Marion harland editor (14 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. A revised American ed. of the Readers' handbook by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer. Green cloth hardback with stamped design and gilt titles &ornamentation on cover and spine, cream silk-patterned endpapers. Text block gilt. 408 pp., color frontispiece, 8 photogravures and etchings, 77 wood engravings and typogravures. Illustrations have printed tissue protectors. From "Falkland" to "Mark" (king of Cornwall). This second volume of character descriptions is a charming 1892 dictionary of characters made famous through fiction.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Marriage: Vol 1 & 2 Title Page Dated 1902 (Mcmii) Volume Three Dated 1892 (Mdcccxcii ).Mudh Illustration.1/2 Leather W/ Pebbled Leather Look Covering. Ribbed Spine. Volume 1 Has Corner Scuffs W/ Top Corner Wear Through. Color Scuff On Spine . Marbled Endpapers. All Extra Tight. All Extra Clean. Fresh , Bright Plates. No Foxing Or Mottle Throughout .Volume 2 Scuffing At Corners W/ Top Corner Wear Through. Slight Scuffing To Spine. Marbled Endpapers W/ Extra Tight Binding & Extra Clean Content. All Fresh, Bright . No Foxing Or Mottle To Text Or Plates. .Volume 3 Much Aged / Scuffed Leather On Corners And Spine. Front Board Loose But Still Attached By Binding Thread. Same Marbled Endpapers. Binding Very Tight. Content Very Clean. Again, No Foxing Or Mottle. All Fresh, Bright.The Three Volumes Appear To Have Been Bound At Same Time By Professional Binder. No Binder Stamp .Vol 3 Ends At Skeffington.Approx 8 Lb Shipping Wt.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Boards worn with rubbed spine and general shelfwear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1902. Full leather with gold titles; edges worn and scuffed; all edges red; 4to, 9 3/4" to 12" tall; no jackets. Faint musty smell present; hinges strong; marbled endpapers; previous owner's name on first blank page; numerous photogravures, etchings, wood engravings and typogravures with tissue guards; interiors are unmarked; over sized heavy set; Additional shipping charges will be requested.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good +. Contains articles about Cheap Living in Cities; Creole Cookery; Food for Invalids; Care of the Toilet; Popular Superstitions; Outdoor Sketching in Charcoal and more and several short stories. Illustrated. Eleven pages of ads at rear. Some foxing on front cover. Some paper loss at head/tail of spine. Five dog-earred pages at front of magazine.Cover pages are detached. Some dog-eared pages. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Rare. Beige cloth cover is lightly soiled, caps are rubbed, corners are rubbed but cover is in good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Small chip in the margin of page 99. Pages are toned and in good condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good Plus. No Jacket. NOTE: Oversize, will require additional shipping charges; please inquire prior to ordering. 4to. Vol. I, viii, 408, vol. II, vi, 408, vol. III, vi, 408, vol. IV, vi, 384 pages. Olive green cloth, gilt and black spine and front titles and decorations; all edges gilt; decorative endpapers; color frontispieces, black & white plates. Wear and rubbing to extremities, softening to heads & tails of spines, discoloration to lower front of vols. I, III, IV, upper extremities of vol. II; gift inscription to all front pastedowns; light age-toning. Good plus copies.…

Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 86 pp. Parts of spine and edges missing, suntoned, as expected, bumped edges. Great articles, vintage ads.Rare.

Condizione: Very good. - Quarto, 11-1/2 inches high by 9 inches wide. Four hardcover volumes, bound in pictorial olive green cloth with gilt decorations and an art nouveau illustration stamped on the front covers, with moire pastedowns and endpapers. Titled in gilt on the spines. All edges are gilt. The corners and head & tail of the spines are lightly bumped and the bottom edges of the covers are slightly rubbed. Volume 1 (1892): viii & 408 pages. Volume 2 (1896): vi & 408 pages. Volume 3: (1896): vi & 408 pages. Volume 4 (1892): vi & 384 pages. Each volume is illustrated with a color frontispiece and 84 plates with printed tissue guards, a total of 340 plates in all including works by Gustave Dore, Sir Edwin Landseer, Holman Hunt, Sir Frederick Leighton, E.A. Abbey, and G. Moreau. The front hinge of the second volume is cracked opposite the front blank leaf. An attractive set. Volume 4 contains an "English and American bibliography" pages 285-336, and "Authors and dates of dramas and operas" pages 342-384. …

