edited george aitken (16 resultados)

Full Cloth. Condición: Good. John Alan Maxwell Ilustrador. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full black cloth with gilt titles on spine. 6x9. 300pp. Pictorial end papers. frontispiece Front board a little weak. 8 black & white illus by John Alan Maxwell. Overall in GOOD condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. London, 1898; Volume VIII only; Smoky smell present; brown cloth covered boards; corners bumped edges and covers scuffed; top edges gilt; rough cut edges; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior lightly foxed; Previous owner's name on front paste-down; Interior is clean and unmarked; 407 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. London, 1898; Volume I only; smoky smell present; brown cloth covered boards; corners bumped edges and covers scuffed; top edges gilt; rough cut edges; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Previous owner's name on front paste-down; Interior is clean and unmarked; 422 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. London, 1898; Volume V only; Smoky smell present; brown cloth covered boards; corners bumped edges and covers scuffed; top edges gilt; rough cut edges; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior lightly foxed; Previous owner's name on front paste-down; Interior is clean and unmarked; 379 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. London, 1898; Volume VIII only; Smoky smell present; brown cloth covered boards; corners bumped edges and covers scuffed; top edges gilt; rough cut edges; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; frontispiece detached but present; interior lightly foxed; Previous owner's name on front paste-down; Interior is clean and unmarked; 448 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. London, 1898; Volume III only; Smoky smell present; brown cloth covered boards; corners bumped edges and covers scuffed; top edges gilt; rough cut edges; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior lightly foxed; Previous owner's name on front paste-down; Interior is clean and unmarked; 399 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. London, 1898; Volume IV only; Smoky smell present; brown cloth covered boards; corners bumped edges and covers scuffed; top edges gilt; rough cut edges; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior lightly foxed; Previous owner's name on front paste-down; Interior is clean and unmarked; 377 pages.

Hardback. Condición: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing thus Hardback Maroon cloth gilt xxxviii + 596 pages + 32 pages publisher's adverts Near Very Good condition Original owner's name on first page Signs of a removed labe/book plate on inside cover. Partly removed shelf mark on spine suggest previous college (?) use.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Biggs, John R. Ilustrador. First Edition Thus. 2 volumes. Orange and white paperbacks with black lettering and illustrations to the covers. Illustrated with black & white wood-engravings by J. R. Biggs. Rubbing to the spines and edges, with enclosed tears to the heads of both spines. Some light markings to the front cover of volume 1. Darkening to the leaves, but otherwise clean internally. The Penguin Illustrated Classics edition of Defoe's timeless adventure novel. 8vo. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo - 4 Volumes - 400pp; 425pp; 410pp; 451pp.All with Frontispiece, Red Cloth with gilt covers & spines in Used - Like New condition. No Dust Jackets - as issued. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE BOOKS WEIGH 3.00 KILOS WITH PACKING.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Plates Ilustrador. Xii, 257 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Light Wear, Gilt Brilliant, But A Few Small Losses Of Cloth At Edges. With The Rare Correction Sheet "Corrections To The Adolfo Stahl Lectures In Astronomy".

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Yeats, J. B. Ilustrador. 2nd Edition. lxvii, [1], 342pp, printed on laid paper, bound in green silk with gilt decorated spine, top edges gilt, deckled page edges, binding and hinges tight. Complete with 4 tissue-guarded plates, as called for. Covers sunned, light edge/corner wear, small bookstore label for W. B. Clarke Co. in Boston on the front free endpaper, penciled signature on ffp of Amelia Muir Baldwin (1876-1960) American interior decorator and well known for her tapestry needlework designs. This is Volume I (of 16) of Romances and Narratives By Daniel Defoe, Edited by George A. Aitken.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Yeats, J. B. Ilustrador. 2nd Edition. xvi, 328pp, printed on laid paper, bound in green silk with gilt decorated spine, top edges gilt, deckled page edges, binding and hinges tight. Complete with 3 tissue-guarded plates, as called for. Covers sunned, small bookstore label for W. B. Clarke Co. in Boston on the front free endpaper, penciled signature on ffp of Amelia Muir Baldwin (1876-1960) American interior decorator and well known for her tapestry needlework designs. This is Volume III (of 16) of Romances and Narratives By Daniel Defoe, Edited by George A. Aitken.

Pocket 8vo., pp.xviii,316, uncut, green cloth, decorative spine in gilt, t.e.g., title in red and black, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, 2 further b/w plates; foxing and toning to endpapers, small ownership autograph to front paste-down endpaper (under printed heraldic ex libris emblem), foxing to fore edges, spine sunned, with gilt remaining bright, light wear to headband, sunning also to upper margins of boards, a good+ copy.

8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. [2] + xxix + 404 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt. Extremities worn, and fly leaves lightly browned; otherwise a very good clean ex-library copy with class no. on spine and neat label on front pastedown. Illustrated by facsimiles or reprints of original title pages and by text figures. Decorated by head and tailpiece vignettes, by initials and by title page device. The contents of this selection of sixteen Later Stuart Tracts in the English Garner series, include original texts by Sir William Petty (1623-87), on Political Arithmetic (1690), a famous work on economics, which advocated the principle of 'laissez-faire,' by government; sixteen texts by Daniel Defoe (1697-1715), including The History of the Kentish Petition (1701), and five satirical texts featuring John Bull by John Arbuthnot (1712) These tracts were reprinted from the English Garner by Professor Edward Arber (1836-1912), with the addition of Defoe's Preface from The Review. Arbuthnot (1667-1735) was a physician and satirist, who was linked with Pope and Swift in the Scriblerus Club founded in 1714. George Atherton Aitken (1860-1917) was an author, biographer, DNB contributor and book collector, who specialised in the Queen Anne period. ART / LITERATURE 17th/18th CENTURY POLITICS LIT. NON-FICTION 17TH CENTURY 18TH CENTURY ART / LITERATURE.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. J.B. Yeats [Jack] Ilustrador. First Edition Thus - Limited. 1905. First edition thus, in three volumes with illustrations by Jack Yeats. lxvii, 342pp., frontispiece and 4 illustrations; viii, 319pp., frontispiece and 2 illustrations; xvi, 328pp., frontispiece and 2 illustrations. Top edges gilt. These volumes contain Daniel Defoe's story of the Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, together with the two sequels. Complete in themselves, they are part of a sixteen-volume edition of the Romances and Narratives by Daniel Defoe that was edited by George Atherton Aitken (1860-1917). The three volumes are uniformly bound in the original green cloth covered boards with gold titling and designs on the spines. The cases of the books are in very good condition with some shelf wear to the boards and light bumping to the spine ends. The spines have faded to a light brown colour. The contents are tight and clean with light foxing to the free endpapers, half-titles and last pages. The free endpapers are browned and there is a bookplate on the front fixed endpaper of each volume.