Ratchford Fannie E Editor (10 results)

Very good minus, light general wear First Edition Cloth Rough jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Octavo; pp. 591 with appendix and a 16pp. index; Illustrated with a frontispiece and eighteen black and white plates; decorated black cloth, gilt, top edge stained red..

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stated first edition. Very good in a very good (two inch closed edge tear in lower corner of front panel) dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1944 Knopf hardcover - with some wear; torn dj; standard-sized, GOOD Standard-sized.

cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 591, xvi pages. First edition. Ratchford's book proved beyond doubt the guilt of Thomas J. Wise as a literary forger and implicated the distinguished men of letters, H. Buxton Forman and Sir Edmund Gosse and thus becomes a necessary supplement to Carter and Pollard's An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth-Century Pamphlets. Jacket chipped with pieces missing along edges and is price clipped. Wise, Thomas J. (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 454 pages. 8.50x5.43x0.63 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Edited by Fannie E. Ratchford. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. First Edition (stated). Large 8vo. xiv,591,xvi,[1]pp. Full black cloth, gilt spine letters and decoration. Book in very good plus condition, shelf edges slightly rubbed. 24 illustrations. Dustjacket fair (worn, spine darkened, tape reinforcements, blank side laminated). John S. Mayfield copy, bibliophile noted for his extraordinary collection of Swinburne. His signature on ffep dated 1944; his inked numbers (referring to text pages) and notes on rear endpapers; envelope mounted on rfep, from editor Ratchford to Mayfield containing TLS from Ratchford, January 25, 1945 responding to Mayfield's letter in which she mentions Pforzheimer, publication of a separate pamphlet on Wise-Forman documents, which Bruce Rogers will design. In a separate envelope, a 4pp publisher's brochure about Letters book, and correspondence regarding the passing of Fannie Ratchford.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 454 pages. 8.50x5.43x0.38 inches. In Stock.

First Edition. First edition. Very good, lacking dustjacket.

First Edition. A Further Inquiry into the Guilt of Certain Nineteenth-Century Forgers. Pp. [ii]+xiv+591+xvii (index, last type note), frontispiece portrait plus 23 plates, appendices, index; med. 8vo; fs22 black cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind, the fs24 cloth a trifle rubbed, corners of boards lightly bruised; top edges red, others uncut; Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1944. First edition. *From the library of Australian publisher, John Gartner, with his bookplate on upper pastedown; subsequently from the collection of Australian book collector, Dr. John Chapman, with his small bookplate on upper free endpaper. fs22 The author was Librarian of the Rare Books Collections of the University of Texas. 'In her Introduction [pp. 3-114] Miss Ratchford arraigns as fellow conspirators in the forgeries Harry Buxton Forman, Sir Edmund Gosse and Herbert Gorfin' [fs24 Carter (Nineteenth Century Pamphlets), item 71fs22 ].fs24.…