introduction george gissing (31 risultati)

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 556 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Spine reinforced with adheasive tape. Previous owner's name written on first front-end page.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 189 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear and clean text. Water stains on edging. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page. Pages show moderate browning.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+ dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1970. Fine condition in Very Good+ dust jacket. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped ($8.50). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Frontispiece portrait. Contains nine "recently discovered" prose works, published here for the first time. Six stories, two essays, and a novelette. Selective bibliography. Index. Cited by Collie C.10a [also xxxix (p117)]. Original green cloth. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good+ dust jacket. 8vo. (xi), 266pp .

Hardcover. Condizione: Good for Age. No Jacket. This ex-library copy has little corner bumping or edge wear. Standard library stamps and book pocket inside the back cover. Interior text has darkened slightly with age, tight in binding.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good Minus. No Jacket. G-. Ex-library with all markings. Minor underlining and marginalia. Covers are sunned and soiled and have a few small tears. Location: F8.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 119 Pp. Cloth. First Edition, One Of 450 Copies. Near Fine, Errata Slip Laid In Loosely. In Near Fine Paper Dust Jacket, Price Clipped, Also In The Publisher's Outer Clear Plastic Wraparound Dust Jacket Which Has Small Chips On Bottom Edges. .

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover with gilt lettered and decorated front board, no dust jacket, in very good condition. Boards and spine are slightly sunned. Page block is lightly blemished. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 9780710803238. Softcover, no spine crease. Not ex. library. 293 pages, plus introduction, index and biblio. Contents clean, tight and bright. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Enitharmon Press, 1970; hand-numbered 37 out of only 350 copies of this, the sixth volume in Enitharmon's Gissing Series; 30pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards very good; spine-strip pastedown remains secure and bright. Age-toning to spine and very faintly along top edge of dust jacket, else, remains intact and handsome with no chips or tears. Interior is free of markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing thus octavo hardback. 320 pp, Very Good condition in Near Very Good unclipped dust jacket (some corner chips, now in protective transparent sleeve) No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. See photos. Binding tight, contents unmarked. Light stain to front blue board. Very light foxxing to page edges.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Limited Edition. Paperback with unclipped dust jacket attached at the spine, in very good condition. This edition limited to 125 copies (95 are for sale) of which this is number 32. Corners and spine ends are a little rubbed. No other notable faults. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Blue cloth with spine label, DW, 8vo., 120, (1) pages, four illustrations. Appendix "Across the Pyrennees" by Gabrielle Fleury. Gissing series No. 7. One of 450 copies printed by the Daedalus Press. Very light fading to upper and lower board edges, else a near fine copy in a mildly edgeworn and soiled, very good DW, in archival mylar.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 516 pages. 8.00x5.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Thus. Clean and firmly bound with no writing inside. Jacket not price clipped with a little handling wear on the corners and the top and base of the spine, also a small closed tear on the lower back edge internally repaired with tape.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Green boards and spine, the latter lettered in gilt. Jacket tanned on spine with two 2 cm tears, and wear on all corners. Internally bookplate on front paste down. Clean contents printed on India Paper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Lithograph drawing of George Gissing on the jacket is by William Rothensrein (illustratore). Limited Edition. This volume contains two short stories by George Gissing of which one, My Clerical Rival, now appears in print for the first time. This copy is number 239 of a limited edition of 350 numbered copies. The book and jacket are in as new condition, except the spine of the jacket is a slightly paler green than the rest which may have been caused by sun fading.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Paperback. 18.5x12cm. xliv+477 pages. FLAT SPINE IS LIGHTLY CREASED. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Front flap is not price-clipped: £1.25. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref zx-hoa.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ten page introduction by Virginia Woolf in this the first edition of this issue in the attractive Travellers' Library series. Toning and spottng to endpapers and foreedge otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover with gilt lettered and decorated front board, no dust jacket, in very good condition. Corners and spine ends are a little bumped and rubbed. Page block is lightly blemished. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Condizione: Very Good. 12mo., pp.xii,544, navy hardcover, gilt; light toning and foxing to endpapers, hinge slightly visible to title, slight foxing to top edge, very light shelf-wear to extremities, gilding lightly faded to spine, a very good copy, in a price-clipped dust-jacket which is lightly soiled and toned and has small areas of loss to head and foot of spine, which are lightly rubbed, else good+.

