stevenson sir john (70 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. (Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural). A haunting, inspiring anthology of some twenty-six ghost stories, some of which are classics, while others are les-known. Here, Sir Walter Scott keeps company with Edgar Allan Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu, John Lang, Edith Nesbit, and Oscar Wilde, among others. 289p.

Soft Cover. Condición: Near Fine. Reprint Edition. Tight clean unmarked book with slight streaks of tape residue to inside covers and short closed tear to top of spine. 261 pp; 6.5 x 8".

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Ann Redpath; Ilustrador. Later Printing. 317 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with some creasing at the spine; no interior markings. The front cover features Figure at a Table by Ann Redpath. This anthology contains: The House of the Famous Poet by Muriel Spark; The Wireless Set by George MacKay Brown; The Brownie of the Black Haggs by James Hogg; The Two Drovers by Sir Walter Scott; The Gudewife by John Galt; The Open Door by Margaret Oliphant; The Beach of Falesa by Robert Louis Stevenson; Beattock for Moffat by R. B. Cunninghame Graham; The Outgoing of the Tide by John Buchan; The Tax Gatherer by Neil M. Gunn; A Wee Nip by Edward Gaitens; In the Family by Naomi Mitchison; Sealskin Trousers by Eric Linklater; Smeddum by Lewis Grassic Gibbon; The Mennans by Robert MacLellan; The Disinherited by J. F. Hendry; Alicky's Watch by Fred Urquhart; Pedestrian by Elspeth Davie; The Money by Ian Hamilton Finlay; and Survival Without Error by Iain Crichton Smith. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. First Edition. 382 pp. Bound in blue leather and decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine; pasted-on pictorial on the front panel; blue endpapers; headband; ribbon marker. Lightly rubbed on the corners; no interior markings; as issued, no dustjacket. This anthology contains: What Is Life by Sir Walter Raleigh; Concerning the American Language by Mark Twain; The Luck of the Roaring Camp by Bret Harte; The Acolian Harp by Herman Melville; Odysseus Returns Home by Homer; Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson; Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer; The Luckiest Man by Lou Gehrig; On Self Knowledge by Kahlil Gibran; The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen; The Character of a Happy Life by Sir Henry Wotton; To Celia by Ben Jonson; When Icicles Hang By the Wall by William Shakespeare; Spades Are Spades by Frederick Nebel; The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry; Larry O'Toole by William Thackery; The Snake by Emily Dickinson; Flood by James Joyce; The Door in the Wall by H. G. Wells; The Invisible Man by G. K. Chesterton; The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation by John Bunyan; The Old Stoic by Emily Bronte; The Child's Story by Charles Dickens; A Prodigal Son by Christina Rossetti; The Castaway by William Cowper; Break Break Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Escape from Chateau d'If by Alexandre Dumas; The Soldier by Rupert Brooke; Farewell Address to Congress by General Douglas MacArthur; In Flanders Fields by John McCrae; Patriotism by Sir Walter Scott; To Build a Fire by Jack London; Not Guilty by A. A. Milne; The Modern Major General by W. S. Gilbert; The Night Express by Willa Cather; Sir Galahad by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Young and Old by Charles Kingsley; A Lesson in Work by Mark Twain; Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy; The Enchanted Bluff by Willa Cather; Memorabilia by Robert Browning; A Noiseless Patient Spider by Wal Whitman; The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe; Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare; Before the Curtain by Bret Harte; For Lack of Gold by Adam Austin; A Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekhov; The Dying Gladiator by Lord Byron; Prometheus by Lord Byron; Final Requiem by James Fenimore Cooper; The Adventure of the Abbey Grange by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Star by H. G. Wells; The Huntsman by Anton Chekhov; A Hunting Song by Henry Fielding; Rich and Poor by Thomas Love Peacock; Light Shining Out of Darkness by William Cooper; and The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte. Size: 8vo. Book.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good Minus. General wear to covers with light soiling, well bound, contents bright, clean and unmarked copy. A complete issue, no major faults, with the original covers and advertisements. A well kept copy with no major faults. Further details about condition and content always welcome. Comes in a clear archival bag.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 480 pages. 7.44x4.92x1.30 inches. In Stock.

good not front cover, some spine chipping.

Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: New.

Condición: Good. New edition. 333 pages. Half bound green leather with green cloth covered boards and gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers. Gilt edges to textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to hinges, but Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy wear with bumped and abraded corners. Spine ends similarly worn and spine itself scuffed. Gilt slightly dulled. Board surfaces scratched and rubbed.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair (Book Condition). New Edition. Covers detached but present. Pages are intact and together. Occasional foxing on pages, but good conditon (pages). Gilt on edges. Gilt designs along spine. Black and gilt lettering and decorations on front cover. [Our rating system: 1.Fine; 2. Near fine; 3. Very good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.].

Soft cover. Condición: Worn. 1st Edition.

Couverture rigide. Condición: Satisfaisant. Reliure plein chagrin chocolat, plats encadrés d'un large décor doré et illustrés d'une harpe dorée, dos à 5 nerfs, titre doré et motifs dorés dans les caissons, tranches dorées, filet doré sur les contreplats, gardes marbrées. In-8 de 261 pages. Reliure frottée et très usée, le plat supérieur est désolidarisé (voir photos), noms de propriétaires en page de titre, sinon bon intérieur.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Jame Duffy, Dublin, 1859. Hard cover.Imbossed, gilt titles. Book condition : Good, text in good order. Many pages spotted but music clear. Gilt page edges. Spine bumped corners turned. Heavy book please contact the bookseller for postal rates.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Original cloth with gilt titles. Rather dull with some rubbing to the top and tail of the spine and corners, with splitting to the cloth along the top of the rear hinge. But a sound copy. Heavy - additional postage for overseas customers.

