Marvel ik pseudonym (10 Ergebnisse)

HARDCOVER. Zustand: G / NONE. G HARDBACK. POCKET SIZE HARDCOVER very nice condition for its age - late 19c.

55 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 16.25cm. Lacks dust jacket. Brownish-gray cloth; front board decorated with gilt lettering and three flowers stamped in blue, yellow, and green; staining to boards with a few bubbles occurring to cloth; slight fraying at scuffed spine ends; light wear at board corners. Flaking to text block's gilt top edge; deckle fore-edge and bottom edge. Foxing/toning mostly affecting initial and rear leaves; several small brown stains to pages 50-51; some foxing to book's unpaged color plates (including frontispiece) with adjacent leaves lightly affected as well. Binding is firm. Else a very good- copy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. ***please read*** no marks on text - ex-school library - cover are worn all the away around - name sticker inside cover - so-f-81*.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g. Former owner's name and date (March, 1919) on ffep, small old bookseller's label on fep, both hinges just starting, but holding, otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. The Home Library. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. vi, 348, (8-adverts) pages.…

Full-Leather. No Jacket. Full-Leather. No Jacket. HB NODJ ISSUED, Undated, Small Brown decorated LEATHER with Trees & red background to edge, with stain & darkening edges light Wear,324 pgs, Interior nice tight light Fox Wear, VG-/VG-, NODJ.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original publisher's green cloth binding. 5 1/2" x 7 5/8." 314 pages, complete. An advertisement in the back for a couple of the author's other books. Gilt lettering on spine. Former ownership inscription in blue ink on front free endpaper with "Lawrence Moore" and his address. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. There is some tearing on several of the pages in the back of the book, but it is limited to the last story, "Attic: Under the Roof," and is mostly in the side margins. A collection of short stories by the American essayist and novelist, Donald G. Mitchell (1822-1908), who also went by the pen name, "Ik Marvel." The stories are inspired by the author's travels and include the following: "Basement: Serving for Introduction," "Wet Day at an Irish Inn," "Account of a Consulate," "The Petit Soulier," "The Bride of the Ice-King," "The Cabriolet," "The Count Pesaro," "Emile Roque," and "Attic: Under the Roof." This book is referenced in the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL), no. 13941: "Binding 'B'; no priority.".…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Original publisher's brown cloth binding. 295 pages, complete. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." Bibliography of American Literature (BAL), 13967: "Prefatory note is original to this edition." Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Pages are clean; binding is tight. Former ownership sticker from Robert B. C. Bement on front pastedown. Donald Grant Mitchell (pseudonym Ik Marvel; 1822-1908) was an American author who is known for his subject matter of country living and his "sentimental" writing style. This book is a reissue of the book, Rural Studies. Chapters include: "An Old-Style Farm," "Advice for Lackland," "Way-Side Hints," "Laying Out of Grounds," and "Mr. Urban and a Country House.". …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Limited edition. Half white vellum with printed paper spine label. Owner's name inked on front fly, corners worn, spine labelchipped and torn, a good only copy. This is number 62 of 200 copies printed on Holland paper.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Publisher's half gray cloth over cream illustrated boards, silver titles and decoration on spine, silver decoration and color illustrations on covers, t.e.g., illustrated frontispiece. nd (c. 1870). Donald Grant Mitchell (1822 1908) was an American essayist and novelist who usually wrote under the pen name Ik Marvel. Dream Life, a Fable of the Seasons, was dedicated to Washington Irving, to whom Mitchell was introduced by Lewis Gaylord Clark. Irving said of the dedication: "Though I have a great disinclination in general to be the object of literary oblations and compliments. I have enjoyed your writings with such peculiar relish and have been so drawn toward the author by the qualities of head and heart evinced in them, that I confess I feel gratified by the dedication". . Covers lightly shelf-worn, else near fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 324 pp.…

8vo (19 x 12 cm). vii, 286 pages. Frontispiece. Original purple-brown cloth, gilt cluster of rapes at center of sides within rustic blind-blocked frame, spine gilt-lettered and -decorated, top edges gilt. FIRST EDITION, fourth printing, with the insertion of the frontispiece and other typographic points detailed in BAL. In BAL's "tentative Binding C." BAL 13931. Text block broken at center, wear at extremities; foxed.…