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1936 MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing. First printed by The Modern Library in 1918 this a 1936 reprint. The book is bound in brown balloon cloth type 7 binding with Kent end papers. Book is in VERY GOOD condition - binding solid with minimal fading to top spine, gilt bright, matching topstain nice, owners signature on front inside board and light pencil writing on some pages easily erased, otherwise contents are clean and bright. The dust jacket is good with some chipping at spine and overall age toning. 242 titles listed on the back panel indicating a 1936 printing. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 2nd Edition. 8vo. Pp 318. Original cloth, with wear to head & foot of spine with short tear to head and with library accession number in white. From Howell's, Llanduff Girls' Reference Library, 1932 written to the front paste-down endpaper. A sound, tight copy. Not common.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ex Libris sticker front pastedown (cat on book pile) with signature Alexis Lykiard, Anglo-Greek novelist and poet. Some shelfwear bumping to spine ends of binding, some light fading, otherwise binding is bright. Internally bright, with only light spotting to title page. Light brown cloth binding.

Hardback. Condizione: nrVG. Condizione sovraccoperta: No DW. 1st Thus. 180 x 112 mm. Original blue grey cloth with plain covers. Spine is decorated with a pattern of small twin vertical lines. Spine lettered at top in gold. Constable's Miscellany at base. Name of owner at front of book. Book is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. **FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION 1918** The book is in VERY GOOD condition. Correct Modern Library type 1 binding and C4 catalog of titles present indicating a FIRST PRINTING. Brown leatherette binding type 1 is tight and solid with slight wear. Gilt bright and nice. Top stain present and nice. No writing or marks, contents are clean and bright. BEAUTIFUL! **HARD TO FIND MODERN LIBRARY FIRST PRINTING!!** **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Wraps. Small 8vo. 46 page booklet sent out for Christmas 1986 reprinting one story by Gissing. Introduction by John Michell. With the small attractive bookplate, showing a bookish owl, of 'Oz' publisher, later media tycoon, Felix Dennis (1947 -2014). He was also a distinguished poet, philanthropist, book collector and lover of trees (the Forest of Dennis.) Short stories. Presented to him for Christmas by Richard, Sam and Denise (archdruidess of Glastonbury?). Richard is likely to be Richard Adams the designer and printer associated with Michell. Very good.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. New, Edmund H. (illustratore). Hardcover without dust jacket, later 1904 printing of this assumed First Edition thus, viii + 495 pages (Chapters XXVIII - LVI) including 12 pages of "Notes Chiefly Topographical" and 12 full page llustrations, plus a 40-page "A Catalogue of Books Published by Methuen and Company: London, 36 Essex Street, W. C." dated September 1904; also please note that while I have referenced an Introduction, it is actually included in Volume I, not this Volume II;---elegant book in red cloth covers with Rochester Edition embossed on front cover, very bright and clear gilt spine lettering and decoration to spine, top edge also in gilt, hardly a trace of shelf wear other than gentle bumps to spine ends, foxing spots to fore edge but oddly to last quarter only from about page 388 to end with barely visible penetration to the outer margins of some pages, free front endpaper torn from book, otherwise very gently used, tight in binding, very clean and unmarked throughout, pages surprisingly fresh and white considering vintage. See also our listings for a 2-volume set The Pickwick Papers, Volumes I and II (Rochester edition).

Hard Cover. New, Edmund H. (illustratore). Two hardcovers without dust jackets, later 1904 printings of this assumed First Edition thus; elegant books in red cloth covers with Rochester Edition embossed on front cover, somewhat faded but still clear gilt spine lettering and decoration to spine, top edge also in age toned gilt; the astute reader will also notice that both books have a Chapter XXVIII of 26 pages in Volume I and 12 pages in Volume II, each with a different text;---Volume I, xxiii + 487 pages (Chapters I - XXVIII) including the 11-page Introduction, a 1-page Biographical Note, 17 pages of "Notes Chiefly Topographical" and 12 full page llustrations, plus a half title page (see note below);---only traces of shelf wear to bottom edges and corner tips, gentle bumps to spine ends, bottom edge foxed and age darkened to a dark grey, fore edge somehat less, further light to moderate foxing to numerous scattered pages (mostly in this volume spots in the outer margins penetrating from the foxed edges), otherwise very gently used, tight in binding, and otherwise clean and unmarked throughout, overall in Very Good - condition, marginally better than Volume II;--- Volume II, viii + 495 pages (Chapters XXVIII - LVI) including 12 pages of "Notes Chiefly Topographical" and 12 full page llustrations, plus a 40-page "A Catalogue of Books Published by Methuen and Company: London, 36 Essex Street, W. C." dated September 1904, plus a half title page not included in my other listing of this very same book;---only light shelf wear to bottom edges and corner tips, gentle bumps to spine ends, fore and bottom edges foxed and age darkened to a dark grey, further light to moderate foxing to numerous scattered pages, otherwise very gently used, tight in binding, and otherwise clean and unmarked throughout, overall in Good condition. See also our listing for The Pickwick Papers, Vol. II (Rochester edition).