Fortunes Nigel by Walter Sir, First Edition (24 results)

Hardback. Condition: Acceptable/Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No Dust Jacket, green cloth hardback, with embossed decoration on front of cover, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, marks on the covers, Brown endpapers, webbing exposed on endpapers and by title page, foxing on title page, page edges and on occasional pages throughout the book. Illustrated, including frontispiece, with foxed tissue guard, "The Fortunes of Nigel by A Cooper R.A"(slightly loose) Vignette on title page "The Tower of London" otherwise clean tight copy in good/acceptable condition, 638pp Rough cut pages. Centenary edition published 1883 by Adam & Charles Black. Heavy item therefore ONLY available for sale in the U K Other titles in this series available and listed on ABE. Book#09921.

1st Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges, some foxing throughout. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: [2], 409, [1] p.; 17 cm. Notes: Illustrations on t.p. and front cover only. Text in double columns. Bound in illustrated paper wrappers. Volume 14 of the Waverly novels. Subjects: Great Britain -- History -- James I, 1603-1625 -- Fiction. James -- I, -- King of England, -- 1566-1625 -- Fiction. London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction. Sir Walter Scott. Waverly Novels. Genre: fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Fortunes of Nigel In Three Volumes Volume III, Scott, Sir Walter. First Edition, 1822. Volume III. Worn copy with Quarter leather binding over brown paper boards. Two deep scratches to front cover. Some wear to spine with top 2cm of leather missing. Gilt title and volume printed on two panels of spine. Slight foxing to front blank, title page and volume title page. Also foxing to back end papers. Age toning throughout. Corners have been rounded so little bumping. Volume III (only) 349 pages. One of the Waverly novels. Set in London in 1623 or 162,it cenres on the Scottish Community in London. Seventeenth century historical novel. Published concurrently in Edinburgh by Constable and in London by Hurst, Robinson and Co. on 29th May 1822. As with all the Waverley novels before 1827 publication was annonymous. The print run was 12,000.Seller Inventory #002462.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no d/j. 1st Edition. By the author of 'Waverley', Kenilworth', etc. Volume 2 of 3 in VG clean and crisp order. Includes blanks, half title, title page and volume title. Marbled endpapers. Attractive bookplate and bookseller's label to front pastedown. Contemporary full leather binding, worn to edges, with gilt decoration and leather titlepiece to spine. This is a charity sale on behalf of Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 12mo. 334pp.

1st Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges, some foxing throughout. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: [2], 409, [1] p.; 17 cm. Notes: Illustrations on t.p. and front cover only. Text in double columns. Bound in illustrated paper wrappers. Volume 14 of the Waverly novels. Subjects: Great Britain -- History -- James I, 1603-1625 -- Fiction. James -- I, -- King of England, -- 1566-1625 -- Fiction. London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction. Sir Walter Scott. Waverly Novels. Genre: fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Good Condition. Published circa 1880. 688 pages. 7.25" x 10.5" tall. Brown full cloth with elaborate debossed title and design in gilt around title with embellished first letter "W". Title in gilt on spine within elaborately designed panel--rubbed, barely visiblen spine. Sewn binding solid and tight. All edges speckled. Text/pages clean and unmarked, untorn. Corners and edges around spine scuffed. Double column format. Many wonderful and delightful illustrations by various artists-credits included. Frontispiece illustration of George Heriot Blessing the Lady Hermione; Inigo Jones, Architect; Philip Massinger, Dramatist; George Heriot Exhibiting the Judgment of Solomon to King James; Portrait of William Aytoune, Builder of Heriot's Hospital. Overlaid with onion skin. Contents: The Fortunes of Nigel, Quentin Durward, St. Ronan's Well.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A Very Good 2 volume set of the first U.S. Edition. Firm copies in brown leather spines and edges with gilt titles on black spine labels. 12mo's.

