Simon Harmon Vedder (34 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No edition/printing/date stated. Part of the For Boys and Girls series printed for the publisher in Great Britain by Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd. A VG 8vo hardcover in NO dust jacket (if issued). Blue cloth with black lettering and decoration, and on the upper board, a pasted color illustration. Boards have lightly rubbed corners and edges, the spine is sunned, and the cover illustration has some very light rubbing. The ffep has a penciled Christmas 1926 non-author gift inscription and penned collector notes (from 1980) by a prior owner. Includes a frontispiece and seven additional color illustrations, which along with the title/publication page, are on paper with considerably less age-tanning than the text pages. Remaining contents, 196 pp. + prefatory materials, are somewhat age tanned and have some light foxing, but are otherwise mark free, fully legible, and securely bound. The pages' edges have some dust staining and the bottom edge has a small reddish stain. NOT an ex-library copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. Vedder, Simon Harmon (illustrator). 167 pages. 10.00x8.00x0.38 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. PUBLISHER: T.C. & E.C. JACK * YEAR: NOT DATED * ISBN/SBN: UNKNOWN * No OF PAGES: 196 * CONDITION: USED - GOOD * OTHER: THE COVER HAS SOME RUBBING AND BUMPING TO THE EDGES AND CORNERS, THE SPINE IS A LITTLE DISCOLOURED. THE PAGES ARE GENERALLY CLEAN AND CREASE FREE, IF A LITTLE TANNED AND WITH SOME LIGHT FOXING TOWARD'S THE FRONT. THE BINDING IS REASONABLY FIRM, THE SPINE IS A LITTLE COCKED. THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A HARD TO FIND EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. NAP. 389 pp., 12 color plates, oversize (4to) brown decorated cloth with front label paste-down. Tight, complete copy with owner's name, clean contents. Cloth is lightly worn at tips. Only serious flaw is fading to rear cloth. Good overall. Circa 1900.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Simon Harmon Vedder, et al. (illustrator). Reprint. 1. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, blind-stamped decoration on spine and cover, color pastedown on cover. 12mo. 91 pp. Illustrated with eight full-page color reproductions of paintings by various artists including Simon Harmon Vedder. Tales of Sir Walter Scott ("The Wizard of the North") adopted for younger readers This is one of the more difficult titles in the Red Cap Series to locate. Ex-Library with the usual markings. Former owner's bookplate on fep, boards rubbed and bumped, edges frayed, appears unread, text block clean and tight. VERY GOOD. . Color Illustrations. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 91 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. First US Edition. Retelling of Walter Scott's classic tales. Sixteen very nicely executed but sometimes murkily reproduced guarded plates by Vedder. Very attractive decorated boards. TEG. Some light soiling to boards, wear to spine extremities. 413 pp.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Simon Harmon Vedder (illustrator). 196pp Blue cloth covered boards with dark blue lettering. Border design on face surrounding mounted colour illustration of Knight and dog on hill-top lookout (also facing p94). Blue lettering on spine. Some minor shelf wear to top and tail of spine and corners. Slight sun fade to spine. Inside pages in very good condition. Tightly bound. Seven attractive colour plates plus frontispiece. Undated but vintage edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Simon Harmon Vedder (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt lettering, and art nouveau thistle design in green and orange. Minor edgewear and lightly bumped spine ends. Binding sound, text clean. Interior lightly toned. Color plates with tissue guards. Gift inscription to ffep. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 413 pages.

