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THE HERITAGE PRESS, 1952. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Stated limited edition, 1952. This volume includes a slipcase which is in acceptable condition. The spine suffers minor to moderate stain mark damage. The inner front and back hinges show moderate page tanning. The discolored remains of an ex-libris sticker can be found on the front pastedown. The hinge suffers moderate loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

THE HERITAGE PRESS. Like New. Book and slipcase has light shelf wear.

New York: Heritage Press, 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine. Special edition. Color illustrations by T.M. Cleland. Small quarto. 782pp. Marbled boards with age toned, gilt lettered spine with some dampstains near fine. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger.

Bernh. Tauchnitz Jun., Leipzig, 1844. Hardcover. Good. Collection of British Authors. Vol. LX & Vol.LXI: 456+443pp.; Rug deel 1 geplakt; gebruikssporen

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1952. First Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Publishers Slipcase. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. T. M. Cleland. First published in 1749, this edition of Tom Jones has been Designed & Illustrated by T. M. Cleland for the Members of the Limited Editions Club. The text has been printed at the club's printing-office in new York, on an especially made Curtis paper, and the illustrations have been reproduced in Paris : the color-plates by Deberny and Peignot, the color printing by Lucien Delaporte. This is copy #253 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator on the colophon page. Tom jones ( not the singer), belongs with those beneficent great novels that can be enjoyed quite as much as they are esteemed. The book is , indeed, so masculine, so solid, so engaging that, delighted as one is to talk it over with a friend, one shies off a little from assessing it as a critic. In a certain sense, one would as soon " assess" a good dinner.… Leer más

London: James Cochrane and Co, 1831. Hardcover. Cruikshank engravings. pp. 454, 448. 12mo. Lovely two volume set bound in full tan polished calf. This is a complete set in itself, issued as part of 'The Novelist's Library', edited by Thomas Roscoe, and with illustrations by George Cruikshank. Titles from the set are usually encountered bound in cloth: our offering is most attractively bound in full polished calf, with a heavily-ornamented spine showing five raised bands and morocco spine labels. A frontispiece and four engravings in volume I; and a frontispiece and three engravings in volume II. All edges are marbled, as are the endpapers. The binding shows minimal wear, and the hinges are strong. Occasional foxing to text, more so from off-setting of the plates. Else in very good condition. Roscoe (1791-1871) was an English author and translator. He was educated by Dr. W. Shepherd and a private tutor, and began his career writing for local magazines and journals. During the period 1820 to 1850, he… Leer más

London: Printed for W. Strahan, J. & F. Rivington, Hawes & Co., W. Johnston, T. Longman, S. Crowder, et al., 1773. Book. Good. Full-Leather. First Thus. 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. Complete in four (4) volumes, bound in full leather, bordered in leather, spine panels numbered/ruled in gilt with applied title labels. All boards detached but present (making restoration rather than rebinding an option), bindings themselves intact and firm; boards typically rubbed along edges. Spine panels chipped and lacking portions, one title label missing. Interiors generally clean, with scattered minor soiling, an occasional lightly-printed page. xx,304 + x,288 + viii,330 + xii,347 pp., each volume illus. w/ engraved frontis..