Search Results: Titles starting with C from Richard Beaton

London: Macmillan & Co., 1880. Book. Good. Hardcover. Novels and Tales Volume XIII. Original pale brown cloth, with gilt bands on front board; black endappers. Small chip at foot of spine, lightly sunned, bookplate of Ethel Grenfell on front pastedown, good. An historical novel for younger readers. Period: c 1407 - 1423. Subject: the imprisonment of King James I of Scotland by the English..

London: Macmillan & Co., 1876. Book. Good. Hardcover. Fourth Edition. 6 illustrations. Original green cloth, with bands of black & gilt on front board and spine; brown endpapers. Free corners rubbed, a little cracking to inner joint paper only (joints tight), a few marks on cloth, good. An historical novel for younger readers. Period: c 1407 - 1423. Subject: the imprisonment of King James I of Scotland by the English..

London: Macmillan & Co., 1876. Book. Good. Hardcover. Fourth Edition. 6 illustrations. Original green cloth, with bands of black & gilt on front board and spine; brown endpapers. Free corners rubbed, a little cracking to inner joint paper only (joints tight), marked on board edges, good. An historical novel for younger readers. Period: c 1407 - 1423. Subject: the imprisonment of King James I of Scotland by the English..

London: Greening & Co., 1910. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Reprint: the Lotus Library. Original lilac cloth with raised pattern of leaves on front board, blocked in gilt on spine. Spine sunned to brown, corners scuffed, endpapers browned, fair/good.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Volume 4 in the Collected Works of Douglas Jerrold. C19th red leather over red marbled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; red marbled endpapers. Paper rubbed on board edges, a little light foxing, very good..

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852. Book. Good. Hardcover. Volume 4 in the Collected Works of Douglas Jerrold.Original black cloth, letterfed in gilt on spine. Spine ends chipped, otherwise good..

London: Routledge, Warnes & Routledge, 1859. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Thus. Original beaded green cloth with blindstamped framing on boards; lettered in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers. Most (but not all) pages unopened. Scuffed with tiny nicks on spine ends, inner joint papers cracked (but joints tight), good. Disraeli senior's two books (Calamities....Quarrels) had originally appeared in from 1812 to 1814..

London: J. Curwen & Sons, 1915. Book. Good. No Binding. Undated [1915]. 10 page pamphlet ("Curwen's Edition 3588") of the "Words of The Call of Spring". The play was poduced with music by Richard J. C. Chantere and dances by M. H. Wollnoth. The music score is not present..

Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1929. Book. Good. Hardcover. Copyright Edition.. Two volumes uniformly bound in green cloth with mottled/marbled boards; daisy patterned endpapers. A few light marks, board edges lightly sunned, page edges tanned, good. Undated later issue, with 1929 hand-written on title pages. Todd [3919f/20b]. Series half-titles present..

Bristol & London: J. Arrowsmith & Judy Office, 1883. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Hugh Conway: Called Back. Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual. [First Edition: J. Arrowsmith, 1883]. Bound, second in volume with: Ernest Warren: Four Flirts: Their Cards, and How They Played Them. The Round Table Annual. First Edition: Judy Office, nd [1880]. Two volumes (both small 4to) bound as one, without original wrappers, in maroon binder's cloth, with "Four Flirts" only on spine. Spine ends rubbed with small splits to cloth, otherwise good. Called Back: Wolff [1423]. 88 pages in double columns, matching Wolff's collation, with Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual as the running title on each verso. But bound without its wrapper. The first appearance of Conway's hugely successful "shilling shocker", a mystery-thriller. It was issued in November 1883, a month before it was appeared as the first volume of the Bristol Library (in which form it was frequently reprinted)..

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1878. Book. Illus. by Phiz [ie Hablot K. Browne]. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Original blindstamped grey cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers. Corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, otherwise good. A comic novel by James Rice (under a pseudonym) who later partnered Walter Besant in a series of successful novels..

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1896. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Undated first [1896]. Frontispiece and decorated title page. Original green cloth, with cameo (in white on brown) embossed on front board; green endpapers; top edge gilt. Title page a little crooked (printer's error). Corners scuffed, light wear to cameo, slip (2cms) cut from top edge of half title, good+. 15 short stories: God's Light on the Mountains, The Hired Baby, Nehemiah P. Hoskins Artist, The Silence of the Maharajah, Three Wide Men of Gotham, The Lady with the Carnations, An Old Bundle, Mademoiselle Zephyr, One of the World's Wonders, Angel's Wickedness, The Distant Voice, The Withering of a Rose, Tiny Tramps, The Song of Miriam & The Soul of the Newly Born..

London: Macmillan & Co., 1901. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Original brown cloth on bevelled boards, lettered in gilt, small cameo on front board. Lightly scuffed, endpapers foxed, very good..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1887. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. New Edition. Late C19th rebinding in dark green leather over red marbled boards; raised bands with gilt decorations and two red leather title labels on spine; red marbled endpapers. Paper lightly grazed on boards, a little foxing, otherwise very good..

London: Wm. Isbister Ltd, 1883. Book. Good. Hardcover. Tenth edition. Frontispiece. Original olive cloth on bevelled boards, elaborately blocked in black, lettered in gilt on spine; grey endpapers; all edges gilt. Spine lightly sunned and scuffed on tips, armorial bookplate of Edward H. Oldham on front pastedown, a little foxing, good+. Historical novel on religious themes..

London: John Murray, 1911. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original red cloth, framed in grey on front board, lettered and decorated in grey and gilt on spines. Lightly scuffed, inscription (1911) on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. "[Napier's] speciality was the moral contamination of innocent young women by their worldly elders" (Edwardian Fiction). The novel has a particularly memorable last line: "And the little puffins, far out at sea, said "Aaaarh!".

London: W. A. Hammond, 1910. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Frontispiece portrait of author. Illustrated. Original blue cloth, with art-nouveau decorations in pale blue and green, lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. Lightly scuffed, gift inscription (1918) on front free endpaper, very good. Tales of miner's and mining in County Durham..

London: James Clarke & Co., 1900. Book. Good. Hardcover. Undated reprint, c1900. Original crimson cloth, with impressed designs in darker crimson and black, lettered in gilt on spine. Corners rubbed, paper lightly browned throughout, undated signature on front pastedown, good..

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1826. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Fifth Edition in Two Volumes. Two volumes rebound in mid C19th beaded blue cloth, with brown leather title labels on spines. Spines lightly sunned, a little foxing, very good. The Canterbury Tales was a joint work by sisters Sophia and Harriet Lee. These two volumes contain only Sophia's stories; and it seems likely that this was the first edition/issue of this selection, the "fifth edition" applying to The Canterbury Tales as a whole..

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1898. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Title page printed in red and black. Lightly scuffed, a little foxing, otherwise a bright, tight copy: very good. Eight whimsical tales. Very uncommon..