1877 novelist (18 resultados)

Condición: Very good. - A partial sheet of the author's letterhead, approximately 3-1/2 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide with his address printed in raised lettering at the top, is signed in black ink "Warwick Deeping". The letterhead is slightly unevenly cut with remnants of tape on he verso where it has been removed from an album. Very good. Warwick Deeping [1877-1950] was an English novelist and short-story writer whose best-known novel was "Sorrell and Son" [1925]. After serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I, Deeping gave up his job as a doctor to become a full-time writer. His early work was dominated by historical romances. His later novels more often dealt with modern life and were critical of many tendencies of twentieth century civilization. His attitude was generally one of passionate individualism, distrustful of both ruling elites and the lower classes who were often presented as a threat to his embattled middle-class protagonists. He was one of the best-selling authors of the 1920s and 1930s.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 282 pages frontispiece, plates, portraits : 24 cm.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair/Good. First American Edition. Original issue cloth boards with printed paper label on spine. Moderately rubbed, cocked spine, o/w sound binding, partial damp stain, general foxing (light to moderate) and leaves cockled somewhat, however the book lays flat. Preceded by an Advertisment from Harper and Brother, a rather gushing presentation of the author and this book. 366 pp. plus 10 pp. advertisements in back, two leaves with long tear. Questions welcome. Images can be made upon request.

Hard Cover. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Thus. HBDJ, 1922, 1st Edition THUS , VG/VG-, AS-IS, Small TINY chips Tears to light FADE on DJ edges & Extremities YET Titles & Illustration INTACT, DJ light Rub, wear Tiny Chips Tears Edges, Spine ends DJ tiny chips Tears but Titles Intact, Back DJ light wear Soil & tiny chips tears edges, Interior nice tight clean light FOX, Wear, 301 pgs, + ADS in Back end with Cleek of Scotland Yard, THICK Dark Blue Cloth cover Titled in Gold Gilt with Lite Rub on Front & Spine which has light wear ends & Rub to Gilt, DJ IN Clear Protective Mylar, tiny Scuff mark edge DJ spine Middle, .Jimmie Dale, the gentleman adventurer, who prefers slinking thru the East Side garbed in Rags, rather than warm His feet before the open Fire Place fo His Club, is back on the Scent with the King of Crime & Quarry. Over the head of the woman he Loves hangs a menace from the Gang, she & Jmmie have often thwarted, & thru the previous volume saw the leader disposed of, & they free to Marry & live their own Lives. Another startling adventure & Mystery Story, there is Still one of the Gang Left the Phantom & Marie knows it, she disappears so as to work out her own salvation, without involving Jimmie, But he will not agree to this & he resumes his Underworld Work. Full of startling events, plots & counter plots, Read the book for the great Climax. This addition to the Jimmie Dale series is a great mystery that keeps you guessing til the second to last page. The second of five books featuring Jimmie Dale, this one a collection of stories from the pulps where they were first published.

Condición: Good. - A 1-1/2 inch high by 4-3/4 inch wide piece of paper clipped from the bottom of a letter, with the words "Sincerely yours" typed in closing signed by Rex Beach in black ink. The once folded paper has been mounted onto heavier black stock, likely clipped from an album. Good. The American novelist, playwright and Olympic water polo player Rex Beach (1877-1949) studied law before moving to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. He turned to writing after he was unsuccessful as a prospector basing his stories on his experiences as a prospector. His novel "The Spoilers" was based on his experience with corrupt government officials stealing gold mines from prospectors. Beach's works were inspired by Jack London and, though popular in their day, were also criticized as being simply tales of "strong hairy men doing strong hairy deeds".

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. No Jacket. HB NODustjacket, 1877. First edition. 1st printing dates on title & copyright page Match, NF+/NF-, NODJ, original blind-stamped Maroon cloth , gilt lettering. 16mo, Interior Nice, tight Clean Light FoX wear, Cover light rub, wear stains & tiny Chips Extremities, 247 pages + Ads, Gold Gilt Cover Nice Bright.

