Search Results: thaddeus of warsaw by miss jane porter

Belford, Clarke & Company. Fair with no dust jacket; Definatley an older book. Tape on the pine . cover, some wear to corners and edges. Tanning to inside pages. The cover . is blue with gold and black inlay. Book is intact with many more readings . in it.. Hardcover. 459 pages .

Lovell. G+/NONE. N.D.. Hardcover. Oxford edition. Brown/blk illustrated boards/ gld lettering on spine. Lower spine discolored. Minor usage showing. Title page completely separated. Rest of text is clean/tight/pge browning. ; Small 8vo; 517 pages .

Porter & Coates, xxxx. Hardcover. Good - Cash. Brown book covers, white lettering face and spine. Soiling and smudges on the covers, minor rubbing to the corners and ends. Unmarked text. Front hinge broken. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co. Book. Fair. Hardcover. New and Revised Edition. Significant age wear; a reading copy only..

New York, N.Y.: John W. Lovell Oxford Edition tan or ochre with black decorations. Front and back hinges are cracked and the front hinge has been repaired. The book is not dated, but the new preface is 1831, and there's a gift inscription on the decorated endpapers dated 1899. Pages are browning and somwhat brittle. The book has wear at the extremities and the tips are bumped and starting to fray with the board exposed at one corner. The bottom of the spine has a tiny tear and light wear.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fair/No DJ. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Donohue Henneberry & Co. Hardcover. G/na. Rubbing & edgewear; scuffs/scratchs/smudges; bumped corners; cracked hinges; yellowing; free endpage and title page pulling out; gift inscription; rest of text otherwise overall clean & sund. 459 pages

A.L. Burst Company. Hardcover. Good. Good hardcover. No DJ.Re-bound by library with newer covers. Ex-Library with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned. Covers show minor shelf wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a five-star seller, presents an early reprint, Revised by the Author, of THADDEUS OF WARSAW by Miss Jane Porter. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1875. 517 pages, 5" x 7 5/8", no dust jacket. Pages moderately yellowed, yet very sharp, square and tight. Title page has shadow reproduced illustration appearing on previous fep. Cover has deep red cloth boards, with complex embossed black designs on front, gold gilt particulars on spine. Bottom cover edges slightly rubbed, corners slightly rubbed. Overall book = Very Good.

Philadelphia: J. Maxwell, 1817. Third U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. A Fair copy in original full brown leather, with both covers quite loose but still holding. The second volume of a four-volumes-in-two edition, this volume containing Volumes III and IV, separately paginated at 126 and 117 pages, each with its own title page.

Rand, McNally & Company, S.a. (early 20th c.). Hardcover. Good. 445 p., clean and unmarked within on strong mildly age-toned paper--only mark is rather puzzling:"Treasure Island" on front paste down; binding tight; sewn signatures; green boards with Art Nouveau ornamentation is clean and unfaded but bumped at corners and rubbed at crown and foot of spine.

Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co. REVISED EDITION with addition of new notes by the author. Not dated ca 1880. Lovely blue cloth black stamped Victorian binding with gilt lettering on the spine and the front cover. Spine darkened from handling. Decorative endpapers. Gift inscription on the front flyleaf. Overall in GOOD condition. Jane Porter was a Scottish novelist. Her novel Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803) is one of the earliest examples of the historical novel, and it went through a dozen editions. Based on eye-witness accounts from Polish refugees of the doomed independence struggle of the 1790s, the book was praised by the great Polish patriot Kosciusko. . Full Cloth. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

New York: William L. Allison Company Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Revised Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. VG/none, used, 1/3 maroon cloth along spine, maroon cloth corners, illustrated end papers, 459pp. Interior clean, pages lightly toning, binding tight. Slight rubbing to corners and edges of the binding, cloth rubbed at head and tail of the spine..

New York: Worthington Co, 1887. A New and Revised Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. [2], 364 pages, [1]. Dark green decorative cloth hardcover with title on the spine. Slight lean to the binding. Thin crack between pages 280 and 281. a few occasional light brown spots. Previous owner's name in pencil on the yellow right front flyleaf. A good or better copy.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1877 Lovely, well cared for antique book with gift inscription on ffep dated 1901. Clean, good binding, no other markings, some wear to the corners and ends of the spine.

Hardcover. Very Good. Very good decorative green cloth hardcover, stamped floral black decor. front cover and spine, with gilt titling panel on spine. Brief edgewear only. Toning at edges of most pps. 1887 gift inscription on front fly. Circa 1886 (no date). Illus. frontis and cover as pictured.

Philadelphia: Porter, 1870. Hardcover. Good. Good hardcover. A new and revised edition, with the addition of new notes, etc. By the author. Writing on front endpaper. Corners bent. Edges of spine bumped. Shelf rubbing to cover. Cloth string book mark. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York: The American News Company. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Green hardback with embossed decoration on front, spine and back. Green print on gold background on spine and front. Gold print also on spine. Wear to boards including fraying to edges and corners. Pages are tight but book will lay open (pages detached from boards along spine). PO name's on inside front cover and ffep and backside of ffep. Unsure of print date though date of 1844 is on inside of front cover and 1831 stated on "The Author to Her Friendly Readers." Given the age of the book, the condition is probably closer to Very Good or better. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

New York: J. B. Lippincott Co.. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1880. Hardback. To .

The American News Company, 1880-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Slight shelf wear. Foxing to first few pages, otherwise pages clean, boards clean, binding sturdy.

Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1888 A groundbreaking work of historical fiction and arguably the first English historical novel, the story was derived from eyewitness accounts of British soldiers and Polish refugees fleeing the failed revolts against the foreign occupation of Poland in the 1790s. This is the Belford 1888 Caxton Edition reprint of the 1803 original. Condition notes: 459 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, ivory/tanned, tight, large b/w frontis, decorative eps; a.e. well sunned, front hinge cracked at dedication page. Cover: brown decorative cloth, elaborately stamped/embossed front/spine, black and reverse titles front, reverse titles to gilt spineblock; modest shelfwear, extrems moderately worn, top back corner and edge bumped, several ghosts front. I’m making what is a very nice copy sound hideous – it’s not.