1863 1943 jacobs (33 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: VERY GOOD. First printing. A collection of mostly humorous stories with decorations and 10 full page illustrations by Will Owen. Tissue guard at frontispiece. 269 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads. Very good in orange illustrated boards.

1st edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Browning to the pages. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; viii, 305, 1 unnumbered page, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm. Contents; Shareholders -- Paying off -- Made to measure -- Sam's ghost -- Bedridden -- The convert -- Husbandry -- Family cares -- The winter offensive -- The substitute -- Striking hard -- Dirty work. Subjects; Sailors ; Fiction. England Social life and customs ; Fiction. 20th century literature. WW Jacobs. 1 Kg. …

Edition Unstated. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Some wear to spine. Corners slightly bumped. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series: Nelson's Library. Physical description: 287 pages ; 17cm. Notes: No clear date of publication given. Subjects: English fiction. 1 Kg.…

Edition Unstated. Previous owner's signature. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Some wear to spine. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series: Nelson's Library. Physical description: 254p. ; 19cm. Notes: No clear date of publication given. Subjects: English fiction. 1 Kg.…

Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. One of the illustration plates detached. Scattered foxing. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 269 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. Contents: Captains all -- The boatswain's mate -- The nest egg -- The constable's move -- Bob's redemption -- Over the side -- Four pigeons -- The temptation of Samuel Burge -- The madness of Mr. Lister -- The white cat. Subjects: Manners and customs ; Fiction. Sea stories, English. 1 Kg. …

Penguin Edition. Poor paperback copy- front two pages loose. Internally bright and clean. Physical description: 246 pages; 19 cm. Subjects: Fiction. 20th century fiction. 20th century writers. Penguin classics. 1 Kg.

Reprint. Previous owner's signature. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 1024 pages; 20 cm.Contents: Deep waters -- Sea whispers -- Captains all -- Night watchers -- Ship's company -- Love-letters. Subjects: Short stories. Seafaring life; Fiction. Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.…

17th Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good, somewhat dust-dulled and edge-torn dust wrapper. Library marks. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 8, 195 p. Subjects; English fiction 20th century. Humorous stories, English. Sea stories, English. Sailors Fiction. Great Britain Social life and customs 20th century Fiction. Jacobs, W. W. 1863-1943. 1 Kg.…

Copyright Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Date suggested. Physical description; 253 pages ; (8º). Subjects; Short stories. English. River life ; Fiction. Humorous stories. English. Manners and customs. England. Social life and customs. Angleterre Murs et coutumes. Romans, nouvelles. 1 Kg. …

Second Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Publisher's motif gilt-tooled to front cover. Illustrated title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 316 pages; Description: viii, 316p. : illus. ; 20 cm. Subjects: English fiction -- General fiction. Summary: Spirited story of life in a little English seaport town, of shipbuilding and love, full of adventure and rollicking fun. 1 Kg.…

Copyright Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Date suggested. Physical description; 251 pages ; 17 cm. Subjects; Short stories, English. Fiction. Humorous stories. Sailors. Manners and customs. Angleterre Murs et coutumes. Marins. 1 Kg.…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. On 10 x 7 cm piece of paper, cut down from letterhead. In good condition, lightly aged, with pin holes at top left. Clearly sent in response to a request for an autograph. Reads: 'Yours very truly / W. W. Jacobs'. See scan.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Slightly edge-torn and bumped corners. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 302 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. Contents; Deserted. -- Homeward bound. -- Self-help. -- Matrimonial openings. -- Odd man out. -- The toll-house. -- Peter's pence. -- Head of the family. -- Prize money. -- Double dealing. -- Keeping up appearances. -- Sentence deferred. Subjects; Humorous stories, English. England Social life and customs Fiction. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 490pp. 9.5 x 7 inch. This is an extraordinary and unique collection of original serialised works extracted from the magazines between 1897 and 1908, collected by H.H.Hartley and bound together in 1921. The binding is professionally done so they are all backed onto each other with no other pages in between. They will all be first editions as they appeared in the magazines before any were published in book form. Each page has been numbered in pencil (as the original page numbers would not be relevant) and the Contents listing at the front allows you to go straight to the book you want.…

Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, 300 pages. In Good minus condition. Spine is tan with black print. Boards in tan illustrated cloth. Fraying to spine caps, wear to corners. Text block has brown tinted top edge. Bookplate on front pastedown, spotting to endpapers, cracked front hinge, relaxed binding. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece and plates (drawings). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column R (ND-R). 1380153. FP New Rockville Stock.…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. The recipient, whose name Jacobs gives as 'D. H. Denselow Esq', was the commercial artist and autograph hunter Douglas Harold Hellier-Denselow, whose studio was in Gunnersbury, West London. The note reads: 'Dear Mr. Denselow / I am much obliged for your letter & its accompanying illustration. I shall not follow your example & affix my eye to my autograph / Yours very truly / W. W. Jacobs'.…

First Edition. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 298 [6]. With 38 illustrations by Owen. Publisher's orange illustrated cloth, with gilt titles to spine, black decoration to spine and upper, and black titles to upper. A neat ownership. Minor wear to cloth, with some spotting. A very good copy.…

First Edition. [Short stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 298 [6]. With 38 black and white illustrations by Will Owen. Publisher's pink cloth, pictorial designs blocked in black to upper board and spine, gilt titles to spine. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. Advertisements to rear. Spotted throughout, mainly to margins and fore edge, also to preliminaries and rear leaves. Cloth lightly toned and marked, some bubbling to upper joint. Mild edgewear. Very good. Twelve humorous short stories. …

First Edition. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.269 [3]. With 10 black and white plates illustrated by Owen, including a frontispiece, as well several further vignette engravings. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine, and black titles and decoration to upper. A little light spotting to first and final few leaves. Spotting and toning to all edges. Light wear to cloth with a little bumping to corners. Very good.…

First Edition. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 295 [49]. With 12 line-drawn plates by Stacey, including a frontispiece. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine, and all in black to upper. Spotting throughout; quite heavily to edges. Toning to endpapers. Only very light wear to cloth. Very good. A collection of sixteen short stories, including the strange tale 'Jerry Bundler,' originally written as a play and first brought to the stage in 1899.…

[Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Two octavo magazines (27 x 18cm), pp.lxxvi; 241-360; lxxvii-lxxxiv; pp.lxxx; 361-480; lxxxi-lxxviii. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled in dark blue, stapled twice. Presented in black cloth-covered chemise case with gilt titles to spine. First volume exceptionally crisp and clean, with just a few nicks to covers, and a large loss to final advert leaf. Second volume more heavily rubbed, with some toning, spotting and a few chips and tears to covers, as well as a loss to tail of spine. Very good. Both parts of Adams' weird tale 'The Flying Death,' in which a mysterious beach-murder turns out to have been committed by a rogue dinosaur, together with some later parts of Doyle's 'Etienne Gerard,' two short stories by Jacobs, and a short story by Wells.…

1st Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 300 pages. Subjects: Fiction. Fiction in English. 20th century fiction. Jacobs, W.W. 1 Kg. …

[Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Clean internally, with moderate wear to cloth, including some wrinkling to spine of volume 15, and a crack to the binding of volume 16, manifesting at p.595. An attractive, practical pair. Very good. A significant collection, including all seven parts of Doyle's 'Round the Fire' stories, and all ten parts of both Meade / Eustace's 'The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings' and Allen's 'Miss Cayley's Adventures' - a pair of detective novels featuring strong female lead-characters. Also including numerous interesting short pieces by other authors, including H.G. Wells.…