Search Results: Titles starting with A from Richard Beaton

London: Partridge, 1889. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Contains: Eric Olsen's Minde Ring by Mrs Charles Garnett. Complete serialisation. Oonalaska by Gordon Stables. Complete serialisation. That House in London by L. T. Meade. Complete serialisation. Mad John Burleigh by Mrs Charles Garnett. Complete serialisation. Original green cloth on bevelled boards, illustrated in black and lettered in gilt. Corners rubbed, 1 cm loss at head of spine, prize plate (1890) on front pastedown inner joint papers lightly cracked, good. A very heavy volume which will require additional postage. Late-C19th black leather over grey beaded cloth; brown endpapers. Leather splitting on each end of hinges, cloth chipped at foot of front board, but contents clean and tight: fair. The third and last volume of a short-lived journal (there is a "notice of discontinuance" at the end): the fiction is mostly aimed at older children. A heavy volume which will require additional postage..

London: Partridge, 1890. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Contains: "Nolens Volens; or the Adventures of Don Lavington by George Manville FENN. Complete serialisation. Hamilton of King's by Alice PRICE. Complete serialisation. Nancy's Ten Pound Tour by Knyghte RYDER. Complete serialisation. Not Wanted by Eliza M. POLLARD. Complete serialisation. From Chrysalis to Butterfly by Isabel HORNIBROOK. Complete serialisation. Late-C19th black leather over grey beaded cloth; brown endpapers. Leather splitting on each end of hinges, cloth chipped at foot of front board, but contents clean and tight: fair. The third and last volume of a short-lived journal (there is a "notice of discontinuance" at the end): the fiction is mostly aimed at older children. A heavy volume which will require additional postage..

London: All the Year Round, 1882. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition.. Contains: Let Nothing You Dismay by Walter BESANT. Complete short novel. Modern card wrapper. Good..

Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1904. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Copyright Edition.. Two volumes uniformly bound in early C20th black leather over lilac beaded cloth; raised bands and brown leather title labels on spines; orange-and-white patterned endpapers. Light scuffing to leather, small chip to edge of title label on Volume 1, otherwise very good. Todd [3772a/73]. First issue with contents pages in Volume 1 incorrectly numbered. Series half-title bound in. Setting: France in the reign of Henri IV (1595).

London: W. E. Clegg, 1896. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition in Three Volumes.. Edited by James Dronsfield. Illustrated by F. W. Jackson. Three volumes in original fine-ribbed green cloth. Endpapers lightly browned, lightly rubbed on spine ends, otherwise a very good set. Wolff [815]. A posthumous collection of Brierley's Ab-o'th'Yate and other dialect Lancashire stories. A heavy three-volume set which will require additional postage outside the UK..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1894. Book. Illus. by Thomas B. MacQuoid. Very Good. Hardcover. New Edition. Original deep turquoise cloth with illustrations in pale brown and black, lettered in gilt on spine. Minimal scuffing, undated signature on front free endpaper and bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a clean, tight, bright copy, very good. Katharine MacQuoid was a novelist, but this books is a travelogue, with illustrations by the author's husband. A heavy volume which will require additional postage outside the UK..

London: Henry & Co., 1894. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. A few light marks, undated signature on first page of text, otherwise very good. A series of comic and farcical adventures on board ship and (eventually) in South Africa -- involving the narrator, Major Lightfoot, and his friend, Reginald Twitty. Mulliner also wrote another comic novel (Declined With Thanks, 1893) and a number of stage farces..

Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1922. Book. Good. Hardcover. Copyright Edition.. First/only issue: series half title bound in. Todd [4580]. early C20th maroon cloth over red and yellow marbled boards; cream endpapers. Light scuffing, page edges faintly browned, good+. A sequel to The Antagonists and Richard Furlong. The Tauchnitz edition of this novel (originally published in London in 1914) was delayed by the hostilities between Britain and Germany from 1914 -to 1918..

Bristol & London: J. Arrowsmith & Simpkin Marshall & Co., 1902. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Damp-marked on bottom edges of boards, with consequent staining on endpapers (and slightly on first prelims). Text block otherwise clean and tight: overall a fair copy. A narrative of travel and adventure around the world..

Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1909. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Copyright Edition.. Yellow boards with repeated pattern of blue fleurs-de-lis; title label on spine; grey endpapers. Light wear, a little foxing, armorial bookplate of Michael Cadwallader Adams on front pastedown, very good. Todd [4144a] First issue, with series half-title bound in..

Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1896. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Copyright Edition. Late C19th beige cloth with blindstamped framing on boards, red and green title/author labels on spine; European-style decorated endpapers and integral silk bookmark; all edges stained red. Near fine. Todd [3134a]. First issue. Series half-title bound in..

London: Nash & Grayson, 1928. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. First English Edition. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Light sunning, some foxing spots good..

London: Eveleigh Nash, 1904. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original purple cloth, lettered in gilt. Corners scuffed, foxing spots throughout, good. The lost hero -- a twelve year old boy -- is rediscovered and rescued by his father, and then embarks on a series of adventures around Europe. Jepson wrote a sequel two years later..

London: George Newnes, 1918. Book. Poor. Hardcover. Newnes 1/6 series. Undated, but British Library indicates 1918 for this edition. Original light green cloth. Cloth sunned, pages roughly cut/trimmed, library stamps on first last page and verso of title page. A reading copy only..

London: Charles Daly, 1840. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Frontispiece, vignette title and a further sixteen plates. Mid C19th black leather over blue marbled boards. Lightly scuffed. Boards a little darkened, undated signature on front pastedown, signature (1876) on vignette title, foxing on margins of plates, otherwise very good..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1895. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First British Edition.. Illustrated. Original red cloth, decorated in gilt and lettered in black. A few light marks, foxing on endpapers, otherwise clean, tight, very good. A collection of humorous tall stories. Jones has done everything: from surviving local cyclones to reaching the North Pole..

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1898. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original green cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt: dark green endpapers. Lightly scuffed, light foxing, Note ("First Edition") on verso of front free endpaper, very good..

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1846. Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Mid C19th fine-ribbed black cloth, with blindstamped framing, lettered in gilt on spine, yellow endpapers. Neatly rebacked (50 years ago), inner joint papers cracked (but joints tight), undated signature on front pastedown, good. There is no indication of authorship nor any illustrations in this edition. The "other stories" are The Traveller in Spite of Himself, The Hour of Fortune & Crocodile Island..

London: Chapman & Hall, 1889. Book. Good. Hardcover. New Edition. Original navy-blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; black endpapers. Lightly scuffed, a few light marks, front inner joint paper lightly cracked (but joint tight), undecorated bookplate on front pastedown, good..

London: T. Werner Laurie, 1913. Book. Good. Hardcover. [Third Impression]. Title page printed in green and black. Original fine-ribbed green cloth, vignette of palm tree on front board in gilt, lettered in gilt. Spine lettering dulled/oxidised, corners scuffed, John Bull award label tipped on to front endpapers, good..