First edition thus. 8vo. 469 pp / 543 pp. / Frontispiece. Illustrations. Hardcover binding, gilt lettering spine, t.e.g., overall very good condition. (97112).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. pp XLVIII, 313 : 334 - 399 + 2. 1st printing. Original half calf bindings, with marbled boards. A lovely set.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Two Volumes. pp. 310; 316 (pp. 122-124 blank and/or excised with no loss of text). Foxed. 12mo. 175 mm. Original leather spines and corners over marbled boards, rubbed. Hardbound. Good. A Scottish romance set in the early 1600's. The first edition was published in the same year in three volumes at Edinburgh. First American edition. S&S/AI 10197. PAIMP 22.

FIRST EDITION, 3 vols., 8vo, pp. [iv], xlviii, 313, [1]; [iv], 334; [ii], 349, [1], [2, ads]. Contemporary half calf, grey paper boards, spine divided by gilt rules, stamped in blind, lettered and numbered 40-42 in gilt. A touch of spotting, tear to one leaf in volume one. Hinges reglued, small repairs to spine ends, a little bruised and worn at extremities. Bookplate of James Ball and unrelated ink ownership inscriptions to front pastedowns. As here, ?some copies, including several in original boards, end with Y8, representing only the first two pages? of the ads (T&B). Todd & Bowden 157Aa.

Leather. Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this popular historical fiction novel by Walter Scott, set in London during the reign of King James VI/I. The first edition.Complete in three volumes.Half-title present to each volume.Six pages of adverts to the rear of Volume III, misbound with the pagination reading 1-2, 5-6, 3-4.'The Fortunes of Nigel' is one of Sir Walter Scott's popular historical novel. Set during the seventeenth century between 1623 and 1624, the novel follows the young nobleman, Nigel Olifaunt, Lord Glenvarloch, on his journey to London to request to the King that he repay his father's loan. Chaotic court life is presented whilst Olifaunt finds his place on earth, making enemies along the way. Walter Scott is best known for his historical novels and poems, including 'Waverley', 'Ivanhoe', and 'The Lady of the Lake'.Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpapers. In a quarter calf binding with paper to the boards. Externally, worn. Front board of Volume I may detach, even with careful handling. Bumping to the extremities. A small amount of loss to the head and tail of the spines. Numerical ink to the spines. Light rubbing and marks to the boards and spines. Crack to the head and tail of the rear joint and to the head of the spine of Volume I. Crack to the head and tail of the joints of Volume II and to the front joint of Volume III, rear joint of Volume III is starting. A small amount of loss to the front joint of Volume II. Remnants of a label to the head of the front joint of Volume III. Rear hinge of Volume I is strained. Rear hinge of Volume II is starting. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpapers. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with scattered spots. Pages 307-310 of Volume I are detaching. Good. book.

FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Half titles, initial 12pp cata. vol. I (May, 1822), 6pp ads vol. III; lacks leading f.e.ps. Uncut in orig. drab boards, pink cloth spines faded to brown, paper labels chipped; spines splitting & worn. A good sound copy. Todd & Bowden 157Aa. Set during the reign of James VI of Scotland and First of England.

First Edition. First Edition. 3 volumes, lacking half-titles and ads otherwise collates per Todd & Bowden 157Aa. Very good. Engraved armorial bookplate of Courtown to front pastedowns, one hinge cracked and a few other small scuffs and chips, last few leaves of final volume with some light water-staining, one leaf with 2" closed tear, some occasional staining and light foxing but generally clean. Period half-calf over marbled boards.

3 vols. 8vo, contemporary 1/4 rose calf and marbled boards. First edition. Worthington 13. Lacks half-titles. Armorial bookplates on pastedowns; a very nice set.

FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. First gathering a little proud vol. II, with some dusting to edges. Contemp. half olive green sheep, spines ruled & directly lettered in gilt, devices in blind; spines darkened, a little rubbed. A good-plus copy. Todd & Bowden 157Aa. Set during the reign of James VI of Scotland and First of England.

FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Half titles, 2pp ads vol. III; some minor spotting. Uncut in orig. light brown boards, neatly rebacked with drab spines, paper labels. Ronald George Taylor booklabels. Bookseller's ticket vol. I: Budd & Calkin, Pall Mall. Todd & Bowden 157Aa. Set during the reign of James VI of Scotland and First of England.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hard cover. Three volumes; size of the bindings: 5 in. x 8 in. Vol. I: [4], i-xlviii, [1]-313 pp. with imprint at the bottom of page 313; Vol. II: [4], [1]-334 pp., with the imprint at the bottom of the blank page after p. 334; Vol. III: [4], [1]-349 pp., with the imprint at the bottom of p. 349; + 2-page publisher's catalogue. All volumes have the first and the second half-titles. Bound in full, dark-brown morocco leather by Zaehnsdorf, with their gilt stamp on the lower front inner turn-in, five raised bands on the spine, with gilt titling, double-line borders, and richly gilt inner dentelles, brown watered silk endpapers, top-edge gilt. The fore and lower edges of the book have not been trimmed in binding. Fading to the spines and cover margins. Scattered age-related tan spotting throughout. With the bookplates of Cleveland, Ohio-based book collector, William G. Mather (1857-1951), on the reverse of the front free endpapers. Weight 4 lbs. Postage may be extra on this item.

First Edition. 12mo, bound in early 19th-century claf over marbled paper boards, the spine ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. 313 + 334 + 349 pp., bound without half-titles, but with 2 pp ads at the rear of Vol 3. Spines faded and rubbed; light wear at edges; a very good set, tight and clean. Historical novel by Scott, published anonymously (as by the author of "Waverly, Kenilworth", &c). Set in London in either 1623 or 1624, it centres on the Scottish community there after the Union of the Crowns and features James VI and I. Scott's main sources were Jacobean dramas and other imaginative literature of the period, but he was also well acquainted with other contemporaneous publications and more recent studies. For his depiction of James, and details of events during his reign, he was able to draw extensively on his own edition, published in 1811, of Secret History of the Court of James the First, containing a set of contemporaneous or early memoirs and histories.

3 Volumes. 2 p.l., xlviii, 313; 2 p.l., 334, [1 leaf]; 2 p.l., 349. with half-titles but without the ads. contemporary half calf, hilt backs unidentified gilt crest at head of spines (extremities worn, head of Vol. I spine damaged). First Edition. NCBEL III 673. Todd 157Aa.

FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Half titles, 6pp cata. vol. III; some minor spotting. In sl. larger size boards, half brown morocco by J. McKelvie. t.e.g. v.g. Todd & Bowden 157Aa.

The Centenary Edition of Sir Walter Scott's Waverly Novels. Octavo, 12 volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Robertson with burgundy morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Illustrated title page and tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume, in-text illustrations. In very good condition. A lengthy series of novels by Sir Walter Scott, The Waverley Novels were among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe for nearly a century. Because Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, the series takes its name from Waverley, the first novel of the series released in 1814. The later books bore the words "by the author of Waverley" on their title pages. "Scottās influence as a novelist was incalculable; he established the form of the historical novel, and the form of the short story" (Drabble, 879).

Complete first edition set of Scott's Waverly Novels. Octavo, 74 volumes uniformly bound in full morocco by Morrell, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional set. A lengthy series of novels by Sir Walter Scott, The Waverley Novels were among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe for nearly a century. Because Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, the series takes its name from Waverley, the first novel of the series released in 1814. The later books bore the words "by the author of Waverley" on their title pages. "Scott s influence as a novelist was incalculable; he established the form of the historical novel, and the form of the short story" (Drabble, 879).

FE (illustrator). [SCOTT, Sir Walter]. THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL. In Three Volumes. Edin-burgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1822. First edition. 3 volumes. All half titles present. 8vo. Full calf, rebacked. One volume, the spine is cracked at the crown. Boards rubbed at edges, general wear. Occasional foxing just a good set.