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1881000288PRIVATELY PRINTED 1881 circa 1886. FAITH AND UNFAITH; NOVEL 1881 LADY BRANKSMERE; NOVEL 1886. DIMENSIONS: 7 1/2" x 5" x 1 1/2". 349pp. 1/3 TOOLED GOLDEN CALF SPINE COVER WITH 5 RAISED BANDS GILT GOLD STAMPED/EMBOSSED TITLE/FLORAL DESIGN COMPLEMENTED BY MARBLE BOARDS AND INSIDE BOARD PAGES FINISHED WITH LEATHER CAPPED CORNERS. CONDITION: TITLE PAGE APPEARS TO BE MISSING PEN NOTES ON OPENING PAGE OF FAITH AND UNFAITH ABOUT AUTHOR AND PUBLICATION DATES EDGES OF BOARDS/CORNERS GENTLY RUBBED. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. PRIVATELY PRINTED hardcover
1875318815Chapman and Hall Piccadilly. 1875. Hardcover kartoniert ohne Schutzumschlag. Zustand: Keine Beschädigungen mit einer Eintragung im Vorsatz. Rücken Ecken Kanten gut. Aus einer Klosterbibliothek mit Kennungen Stempel Rückenschild. Die Seiten sind braunfleckig. Chapman and Hall, Piccadilly., hardcover
1879D9710Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1879. Brown cloth black spine title on gold field black cover title & chocolate endpapers/pastedown; A good copy with interior front hinge cracked pencil owner name/date & tiny note on title page; 363 pages 3 leaves of publisher advertisements. Size: 4.75"x7.25". Hardcover. J. B. Lippincott & Co. Hardcover
188648115London: Smith Elder & Co. 1886. Boards and spine a little rubbed and discoloured. Front gutter cracked causing detachment of frontis extant otherwise pp in very good order. Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 4to. Smith, Elder & Co. Hardcover
1890005469London: F.V. White & Routledge. Bound in blue quarter leather with bright gilt title lettering and decoration to spine this hardcover First Edition is VG. Three disperate novels bound up as one. First "Her Last Throw" by Mrs Hungerford ; V1/102pp with 12 chapters and 3 pages of contempory adverts bound in. Second "On March" by John Strange Winter 1891; V1/149pp with 9 chapters plus 2pp adverts. Thirdly "Mrs Barnes of New York" by Archibald Clavering Gunter Authors Edition 192pp with 25 chapters. Flower decorated endpapers significant dirty spots to front board; binding tight and sound otherwise VG . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1890. F.V. White & Routledge hardcover
1896NL2152London: Chatto & Windus 1896. Book. Good. Hardcover. New ie First One-Volume Edition. Frontispiece "She drank its contents to the dregs". Late Piccadilly Novels binding in fine-ribbed maroon cloth lettered in gilt. Corners lightly scuffed chip at foot of spine board edges a little darkened inscription 1898 on front free endpaper some spots and marks on pages otherwise a tight copy good. Publisher's catalogue dated July 1896 bound in at end. An unusual outlier in Mrs Hungerford's oeuvre: a novel which is now classified as science fiction. A "mad scientist" induces a young Irish girl to take experimental drugs which causes her to fall into a deep coma or die and come back tot life depending on your viewpoint. The accent is on comedy and witty banter rather than science. Scarce. Chatto & Windus Hardcover
1886915P41London: Smith Elder & Co 1886. Cloth. Very Good. 11" by 8.5". Richard Doyle. The second edition of this entertaining journal kept by a teenaged Richard Doyle which his comical illustrations throughout. The second edition.A journal kept by Richard Doyle in his youth in the year 1840. Doyle kept this journal in his teen years just a few years before he joined the staff of 'Punch'.Illustrated by Doyle throughout and with a portrait frontispiece.Doyle was an eminent illustrator of the Victorian era known for his contributions for 'Punch' for which he designed the masthead which was used for over a century.With an introduction by J. Hungerford Pollen. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally generally smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine and extremities are a little discoloured. A few light marks to the boards and spine. Front hinge is starting but firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some scattered spots mostly to the first and last few pages. Very Good Smith, Elder, & Co hardcover
185988631New York: Harper & Brothers 1859. Hardcover. Good. 369p. Original blindstamped brown cloth. 20cm. Spine faded. Ends of backstrip chipped and corner rubbed. Covers somewhat scuffed and worn. Pages browned with extensive light foxing. This "non-fictional" novel is set in the southern part of Calvert County Maryland where the author had grown up. It was regarded by some as a southern answer to "Uncle Tom's Cabin. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1885907P3London: Smith Elder & Co 1885. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 11" by 8.5". Richard Doyle. The first edition of this entertaining journal kept by a teenaged Richard Doyle which his comical illustrations throughout. The first edition.A journal kept by Richard Doyle in his youth in the year 1840. Doyle kept this journal in his teen years just a few years before he joined the staff of 'Punch'.Illustrated by Doyle throughout and with a portrait frontispiece.Doyle was an eminent illustrator of the Victorian era known for his contributions for 'Punch' for which he designed the masthead which was used for over a century.With an introduction by J. Hungerford Pollen. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally smart with a little discolouration to the spine and extremities of the boards. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards and spine. Front hinge is starting but firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with a few scattered spots. Very Good Smith, Elder, & Co hardcover
