Search Results: Titles starting with I from Richard Beaton

London: Methuen & Co., 1902. Book. Illus. by Frank Dadd & A. Forrestier. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Original fine-ribbed navy-blue cloth, lettered in gilt. A few light marks, foxing spots throughout, otherwise a bright, tight copy: very good. A romance built around the figure of Roy of Calverton who, in the reign of Queen Mary, becomes an outlaw in Sherwood Forest..

Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1917. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. Original lilac cloth, lettered in gilt; endpapers have music and words for the song "O! Gin I were where Gadie rins". Spine sunned, with small nick at head, a little foxing, otherwise good. Inscription facing title page reads: To the Reverend J. Lorimer Munro, M. A. With affectionate good wishes from the author, April 1917. A Scottish novel, whose hero is an "Officer of Her Majesty's Inland Revenue"..

London: John Murray, 1904. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Illustrated. Early C20th brown leather over pale brown boards; raised bands, gilt decorations and green leather title label on spine; patterned endpapers; top edge gilt. Light rubbing to edges, foxing spots throughout, notes (in pencil) on blank prelims, otherwise good. Sketches, impressions, memories and stories of country life, fishing and poaching at the end of the nineteenth century.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1896. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Short stories include: The Ship That Found Herself by Rudyard Kipling, That There Mason by W. Clark Russell, The Smugglers of the Clone by S. R. Crockett, A Determined Young Person by W. Pett Ridge, Ebenezer by Fred Whishaw, A Ghost Train & The Professor's Jump by W. L. Alden, Karl by Bart Kennedy, Round the World in a Hurry by Morley Roberts, That Wife of Mine by John Strange Winter. Serial Story: A Woman Intervenes by Robert Barr. Continuation of ongoing serialisation. The Stark Munro Letters by A. Conan Doyle. Continuation of ongoing serialisation. Original green cloth, lettered and illustrated in gilt. Lightly scuffed, a trifle dulled, page edges faintly tanned, very good. A heavy volume which will require additional postage outside the UK..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1894. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Contains: The King of Schnorrers by Israel ZANGWILL. Complete serialisation. Memoirs of a Female Nihilist by Sophie WASSILIEFF. Non-fiction. Last three installments. My First Book. Contributions by Morley ROBERTS, David Christie MURRAY, Marie CORELLI, John Strange WINTER, Jerome K. JEROME, Bret HARTE. Short stories include: The Burrawaar Brand by E. W. HORNUNG, Bellamy by James PAYN, The Case of Lady Sannox by A. Conan DOYLE, A Dream in the Night by Coulson KERNAHAN, Story of a Deccan Filly by Hume NISBET, Exchange is Robbery by Richard MARSH, The Greenstone God and the Stockbroker by Fergus HUME, The Man-Eater by Morley ROBERTS, The Phantom Death by W. Clark RUSSELL. Late C19th red leather over red cloth covered boards; raised bands and dark green leather title label on spine. Rubbed at foot of spine, some scrapes to leather on corner pieces, light foxing, otherwise good. A heavy volume which will require additional postage… Read More

London: T. Werner Laurie, 1922. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Undated first edition [1922]. Original yellow cloth, lettered in black; first and last leaves used as endpapers, with advertisement for Pain's Robinson Crusoe. Spine sunned, pages lightly tanned on edges, good. The cover reads: Barry Pain's Parody of "If Winter Comes". If Summer Don't. A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H. NOTSOMUCHINSON. BARRY PAIN. Pain's target is A. S. M. Hutchinson's bestseller If Winter Comes, which he accuses of misusing the First World War for the purpose of fiction "It is altogether too easy. It buys the emotional situation ready-made"..

London: Ward & Downey, 1887. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original brown cloth on bevelled boards, lettered in gilt; black endpapers. Light scuffing, otherwise very good. Dowling was an Irish novelist and cousin to the better-known Edward Downey ("F. M. Allen"). Published anonymously. A collection of essays ranging from The Only Real Ghost in Fiction to A Guide in Ignorance..

