Ballantine serjeant (13 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Light tan cloth binding. No markings in the text with a few light scattered soil spots. There is a name printed on the front end paper. The hinges are cracked and the front end papers and frontispiece are loose but present with the book. The cover has soiling and light corner wear. The spine is darkened, the print is heavily rubbed and has light end wear.…

Zustand: Fair. 1882. No Edition Remarks. 321 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece. Volume I. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper and half title page. Heavy tape repairs to hinges. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Gilt lettering is darkened. Heavy tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Heavy splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 3rd edition . Third edition, Volume 2 only, 1882. Ex-library couple of stamp marks .Heavy book may require extra postage unless posed within South Africa. There is gilt on the spine of the book. Red pages edges around the block. The front free end paper page has been removed. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and faded marks on the front cover. There is foxing on the early and last few pages, little within the body of the book. All pages are accessible. The binding is secure. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Fascinating legal (and other) reminiscences from high profile counsel. Stock toned with some occasional foxing, but in general all in VG internal order. Signature of A Champness neatly to title page. Dark red cloth, a little shelfworn, with black decoration front and rear and gilt titling to spine. 12mo. xxiv, 394pp + ads.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST U. S. EDITION hardcover, bound in dark green cloth, with stylized initials of author in gilt on front cover, and slightly dulled gilt lettering on spine, is in POOR condition, having considerable wear to top and bottom spine; corners quite bumped and worn; some light staining to covers and spine; considerable shaking to volume, with first and last endpaper gutters very cracked (see photo), and broken sewn binding between pages 144 and 145--in fact this book must be handled very gently, or it could easily fall apart; occasional small stains throughout book; pp. 493 to 498 show a crease at top corner; first page after reverse of first free endpaper has small corner piece missing and small tears near it. One illustration, a frontispiece sepia photograph of the author. Biography and autobiography. British. Barristers. Sergeant-at-Law. Law. DB.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. First US Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 532 pages; (INSCRIBED) 1883 J M Stoddart (NY & Phil) HC Original US edition, from the 6th London edition. . Inscibed presentation note from the author on the title page: "Mrs B Eveline Walton, from the author." . Inscription unsigned and undated. Original buff cream cloth with titled paper label to spine. Boards shelf soiled and a bit grubby. Drink ring impression on rear board. Label to spine rubbed but complete and generally bright. Front endpg corner clipped, missing a large triangular piece. Frontis tissue guard torn at margin. Deckled edges of text block dust stained. Otherwise sound and clean. G+ to VG-.…

Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

[Drawn by ATn] Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 35.5 x 23cm. Image size approx. 31.5 x 19cm. With the original leaf of biographical text from the magazine.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First American Edition. First American edition. Cloth binding, gold titles, 527 pp. Frontispiece portrait, protective tissue. BALLANTINE, WILLIAM (1812-1887), English serjeant-atlaw, was born in London on the 3rd of January 1812, being the son of a London police-magistrate. He was educated at St Paul's school, and called to the bar in 1834. He began in early life a varied acquaintance with dramatic and literary society, and his experience, combined with his own pushing character and acute intellect, helped to obtain for him very soon a large practice, particularly in criminal cases. He became known as a formidable cross-examiner, his great rival being Serjeant Parry (1816—1880). The three great cases of his career were his successful prosecution of the murderer Franz Muller in 1864, his skilful defence of the Tichborne claimant in 1871 and his defence of the gaekwar of Baroda in 1875, his fee in this last case being one of the largest ever known. Ballantine became a serjeant-at-law in 1856. He died at Margate on the 9th of January 1887, having previously published more than one volume of reminiscences. Serjeant Ballantine's private life was decidedly Bohemian; and though he earned large sums, he died very poor. Antique ex-llibrary with hand-numbered and hand-dated bookplate. Boards skewed, rub along edge of spine, light shelfwear. Very good condition. Illustrated (illustrator).…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 4to. On first leaf of bifolium. Forty-three lines of neat text. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with a few small closed tears. The author ('Sir') is unnamed, but is presumably the 'Editor' referred to in the text. Signed 'Wm Ballantine'. By recipient, at head of first page: 'Letter from Mr Sergeant [sic] Ballantine / United Club -'. Begins: 'I have to acknowledge the receipt of what purports to be a specimen of a new family paper called "The English Resident" & which it is supposed will supply a want existing especially amongs the English sojourners of all descriptions in different French places of resort. & notably at this one of the most favourable watering places of the British people - Those who favoured me with the number in question were aware that for many years of a busy life there has rarely been a year during which upon more than one occasion I have not sought health and recreation uponits shores. I have had abundant opportunities of appreciating its advantages & recognizing its wants and I welcome very heartily the probabl advent of a newspaper which appears to be conducted upon principles likely to render it a very popular addition.' The second half of the letter is in much the same highfallutin tone (see reference to 'the freedom and elasticity of Boulogne air'), with Ballantine feeling that is is 'impertinent on my part to offer hints to an Editor so evidently experienced as the Gentleman who has supplied news in the number that I have had the pleasure of reading'. See Image of second page. …