J m darton (25 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Scuffs, soils, edge wear, shaken spine with inner hinge cracking; smalls dampstain on inner lower spine corner and on ipper page edges; a readable copy. 310 pages. Kirk, M.L. (illustrator). Book.

Hard Cover. Zustand: vg. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: --. 310pp + 4 tipped in color illustrated plates; contents clean, light foxing to edges; 8" tall; shelf wear to edges of green cover with black & pink il'd border on front; spine sunned. M.L. Kirk (illustrator). Hardcover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition? No date - circa 1880. Hardback. Brown cloth, gilt decorated. viii + 308 pp + 4 pp publisher's adverts and a commercial advert. Numerous plates including a real photo frontispiece of HRH Princess Louise with gilt decoration surround and title page in gilt print. Ex-theological college library bookplate on front inside cover plus withdrawn stamp, otherwise Very Good condition.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Short stories, illustrated edition. Covers rubbed cover label scuffed, corners and spine ends bumped with a little fraying, spine faded. Interior clean and tight, pages toned. M L Kirk (illustrator).

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Rear inner hinge cracked; presentation bookplate on pastedown endpaper. Illustrated by Harrison Weir (illustrator).

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover in overall good condition with light general wear. Binding firm and square. clean throughout.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. Lovely illustrated edition from 1914 brings "The Canterbury Tales" to life for young readers with the stories from Chaucer & others retold by renowned children's literature historian F. J. Harvey Darton, with full-color front paste-down, frontispiece, + 10 internal full-color, full-page plates by acclaimed turn-of-the-century children's book illustrator Maria Louise Kirk. Endpapers by artist "G.H." A FIRST EDITION, unknown printing, from 1914, this hardcover has black cloth-covered boards with front paper pastedown & (somewhat faded) gilt lettering stamped to spine. Condition is VG+: front pastedown has slight rubbing & corners & both ends of spine are mildly bumped; rubbing to central spine. Binding strong & straight, both hinges secure. Tissue guard between frontispiece & title page is intact & flawless. Pages are creamy white with moderate tanning, but completely unmarked. All plates are colorful with bright, white margins. A Beauty! 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 (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Kirk, M[aria]. L[ouise] (illustrator). …

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Frederick A. Stokes Company,1914. Hard Cover. No dust jacket. Cover has moderate shelfwear, split down front spine edge, tiny hole in middle of back spine edge, spine ends frayed, all corners frayed and bumped. Frontispiece and tissue intact. Beautiful color illustrations. Pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Small tears along binding edge on page 164. Very small tear on bottom edge of front flyleaf and page 165. Binding is tight. Hinges are cracked. Good reading/research copy. M. L. Kirk (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. UK6TH.EDITION.1886.NEAR VH HARDBACK-NO BLANK FEP. BEAUTIFULLY EMBOSSED RED BOARDS WIOTH GOLD PAGE EDGING.A TIGHT COPY.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1914. First edition, 1914. Selections from the Canterbury Tales with eleven color plates plus color illustrated cover and endpapers by M. L. Kirk. Black cloth with color cover illustration, 310 pages. Covers edgeworn with a faded spine and rubbing to the corners and spine ends, a few small scuffs to the cover illustration, good hinges, sound text block with no loosened pages, all plates present and in very good condition with one having some light foxing at the inner margin and one having a tiny dampstain at the top edge, neither affecting the printed areas. The text is clean with a paper clip crimp and light soil to the half-title and preliminary blank, small upper margin dampstain to the last third of the book, not affecting the text, short gift inscription on the front free endpaper, personal bookplate on the front pastedown. Also includes a holiday greeting card and invitation to visit the Canterbury Road in Winchester, Massachusetts, laid in loosely at the front. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A true first edition with 10 color plates plus frontis and cover by M L Kirk. This is not the edition that only has 4 plates that some sellers are selling as a first. Cover paste down is complete and bright but has a few scuffs and a couple barely perceptible stains. Spine is scuffed and gilding nearly all gone. Black cloth that shows moderate to light edge wear. Front hinge is not cracked but it is slightly loose. Former owners tasteful bookplate on first paste down. Wear at extremities. A 1921 Christmas gift inscription from same family as bookplate on end paper. The inside is clean, bright and tight. PayPal accepted please inquire. M L Kirk (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Very Good; firm binding; contents very good; no dust jacket. Hard Cover Weldon ca 1890 Children's History Biography.

