1850 1907 watson john (13 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. viii, 338 p.; 19 cm. -- Jesus `has made Pilates impossible, and taught the human race to live and die for freedom.' (p. 329) Fair orig. violet cloth, lacks backstrip [First printed in 1896].

Zustand: VERY GOOD. First American edition. The first, and most popular, book by this Scottish author and minister, published under the pen name of Maclaren. A collection of stories of Scottish rural life, which combined humor with pathos and a liberal use of Scots dialogue. The title of this book alludes to the Jacobite song ("There grows a bonnie brier bush in our Kailyard") and the term "Kailyard School" (kailyard is a small kale, or cabbage, kitchen garden attached to a cottage) was applied to a group of Scots writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who were considered to be overly sentimental by their critics - or perhaps just too widely popular. 317 pp. Very good light green cloth with a dark green border and decoration on front cover, gilt lettering on front and spine (gift card from Christmas 1896 affixed to front pastedown, previous owner's name).…

Hardcover. vi, 218 p.; 16 cm. [in Scots dialect of the Free Church - first printed in 1894] Contents: I. Domsie: 1. A lad o' parts, 2. How we carried the news to Whinnie Knowe, 3. In Marget's garden, 4. A scholar's funeral -- II. A Highland mystic: 1. What eye hath not seen, 2. Against principalities and powers -- III. His mother's sermon -- IV. The transformation of Lachlan Campbell: 1. A grand inquisitor, 2. His bitter shame, 3. Like as a father, 4. As a little child -- V. The cunning speech of Drumtochty -- VI. A wise woman: 1. Our sermon taster, 2 The collapse of Mrs. Macfadyen -- VII. A doctor of the old school: 1. A general practitioner, 2. Through the flood, 3. A fight with death, 4. The doctor's last journey, VG neat gray-green pictorial cloth.…

VG, lightly spotted orig. green cloth. x, 301 p.; 19.5 cm. Binding, with silver stamping, carries pen name: Ian Maclaren. Contents: I The genesis of a sermon -- II The technique of a sermon -- III Problems of preaching -- IV Theology the theory of religion -- V The new dogma -- VI The machinery of a congregation -- VII The work of a pastor -- VIII The public worship of God -- IX The minister' care of himself. Binding is Hardcover.…

Hardcover. 3rd printing. viii, 358 p.; 19.5 cm. [First printed in 1895] Good orig. rust cloth, backstrip abraded. Gilt top.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. viii, 371 p.; 19.5 cm. Fair orig. gray buckram, lacks backstrip.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good orig. rust cloth. 1st edition. viii, 409 p.; 19.5 cm.

VG sand buckram,spine darkened. Beige sides. Leather title-piece. 63, [1] p.; front. (port.); 17 cm. Signature: Ian Maclaren in gold on front cover. Prior owner's inscr. on ffep `The parallel between dipsomania and bibliomania is very close and suggestive. It is the wife who in both cases is usually the sufferer and good angel.' (p. 51) `.it is the triumphant cunning with which the bookman will smuggle a suspicious brown paper parcel into his study at an hour when his wife is out, or the effrontery with which he will declare when caught, that the books have been sent unbeknown to him, and supposes merely for his examination. For, like drink, this fearsome disease eats into the very fibre of character, so that its victim will practise tricks to obtain books in advance of a rival collector, and will tell the most mendacious stories about what he paid for them. Should he desire a book, and it be not a king's ransom, there is no sacrifice he will not make to obtain it. His modest glass of Burgundy he will cheerfully surrender, and if he ever travelled by any higher class, which is not likely, he will now go third, and his topcoat he will make to last another year, and I do not say he will not smoke, but a cigar will now leave him unmoved. Yes, and if he gets a chance to do an extra piece of writing, between 12 and 2 A.M., he will clutch at the opportunity, and all that he saves, he will calculate shilling by shilling, and the book he purchases with the complete price--that is the price to which he has brought down the seller after two days' negotiations--anxious yet joyful days--will be all the dearer to him for his self-denial.' (p. 54-56). Illustrated by photograph by. 2nd impression edition. Binding is Hardcover.…

Pamphlet. 15 p.; 21.5 cm. Fair, stapled, in edgeworn gray wrapper, lower margin torn off.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 16mo. (17 cm.) vi, 218p. Decorated title page. Black and white frontispiece drawing of a woman coming through a gate set against the backdrop of pasture, house and mountains. Green decorative cloth with silver letters on the front cover and the spine and with a vignette in green, black, blue and silver of a cottage with smoke coming from the chimneys and with a teakettle on the spine. Binding signed FBS for the designer Frank Berkeley Smith . Just touches of wear to extremities with nothing rubbed through, cloth clean and bright, silver bright, frontispiece in fine condition, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. The binding designer, Frank Berkeley Smith [1869-1931] was a noted author, as well as an illustrator and designer, active from 1897 to 1916. Working largely in the poster style, Smith was a prolific cover designer, and according to Gullans/Espey, he worked "in outline or with pure color areas without outline." He died in Artennes, France, where he lived with his wife, Jeanne Constentin Chester Smith. A fine copy for any collector of Frank Berkeley Smith. John Watson [pseudonym Ian Maclaren, 1850-1907] was a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman in Liverpool [1880-1905] and author who won fame with BESIDE THE BONNIE BRIER BUSH (1894), which was followed by other portrayals of humble Scottish life. He was a member of the kallyard school and wrote several religious works as well.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New.