Stevenson Sir John (69 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. (Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural). A haunting, inspiring anthology of some twenty-six ghost stories, some of which are classics, while others are les-known. Here, Sir Walter Scott keeps company with Edgar Allan Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu, John Lang, Edith Nesbit, and Oscar Wilde, among others. 289…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. 317 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with some creasing at the spine; no interior markings. The front cover features Figure at a Table by Ann Redpath. This anthology contains: The House of the Famous Poet by Muriel Spark; The Wireless Set by George MacKay Br…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 382 pp. Bound in blue leather and decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine; pasted-on pictorial on the front panel; blue endpapers; headband; ribbon marker. Lightly rubbed on the corners; no interior markings; as issued, no dustjacket. This anthology contains: What Is Life b…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Minus. General wear to covers with light soiling, well bound, contents bright, clean and unmarked copy. A complete issue, no major faults, with the original covers and advertisements. A well kept copy with no major faults. Further details about condition and content always welcome. Comes in a clea…

Condition: Good. New edition. 333 pages. Half bound green leather with green cloth covered boards and gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers. Gilt edges to textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to hinges, but Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy wear with bu…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair (Book Condition). New Edition. Covers detached but present. Pages are intact and together. Occasional foxing on pages, but good conditon (pages). Gilt on edges. Gilt designs along spine. Black and gilt lettering and decorations on front cover. [Our rating system: 1.Fine; 2. Near fine; 3. Very good; 4.…

Couverture rigide. Condition: Satisfaisant. Reliure plein chagrin chocolat, plats encadrés d'un large décor doré et illustrés d'une harpe dorée, dos à 5 nerfs, titre doré et motifs dorés dans les caissons, tranches dorées, filet doré sur les contreplats, gardes marbrées. In-8 de 261 pages. Reliure frottée et très usée, le plat s…

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. A folio sized volume bound in decorative cloth with gilt title lettering and harp motif on the front board and spine. There is some bumping and fraying of the cloth, particularly at the foot of the spine which is slit about two cm along the front hinge. No inscriptions and original e…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cover is well-worn from age and shelf wear. Top spine is torn and jagged through to the top of the text block. Small hole torn towards bottom of spine. Corners and edges are rubbed and fraying in parts. Several spots and discoloration on back cover. Some spots on front cover. Spine is loose. Inside co…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair (Book Condition). New Edition. Covers detached but present. Pages are intact and together. Occasional foxing on pages, but good conditon (pages). Gilt on edges. Gilt designs along spine. Black and gilt lettering and decorations on front cover. [Our rating system: 1.Fine; 2. Near fine; 3. Very good; 4.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Two vols.in one. Pp. (1) (5), 112; (2) (4), 102. Title page vol. 1. includes engraving by T. Stothard R.A. at bottom of page depicting a woman reclining against a tree with her head turned looking at a harp. The engraving on vol. 2. is smaller and depicts a tree stump with a harp in front of & a ruin…

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. New Edition. James Duffy Dublin, 1859 New Edition 333pp ills (frontis and title page) VG+ (full leather w gilt edges and gilt harp stamp to top board, raised bands on spine and gitl stamped compartments to spine, chipping to head and foot of spine, sl rubbed and soiled, mod wear to…

[circa 1811]. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. Various. Folio. Limp cloth, brown with gilt title stamped to the front. Irish music and scores. Pages are lightly age toned at edges, and light water stains intermittently throughout. Faintly starting at the front and rear hinges, otherwise clean and legible, and remarkably we…

Condition: Good. No Jacket. New Edition. The boards are slightly shelf rubbed and edge worn. There is a previous owner's pencil inscription at the back of the front end page and after the title page. There is a book shop rubber stamp on the title page. The pages are tanned, internally clean and tightly bound. Complete with 261 p…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. 261 pages. NO dustjacket. No obvious printed date but look mid-late 19th century and ther' s some ink writing (name to title page, decorated name ti notice page and writing to back of this page - all look mid-late 19th century in style. Treble and bass staves with words. Dark green hard…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Revised Edition. Quarto, 333pp., illustrated with engraved title page and frontispiece. A very good copy in contemporary 3/4 black morocco over black rough-grained cloth. Leather dried out and quite rubbed, otherwise a crisp, sound copy. Preface dated 1859. Contemporary binder's ticket (John C. M…