chambers c e s (14 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Removed label from paste-downs. 260mm x 200mm (10" x 8"). vii, 224pp, 62pp + plates. 11 b/w plates (2 fold-out). Blue hardback cloth cover with club crest in gilt.

No Binding. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Disbound item o/w a clean unmarked copy in good condition. m448.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. xiii, 573 pages ; 22 cm ; ISBN 9780760703533, 0760703531 OCLC 41973682 ; blue and black cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: Ghosts / Anon -- Schalken the painter/ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- M. Anastasius / Dinah Maria Mulock -- The lost room / Fitz-James O'Brien -- No. 1 Branch Line : the signalman / Charles Dickens -- Haunted / Anon -- The romance of certain old clothes / Henry James -- John Granger / Mary E. Braddon -- The ghost in the mill and The ghost in the Cap'n Brown House / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Poor pretty Bobby / Rhoda Broughton -- The new pass / Amelia B. Edwards -- The white and the black / Erckmann-Chatrian -- The underground ghost / J.B. Harwood -- Christmas Eve on a haunted hulk / Frank Cowper -- Dog or demon? / Theo Gift -- A ghost from the sea / J.E.P. Muddock -- A set of chessmen / Richard Marsh -- The judge's house / Bram Stoker. Pallinghurst Barrow / Grant Allen -- The mystery of the semi-detached / E. Nesbit -- Sister Maddelena / Ralph Adams Cram -- The trainer's ghost / Lettice Galbraith -- An original revenge / W.C. Morrow -- Caulfield's crime / Alice Perrin -- The bridal pair / Robert W. Chambers -- The watcher / Robert Benson -- The spectre in the cart / Thomas Nelson Page -- H.P. / S. Baring-Gould -- Yuki-Onna / Lafcadio Hearn -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The story of the Green House, Wallington / Allen Upward -- The Slype House / A.C. Benson -- A ghost-child / Bernard Capes. The bead necklace / Alice Perrin -- A dead man's bargain / Clive Pemberton -- The house that was lost / Tom Gallon -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- The doll's ghost / F. Marion Crawford -- The moonlit road / Ambrose Bierce -- The forbidden floor / Alexander Harvey -- The shadow / E. Nesbit -- The gateway of the monster / William Hope Hodgson ; "This collection first published in the UK by Robinson Publishing and in the United States by Carol & Graf Publishers, as The mammoth book of Victorian & Edwardian ghost stories."--Title page verso ; collects 40 of the best ghost stories ever written from the genre's golden age--1839 to 1910. Readers will find traditional 19th-century English and American supernatural yarns, chilling fireside tales, and well-crafted eerie stories from such notables as Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Henry James, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. ; FINE/FINE. Book.

First Edition, [ii],22pp., interleaved, one of 285 copies, orig. printed wrappers, spine slightly torn.

Zustand: New.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 1929. First edition. 64pp. and a frontispiece portrait of Robert Chambers. Loosely inserted at the start of the book is a copy of a note C.E.S. Chambers to the original owner of this book that is dated 1929 and reads; "With Kind Regards, C.E.S. Chambers - W. Forbes Gray Esq." Charles E.S. Chambers was a grandson of Robert Chambers, and a book collector. This catalogue of some of the rarer items in his collection also contains a useful bibliography of William and Robert Chambers. The book is bound in the original red cloth covered boards with a paper title label on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear and light soiling on the boards. The spine is slightly faded and there is some wear to the title label. There is also slight fading to the bottom 2 3/4" of the rear board. The contents are tight and clean with browning to the back of the frontispiece and some light foxing on the front. There is no inscription. Association copy.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Zustand: Good. W & R Chambers, 1907. cover stains; very light fraying. endpapers lightly foxed; front endpaper torn at bottom half. hardcover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Zustand: New. Focuses on the themes of importance in the analysis of the role that the early life history of fishes plays in the number and quality of recruits: the selective processes at play in their early life history; the contributions of early life history to the understanding of recruitment. Editor(s): Chambers, R.C.; Trippel, E.A. Series: Fish & Fisheries Series. Num Pages: 596 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSVW1; TVT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1056. . 1997. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. tall8vo, 24cm, first edition, 96p., on laid paid, untrimmed, in full red fine grain linen, paper label, (label chipped along the top edge),t.e.g., one internal library stamp else very good to fine copy (s8.3).

