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1909Alibris.0019808Melville Stamp Books. 1909. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. some cover wear with tears to cover philatelic club's stamp on front cover includes 2 separate advertising sheets. 63 p. Includes: illustrations bibliography. . The book cover has small edge tears all around and some light soiling. There is a philatelic club stamp on the front cover. The pages are unmarked and the binding is tight. There is a slight amount of rust showing from the original staple binding after the last page. There are 63 pages of text 14 pages of advertisements. There are also two publisher s inserts. Melville Stamp Books paperback
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NRF Gallimard 1950, In-8 broché, 283 pages. Photos en hors texte. Bon état.
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189510230New York 1895. 8vo. 7 1 blank pp. <br><br>Robert C. Winthrop 180994 was a prominent Boston citizen Whig party leader president of the Massachusetts Historical Society and chairman of the Peabody Education Fund's Board of Trustees. Signed in type on p. 7: Melville W. Fuller William A. Courtenay Joseph H. Choate. Original wrappers torn and chipped at inner edge wrappers separating. Pages clean and free of chips or tears. unknown books
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13714Very Good-. Hardcover. Embossed decorated faded green boards; a little worn; corners a little bumped; slight wear to head and tail of spine but stitched binding intact. Gilt titling on spine a little dull but very legible. Foredges marbled; top foredges a little dusty; marbling on front and lower foredges a little faded. There are no publishing details in the volume: the "title page" merely and solely states "The British Library" but this is evidently the title of a series rather than the august institution in London's Euston Road. The volume contains the three titles listed above printed in double columns; the page numbering restarts with each new title so the book may well comprise three separate publications. This is possibly an early unrecorded edition of Melville's Redburn. ; 8vo 6" x 9"; 154223128 pages . hardcover
1890FB451 /4B<p>Part of a set. tan calf spine with gilt lettering. Believed to be First if only edition prior to modern reprints The "complete list" of publications given in the 1898 edition of "Riding Recollections" notes that this publication was posthumous <strong>Black But Comely Or the Adventures of Jane Lee. </strong>Excerpt from Black but Comely or the Adventures of Jane Lee <em>'Why should he trouble himself about the culprit a journeyman tailor who had stabbed his wife in a fit of drunken ferocity and been convicted on the evidence of his sister-in-law. He could not look along the whitewashed passages of the prison nor into the bare blank cell where the doomed man cowered and Shook before that awful unknown to which he was gliding so smooth and Swift and sure upheld it may be for a moment at a time by the presence of two robust turnkeys who guarded him as a timid passenger feels upheld in a storm by companionship with some stout Skipper and his mate; yet now and again stung to agony at the contrast between their situation and his own. I'vould it have dulled the pieman's enterprise or the appetites of his customers to see the gray drawn face.'</em> <strong>George John Whyte-Melville</strong> 19 June 1821 – 5 December 1878 was a Scottish novelist much concerned with field sports and also a poet. He took a break in the mid-1850s to serve as an officer of Turkish irregular cavalry in the Crimean War. Major George John Whyte-Melville was born in 1821 at Mount Melville near St Andrews Scotland as a son of Major John Whyte-Melville and Lady Catherine Anne Sarah Osborne and a grandson on his mother's side of the 5th Duke of Leeds. His father was a well-known sportsman and Captain of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. George was tutored privately at home by the young Robert Lee then educated at Eton before entering the army with a commission in the 93rd Highlanders in 1839. He exchanged into the Coldstream Guards in 1846 and retired with the rank of captain in 1849. Whyte-Melville married the Hon. Charlotte Hanbury-Bateman in 1847 and they had one daughter Florence Elizabeth who went on to marry Clotworthy John Skeffington 11th Viscount Massereene and 4th Viscount Ferrard. His marriage was not a happy one and this led to the "constantly recurring note of melancholy" that runs through all of his novels "especially in reference to women". His wife also was not happy with the marriage. In 1849 Whyte-Melville was the subject of a summons for maintenance by Elizabeth Gibbs described as "a smartly-dressed and interesting looking young woman" who alleged that he was the father of her son. She stated that she had known Whyte-Melville since December 1846 and that she had given birth to his child on 15 September 1847. The Magistrate read some letters stated by Gibbs to be from Whyte-Melville in one of which the writer expressed his wish that Gibbs would fix the paternity unto some other person as he did not wish to pay for the pleasure of others. The Magistrate found for the defendant as the written evidence could not be proved to be in Whyte-Melville's hand but allowed the complainant to apply for a further summons in order to obtain proof. Gibbs testified that since the child was born she had received £10 from Whyte-Melville and he had offered her two sums of £5 on condition that she surrender his letters to her and sign a disclaimer on further claims. The case continued on 25 September 1849. Gibbs' landlady supported by her servant testified that Gibbs was in the habit at the time of receiving visits from other gentlemen particularly two one of whom had paid for the nurse and supported Gibbs during her confinement. The magistrate said that there had definitely been perjury on one side or the other and dismissed the summons. After translating some Horace in 1850 Whyte-Melville published his first novel <em>Digby Grand</em> in 1852 which was a success. He went on to publish 21 other novels and became a popular writer about hunting. Most of his heroes and heroines – Digby Grand Tilbury Nogo the Honourable Crasher Mr Sawyer Kate Coventry Mrs Lascelles – ride to hounds or are would-be members of the hunt. Some characters reappear in different novels such as the supercilious stud groom the dark and wary steeple-chaser or the fascinating sporting widow. <em>Bones and I or The Skeleton at Home</em> is an anomaly in his work as it is far from the realms of the hunting field or historical romance. It centres on an urban recluse living in a small modern villa in a London cul de sac looking out on "the dead wall at the back of an hospital". His most famous lyric is also unusual in its unexpected melancholy – the words to Paolo Tosti's song "Good-bye!" Several of his novels are historical <em>The Gladiators</em> being the best known. Whyte-Melville also wrote <em>Sarchedon</em> a historical novel set in Ancient Babylon. He also published volumes of poetry including <em>Songs and Verses</em> 1869 and <em>Legend of the True Cross</em> 1873. However it is for his portrayal of contemporary sporting society that he is most regarded. Henry Hawley Smart is said to have taken Whyte-Melville as one of his models when he too set out to be a sporting novelist. Mrs. Lovett Cameron 1844–1921 acknowledged that her novel <em>A Grass Country</em> was inspired by Whyte-Melville. He also served as one of the two models for the writing of Mrs. Robert Jocelyn. He was the first person to encourage Florence Montgomery 1843–1923 to publish her children's stories and persuaded her to do so. The novelist John Galsworthy admired the "bright things" in Whyte-Melville's novels and wrote that Digby Grand was Jolyon Forsythe's first idol in the <em>Forsythe Saga</em>. The catch phrase for which he is best remembered comes from a song about hunting: "Drink Puppy Drink". This recurs also in <em>The Flashman Papers</em> by George MacDonald Fraser as a frequently mentioned favourite song of the anti-hero. In 1876 Whyte-Melville penned the rarely attributed but widely recognized opening line to the short poem <em>The Object of a Life</em>: "To eat drink and be merry because to-morrow we die."</p> Ward Lock & Co. hardcover
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