Author 1842 (39 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Octavo; Fair+; Ex-library; Hardcover; Spine, blue with gold print, call number label at bottom; Boards in blue cloth, wear to spine caps, edges, and corners, rubbing/shelfwear; Text block has deckled edges, front flyleaf torn out, tanning to endpapers, cracked hinges front and rear, intermittent spine breaks; xv, 328…

Hardcover. Octavo, 157 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine is black and red with white print. Dust jacket has edgewear with small tears at spine ends and flap corners, toning to spine, peripheral toning. Price clipped. Boards in red cloth. Light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has tanni…

Hardcover. Octavo, xi, 256 pages. In Poor condition. Ex-library with library stamps on front endpapers and title page verso. Spine is red with tanned paper title label. Boards in red cloth, gold print; worn and tattered spine caps and corners, mild shelf wear, cocked spine. Text block has has gilt top edge, broken front hinge wi…

Hardcover. Octavo, xvii, 234 pages. In Good condition. Spine is blue with gold print. Boards in blue cloth. Light wear to spine caps and corners, light toning to spine. Text block has tanning to endpapers. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait and plate (facsimile). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column P. 1393168. FP New Rockville S…

Hardcover. Octavo, 361 pages. In Fair plus condition. Spine is brown with gold print, raised bands. Boards quarter bound with brown leather to spine and marbled paper to boards. Light wear to spine caps, hinges, edges, light toning to spine. Text block has marbled endpapers, green ribbon marker. Glue stain to front flyleaf, crac…

Hardcover. Octavo; G-; Hardcover; Spine, blue with gold print; Boards in blue cloth with gold print, fraying to spine caps, wear to corners, toning to spine, peripheral toning; Text block has small stain to edge of frontispiece, light age-toning to paper, else clean and tight; 489 pages, frontispiece (port.), illustrated (b&w pl…

Zustand: Fine. Fine. - A 2-1/4 inch high by 3-3/4 inch wide card inscribed & signed by George Herbert Palmer "Dear Sir: According to your request I send my autograph. Truly yours, G.H. Palmer". Fine. The American scholar and author George Herbert Palmer (1842-1933) was a professor at Harvard University. He is known for his trans…

Hardcover. Octavo, 810 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is green with gold print. Boards in green cloth. Tattering to spine caps and corners, mild wear to edges, light shelf wear. Text block has spotting to endpapers, cracked front hinge, shaken binding. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait, b&w plates and text drawings. NOTE:…

Hardcover. Octavo, Two volumes. In Good condition with Good dust jackets. Spines are black and white with white print. Dust jackets have light edge wear, light shelf wear. Price unclipped: "$3.50" each volume. Boards in pink cloth. Light wear to spine caps and corners. Text blocks have bookplate inside front flyleaf. CONTENTS: B…

Zustand: Near Fine. Hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet and black decorated cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 7'' x 5''. Contains 181 [12 page catalogue] printed pages of text with monochrome frontispiece illustration. Near Fine condition book in near Fine cond…

On one side of an 11.5 x 12.5 cm piece of paper, cut down from a larger leaf. In good condition, lightly aged; laid down on a 15.5 x 15 cm piece of card to which a typed biographical slip is attached. Reads: 'Dear Madam | I have just received your note and write in haste to say that I shall do myself the pleasure of waiting upon…

See Cary's entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On the first leaf of a bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged and folded for postage. The recipient is not named, but the item is from the papers of Lady Maria Theresa Lewis, and the letter is written to her first husband, the novelist Thomas Henry Lister (1800-1842), whose fathe…

1st edition. Very good copy in the original illustrated 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; 241 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm. Notes; Ennis Graham is pseudonym for Mary L.S.…

See his entry and Chantrey's in the Oxford DNB. On one side of a trimmed-down piece of paper, roughly 11 cm square. Discoloured, and with damage to the corners (affecting one word at top right) from removal from mount. With postage folds, and evidence on otherwise-blank reverse that Cunningham was re-using an envelope: part of a…

Hard back binding in publisher's original bottle green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, lemon end papers. 12mo. 6¼'' x 4''. Contains (viii), 180 pp. Ink message opposite the title page dated October 1875 to Emily Mausell, surface stain to the rear board, page edges age darkened. Member of the P.B.F…

Zustand: Good. - Closely written page from an autograph manuscript penned on an 8 inch high by 5 inch wide sheet of lined paper. with several pencil corrections. The paper is a bit darkened with the 2 bottom corners lightly creased. Good. The manuscript is headed "Bonnie's Horoscope / By Belle C. Greene" with the numeral '"4250"…

Three pages, 12mo, bifolium, good condition. "Herewith I send your formal letter of agreement [not present] with respect to the contribution kindly forwarded by you to Social England [Traill and J.S. Mann's "Social England: A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws, Learning, Arts, Industry, Commerce, Science, Lit…

Zustand: Very Good. First English language edition hard back binding in publisher's original decorated blue cloth covers, gilt and red title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 188 [+ 24 page publisher's catalogue dated 1887-1888] printed pages of text with 4 full-page monochrome…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth over bevelled-boards, with Arms of London stamped in gilt on front cover. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; internally bright and clean. Physical description; 1 preliminary leaf, xi,…