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1907Best.-Nr. 112429London: Smith 1907. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-357 358 359-360: publisher's ads. original gray cloth front and spine panels stamped in reddish brown fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First edition. Thirteen short stories set in the western part of Yorkshire the dialogue written in dialect style. A clean tight very good copy. #112429 Smith unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. 88917London: Hodder and Stoughton 1965. Octavo boards. First edition. Second Cija novel part of the popular Atlan series. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-115. Cawthorn and Moorcock Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 81. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I pp. 66-8. Very light bruising to three corner tips else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. #88917 Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
1966Best.-Nr. 104455London: Hodder and Stoughton 1966. Octavo boards. First edition. The third Cija novel. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-115. Cawthorn and Moorcock Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 81. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I pp. 66-8. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #104455 Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
1963Best.-Nr. 82809London: Hodder and Stoughton 1963. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. First Cija novel part of the popular Atlan series. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-115. Cawthorn and Moorcock Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 81. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I pp. 66-8. Corner gently bumped a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine price clipped dust jacket with slight bumps and rubbing to corner tips. #82809 Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 65557London: Hutchinson 1957. Octavo boards. First edition. The author's first book. A fantasy set in a mysterious fourth-dimensional fairyland where the inhabitants are engaged in a fierce ideological war. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 675. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 pp. 265-66. Reginald 05835. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #65557 Hutchinson unknown books
1977Best.-Nr. 86407New York: St. Martin's Press 1977. Octavo boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. Second novel in the Atlan sequence. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-115. Cawthorn and Moorcock Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 81. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I pp. 66-8. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #86407 St. Martin's Press unknown books
2001Best.-Nr. 741Cambridge: Roger Gaskell Warboys 2001. FIRST EDITION. Softcover. Very good. Very minor wear to back cover otherwise in perfect condition. 87 items illustrated. Original wrappers no dust-jacket as issued. Scholarly scarce catalogue containing descriptions of many rare items such as the complete works of Saint-Gery de Magnas a first edition anatomy book with etchings by Felix Platter 1583 and many more. Finely illustrated throughout with black and white images. Roger Gaskell Warboys unknown books
Best.-Nr. 04214London: Macmillan and Co. 1895. In a Fine 1897 'Exhibition' Binding by Zaehnsdorf ZAEHNSDORF binders. THOMSON Hugh illustrator. GASKELL Mrs. Elizabeth. Cranford. With a preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London: Macmillan and Co. 1895. Early reprint of the 1891 first Thomson illustrated edition. 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. A fine '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 fine example of a Zaehnsdorf 'Exhibition' binding housed in a red morocco edged felt-lined red cloth slipcase. Cranford which originally appeared as a serial in Charles Dickens' magazine Household Words 1851-53 and saw its first publication in book form in 1853 is "a series of linked sketches of life among the ladies of a quiet country village in the 1830s.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. Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell 1810-1865 a "strong and independent-minded woman" The Feminist Companion to Literature was an important proto-Feminist writer who often tackled unorthodox subjects in her novels. Cranford for example concerns a community of spinsters who glory in their freedom from male interference. Mrs. Gaskell was "'the most popular with small question the most powerful and finished female novelist of an epoch singularly rich in female novelists'" Enclyclopedia of British Women Writers p. 264 citing Mrs. Gaskell's obituary in The Athenaeum. "Critical awareness of Gaskell as a social historian is now more balanced by awareness of her innovativeness and artistic development as a novelist. While scholars continue to debate the precise nature of her talent they also reaffirm the singular attractiveness of her best works" ibid of which Cranford is one. Hugh Thomson 1860-1920 was born in Kingsgate Street Coleraine Co. Londonderry the eldest child of John and Catherine Thomson. Thomson was educated in the model school in Coleraine. At age fourteen he started working at the local linen industry but three years later he entered the employment of Marcus Ward & Co. colour printers and publishers in Belfast where his talent for drawing was encouraged by John Vinycomb head of the art department. He married Jessie Naismith Miller in 1884 and moved to London where he took up employment with Macmillan & Co. on the English Illustrated Magazine joining some of the most distinguished writers and illustrators of the day. Thomson provided scenes of Covent Garden and Regency Bath and the illustrations for the Addison and Steele Spectator papers Days with Sir Roger de Coverley 1886-7. Thompson's style reflected the nostalgia of the time his fine line drawing of rural characters and gentle countrified society appealing to the imagination of the public. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895 unknown books
Best.-Nr. 03147London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1935. In a Fine 'Textured' Inlaid Binding by Bayntun Rivière BAYNTUN RIVIÈRE binders. THOMSON Hugh illustrator. GASKELL Mrs. Elizabeth. Cranford. With a preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London: Macmillan and Co. 1935. Later Hugh Thomson illustrated edition. Octavo 7 1/16 x 4 3/4 inches; 180 x 120 mm. Frontispiece xxx 298 pp. With 110 black and white illustrations in the text. Bound by Bayntun Rivière Bath ca. 1935 in full dark blue crushed levant morocco covers decoratively bordered in gilt front cover with a beautifully' contoured' inlaid design in red tan green and brown morocco reproduced from the illustration on page 240 spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt gilt board edges and turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. A very fine example. The front cover illustration is taken from the text illustration on page 240 and depicts Mary Smith the narrator posting a letter to Miss Matty "I dropped it in the post on my way home and then for a minute I stood looking at the wooden pane with a gaping slit which divided me from the letter." Cranford which originally appeared as a serial in Charles Dickens' magazine Household Words 1851-53 and saw its first publication in book form in 1853 is "a series of linked sketches of life among the ladies of a quiet country village in the 1830s.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. Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell 1810-1865 a "strong and independent-minded woman" The Feminist Companion to Literature was an important proto-Feminist writer who often tackled unorthodox subjects in her novels. Cranford for example concerns a community of spinsters who glory in their freedom from male interference. Mrs. Gaskell was "'the most popular with small question the most powerful and finished female novelist of an epoch singularly rich in female novelists'" Enclyclopedia of British Women Writers p. 264 citing Mrs. Gaskell's obituary in The Athenaeum. "Critical awareness of Gaskell as a social historian is now more balanced by awareness of her innovativeness and artistic development as a novelist. While scholars continue to debate the precise nature of her talent they also reaffirm the singular attractiveness of her best works" ibid of which Cranford is one. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1935 unknown books
