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1966ref. 002779Undated but copyright dated 1966. Presumed proof copy. Light green card wraps with black titles to front. Tight binding. Slight forward lean. Some surface marking to covers. Creasing to spine corners lightly creased. Small amount of spotting to text block edge. Content generally clean with occasional spots. Some page corners creased. A scarce copy of a book that was made into a film in 1969 starring Susan George Jack Shepherd and Anna Cropper. Not ex-library. No names notes or inscriptions. 189 pp. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked. Hodder and Stoughton paperback
1501ref. 200-03569Facsimile Publisher 2015-01-01. hardcover. Acceptable. Acceptable missing cover. Looks like an interesting title! Facsimile Publisher hardcover
1857ref. 19321New York: D. Appleton & Co 1857. First American edition 2 vols. sm. 8vo viii 285; viii 269; engraved frontis portrait plus one engraved plate; bound without ads or half-titles in contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards green and black morocco labels on spines; very good set. D. Appleton & Co unknown
1857ref. 15421London; Smith Elder and Co. 65 Cornhill 1857. 1857. Second edition issued the same year as the first. Two volumes complete octavo pp. viii 352; viii 327 1. Frontispieces to both volumes. Complete with the half-titles. Uniform contemporary green half-calf over marbled paper-covered boards; spines on four raised bands; titled in gilt to red morocco spine label; gilt rolls to bands; lettered and ornamented with Amphorae in gilt and blind to compartments; all edges marbled; white end-papers. Historic library bookplate of Marlborough Public Library to upper boards; ink stamps of the same throughout. Rubbing to boards; corners bumped; light gouges to spine with slight loss to label of vol. 1. Very occasional light scattered foxing but generally internally clean. A serviceable set. The first biography of Charlotte Bront�. Gaskell drew together a dearth of sources including correspondence with those who knew Bront� in life to produce this admirable if unreliable biography of the author. Following an accusation of slander by living individuals portrayed unfavourably in the biography the publisher retracted the first edition and produced a second redacted edition. This edition is a useful but flawed source for Bront�'s life as Charles Kingsley wrote to Gaskell in the wake of the book's publication: 'You have had a delicate and great work to do and you have done it admirably. Be sure the book will do good. It will shame literary people into some stronger belief that a simple virtuous practical home life can be consistent with highly imaginative genius; and it will shame too the prudery of a�carefully whitewashed age into believing that purity�is quite compatible with the knowledge of evil.' BLFC p. 22. Wise and Symington eds. The Brontes: Their Lives Friendships and Correspondence vol. iv p. 22. London; Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill, 1857. hardcover
1857ref. YY7748Smith Elder & Co 1857. Engraved frontis foxed with guard to each volume. Text block sound and unmarked in volume 1 slightly shaken in volume 2. Bookplate of John Wilson Corke to each inside front board. John Wilson Corke 1814–1874 was an Irish Methodist missionary best known for his work in China during the 19th century. Catalogue to rear of volume 2. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. Owner's signature dated 1868 to both volumes. Owner's signature dated 1868 to both volumes. Good. viii352 viii32716pp. Smith, Elder & Co Hardcover
1933ref. 021560Cambridge England: Cambridge University Press 1933. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Groundbreaking work in exciting Near Fine condition representing the culmination of decades of research on the higher vertebrates by this renowned ornithologist & zoologist based at the University of Cambridge. In 356 pp with line drawings & some hand-colored illustrations throughout. A FIRST EDITION first printing from 1933 this hardcover small 4to 6.5" x 9.5" has smooth burgundy cloth-over-boards with faded gilt lettering & insignia to spine. Condition is Near Fine: completely clean & bright binding strong & straight pages creamy white with modest tanning to edges. Very mild bumping to spine tips & all corners. Former owner's name stamp inside front cover. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays PST; later orders weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Cambridge University Press hardcover
2024ref. Adhya-9781032450995T&F/CRC PRESS 2024. HB. New. T&F/CRC PRESS hardcover
2024ref. Adhya-9781032450995T&F/CRC PRESS 2024. HB. New. T&F/CRC PRESS hardcover
2021ref. x-1032176288Informa Law 2021. Paperback. New. 810 pages. 9.68x6.87x2.05 inches. Informa Law paperback
1947ref. feb07943First Norwegian Edition of Cranford Used. For more details please contact me Mariendal
1908ref. feb09744First Spanish Edition of North and South in 4 Volumes Norte y Sur Used. For more details please contact me Espasa-Calpe
ref. 19568John Grant Edinburgh 1924. Plates. 12 volumes 8vo 8 1/2 x 6 inches. Original green cloth spines blocked in gilt uncut. Very slight 1/8 inch split to one headband. Headbands bruised. Overall a lovely bright set in very good condition indeed. Weight 9 kg thus extra postage will be requested. John Grant, Edinburgh, 1924. hardcover
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ref. 35369London: Sampson Low Son and Co. 1861. . First English edition 8vo. pp.iv318ii publisher’s adverts uncut decoratively blindstamped pink cloth gilt frontispiece with tissue guard by J. Gilbert/H. Adlard; light remains of small bookplate to front paste-down endpaper small circular stain to frontispiece/tissue guard/front free endpaper else internally clean light wear to cloth at extremities spine sunned gilt remains bright with partial sunning to boards a very good copy. London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1861. hardcover
