Mrs partington (6 resultados)

Condición: New.

Hard Cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Lightly stained along fore edge, front joint just beginning to split along top edge, rear board rubbed, pages heavily toned, frontispiece torn along binding edge, ink owner stamp on front endpaper. 1901 Hard Cover. 546 pp. Red cloth, black title, photographic portrait of Mark Twain on front board. A collection of writings by various humorists.…

Condición: New.

Condición: Very Good. 4 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 21.5 cms. Category: Army Quarterly; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Decorative blue cloth binding, elaborately blindstamped. Gold titles, 336 pp. Frontispiece engraving of Shillaber with facsimile signature. B. P. Shillaber (1814-90), American humorist, Boston: Tompkins and Mussey, 1853. Published in 1854. First edition. The Life and Sayings of Mrs Partington, a benevolent village gossip reminiscent of an American Mrs Malaprop. This is a collection of Shillaber's poetry. Antique ex-library purchased directly from the historical collection of one of the USA's oldest institutions and bearing its hand-numbered and hand-dated bookplate. Chipping to top and bottom of spine. Very good condition. …

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Condition: Near-Fine. 12mo. size, 305 pp. Popular Edition, reprint of the original 1874 edition. Inscribed by the author "To Otis Kinsman, My excellent neighbor and friend, with all my heart, Jan. 9. 1883." Green and brown printed illustration on paper over boards. With publisher's advertisements printed on the endpapers. Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber was a Boston humorist and editor of The Carpet Bag, a New England humor magazine. This is a lengthy compilation of verse written from the viewpoint of Mrs. Partington, a comic alter-ego Shillaber introduced in the Boston Daily Post, and which he used frequently throughout his career. Apart from a few small dings and nicks to the edges and corners, and slight shelf curling on the head and heel of the spine, the book is in beautiful shape, the covers very clean, bright and clear, the binding tight, the top gilt still bright, no foxing or soiling in the text, and only the slightest touch of age browning towards the edges. A beautiful personally inscribed copy in extraordinary shape. In uncertain economic times, invest your hard-earned money in items of lasting value you can hold in hand and enjoy. Inscribed by Author(s).…