Rainey william illustrator (9 resultados)

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Early Edition. Illustrated by William Rainey. Red decorative boards. Tight binding. Clean crisp copy. Faint water stain on botttom on pages, does not reach text. Very Good condition! Size: 6 x 8". William Rainey (illustrator) (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 384, 32 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 20 cm. Bound in publisher's handsome pictorial cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. George Alfred Henty was a prolific English Victorian novelist and war correspondent (1832-1902). Henty volunteered for the Army Hospital Commissariat when the Crimean War began. He was with a well traveled war correspondent, following the Austro-Italian war of 1866, accompanying Garibaldi at Tirolese. Also he journeyed with Lord Napier through Magdala and Lord Wolseley to Kumassi. He was at the opening of the Suez Canal. He reported the Franco-German War, starved in the the siege of the Paris Commune, and then went to cover the Carlist insurrection in the Pyrenees. "He was in Asiatic Russia at the time of the Khiva expedition, and later saw the desperate hand-to-hand fighting of the Turks in the Serbian War. " Ency. Brit. Vol. 13, p. 303. Henty went on to write over 112 books and over 80 for a juvenile audience. Many of his books feature boys or young men in tumultuous times. Henty was an important popular writer for the advancement of British Imperialism. Kathryn Castle states that, "Henty.exemplified the ethos of the new imperialism, and glorified in its successes," Reading Colonialism through children's books and magazines. Manchester, 1996. p. 55. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1898. Red cloth, gold and white decor. Moderate general wear. Previous owner ink stamp. 331 pages. 7087.

HARDCOVER BLUE. Condición: GOOD+. no copyright date however circa 1900, good tight binding, gold gilt lettering on cover and spine, text is clean and bright DATE PUBLISHED: 1900 CIRCA EDITION: 584. RAINEY, WILLIAM (ilustrador).

First Edition. [Children's adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.384; 32, ads. With eight halftone plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green pictorial cloth with bevelled board edges, coated grey endpapers, all edges green. Contents clean, discreet owner name to free end paper, binding very lightly rubbed, rolling to spine, bumping to corners. Near fine. G.A. Henty's classic children's stories are often described as the perfect blend of hair-raising adventure and historical verisimilitude. The publisher's note reads: "the present story is the last of Mr. Henty's great series of historical stories for boys." Newbolt, 109.1. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo.pp. 240 plus substantial illustrated book list. Original publisher's decorative cloth binding by Talwin Morris in a soft green, lettered gilt and decorated with a flight of graceful birds. Black and illustrations by William Rainey,RI. Circa 1898; no date given.Frontispiece illustration of children scrambling out of a rowing boat up a cliff face in rough seas "Up with you, my arms are aching with the strain of keeping the boat here!" Rare:Only 5 copies found at WorldCat (OCLC) the worldÕs largest library catalogue./ Talwin Morris (1865Ð1911) was a prolific book designer and decorative artist working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly known for his Glasgow Style furniture, metalwork and book designs. Very good indeed. Faint wear. Small embossed stamp on front end paper. …

HARDCOVER BLUE. Condición: GOOD+. no copyright date however circa 1900, good tight binding, gold gilt lettering on cover and spine, text is clean and bright, slight wear to corners, slight foxing to edges of pages DATE PUBLISHED: 1900 CIRCA EDITION: 591. RAINEY, WILLIAM (ilustrador).

The Imperial Edition. Good set in the original cloth with a gilt-blocked label to the spine. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series; Imperial edition. Physical description; 16 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm. Contents; The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club ; Sketches By Boz ; Great Expectations ; Charles Dickens: a critical study by George Gissing ; Nicholas Nickleby ; Christmas Books ; Bleak House ; Oliver Twitst ; David Copperfield ; Dombey and Son ; Little Dorrit ; The Old Curiosity Shop ; A Tale of Two Cities ; Martin Chuzzlewit ; Hard Times and Master Humphrey's Clock ; Barnaby Rudge. Subjects; Charles Dickens (1812-1870). English fiction 19th century. 16 Kg. …

The Imperial Edition. Good set in the original cloth with a gilt-blocked label to the spine. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series; Imperial edition. Physical description; 16 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm. Contents; The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club ; Sketches By Boz ; Great Expectations ; Charles Dickens: a critical study by George Gissing ; Nicholas Nickleby ; Christmas Books ; Bleak House ; Oliver Twitst ; David Copperfield ; Dombey and Son ; Little Dorrit ; The Old Curiosity Shop ; A Tale of Two Cities ; Martin Chuzzlewit ; Hard Times and Master Humphrey's Clock ; Barnaby Rudge. Subjects; Charles Dickens (1812-1870). English fiction 19th century. 16 Kg. …