Published by Macmillan, New York
Seller: Eric James, Lewisporte, NL, Canada
Hard Cover. Two pocket-sized hardcovers, both same size and in identical brown cloth covers with lettering in embossed black and very bright and clear gilt:---Tennyson's Idylls, 1912, later (1916) printing, xxiv + 434 pages; very light shelf wear to corner tips and spine ends, spine slanted and concaved, otherwise gently used, tight in binding, notes (and a drawing of a lady in a c1920s-style dress, very chic) in faded ink on all four endpapers and half title page, scattered pale pencil notations and/or underlinings on approximately 30-50 pages, otherwise clean and unmarked, no foxing, overall Good ++ condition;---Scott's Talisman, 1904, later (1914) printing, xxiv + 325 pages; light shelf wear to corner tips and spine ends, faded ink notations on back free endpaper, scattered pale pencil notations and/or underlinings on approximately 5-10 pages, otherwise very gently used, tight in binding, very clean and unmarked, no foxing, overall Very Good condition. See also our listing for Four of Macmillan's Pocket Kipling: Soldiers Three and Other Stories (The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black & White); Kim; Life's Handicap: Stories of Mine Own People; The Day's Work.
Published by Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1924
Seller: Hammonds Antiques & Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. The Pocket University, Volume XV.
Published by Perigee Books - Putnam Publishing, New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 0399512764 ISBN 13: 9780399512766
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Second Printing - revised. 208 pp. Oversized. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white drawings and paintings. An assortment of Christmas songs, complete with sheet music, lyrics and chords, along with the following stories and poems: Christmas at Dingley Dell by Charles Dickens; Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson; Is There a Santa Claus - Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus from the New York Sun; Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen; Cock Crow at Christmas by William Shakespeare; The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen; Jesus by Jason Shulman; A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum; The Friendly Beasts - from 12th Century France; Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells; Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale; The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry; Christmas in a Village by Johh Clare; The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle; Christmas Greeting from a Fairy to a Child by Lewis Carroll; Christmas at Orchard House by Louisa May Alcott; Christmas and New Year Bells by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; The Christmas Monks by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; Christmas Pie by George Wither; Christmas in the Olden Time by Sir Walter Scott; The Legend of the Christmas Rose by Selma Lagerlof; Whence Comes This Rush of Wings - French carol from Bas Quercy; and The Symbol and the Saint by Eugene Field. Size: 4to. Book.
Published by Ginn & Company, 1897
Seller: Ebeth & Abayjay Books, Lima, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This offering is a pair of older classics of English Literature. Both books were published by Ginn & Company and are books in their Standard English Classics series. Both books are 4 7/8" by 6 3/4", both are in good + condition, neither is an ex-library copy, and neither book has a dust jacket. Lady of the Lake was written by Sir Walter Scott, edited by Edwin Ginn, and published in 1903. The Princess was written by Alfred Lord Tennyson, edited with Introduction and Notes by Albert S. Cook and published in 1897. Thank you!.
Published by Aventuras Literarias, 2023
ISBN 10: 8418700149 ISBN 13: 9788418700149
Seller: AG Library, Malaga, Spain
Condition: New. Idioma/Language: Español. *** Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. No aceptamos pedidos con destino a Ceuta y Melilla.
Published by Milton Bradley Company 1936 [c. MCMXXXVI], Springfield, 1936
Seller: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, U.S.A.
Card Game. Condition: Poor. Springfield: Milton Bradley Company 1936 [c. MCMXXXVI]. Poor. 1936. Card Game. Literary card game [Milton Bradley No. 4005], alas only a partial set. Only the [badly damaged, missing some of its sides] box lid [with all the rules of the game printed on the inside panel] is present, along with most of the card deck [there should apparently be four different story title cards for each author]. Present are #1 Shakespeare 4 cards, #2 Scott 1 card, #3 Macaulay 2 cards, #4 Dickens 4 cards, #5 Thackeray 3 cards, #6 Tennyson 4 cards, #7 Longfellow 4 cards, #8 Lowell 4 cards, #9 Holmes 4 cards, and #10 Burns 4 cards. [I've noted one other similar game set on-line, but it lists only three cards for each author and the Milton Bradley number is given as 4008 rather than as 4005.] .