ref. 56560ending ". quiet evening. Given under my hand and Seal." mounted with an attractive reproduction of her chalk portrait by George Richmond 1851 8¼" x 4¾" the fragment 1½" x 4½" together on stiff paper 11¾" x 8¼" no place 13th January no year circa unknown
1883ref. 51495London Harrison and Sons 1883. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1882 Volume 173 - 1883. - Pp. 993-1033 and 5 plates 1 heliogravure instrument 4 folded recordings. First edition of Gaskell's classic in neuroscience on the musculature and innervation of the heart."In the Croonian lecture for 1881 dealing with the frog heart Gaskell presented an important new method for studying heart action later named the "suspension method" and insisted that cardiac inhibition depended less on nerve or ganglionic mechanisms than on the inherent properties of the cardiac musculature. The role of the vagus nerve in inhibition was reduced to that of being the “trophic” anabolic nerve of the cardiac muscle. Yet in the same lecture Gaskell produced impressive evidence against Foster’s myogenic theory of rhythmicity and advocated instead the neurogenic view that discontinuous ganglionic discharges are responsible for the rhythmicity of the normal heartbeat. The background to this defection was exceedingly complex but it derived from an initial assumption which Foster himself accepted that ganglionic impulses - whatever their role in rhythmicity - are somehow involved in coordinating the normal sequence of the vertebrate heartbeat."DSB.Garrison & Morton 829. unknown
2014ref. Manohar-9781849738088RSC Publishing 2014. Hardcover. New. RSC Publishing hardcover
2014ref. Manohar-9781849738088RSC Publishing 2014. Hardcover. New. RSC Publishing hardcover
1867ref. feb931861867: First Hungarian Edition of Cousin Phillis Phillis unokahúgom Used. For more details please contact me Pest hardcover
1953ref. feb505031953: Rare Japanese Edition of Cranford 女ã ã‘ã®ç”º Used. For more details please contact me Kadokawa Bunko
1956ref. feb506421956: First Polish Edition of Mary Barton Used. For more details please contact me Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy
1924ref. NN5234John Grant 1924. ~FULL TITLES: Vols 1 & 2: Jane Eyre by C. Bronte / Vol. 3: The Professor by C. Bronte / Vols 4-5: Shirley by C. Bronte / Vols 6-7: Villette by C. Bronte / Vol. 8: Wuthering Heights by E. Bronte / Vol. 9: Agnes Grey by A. Bronte with a Memoir of her Sisters by Charlotte Bronte / Vols 10-11: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by A. Bronte / Vol. 12: The Life of Charlotte Bronte by E. C. Gaskell Introduction and Notes by Temple Scott and B. W. Willett. ~Original full green cloth gilt lettering and ornate gilt decor to spines. Top edges dark green other edges deckled with a little foxing to fore-edges. Half titles and title pages printed in red and black. Frontis to all vols four with tissue guards. Numerous b/w illustrations. Hinges all sound inside and out. A very little faint foxing to text margins or prelims. Endpapers all uncracked at gutters. Cream dustwrappers unclipped slightly toned on spines minor foxing spots to panels. Small hole to dustwrapper on spine in Vilette vol.1 only see picture. Dustwrappers protected in removable clear plastic sleeves. The Thornton Edition first published in 1901 and including Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Bronte became the standard text of the Bronte's works in the early twentieth century. Attractive set unusually fresh and little used. Robust packaging. Hardback. Hardback. Near Fine/Fine. About. 450pp. per vol. John Grant Hardcover
1907ref. 26417Edinburgh: John Grant 1907. Very Good. Edinburgh: John Grant 1905-07. Thornton Edition. Twelve octavo volumes. Illustrated with black and white photographs and illustrations principally showing places associated with the Bronte family and their novels. Green cloth with spine lettered in gilt; top edges gilt. A mismatched set with Wuthering Heights the only title from 1905 and slightly shorter. Bookplate of Lady Diana Duff Cooper to front pastedown of all volumes except Wuthering. Boards show light rubbing to edges toning to spine and edges white spotting to a few volumes Gaskell volume split at bottom of front joint. Bindings sound and pages unmarked; about Very Good. Author actress and aristocrat Lady Diana Cooper was a member of the pre-WWI group of intellectuals known as The Coterie most of whom were killed in the war. A Very Good set enriched by Cooper's evocative neoclassical bookplate. John Grant unknown
1861ref. 125281London: Sampson Low Son and Co. 1861. First edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's 1861 novella which first appeared in Household Words in 1858. Octavo original cloth elaborately stamped in blind. In good condition. Ownership inscriptions. My Lady Ludlow recounts the daily lives of the widowed Countess of Ludlow of Hanbury and the spinster Miss Galindo whose father was a Baronet and their caring for other single women and girls. It is also concerned with Lady Ludlow's man of business Mr. Horner and a poacher's son named Harry Gregson whose education he provides for. With Cranford The Last Generation in England and Mr. Harrison's Confessions My Lady Ludlow was adapted for television in 2007 as Cranford with Francesca Annis as the eponymous character with Alex Etel as Harry Gregson and Emma Fielding as Laurentia Galindo. Sampson Low, Son and Co. hardcover
