Alfred ainger intro (8 Ergebnisse)

Half-Leather. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Half-Leather. No Jacket. Non Fiction. 4t. A.C. Armstrong & Son. NY. 1885. Looks like first ed. Very good/NJ. Half leather hardbound with ornate marblelized cover and matching end papers. Has edge and spine wear, corners bumped. Old bookseller plate to front end paper. Also decorative paper ends. Former owner inscription in India Ink.Book is clean and tight. Unknown (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Zustand: vg. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: --. blue cover with lovely gilt decoration & lettering front & spine; top edge gilt; silk ribbon place-marker; 428pp; b/w frontis & plates with printed tissue guards; prev. owner's name on free front endpage. Hardcover.

Leather bound. Zustand: Very good +. Leather bound. Ex libris Helen Violet Graham (1879-1945), President of the Young Women's Christian Association and daughter of the 5th Duke of Montrose, with her bookplate to front pastedown and her inscription to flyleaf. Half-bound in dark blue morocco with blue linen over boards by Douglas and Foulis of Edinburgh, with spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Pale blue marbled endpapers. Scuff to tail of spine, light edgewear, and spot of rubbing to cloth over rear board, else near fine. Binding is firm and sound. Very occasional pencilled mark to pages. A handsome turn-of-the-century of Charles Lamb's beloved collection of essays, finely bound by Douglas and Foulis of Edinburgh and with interesting provenance.…

2 VOL SET, octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Zustand: Good. 12mo. Green Cloth with Decorative Faux Gilding, 334 pp., Very Good. Illustrated.

Full Leather. Zustand: Very Good. Full Red Calf leather school prize binding. Raised bands, gilt lined and tooled compartments and panels.Black leather title slip. Milled edges to boards and den tels. 175 x 125 mm approx. Marbled end papers with matching marbling of edges to book block. Red and gold applied head bands xxvi + 426pp. Collection of misc. prose writings by Lamb first published in this edition by Macmillan in 1883. Introduction and extensive notes by Alfred Ainger. The copy offered by us is a 1903 reprint in a school prize binding with the crest of Haileybury College to front panel. VG ( Light shelf rubbing to extremities with minor scuffs. College prize book plate to front paste down. Light foxing to end blanks. No other notable defects. ie binding sound with no cracks to end papers etc. An attractive book on the shelf and very tactile) Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover; 8vo; 425 pp. Half bound in dark green leather, with matching marbled papers on boards. Edges and spine rubbbed. Gilt titles on red morocco label on spine. With pale marbled endpapers, with some light pencil marks. Interior is otherwise bright and clean. VG/--. Book.…