Gent washington irving (34 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. The Author's Revised Edition. The book is in good condition, featuring a hardcover with marbled boards and a leather spine. The binding remains intact, and the pages show typical aging but are clean and legible. There are no inscriptions or signs of it being an ex-library copy. The absence of a dust jacket is consistent with the era of publication.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Unmarked text. Faded spine. Undated. Revised edition. 310p. Measures 5x7.5 inches. Blind stamp on board: The Astor Prose Series. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists, A Medley was written by Washington Irving in 1821, while he lived in England, and published in 1822. This episodic novel was originally published under his pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon. As this is a location-based series of character sketches, there are a number of individual plots.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No DJ. The Manhattan Young People's Library. No date specified - circa 1920's. Moss green boards, blue/brown/black illustration on front, black title on spine, 234 numbered pages. Book cocked, boards surface rubbed and lightly smudged, rubbed on ends and along sides of spine, corners rubbed and bowed. Single name in ink on ffep, illustration page 99 loose and torn along edges, remaining pages thumbed. Rubbed spot (1/2 inch) on rear paste-down. Overall, good.…

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Part of "The Manhattan Young People's Library" series; not dated (c1910); 16mo; pp. [8], 11-234; pictorial cloth; black title to spine; illustrated with numerous full-page color and in-line b&w engravings; spine cover faded; head and tail of spine curling; general fading to boards; corners somewhat rubbed; a few minor soil spots scattered mostly to first and last free page, rest of text clean; name plate to front cover verso. The present work contains 10 of Irving's tales - Rip Van Winkle, The Inn Kitchen, The Specter Bridegroom, Christmas, The Stage-coach, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, The Christmas Dinner, Philip of Pokanoket, and The legend of Sleepy Hollow. Washington Irving was an American author and historian in the early 19th century. He was one of the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe. He was a great proponent of stronger laws to protect American writers from copyright infringement. 3.…

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Decorative Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. No DJ. The Manhattan Library Editon. This is a near fine, unmarked 234 page hardcover copy in decorative olive cloth binding with color image of Rip assembling his lock, stock & barrel on the cover. Nearly 100 illustrations, 20 of which are full page color plates. No date, but 1900 would be about right..…

Condizione: New.

Full Sheep Leather. Condizione: Poor. Original full sheep leather binding. Spine is lacking and the front & back covers are detached. Volume 6 of the Works of Washington Iriving. Overall a binding-reading copy only. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists, A Medley was written by Washington Irving in 1821, while he lived in England, and published in 1822. This episodic novel was originally published under his pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon. As this is a location-based series of character sketches, there are a number of individual plots. The tales centre on the occupants of an English manor (based on Aston Hall, near Birmingham, England, which was occupied by members of the Bracebridge family and which Irving visited). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.…

Decorated Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Decorated cloth with black title to spine. Original early (circa 1907) colour illustrated dust jacket. 12mo, 7" x 5 1/4." Colour frontis plate and four colour plates plus numerous b&w line drawings (uncredited) throughout. An early edition of this title in McKay's Young People's Classics. Jacket soiled with tears and pieces missing to top edge, spine and corners. Inscribed in ink and dated 1907, and inscribed signature in pencil, to freestanding endpaper. Inside very clean. Also includes the stories: Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, The Christmas Dinner, Philip of Pokanoket and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. A very good copy with an early dust jacket. …

Disbound. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Complete, original small format newspaper in near fine condition with a narrow dampstain.

Condizione: New. &Uumlber den AutorWashington Irving (1783-1859) was an American author, historian and diplomat. Although settling in New York, Irving studied in Europe where he developed his literary interests and later became one of the first American.

