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1850melville1850<p>11850 London edition of this famous novel. Includes the Story of Toby. Condition is Very Good: Volume has been rebound in modern brown cloth. There is moderate foxing of the title page and first few leaves. Rest of interior has minimal foxing. A pencil mark is seen in the margin of p.9. No other issues. Paginates: title 1-222 lacking original blanks. Essentially a very cool reading copy. It is pocket size at a little over 6 inches tall. Please see images of the book you will receive. Notes: if you have ever found yourself slogging through a Melville novel then you can reset your experience by reading this novel. This is wonderful reading. Terrific descriptions of a place and way of life that no longer exist. Recommended. More Notes: this is a bibliographically complex title. The first edition was London 1846.</p> George Routledge hardcover
181142074Philadelphia: London Printed: Philadelphia Reprinted 1811. 29 3 blanks pp. Disbound Good plus.<br /> <br /> We need more missionaries to convert benighted Africans.<br /> LCP 4958. London, Printed: Philadelphia, Reprinted unknown
181142075Boston: London Printed: Boston: Reprinted and Sold by Samuel T. Armstrong. . . 1811. 28pp. Stitched and untrimmed. Lightly worn Good plus or better.<br /> <br /> We need more missionaries to convert benighted Africans.<br /> LCP 4959. London, Printed: Boston: Reprinted and Sold by Samuel T. Armstrong. . . unknown
187270581Sheldon & Company New York 1872. Hardcover. Used - Acceptable. NY: Sheldon & Company 1872. vii250 pages. Many comic drawings. 8 x 5.5" black gold & blind stamped pictorial orange cloth. 'To M.A.L. Munson Treasurer "Jockey Club" from The Author "Eli Perkins" Melville D. Landon Fifth Avenue Hotel Oct. 1 1874' on blank & pencil lines along few passages about jockeys. Letters to New York Commercial Advertiser on horse races gambling Congress Spring Round Lake Camp Meeting poker dress park benches Clarendon Hotel preaching flirting etiquette ball hop intemperance cant words. Wright American Fiction 1505. Edges frayed cloth soiled text foxed few adhesive marks on blank G. Sheldon & Company, New York hardcover
186115061London: John Murray. Good. 1861. Second Edition. Hardcover. Minimal lib marks. The only real indication is evidence of pocket removal inside the back cover. Inner hinges have been reinforced. ; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 301 pages . John Murray hardcover
1890FB459 /4B<p>Part of a set. tan calf spine with gilt lettering.</p> Ward Lock & Co. hardcover
1871GEN37-C-13London : Chapman and Hall 1871. Cloth. Good Only. 7" by 5". None. A novel by Scottish novelist and poet George John Whyte- Melville 1821-1878 Major George John Whyte-Melville was born in 1821 at Mount Melville near St Andrews. He was 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 St Andrews Golf Club. George was educated at Eton entered the army in 1839 became captain in the Coldstream Guards in 1846 and retired in 1849. He 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. In original cloth binding. Externally a trifle rubbed with wear to the extremities including a closed tear to the joint. Internally generally firmly bound with a few pages working loose. Pages are clean and bright throughout. Good Only Chapman and Hall hardcover
188354927Chicago: Star Publishing Company n.d. 1883. 8vo pp. 4 9-774 32 full-page illustrations in the text including the frontispiece; page of facsimile signatures; contemporary full sheep black leather labels on spine; scuffed and rubbed the rear joint partially cracked clean tear in p. 516-17; a good sound copy. See BAL 3633 listing one contribution by Twain but according to the index there are 9; other contributors listed include Robert J. Burdett BAL 1966; Bret Harte BAL 7325; also Mary Mapes Dodge James Russell Lowell Eugene Field Susan B. Anthony Poe Turgenev Uncle Remus and Oliver Wendell Holmes. BAL lists the publisher as Western Publishing House but this is a reprint likely ca. 1890. Star Publishing Company, n.d. unknown
18997723Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone and Company 1899. First edition 8vo 2 volumes xi 302 6 & 345pp. 46 plates; spines faded pages partially unopened corners slightly bumped else fine in orig. red cloth gilt brown calf label on spine t.e.g. Herbert S. Stone and Company unknown
1862198The Queen's Maries 1862 romance novel in 2 volumes by G J Whyte Melville hardcover
189219344G.P. Putnam's Sons 1892. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Good. Reprint. HB. Illustrated cloth. G. Spine faded rubbed and bumped covers rubbed and bumped pastedowns and feps showing signs of damp owner's ink signatures on ffep. <br/> <br/> G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1890906Z7London: Ward Lock & Co. Limited c1890. Leather. Very Good. 8" by 5". Lucy E. Kemp-Welch. The first Kemp-Welch illustrated edition of Whyte-Melville's wartime novel bound in a Bumpus half calf binding. The first Kemp-Welch illustrated edition. First published in 1857. Illustrated by Lucy E. Kemp-Welch with a monochrome frontispiece and three monochrome plates. Bound in half calf with cloth to the boards and a past owner's gilt stamp to the front board bound by Bumpus with their signature to the front pastedown. This work was written by Scottish novelist and poet George John Whyte-Melville. The novel follows the adventures of an interpreter and his time at war. Bound in half calf with cloth to the boards. Externally smart with fading to the spine slight bumping and rubbing to the extremities and slight marks to the boards. Binder's signature to the front pastedown with minimal offsetting to the extremities of the endpapers and light spotting to the rear. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with light spotting to the blanks. Very Good Ward, Lock & Co., Limited hardcover
