Rev Alexander Wallace (4 results)

Condition: Fair. 1876. No Edition Stated. 177 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with black lettering. B&W frontispiece. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Minor sunning to spine and board edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Printing - First Thus. 325 pp. Blue pictorial cloth decorated in gilt and black on the front panel and spine; bevelled edges. Edge and corner wear with some rubbing on the front panel; presentation plate on the front pastedown; some foxing on the endpapers; hinges tight; gutters intact. Illustrated with line drawings. This anthology contains: Horace Hazelwood or Little Things by Robert Hope Moncrieff; Working for God by Rev. Frederick Whitfield; God Keep My Child - verse by Paul Gerok; Sketches in India: Natives Nurses and Ayahs - Anonymous; Dioramic Sketches: The Chinese Missionary - Picture First; The Whispering Shell - verse - Anonymous; The Story of a Bible - Anonymous; An Insect Which Saved the Life of a French Naturalist by Adam White; Come Home - verse by Bessie; The Thorn in the Foot by H.P.M; Little Travellers - Anonymous; The Story of a Drop of Water - Anonymous; The Lost Tool - Anonymous; The Child Known by His Doings by Rev. H. T. Howat; Ragged School Reminiscences - Anonymous; Circumspice - verse - Anonymous; Dioramic Sketches: The Chinese Missionary - Picture Second; The Two Birthdays - Anonymous; Sunbeams - verse - Anonymous; The Beginning of Evil - Anonymous; Sketches in India: Native Girls' School - Anonymous; Honesty - Anonymous; An Egyptian Desert Snail in the British Museum by Adam White; A Birthday Letter - Anonymous; The Childhood of Jesus - verse - Anonymous; The Violet - Anonymous; Summer Flowers - Anonymous; The Way to Be Saved by Rev. Thomas Alexander; Kiss and Be Friends by Hetty Bowman; The Swallow - verse - Anonymous; Dioramic Sketches: The Chinese Missionary - Picture Third; Fables from the Farmyard by Mona B. Bickerstaffe; Little Servants - Anonymous; The Bible - Anonymous; The Stray Lamb - Anonymous; Rock Us in Thy Cradle - verse - Anonymous; The Christian Seaman - Anonymous; Little Peacemakers - Anonymous; Sketches of Swiss Scenery by Rev. J. Thomson; The Sunday Theatre - Anonymous; The Shepherd and His Flock - verse - Anonymous; The Two Cousins - Anonymous; Eugene the Little Rag Boy - Anonymous; The Repentant Child by Rev. J. A. Wallace; The Way to Paradise - verse - Anonymous; Herbert Kean by Josephine Frances; A Pure Heart - verse - Anonymous; and Autumn - Anonymous. Size: 12mo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st or 2nd edition ( BL single copy is 1878 ). Small 8vo. 128pp. Burgundy publisher's cloth with black and gilt floral design and raised lettering on cover, gilt butterfly and lettering on spine, small attractive bookseller's ticket inside cover, prize label for 1887 inside front cover, floral eps. Covers : top/bottom spine + corners slightly rubbed, slight lean else very clean & bright. Contents : faint foxing to outside edges of pages else very clean & tyight. Clean tight attractive copy. VG+.

64; 116; 16; 80; 44 pp. Frontispiece to Stirling. 6" x 4" A sammelband volume of 5 uncommon "memoir" type publications; we note "Young Gambler" not found on OCLC, with the Roberts title only reported in 2 cc. Modest binding wear. Bookplate. A VG - VG+ copy. Period green half-sheep binding with green cloth boards. Green eps Second Edition; Fourteenth Thousand; 1st edition; 1st edition; 1st edition.