Search Results: Titles starting with F from Richard Beaton

Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1910. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine quite sunned, otherwise good. A collection of stories from Southern Africa..

London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1877. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. First Edition, The Lansdowne Tales. Undated [1877]. Illustrated. Original crimson cloth, lettered and decorated in black on front board, in black and gilt on spine, yellow endpapers. Front free endpaper tipped in, light scuffing, good. Wolff [5899], who queries the 1877 date. An uncommon Roberts title, published (as always) anonymously as "by the author of.". The collection contains two short novels: Fair Else & Duke Ulrich with the Curly Locks; and two short stories; Scheiden Thut Weh & Rough Times..

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1907. Book. Illus. by J. R. Skelton. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine and top edge of front board sunned, a number of small marks on boards, tiny nicks on spine ends, a little foxing, good. Publisher's catalogue for Autumn 1907 at end of volume. Unusually the illustrations are double-sided (ie on plate paper, but one on each side, rather than only on one side, as is the normal practice)..

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1907. Book. Illus. by J. R. Skelton. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Illustrated. Privately rebound in black buckram with "Ship's Library" blindstamped in centre of front board. Lightly scuffed, moderate foxing, undated signature on front free endpaper, good..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. Book. Good. Hardcover. Undated "New Edition", c1890. Late C19th dark green leather over red marbled boards; raised bands and red leather title labels on spines; marbled endpapers. Extremities scuffed, text block shaken with some gatherings proud, good..

London: Cassell & Co., 1892. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Illustrated by W. Stacey. Original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; patterned endpapers. Cloth rubbed on one corner, speckling on boards, some foxing and spotting on earlier pages, good only. Publisher's catalogue dated 8.92 bound in at end. An adventure story set on what is clearly Lundy Island..

London: John Macqueen, 1897. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original fine-ribbed green cloth, lettered in gilt. Corners scuffed, a little foxing, otherwise very good. "John Le Breton" was not one person but two (probably a husband and wife writing team). Likewise this novel is not one but three: three short novels illustrating the themes of the title..

London: Macmillan & Co., 1889. Book. Good. Hardcover. First British Edition.. Original brown cloth, ruled in black on front board; black endpapers. Corners bumped, rubbing to cloth on hinges, good. A novel on the "hot" topic of divorce. Originally published in the USA in 1882, reissued with a revised title in 1889 (and the British edition published at the same time). The novel was reviewed by both Gladstone and Oscar Wilde, and concerns a Puritanical woman whose husband who cannot live up to her high-minded expectations: he is able to divorce her under American law..

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1895. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. The New Knebworth Edition. Original fine-beaded maroon cloth with author's initials in gilt decoration on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Minimal scuffing, attractive bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise near fine.

London: Ward and Lock, 1895. Book. Good. Hardcover. Undated reprint, c1895. A rebound yellowback. Late c19th orange cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Some small bubbles to cloth on front board, faint undated signatures, good..

New York: International Book Company, 1895. Book. Good. Hardcover. Undated American reprint, c1895. The Columbus Series. Original tan cloth, lettered and decorated in black on front board, gilt on spine. Paper tanned throughout, otherwise good..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Original olive green cloth, ruled and decorated in brown and black, lettered in gilt on spine; blue leaf-patterned endpapers. Spine a trifle darkened with small nick at head, article on Stevenson from Pall Mall Gazette (July 12, 1892) attached to prelims, good. Literary articles culled from The New Quarterly, Macmillan's & Cornhill magazines. Publisher's catalogue for May 1892 bound in at end..

London: William Stevens, 1900. Book. Good. Hardcover. Undated, c1900. Original green cloth, lettered in black and gilt, with advertisements on endpapers. Light scuffing, light foxing. Inner joint papers lightly cracked, otherwise good. The book was issued anonymously, but in Charlotte M. Brame (1836-1884) Towards a Primary Bibliography (compiled by Graham Law, with Gregory Drozdz and Debby McNally) That Girl! is attributed to Fanny LABLANCHE. 0.

London: William Stevens, 1900. Book. Good. Hardcover. Undated, c1900. Original green cloth, lettered in black and gilt, with advertisements on endpapers. Light scuffing, light foxing. Inner joint papers lightly cracked, otherwise good..

London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inverary Edition. Original blue cloth. A little dulled on spine, otherwise very good..

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Fifth Impression. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. A little light foxing, otherwise very good..

London: George Newnes, 1904. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Frontispiece. Original steel-blue cloth, decorated in red and lettered in gilt. Half-title (or blank) preceding frontispiece removed, gift plate on front pastedown, a few light marks, good. .

Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1905. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Copyright Edition.. Early C20th light blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Inscription (1910) on front free endpaper, foxing, otherwise very good. Todd [3811]. First/only issue: series half-title bound in..

London: Ward, Lock & Co, 1900. Book. Good. Hardcover. Guy Boothby: The Fascination of the King (1897). Paperback: Ward, Lock & Co., nd. Illustrated. Bound with: Hawley Smart: Broken Bonds (1874) Paperback: Ward, Lock & Co., nd. Illustrated; G. J. Whyte-Melville: Katerfelto A Story of Exmoor (1870). Paperback: Ward, Lock & Co., 1900. Illustrated. Three Victorian/Edwardian paperbacks bound as one in green binder's cloth. Bound without original wrappers. Very good..

London: Richard Bentley, 1854. Book. Good. Hardcover. First British Edition.. Mid C19th rebinding in green cloth on limp boards, with hand-cut brown leather title label on spine. Spine lightly creased, otherwise good. As the title indicates, a novel of contrasts between rich and poor in New England..