London: Cassell & Co., 1897. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in orange. Damaged along lower edge of rear board, inscription (1920), fair. A historical novel of C17th Scotland, dealing with opposition between the government and the Covenanters, and culminating in the Battle of Drumclog (1679)..

London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, 1872. Book. Good. Hardcover. First British Edition.. Undated [1872]. Later rebinding in crimson cloth with blindstamped framing on boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Lightly scuffed, nameplate on front pastedown, front inner joint cracking at bottom, light foxing, otherwise good. The first English edition, not illustrated, issued as a yellowback [Topp II, p 102] by Ward, Lock & Tyler. Later reprinted by Ward, Lock & Co., (after the company had changed its name), with illustrations..

London: Cassell & Co., 1911. Book. Illus. by Gordon Browne. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Original blue cloth, decoratively blocked in gilt on spine. Minimal scuffing, light foxing: very good.

London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original blue cloth, lettered in black on spine. Spine lightly sunned, corners rubbed, good. Tales of the "East", the Pacific, South America. Several stories have supernatural overtones, including The Slaver..

New York: Macmillan & Co., 1870. Book. Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Corners bumped and rubbed, some light marks on cloth, tiny chip at foot of spine, undated signature on blank prelim, good. Baring-Gould's second novel, an historical tale of the French Revolution. The first English edition, in two volumes, was published in Oxford in 1870, printed by Combe, Gardner, Hall & Latham, "Printers to the University"; this version in one volume, was produced by the same Oxford printers, for the American market, apparently at the same time..

Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1890. Book. Good. Hardcover. Copyright Edition.. Dated 1887 on title page, but a later issue. Late C19th dark blue leather over mottled blue boards. Spine tips rubbed, number ("A1114") in gilt at head of spine, light edgewear, small chips to page corners on prelims, good. Todd [2449b]. Second issue: series half-title bound in..

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1897. Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition.. Original deep crimson cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in black. Spine sunned to pink, nick to cloth at head of spine, a few pages have lightly wrinkled edges, a little foxing, good. Baker spent much of her life in New Zealand and used it (as here) as a setting for her fiction -- all of which is now uncommon. Sutherland describes her novels as "grim"..

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1897. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Original dark blue cloth with black lines head/foot of front board, lettered in gilt; dark brown endpapers. Light stain on top corners of endpapers, signatures (1897, 1987) on blanks following front endpapers, good. Sadleir [1720].

London: George Newnes, 1910. Book. Illus. by A. S. Hartrick. Good. Soft cover. Newnes Sixpenny Novels. Illustrated. Undated paperback (c1910) in original card wrappers. Nicks and small chips to card edges, some loss on spine ends, page edges tanned, stationer's stamp on title page, , fair/good. A light item for which postage will be reduced..

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1909. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Thin Paper Edition. Works of Henry Seton Merriman, Volume VII. Original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. A little foxing, a little rubbed at head of spine, very good..

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1902. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt with fleurs de lis in pale blue on front board and spine. Minimal scuffing, faint foxing, very good. A collection of historical short stories and novelettes. .

London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1894. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Translated from the original Hungarian with the author's special permission by Louis Felbermann. "Special Authorized Edition" (ie First Edition). Undated first [1894]. Frontispiece portrait of author. Late C19th circulating library rebinding in maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine. Corners and spine ends scuffed, good. A scarce set of short stories (collected for this edition): In Love with the Czarina, Tamerlan the Tartar, Valdivia, Bizeban, The Moonlight Somnabulist..

London: Mentz, Kenner & Co., 1896. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt, with illustration of sundial and swallow in silver on front board. Lightly scuffed, very good.Produced by a minor publishing house and confused with the reprint Hutchinson issued in 1897 (see Wolff para 4871). A collection of light-hearted stories: Her Tender Heart, Reggie's Rival, The Prince of the Schwabs, The Iconoclast, Sally, The Waits of Taragonda Creek, A Lead Over, The Duke, Highwayman for an Hour. Scarce..