1901 Fairless Michael (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. "The Grey Brethren" by Michael Fairless, Pseudonym of Margaret Fairless Barber. First American Edition, Published in 1905 by E. P. Dutton. Posthumous Collection, containing Fairy Tales, Christmas Fragments. Hardcover Format. Michael Fairless was the pseudonym of Margaret Fairless Barber, a Christian inspirational writer of delicate sensibility, and even more delicate physical constitution. Her book "The Roadmender" was hugely popular, and was reprinted numerous times through the years. "The Grey Brethren" was a posthumous publication, issued in 1905. This is the First American Edition, issued by E. P. Dutton. It is a collection of fragments in verse and prose, including four fairy tales intended for juvenile audience. CONTENTS ** The Grey Brethren ** A Song of Low Degree ** A German Christmas Eve ** A Christmas Idyll ** The Manifestation ** All Souls' Day in A German Town ** By Rivers and Streams ** Spring ** A Lark's Song ** 'Luvly Miss' FOUR STORIES TOLD TO CHILDREN : ** The Dreadful Griffin ** The Discontented Daffodil ** The Fairy Fluffikins ** The Story of the Tinkle - Tinkle TITLE : The Grey Brethren and Other Fragments in Prose and Verse. AUTHOR : Michael Fairless (Pseudonym of Margaret Fairless Barber, 1869 - 1901) Margaret Barber, a Christian writer, was something of a mystic, and a lover of nature and all things natural, which give her works a special cadence, lifting them above the common everyday essay. Her inspirational book, "The Roadmender", was an immense success and very popular. She was also the author of a mystic romance titled "The Gathering of Brother Hilarius" IMPRINT : E. P. Dutton & Co. PLACE : New York DATE : 1905 EDITION : First American Edition PRINTER : Turnbull and Spears, Edinburgh, Scotland STATUS : OP - Out of Print PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION : Small trade hardcover; Contains a Preface; x + 147 pages; 4 1/2" x 6 5/8", dark blue cloth-covered boards, with silk title labels on spine and front board. The labels are lettered gilt on cream. Top edge gilt CONDITION - GOOD PLUS / NEAR VERY GOOD - This is a previously owned book which has been read, likely more than once, but which remains clean and serviceable, the following noted: EXTERIOR : Spine extremities are frayed; joints rubbed; board corner tips softly bumped, with slight splitting of fabric. Spine title label displays a bit of edge roughness and slight surface roughness - else the exterior is clean and unmarked. The top edge gilding is considerable rubbed, but clean; fore- and bottom text-block edges are toned , else clean. BINDING : The book's text-block, having been read more than once, is not as tight as when issued, the leaves opening widely and the whole being slightly shaken; however no leaves are detached or loose, the whole remaining fairly solid. INTERIOR : The end-papers are foxed; there is light scattered foxing and spotting throughout, as well as a few small smudges, but basically the interior is clean and presentable, with no writing or marginalia. No signatures.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Will G Mein (illustrator). 1st Edition. Third impression 1911. Book has minor rubbing to boards. Two gift inscriptions to half title. Else a very nice copy.

39th impression. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: vii, 158 pages, 1 leaf ; 18 cm. Subjects: Devotional literature. Religious Literature. Rastrick Yorkshire. 19th Ninteenth Century. 3 Kg.

17th impression. Very good copy bound in 1/2 leather over cloth. Gilt-blocked with raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dulled as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 158 pages ; 17 cm. Notes: Collected short stories."This series of papers appeared in the Pilot and is now republished by permission of the editor". Contents: The roadmender -- Out of the shadows -- At the white gate. Subjects: Nouvelles; Short stories; Fiction, England; English Writers; English Short Stories, 20th Century. 3 Kg.

New edition. Inscribed by previous owner. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description : vii, 121 p. 22cm. Subjects : Religious Literature Author Writer Women Rastrick Yorkshire 19th Ninteenth Century. Theological Literature. Illustrated. 3 Kg.

G faded orig.green linen. Prior owner's sig. on ffep. Lt. foxing. 356 p.; front. (bedfast portrait); 18.5 cm. Contents -- The Roadmender -- The Gathering of Brother Hilarius -- The Grey Brethren -- Four stories told to chindren: The story of the dreadful griffin, The discontented daffodils, The fairy fluffikins, The tinkle-tinkle -- Toutseul: an unfinished story; and letters. 1st edition. Binding is Hardcover.

New edition. Very good cloth copy in only the front part of a somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Book remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents; The roadmender. -- The gathering of Brother Hilarius. -- The grey brethren. -- The roadmender's country. Subjects; Short stories, English Women authors. Stories. Illustrations. Illustrated fiction. 20th century illustrated fiction. 3 Kg.

Reprint. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 125 pages; 18cm. Subjects; Philosophy. Christianity. Religious literature. Edwardians. Devotional country literature. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 144 pages; Description: 144 p. 18 cm. Subjects: Barber, Margaret Fairless, 1869-1901. Roadmender. 3 Kg.

39th impression. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: vii, 158 pages, 1 leaf ; 18 cm. Subjects: Devotional literature. Religious Literature. Rastrick Yorkshire. 19th Ninteenth Century. 1 Kg.

