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1853140939938London: Chapman and Hall 1853. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. Finely bound by William Thomas Jennings Worsfold in late 19th or early 20th-century half leather over marbled boards with all edges gilt. The former copy of author Edmund William Gosse with his bookplate to the front free endpaper; bookplate of Scottish writer and literary critic George Lillie Clark to front paste down. Contents toned. A scarce copy of the popular Victorian novel first published in eight parts in the magazine Household Worlds and here in book format for the first time and with slight revisions. Chapman and Hall unknown books
0323<br/><br/>Gaskell Elizabeth. Cranford. London:Dent 1904. 8vo. Full vellum gilt designed by Reginal Knowles. 255pp. 26 full-page color plates by C.E. Brock including frontispiece and vignette title-page with tissue guard. Top edge gilt. Decorative endpapers. A fine copy. Provenance: Morris/Levin collection. hardcover books
2004UGASNOR02fpW. W. Norton & Company 2004. Very Good. Gaskell Elizabeth. North and South. New York NY: W. W. Norton & Company 2004. xvi 560pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. W. W. Norton & Company paperback books
1857140939975London: Smith Elder & Co 1857. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Two volumes bound without ads but with half-title pages in contemporary tan calf over marbled boards with green and red gilt-stamped title labels to spines all edges marbled. Bindings lightly rubbed at extremities. Pages toned foxed at preliminary and terminal leaves. Bookplates and clippings from former owner tipped in. A charming set of Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend. Smith, Elder & Co unknown books
185719321New York: D. Appleton & Co 1857. First American edition 2 vols. sm. 8vo viii 285; viii 269; engraved frontis portrait plus one engraved plate; bound without ads or half-titles in contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards green and black morocco labels on spines; very good set. <br/><br/> D. Appleton & Co hardcover books
185756178New York: D. Appleton and Company 1857. First American edition. Engraved frontispieces. 2 vols. 12mo. Original green cloth. A Fine copy but with spine faded as usual. Signed by Alfred Schermerhorn on endpapers. First American edition. Engraved frontispieces. 2 vols. 12mo. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
185721489New York: D. Appleton and Company 1857. First American Edition. Two octavo volumes 18.75cm.; original blind-patterned brown cloth gilt-lettered spines yellow glazed endpapers; viii28516;viii26917-14pp.; engraved frontispieces tissue-guarded. Boards a bit rubbed especially at spine ends spine gilt almost entirely perished though cloth itself remains unfaded textblocks rather foxed especially at preliminaries else a Very Good sound set complete with original publisher's advertisements including one leaf bound before the front free endpaper of Vol. I. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
18941288281London: Macmillan and Co 1894. First Edition. Octavo; VG/no-DJ; green spine with gold text; ornately illustrated cover has minor cornerwear small rip in fabric at spine head spine slightly cocked; textblock has sporadic spotting throughout otherwise clean; pp 297. 1288281. Full-priced Rockville. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1904022578New York: E.P. Dutton 1904. Octavo. 255pp. illustrated with 25 color illustrations by C.E. Brock. The author was an English novelist biographer and short story writer. Cranford was serialized in Household Words by Dickens. Besides known for her books Cranford and North and South she also wrote the biography of her friend Charlotte Bronte along with several other works. A very nice copy bound by E.P. Dutton in 3/4 blue crushed morocco over marbled paper covered boards raised bands gilt compartments decorated in red floral gilt onlays top edge gilt original gilt decorated cloth covers bound in at rear just a bit of fading to spine. Very nice. E.P. Dutton unknown books
1905185241Edinburgh: John Grant 1905. Hardcover. VG- ex-library with labels and stamps on spine block inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Light age toning but pages are otherwise clean. Green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; top edge gilt bw frontispiece with protective tissue guard; xvi 526 pp; 13 unnumbered leaves of plates; bw illustrations. Introduction and notes by Temple Scott and B.W. Willett. John Grant hardcover books
197193896London:: Folio Society. Near Fine. 1971. Hardcover. B01K3JY0P8 . Edited with an introduction by Winifred Gerin. First edition. About fine in like slipcase. . Folio Society, hardcover books
1907004264London: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1907. Full Morocco. Near Fine. Beautiful Kelliegram full morocco inlay binding with gilt detailing both front and rear cover. 8vo. 18 by 12 cm. xxx 297 1 pp. The front depicts Mr. Jenkyns strolling down a lane the rear a sedan chair. Kelliegram bindings such as this one were produced by the English bookbinding company Kelly & Sons at the turn of the twentieth century. The gilt stamp of the bindery can be found on the inside lower edge of the rear board. Light sunning of the spine. Otherwise fine condition. <br/><br/> Macmillan and Co., Limited unknown books
1861125281London: Sampson Low Son and Co. 1861. First edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's 1861 novella which first appeared in Household Words in 1858. Octavo original cloth elaborately stamped in blind. In good condition. Ownership inscriptions. My Lady Ludlow recounts the daily lives of the widowed Countess of Ludlow of Hanbury and the spinster Miss Galindo whose father was a Baronet and their caring for other single women and girls. It is also concerned with Lady Ludlow's man of business Mr. Horner and a poacher's son named Harry Gregson whose education he provides for. With Cranford The Last Generation in England and Mr. Harrison's Confessions My Lady Ludlow was adapted for television in 2007 as Cranford with Francesca Annis as the eponymous character with Alex Etel as Harry Gregson and Emma Fielding as Laurentia Galindo. Sampson Low, Son and Co. hardcover books