Published by J. G. Ferguson Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1975
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine condition faux red leather boards with elaborately illustrated gold front cover perimeter and spine decorations, gold front cover lettering, and gold spine lettering over a black block border. Includes Editor's Comment and Acknowledgments. Major chapter headings are as follows: Wisdom; Benjamin Franklin; History; Beauty; and Business. "Sometimes it seems almost futile to try to write anything new because it has all been said before - and so well said. Of course, any such defeatism must lead to a dead end of accomplishment in terms of literary effort. Fortunately for the living and those to come, there are many bright new stars on the panel of contemporary writers. They are skillfully telling the story of these eventful days and their words will be read with relish by future generations. In fact, the printed word today is so prolific, and the competition with the book, the magazine and the newspaper is so great, future generations will require anthologies in great number to know what our bright literary stars have said. In this anthology there has bee no effort to be erudite, consistent, unusual or educational. The prime purpose is to amuse by exposing the reader to many things he has read before and may wish to read again. Perhaps that poem he [or she] HAD to learn, to pass freshman English, is here. He may even enjoy rereading it under different auspices. It is not possible to include only those things that appeal to him. If he dislikes poetry in any form, we hope he will please forgive us. Some of us like the "well-turned couplet." On the other hand, there are those who love Shakespeare, but just cannot understand how his hallowed words should appear with some of the more commonplace choices that have arrived in this selection. It takes all kinds you know - and we have tried to select all kinds of literature." - excerpt from Editor's Comment.
Published by DODD, Mead and Company, New York, 1915
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. The German emperor; Tennyson; Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (illustrator). First American Edition. FIRST USA EDITION. NEW YORK : 1915. [ First published; 1903.]. Essays reissued here, with certain alterations and additions, from The Daily News and The Speaker; the first 12 essays were published in London, by A. L. Humphreys, 1903.]. Hardback. Dark-red ribbed-cloth; bold gilt lettered spine and cover. Title-page printed in red and black. Untrimmed edges as issued. Bright, tight and clean. Neat owner name; no internal markings. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD INDEED. 269 pages. CONTENTS: Charlotte Bronte -- William Morris and his school -- The optimism of Byron -- Pope and the art of satire -- Francis -- Rostand -- Charles II -- Stevenson -- Thomas Carlyle -- Tolstoy and the cult of simplicity -- Savonarola -- The position of Sir Walter Scott -- Bret Harte -- Alfred the Great -- Maeterlinck -- Queen Victoria -- The German emperor -- Tennyson -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning. **Scarce** [ Rosley Books; specialist bookseller on books by or about Dorothy L. Sayers, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, and The Inklings. ] Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1914
Seller: Rareeclectic, Pound ridge, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Many illustrators, including Sir John Gilbert, W. C. Stanfield, Ernest Crofts, and Jean Baptiste Eduoard Detaille (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition (SD, 'Published October 1914' ). 'With Illustrations From Famous Paintings.' The color pastedown illustration on the front cover is by N.C. Wyeth. The frontispiece by Jean Baptiste Eduoard Detaille. You can see the covers in the photos. They're in pretty nice shape, particularly taking into account that the book was published in 1914. Here are the cover imperfections (although you can see them in the photos, I like to practice redundancy): There is some smooth rubbing on the pastedown illustration. All smooth. There is a bump/indent at the top edge of the front cover, a little bit of the same at the middle of the front bottom edge, and another small indent a little to the right of that, beside the letter 'S'. There is another bump/dent at the front middle edge with a couple of small grooves, and the same is the case directly across on the front side of the spine. So the book has survived a few battles of its own, but clearly came out the winner. The gilt lettering on the spine is nicely bright (so is the black lettering on the front). There is a thin white vertical line of soiling on the spine. There's just a little bit of bending/crinkling wear at the spine ends. The rear cover looks very good. Isn't any rubbing at the top and middle edges, there's a little whitening at the rear bottom one. The corners are in solid shape with only a speck-sized bit of rubbing on a few. The page edges look quite clean, no conspicuous staining. Here's a very important thing-- given that the book runs a very thick 410 pages -- the book is square, the