Walter Scott's Romane de Walter Scott - 1876

London: Effingham Wilson, 1830. First edition. leather_bound. Full brown crushed morocco. Teg. Fine. Cruikshank, George. 250 pages. 20.5 x 15 cm. Seven engraved plates, (including vignette title engraved by J. Thompson and T. Williams after George Cruikshank). COHN 23. Armorial bookplate, bound by John Bumpus, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, inner dentelles, silk moire decorated endpapers, clean and bright copy, two bookseller catalogue descriptions front free endpapers.

New York: W. F. Burgess, 1850. Not stated. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. 264 pages, double columned, illustrated title page and black and white illustrations throughout text. An early edition of the classic story of a young man's coming of age. Half leather over marble boards, brown title block with gilt titles on spine and gilt bands on spine. Some wear to leather with a bit of cracking along spine edges and small tear across spine about an inch down, gilt still bright, some edge wear to boards, corners and spine ends bumped and a bit worn, owner's names on front end papers, crease in front free end paper, some foxing of interior pages with light tanning, glue stains on end papers, binding tight. Measures 6 x 9 1/4 inches.

710pp (+178pp Appendices/Index). German language. 1st Edition. Near Very Good condition. Bumping to boards, and vertical crease/crack to spine covering. Tight, bright, and complete internally. Notes/newspaper clippings to both pastedowns and endpapers. Picture of Wilhelm Grimm pasted to verso of title page. First edition of Part I (Part II was not published until 1854) of this influential work on Germanic and Norse mythology, religion, superstition, and magic. By one half of the brothers Grimm.

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1880. A Fine Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket Issued. Illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne, a.k.a Phiz.. Red half-morocco with marbled paper-covered boards, top edges gilt; Bound at Brentanos with 8 leaves of plates by Hablot Knight Browne, a.k.a Phiz. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. A handsome collectible copy. 8vo 22.5 x 15 cm; 8.875 inches tall, 296 pages.. A romance with the backdrop of the notorious Star Chamber of the English legal system. The Chamber began as purely administrative, but gradually took on more of a judicial role, enforcing the monarch's will when the courts could or would not do so. As the mix of fact and fiction unfolds in this tale, the court is beginning to lose favor during the reign of James I as the church once again increased its power, while Parliament's power decreased as the monarch tried to rule without them. [Thompson] REF: librivox/Thompson; britannica Background:… Leer más

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition of the author's scarce first book. Rebound. in red leather. Five raised bands. Gilt text block edges. Includes the poem 'The Faeries.' William Allingham (19 March 1824 – 18 November 1889) was an Irish poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem 'The Faeries' was included in many anthologies, but he is better known for his posthumously published Diary in which he records his lively encounters with Tennyson, Carlyle and other writers and artists. Shelf wear to edges, tips, and spine. Owner inscription on FFEP, otherwise clean interior. Binding is tight and square.

London: Lutetian Society 1899, a numbered copy from a limited edition of 500. (Hardcover) 406pp. Very good. The two volumes bound as one in 3 / 4 leather with raised bands and marbled boards. Extra-illustrated with 20 engraved plates (removed from a smaller and quite earlier volume) tipped-in. The spine is a bit scuffed and the covers are worn around the edges. Also known as Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire. Identified on spine as Voltaire (The Maid of Orleans). Translated by Ernest Dowson. Revised and enlarged by W.H. Ireland. (Poetry).

New York: New Directions No date. Reprint edition; number NC16 of the publisher's New Classics Series. Translated by Françoise Delisle. With an Introduction by Havelock Ellis. A fine, unmarked copy in a square, tight binding, with a bit of soiling to the top edge. The dust jacket, designed by Alvin Lustig, has moderate edgewear, with a bit of loss at the spine head. The price, $1.50, is present on the front flap. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: L. B. Fischer, 1942. First printing (First Edition stated). Moderate wear to the extremities. The boards are rubbed and stained in spots. There are some very faint pencil marks on the endpapers and one page of text. In a square, tight binding with hinges intact.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Richard Erdös. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1900. No dustwrapper, some bumping and minor shelf-wear to spine ends and corners of blue cloth-covered boards, binding just starting to split at the page between the black free front endpaper and the half-title, which has a previous owner's name in pencil. Minor foxing to outer pages, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles on spine and front board all still bright, of this hard-cover book. A tale of revolution in a (fictitious) Mediterranean country, this was Churchill's only novel. This is the first UK edition, one of 1500 copies, published by Longman, Green & Co on 30th January 1900 (a larger [4000 copies] edition was published earlier in the US in November 1899). 345pp, 2pp adverts.. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

1879 Belfords, Clarke and Company first Canadian edition. 322 pages.This first Canadian edition is extremely rare. OCLC notes only 8 copies are held worldwide by member libraries.Condition of the book is Acceptable. The binding is straight and sound sound. Condition issues include (see photos):1) Moderate wear to the boards2) The front free endpaper and the back free endpaper have both been removed (see listing photos for front endpaper view).While the book is highly collectable, the missing endpapers are a significant defect, and the book is priced accordingly.Please message me with any questions.