4to(25.8x18.8) 1st edition 64pp with tipped-in water colour illus. Mauve paper covered boards with gilt lettering and Vedder water colour design-minimal wear-v.good++.Neat inscr to fep with 1917 date & reference to a hope for peace , very light age discolouring else near fine. (380g).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Illustrated by Simon Harmon Vedder (illustrator). Hbk with d/w; book has been protected by d/w, so is in nice condition, with colour pasted on illustration to front cover; 8" x 6"; contents nice & clean; a little light foxing; 8 full page colour illustrations which are still nice and bright; the dustwrapper has been preserved by being mounted onto some backing paper. Thus almost complete, but a bit grubby; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Rebound in 3/4 blue leather over blue cloth boards. 5 compartments. Gilt lettering and tooling to spine. Top edge gilt. Good binding and cover. Light shelf wear. Interior is clean and unmarked. Original cover and pine cloth bound on pages in rear of book.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. First Edition. Undated. 6 x 8.75in. xxi. 388pp. + 12 color plates. Publisher's cloth boards with gilt titling and decoration. NEAR FINE in Very Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows a hint of shelf rubbing along the edges, else Fine/As New having been exceptionally well preserved. The dust jacket shows marginal shelf rubbing along the edges, several very short closed tears and hints of chipping, spine lightly tanned, otherwise remains bright and distinct. As pictured.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Simon Harmon Vedder (illustrator). Dark burgundy decorated cloth. All edges gold. Bw frontis & other plates. Presentation plate on front pastedown hand dated 1896. Very clean tight text with slight spotting to endpapers. Spine is dull with some wear to top. Some cover wear and fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Way & Williams, 1897; stated Third Edition, August 1897, no later printings indicated; [ix], 351pp. + map frontispiece and 10 b&w illustrated plates. Black cloth binding with Art Noveau-inspired red and yellow lettering and sabretooth tiger design by the great Will Bradley, gilt top edge. Binding is firm and fully intact; moderate amount of wear to edges of boards, a few small pen-head indentations in spine; titling/design remains bright and bold. A very presentable copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Simon Harmon Vedder (illustrator). A hardback book with blue pictorial boards and in near good condition. Front boards have a picture of a Knight in armour on a horse. Wear to the edges of the book in places. The Children's Scott, illustrated by Simon Harmon Vedder.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Simon Harmon Vedder, et al. (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Later Printing. Original publisher's antique red cloth with gilt titles and gilt-ruled decorations on cover, including border comprised of crenellated gothic tower with architectural details and seven shield medallions, framing titles and central medallion; gilt lettering and medallion on spine, t.e.g. nd (cir. 1927). Illustrated with full-page color reproductions of twelve original drawings by Simon Harmon Vedder. Preface by the Hon. Mrs. Maxwell Scott of Abbotsford. "The Talisman" takes place at the end of the Third Crusade, mostly in the camp of the Crusaders in Palestine. Scheming and partisan politics, as well as the illness of King Richard the Lionheart, are placing the Crusade in danger. The main characters are the Scottish knight Kenneth, a fictional version of David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, who returned from the third Crusade in 1190; Richard the Lionheart; Saladin; and Edith Plantagenet, a relative of Richard. It was first published in 1825 as the second of his "Tales of the Crusaders," the first being "The Betrothed." . Former owner's somewhat sad and enigmatic inscription in an elegant hand on ffep ("To Margaret Scott | from Margaret Scott | 17 July 1927"), otherwise unmarked; head of spine very lightly pulled, corners lightly bumped, front endpaper starting to split, else fine. VERY GOOD. Color Illustrations. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxii, 389 pp.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good_. No Jacket. Simon Harmon Vedder (illustrator). First Edition. Near-vg. 344pp + 16pp publisher's list at back plus 2 more pp at front. 7.9 inches. No dw. Dark green cloth, gilt titles and faded roundel on spine, gilt titles and colour flag on front. Mainly vg, rubbed folds and edges. Untrimmed edges. Internally mainly vg, neat owners' names on endpapers. Illustrated with b/w plates, by Simon Harmon Vedder, frontispiece and one other, no tissue guard, two with tissue guard, one of these loose. Historical romance, of the 17th century Civil War. (British) Scarce. Weight 600g before packaging; overseas postage would likely require addition. (Literature, Seventeenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Illustrated) 480g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. SIMON HARMON VEDDER (illustrator). 1st Edition. The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub. Signed by Straub on tipped in cut signature on half title page. Signature only. Deluxe first edition published in 1984 by Donald M. Grant. Books and slipcase in fine condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Vedder, Simon Harmon (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st thus. Octavo. xxi, 389pp. Illustrated with 12 colour plates. No date, circa 1900. Publisher's maroon cloth with attractive gilt decoration. T.E.G. Spine slightly faded, with minor rubbing/bumping to extremities. Otherwise generally clean and bright. A 'Very Good+' copy. Additional shipping required for overseas orders.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. Vedder, Simon Harmon (illustrator). illustrated edition. 312 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Simon Harmon Vedder (illustrator). A brightly illustrated copy of this anti-slavery novel from American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Later edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seven colour plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A Kentucky farmer, Arthur Shelby faces the loss of his farm due to debts. Even though he and his wife Emily Shelby believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them - Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby's maid Eliza. This novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War". Written by Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe, an American author and abolitionist. Illustrated by Simon Harmon Vedder, an American painter and illustrator. In the original pictorial blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good. book.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days 172.