spine is straight, and the binding is very solid with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. To be published in 1914 and to be this thick, and to be in this genre and to be still be solidly bound, that's pretty good. The interior of the book is in quite decent condition. The first handful of pages have either one or two small tan spots. The frontispiece is in very nice shape. It is protected by a tissue guard that is also in very good shape. All of the illustrations, black-and-white and full-page (one is double-page) are protected by tissue guards which are in very good shape as well. All of the tissue guards have a printed title of the illustration. There are 14 illustrations in total, including the frontispiece. I went through and accounted for all of them, referencing the Illustrations page. They are all in excellent condition. The tissue guards at their top are about 1/4 of an inch shorter than the text and illustration pages. That's the case for all of them, they were produced that way. The result is a slightly tanner hue over that 1/4r inch on the illustration and facing text page, more so on the facing text page. The pages are very clean. I'm not really finding any soiling, a few instances of a little bit of tannish coloring just peeking over the outer edge. I'm not finding any conspicuous creasing, no placeholder creases. There are a few instances of small groups of pages with a tiny tip of the top corner crease, not much of anything. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. Here are some of the battles (chapter headings) that are described: The Victory over the Khita, The Battle of Marathon, The Lemnian: A Story of Thermopyle, The Siege of Plataea, How Hannibal Made His Way To Italy, Julius Caesar in Gaul, A Vikings Sea-Fight, The Battle of Hastings, The Battle of Crecy, The Death of Winkleried, The Ballad of Agincourt, The Battle of Bosworth Field, The Siege of Leyden, The Battle of Ivry, Gustavus Adolphus at Lutzen, The Battle of Naseby, Bunker Hill, The Battle of the Pyramids, Trafalgar, Hohenlinden, The Crossing of the Beresina River, Waterloo, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Farragut, The Attack upon Port Arthur, and The Siege of Adrianople.
Published by NP, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; Proctor Valley (Catskills, NY), 1863
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: g to vg. Manuscript. Octavo. Unpaginated. [144]pp. Original gilt-stamped half morocco over blind-stamped purple cloth notebook. Gold-ruling along joints. All edges gilt. Handsome hand-written copy book of poems written by a young girl whose name is unknown. Begun in Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ, on 7/31/1860, when the young girl was 14, this book was completed in Philadelphia on 2/20/1863, at the age of 17. In her notebook, the young girl copied 88 poems of some of the most famous British and American poets of the 19th century, such as: John Moultrie, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Caroline Norton, Walter Scott, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Phoebe Cary, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik. The poems were copied from the following papers and books: "The Harper's Magazine," "The Churchman's Magazine," "John Halifax, Gentleman," "The Church Journal," "The Eclectic Magazine," "Littell's Living Age," "The Angel Visitor," and other magazines or newspapers only mentioned by "copied from a paper." At the end of each poem is featured the source from which the poem came from, as well as the place, and the date when the poem was finished to be copied in the notebook. Head of spine slightly chipped. Moderate rubbing along edges. Some soiling to endpapers. Previous owner's stamp at upper margin of front leaf (Property of Louis Gauch - Received May 13, 1936). Binding in overall good- to good, interior in very good condition.
Published by 1878, 1890, 1898, 1901, 1907,, 1907
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A COLLECTION OF FIVE ANTIQUE LEATHER BINDINGS RELATING TO POETRY & LITERATURE. TITLES ARE: POETICAL WORKS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, 1907. THE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER, 1901. THE WORKS OF ALFRED TENNYSON, 1878. TALES OF GRANDFATHER BY WALTER SCOTT, 1898. THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE, CIRCA 1890. AVERAGE SIZE OF EACH BOOK IS APPROX 8 X 5 INCHES. DUE TO THE NUMBER OF BOOKS IN THE COLLECTION EACH FAULT OR CONDITION ISSUE CAN NOT BE NOTED BUT ALL BOOKS HAVE BEEN CAREFULLY SELECTED TO HAVE NO MAJOR FAULTS & ALL BOARDS ARE FIRMLY ATTACHED WITH GILT DECORATION TO SPINES BRIGHT. THESE ARE SECONDHAND BOOKS & WILL HAVE A NUMBER OF MINOR FAULTS SUCH AS LIGHT RUBBING & BUMPING TO COVERS, CREASES OR FOXING TO PAGES , INSCRIPTIONS OR BOOKPLATES, PRIZE PLATES TO ENDPAPERS ETC. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TALES OF GRANDFATHER HAS A SPLIT TO LEATHER AT FRONT OUTER HINGE BUT BOARD IS FIRMLY ATTACHED. [SEE IMAGES TO HELP WITH CONDITION]. A SUPER COLLECTION OF CAREFULLY CHOSEN VOLUMES & PERFECT FOR STARTING OR ADDING TO AN EXISTING LIBRARY. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.