Antigonos Verlag 2025. 2025. Softcover. A Moment of Madness : and Other Stories <br/><br/>A Moment of Madness : and Other Stories Florence Marryat Antigonos Verlag paperback
LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY 1867 Victorian Blue cloth blind blocked decorative frame to front with gilt blocked title and chamfered boards 220 x 170 pp. All edges gilt 60 pp. b/w steel engraved frontis 2 others. First Trade edition 1867 being the author's first book a touching story of a young child who's mother dies of scarlet fever. It was first aired in printed form to raise money for a charity bazaar and so impressed the novelist G. J. Whyte-Melville that he advised that it should be published. VG Book - mild general shelf wear to cloth - mainly colour rubbing no cracks to original pale yellow end papers light foxing to reverse of free end papers and last printed page no previous owner name or insc. occasional finger and general soiling to some margins binding generally sound but a little floppy due to glue to back strip failing. However in remarkable condition for a children's book over150 years old. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale. RICHARD BENTLEY hardcover
Bloomington In: Archives of Languages of the World 1963. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Five Volume set . Volume I 1959 Volume II 1960 Volume III 1961 Volume IV 1962 and Volume V 1963. Each volume contains the nine numbers that were published monthly in those years during the months of Jan- Jun plus Oct-Dec . Each volume has more than 400 pages of those articles. Bound alike in green cloth with gilt lettering to the spines. This set is NEAR FINE. Exteriors are rich. Gilt is bright. Occasional finger soiling in spots but spine ends edges and tips with only minimal rubbing. Inside of Volume V has neat PO stamp of " A. Fraenkel Linguistics U. of Pittsburgh" along with " 1 III 63" and some Hebrew characters. Fraenkel's neat signature on front paste downs in Vol.'s I II and III as well along with Hebrew characters. Volumes otherwise unmarked crisp and tight with minimal toning. SCARCE. No other such sets found on ViaLibri as of May 2023 . Unique compilation from the archives of Indiana University Anthropology Department. Archives of Languages of the World Hardcover