/Simon Harmon Vedder, illustrator. (illustrator). CONDITION: Very Good (Red Cap Tales) Very Good Plus (Red Cap Adventures); neither volume has a name or any other marks, gilt top edge, gilt and top board decorations very bright, both volumes have lightly bumped and worn extremities, the first volume being slightly more rubbed and having the front hinge paper starting. Both are very clean internally; the second appears not to have been read. Juvenile hardback. These books came to us together and we are selling these as a set of two volumes. "Stolen from the treasure chest of the Wizard of the North, which theft is humbly acknowledged by S. R. Crockett." A two volume set of Scott's tales, rewritten, with many bright colour plates. "Written for the sake of "four children who would not read Scott" with interludes, in which children in his other books, for instance Sir Toady Lyon, listen to Scott's tales and comment on them quite bluntly. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /Simon Harmon Vedder, illustrator.

Cloth. Condition: Good Only. Simon Harmon Vedder (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce first UK edition of this illustrated prehistoric fiction novel by Stanley Waterloo. The first UK edition. First published in the U.S the same year by Way and Williams.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece, nine monochrome plates and a folding map. Collated complete.This work was written by American newspaper owner, editor and author Stanley Waterloo. This novel tells the story of Ab, a stone age boy, as he grows into manhood and navigates the dangers of the prehistoric era.In the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally generally smart with a lean, marks to the boards, slight cockling to the head of the rear board, a two inch closed tear to the head of the front joint with spine lifting slightly, rubbing and bumping to the extremities with small closed tears to the head and tail of the spine. Offsetting to the endpapers with scattered spotting. Internally, frontispiece tender with the odd plate disbound but present with signs of strain in places. Pages lightly age toned with the odd minor spot, heavier to the front and rear. Good Only. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Simon Harmon Vedder (illustrator). 3rd Edition. Black cloth with lettering in strong yellow and deep reddish orange on front and back covers within a deep reddish orange rule frame and tiger head in strong yellow designed by Will Bradley. Bookplate of Tod Lunsford (secretary of Way & Williams) designed by Frank Hazenplug on front endpage. 10 illustrations throughout by Simon Harmon Vedder. Some water damage to cover edges otherwise a very good, tight, clean copy. Kraus 44. 351 pgs.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Hal Hurst; Simon Harmon Vedder (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce first retitled edition of G. A. Henty's thrilling work of historical fiction, in a charming pictorial cloth binding. The very scarce first retitled edition of 'Cuthbert Hartington: A Tale of Two Sieges of Paris'. Newbolt, 86.1. This book was initially published as 'A Woman of the Commune' in 1895, with the copy present here being the very scarce first retitled edition. In a blue variant binding. The binding of this retitled edition is far more decorative than that of the 1895 edition.Illustrated with six plates by Hal Hurst and Simon Harmon Vedder. Collated, complete.A thrilling historical adventure set between two historical sieges of Paris.Lacking the publisher's catalogue to the rear. Former owner's inscription, dated Easter 1911, to front free endpaper. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. Bumping to back strip heads and tails, with boards bright. Front hinge strained but firmly held. Inscriptions to front free endpapers, which is detached to head. Internally, binding lightly strained. Pages age toned due to paper type, with light spotting and handling marks, and instances of foxing. Very Good. book.