18592020698New York: Harper & Brothers 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 369 pages heavily embossed dark blue cloth yellow glazed free endpaper re-attached <br/><br/>Eastern Maryland in the 1830s. Wright AMERICAN FICTION lists this at no. 1304 but Sabin no. 33833 lists it more historically. Hungerford was born on "The Old Plantation" in Calvert County Maryland in 1814. He later became the editor and publisher of "The Southern Home Journal" a weekly in Baltimore. This novel "is a thinly veiled story of a murder in the family of a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and is interspersed with many short stories including quite a collection of ghost stories." Chapter XIV is " 'Colored' Characters ". Chapter XVI " Mesbach " covers Negro Superstitions The African Prince. Chapter XIX has Negro Nick-names. Chapters XXI-XXV are St. Joseph's Ghost-Stories. Chapter XXVIII has Negro Boat-Songs More Music Negro Satire. Chapter XXIX has The Juber Dance and Negro Moonlight Sports. Chapter L is " The Runaway ". Several chapters cover The Mulatto Wood-cutter. Etc. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1884621PA2Everts & Richards Philadelphia: 1884. 1884 802 p. Colored maps; engraved portrait illustrations; and plates showing architecture etc. Title page loose and torn with some text loss. 4to. All edges gold gilt. Boards detached; spine lacking. The colored maps and architectural plates really make this a stand out among PA county histories. PA 1 Language: eng. Hardcover. Good. Everts & Richards, Philadelphia: 1884. hardcover
1897mon0001529405Chatto & Windus 1897. Hardcover. Good. . Cover marked.Corners and spine scuffed.Hinges cracked.Binding firm with no loose pages.Previous owners inscriptions inside front cover. Writing inside back cover.Edges tanned. Text clear with some foxing/tanning. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1894161218118Lippincott 1894-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Lippincott hardcover
18712222407<p>First edition. Octavo. Original printed wrappers with added watercolor design. No dust jacket. Good back wrapper with large chip on upper corner; spine chipped. 53 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>James Edward Hungerford 1814-1883 novelist and poet. Editor of the Southern Home Journal.</b></p> Privately Printed paperback
1882RPECPEC00tpm1883 and circa 1882. Very Good. Peck George W. Peck's Bad Boys and Portia. 2 books bound together. Hungerford Margaret Wolfe; Smith illustrator Gean. NP: NP 1883 and circa 1882. 196 219pp. Illustrated. 12mo. 1/4 Cloth. Book condition: Very good with rubbed and lightly bumped edges worn through to the boards at the corners. Pages are slightly yellowed and faintly soiled. The front pastedown has a previous owner's name and the title page is stamped. hardcover
1859011517New York NY: Harper & Brothers 1859. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Small 8vo embossed cloth binding sun-faded spine and edges tips and spine ends worn binding firm. <br/> <br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover
18834225H84159Philadelphia: J. B. Lippencott Co. Volume 3 in the series. Price sticker removed from ffep. . Acceptable. Hardcover. 1883. J. B. Lippencott Co. hardcover
1889524563New York: J. S. Ogilvie Publisher 1889. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus 'stated "Favorite Edition". Octavo. 189; 125pp. Maroon pictorial cloth embossed and stamped in black with floral design stating "Favorite Edition" on front cover. Binding is rubbed at extremities embossed title lettering on spine is dull with light wear at base of spine and tips of corners front hinge is just started due to delicate floral endpapers text is evenly tanned due to quality of paper with small faint stain on fore-edge of last few page of text else a tight very good copy. This collected edition with three titles in one volume is unrecorded by OCLC which does note three holdings of 'The Haunted Chamber' separately printed by this publisher. Irish novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford was born in Cork Ireland; her father was Canon Fitzjohn Stannus Hamiltion rector at St. Faughnan's cathedral in Rosscarbery. She wrote more than thirty novels including Molly Bawn 1878; many of her novels were published anonymously or under her pseudonym "The Duchess" see Welch. Oxford Companion to Irish Literature p. 253. J. S. Ogilvie, Publisher hardcover
1874404586London : Published for the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall 1874. 1st edition. Hardcover. Provenance: Bookplate of Cambridge University Library. Good copy only in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Hinges starting. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Internally bright and clean. Physical description; 415 pp. 17 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations some colour ; 24 cm. Subjects; South Kensington Museum ; Catalogs. Museum. Furniture. Woodwork. Public collections. London : Published for the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall hardcover
1870341London: Chapman and Hall 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo 2 volumes plus supplement. 2187pp Vols I II together 654pp supplement. Ex-library with minimal markings. A very good set in half brown morocco and brown cloth. Some wear to spines rear free endpaper detached in volume I and hinge just barely starting but overall a clean and tight set with the scarce supplement. Chapman and Hall hardcover