Penny red. Postmarked 1853.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Thus. Inner front flap DJ has small chip on front bottom near it, but not very big. HBDJ, 1925, 1st Edition THUS , VG/GOOD, AS-IS, Small TINY chips Tears to light FADE on DJ edges & Extremities , small Triangular chip at Top Edge removes Part of O in word Broken, DJ light Rub, wear Tiny Chips Tears Edges, Spine ends DJ tiny chips Tears Scuff but Titles Intact light FOX, Back DJ light wear Soil & tiny chips tears edges lists thru Frontiers of the Deep, Interior nice tight clean light FOX Thruout, Wear, 294 pgs, + ADS in Back end with Riddle of Spinning Wheel, THICK Green Tweed Cloth cover Titled embossed in Gold Gilt Titleing, DJ IN Clear Protective Mylar, Cover Spine Titled in Black light wear .Scenes of this Thrilling Story vary from Havre & Paris, to the Romantic islands of Polynesia, where the last Threads of the Plots are finally Untangled. John Crane, a middle-aged Man of Wealth & Adventure, is asleep on His Ocean-Going Yacht in the Port of Havre, when he is unduly awakened in the wee small hours of the morning upon the insistance of an Englishman, just arrived from Paris by Motor. The Englishman reveals Himself as a friend of Martin Todd, an old Pal of Cranes, who has agreed to help a group of Russian Noblemen in an endeavor to smuggle some valuable jewels out of Russia. Crane, of course is eager to accept & Guard Them Although he is warned that Soviet Agents will Cause Trouble. & Thus the Plot is Launched. Next the scene shifts to the Paris Underworld where Anne Walton, The Daughter of a Rich Planter, is Discovered on an Errand of Mercy. A Gripping Hair-Raising Story. A mystery which starts in the underworld of Paris.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. HBDJ, 1927, 1st Canadian Edition, with Colophon on copyright page, VG/GOOD, AS-IS, Small chips to light FADE on DJ edges & Extremities YET Titles & Illustration INTACT ,1927, 1st editon, DJ light Rub, wear Tiny Chips Tears Edges, Spine ends DJ small chips Take out TH in Word The & s in Devils at Top end DJ, Back DJ light wear Soil & tiny chips tears edges, Interior nice tight clean light FOX, Wear, 313 pgs, NO ADS in Back, THICK Red Illustrated Cloth cover Titled in Black on Front & Spine which has light creases, DJ IN Clear Protective Mylar . a Man-Hunt over the South Pacific, There was Mystery about it, Fate, Dire Fate, in the shape of Devil's Mantle Hung over Peter Blake, South Sea Trader & Adventurer. Up & Down the Pacific His Name stood for Villainies of All Degrees, Yet His Hands were Clean. Adventure Story, Mystery novel set around a man hunt in the South Pacific.

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Very good. In the previous year Yonge had published her historical novel 'Journal of Lady Beatrix Graham', based on the life of the sister of the Great Montrose, and Stuart would appear to open with a jocular reference to this character, rather than to her ancestor the living nine-year-old Lady Beatrice Graham (1863-1932), when he asks Yonge 'to inform Lady Beatrix that if she cares to see a Letter of the Great Marquis recently brought to light among Lord Rollo's papers, she will find a copy of it in the third Report of the Historical MSS Commission just issued - and where a good deal of other curious correspondence is noticed. He explains how to get a copy of the report, adding that the historian Mark Napier has just been with him, 'and is so anxious to see the Letter of Montrose & others of Dundee that he wd. not wait for his own copy of the Report but has carried off mine.' He concludes by describing himself as 'one who has derived so much advantage' from Yonge's writing. At the head of the reverse of the last leaf there is a note, presumably from Yonge to Lady Beatrix, reading 'You will like to see this'.

Hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt tooling, title and author lettering to the spine and to the front and rear covers. 8vo. 7'' x 4½''. Contains 246 + i printed pages of Spanish text with age tanning and foxing to the end papers, small chips to the spine ends, front hinge just starting to separate. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPAIN & SPANISH HISTORY.

