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1998Best.-Nr. 217776North Miami FL: Museum of Contemporary Art 1998. First edition. Softcover. 26 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 18 through December 6 1998 in North Miami and then traveled to two other locations for additional dates. Features text by Bonnie Clearwater. Includes color images by Gaskell brief biographical information and a list of a previous exhibitions. A fine copy stapled wrappers. Museum of Contemporary Art unknown books
1923Best.-Nr. 9030710London: Macmillan and Co 1923. Hardcover. Very good. Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Bound in half blue calf with marbled boards and with red leather labels stamped in gilt on the spine. Top edge gilt. Minor wear to extremities. Text block in excellent condition. 5 x 7 1/2 inches. 297 pages. Macmillan and Co hardcover books
1911Best.-Nr. 9028033Edinburgh: John Grant 1911. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Thornton Edition edited by Temple Scott. Bound in half green leather with green cloth boards and five raised bands spines stamped in illustrated gilt and marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with engravings and photographs. All pages clean and bright. Minimal wear to corners heads and heels of spine. Slight uniform sunning to spines. Bookplate of previous owner on front paste-down endpapers. Includes Villette Agnes Grey The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Jane Eyre The Professor Wuthering Heights Shirley and Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë with introduction and notes by Scott and Willett. A beautiful set. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. John Grant hardcover books
1874Best.-Nr. 9028213London: Smith Elder 1874. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Spine and cover decorated in black rear cover stamped in blind. Front and rear inner hinges weak but holding well. Light wear at head and heal of spine and at extremities. An earlly edition originally published by Smith Elder in 1857. Smith, Elder hardcover books
1989Best.-Nr. 9025894Totowa: Barnes & Noble Books 1989. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Princess Grace Irish Library 4. Barnes & Noble Books hardcover books
1857Best.-Nr. 21489New York: D. Appleton and Company 1857. First American Edition. Two octavo volumes 18.75cm.; original blind-patterned brown cloth gilt-lettered spines yellow glazed endpapers; viii28516;viii26917-14pp.; engraved frontispieces tissue-guarded. Boards a bit rubbed especially at spine ends spine gilt almost entirely perished though cloth itself remains unfaded textblocks rather foxed especially at preliminaries else a Very Good sound set complete with original publisher's advertisements including one leaf bound before the front free endpaper of Vol. I. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1998Best.-Nr. UGASNOR00acmfOxford University 1998. Very Good. Gaskell Elizabeth. North and South. Oxford: Oxford University 1998. 452pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing and yellowing. Oxford University paperback books
2001Best.-Nr. 213855New York: powerHouse Books 2001. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 155 pages. Gaskell's first monograph. Features text by Thom Jones and an essay by Nancy Spector. Includes numerous color photographs by Gaskell. A clean near fine copy in photo-illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. powerHouse Books unknown books
1900Best.-Nr. RGASLIF00fpHarper & Brothers 1900. Very Good. Gaskell Elizabeth. Life of Charlotte Bronte. New York: Harper & Brothers 1900. xxxvi 670pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Front hinge cracked but holding. Former owner's name on front free end sheet and top of title page. Nice bright copy. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1993Best.-Nr. UKEMLAN00fpCambridge University Press 1993. Very Good. Kemal Salim. The Language of Art History. Gaskell Ivan. New York: Cambridge University Press 1993. x 245pp. Indexed. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Cambridge University Press paperback books
1895Best.-Nr. 6453London: Macmillan 1895. Later printing. Near Fine. Early reprint of the 1891 first Thomson illustrated edition. A Near Fine copy. Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 191 x 127 mm. Frontispiece xxx 297 1 pp. With 110 black and white illustrations in the text. Occasional foxing or staining especially on pp. 16/17; 104/105; 144/145 and 270/271. Bound in an 'Exhibition' binding by Zaehnsdorf executed in 1897 stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full crimson crushed levant morocco covers bordered in gilt and decoratively tooled in gilt and pointille in an elaborate floral design front cover lettered in gilt. Spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt ruled board edgeswide and elaborate gilt decorated turn-ins ochre silk liners and end-leaves top edge gilt others uncut. The rear liner has the Zaehnsdorf 'Exhibition' stamp in gilt. Joints expertly and almost invisibly repaired one corner a little bumped still a very early and excellent example of a Zaehnsdorf 'Exhibition' binding housed in a red morocco edged felt-lined red cloth slipcase. Elizabeth