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Wightman, W.E.; Hiley, Francis E.; Goss, G.W.; Cleaver, Reginald; Holloway, Cyril; Thompson, Kenneth; Sherie, E.F.; Prater, Ernest; Vedder, S.H. (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Poachers - An amusing story of a chase after a wounded African elephant; The Mystery of the "Mary Clyne" - A chief officer's story of a weird and nerve-trying affair that happened on board a tramp steamer; Housekeeping in the Wilds of Bechuanaland - Vivian France explains how she set up her home a month's ox-cart journey from civilization - with nice photos ; Following the Frontier Trail - Part II - The continued adventures of Edith Ammons Kohl in Wyoming; Our Caribou Hunt - How four young Newfoundlanders went into the interior one winter to shoot caribou, and what happened to them; Pekin [Peking / Beijing] to London - Mostly By Car - Part II - A most adventurous 15,000 miles, with nautical detours around civil war in China, and floods in Siam and Burma - with nice photos; A Fool Afoot in France - Part I - The amusing narrative of a decidedly unathletic 46-year-old Londoner who decided to tramp from the French coast to Lourdes; The Black Trackers of Australia - follow-up to "The Great Boulder Murder Case" which appeared in the prior issue; Photo of sheep being used as pack animals on the way from Tibet to the Rampur Fair; A Chinese Night's Entertainment - A lively interlude in the peaceful routine of life at a mission-station in a remote Chinese town; Buddy Assheton's Return - A tragic story from Western Canada, as told by a member of the Mounted Police; My Room-Mate - The amusing story of what happened one night at a hotel in a Queensland township; The Unmasking of Gola Singh - A member of the Indian police goes bad, creating the need for a delicate investigation; A "Creeper" in Ceylon - Part I - C.V. Warren travels to a tea estate in Ceylon and describes his experiences and the general routine of the tea-planter's life, with photos. 84 pages plus 12 pages of great ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Illustrated by Prater, Ernest; Carruthers, G.P.; Hiley, F.E.; Holloway,Cyril; Wigfull, W.E.; Briault, S.; Gale, W.G.; Goss, G.W.; Tresilian, S.;Potts, Leonard; Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, H.M. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 338-420 + 16 pages of nice ads, including one page for Leonard Wood Memorial, an organization combatting leprosy. Features: The Sealed River - the terrible events which befell a young British police officer at the hands of an old Boer ex-commandant; The Hold-Up of No. 13 - remarkable robbery of the Southern Pacific Railway Company in Oregon, October 11, 1923 - article with photos of Hugh De Autremont, Ray Charles De Autremont and Roy A.A. De Autremont; Saving a President - the author spirited President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico from Mexico City to the coast when he adbicated in 1911; Ning Wo Intervenes - a Chinese Sherlock Holmes with methods all his own; Diver v. Devil-Fish - a Puget Sound battle in 1927; Life in a Land of Death - Part 1 - adventures among Papuan head-hunters - article with amazing photos; A Matter of Slave-Raiding - the white man goes up against a ruffianly border chieftain along the Abyssinian frontier of the Sudan; "Square-Pegs" - part 1 - the misadventures of a middle-class London family which uprooted itself and relocated to a Canadian prairie farm; Saved by an Iceberg - two Newfoundland fisherman were adrift for 11 days; The Lost Tusker - occult powers of the primitive Kurramba tribesmen of the Malabar forests; O'Hara to the Rescue - incident on board a steamer; Tom Threepersons - article with photo about a 'wild west' gunman; On Tour with a Puppet-Show - part 2 - odd experiences through the West of England; Tobacco Redeemer (smoking cessation) ad inside back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, March (Mar.) 1928, Vol. LX, No. 359 - Slave-Raiding Leonard Wood Memorial, an organization combatting leprosy. Features: The Sealed River - the terrible events which befell a young British police offi.

First edition. First edition. Engraved portraits of Robert and William Chambers. [iv], 60 pp. 8vo. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Thomas Hutchinson Esqr, with all good wishes from C.E. Chambers, Edinburgh. January, 1899." With an ALS laid-in from Chambers to Hutchinson. Chambers' collection consited mostly of Romantic and Victorian literature, including a large run of Dickens first editions. Original green cloth. Near fine. Bookplate of Catherine Kinnear Engraved portraits of Robert and William Chambers. [iv], 60 pp. 8vo.