Black Dwarf by Scott Walter (696 results)

Condition: New. In.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.45.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Covers have light wear. Owner's name.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

PF. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Firmly bound, decorated maroon cloth boards. Brown end papers. Scuffing and dust spotting on cover and spine. Marks on the end papers. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. No dustjacket. 383 pages including notes and index. B&W frontispiece. Marbled decoration boards and (?)leather-covered brown spine and spine-junctions and to boards' corners. Boards have been clumsily taped back on. Spine covering been taped back on. Front inner hinge cracked and now taped. Wear to board's edges and corners and rubs to spine-junctions. . Page-edges are dulled marbled design. Pages are surprisingly clean.

Condition: New. In.

Red Cloth. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. Illustrated By Paul Hardy (illustrator). .please e-mail for further details. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾". Not Signed or Inscribed.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The story is set just after the Union of Scotland and England (1707), in the Liddesdale hills of the Scottish Borders, familiar to Scott from his work collecting ballads for The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. The main character is based on David Ritchie, whom Scott met in the autumn of 1797. In the tale, the dwarf is Sir Edward Mauley, a hermit regarded by the locals as being in league with the Devil, who becomes embroiled in a complex tale of love, revenge, betrayal, Jacobite schemes and a threatened forced marriage. Scott began the novel well, "but tired of the ground I had trode so often before. I quarrelled with my story, & bungled up a conclusion." Critics and public found it poor in comparison with its popular companion Old Mortality. One of the harshest reviews was in the Quarterly Review, written anonymously by Scott himself. The introduction to The Black Dwarf attributes the work to Jedediah Cleishbotham, whom Scott had invented as a fictional editor of the Landlord series. It is here that we have the most complete view of this character. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Condition: Good. reprint. Cloth, G. [ii]+xlii+526+46pp, b/w frontis, 6 b/w plates, glossary, pages partly un-opened, cloth rubbed, fore edges & a few pages foxed, but generally a good solid reading copy. The Waverley Novels Border Edition, vol VII. Montrose is an historical novel, set in Scotland in the 1640s during the English Civil War. The second work is Scott's short romance based upon the life of David Ritchie who Scott met in 1797 & was only 3.5ft tall. 750 grams.

Condition: Fair. 'Chronicles of the Canongate' and other Tales. No publication date. Binding cocked, text clean. Illumination on front cover, with illustrations, cover and backstrip sunned. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library. With usual stamps and markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:

Condition: Fair. Volume 6. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Leather and marbled boards, gilt decoration on spine, two engravings on steet for Black Dwarf and many more engravings on wood. five engravings on steet and very many engravings on wood for Old Mortality . 676 total pages. Wear on boards, wear to leather at extremities, some loss at bottom of spine, various marks/stains on end-papers, small printers label on front pastedown, tanning on sides, tight binding, otherwise vg. 1300 grams.

Condition: New.

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 108 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

Condition: New. In.

PF. Condition: New.

Condition: Good. 1905. Hardcover. "Commissioning organisation: by Sir Walter Scott. 333, 131 p. front 21 cm. Original cloth. A good copy. Pages untrimmed." Keywords: Subjects. Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Undated c1900 T C & E C Jack Melrose edition hardback, dark green embossed boards with gilt decoration to spine, The Waverley Novels Vol 6; no dj; Good+ copy, boards very good, inside good+, just some ageing to end papers and page edges; no inscriptions; UK dealer, immediate dispatch.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A red cloth Hardcover, light shelf wear, light soiling in places. Not ex. library. 146 pages, glossary. Inscription on front endpaper. Contents clean, tight and bright. Book.

PF. Condition: New.

hardback, small 8vo, xxx,217pp, frontispiece and title vignette, light foxing on edges and endpapers, no inscriptions or ownership marks, hinges and binding tight, maroon cloth gilt, gilt-decorated spine faded, otherwise Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Good; firm binding; contents good; some fading to spine; no dust jacket. Hard Cover T C & E C Jack ca 1900 Fiction.

Condition: Good. 1905. Hardcover. "Commissioning organisation: by Sir Walter Scott. 333, 131 p. front 21 cm. Original cloth. A good copy. Pages untrimmed." Keywords: Subjects. Not a first edition copy. . . .

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Walter Scott's novel The Black Dwarf is the first in the series of in Tales of My Landlord. The story is set just after the Union of Scotland and England 1707, in the Liddesdale hills of the Scottish Borders, familiar to Scott from his work collecting ballads for The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. The main character is based on David Ritchie, whom Scott met in the autumn of 1797. In the tale, the dwarf is Sir Edward Mauley, a hermit regarded by the locals as being in league with the Devil, who becomes embroiled in a complex tale of love, revenge, betrayal, Jacobite schemes and a threatened forced marriage. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. As I may, without vanity, presume that the name and official description prefixed to this Proem will secure it, from the sedate and reflecting part of mankind, to whom only I would be understood to address myself, such attention as is due to the sedulous instructor of youth, and the careful performer of my Sabbath duties, I will forbear to hold up a candle to the daylight, or to point out to the judicious those recommendations of my labours which they must necessarily anticipate from the perusal of the title-page. Nevertheless, I am not unaware, that, as Envy always dogs Merit at the heels, there may be those who will whisper, that albeit my learning and good principles cannot (lauded be the heavens) be denied by any one, yet that my situation at Gandercleugh hath been more favourable to my acquisitions in learning than to the enlargement of my views of the ways and works of the present generation. To the which objection, if, peradventure, any such shall be started, my answer shall be threefold: First, Gandercleugh is, as it were, the central part-the navel (SI FAS SIT DICERE) of this our native realm of Scotland; so that men, from every corner thereof, when travelling on their concernments of business, either towards our metropolis of law, by which I mean Edinburgh, or towards our metropolis and mart of gain, whereby I insinuate Glasgow, are frequently led to make Gandercleugh their abiding stage and place of rest for the night. And it must be acknowledged by the most sceptical, that I, who have sat in the leathern armchair, on the left-hand side of the fire, in the common room of the Wallace Inn, winter and summer, for every evening in my life, during forty years bypast (the Christian Sabbaths only excepted), must have seen more of the manners and customs of various tribes and people, than if I had sought them out by my own painful travel and bodily labour. Even so doth the tollman at the well-frequented turn-pike on the Wellbraehead, sitting at his ease in his own dwelling, gather more receipt of custom, than if, moving forth upon the road, he were to require a contribution from each person whom he chanced to meet in his journey, when, according to the vulgar adage, he might possibly be greeted with more kicks than halfpence. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.