Language: English
Published by The Century Company, NY, 1890
Seller: Legacy Books II, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: VG. Joseph Pennell, Harry Fenn, E. J. Meeker, Hughson Hawley, V. Gribayedoff (illustrator). 20pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 17 drawings, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, #1, May, 1890. The reform of higher education in England, including The Polytechnic, founded by Quintin Hogg, the Polytechnic Young Men's Christian Institute, the Crystal Palace, the People's Palace, etc. Other names include J. E. K. Studd, Robert Mitchell, author Walter Besant, and Sir Edmund Hay Currie. Housed in protective mylar report cover.
Language: English
Published by The Cosmopolitan Publishing Company, NY, 1896
Seller: Legacy Books II, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: VG. V. Gribayedoff (illustrator). 3pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with a drawing of professor Roentgen, and 2 Roentgen photographs, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Cosmopolitan Magazine, Volume XX, No. 6, April, 1896. Professor Roentgen, University of Wurzburg, and his new photography by Roentgen Rays, clearly the precursor to the modern x - ray. Roentgen had announced his discovery only three months previously, on January 4th, 1896. Housed in protective mylar report cover. Scarce.
Language: English
Published by Collier, New York, 1899
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. V. Gribayedoff, photographer (illustrator). First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with wear on one corner of the rear panel. Includes 12 photographs inside and outside of the courtroom.
Language: English
Published by Collier, New York, 1899
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. V. Gribayedoff, photographer, cover photograph of "Dreyfus Before His Judges", nine additional photographs, and profile sketch of Dreyfus (illustrator). First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with wear at the top of the spine and a short closed tear.
Published by New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Presumed first edition. Date on title page. No additional dates,editions or printings indicated. Near fine. Attractive signature (3.5 inch by 1.75 inch) of previous owner dated 1/24/96 on first blank page and light rubber stamp (1.75 inch by .75 inch) of different previous owner in upper fore-edge corner of glassene leaf between frontispiece and title page. Only one flaw: coating to cloth boards is mostly rubbed off, especially on front cover, leaving a mottled appearance. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use. Photograph available on request.
Published by C. Arthur Pearson, London 1900, 1900
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Large octavo. 682pp. Contemporary half leather over cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Slight rubbing to edges, slight chipping to spine head, Index pages taped in at rear, otherwise very good. Bookplate to pastedown. Includes Stories from Other Worlds, by George Griffith.