Baroness orczy etc (5 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 36 pages. Baroness Emmuska Orczy 1865-1947 published works - list / Tauchnitz Of Leipzig published titles numbers 1801 to 1900 / "The Genesis Of Sherlock Holmes (continued) / The Institute For Palestine Studies - contact addresses etc / Sotheby's book auction prices realised for their February and March 1971 sales (10 pages) / "Alfred De Musset And 'The Opium Eater'".…

very good - fine.

near fine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A cornucopia of 'Gaslight Sci Fi', Supernatural tales (the six Heron mother and son, second series Flaxman Low tales are their first appearance in print (preceding the book) and the character is celebrated as the first psychic detective in fiction; also Fantasy and Adventure fiction. Notable stories include: The Monster of Lake Metrie (Wyoming), Adventures of Sirdir Mohammed Khan, The Lost Continent, a tale of the Fourth Dimension and The Story of Flaxman Low. There is also a wide range of non-fiction article topics including: cannibalism, a new art of self-defence, microbes, boomerangs, a New York diving torpedo boat, shark hunting, billiard tricks, snake dancers of Arizona, Baku, convict life, etc etc. Personalities featured include Nikola TESLA, Jan Szczepanik, Mrs E. Main, champion mountaineer, Alex Orling, Hoshi Kosetsu, etc. Nearly all articles are attractively illustrated and include the work of the celebrated illustrator Warwick Goble R.A. The volumes are in very good to near-fine condition, bright and clean with very few, if any, signs of use. No inscriptions and firm bindings - unusual in such thick tomes (680pp and 814pp) - very attractive hardback covers with art nouveau designs in colour and gilt blocking. Volume VII has some cloth wrinkling to the spine and very slight spotting to top edge; attractive decorated green end-papers and fine condition throughout. Volume VIII has the identical clean and bright binding with clean gray end-papers with minor spotting to the verso of the last page (Index) only. Some slightly bumped corners to both volumes. Overall, in remarkably good condition. Pearson's Magazine has an obvious transatlantic feel in the choice of topics and fiction authors, most of which carry a U.S. copyright notice no doubt due to content overlap with the U.S. Pearson's Magazine. Some additional postage cost (ie. for two volumes) for overseas. Now 50% off the original asking price applied. Warwick Goble and others (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Good Only. An impressive thirty-four volume set of European literary works, from the 'Collection Nelson' series. A French language set. Including both works in their original French, and works translated into French from other languages. Consisting of twenty six works, three of which are incomplete, and with duplicates of two works.Present here are:A two volume edition of Alexandre Dumas's 'Le Trois Mousquetaires'. With a colour frontispiece to volume I, but with volume I lacking the title page.Volumes I and III of Alexandre Dumas's 'Le Vicomte de Bragelonne', A two volume edition of Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenine', with a colour frontispiece to each volume. A two volume edition of 'Histoire de la Revolution Francaise' by F.- A.- M. Mignet, with a monochrome frontispiece to each volume.A two volume edition of 'L'Avenement de Bonaparte' by Comte Albert Vidal, with a monochrome frontispiece to each volume.'De Toute son Ame' by Rene Bazin.'Les Vautours' by H. Seton Merriman, with a colour frontispiece.Two copies of 'Lettres de Mon Moulin' by Alphonse Daudet, with a colour frontispiece to each. Two copies of 'La Reine Marie-Antoinette' by Pierre de Nolhac.'Les Derniers Jours de Pompei' by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.'Le Mouron Rouge' by la Baronne Orczy, with a colour frontispiece.'Nouveaux Exploits du Mouron Rouge' by La Baronne Orczy.'La Tailleur de Pierres de Saint-Pont' by A. de Lamartine.'Arenas Sanglantes' by V. Blasco Ibanez.'Le Pere Goriot' by H. De Balzac.'La Simiacine' by H. Seton Merriman, with a colour frontispiece.'Vie de Jesus' by Ernest Renan'Belle-Rose' by Amedee Achard, with a colour frontispiece.Volume I only of 'Memoires de la Duchesse d'Abrantes' by Laure Saint-Martin-Permon, with monochrome frontispiece.'Le Mariage de Chiffon' by Gyp.'Le Cour de Louis XIV' by Saint-Simon.'Eve Victorieuse' by Pierre de Coulevain, with a colour frontispiece.'La Cousine Bette' by H. de Balzac.'Jean d'Agreve' by le Vte E.- M. de Vogue, with a loosely inserted colour frontispiece.'Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon' by E. Labiche, with a loosely inserted colour frontispiece.'La Tulipe Noire' by Alexandre Dumas. The first volume only of 'Vingt Ans Apres' by Alexandre Dumas.With publisher's advertisements to the rear of the majority of volumes, and with three bookplates across the set. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Discolouration to back strips, with bumping to spine heads and tails. Handling marks to boards. Ink marks to front board of one copy of 'Lettres de Mon Moulin'. Front joint of 'Mouron Rouge' strained and tender, with bookplate to front pastedown of this volume. Front board of 'La Cousine Bette' detached. Hinges strained, and all somewhat tender or weak. Front hinge of Le Vicomte de Bragelonne volume I detached, bookplate to front free endpaper of same volume. Bookplate to front free endpaper of 'Vingt Ans Apres' also. Internally, bindings somewhat strained. Both volumes of Mousquetaires strained, with a leaf detached and loosely inserted to the rear of both volumes. Title page of Le Cour de Louis XIV detached. Two frontispieces detached and loosely inserted. Pages generally clean and bright. Good Only. None (illustratore). book.…