w illustrations, 761 pages. The exception to the condition is toning. The Heritage Club "Sandglass" issued monthly to members is laid in: Sandglass issue Number: XI:19. Housed in a black slipcase in Very Good + condition, with the exception of wear to the bottom edge. "The Heritage Press" was an imprint of George Macy Companies from 1937-1982. In 1929, George Macy founded the Limited Editions Club, publishing illustrated books in limited numbers usually 1500 copies. The Heritage Press reprinted affordable classic nineteenth century novels and biographies enabling fine books to reach the mainstream public previously printed by the exclusive publishers. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. .Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family; Two volumes, the Centenary Edition, limited to 1500 copies; Half black cloth with gold spine titles, pictorial covers, tinted frontices, & an additional handful of tinted illustrations in each text; A very good clean set; 6.75"x9.75"; 742 pages. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Original Cloth. Originally published in parts between 1853 and 1855, by William Makepeace Thackeray, the novel was first published in book form in England in 1854-55. The first American edition, published by Harper appeared in 1855, after having first appeared in Harpers' Magazine. The present volume contains both volumes one and two and is complete. Bound in original dark brown cloth with gold lettering on spine and pale yellow endpapers. Illustrated with vignette engravings by Richard Doyle. Printed in double column format. Text and illustrations clean, with no foxing and only two leaves showing mild incidental soiling. Tips bumped and cloth shows mild shelf-wear. A very nice copy of the American imprint of this novel, not usually found in this condition.…

Two volumes. viii, 380 pp; viii, 375, [1, blank] pp. Illustrations on steel and wood by Richard Doyle. 22 plates per volume, plus a frontispiece and title vignette; additional intratextual illustrations throughout. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4" Spines moderately sunned; light general wear to extremities, with notable bumping to upper corner of Vol II front board; foxing to beginning and end leaves, and occasionally throughout; occasional faint offsetting from plates. Vol I spine slightly cocked and rear hinge nearly split, though mull is intact and binding is still secure; Vol II lacking the front tissue guard. A solid VG set. Original publisher's blue-green cloth blocked in blind, with gilt lettering stamped to spines and yellow endpapers printed in black First book edition [Wolff 6696a; Sultan Stork p 246; NCBEL Vol 3, p 858].…

Cloth. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Original Cloth. Originally published in parts between 1853 and 1855, by William Makepeace Thackeray, the novel was first published in book form in two volumes in England in 1854-55. Bound in original elaborately blindstamped black cloth with gold lettering on spines. Both voulmes are slightly cocked and front hinge on volume I is starting, but still tight. Cloth shows mild rubbing and shelf-wear. Pale yellow endpapers are printed with publishers ads and a short 8 page publishers catalog of works is appended to volume I. Illusttrated with steel and woodcut engravings [2 etched half titles and 46 plates] by Richard Doyle. Engraved title and frontispiece in each volume. First several leaves in each volume and full page plates show marginal toning, else text and illustrations are clean with no foxing or soiling. Private book plate each volume. All plates present. Bindings as in Wolff 6696a. A good+ or better set. Richard Doyle (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good set in full burgundy morocco with gilt titles, decorations and dentelles. Raised bands on spine. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, deckled fore-edges. Most original wrapper covers and advertisements. Off-setting to title pages in each segment where they were pressed up against original yellow wraps. Book plate on pastedowns. We will send additional photos upon request.…