19001140Boston : Little Brown and Company 1900. 1900. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 2nd edition ; tan cloth with red and black bands gold lettering ; a worn copy with a few textual marks ; water stain on foredge ; signature of J. O. Jackson on endpaper ; FAIR <br/> <br/> Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1900. hardcover
1877005238Toronto: Belford Brothers 1877 Book. Illus. by Uncle Consider. Good Plus. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original red pictorial cloth on boards. Grubby edges and two leaves browned by paper insert but sound and easily readable with no writing. One gutter strained so I glued it. This book is full of delightful inventive nonsense from cover to cover. 248 pp. plus ads. Belford Brothers hardcover
18832892895W.H. Allen & co 1883. Binding is faded on the backstrip and at the top of the front cover. .This book has hardback covers. Ex-library With usual stamps and markings In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1200grams ISBN: W.H. Allen & co hardcover
1852153319FHarper & Brothers 1852. hardcover. Poor/None. 0x0x0. Poor hardcover no jacket. Front board detached; spine covering missing. Heavy foxing throughout. Original publication. As is. Harper & Brothers 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
1817907F37London: J. Hatchard 1817 . First edition. Unbound. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. The very scarce first edition of this essay from Anglican clergyman and British missionary Melville Horne. A very scarce first edition from this prominent Anglican figure a man who campaigned for all British Protestants to unite in a common missionary enterprise.In this essay he calls upon English patriots to defend the country against 'the Jacobins' who are 'spreading their pernicious principles'.His rousing statements include 'personal liberty is the first and most essential branch of civil liberty' and 'kill or be killed'. He commends the late William Pitt and condemns the radicalism of the French Revolution warning that it may shortly take place in England too if the people do not resist.With publisher's advertisements to the final leaf. Unbound as issued. Significant handling marks and age toning to first and final leaf. Internally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned with the odd spot. Good J. Hatchard unknown
1853mon0000028395J.W. Parker 1853. Unknown Binding. Good. in x in x in. In two volumes on red clkoth part of spine cover missing on volume 2 J.W. Parker unknown
1899134875WINCHESTER AND LONDON: WARREN AND SON/ SIMPKIN & CO 1899 Half vellum with green buckram with 5 raised bands cloth sides and gilt blocked titles and decoration 295 x 230 mm approx. Hand sewn head and tail bands. Top edge gilt viii 226 pp. Frontis with tissue guard 17 further plates on china clay paper NB only 16 listed - the additional plate being of the hall from the south many others in text including Speed's Map of Winchester plans architectural detail lists of Knights High Sheriffs Lords Lieutenants etc with Coats of arms . First Edition 1899. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good Book- vellum shelf / handling soiling and some fraying to buckram at bottom front corner. Heavy foxing to end papers mild occasionally moderate throughout. Family Armorial book plate to front paste down of Bayliss - family. Granted to Sir William Maddock Bayliss Knt. Bach. with original bookseller discreet printed label to bottom margin - B H Blackwell Ltd London. Previous owner name and date to front free end paper with other family member name to top margin of title page. Binding sound with no other notable defects. A very handsome tome on the bookshelf. WARREN AND SON/ SIMPKIN & CO hardcover
189944748Winchester: Warren & Son. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1899. Hardback. Please note that this is a heavy item and may require extra postage for international shipping.; White vellum half-binding; lightly marked but little worn; binding tight. Pale green boards; gilt titling still quite bright. B/w frontis with tissue guard; b/w plates illustrations. ; 4to 9" x 11 1/2"; 225 pages . Warren & Son hardcover
1885006432Boston/Cambridge: Houghton Miffrlin and Company/The Riverside Press 1885. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Large Thick Octavo. Large Thick 8vo. iv xiii v 497 11 pp tissue-protected frontis with maps and illus. Moderate wear and age-toned text block. No markings binding tight clean and white.6.25" x 8.75". Illustrated brown cloth with black lettering to front board and gilt lettering to spine. In Mylar protector. Houghton Miffrlin and Company/The Riverside Press Hardcover
189352203280021West Publishing Company St. Paul 1893. Leather covered. Acceptable. Hardcover. SCARCE ORIGINAL 1893 PRINTING. Text unmarked. Covers tan leather covered boards with red and black labels on spine show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing and soiling. Bumped corners. Spine edge tears. Binding loosening slightly but still intact. Previous owner's name on end paper. Shows it age but pages still quite legible/readable.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! West Publishing Company, St. Paul hardcover
1892omooBoston: D D Nickerson 1892. Hardcover. Clean pages tight binding clot. Rare early American reissue of Omoo by Herman Melville. Published in Boston 1892. Clean pages tight binding cloth boards with smudging fade to spine D D Nickerson hardcover
1892035840Boston: Dana Estes & Company 1892. 1892 edition illustrated with four black and white plates. Blue cloth lettered in gilt with a sailboat motif in lighter blue and white on the front cover 8.25" tall. Very light rubbing to the corners and spine ends good hinges sound text block clean pages no names or other markings. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dana Estes & Company Hardcover