Condición: New. In.

Decorative Cloth. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. A folio sized volume bound in decorative cloth with gilt title lettering and harp motif on the front board and spine. There is some bumping and fraying of the cloth, particularly at the foot of the spine which is slit about two cm along the front hinge. No inscriptions and original end papers look pretty clean, as do the pages throughout. There is a touch of foxing and browning here and there. The sections of the book are very shakey and coming away from the spine, so loosely held in, but held in they are. Ideally could do with some careful restoration work although still a decent working copy as it is. All of which is reflected in the price. Photos on request.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Cover is well-worn from age and shelf wear. Top spine is torn and jagged through to the top of the text block. Small hole torn towards bottom of spine. Corners and edges are rubbed and fraying in parts. Several spots and discoloration on back cover. Some spots on front cover. Spine is loose. Inside cover hinge is torn and thread webbing is visible. Inside pages show slight tanning and minor foxing from age. . Hardcover. book.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair (Book Condition). New Edition. Covers detached but present. Pages are intact and together. Occasional foxing on pages, but good conditon (pages). Gilt on edges. Gilt designs along spine. Black and gilt lettering and decorations on front cover. [Our rating system: 1.Fine; 2. Near fine; 3. Very good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book.

Condición: Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original orange cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered black back. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 448 pp. New front end paper, spine sun faded and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Two vols.in one. Pp. (1) (5), 112; (2) (4), 102. Title page vol. 1. includes engraving by T. Stothard R.A. at bottom of page depicting a woman reclining against a tree with her head turned looking at a harp. The engraving on vol. 2. is smaller and depicts a tree stump with a harp in front of & a ruin of a castle in the distance. Undated. Half black mo. & marbled boards with name Letitia Maria Heathcote in gilt on black mo.gilt bordered label as front cover centrepiece. Circa mid 19th century. Lower spine partially split at edges.Occasional scuffing of covers. Else good. Title page of vol. 1. has previous owner's name in pen in a neat hand at top corner: "Miss Darley 26 Fitzwilliam Street, Merrion Square." Henry Shaw's Dublin Directory 1850 confirms a Frederick Darley as living at this address. These two vols. may well have been issued in Moore's life time i.e. before 1833. Letitia Maria (Daly) married Sir William Perceval Heathcote, 6th Baronet and was mother of Rev. Sir William Arthur Heathcote, 7th Baronet; Lt.-Col. Sir Gilbert Redvers Heathcote, 8th Baronet; Kathleen Ada Heathcote and Isabel Frances Heathcote. Letitia died in 1910.

Full-Leather. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. New Edition. James Duffy Dublin, 1859 New Edition 333pp ills (frontis and title page) VG+ (full leather w gilt edges and gilt harp stamp to top board, raised bands on spine and gitl stamped compartments to spine, chipping to head and foot of spine, sl rubbed and soiled, mod wear to estrems, gilt edges, prelims sl foxed and owners inscr in prelims) v tidy copy in attractive full leather binding.

[circa 1811]. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. Various. Folio. Limp cloth, brown with gilt title stamped to the front. Irish music and scores. Pages are lightly age toned at edges, and light water stains intermittently throughout. Faintly starting at the front and rear hinges, otherwise clean and legible, and remarkably well preserved, given the age.

Condición: Good. No Jacket. New Edition. The boards are slightly shelf rubbed and edge worn. There is a previous owner's pencil inscription at the back of the front end page and after the title page. There is a book shop rubber stamp on the title page. The pages are tanned, internally clean and tightly bound. Complete with 261 pages. [B.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dustjacket. 261 pages. NO dustjacket. No obvious printed date but look mid-late 19th century and ther' s some ink writing (name to title page, decorated name ti notice page and writing to back of this page - all look mid-late 19th century in style. Treble and bass staves with words. Dark green hardback binding - a few small spots but otherwise clean and tidy. Wear to boards' corners and spine-ends (latter are frayed). Age-dulled gilt-coloured impressed titles to front board - plainer titles to spine which is darkened. Iner hinges split but binding is sound. Light browning to early and late pages, scribbled ut writing to last page o/w pages clean and tidy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Revised Edition. Quarto, 333pp., illustrated with engraved title page and frontispiece. A very good copy in contemporary 3/4 black morocco over black rough-grained cloth. Leather dried out and quite rubbed, otherwise a crisp, sound copy. Preface dated 1859. Contemporary binder's ticket (John C. Moore (fittingly!) of Rochester, NY) on the front paste-down. Solid copy.

4pp.Disbound, clean & bright.

5pp (plate printed).Spine repaired, clean & bright.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Hardcover Good MH Gill (Dublin, 1891) New Edition hardcover Cover shows minor wear Binding tight Pages clean, with some age-toning Generally a very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Moore's Irish Melodies. With Symphonies and Accompaniments. By Sir John Stevenson and Sir Henry Bishop. New Edition. Printed in Dublin by M.H. Gill and Son. 1882. 261 pp. 8.5" x 7". 8vo. Hardcover full cloth with gilt lettering and designs. In fair condition, with superficial scuffing and wear to exterior. Some bumping to corners and wear to head and heel of spine. Light fading to gilt. Cracking to hinges at front and rear. Some instances of wear to middle of text block. Light markings. General age-related toning to pages, along with periodic foxing and wear. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A scarce early edition and Dublin imprint of popular 19th Century Irish melodies. A wonderful piece for research and restoration.