Sir Walter Scott Edited William (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light blue cloth cover has blind emboss on face and black print on spine. Spine is worn, chipped and has minor tearing along the back edge. The cover has edge wear, somewhat soiled and bumped tips. Previous owner's name written on front flysheet, the pages are clean, slightly discolored due to age, have minor notation marks, and somewhat firmly bound. The rear flysheet has some writing and has been folded into a geometric shape. This book is in good condition.

1st printing of 1st UK edition. Gell was Scott's traveling companion during his trip to Italy in 1831 & this edition is a reprint of the original Canadian 1952 edition which is the only complete edition of the Reminiscences. Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

Not stated, presumed 1st edition. Epic poem complete in this double-issue of antiquarian literary quarterly. Solid binding, clean text, light wear. Rare item. 5 x 6-3/4, 273 pp, index, b/w illus, frontispiece map. Good w owner signature. light wear. Paperback beige decorarive wraps, green cloth spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. ILLUSTRATED (illustrator). BLACK COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER OWNERS NAME IN FRONT, 5 LINES PENCIL NOTES INSIDE BACK COVER. A FEW PENCIL NOTES THROUGHOUT, PAGE 39 HAS A 3" RIP. VERY NICE ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. Sir Walter Scott, (15 August 1771 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley, Old Mortality, The Heart of Mid-Lothian and The Bride of Lammermoor, and the narrative poems The Lady of the Lake and Marmion. He had a major impact on European and American literature. The Lady of the Lake is a narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1810. Set in the Trossachs region of Scotland, it is composed of six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single day. There are voluminous antiquarian notes. The poem has three main plots: the contest among three men, Roderick Dhu, James Fitz-James, and Malcolm Graeme, to win the love of Ellen Douglas; the feud and reconciliation of King James V of Scotland and James Douglas; and a war between the Lowland Scots. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. very nice book VG Map on last page illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Green boards with gilt titling. Red page edges. Unmarked but for previous owners initials to fep. Good+ condition. Frontis. Illustrated 273 numbered pages. plus advert. Lovely Sir Walter Scott volume. Tight and desirable copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. 620 pages. No dustjacket. Dark red background hardback binding with decorative gilt-colour and black with impressed intricate decoration to front board, similar to spine which is browned - with moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. No date but looks late Victorian date. All page edges gilt. Last few pages of catalogue are coming loose o/w pages clean and tidy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Illustrated By Thomas Seccombe (illustrator). The Grosvenor Poets Series. 620 pages. B&W full-page plates. No dustjacket. No date but looks late 19th century. Clean but age-dulled pale green hardback binding, spine a little darkened. Some wear with light fraying to spine-ends and boards' corners. Gilt-coloured decoration and lettering to spine and front board (three flowers to bottom left corner and interlace at top of front board). All page-edges gilt. Light spotting and browning to early and late pages o/w pages very clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Attractive black & white frontis with tissue guard. Undated. Original coarse grain cloth with gilt titles & decorations on spine. Top edge gilt. Spine a little browned with age.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1886 Good to Very Good Dark Green cloth boards Hardcover with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Book has glassine cover for protection. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. G, no DJ. Light to moderate signs of wear to exterior, binding solid and straight. Interior has water stains on top of pages, else clean and unmarked. Clearly read, but a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 153 Pp. Green Cloth Lettered And Illustrated In Black, The 1898 Printing Of The Harper & Brothers Textbook, But This Is The American Book Company File Copy, White Printed Label "Marked Copy / For Editors' Use Only" On Front Cover, Red Label With Handwritten "Dropped 12-7-43" Above, "Received Dec 2 1899 American Book Company Library" Stamped On Front Endpaper, New American Book Company Title Page Tipped In With Date Feb 12, 1900 Handwritten Above The Publisher's Name, New American Book Company Copyright Page From The First Printing Tipped On Verso With Handwrittenm Feb 12, 1900 Date, Later Copyright Page From American Book Company, 1915, Coe W. P. 11 Tipped Over That. Light Wear At Corners, No Fraying, All Lettering And Design Strong.

Hardback, cloth. Condition: Good-. No Jacket. Thomas Secombe (illustrator). The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., Edited, with a Critical Memoir, by William Michael Rossetti, Illustrated by Thomas Secombe. Hardback, undated but circa 1877 and contains gift inscription dated 1878, published by E. Moxon, Son, & Company, London, xx + 620 pages. Octavo/8vo, measures around 4 7/8" by 7 1/4" by 1 3/8". Blue cloth binding, blind-stamped with black and gold stamping to front board and spine. A little marking and scuffing to binding but quite clean for age and colouring still quite vivid. Signs of wear, rubbing at edges and on hinges. Slightly bumped corners. Slackness to binding with inner hinges cracked and netting exposed but textblock firm, aside from the front free endpaper which is partially detached at the base and the little guard paper placed between frontispiece and pre-title page illustration which is fully detached. Page edges gilded, with scuffing and a little marking. Some foxing to preliminary and hindmost pages, gif inscription on half-title page. The odd bit of marking to page surfaces and occasional foxing but otherwise clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information. xx + 620 pp. Circa 1877. n.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good +. With the Explanatory Prefaces, Introductions and Dedications by Rossetti. Beautiful Crocodile Binding with Blue WS Monogram on front and bright gilt lettering to spine. All Page edges bright gilt. Marbled endpapers with bright gilt decoration of the folded over cover. Frontis is an engraving of Scott protected by its Tissue Guard. 620 Pages. Sewn in bookmark. Very attractive volume in lovely condition. Undated. Previous owner's name on endpaper dated 1905. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Full leather. Condition: Very good. Early edition of The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, edited by William Michael Rossetti. (illustrator). Early Edition. Octavo, xx, 620pp. Full green morocco, double gilt ruled border and S. Michael's school emblem in gilt on covers. Title in gilt on spine, five raised bands, elaborate gilt decorations. Marbled edges, matching marbled endpapers. In a prize binding by Bickers & Son in London. Solid text block, faint foxing throughout, part of morocco label missing from spine. Frontispiece portrait and decorative title page at front of volume. A very good example of a renowned poet's works.

