Search Results: John Ruskin from Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB

Versailles, 9 Juillet, (N.y). Approximately 17 cm x 13 cm, written in French on the first, second and third pages of a double lettersheet. Robert de la Sizeranne (1866-1932), writer on art and the author of an insightful book on John Ruskin: Ruskin et la Religion de la Beauté, Paris, 1897. Mailing folds, else very good..

London: William Heinemann Ltd., (1932). New edition. 8vo., green cloth, pp. [iv], 216. Originally published as "The Bondwoman" in 1896. Pencil inscription on endpaper, else very good. No dust jacket..

London: George Allen, 1902. "Thirty-Ninth Thousand". Octavo, full dark blue calf prize binding, with Canadian school emblem in gilt on upper board, raised bands, gilt compartments, leather spine label, all edges marbled; pp. 276. Gift inscription on first blank, slight wear to bottom edge of covers, else fine..

Chicago: Unity Publishing Company, (1902). Laid paper covers, with green ornament and titling (Advice to Girls), with a pictorial label of a statue of Little Nell [from Dickens] pasted to the front. Stitched with a silk cord. Frontispiece portrait of Ruskin tipped to grey card backing. With publisher’s notes regarding the issuing of the souvenir and the reproduction of the statue. 32 pages. Inscription on rear cover, likely from publisher. Toning to covers, else very good..

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1933. First edition. Octavo, black cloth, pp. [152]; illustrated. Spine ends frayed with small tear at foot, light soiling to front endpapers, else very good, in a soiled, darkened and chipped dust jacket..

London: Macmillan, 1925. New pocket edition. Small octavo, blue cloth, pp. viii, 216. A Volume in the "English Men of Letters" series. Front free endpaper has been excised, else a very nice copy. No dust jacket..

Boston: Dana Estes and Company, (1898). First American edition. Name/place date on endpaper, faint staining to fore-edge of several pages, slight bumping to corners and slight fraying to spine, else a bright, very good copy..

Oxford: Printed at the University Press for the Ruskin Centenary Council, (1919). First edition. 8vo., cloth backed boards, pp. 30, Illustrated. With a poem, "To John Ruskin", by Kathleen Tynan. Includes other brief contributions by A.C. Benson, Laurence Binyon, John Masefield, John Drinkwater, Greville MacDonald, Edith Holman Hunt, Gilbert Parker, May Morris, and others. A bright, fine, partially unopened copy..

New York: Viking, 1949. First American edition. Octavo, dark blue cloth, pp. xiv, 289; illustrated. Spine faded, some bumping to top edge, else very good, lacking the dust jacket..

London: Collins, 1949. First edition. Octavo, dark blue cloth, pp. 320; illustrated. Small rubber-stamp and numerals on endpaper, moderate foxing to endpapers and fore-edge, else a very good copy, lacking the dust jacket..

London: Jonathan Cape, (1954). First edition. Octavo, purple cloth, pp. 447; illustrated. Spine lean, some binder's glue at rear gutter, else very good, in a price-clipped dust jacket, a bit chipped at the spine ends and corner tips, and internally repaired with tape at the head of the spine..

London: Frederick Warne, 1900. Popular edition. Octavo, red cloth, pp. (xxvii), 184. Previous owner's name on endpaper, foxing to text and fore-edge of pages, a couple of signatures starting, else a good copy..

Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1976). First American edition. Octavo, brown boards, pp. 228; illustrated. Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket..

London: Macmillan, 1903. Fourth printing. Octavo, red cloth, pp. viii, 216, + [4] publisher's ads. A Volume in the "English Men of Letters" series. Red cloth covers show light soiling and slight fraying to spine ends, else very good..

London: A Grasshopper Book / Abelard-Schuman in association with Richard Sadler, (1974). First edition thus. 8vo., orange boards, pp. 59; numerous black and white illustrations. Gift inscription on endpaper, edges of fragile paper covered boards are rubbed, else very good in a dust jacket with some small tears, light creasing and wear to the edges..

(London): Edmund Ward, (1958). First edition. 8vo., white cloth boards, pp. 60; colour frontspiece; numerous black and white illustrations. A charming edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, a bit chipped at the head of the spine; with some edge wear..

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 65 Cornhill., 1854. First edition. 19.5 cm x 13 cm (crown octavo), expertly re-cased original publisher's brown cloth with spine panel laid down and most original design elements faithfully preserved, page edges lightly trimmed (as issued), pp. viii, 239 + fourteen plates containing twenty figures, engraved upon wood from drawings by the author. Frontispiece (numbered Plate II), drawn by Millais, and engraved in Mezzotint and line by T. Lupton. Publisher's catalogue dated April 1854 at end (as noted by Wise). Presentation inscription, not in the author's hand; "With the Author's Compliments". Early ownership signature on title page:" William Richardson A.M. M.D.". William Richardson (July 26,1811-Sept. 18, 1875) was a cousin of Ruskin, and attended Effie Ruskin as a physician. Ruskin considered Richardson to be the best chess player he had ever known. Subsequent ownership of Richardson's daughter J[ane] Ruskin Richardson… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publisher's, 1903. First American edition. Octavo, dark blue cloth, pp. [xix], [149] + [2] publisher's ads. Letters to Mary and Helen Gladstone. Fore-edge of pages has darkened, lightly frayed at spine ends, slight spatter to spine, corners bumped and worn. About very good..

Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1893. Large paper edition, #79 of 200 copies. 8vo., cloth blacked boards, pp. [xv], 260, xxi; & [viii], [261]- 565, xxxi; illustrated. With index. Faint occasional foxing throughout, top edge dusty, darkening and rubbing to spines, covers lightly soiled and marked. A very good set..

New York: Macmillan, 1911. First American edition, in two volumes. 22.5 cm x 15 cm, half bound in brown morocco. Bookplates on endpapers, and a labels presenting the book to Harvard University Library. De-accessioning stamp on verso of endpapers, several internal library markings, leather a bit worn at spinal extremities and joints, corners bumped with some loss, else a handsome, very good set. [Oversize*].