Georgina sand (7 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback or Softback. Condición: New. The Billionaire's Hidden Heart: A Contemporary Romance. Book.

Condición: New. Print on Demand.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 141, [14] catalogue. Original publisher's decorative burgundy cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover, with bevelled edges. Very slight mottling and slight rubbing, otherwise very good copy.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. A very scarce early English translation of this delightful children's story by George Sand. Very scarce edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. An early English translation by Georgina S. Grahame of this charming children's story from the original French of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, better known by her pen name George Sand. A notable Romantic novelist, better known in Britain than Victor Hugo and Honore de Balzac in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand published over seventy novels in her lifetime, alongside fifty other works. The present volume is one of a selection of children's tales in a series entitled Contes d'une grand'mere. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart with slight bumping and rubbing, leading to light loss of cloth to the extremities. Slight discolouration and further scattered marking to both boards, most prominent to the rear. Hinges a little weak, especially to the front. Internally, reasonably firmly bound with slight periodical weakness, more so to the first few pages. Generally bright and clean, mildly age toned with sporadic spotting, notably heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good. None (ilustrador). book.…

Paperback / softback. Condición: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. [2], 363, [1], 52 p., engraved title page and 24 leaves of plates; 26 cm. Contemporary half calf with five spine compartments between double gilt rules; gilt-tooled title in second compartment. Paper label with handwritten number in first compartment. Marbled paper over boards. Caption title p. 1: The People's Journal; with which is incorporated Howitt's Journal. Final 52 pages are headed Appendix. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper indicating that this was acquired by the Belles Lettres Society of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1864. No date of publication or volume number. From 1849 to 1851 the magazine was published by Willoughby & Co. The Appendix on p. 48 references a work published in 1851. Contents include fiction by George Sand, Georgina C. Munro, Elizabeth O'Hara, Paul Creyton [John Townsend Trowbridge], and others; poetry by Charles Mackay, Henry Frank Lott, and others; Indian legends by Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bouh [George Copway]; a description of the establishment of John and Richard Morley "Warehousemen, Hosiers, and Glovers" in London including the dormitories of their employees; The Balance of Employment: Its Political and Moral Necessity by Clara Walbey; The Adventures of Peter Viaud; and articles about "life assurance" (life insurance), the slave trade, and the life of a draper's assistant. Two leaves of portraits have been traced in pencil on the reverse side. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: cover is rubbed; title page and facing plate are lightly soiled; closed 2-cm. tear from fore-edge of title page; closed 3-cm. tear from fore-edge of p. 5; closed 2-cm. tear from upper edge of p. 339; scattered soiling; otherwise, clean and solid.…