scott sir walter william allan (6 risultati)

HARDCOVER. Condizione: Very Good. Illustrated by ELLANGOWAN CASTLE Frontis Ilust (illustratore). Black CLOTH thin HARDCOVERS (LIMP). VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT.; GOLD TITLES SPINE SHIELD LOGO. AN ESSPECIALLY ATTRACTIVE BINDING FOR THIS POPULAR SERIES.GOLD SPINE TITLES INSIDE 5 RAISED BANDS.SPINE SHOWS GOLD VE RI TAS (shield), Author, spine # & "COLLIER".COVER SHOWS BLIND EMBOSED 1" SHIELD.GOLD TOP EDGE With DECORATED ENDPAPERS SAILING SHIPS, TALL CHURCH SPIRES, WHITE CLOUDS.ALL GREEN INK ON WHITE ENDPAPERS. SINGLE VOLUME PART OF A NICE S E T. ; 494pg pages.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Paul Ashby; Barrington Barber; (illustratore). First Printing - First Thus. Trade paperback format. Light wear on the corners with minor creasing on a flat spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with line drawings by Barrington Barber; cover by Paul Ashby. This anthology contains: The Ghost Detective by Mark Lemon; The Story of the Unknown Church by William Morris; The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell; The Captain of the Pole-star by Arthur Conan Doyle; The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Furnished Room by O. Henry; The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde; The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe; The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott; An Account of the Strange Disturbances at Aungier Street by J. Sheridan Le Fanu; The Last Drop by Sarah Bernhardt; The Horla by Guy de Maupassant; The Romance of Some Old Cloths by Henry James; The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards; The Devil's Wager by William Makepeace Thackeray; Teigue of the Lee by T. Crofton Croker; The Haunted Mill or the Ruined House by Jerome K. Jerome; The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton by Charles Dickens; The Case of the Reverend Mr Toomey by S. B. T.; The Spectre of Tappington by Thomas Ingoldsby; The Hollow of the Three Hills by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Lady of Rosemount by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson; Grey Dolphin by Thomas Ingoldsby; Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman by Wilkie Collins; The Homing Bone by Conell Cearnach; The Ghost Ship by Richard Middleton; Napoleon and the Spectre by Charlotte Bronte; The Story of the Moor Road by E. and H. Heron; Man-size in Marble by Edith Nesbit; The Last Squire of Ennismore by Mrs J. H. Riddell; The Bagman's Story by Charles Dickens; The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy; The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce; and Ghosts That Have Haunted Me by John Kendrick Bangs. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. This is #2185 of the limited/deluxe edition of the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. ; The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction; Vol. 4; 404 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. KARLIN, Eugene (illustratore). 1st thus. Fine condition, octavo, quarter brown leather, brown cloth boards, gilt decorated front and rear, four raised bands and gilt title and decoration to spine, all edges gilt, silk ribbon marker, decorated end paper, xxv plus 461 pages including index of first lines. [QP].

hardcover. Condizione: very good. 60, [2]; 42; 46; [4], 80 pages. Slim 8vo, bound in older marbled boards with black calf spine. London: John Miller & W. Sams, 1817-1818. Mixed editions. Very good. I - Guy Mannering; or, The Gipsey's Prophecy: A Musical Play in Three Acts. London: John Miller, 1817. Third edition. II - The Gentle Shepherd; Translated into English from the Scotch of Allan Ramsay and Compressed into Three Acts. London: John Miller, 1817. First edition. III - The Youthful Days of Frederick the Great. A New Melo-Drama in Two Acts. London: W. Sams, 1817. Second Edition. IV - Rob Roy Macgregor; or, Auld Lang Syne! A Musical Drama in Three Acts, Founded on the Popular Novel of Rob Roy. London: John Miller, 1818. First edition.

Leather. Condizione: Very Good Set. Illustrated (illustratore). Limited. Octavo, Gilt lettered and decorated cover and spine. Top edge is gilt. No. 378 of 600 copies of the Large Paper edition. ohn Gibson Lockhart (12 June 1794 - 25 November 1854) was a Scottish writer and editor. He is best known as the author of a biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott, which has been called the second most admirable in the English language, after Boswell's Life of Johnson. This is the Large Paper edition of 'Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott Bart.' by John Gibson Lockhart. This set was published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company at The Riverside Press in 1901 and is No. 378 of 600 copies of the Large Paper edition. The books are bound in 3/4 brown morocco leather with 5 raised bands and gilt titles and designs. Each volume has a sepia photograph and two frontispieces [one colored]. Additional illustrations throughout. The books are in Near Fine condition with bookseller notes in pencil on the front free endpaper of volume one. Volume 2 has a 1/2 inch by 1 inch "tidemark" at the top of the first 4 or 5pages (endpapers). The covers of volume two and the covers of vol. four are slightly warped. Otherwise an excellent set. Sets of this edition all include a handwritten letter by the author, John Gibson Lockhart mounted at the beginning of volume one. THIS copy has a letter addressed to artist William Allan in 1831. Several pieces of William Allan's art hang in Abbottsford [Home of Sir Walter Scott] and his famous portrait of Walter Scott hangs at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery - National Galleries of Scotland.