The inscription is on the half-title leaf of Warren's anonymous 'A Letter to the Queen on a Late Court Martial' (1850). In fair condition on aged paper, with traces of previous mount adhering to the reverse. It reads: 'Rev. Dr. Warren | With his Son's love. | Samuel Warren. | 12th. Jany 1850.'.

On one side of a piece of laid paper, dimensions 11.5 x 17.5 cm. Good, lightly creased with one small spot at head and a light thumbprint (Warren's?) in top right-hand corner. Clearly responding to a request for an autograph. Reads 'The Heavens declare the glory of God, and the Firmament sheweth His handy work. Ps. XX, I. | [signed] Samuel Warren | 16 Manchester Square | W. | 23d January 1866.' See Image.

4to. 2 pp. To an editor about an upcoming concert on the occasion of the erection of a sculpture of the composer Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931), mentioning costs of 26,000 Francs, hoping to see a note on this event in the newspaper: "Pour une oeuvre fort intéressante et qui doit vous plaire - le buste de Vincent d'Indy érigé en pleine nature, dans le cadre vivarois qui l'inspira - nous organisons un magnifique concert. Malgré le désintéressement des grands artistes qui y prennent part, nous partons avec 26.000 francs de frais. C'est vous dire combien il nous serait précieux que le Journal parle de notre manifestation et insère la petite note incluse. Je suis sur que vous voudrez bien la remettre à qui de droit [.]". - On headed stationery of the "Comité Vincent d'Indy", listing the members of the honorary committee, the general organisational committee, the musical committee, and the committee of Ardèche along the upper and left margins.

3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, aged and lightly creased. Folded twice. Addressed 'To the Editor of the Courant'. Having been made Recorder of Hull in 1852, Warren begins his letter from that place: 'Sir, | Some friend has sent to me your paper of Thursday, last, containing a very kindly notice on my late Charge to the Grand Jury here. - I beg to thank you for that kindness, and also to express my concurrence in your observation on the important legal & Social topics to which that Charge referred.' He is sending, 'as an Evidence of the Salutary effect which that "Charge" produced, a copy of the "Presentment" as we call it, of the Grand Jury, to me, in open Court read by the Foreman.' With the chief magistrate sitting beside him, Warren answered the foreman by stating that after his charge 'the Magistrates had met, & had resolved forthwith to establish a "Reformatory School" for juvenile criminals.' He concludes by stating that he concurs ('ex mio corde') 'in every word of the last section of the article to which I have referred'. In a postscript he states that when he answered the foreman with the news about the reformatory school, 'there began a demonstration of applause in the criminal court which I found it difficult to suppress'.

On both sides of a piece of thin laid paper, roughly 10 x 12.5 cm, torn from a letter. Aged and worn, with chipping to extremities. The recto reads: '[] work is to be published? I sh also be much obliged to you i you will give me any informat about America. Is anything done with that distracted countr in the way of early copies? I dare say it is time to sen Baron Tauchnitz the proofs through Williams & Norgate. I trust you will kindly see to that for m We shall be g to the coun []'. The reverse reads: 'Pray remember me very kindly to them and believe me | Yours truly | Julia Kavanagh | To | H. Blackett Esqre'.

