champlin virginia (14 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. 362 pages. Condition is Very Good; spine lightly toned, light spots on front cover, previous owner's name on front endpaper in pencil, title page partially detached, tecy and illustrations are very clean. STK.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Wraps. Zustand: Poor. 1880 or perhaps later. Presumed late 19th century reprint of the Lee and Shepard American publication. Wraps (LACKING both front and rear). vi, 259, 8 pp. The 8 pages at the rear are specimen pages from a forthcoming work. A mystery/detective style novel set in late 19th century France and involving the discovery of a corpse. POOR/FAIR condition, LACKING the front and rear wrap. Most of the wrap present along the spine, with some loss at the head and tail. Heavy browning to the paper, with some soiling to the first and last page. Minor chipping and tearing to the extremities of the first and last pages. Text block solid.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Mademoiselle Bismarck | Virginia Champlin Henri Rochefort | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | Antigonos Verlag | EAN 9783566081454 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. vi, 271, [9] p. 19 cm. Frontispiece, title vignette and 49 other b&w plates. Green cloth with black, grey and gold impressing. Mylar wrap (removed for photo). A little wear to corners and spine ends. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. Light stains to endpapers and mild spotting to text block edges. Occasional thumbing and soiling to pages. Tear and crease at top of Contents page and p. 1. Original French title "Les Tribulations d'un Chinoies en Chine" or "The Tribulations of a Chinese in China." While the title was changed to "The Adventures of a Chinaman," note that "Tribulations" appears on page tops. Cover shows the characters on the junk "Sam-Yep" before a golden sunset on a calm sea. This novel contains a vast amount of general information about China and the customs described would have been of much interest to the West. Taves & Michaluk V020.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair with no dust jacket. Title page 1880, [actually October 1879 but not dated as such except for an "1879" copyright], early American edition. 12mo. Blank [2], vi, 271, blank [1], ads [9] pp. Orig blue cloth with yellow eps. Cocked, loss to upper corner of front cover. Covers stained, occasional dog earing, childish pencilings on eps.

Boards. 1st Edition in English. octavo, original blue cloth boards, gilt decoration to spine, pp 271 plus 9 pp publisher's catalogue.Title page: "Published Boston: Lee & Shepard & New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1880". Copyright page: "1879. Lee and Shepard . 'Franklin Press, Boston". Original blue cloth has been professionally relaid over boards. Some fading to cloth, occasional small mark internally otherwise clean, good condition only. The first US edition, also the first edition in English, of an unusual Jules Verne novel set in China.

262 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition in English. First edition in English. 262 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An very early work of fiction featuring a scientific detective, set in New York and featuring forensic detective William Dow. This copy in a variant binding it was also issued by the same publisher, in the Favorite Edition, in maroon cloth, with ads for other Favorite Edition titles. Hubin notes, "Though given as the author, Champlin is actually the translator of this work: 'La Femme de Cire', by Rene De Pont-Jest, Paris, 1883'". The title page and copyright page make no mention of Rene de Pont-Just, nor the original French text; a comparison of the original French text suggests considerable editorial discretion in the translation. Grace V. Lord (who wrote under the name Virginia Champlin) also translated or adapted work by Jules Verne, Alphonse Daudet and other French authors. She died tragically, in May of 1885 (in the year in which Shadowed by a Detective was published), at approximately forty years of age, while walking along a sidewalk near her home in Boston, when she was crushed by falling lumber during a construction accident. A scarce publication. Not in Wright; Hubin, Crime Fiction, pp. 74, 151. OCLC: 15204827 (4 locations) Dark blue cloth, stamped in gold on spine. Bumped at top edge (with tiny closed tear), text is evenly tanned (printed on acidic paper), a few leaves of text have short, creased tears, and nicks, in blank margins (due to acidic paper). Very good copy, with the fragile floral endpapers very fresh and bright.