VIII, 378 pages. - 'Publisher's' decoratively blind-embossed gilt-decorated and -titled cloth-binding of the period; 8vo.(ca. 15 x 11 cm). ~~~ BIBLIOPHILE CLOTHBOUND ORIGINAL OF IRVINGS SECOND BOOK that lead to a renaissance of the mauric palace/fortress in Granada/Spain. - Panels minimally-, sharp corners somewhat rubbed; top of rearpanel slightly sunned; A VERY GOOD COPY.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1890. Hudson edition. Author's revised edition. Copyright 1865, this edition undated [circa 1890]. Attractively bound volume in three quarter tan polished calf leather over marbled boards, dual spine labels in red and black, slightly raised spine bands, gilt decorated bands and compartments, marbled edges and endpapers, frontis engraving and engraved title page, additional tissue-protected engravings, just under 8.5 inches tall. Minor shelf rubbing and scuffing, spine slightly darkened, gilt bright and clear, firm text block, clean pages with no names or other markings. Single volume from a larger set of Irving's works. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First edition, second issue.1822. Complete set of two volumes. Volume II ends on page 404 (extra text was added by Washington Irving to the second issue). ***Volumes I & II: Good in original half leather and marbled boards. Gilt titles, gilt decorative rules and gilt decorative illustration to spines. Brown front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Small vintage decorative printed bookplate to front pastedown of both volumes: 'C. J. Sturman'. Neat black fountain pen ink owner's name 'Norman Tobin' to top of front pastedown also to both volumes. Pencil name and address lightly crossed out in pen to front free endpaper to both volumes. Soft pencil notes to free endpaper of volume I. Marbled boards are rubbed. Edges of boards are rubbed. Spines of both volumes are very worn and rubbed, with parts of the spines starting to split. Chip to middle of leather spine of volume II. Top panel of volume I starting to lift, otherwise spines still firmly attached. Corners rubbed. No foxing to pages. Pages nice and clean. 216 mm x 140 mm. Vol I: iv prelim-pages plus 393 text pages. Vol II: iv prelim pages plus 404 text pages. ***Volume I: The Author, The Hall, The Busy Man, Family Servants, The Widow, The Lovers, Family Reliques, An Old Soldier, The Widow's Retinue, Ready Money Jack, Bachelors, Wives, Story Telling, The Stout Gentleman, Forest Trees, A Literary Antiquary, The Farm-House, Horsemanship, Love-Symptoms, Falconry, Hawking, St. Mark's Eve, Gentility, Fortune Telling, Love-Charms, The Library, The Student of Salamanca. ***Volume II: English Country Gentleman, A Bachelor's Confessions, English Gravity, Gipsies, May-Day Customs, Village Worthies, The Schoolmaster, The School, A Village Politician, The Rookery, May-Day, The Manuscript, Annette Delarbre, Travelling Popular Superstitions, The Culprit, Family Misfortunes, Lovers' Troubles The Historian, The Haunted House, Dolph Heyliger, The Storm-Ship, The Wedding, The Author's Farewell. ***'(Gipsies) They are always to be found lurking about fairs and races, and rustic gatherings, wherever there is pleasure, and throng, and idleness. They are the oracles of milkmaids and simple serving girls; and sometimes have even the honour of perusing the white hands of gentlemen's daughters, when rambling about their father's grounds. They are the bane of good housewives and thrifty farmers, and odious in the eyes of country justices; but, like all other vagabond beings, they have something to commend them to the fancy. They are among the last traces, in these matter-of-fact days, of the motley population of former times; and are whimsically associated in my mind with fairies and witches, Robin Good Fellow, Robin Hood, and the other fantastical personages of poetry.' (Gipsies, Pages 43-44 Volume II). ***The novel is a location-based series of character sketches, with a number of individual plots. The tales centre on the occupants of an English manor (based on Aston Hall, near Birmingham, England, which was occupied by members of the Bracebridge family and which Irving visited). ***First edition, second issue complete set of two volumes of Bracebridge Hall complete in their original half-leather and marbled-boards. (With the extra text to the end of the novel, extending the second volume of the novel from 403 pages to 404 pages). Suitable as nice reading copies or suitable for rebinding in leather. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. xvi, 364, vi, 394 pages. Rebound in modern leather, with new author/title spine labels. Without the "Notice" on page [395] of volume II.Binding sturdy, boards mildly scuffed; edges of textblock marbled; new endpapers, contents unmarked and attractive. 1320 grams.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Bookplate inside front cover both volumes. half-brown morocco (some scuffing and wear to covers), marbled paper boards. Please contact me if you require further information, scans etc.Carefully wrapped on a protective acetate cover to prevent further damage.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 1st Edition. London: John Murray, 1824, FIRST Edition. Contemporary half leather binding, rubbed and worn, with gilt titles to red leather labels, five raised bands, rubbed joints, rubbed with loss to the top and base of the spine, board edges and corners, pages clean and bright. First edition of Washington Irving's collection of short stories largely set in Europe. From Wikipedia - "In August 1824, Irving published the collection of essays Tales of a Traveller including the short story "The Devil and Tom Walker" under his Geoffrey Crayon persona. "I think there are in it some of the best things I have ever written", Irving told his sister. But while the book sold respectably, Traveller was dismissed by critics, who panned both Traveller and its author. "The public have been led to expect better things", wrote the United States Literary Gazette, while the New-York Mirror pronounced Irving "overrated". Hurt and depressed by the book's reception, Irving retreated to Paris where he spent the next year worrying about finances and scribbling down ideas for projects that never materialized." Pagination: xiv, 364pp; vi, 394, [2]pp. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates. Approximately 8 ½ inches tall (22cm). Condition Report Externally Spine fair to good condition gilt titles to red labels, five raised bands, gilt decorated compartments, worn, marked and rubbed with minor loss. Joints good condition rubbed and worn to all. Corners fair condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition half leather with marbled paper covered boards, marked and worn. Page edges good condition top edge darkened, all marbled. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition marbled. End papers good condition marbled, tanned subsequently. Title good condition tanned. Pages good condition lightly tanned throughout. Binding fair to good condition marked and worn. See photos.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. SECOND EDITION. Untrimmed, in the original wrappers, although the book has been amateurishly bound (or pasted) into a plain faux-leather binding with a gilt-stamped title on the front cover. An engraved portrait of the author Thomas Hughes (1822-1896) has been inserted before the title-page, having been mistaken, apparently, for a portrait of Irving. Sporadic foxing. Some soiling, darkening and dampstaining, mostly confined to the wrappers and endpapers. A Good copy and a scarce survival. Numbers of The Sketch Book rarely survive in the original wrappers. BAL10106.…