Brown Cloth. Zustand: Good to very Good. None Present. real photo of Princess Louise, title page in gilt print, one inch diameter water stain to front cover otherwise good to very good, bevel edges to boards.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Models for imitation by the young women of England. 329pp gilt edged.Illustrated in black and white.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

7th edition, 1890. School prize binding in full maroon calf with gilt decorative front board, five raised bands and gilt tooling on spine with gilt lettering on black leather title panel. Spine and upper edges of boards faded, moreso on rear board. Prize bookplate on front pastedown. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Light foxing, mainly on first and last few pages. Small stain to lower margin of last page. Used - Good. Good hardback in full calf.…

Hardback. Zustand: nrVG. No DW. Not dated but perhaps about 1880. Green decorated cloth with bevelled boards. Lettered in gold. Long inscription of owner on half title. Book is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardback. Minor crease marks to spine and cover. No dust jacket.

Zustand: Used - Good. Good hardback. 21st edition 'with new lives'; undated, probably c.1900. Red cloth with black & gilt; all page edges gilt. Bookplate & remains of label on front free end paper, with owner's name on title page & verso. Text generally clean; spine faded & browned, with badly worn gilt. Includes Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jenny Lind and 'Miss Marsh' Used - Good. Good hardback.…

Hard Cover. Seventh Edition. Octavo, pp. [2], vii, [1], 288. 3 plates by Harrison Weir; numerous head- and tail-piece decorations. Bound in superb full tree-calf with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to black label to spine, gilt decoration to compartments, gilt border to boards and gilt Elstree School crest to upper board. All edges marbled; decoration in blind to dentelles; marbled endpapers. A little light foxing to prelims otherwsie a Fine copy, with printed Prize Plate for Grammar to front paste-down, completed and dated in 1903. Inspirational brief biographies of explorers, missionaries, naturalists and philosophers, and perhaps less militaristic than might be expected from the title.Subjects include the Earl of Shaftesbury, John Ruskin, Dr Arnold of Rugby and artist Harrison Weir.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. ISSN: 0361-0128 ; LCCN: 87-658053 ; yellow paper wrappers ; "Jubilee volume" ; Contents: Te outlook for the future: nonrenewable resources -- Geologic structure surrounding the Santa Rita intrusive -- Vacuum differential thermal analysis of coal -- A review of the Falconbridge Ore Deposit -- The Geochemistry and origin of the Gold bearing Quartz veins and lenses of the Yellowknife Greenstone Belt -- The genesis of asbestos in ultrabasic rocks -- Origin of the Roan Antelope Copper Deposit of Northern Rhodesia -- Reviews: Geology of Australian ore deposits (A B Edwards) -- Geoogie der Schweizeralpen (Cadisch and Niggli) -- Second Conference on the Origin and Constitution of Coal -- Coal (Wilfrid Francis) -- The use of stereographic projection in structural geology ( F C Phillips) -- La geologie et les problems de l'eau en Algerie (Geol. Cong. Algiers) -- Books received -- Abstracts of papers to be presented at the Chicago Meeting, February 14-17, 1955 -- Scientific notes and news. ; published semiquarterly ; VG. Book.…

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good +. green bds with gilt titles and illus to spine and front. spine sunned with titles faded. small amount of soiling/fading to bds. spine ends and corners bumped and frayed. 2 small tears to spine. front board partially detached from spine. ffep missing. b/w illus to frontis. b/w illus to text. pages lightly browing. interior clean. all edges gilded. 7th edn. Harrison Weir (illustrator).…

[Women's Education] Darton, J.M. Famous Girls Who Have Become Illustrious Women of our Time Forming Models of Imitation by the Young Women of England. London, later edition. Circa 1884. Duodecimo, 5.5" x 7.25"inches. 329 pages. As issued, no dust jacket. Hardcover with beautifully illustrated crimson boards. Illustrated frontispiece in addition to ____ other black and white illustrated plates of the "illustrious women". Signed and inscribed by an aunt to her niece, and subsequently shows the youthful ownership signature of a young girl named Joan Solomon. This work highlights the lives of "famous girls" of "no single period, nor of any one station" who achieved through their deeds "the admiration and the emulation of angels." This piece gave young girls role models by raising the general consciousness of remarkable women, as well as distinguishing them from their family names which historically would be associated with the actions of the male members. The passage of this piece from aunt to niece shows an abiding interest in women's history at the time. The women profiled include Margaret Roper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Queen Victoria. There is minimal bumping and sunning to spine. Some toning and foxing on the free endpaper. Complete with three pages of advertisements to rear. Interiors are clean and bright. Textblock tight. A very good copy. Signed.…