Stevenson Robert Louis Contributors (5 results)

Condition: Good. a new edition. Cloth, G. xxiv+309pp+32pp publishers catalogue, b/w frontis, 184 b/w illustrations, cloth rather rubbed, corners bumped, split to the cloth along the rear hinge repaired a little crudely, sporadic foxing to the pages. A good reading copy. Interesting account from some 22 emminent late Victorian authors of the reasons & experiences thay had in writing & getting published their first books. 950 grams.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A scarce Victorian fundraising annual, bound in the original decorative cream pictorial boards, elaborately blind- and gilt-tooled with a bordered floral design and central armorial device to front and rear panels. Spine gilt-lettered "THE NEW AMPHION" within ruled and floral panels, with original woven gilt silk ties (as issued, in the manner of a fancy-fair souvenir binding). Condition is fair to good, consistent with age: Boards show overall soiling and toning, with a faint spotting/foxing mark to the front panel Spine head and tail are chipped and frayed, with some loss of the covering material at the crown Cracking is visible along both the front and rear hinges/joints, with the front board showing separation at the top edge Corners are bumped and softened The silk ties are present but frayed and fraying at the tips A bookplate ("Ex Libris Albert M. Cohn," with motto "Lux Dei Tibi Salus") has been affixed to the front pastedown Pencilled numerals/annotations to the front free endpaper (possibly a former bookseller's price code) Internally, pages are lightly toned, in keeping with the era; contains printed text and at least one pencil-style illustration (a winged figure) reproduced in the text No loose pages observed in the photos, and the binding appears structurally intact despite the joint cracking Notable for its literary content, this fundraising volume includes contributions by Robert Louis Stevenson among other Victorian-era writers, adding interest for collectors of Stevenson association items and Scottish university ephemera.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. British Weekly Extras No.1. Publisher's red cloth with spine and cover stamped in black. Originally printed in a series of 12 articles in The British Weekly; now reprinted and bound in hardback. Haggard provides contribution VII. Scott 95: Whatmore M15. London: Hodder & Stoughton (1897), 123 pages. Fine with somewhat darkened spine, bookseller pencils and small bookstore sticker on rear paste down. Cracked book block at Haggard page. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 68 pp. NO number line or printing indicated, but ' 1947, 1949 ' cited on CP: presumed First Edition, First Printing; ' J195195 ' printed at lower left inside front cover [which also appears on later editions with later printing identifications] and ' 463: 195 [underlined]' at top right front cover corner; endpapers illustrated with multifarious animals. NO dust jacket. 1" piece of cellophane surface missing in gutter front cover at 3 3/8" down from top right spine edge, with 1/8" hole at middle of it (NO impact on binding (7 sites of sewn threads along inside front cover hinge); nugatory cellophane 1" tear on rear cover gutter at 3" down from top left spine corner (NOW reglued so as to be virtually undetectable; small rubbing wear at cover and spine corners; text lightly age-toned around perimeters and on text block edges: describes worse than it is, but there you have it: Strong binding (stretched only a bit at first few pages front and back, else tight); corners still sharp (NO bumps or curls); NO previous owner names; NOT ex-Library. Clean text. Solid copy. Arguably, Holiday or Birthday Gift-Giving Quality, especially, given that the book is more than 60 years-old or near 75 years-old. The way to read Classic Children's Poetry from many well-known Children's Poets. Gertrude Elliott (illustrator).…

Two volume set featuring full twelve month run for 1880 of The Atlantic Monthly. Each hardcover, H 24.5cm x L 16.25cm, uniformly bound in half-leather bindings - black leather spines and black cloth boards with black leather corners; both volumes with bindery tickets "Keim, Roesli & Co., | Book Binders | and | Blank Book Manf. | 314 Olive St., St. Louis." on front pastedown of XLV and on rear pastedown of XLVI. Bindings are likely quite contemporary to the volumes as Keim, Roesli & Company is listed in an 1879 St. Louis city directory. Spines decorated with four slightly raised bands and gilt stamping with latter having some flaking loss but otherwise still bright; both volumes have slender shallow leather loss at both their lower and upper front and rear joints but bindings remain firm. Edges toned with a few small stains; past owner's name in pencil at top of each volumes' page 1; mild toning and occasional light foxing to interior leaves. VOLUME XLV JAN.-JUNE 1880: i-iv, 1-860 pages; wide swath of strong surface abrasion to front board with slender area of similar abrasion at fore-edge area of rear board; cloth loss at board edges too with rear board's bottom leather corner worn; pages 149-182 have shallow dings/short tears at their bottom margins. VOLUME XLVI JULY-DEC. 1880: i-iv, 1-868 pages; nicks to spine head; faint dark mottling to rear board; strong slender abrasion at both boards' bottom leather corners. Still an attractive set despite first volume's marred exterior cloth. Whereas bookseller tickets for 19th century St. Louis are not too unusual, contemporary bookbindery tickets are quite uncommon. The two volumes feature contributions by Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, John Burroughs, John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr], among many others. Please note that this set has an approximate shipping weight of 6.5 pounds (2.94 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.…