18911461London & New York: Macmillan & Co. 1891. First edition thus Octavo 297 pages plus publisher's ads bound in original dark green cloth with elaborate cover and spine designs in gilt. Top edge gilt. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Aside from some usual foxing to the preliminary pages this is a fine bright copy of the title that provided the name of one of the most beautiful and sought after series of English literary classics "The Cranford Series". Rogerson 4 Macmillan & Co. hardcover books
1897178916Chicago: Donohue Henneberry & Co 1897. New and revised edition. Hardcover. VG case worn at edges and bumped at corners interior very tight and clean. Brown leather binding with 5 raised bands gilt lettering and borders and black labels. Marbled endsheets and edges. xxvi 656 pages. Engraved capitals illustrations and half-titles; color tables/diagrams. "Embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and bookkeeping and aid to English composition together with the laws and by-laws of social etiquette and business laws and commercial forms. A political dictionary the government of the U.S. the states and territorial governments colored charts etc. also a manual of agriculture mechanics and mining and a guide to parliamentary practice the whole forming a complete encyclopedia of reference" - from title page. Donohue, Henneberry & Co hardcover books
1990164118London: Sotheby's/Philip Wilson Publishers 1990. Hardcover. VG/VG. Black boards with gilt design in the center and gilt lettering on spine. Black dust jacket with color illustration and white lettering. 552 pp. Color and BW illustrations. A catalogue of 128 paintings produced during this period in which the art of portraiture was transformed religious imagery dynamized and new genres such as flower painting were established. The art of Holland's Golden Age is perennially popular with collectors and gallery visitors alike and this book provides a new insight into this unique private collection. Sotheby's/Philip Wilson Publishers hardcover books
199914103Cambridge MA: Harvard University Art Museums 1999. Softcover. VG corner bumped. Color wraps. 179 pp. 207 bw plates. This volume is devoted to the greatest sculptor and architect of the Roman Baroque Gian Lorenzo Bernini on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his birth in 1998. Studies in detail clay sculptures acquired by Edward Forbes that are clearly associated with projects by Bernini. Concentrates heavily on technical analysis of the physical character of art objects. Contents as follows: An economy of seventeenth-century clay sculptors' models / Ivan Gaskell -- Of clay and the initial stages of sculpture / Colette Czapski Hemingway -- Technical studies: rationale and techniques / Henry Lie -- Clay analysis / Eugene F. Farrell Henry Lie and Suzanne M.M. Young -- The clay modeling techniques of Gian Lorenzo Bernini / Anthony B. Sigel -- Technical observations and petrographic analysis / Anthony B. Sigel and Eugene F. Farrell -- Fingerprints / Nancy Lloyd -- Decorative coatings on the St. Longinus and St. Ambrose modelli / Kendra Roth -- The Fogg Silence: a Bozzetto by Melchiorre Cafà / Jennifer Montagu -- Bernini's St. Ambrose for the Cathedra Petri: a model and the metamorphosis of a figure / Jeannine O'Grady -- Bernini drawings and Bozzetti for the Ponte Sant'Angelo: a new look / Mark S. Weil -- Borchini Félibien and five angels for the altar of the Blessed Sacrament / Colette Czapski Hemingway -- Bronze casts after Bozzetti and Modelli by Bernini / Francesca G. Bewer -- Conclusion / Henry Lie. Harvard University Art Museums unknown books
2659NY ST MARTIN 1966. REVIEW COPY FIRST EDITION FINE. F. NY, ST MARTIN, 1966 unknown books
196588917London: Hodder and Stoughton 1965. Octavo boards. First edition. Second Cija novel part of the popular Atlan series. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-115. Cawthorn and Moorcock Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 81. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I pp. 66-8. Very light bruising to three corner tips else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. #88917 Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
197786407New York: St. Martin's Press 1977. Octavo boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. Second novel in the Atlan sequence. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-115. Cawthorn and Moorcock Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 81. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I pp. 66-8. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #86407 St. Martin's Press unknown books
1958104456London: Hutchinson 1958. Octavo printed brown wrappers. Advance copy uncorrected proof of the first edition. Gaskell's second novel a fantasy set on the legendary continent of Mu during a period of earth's pre-history when there was no moon. Reginald 05832. Light stain to spine panel wrappers just a bit dusty a very good copy. Scarce. #104456 Hutchinson unknown books
195765557London: Hutchinson 1957. Octavo boards. First edition. The author's first book. A fantasy set in a mysterious fourth-dimensional fairyland where the inhabitants are engaged in a fierce ideological war. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 675. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 pp. 265-66. Reginald 05835. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #65557 Hutchinson unknown books
196887954New York: Paperback Library 1968. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition. Paperback Library 64-019. The third Cija book. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-115. Cawthorn and Moorcock Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 81. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I pp. 66-8. A fine copy. #87954 Paperback Library unknown books
19662283London: Hodder and Stoughton 1966. Octavo boards. First edition. The third Cija novel. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-115. Cawthorn and Moorcock Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 81. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I pp. 66-8. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #2283 Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
1966104455London: Hodder and Stoughton 1966. Octavo boards. First edition. The third Cija novel. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-115. Cawthorn and Moorcock Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 81. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I pp. 66-8. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #104455 Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
