Search Results: Authors starting with E from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: Prospect Books 1985. 12mo.Facsimile. xvi, 100 pp. Orange cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine and orange dust jacket faded at the spine. Light spotting to top edge, but otherwise VG condition. Pages clean and bright. Facsimile of an early 18th Century confectionary title. Mrs Eales styled herself the 'confectioner to her late Majesty Queen Anne'. . Very Good. Cloth. 1985.

London: R. Peat 1824. 8vo. xvi, 488 pp. Recent tan quarter calf with marbled boards, marbled endpapers and edges. Illustrated with diagrams and prints. Near fine externally. Staining to the foot of prelims and spotting occasionally within. Inscription to title page. . Very Good. 1/4 Calf. 1824.

London: John Murray 1973. 4to.Presentation Copy. Presentation copy signed by the author on the front endpaper. xvi, 156 pp. Publisher's full cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Dj slightly edgeworn. Cloth clean. Internally clean. With 144 colour and b&w illustrations. 071952671x . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1973.

Bungay: J. and R. Childs 1823. 8vo. xxxii, 495 pp. Later half leather over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration and red leather title labels. New endpapers. Spine joints slightly split but firm. Damage to foot of spine. Bookplates to front pastedown & endpaper. Plates darkened. Frontis portrait, engraved title-page and four plates, as called for. Binding firm. . Very Good. Half Leather. 1823.

London: George .G. Harrap & Company 1912. 8vo. xxix, 375 pp., Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and board. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to spine and boards, with fading to former. Foxing to endpapers and prelims and very light cases throughout. Illustrated with black and white plates by Byam Shaw and others. Plates complete. . Good. Gilt Decorated Cloth. 1912.

London: George .G. Harrap & Company 1918. 8vo. xxix, 375 pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to front board & spine. Boards are clean and bright, though there is damage to the spine with 3 tears to the binding of c. 2cm. Minor scattered spotting. With fifty-nine full-page illustrations, including colour frontis. . Good. Cloth. 1918.

Berlin: Sternberg Press 2021. 8vo. 1336 pp. Pictorial hardcover, still shrink-wrapped. Condition as new. 9783956795558 . As New. Hardcover. 2021.

London: Secker & Warburg Ltd 1989. 8vo. First edition translated by William Weaver, vii + 641 pp. Some fading to the spine of the dustjacket and paper browning particular, otherwise very good copy. 0436140969 . Very Good. Hardback. 1st English Edition. 1989.

London: G. Routledge & Co. 1855. 12mo. 8, 182, 2 pp. Orange laminated paper covers with place lettering. Bound with a pink ribbon bookmark, somewhat grubbied and crinkled. Creasing and some marking to covers. Pages darkened, with some staining on 30-31 pp from a foil slip. White markings to inside covers and an ink inscription dated 1859 to first free endpaper . Very Good. Illustrated Paper Covers. 1855.

London: Society 1897. 8vo. xx, 420, (4) pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Spine darkened and wear to spine ends. Boards slightly darkened. Extra title page. With five maps, four folding. Four page description at rear of the 13 published volumes of the "Library of the Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society," of which this is volume no. 13. A 50-year old auction record of the manuscript refers to Stanley Lane-Poole. He may have translated this. Copac lists only = Camb; Edin; Sheff. Univ. Scarce. Good condition. . Good. Cloth. 1897.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1959. 8vo. 272 pp. Cream cloth with black lettering to the spine, in dustjacket. Spine of jacket darkened. Minor wear to the spine of binding and dent to the front board. Internally clean. . Very Good. Cloth. Second Impression. 1959.

London: George G. Harrap & Company 1910. 8vo.Prize Binding. xvi, 239 pp. 16 black and white illustrated plates. Full calf prize binding with gilt crest of Kendal Grammar School to front board and gilt lettering to spine; t.e.g. Some foxing throughout. Minor rubbing to boards and extremities. Prize bookplate.'Retold from William Morris by Madalen Edgar'. . Very Good. Full Calf. 1910.

London: R. Hunter 1817. 12mo. 12mo. in the original blue / grey paper covered boards. New hand made paper buff coloured spine, with paper title label. Worm hole to prelims, and foxing throughout, but a Good uncut copy. . Very Good. Original Boards. First Edition. 1817.

London: J. Johnson 1801. 8vo. 3 volumes. xvi, 412; [i], 386; [i], 387 pp. Half brown calf over marbled boards with blind-stamped decorations, red title labels and gilt lettering to spines. Rubbing and slight marks to boards, slight wear to extremities. Minor offsetting to pages but generally internally clean. Fold-out diagrams at the rear of the second volume. Written by father and daughter, comprehensive theory of education that combines the ideas of philosophers John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau as well as of educational writers such as Thomas Day, William Godwin, Joseph Priestley, and Catharine Macaulay. . Very Good. Half Calf. Second Edition. 1801.

London: Baldwin & Craddock 1832 / 1833. Small 8vo. 18 volumes. Cream buckram with black title labels and gilt lettering to spines; marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Bound by Bumpus. All the volumes have minor marks and light darkening to spines. Bindings firm. Offsetting to endpapers and spotting to prelims. Engraved frontispieces and title pages, spotted. Ink names to title pages. A nice set of most of Maria Edgworth's published works. Containing: Moral Tales in two volumes; Popular Tales in two volumes; Tales of Fashionable Life in five volumes; Castle Rackrent and Irish Bulls; Patronage in three volumes; Leonora with letters on several subjects; Belinda in two volumes; Ormond; Harrington and Thoughts on Bones. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Very Good. Buckram. 1832.

London: Sporting Handbooks Ltd 1977. 12mo. iv, 1123 pp., Brown cloth binding with classic yellow jacket. Darkening to the jacket spine with a tear and some bumping to head. Boards fresh and binding firm. Internally clean. 0850200539 . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1977.

London: Sporting Handbooks Ltd 1956. 8vo. xxxii., 1043 pp., Yellow cloth softcover with black lettering. to spine and boards. Crinkling and peeling of cloth to the spine, some marking to boards. Clean internally. A good copy. . Good. Softcover. 1956.

London: Sporting Handbooks Ltd 1972. 12mo. xxxii, 1123 pp., Brown cloth spine with classic yellow jacket. Darkening to the jacket spine and small split to the corner. Boards fresh with minor bump to the top corner. Binding firm and internally clean. 0850200245 . Very Good. Cloth. 1972.

London: Sporting Handbooks Ltd 1967. 12mo. xxxii, 1043 pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine, with classic yellow pictorial jacket (unclipped). Jacket slightly faded to spine. Boards fresh and binding firm. Internally clean, without ownership names. . Near Fine. Cloth. 1967.

London: Sporting Handbooks Ltd 1946. 12mo. ii-xvi., 463 pp., darkening to the spine and a few rubs, but a nice solid copy of this scarce edition . Very Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth. 1946.