Set Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket, as issued. 4 volumes. 4to. A.e.g. Gilt stamping to front covers with gilt stamping to spines. Edgewear with bumping to forecorners. Rubbing to cloth binding og all volumes. Fraying to spine ends and forecorners of volumes. Rubbing to spine of vol.1. Perforation to spine of vol. 1. Stain to upper rear cover of vol. 1. Scraping to lower foredges of vol. 1. Long stain to front cover of vol. 2. Rubbing to spine and along joints of vol. 2. White stains to rear cover of vol. 2. Bumping to spine ends of vol. 2. Scraping to forecornes of vol. 2. Scraping to lower forecorners of vol. 3. Rubbing and dulling to spine of vol. 3. Small stains to front and rear covers of vol. 3. Bumping to spine ends of vol. 3. Loosening to spine of vol. 3. Rubbing and dulling to spine of vol. 4. Scratch to rear cover of vol. 4. Stain to front cover of vol. 3 with small white marks to rear cover. Scraping to forecorners of vol. 4. Fraying to top rear joint of vol. 4. Toning to leaves thorughout columes. Overopening to front hinge of vol. Cracking and overopening to hinge at title page, sine binding has been glue repaired. Overopening to front hinge of vol. 2 underneath pasted downs. Large stain along hinge at pg. 31, pg. 89, pg. 143, pg. 183. of vol. 2 Overopning to front hinge underneath pasted page of vol. 3. Overopening to front hinge underneath pasted pages of vol. 4. Stain to top of plate 'XII'. of vol. 4 spanning several leaves. VG. THE SET. …

Leather Bound. Condizione: Good. 1/2 Leather Hardcover. 8 VOLUME SET (1-8). ORIGINAL 1902 PRINTING. Pages are clean and unmarked. Gilt page edges. Covers (brown pebbled boards with leather on spines and corners with gilt lettering) show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing. Bindings tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.…

Leather Binding. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A very attractive leather-bound set. 8 volumes complete, uniformly bound in 3/4 dark brown morocco over matching cloth, maroon cockerell endpapers, edges stained red (minor rubbing). Derived from 'The Reader's Handbook of Allusions, References, Plots and Stories', edited by Brewer; this American edition is edited by Marion Harland. Notable particularly for the illustrative material ; includes photogravures, typogravures and wood engravings from originals by Abbey, Dore, Gerome, Landseer, et al. Over 200 Color & b/w Illustrations.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket (as issued). 1902. 8 Volumes complete. Large green cloth, gold and black decorations. Gold gilt on all page ends. Shiny white endpapers. Nice Firm Clean copy ! The Reverend Dr. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1810-1897) of Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, England, was the compiler of The Reader's Handbook. Brewer's Reader's Handbook was re-edited by Marion Harland and published in the United States as Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook. With full page drawings. 6105L.…

First Edition. Two Volumes [8 vols bound in 2, bound from parts]. Large Quarto. 30cm. Later institutional pebble green cloth with leather title labels. Light wear to the cloth, some chipping to title labels, bright, strong and handsome; internally clean, private library stamp to flyleaves, cosmetic cracking to innner front joint of Vol I, each plate with a captioned tissue guard, and with general contents and title pages for the respective volumes bound in at the front of each volume (thus the plate lists and explanatory matter are at the beginning of each volume and the larger bulk of the books is taken up with a wealth of plates and engravings); slight dampstaining to a couple of margins not affecting text, or the outstanding quality of the plates. A very good, clean set. A wildly enthusiastic and imposing collection of contemporary engravings and depictions of notable characters from popular literature, executed by important artists and illustrators. Work by Landseer, Doré, Gerome, and an army of others depicting characters from Dickens, Coleridge, the Greek Myths and just about every literary fandom from the 19th century and earlier. An interesting reflection on an area of publishing and printing that was once incredibly popular, but has now been entirely replaced by Instagram, and a well curated Tumblr.…