simmons ernest edited (9 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition.

Softcover. Condición: Excellent condition. viii, 360 pp. Softcover. LCC: 2001027018.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. First edition. ISBN Hardback. No dustjacket. Reading copy only, due to heavy foxing to cover edges, some brownspotting to edges of interior pages, previous owner's name written and stamped on inside covers, bottom edge of book, and a couple pages of text. Otherwise, tight, sound copy with minimal pagewear. No statement of later printing on copyright page.

hardcover. Condición: very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: good +. 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 " 242 pages. This is a printer's copy with the bookplate on inside from cover of George Banta Publishing Company and embossed blind stamp from their corporate library on title page. #1517 on the dj spine. dj now in mylar protector. chipping to dj top of spine and small chip lacking from top edge of rear panel of dj. printer production slip glued onto the inside rear cover.

Hardcover. Condición: Good +. First edition. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. Tan cloth with lettering on blue at spine. Condition is GOOD+ ' minor edge wear, covers water stained with light foxing. Spine has darker water stain at lower half. Binding tight and text clean, no notations. Lit Crit. Stax.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Thus. Hardcover. Memoirs of a Station Master. This book, first published anonymously in 1879 under the title Ernest Struggles, is an account of the author's life on the Great Western Railway in the 1850s and 1860s. It affords one of the very few pictures we have of the railway service seen from the inside. Such records are very rare. What makes this one unique is that the author knew how to write. His lively comic sense and sharp turn of phrase give the book a continuing vitality; it is an entertaining and authentic commentary both on the railway and on the social life of the mid-Victorian are. 165 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ,1964, First Modern Library Edition 1964 (Unstated). Back of Foxed DJ lists 7 Titles Short Stories of Chekhov Thru Poems, PLAYS OF PUSHKIN, Back Inner DJ flap Pre Zip Code Coupon VG+/GOOD+ . 4 7/8? x 7 1/4? 423 pages. Bright blue cloth hardcover (Toledano binding # 11). DJ VERSO IS Blank, Tight, square binding, bright gilt, sharp corners. Light crimping spine ends, small former owner stamp top half-title page. The first issue dust jacket shows light perimeter edgewear, light rubbing along the folds, short creases bottom spine, and moderate rubbing & soiling front & back panels. The top front flap is neatly price-clipped & bears a small former owner name. CREASES TO BTM Spine DJ, Mylar protected jacket.

Sm. 4to. 165pp. An account of the author's life on the GWR in the 1850s and 60s first published anonymously in 1879. Orange boards in pictorial dust wrapper. Very good copy. Social history and victorian railway life. Uncommon.