Edwardes annie edwards (5 risultati)

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. 1883 printing (originally published in book form in 1869, following its first appearance in Galaxy magazine). Edges a bit rubbed, front hinge just beginning to weaken. 279 pp. Maroon blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles. Unattributed Winslow Homer engraving precedes text. A love story by the British author best known for her novel Archie Lovell, which was adapted to the stage by F.C. Burnand in 1874.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Binding tight; pages clean; boards show light wear; gilt on spine very slightly faded; a bit of wear to spine ends and corners. Title page bears ownership signature of Jerome B. Parmenter, dated May 8, 1873. Parmenter had recently purchased the Troy Press, a New York newspaper. Nice copy of the author's eleventh novel, surprisingly uncommon considering Edwards' popularity in the second half of the nineteenth century. 237 pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. VOLUME ONE (of two) ONLY. Dated 1867 on title page, but actually from around 1900. Publisher's own red cloth, with decorative scrolling in black, decorations and lettering in gilt; patterned endpapers. Spine faintly sunned, German owner's bookplate on front pastedown and their signature (1903) on half-title: very good. Todd [873B]. Second setting; series half-title bound in. VOLUME ONE ONLY. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Edwards, Mrs. [sic, actually Mrs. Annie Edwardes]. Steven Lawrence, Yeoman. A Novel . Elegantly Illustrated. Author's Edition -- Printed from Advanced Sheets. New York: Sheldon & Co., [n.d. circa 1868]. First U.S. edition probably. Tall octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-422 [423-424: blank] [fly leaf at front and at rear]. Original blue decorative cloth, front panel stamped in black, spine panel in gold and black, rear panel in blind, yellow coated endpapers. Illustration on inserted frontispiece. Early ownership signature (with flourishes) dated 1876 on front free endpaper. Cloth worn at extremities, otherwise a nice enough copy, soundly bound and clean internally. #764. $45. (extra postage for this) Originally published in three volumes by Bentley in 1868, this novel was immediately published on the continent by Tauchnitz and saw at least two more editions in America as late as the 1880s. The publisher William Tinsley called her a clever writer who could change her style at will. Sutherland comments (after recounting this point), "Her early work is 'sensational' and reminiscent of Rhoda Broughton . it often had a somewhat risqué quality and was occasionally banned by the librarian Mudie." The present title is "the story of two cousins' ruthless rivalry in love for the hero." (ibid, Companion to Victorian Fiction, pp. 205-206). Wolff, in his entry for the Bentley three-decker (2006), notes that Bentley paid Edwardes 400 pounds for the copyright to this title, which put her in the major leagues of commercially successful writers. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 2 Vol bound in 1. Vol 1;: 359 p; Vol 2:358 p. [COLLECTIONS OF BRITISH AUTHORS ; 1044, 1045].