Sharp William Pseudonym Fiona Macleod (18 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 450 printed on hand-made Van Gelder paper with deckle-edges (limitation stated upon concluding page). xxxii, 77 pages. H 21cm x L 13.25cm. Bound in cream paper wraps over thin but fairly rigid cardstock with lettering and decoration to the spine and front wrap. Wraps are toned with moderate soiling with shallow loss at spine ends; slight bumping and nicks at corners. Underlying the cream wraps is peeled spine paper which, in turn, exposes quires. Binding remains fairly firm but with several stress points evident at quires. Cream silk page-marker sewn into binding but with some associated slender discoloration occurring to spine margins of pages 24-25; past owner's ink signature discreetly written at top of front flyleaf verso hidden underneath wrapper flap. Still a good copy of an uncommon title by the collectible Mosher Press. Foreword, Note, and three-scene play by Scottish poet, playwright, and literary biographer William Sharp (1855-1905) writing under the pseudonym of Fiona MacLeod.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover - clean, no marks, clean inside, clean dj -from a private collection.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: wraps. First Edition, First Printing. This is a near fine stapled 21 page paperback in printed gray wraps.

Paperback. Condition: Fair with no dust jacket. First Edition. A Celtic Twilight heroic fantasy story by Fiona Macleod, the pseudonym for William Sharp. Copy #28/100 numbered copies printed on Japan vellum. Pictorial wrappers about 4" x 7" , string-tied, 103+ pages last numbered page is 102. Stiff card wraps. Oswald Train's bookplate. Fair with corner creasing and light staining to the oversize cover, missing most of the spine, and lacking the glassine Dust Wrapper and the Slipcase. clphE.…

magazine. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Very good, pages approximately 9-1/2 x 6-1/2"; many b/w illustrations; 12527; 12 pages; Unbound pages from journal, NOT A BOOK but a vintage piece.

Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First separate edition. Part of the "H. P. Lovecraft's Favorite Horror Stories" series. This story was adapted for an episode of the Night Gallery television series. A fine copy. (#161096).

Condition: Good. Good condition. Reprint. Edgeworn and soiled. Gifter's inscription on front endpage. (literature, folklore, anthology, william sharp).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in illustrated gray stiff paper covers. A fine copy. Book.

Condition: Gut. Erste deutsche Ausgabe. XVI, 311 SS., 2 Bll. Hübscher Jugendstil-Buchschmuck. - Einband etwas berieben und bestoßen, Rücken geblichen. Vortitel mit altem Besitzvermerk und mehrzeiliger privater Widmung (beides Bleistift). Papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. Sonst sauber und gut erhalten. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 8°, Illustriertes Original-Leinen. Farbiger Kopfschnitt, sonst unbeschnitten. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Edition De Luxe. 4to, blue cloth, some sewing loosened to book block, untrimmed, partially unopened, spine label chipped. With voluminous notes and a 40 page Introductory Essay on the Sonnet by William Sharp. This is actually the second edition, preceded by an octavo volume in the Canterbury Poets series. This has a revised preface, revised Notes, and 5 more sonnets than the 1st ed. [ Colbeck, p.739].…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Second Mosher edition. Narrow octavo with yapped wrappers. Pictorial cream card covers. Foxing to the front cover, offsetting from binder's glue, very good. Small bookplate of Sara Bard Field and Charles Erskine Scott Wood tipped in. Sara Bard Field was an American poet who worked on women's suffrage campaigns, and her husband, Wood, was an author and civil liberties advocate. "Old World Series" One of 925 copies on Van Gelder paper.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. THE BOARDS ARE COVERED IN A DEEP BLUE COLORED CLOTH. TTHE TITLES ON THE FRONT COVER AND SPINE AND THE TOPS OF THE PAGES ARE IN GILT COLOR. THERE ARE 20 PAGES OF ADVERTISEMENTS FOR RICK GEDDES AND COLLEAGUES PUBLICATIONS. THIS BOOK IS A CELTIC LIBRARY EDITION. THERE IS A PREVIOUS OWNERS SIGNATURE ON THE BACK OF THE FIRST FREE END PAGE. THERE IS A PREVIOUS OWNER'S BOOK PLATE ON THE INNER SIDE OF THE FRONT COVER. T HE BOOK IS IN FINE CONDITION THAT IS PROTECTED IN A MYLAR WRAPPER. THERE IS A 20 PAGE PROLOGUE PRESUMABLY BY THE AUTHOR. THE PROLOGUE IS FOLLOWED BY A SECTION THAT IS TITLED "L'EGENDARY MORALITIES THAT CONTAINS SIX CELTIC TALES. THE REMAINDER OF THE BOOK CONTAINS SEVEN OTHER CELTIC LEGENDARY TALES. ONLY THREE COPIES ARE FOUND ON ABE BOOKS THAT ARE OFFERED BY UK BOOKSELLERS. KRAMER # 75.…

Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-332 [333: colophon] [334-336: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], title page printed in orange and black, original decorated green cloth, front panel stamped in brown, spine panel stamped in brown (or gold), fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition, later binding ("Stone/Chicago" at base of spine panel). "Folklore and pseudo-folklore of the Hebrides turned into stories, often expressed in Macleod's swollen, neo-Ossianic style." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1089. "Most of the FM stories, novels and poems were concentrated into four years (1893-6), produced almost with the fervour of religious experience. All have a dreamlike spiritual quality, capturing the folk-memory of Celtic myth and legend. Their popularity contributed to the Celtic revival of the 1890s. The best short fiction and sketches appeared as THE SIN-EATER AND OTHER TALES (1895) and THE WASHER OF THE FORD . (1896), which are mostly stories of spiritual transformation and second sight. In both books the title story features mythic characters whose actions consume or purify the sins of others." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 608. See Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-118. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 946. Bleiler (1978), p. 131. Reginald 09510. Kramer 75 (not noting this binding). The brown (or perhaps gold) lettering on spine panel very dull, a very good copy. (#118704). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good overall. Second edition. A Scottish version of an ancient Gaelic mythological tale, bound in "best French levant - crushed" by G.P. Putnam Sons / The Knickerbocker Press. "Old World Series." One of 925 copies on Van Gelder paper. OCLC: 1080800108 citing 3 copies at the Univ. of Alberta and Univ. of Windsor. 12mo, xii, [1]102pp, [2], title page printed in red and black, decorative chapter headers & footers, top edge gilt, marbled cloth endpapers, silk bookmark. Bound in full blue morocco, 5 raised bands at spine with title in gilt. Front hinge starting, uncut.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. 16mo. Green ribbed cloth, black spine title. Modest edgewear, a very good copy with small bookstore sticker on front pastedown. An attractive copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. 24mo, lxxxi, 324, iv pages, blue cloth, paper label on spine, foxing, untrimmed. Presentation inscription from Sharp to W. [?} A. Turner Esq, dated "January/86". That is at least 16 days earlier than the earliest copy cited by Colbeck's catalogue of his Victoriana, p. 739. Includes the proposed first book appearance of Oscar Wilde's sonnet, "On the Sale of Keats' Love-letters" [ not in Mason]. Contains 265 sonnets, plus a long introduction and Notes by Sharp. Issued in the Canterbury Poets series. Rare thus.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. 12mo. xiv, 333pp. Yellow pictorial wrappers. Lacking spine, which has been expertly rebacked with unprinted matching paper, front and rear covers have moderate wear and thin chipping to extremities, a good to very good copy. William Sharp, born in Paisley, Scotland in 1855, "wrote tales of magic, mystery, and peasant life in the Celtic Twilight mode using a female alias. " [The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, p. 514]; he also published books under his own name. Inscribed by Fiona MacLeod on the front flyleaf: "To Kenneth Macleod Black, with the friendly regard of Fiona MacLeod". Issued in the series "Stone's Paper Library". …

This item is from the autograph album of the author George Meredith's daughter Marie Eveleen (Mariette; 1871-1933), wife of Henry Parkman Sturgis (1847-1929), American-born banker and Liberal politician. It does not however appear to be addressed to Meredith, but rather to the author William Sharp ('Fiona Macleod'). See the several references to Bourget in the first volume of W. F. Halloran's edition of Sharp's letters. 1p, 16mo. Laid down on part of gilt-edged leaf from Mrs Sturgis's album. In good condition, folded once for postage. Nine neatly-written lines, with Bourget's distinctive signature. Begins: 'Mille remerciements, cher poète, pour le morceau du Time, et l'excellente traduction que vous avez faite du Soir d'été.' His 'beaux vers' have made Bourget love his own. He concludes with new year greetings: 'Puis que c'est l'habitude Française, je profite de ce premier janvier pour vous souhaiter ainsi qu'a Mrs Sharp, une heureuse année - et me dire une fois de plus votre ami bien devoué / Paul Bourget / 13 Janv. 86'. See Image.…