Search Results: Authors starting with K from Richard Beaton

London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1855. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition in Three Volumes. Three volumes uniformly bound in mid-century maroon leather over marbled boards, cloth corner pieces. Titles on the spines read simply "A Tale of Jerusalem". Leatherwork tight, but chipped on spine ends of Volume II (see photograph); marbled paper on boards generally rubbed along edges -- and missing on front of Volume I. Contents tight and in good order, with undated signatures on front pastedowns, and a small stamp ("Cancelled") on front free endpapers and title pages, rear free endpaper missing in Volume III. A fair copy of a very scarce title. Collates: I - [iv, including advertisement leaf] + 290pp; II - [iv including a different advertisement leaf] + 280pp; III - [iv, including a different advertisement leaf] + 262 pp + advertisement leaf + 8pp undated publisher's catalogue. Not in Wolff or Sadleir. Historical novel. The author was the father of novelist Julia Kavanagh.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Leading article on John Keats. Original card wrappers. Condition: good.

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1898. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition.. Original orange-tan cloth, lettered in black on front board, in gilt on spine. Small ink spot on front board, spine a trifle darkened, light foxing, very good.A collection of twelve short stories..

London: Methuen & Co., 1901. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Frontispiece. Original blue black cloth over red boards, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed on extremities, a little faint foxing, very good. A collection of seven short stories set in the Devonshire village of Dunstable Weir..

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1898. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition.. Original orange-tan cloth, lettered in black on front board, in gilt on spine.Spine lightly sunned, , light foxing, very good. A collection of twelve short stories..

London: Archibald Constable & Co.`, 1903. Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition.. Original black cloth. Light splash marking and speckling on front board, spine and spine edge of rear board (lettering on spine affected, see photograph), a little foxing, still a good tight copy. Three stories. Scarce..

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1898. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Illustrated. Original grey-blue cloth, decorated in silver and gilt on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Endpapers browned, otherwise very good. A historical romance in the manner of Dumas. Set in France during the reign of Louis XIV..

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1897. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Undated first edition [1897]. Frontispiece. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine sunned, with small nicks head/foot, a little foxing, good. Six linked stories of various lengths -- the first a brief eight pages, the last almost one hundred..

London: John Long, 1906. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Binding worn with rubbing on lower edges of boards, splits to cloth on upper ends of hinges, small area chipped at head of spine, small piece torn from title page. A reading copy only.

London: Religious Tract Society, R. T. S., 1889. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Undated first edition [1889]. Original illustrated crimson cloth, lettered in gilt, decorated endpapers. Frontispiece. Light scuffing, a few faint marks, very good. Two short novels..

London: Religious Tract Society, R. T. S., 1905. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Undated reprint, c1900. Frontispiece. Original illustrated brown cloth, lettered in gilt, decorated endpapers, all edges gilt. Light scuffing, a few faint marks, prize plate (1905) on front pastedown, very good. Two short novels..

London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1862. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Frontispiece and illustrated title page precede printed title page. Original ripple-grained violet cloth, with blindstamped decorations on both boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers. Spine lightly sunned, corners rubbed, otherwise a clean tight copy, very good. Wolff [3750] for the first edition in same binding. "What has become of some of our contemporaries...they have failed and are now forgotten. This...the author hopes, may supply a missing link in the record of our lives and clear up any mystery enveloping the fortunes of -- to Anglicise a French phrase -- the Forgottens" (Author's Preface)..

London: Jarrold & Sons, Jarrolds, 1904. Book. Illus. by Fanny Moody & E. Werner. Good. Hardcover. Undated, c1904. Original light green cloth with silhouette illustration (three students and three dogs) on front board; lettered in red and black. Corners bumped, large inscription on front free endpaper, some foxing, good+. A scarce comic novel..

Londonn: Ward, Lock & Co., 1900. Book. Good. Hardcover. YELLOWBACK. Third Edition, 2/- Copyright Novels. Undated [1900]. Illustrated by F. S. Wilson. Original pictorial paper-covered boards, with fine-ribbed maroon cloth spine lettered in gilt. Board edges/corners rubbed, spine tips scuffed, endpapers tanned, good. Todd [II, p.368] lists second edition of 1897 and notes "also 1900". A detective novel in which the criminal is apparently the eponymous Irish terrorist. Setting: Canvey Island in Essex. .

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original red cloth with blindstamped art nouveau designs on front board and spine, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt: spine sunned, gift inscription (1914) on front pastedown, good. Original glassine dustwrapper: torn with top 4 cms missing from spine, fair. Even in its torn state the early dustwrapper is an unusual survival. A short novel on a religious theme..

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Library of Select Novels, No 438. Text printed in double columns. Original pale brown card wrappers. Light wear, tiny chips on spine ends, a few faint marks, otherwise very good..

London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1896. Book. Illus. by R. Caton Woodville.. Very Good. Hardcover. Undated reprint, c1896. Original fine-ribbed maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, author's initials in gilt on front board. Spine lightly sunned, pages unopened at top throughout, good+. An unread copy.

London: Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1895. Book. Good. Hardcover. Frontispiece. Original fine-ribbed maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, author's initials in gilt on front board. Spine lightly sunned, good+. An unread copy, with pages unopened at top throughout..

London: Chapman & Hall, 1856. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Cheap Edition. Mid C19th black leather over black cloth; raised bands and red leather title label on spine; brown endpapers. Lightly scuffed, inner joint papers lightly cracked (but joints tight), a little foxing, otherwise very good. With a new "Preface to the Cheap Edition Addressed to the Working Men of Great Britain". Kingsley's first, and most radical, novel..

London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1890. Book. Good. Hardcover. Select Library of Fiction, undated (c1890). Late C19th navy blue leather over maroon boards: "Henry Kingsley's Novels" and "The Harveys" in gilt on spine; green flower-patterned endpapers; top edge gilt. Small area of discolouration on front board, scuffing to spine tips; small impressed stamp for Birkbeck College and owner's signature (1897) on half-title and title pages, a little foxing and tanning on page edges, otherwise good..