Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott, First Edition (7 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Size 7" x 4.7", 560 pages exc biography, illustrated dustjacket with blue background, slight edgeware to spine of dustjacket, decorative pastedowns and endpapers, previous owner's writing on back of pastedown, book pages clean and clear and free of marks.

Flexible Leatherette. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. An undated, likely First Everyman's Library edition [c.1906] of Sir Walter Scott's historical novel, the seventh in his Waverley series. Chiefly set in Edinburgh, the story is set against the Porteous Riots of 1736. With a brief editor's introduction and glossary of archaic terms at rear of volume. Entry 134 in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In Everyman's style 1 maroon flexible leatherette variant binding with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt titling & floral decorations to cover and spine, ornate Knowles woodcut illustrations to title and frontis pages and to endpapers, top edge gilt, fragile sewn-in silk ribbon placemarker and rounded corners of leaves. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- A Good-only copy, with yellowed transparent tape applied to spine ends, loosened hinges, previous owner's inked info. to front endsheet, some scuffing to leather at head of spine, otherwise an attractive, sound copy.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); x, 559 pages.

Condition: Very Good. First edition thus. 8vo. With b/w frontis. Olive cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and blind stamped knight on horseback motif to upper board. Green top edge. Wear to spine ends. POI to ffep, browned half-title. Else, clean and tidy. In good original DJ - spine tanned, edgewear, loss to spine ends. Scarce, especially in DJ.

First edition thus. 8vo. [xvii], 560 pp. / [xvii], 427 pp. / Frontispiece. Illustrations. Hardcover binding, gilt lettering spine, t.e.g., overall very good condition. (97119).

8vo., First Edition thus, neat contemporary inscription on half-title; original series binding of red ribbed cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, dark top, pictorial endpapers, backstrip chafed at head else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. EL 134 Seymour 883.0.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The four volume first edition of Sir Walter Scott's novel 'The Heart of Midlothian', the second work in his 'Tales of My Landlord' series. The first edition, first issue: lacking signature on dedication leaf of volume I; with the misspelling 'Wichtcraft' to volume II, page 52; with page 348 of volume IV miss numbered as 438.The second series of 'Tales of My Landlord', this work can also be viewed as the seventh of Scott's Waverly novels. Set between 1736 and 1736, the plot of the work is set into motion by the Porteous Riots in Edinburgh, and involves a working class Edinburgh girl's travels to London, to obtain a royal commutation of the death penalty incurred by her sister.Bound without half titles.With the armorial bookplate of Nathanael Ellison to front pastedowns, and an engraved plate pasted to the front free endpaper of each volume. In half morocco bindings, with marbled paper covered boards. Discolouration to back strips, with rubbing to spine heads and tails, and joints. With both hinges of volumes I and IV, and the front hinge of volume III strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to title pages, with pages generally clean and bright. Very Good. book.