Full leather. Condizione: Very Good+. First English Edition, First State. Two volumes. 8vo. Pp. iv, [3], 4-393; iv, [3], 4-403. Full contemporary diced calf in gilt tooled borders, gilt titles in black morocco lettering pieces between gilt rules and decorations on the spines, blind tooled turn-ins, sprinkled edges. Seal armorial bookplate of William Willoughby Cole, Earl of Enniskillen on each front pastedown. Vol. I flyleaf signed Mrs. Charles Simpson above gift inscription in Italian of Signore Carlo Williams "Alla signorina Anna." Vol. I front hinge parting, board edges rubbed, minimal foxing & bookplate transfer to endpapers, leaves else crisp and bright. A handsome set with exquisite bookplates. The first of Irving's works to be published simultaneously in the US and UK, though the US edition did not include five of the pieces present here. First state of the first edition: vol. II ends at p. 403.The follow-up to the Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon is a series of loosely related narratives and essays written while traveling and socializing in Europe. Its success firmly established the author as the first American man of letters. BAL: 10110. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Collectible-very Good. First British Illustrated Edition. 456 pages. 8vo. Bound in gilt decorated dark green (blue?) morocco, with gilded dentelles. First British illustrated edition, published in the same year as the first American illustrated edition. Both contain 17 engraved plates after drawings by F. O. C. Darley. Short stories and essays written by Washington Irving under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon. The book is in very good condition: clean and tight, with some toning of pages; some rubbing of leather covers. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. F. O. C. Darley (illustratore). Book.…

1/2 leather. First edition. 2 volume set. Leather spine and corners, marble boards 1st edition of Irving's second collection of stories, after the sketch book. These stories take place in Europe, where they were also written. 1st edition. Gilt title on red leather spine. Some wear to the edges of spine, some of the marbling worn off the boards. Binding still tight. Mild foxing on pages. Quite good condition for books over 180 years old. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Two volumes. First edition (The American edition printed in Philadelphia was published later in the same year but failed to include 5 of the stories. The five did not appear until the second. American edition of 1825.) Large 8vo. 364 & 394 pp., plus pirated edition notice. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in polished calf, elaborate gilt spines with five raised bands, gilt-lettered titling and date. Cover with gilt design of quill pen, antique crayon holder, and a ribbon. (Geoffrey Crayon.) Bookplate of an early 1900s prominent Clevelander. Title label of volume II rubbed off, very light spotting on the first and last few pages of both volumes otherwise fine. Rare. BAL 10115 (noted state B, priority not established). Weight is 3 1/2 lbs. …

Dos volúmenes en 4to.; VIII pp., 333 pp. y 2 hs., 299 pp. Ejemplar con algunos puntos marginales de óxido y humedad. Encuadernación de época en media piel, con pérdida en cabeza de lomera del tomo primero. Una de las obras más raras en primera edición de Washington Irving, escrita bajo su conocido seudónimo, durante su residencia como financiero y diplomático en España entre 1826 y 1832 y dedicada al gran artista Sir David Wilkie, cuya amistad y entusiasmo fueron su mayor inspiración. Se trata de la primera versión de la colección de 41 "sketches" sobre la Alhambra granadina, un vehículo para la consideración romántica de pasadas grandezas, no disponibles al otro lado del Atlántico y dando lugar a la formación de uno de los primeros puentes literarios entre el Viejo y el Nuevo Mundo. Nº Farinelli, III, pp.220-221. Nº Garcia Romeral, 873.…

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.