Fraser f a illustrator (5 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: None as Issued. Dover Reprint. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF; w/light edge & surface wear, and & faint creasing to lower back corner & spine. Price strike-out to lower back corner. Unabridged reprint of Anthony Trollope's (1815 - 1882) novel, originally serialized in Saint Paul's Magazine 1870 - 1874 and first presented in book form 1878. Social life in Victorian England when property, illegitimacy and inheritance were overiding concerns. Volume stars Ralf Newton of London (idle heir to a fortune); his namesake cousin Ralf Newton of Hampshire (illegitmate), and the fair orphan Mary Bonner who preferred the bastard. F.A. Fraser (Illustrator) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Text/VG; strong & sound w/trace soiling, and one folded corner. Embossed, illustrated blue boards/VG w/edges rubs (particularly to corner tips) & showing soiling/discoloration. DJ/None. Bookdealer sticker to rear cover verso. Children's novel, first published 1844; this is an unstated reprint around 1890s, 371 pages. Set in the Canadian wilderness of the 1790s, written after naval officer and novelist Captain Frederick Marryat (1792 - 1848) visit to Canada in 1837. A contemporary, and an acquaintance, of Charles Dickens, this volume is illustrated by F.A. Fraser, illustrator of Dicken's "The Seven Poor Travellers" (1854). The story is about the Campbells, who, due to distress in family fortunes, have just enough money to emigrate to Canada and take up farming near Lake Ontario. There, despite the weather, hostile Indians and forest fires, are able to make a success of pioneering rural life before another reversal in fortunes allows them return to England. F.A. Fraser (Illustrator) (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 552 pages. 9.25x6.25x2.00 inches. In Stock. F. A. Fraser (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Poor. Rather marked and worn. A reading copy - poor. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

[Literature] EARLY EDITION. 'New Edition' stated. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[ii], publisher's advertisements (dated March 1884); viii; 494; [2]; 32, publisher's advertisements. Publisher's green cloth with black embellishment blocked to upper and spine, lettered in black and gilt to spine. Illustrated frontispiece, illustrated title-page, black and white illustrated plates throughout. Black endpapers. Bookplate of Leonard Lionel Bloomfield (1887-1949) to front paste-down. Infrequently spotted throughout. Spotting and toning to edges of text-block. Hinges cracked, front hinge split and archivally repaired. Dulling to spine gilt. Mild edgewear. Very good. Collins' epistolary novel is considered to be amongst the earliest pieces of mystery fiction, and is certainly a fine piece of 'shocker' writing. You can't go wrong with a sinister warning from a seemingly mad woman encountered in Hampstead, a bit of a mismatched love story, and a shady character who goes by the truly fantastic name of Sir Percival Glyde. This 'new edition' includes illustrations by F. A. Fraser. This book was previously owned by Leonard Lionel Bloomfield, an American linguist. Most of his library (a collection of 13,500 books) is now held by the Brighton Jubilee Library after being donated by his widow in 1917.…