Gaskell 1810-1865 was an important proto-Feminist writer who often tackled unorthodox subjects in her novels. Cranford for example is an episodic book concerning a country village community of lower and middle class unmarried older women and the social changes coming to an industrializing Victorian Britain. "The greatest charm of Cranford which has kept it unfailingly popular is its amused but loving portrait of the old-fashioned customs and 'elegant economy' of a delicately observed group of middle-aged figures in a landscape" Oxford Companion to English Literature. "Elizabeth was an active humanitarian; her novels convey many messages about the need for social reconciliation for better understanding between employers and workers and between the respectable and the outcasts of society. Her writing was carefully researched and she took particular care in reproducing northern dialects accurately" Gaskell Society. Gaskell was part of a wide literary circle: she was friends with Charlottee Bronte and John Ruskin and clashed with Charles Dickens when he edited Cranford for serialization in the magazine Household Words. In this lovely copy are images by Hugh Thomson 1860-1920 famed at the turn of the century for illustrating works by luminaries including Jane Austen and William Shakespeare. The Austro-Hungarian-born Joseph Zaehnsdorf 1816-1886 trained with binders in Stuttgart and in Vienna before moving to Germany Switzerland France and eventually settling London. He worked for various shops before opening his own bindery in 1842. In the face of industrializing production Zaehnsdorf embraced craft and eventually gained recognition for his talent. He was known for his precise finish and elegant design. The firm would continue in his son John William's capable hands; it employed binders like Louis Genth Roger de Coverly and Sarah Prideaux. Family run until 1947 it was eventually acquired by Asprey of London in 1983 Gertz. Near Fine. Macmillan unknown books
1912Best.-Nr. 7834New York: Dodd Mead & Co 1912. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. The 1912 1st edition in the uncommon pictorial dustjacket. Solid and VG in its lavishly gilt-decorated front panel and spine. Light foxing to the endapers tender but still perfectly sturdy inner hinges. In a bright VG dustjacket with light chipping to the spine ends and the tips and light wear along the flap folds. Still though a very presentable copy. Thick 12mo 646 pgs. nicely illustrated in color and black-and-white by M.V. Wheelhouse. Dodd, Mead & Co unknown books
1868Best.-Nr. 24615London: n.p. Chapman and Hall 1868. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. First volume edition. 16 volumes for Household Words; 20 volumes for All the year Round; 36 8vo volumes in all. All but two of the volumes are ex-college library in modern buckram gilt spine titles. Library markings are: shelf numbers on spines; pencil numbers on upper left corners of titles pages; two line rubber stamp on textblock edges. Volumes 14 and 16 of Household Words are contemporary half leather marbled paper boards similarly ex-library. Generally very good to near fine but with occasional foxing and staining. First appearances of Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations and The Moonstone the first detective story. Shipping at cost. . n.p. (Chapman and Hall) hardcover books
1892Best.-Nr. 1625New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. Publisher 1892. Cloth. Very good . WOMAN AUTHOR. 16mo 6 1/8" x 4 1/8"; xxiv 290pp; glazed illustrated cloth over board bark motif with flowers lettering in brown; ownership in neat ink on ffep; b&w fp with tissue guard small b&w illustrations in text; light shelf wear to boards fraying to head of spine and front hinge; very good plus. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1810-1865 was a British novelist and biographer. Cranford was first published in 1853 after appearing in magazines as a serial and chronicles the lives of women in a small town and the return of their brother. Lovely late 19th-century aesthetic binding with a woodland theme. Thomas Y. Crowell Co., Publisher unknown books
1990Best.-Nr. 326772London: Sotheby's Publications 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Quarto. 552pp. General Editor: Simon De Pury. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Sotheby's Publications hardcover books
1857Best.-Nr. 56178New York: D. Appleton and Company 1857. First American edition. Engraved frontispieces. 2 vols. 12mo. Original green cloth. A Fine copy but with spine faded as usual. Signed by Alfred Schermerhorn on endpapers. First American edition. Engraved frontispieces. 2 vols. 12mo. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1891Best.-Nr. 27824London: Macmillan and Co 1891. Large paper copy. With a Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Original brick red cloth. Spine faded label a little rubbed else very good. Large paper copy. With a Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 51424London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1964. First edition 8vo pp. 420 25 text illus. & a 2-page chart; bookplate else a fine copy in the dustjacket; jacket with light wear and a small tear at bottom edge. Volume XIV in the publisher's series The Soho Bibliographies. Rupert Hart-Davis unknown books