8vo. 2 pp. In French. To an English friend about an accident his sister Marcelle suffered upon her arrival to London with her family - a fall down the staircase which resulted in an operation from which she is currently recovering: "Marcelle est en ce moment à Londres avec son mari et ses enfants [.] à peine arrivée à Londres, dans la maison qu'ils avaient louée, ma soeur est tombée dans l'escalier. Il a fallu la transporter dans une maison de santé et lui faire une opération. Elle est maintenant à peu près rétablie, mais faible". - He mentions that he has so far received from Marcelle a single letter, written in bed and in pencil. He says that he does not recall her home address in Wembley, but provides the address of the Westminster Gazette where his brother-in-law, Hiram Pattinson Knight, is employed: "Elle n'a pu m'écrire encore qu'une fois et au crayon, dans son lit. Je n'ai malheureusement pas la dernière lettre de ma soeur ici. Ils sont à Wembley, mais je ne me rappelle plus l'adresse! Mais mon beau frère a été demandé au Westminster Gazette et, en ce moment, je sais qu'il y va tous les jours. Je lui ai écrit là plusieurs fois [.]". - Flament adds that Marcelle and her husband frequently speak of her and her kindness towards them, fondly remembering their visit to England and the walk they took near Bognor, and concludes with his wish to see her before she leaves Paris: "Marcelle et lui m'ont souvent parlé de vous, de vos gentillesses pour eux. Je n'ai pas oublié la visite que nous vous avons faite, ni l'agréable promenade aux environs de Bognor. Je rentrerai à Paris vers le 10 Juin. Je n'ose espérer que vous soyez encore à Paris. En tout cas, je serai très hereux de vous faire les honneurs de mon rez-de-chaussée! [.]". - On stationery with stamped address. Slightly creased. Pencil note of a former collector near the upper margin, ascribing the letter to Flament.

The present item is from the papers of the printer and publisher Richard Bentley (1794-1871), whose career is described in his entry, and that of his business associate Henry Colburn (c.1784-1855), in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (The pair's partnership had been dissolved in 1832, with Colburn agreeing not to leave the London business to Bentley.) The material clearly consists of a section of the work of Hannah D. Burdon who was the daughter of wealthy Durham mineowner, industrialist and author William Burdon (1764-1818). Her first novel 'Seymour of Sudley' (published in 1836), sent to Bentley for setting up in type. There is a good entry on Burdon on the website 'At the Circulating Library / A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901'. Fourteen novels are listed, published between 1836 and 1866. Her first eight novels were historical, but following the death of her first husband in 1850, the last six were 'social-problem" novels published under the pseudonym 'Lord B******m' (which has lead some to assume that the books were the work of the Earl of Belfast). The present manuscript is part of the first of her novels, and the only one to be published by Bentley: 'SEYMOUR OF SUDLEY; / OR, / THE LAST OF THE FRANCISCANS. / BY HANNAH D. BURDON. / IN THREE VOLUMES. / VOL. I. [II. III.] / LONDON: / RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, / SUCCESSOR TO HENRY COLBURN. / 1836.' The autograph manuscript is unsigned, 30pp, 4to, paginated 27-56, with around 22 to 24 lines to the page, neatly written out on fifteen leaves of wove paper variously watermarked 'S G / 1821', 'G & R TURNER / 1827' and 'R TASSELL / 1828 [1830]'. All the leaves are separate, except for those carrying pp.43-46, which constitute a bifolium. The item is in good condition, lightly aged and worn, with one corner of each of the fifteen leaves dog-eared, and a tiny amount of loss to the corner of the last leaf, resulting in absence of the word 'be' from the bottom left-hand corner of the penultimate page. The bifolium has a closed tear at the foot of the gutter. The matter present in the document comes from the start of the book, and constitutes the conclusion of Chapter II, and the greater part of Chapter III, beginning with the paragraph that starts ''Gradually, as if the warning of the stranger had vanished from his remembrance', which features in the printed version at vol. 1, p.23; and ending with the words 'we are weak creatures, and humility is' at vol.1, p.48. There are notes in pencil (for typesetters?) on: p.2, '25 C Vol. I'; p.3[9] (in pencil), 'Hobhouse'; p.41, 'Byford'; p.47, 'Sherry'; p.48, 'Byford'; p.51, 'Wilcox'. There a couple of dozen sylistic emendations (the most significant being the substitution of 'without interchanging a word' for 'in uninterrupted silence'), but the document is practically a fair copy, although a character named in the manuscript as 'Lord Frederick' is renamed 'Lord Francis' and 'Francis' (as in the published version) throughout.