2015Best.-Nr. 42436New Castle Delaware & Winchester: Oak Knoll Press & St. Paul's Bibliographies 2015. paperback. Bibliography. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 462 pages. Reprint of the 1995 Oak Knoll edition. Ronald B. McKerrow's An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students has been the classic manual on bibliography showing how the transmission of texts might be affected by the processes of printing but he concentrated almost exclusively on "Elizabethan" printing - the period from 1560 to 1660. However in recent years there has been an increasing interest in the textual problems of the 18th 19th and 20th centuries and although McKerrow covered the period up to 1800 he did not describe the technology of the machine-press period. Gaskell incorporates work done since McKerrow's day on the history of the printing technology of the hand-press period and he breaks new ground by providing a general description of the printing practices of the machine-press period. He describes the hand-printed book press-work patterns of production plates and more. In addition he examines bibliographical applications reference bibliography and the process of book production. Little has been previously published about the techniques and routines of nineteenth- and twentieth-century book production making this book essential to students of literature scholars printing historians librarians and booklovers. Oak Knoll Press & St. Paul's Bibliographies unknown books
1989Best.-Nr. 9025894Totowa: Barnes & Noble Books 1989. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Princess Grace Irish Library 4. Barnes & Noble Books hardcover books
1891Best.-Nr. 9005886London: Macmillan and Co. 1891. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Bound by L. Broga in tan calf with a brown leather spine label stamped in gilt and the covers and spine stamped in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Image on request. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books
1890Best.-Nr. 268261New York: F. M. Lupton Publisher 1890. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. #61 of the Lupton company's "Arm Chair Library". There is a previous owner name penned on the front panel. Very Good binding. F. M. Lupton, Publisher unknown books
2009Best.-Nr. 60423New Castle Delaware & Winchester: Oak Knoll Press & St. Paul's Bibliographies 2009. hardcover. Bibliography. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover. 462 pages. Reprint of the 1995 Oak Knoll edition. Ronald B. McKerrow's An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students has been the classic manual on bibliography showing how the transmission of texts might be affected by the processes of printing but he concentrated almost exclusively on "Elizabethan" printing - the period from 1560 to 1660. However in recent years there has been an increasing interest in the textual problems of the 18th 19th and 20th centuries and although McKerrow covered the period up to 1800 he did not describe the technology of the machine-press period. Gaskell incorporates work done since McKerrow's day on the history of the printing technology of the hand-press period and he breaks new ground by providing a general description of the printing practices of the machine-press period. He describes the hand-printed book press-work patterns of production plates and more. In addition he examines bibliographical applications reference bibliography and the process of book production. Little has been previously published about the techniques and routines of nineteenth- and twentieth-century book production making this book essential to students of literature scholars printing historians librarians and booklovers. Oak Knoll Press & St. Paul's Bibliographies 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 hardcover 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
1978Best.-Nr. 70503NY: Scribner’s 1978. First US edition. 231 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Edited by Michael Ashley with his preface and introduction. Seven stories. NY: Scribner’s unknown books
1892Best.-Nr. 2304560London: Macmillan & Co 1892. 5th Printing. 5th Printing. Very Good/No Jacket. Thomson Hugh. Fifth printing. Quarter inch tear to spine head small stain on top page ridge spine slightly cocked. 1892 Hard Cover. xxx 297 pp. Hugh Thomson binding with elaborate gilt decorations. Gilt page ridges. Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. "The women of the small country town of Cranford live in genteel poverty resolutely refusing to embrace change while the dark clouds of urbanization and the advance of the railway hover threateningly on the horizon. In their simple well-ordered lives they face emotional dilemmas and upheavals small in the scale of the ever-shifting world but affectionately portrayed by Gaskell with all the weight and consequence of a grand drama. Macmillan & Co unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 2312463London: John Murray 1929. 6th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1929 sixth printing of Hayworth Edition. Smudges on front board bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 659 pp. Volume seven of the uniformly bound series The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters comprising a complete biography of Charlotte in one volume. Green cloth gilt titles. Introduction and notes by Clement K. Shorter. Includes photographic plates. "Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte 1857 is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Bronte and having been invited to write the official life determined both to tell the truth and to honour her friend. She contacted those who had known Charlotte and travelled extensively in England and Belgium to gather material. She wrote from a vivid accumulation of letters interviews and observation establishing the details of Charlotte's life and recreating her background. John Murray 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
1895Best.-Nr. 4665bdNew York: Thomas Y. Crowell 1895. Octavo gilt-decorated green cloth hardcover top edge gilt xxiv 290 pp. Photogravure frontis. illus. Very Good; light shelf wear. Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895. hardcover 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
1959Best.-Nr. 48110Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1959. First edition 4to pp. xxiii 1 71 1; facsimile illustrations; with facsimile specimen of Baskerville's types loosely inserted in rear pocket; very good or better in original red cloth beige dust jacket spotted w/minor edgewear & clipped. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 45187Oxford: Clarendon Press 1972. 8vo pp. xxii 2 438; black and white photographic frontispiece numerous illustrations in text; original boards in black pictorial dust jacket; jacket edges a bit shelf worn else about fine. Clarendon Press hardcover books