Search Results: Titles starting with W from Richard Beaton

Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1883. Book. Good. Hardcover. Copyright Edition. Three volumes in uniform utilitarian binding on unhemmed green cloth over blue marbled boards; paper labels on spines. Spines creased and rubbed on ends, inner joints cracked, fair. A reading copy. [Todd 2145a/46a/47]. First issues; series half-titles bound in..

London: Bruce & Wyld, 1845. Book. Good. Hardcover. First/early UK edition. The Novel Newspaper Nos 415 - 433. Text printed in double columns. Mid C19th maroon leather over red marbled boards. Chip at foot of spine, light edgewear, undated inscription on front free endpaper, light foxing, good. The work was immensely popular and issued by a number of different English publishers (Chapman, Lloyd, Appleyard), more or less simultaneously..

London: Groombridge & Co., 1874. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Coloured frontispiece and six monochrome plates. Original green cloth on bevelled boards, ruled framed and lettered in gilt; all edges gilt. Spine ends nicked, some light staining on plates, one plate frayed on edges, endpapers replaced, name stamp ("James Eccles, Eccleshall", on recto of frontispiece, good. Twelve short stories and essays: The Wandering Mason, The Golden Ram, Milton's Golden Lane, One New Year's Eve, A Night of Tortures, Going Hopping, Twelve Miles from the Royal Exchange, The Portrait of a Spy, Loitering by the Way, The Abbot's Garden, The Elixir of Life & An Englishman's Castle. Some of the items originally appeared in Household Words..

London: Williams & Norgate, 1926. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Variant binding in light green cloth, framed and lettered in black. A little rubbed at head of spine, otherwise good. Six stories of future conflicts and the prospective developments in warfare..

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1894. Book. Good. Hardcover. Original pale brown cloth, lettered and decorated in darker brown and gilt.Spine tips scuffed, a few light marks, half-title removed, good. The first of the Barsetshire novels.

London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1901. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Impression. Illustrated. Original maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in black (gilt on spine); black endpapers. Bookplate on front pastedown, light foxing, otherwise very good. A novel of love and war on the Indian frontier, where a dead For Saleier is supposed to ride at night in times of danger -- the ghostly rider is pictured in the frontispiece. Publisher's catalogue dated 4/01 bound in at end..

London: Macmillan & Co., 1923. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Illustrated. Original green cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt. A little light scuffing, inscription and armorial bookplate on front endpapers, otherwise clean, bright, tight, very good..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1918. Book. Good. Hardcover. Original light green cloth, lettered in yellow. Spine lightly sunned, light marks on boards, otherwise good..

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1908. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. New Impression. original crimson cloth with repeated impressed pattern on front board, lettered in gilt; impressed flower designs by title on front board and right down spine. A few light marks, inscription (1909) on front free endpaper, a few foxing spots, very good..

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1889. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. YELLOWBACK. Stereotyped Edition. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Some small chips to paper on front board, 2mm loss at head of spine, surface of paper rubbed on lower third of spine, some rubbing and light staining around board edges; contents clean and tight, good. Topp [IX, p114]. Partly a novel, partly a sermon, partly a depiction of the Church (personalities and politics). Parker was a noted theologian and preacher..

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1891. Book. Good. Hardcover. Undated first edition [1891]. The Idle Hour Series. Frontispiece. Original decorated, glazed blue black boards with purple cloth spines, black label on spine, pale blue decorated endpapers. Label partly chipped away on spine (see photo), spine sunned, otherwise good. A collection of short stories, mostly by minor writers, but including A Romance in a Nutshell by George Manville Fenn, The Brighton Coach by Theodore Hook etc..

London: Harry Shurry, 1912. Book. Good. Paper Wrappers. First Edition.. A weekly magazine of short stories, aimed largely at male readers; "The Best Sport -- Reading This Magazine". Contains: Captain Jenkinson's Plan by Frank SHAW, Christopher Quarles -- Crime Investigator. 4 -- Old Mrs Jardine by Percy James BREBNER, When William Went Shooting by F. Morton HOWARD, The River's Edge by Mary SCHULTZE, The Theft of the Holy Flag by Frederick BATEMAN, A Five-Pound Note by G. Roydon DUFF. The Final Round by S. H. REASON. Original illustrated paper wrappers. Rear wrapper chipped and torn, paper lightly browned. A good example of a scarce, ephemeral item..

London: Macmillan & Co., 1926. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Pocket Edition. Full navy blue calf (leather), with author's initials blindstamped on front board, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; top edge gilt. Minimal shelf-wear, signature (1933) on front free endpaper, otherwise clean, bright, tight copy: very good+.

London & New York: Harper& Bros, 1898. Book. Good. Hardcover. Wessex Novels, Volume XIII. With an etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a map of Wessex. Original fine-ribbed green cloth, lettered in gilt. Nicked at head of spine with small chip at foot, , corners scuffed and bumped, inscription (1900) on front free endpaper, good..

London: Sands & Co., 1900. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. Original scarlet cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. A few foxing spots, small bookplate for Easton Neston Library (a private collection) on front pastedown, very good. White was a popular novelist writing in the decades at the turn of the C19th/C20th..

Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1902. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Original slate grey cloth with illustration (For Saleier standing sentry in the snow) in black, white and red; lettered in white on front board, in gilt on spine. Front board lightly rubbed, signature (1906) on front free endpaper, very good..

London: Griffith Farran & Co., 1892. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Undated First Edition [1892]. Original dark green cloth on bevelled board, lettered in gilt; black endpapers. Corners scuffed, very good.A novel in which two sisters love the same man. Scarce..

London: Cassell & Co., 1907. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. [Reprint]. Original fine ribbed blue cloth, lettered in gilt; blue patterned endpapers. Lightly scuffed, a few light marks on boards, otherwise a clean, bright, tight copy, very good+.

London: Digby, Long & Co., 1895. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 2nd Edition.. Original red cloth, lettered in black on front board, in gilt on spine; green-and-white patterned endpapers. Lower half of rear board discoloured, with black stain running diagonally across top half of board; contents clean and tight; thus only fair.The author's only novel: a cynical and satirical novel of "modern society" dealing with unequal and unhappy marriage, "New Women" etc..

London: S. P. C. K. [Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge], 1888. Book. Illus. by J. Nash. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Undated, [1888] (booklist at back gives books published 1886-8). Original illustrated cream cloth. Lightly soiled and scuffed, good. A short novel (94 pp)..