17th impression. Very good copy bound in 1/2 leather over cloth. Gilt-blocked with raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dulled as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 158 pages ; 17 cm. Notes: Collected short stories."This series of papers appeared in the Pilot and is now republished by permission of the editor". Contents: The roadmender -- Out of the shadows -- At the white gate. Subjects: Nouvelles; Short stories; Fiction, England; English Writers; English Short Stories, 20th Century. 1 Kg.

New edition. Inscribed by previous owner. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description : vii, 121 p. 22cm. Subjects : Religious Literature Author Writer Women Rastrick Yorkshire 19th Ninteenth Century. Theological Literature. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. WAITE, E. W. (illustrator). Very good condition, small quarto, green cloth with gilt decoration, slight cockle to bottom edge of front cover, sunning to spine and wear to top of spine, top edges gilt, slight foxing to other edges and occasionally internally, illustrated with eight tipped in full colour plates by E. W. Waite, protected by printed tissue guards, 121 pages. "The book is written as a series of meditations on the road to heaven with the author adopting the persona of the roadmender. Some editions were illustrated by E. W. Waite including "tipped in plates"". [QP].

New edition. Very good cloth copy in only the front part of a somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Book remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents; The roadmender. -- The gathering of Brother Hilarius. -- The grey brethren. -- The roadmender's country. Subjects; Short stories, English Women authors. Stories. Illustrations. Illustrated fiction. 20th century illustrated fiction. 1 Kg.

Reprint. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 125 pages; 18cm. Subjects; Philosophy. Christianity. Religious literature. Edwardians. Devotional country literature. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 144 pages; Description: 144 p. 18 cm. Subjects: Barber, Margaret Fairless, 1869-1901. Roadmender. 1 Kg.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Edition De Luxe. 121 pp. 8 tipped-in color illustrations, with tissue guards, by E. W. Waite. 4to. 22.5cm x 16cm A very good copy with no previous ownership markings. Green cloth with gilt decoration.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. publisher - Duckworth & co, Henrietta Street, London, 1905. 16th impression. Printed on laid paper, top edge gilt, green boards stamped in gilt, spine gilt slightly faded, shows some shelf wear but in very good condition for its age. Also includes 'Out of the Shadow' and 'At the White Gate'.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Limited edition of 1025 copies, this is a presentation copy, ie before numbering, a reprint of 1902 1stedn stated; sm4to light blue cloth spine, gilt titles over light olive green cloth bds, topedges gilt, other edges uncut,a few bumps to edges and slight rubbing as well and discoloring from age, ow VG/ndj: v+107+[12pp, one wth watermark visible], graphic of one bar of music notation, NO other illustrations. Contents: The Roadmender; Out of the Shadow; and, At the White Gate. wiki=Unable to continue her charitable work after 1884, Barber took up writing under the pseudonym Michael Fairless, the "Michael" inspired by her childhood friend Michael McDonnell (18821956), subsequently chief justice of the British Mandate of Palestine. Her first book was the religious romance The Gathering of Brother Hilarius (1901) but it was The Roadmender (1902) that achieved a wild success, being reprinted 31 times in 10 years. A posthumous work, The Grey Brethren, was issued in 1905. It consisted of a number of fragments and short fairy tales, intended for juvenile readers; included among them were, A German Christmas Eve, The Manifestation, The Dreadful Griffin, The Discontented Daffodils, and The Fairy Fluffikins.

Condition: Very Good (spine sun-tanned). 121 pp. 8 tipped-in color illustrations, with tissue guards, by E. W. Waite. 4to. 11-1/8" x 8-1/2" Original white cloth binding stamped in gilt. TEG. Deckled fore- & lower-edge 1st edition thus (cf. NCBEL III, 1050). Large paper copy. #165/350 cc.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. 1stUSedn; Small quarto [10 inches high by 7-5/8 inches wide], dark green cloth with titles and a vignette in gilt on the front cover. The binding is bumped & rubbed and the backstrip is MISSING. Ow all the contents is present and in good shape: FAIR/ndj: ix, [iii] & 121 pages. 20 black/white photographic illustrations by Will F. Taylor tipped onto gray stock. The place was West Sussex, the Adur Valley, and Michael Fairless turned out to be a woman- Margaret Fairless Barber (7 May 1869 - 24 August 1901), pseudonym Michael Fairless, who was an English Christian writer whose book of meditations, 'The Roadmender' (1902) became a popular classicDescription of the Sussex countryside North of Shoreham & GoringbySea. "I have attained my ideal: I am a roadmender, some say stonebreaker. Both titles are correct, but the one is more pregnant than the other. All day I sit by the roadside on a stretch of grass under a high hedge of saplings and a tangle of traveller's joy, woodbine, sweetbrier, and late roses. Opposite me is a white gate, seldom used, if one may judge from the trail of honeysuckle growing tranquilly along it: I know now that whenever and wherever I die my soul will pass out through this white gate; and then, thank God, I shall not have need to undo that trail."// The Roadmender, a devotional country book, was very much to early Edwardian taste, clearly touched a melancholy nerve and achieved popular classic status. When the book was published there was a great mystery surrounding who Michael Fairless was, and what locale did he describe with such love? cf Bellerive, Georges(1915) Eloges de l'agriculture dignite et bonheur de la vie rurale.