Hardcover. Second edition. This is a lovely presentation copy of the second edition of this Christmas anthology, edited by Robert Frost's eldest daughter, featuring several noteworthy signatures, inscriptions, and presentations. This copy offers a compelling and ostensibly unique convocation of associations - including the poet Robert Frost, his daughter Lesley Frost, (in)famous Frost collector Earl J. Bernheimer, and newspaper columnist and syndicator George Matthew Adams. A two-page facsimile manuscript of Robert Frost's poem "Good Relief" fills two pages preceding the title page. Below his facsimile signature, in six lines in black ink, Frost signed and wrote "Robert Frost - | second | signature | for | Earl J. Bernheimer | April 5 1936". The Editor, Leslie Frost, signed "Lesley Frost" below her printed name on the title page. She further signed and inscribed the front free endpaper recto in five lines (three at the upper center, two at the lower left): "For | George Matthew Adams | from | Lesley Frost | N.Y.C. | June 1951". Already unique by inscriptions and association, this copy is also noteworthy for condition, approaching fine in a very good plus dust jacket. It is an attractive little book, bound in blue cloth with elaborate gilt print and illustration on the spine, the contents bound with red and yellow head and tail bands and yellow-stained top edges. The dust jacket is striking, printed in green, red, and black on a silver background, the holly leaves and banners design of the binding spine repeated in color on both the jacket spine and front face edges, with further illustrations on both faces. This copy's blue cloth binding is square, clean, bright, tight, and sharp-cornered, with only trivial hints of shelf wear to extremities. The contents are clean and bright, with no spotting, no soiling, no appreciable toning, and retaining a crisp feel. The dust jacket is bright, unclipped, and nearly complete, with only fractional loss at the spine head, flap fold corners, and the bottom edge of the front face. Light soiling to the rear face and minor scuffs, primarily to the extremities, joints, and flap folds, do not significantly mar the book's excellent presentation. The book is housed in a marbled-paper-lined black cloth chemise nested within a black cloth slipcase with three, gilt-printed, dark red leather spine labels. The slipcase is intact, though worn with some loss to the perimeter of the labels. The circa 1929 facsimile manuscript of Frost's poem "Good Relief" herein is the first published appearance of this poem, which was never included by Robert Frost in one of his collections. "The poem was begun in Beaconsfield, England, in 1912." It was first printed in the first, 1929 edition of Come Christmas, and printed again here in the 1935 second edition.The recipient for whom Frost inscribed this copy was one of the twentieth century's first significant Frost collectors. A wealthy, Beverly Hills bibliophile, Earl J. Bernheimer began collecting Frost's books and manuscripts in 1936 - the same year Frost inscribed this copy of Come Christmas to him. Capitalizing on Frost's financial anxieties, Bernheimer eventually acquired from Frost a magnificent trove of Frostiana, with Frost entertaining the hope and understanding that "Bernheimer would one day donate everything to a single university library." Instead, owing in part to a rancorous and expensive divorce and to Frost's manifest resentment Bernheimer sold off his collection in a famous 1950 New York auction.The editor, Lesley Frost Ballantine or Lesley Frost as she always liked to be known (1899-1983) was the second child of Robert and Elinor Frost. She spent her early childhood on the Derry, New Hampshire farm that informed her father's developing poetic voice and where he drafted many of his early poems. It was during her first marriage and after the birth of her first daughter, Elinor (named after her mother and to whom this book is dedicated) that Leslie edited this collection of "Christmas Poetry, Song, Drama and Prose". This 1935 second edition was issued when Lesley was divorced and teaching. She was an author and worked in various fields, but her most well-known work was as custodian of her father's legacy. She eventually served as the first chair of the Robert Frost Foundation, oversaw restoration of the Frost farm in Derry, and gained "an international reputation for her correspondence with her father's friends and for her articles and lectures on his work."George Matthew Adams (1878-1962), to whom Lesley's inscription is addressed, was a newspaper columnist and founder of the George Matthew Adams News Service, which syndicated columns and comic strips to more than one hundred newspapers all over the world over the course of half a century.References: Crane E17; Parini, Robert Frost: A Life; Tuten and Zubizarreta; University of New Hampshire; University of Rochester, ANB.