Colvin sydney (9 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Dustjacket. New Issue. 224 pages. No dustjacket. Cream coloured hardback binding with darkening to boards, bronzing to spine, wear with small creases to spine-ends and boards' corners. Page-edges/end-papers yellowed, bookplate to flyleaf. Pages clean and sound.

Couverture rigide. Condizione: Bon. English Men of Letters Series, 229 p. Bookplate of the Fraser Institute on front pastedown. Stamp «not to leave library» on back flyleaf. Pastedowns worns. Light wear to publisher's binding. code 1093.

SECOND IMPRESSIOM, VERY GOOD IN ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH, FRONTISPIECE OF COLVIN, MINOR FOXING TO PAGE ENDS. INSCRIPTION ON FEP. MEMORIES OF RUSKIN, BURNE-JONES, ROSSETTI, BROWNING AND OTHERS.

Hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. 1911 (10th) edition. A hardback volume in Good condition. No dustjacket. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover illustrations vary, and unless the image accompanying the listing is marked 'Bookseller Image', it is an Abebooks Stock Image, NOT our own). BUYERS OUTSIDE UK please also note the following: 1. shipping rates apply to packets of 750g and under, and should the packed weight of an item exceed this we reserve the right to ship via 'Economy', or request extra postage prior to fulfilling the order, or cancel 2. many countries apply import or other taxes - these are the buyers responsibility; we may ask for extra payment to cover any taxes which we have to pay 'up front' on the buyer's behalf.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. According to the title pages, these books collectively represent 'a new edition rearranged in four volumes with 150 new letters.' They cover the period from 1868 to 1894. However, please note that the publication dates and specific editions/versions vary - see note towards the end of this description. The format of each book is the same with the condition of each also being more or less similar. The following comments therefore apply to all four books; unless stated otherwise. Crimson cloth with Robert Louis Stevenson?s initials in gilt on the upper board. Titles and decorative patterns along the spine: (vols I-III are in gilt; with vols I & II slightly faded. Vol IV: patterning and text appears to be black and non-gilt). Mild to moderate tanning throughout; especially on the preliminary pages (including on the frontispiece?s tissue guard) - and also on the final pages. The tissue guard for Vol. I has a couple of creases. Pagination - vol I: pp. xxxv, 293. vol. II: pp. xii, 325. vol III: pp. ix, 334. vol. pp. iv: ix, 370. 18mo. EDITIONS - vol. I: 5th ed, 1919. vol. II: 4th ed, 1913. vol. III: 4th ed, 1913. vol. IV: 3rd ed, 1911. Please note that, depending on destination, we may request a payment to cover any extra shipping/postage charges. Proceeds to Amnesty International. Abe2605. (This item is being sold under the Retail Gift Aid scheme to support Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust. Gift Aid enables us to increase the value of donations by 25%. Amnesty International UK Section is acting as an agent selling this item on behalf of one of our Gift Aid Donors).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Spine bumped & worn, corners bumped & rubbed, page 71 detached, & torn on bottom corner, light partial browning on fep & rep. Creasing and nicks on tissue guard. Heavy book - over 700g, may require extra postage. ; All edges gold ; B&W Photographs & Illustration; 14 x 9.95 x 0.75|"; 71 pages.…

very thick 8vo [23 x 16 x 14 cm thick]; 2 volumes, lxxii, 1008; [x], 1139 pp, illustrations, frontis in each volume. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, fine, clean and unmarked. A massive 2,200 page reference with over 10,000 works cited. A standard reference to Southern Africa which also includes sections on cartography, blue books, magazine articles, appendices, etc. A picture of this book is available on request.…

Original publisher's light-brown cloth hardback, gilt lettering spine, 2nd edition [1910], thick large 4to: VOLUME I: lxxij, 1008pp. VOLUME II: frontispiece, [x], 1140pp., Very fine complete set. Printed in 500 copies.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. A complete twenty-five volume set of the works of popular author Robert Louis Stevenson, including his correspondence, criticism and poetry. A twenty-five volume set in the publisher's original cloth bindings.This collection of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson provides a comprehensive view of Stevenson's talents as an author and poet. It also includes correspondence and criticism, giving a well-rounded view of his character. All volumes are illustrated with a frontispiece.This set comprises:I: New Arabian Nights (1919). Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Stevenson.II: Treasure Island (1920). Sketch map to the frontispiece and 8 plates.III: More New Arabian Nights; The Dynamiter; The Story of a Lie (1920).IV: Prince Otto; Island Nights" Entertainments; Father Damien (1919). Four plates.V: Kidnapped (1920). Six plates and a folding map.VI: David Balfour: A Sequel to "Kidnapped" (1920). Four plates.VII: The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables; Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920).VIII: The Black Arrow; The Misadventures of John Nicholson; The Body-Snatcher (1919). Seven plates.IX: The Master of Ballantrae (1920). Eight plates.X: The Wrecker (1919). Five plates.XI: The Wrong Box; The Ebb Tide (1919).XII: An Inland Voyage; Travels with a Donkey; Edinburgh (1920).XIII: Virginibus Puerisque; Memories and Portraits (1920).XIV: Familiar Studies of Men and Books; Miscellaneous Papers (1919).XV: The Amateur Emigrant; Across the Plains; The Silverado Squatters (1919).XVI: A Child"s Garden of Verses; Underwoods; Ballads (1920).XVII: Correspondence Addressed to Sydney Colvin (1920).XVIII: Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin: Records of a Family of Engineers (1920).XIX: In the South Seas; A Foot-note to History (1919).XX: Weir of Hermiston; The Plays; Fables (1918).XXI: St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1918).XXII: Sketches; Criticisms (1919).XXIII & XXIV: Letters to His Family and Friends (1918). Edited with an introduction by Sydney Colvin.XXV: New Letters (1920). Selected and edited by Sydney Colvin.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, generally smart, with a little fading to the spines. Faint marks to the boards, more so to Vol XIV, XX, XXIV and XXV. Small loss of cloth to the head of the spine to Vol II, V and VIII. Marks to the tail of the spine to Vols IV-XXV and to the boards of V. Horizontal tear to the spine of Vol XI and XV. Small holes to the front joint of Vol XI, XIV, XXII and XXV. Bumped to the head of the boards to Vol XIV. Hinges starting to Vol I, and front hinge slightly strained to Vol V and XIV. Internally, firmly bound. Marginal age toning to pages which are otherwise clean. Small tear to the top of pages 89 to 108 of Vol XVII, not affecting the text. Very Good. Not Stated (illustratore). book.…