1857Best.-Nr. 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 books
1933Best.-Nr. 371693London: Smith Elder and Co.; John Murray 1933. Hardcover. Good. Magazine. 105 bound volumes and 98 individual issues in wrappers. Octavos. A long run from 1860–1933 of this famous Victorian literary magazine known for debuting the works of many important English writers. The set includes volumes 1-29 January 1860-June 1874 34-114 July 1876-December 1916 and volumes 125-129 January 1922-June 1924 bound in contemporary publisher's cloth or full linen boards. Also included are 98 monthly issues numbers 337-450 in the original printed wrappers July 1924-December 1933 lacking July 1930 and May November and December 1931. Among the many complete works included in this long run are the first appearances of Framley Parsonage The Claverings and two other novels by Trollope as well as Thackeray's The Adventures of Philip and his complete column: "Roundabout Papers." Other works from the 1860s include Romola by George Eliot Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell Armadale by Wilkie Collins Unto This Last by John Ruskin Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold and Tennyson's "Tithonus." Works from the 1870s and 1880s include The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith Daisy Miller and Washington Square by Henry James The Pavilion on the Links and The Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson and the first 29 chapters of Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement was first published anonymously by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1884 and The White Company first appeared under his name in 1891-92. The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad appeared in 1897. Cornhill maintained its high reputation up through the 1930s. Works from the early 20th Century include poems and prose pieces by Robert Bridges Thomas Hardy W.B. Yeats Ford Madox Ford and Katherine Tynan. The magazine also featured illustrations by George du Maurier Frederic Leighton Edwin Landseer John Everett Millais and other leading artists. Most were engraved on wood by the Brothers Dalziel and include numerous full-page and folding plates. Most volumes from 1860 to 1901 are bound in contemporary publisher's cloth with some rebound in full cloth volumes from 1902 to 1924 are rebound in full cloth most with the original wrappers included and single monthly issues from the 1920s and early 1930s are in the original printed wrappers. Ex-library set with bookplates most 19th Century volumes with a small embossed stamp on the title pages and a perforated stamp on the plates. The earliest volumes are chipped at the spines and edges a few with split spines and detached boards else overall a good set of bound volumes; the single issues in wraps are unmarked and very good or better. A very nice assemblage of notable 19th Century literature and illustrations. Smith, Elder and Co.; John Murray hardcover books
1978Best.-Nr. 017160New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 231pp. Sharp First Edition First Printing with full number sequence. Anthology of one poem and six classic stories. Bound in black cloth with lettering in gilt on spine. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear . Equally attractive unclipped dust jacket $9.95 is fresh and bright with no chipping creases toning or tears. . A gorgeous collectable copy of a somewhat uncommon item particularly in such nice condition and at a great price. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1979Best.-Nr. 79194NY: Scribner’s 1979. First US edition. 231 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Edited by Michael Ashley with his preface and introduction. Seven stories. NY: Scribner’s unknown books
1952Best.-Nr. 102825Oxford: Oxford University Press 1952. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pg. 77-110;149-177. 2 volumes. Article from "The Library" begins in Fifth series Vol VII No.2 June 1952 continued in Fifth Series Vol. VII No.3 September 1952. Both have some wear on spine and No. 2 has some creasing both are slightly soiled. Oxford University Press) unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. S2375London & New York:: Academic Press 1967. 1967. 235 x 162 mm. 8vo. xiv 509 pp. Numerous tables and figs. indexes. Orange cloth gilt spine. Ex library spine label labels removed from front paste-down rubber stamp. Very good. Academic Press, 1967. hardcover books
2008Best.-Nr. 2351653New York: Penguin Classics 2008. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 7x5x1. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. 2008 Hard Cover. xxxviii 257 pp. Edited with an introduction and notes by Patricia Ingham. This book's importance to us as to the generation of 1831 when Cranford was published and 1906 when it was first included in Everyman's Library is the art the taste and the loving charity which Mrs. Gaskell here united. She was always a sincere and humane novelist; in Cranford by writing with mature comprehension of what she had originally seen with a child's clear eyes and retentive memory she produced something unique. Penguin Classics hardcover books
