Ratchford, Fannie E (104 results)

Very good minus, light general wear First Edition Cloth Rough jacket.

xiv, 591, xvi [1] pp. 8vo, publisher's black cloth in tattered jacket. First edition. The volume is clean, tight and sound. The dust jacket is in two pieces, with chips, creasing and wear.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Stated First Edition. Clean pages, with no owners' marks, though with some toning at endpapers and edges; square, securely sewn binding, the full black cloth hard cover showing only a little softening at spine ends and corners; dust jacket is priceclipped and bears toning along the spine, some grayish smudging near the spine heel, a very small open tear at the spine head, and a short wrinkle at the top front, but remains overall sound and well-kept, now protected in a clear sleeve. xiv, 591, xvi pp. incl. index. Further proving not only the guilt of Wise, a famous bibliographer and book collector who forged numerous documents and books, but also the accessory of H. Buxton Forman and Sir Edmund Gosse. This collection provides further proof of one of the most outsized and outlandish true crimes in all the world of books.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Octavo; pp. 591 with appendix and a 16pp. index; Illustrated with a frontispiece and eighteen black and white plates; decorated black cloth, gilt, top edge stained red;.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Gondal's Queen: A Novel in Verse. Book.

Condition: new.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. xiv, 591 (xvi) pp, b&w frontis of Thomas J. Wise, foreword, list of b&w illustrations, A Furthe Inquiry into the Guilt of Certain 19th-century Forgers, A Selection From Thomas J. Wise's Letters to John Henry Wrenn, appendices, index. Owner's book plate on front pastedown with lightly age-tanned endpapers, and only the faintest edgewear at fore-edge tips, else, Pristine. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and gilt emblem to front board. Size: Large 8vo. Book.

Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, 591 pp + xvi pp. Fine. Books about Books, Book Collecting, Antiques & Collectibles, Reference. yslic.

Condition: New. pp. 214 5 Illus.

Condition: Fair. 1944. First Edition. 591 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Black cloth with decorations. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Fraying to cloth to spine. Stickers to both boards.

Hardcover. Condition: F. First edition thus. 180 pages, 1 leaf : color frontispiece ; plates ; 25 cm. ; green full cloth with dulled gilt spine lettering ; slipcased. UNCUT Facsimile reprint of the original 1937 Book Club of Texas edition. Jenkins BTB 85b: "Of the four accounts by contemporaries, Thomas W. Streeter calls this one 'an indispensable source and by far the best of the group.' Besides giving an eyewitness account of one of the most fascinating events in Texas history, it includes much valuable information on Texas during a period that still remains historically clouded." The book comprises two books published in Paris in the mid-1800s; one documented the Texas settlement of French nationals who, fleeing Napoleon's France, settled in east Texas. The other book was a romance depicting a couple within that settlement. Jenkins, in Basic Texas Books, states that "this is the best contemporary account of the ill-fated colony of Napoleonic refugees in Texas." Jenkins BTB 85-Bk.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: New. 1977. Paperback. . . . . .

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. GONDAL'S QUEEN, A NOVEL IN VERSE, Emily Jane Bronte, arranged by Fannie E. Ratchford, softcover, stated first paperback printing, 1977. BOOK CONDITION: good. The text block is in fine condition with no marks, tears, or dog ears. There is no bookplate but the name of the prior owner is embossed on the frontispiece. Not a library book nor a remainder, but the word ?confidential? has been stamped on the bottom-edge. The brown wraps are in fair condition (blue sticker on front cover, some worn spots on both covers, and some rubbed spots on the spine). Tight binding. 9 x 6, 207 pages, 13 ounces. XX [From Amazon] In GONDAL?S QUEEN, Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford presents a cycle of eighty-four poems by Emily Jane Brontë, for the first time arranged in logical sequence, to re-create the ?novel in verse? which Emily wrote about their beloved mystical kingdom of Gondal and its ruler, Augusta Geraldine Almeda, who brought tragedy to those who loved her. Thanks to previous publications by Ratchford, the imaginative world of Gondal is well known not only to Brontë scholars but also to general readers. Only in the present book, however, with Emily?s lovely poems restored to the setting which gave them being, can the full impact of this extraordinary literary creation be realized. The life story of Gondal?s Queen, from portentous birth to tragic death, is set in a world compounded of dark Gothic romance and Byronic extravagance; yet out of it emerges not only a real country of wild moor sheep and piercingly beautiful nights but also the portrait of a real woman, whose doom was wrought not by the stars but by the clashing complications of her own nature. In A.G.A. (the appellation most usually applied to the Queen), Emily Brontë created a personality, not a puppet reciting lovely lines. And Ratchford, in reconstructing her story, has re-affirmed the dignity, beauty, and richness of Emily?s poetry. GONDAL?S QUEEN is the end of a long trail of research and literary detection which has led Ratchford to all known Brontë documentary sources. This quest was originally stimulated by curiosity over a tiny booklet signed, ?C. Brontë, June 29th, 1837,? in the Wrenn Library at the University of Texas at Austin. Ratchford?s intense and astonishingly fruitful interest in the Brontës had its origin in her attempt to unravel the fascinating puzzle presented by this little book, which seemed to be merely a series of childish vignettes held together by ?a shadow of a common character? and a ?tendency toward a unified plot.? Bit by bit, Ratchford assembled clues from manuscripts and obscure publications until the significance of the play world of the Brontë children began to emerge. In spite of the fact that the Brontës had been the subject of the liveliest literary speculation since their deaths, it remained for Ratchford to establish the importance of their juvenile writings to the later writings of Charlotte.

paper wrappers. Wise, Thomas J. (illustrator). 8vo. paper wrappers. pp.3-32. An article in The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas, Vol.1, No.4. Fall 1945. A subsequent part came out later. Front cover detached.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stated first edition. Very good in a very good (two inch closed edge tear in lower corner of front panel) dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: F. First edition thus. 180 pages, 1 leaf : color frontispiece ; plates ; 25 cm. ; green full cloth with gilt spine lettering ; slipcased. UNCUT. Facsimile reprint of the original 1937 Book Club of Texas edition. Jenkins BTB 85b: "Of the four accounts by contemporaries, Thomas W. Streeter calls this one 'an indispensable source and by far the best of the group.' Besides giving an eyewitness account of one of the most fascinating events in Texas history, it includes much valuable information on Texas during a period that still remains historically clouded." The book comprises two books published in Paris in the mid-1800s; one documented the Texas settlement of French nationals who, fleeing Napoleon's France, settled in east Texas. The other book was a romance depicting a couple within that settlement. Jenkins, in Basic Texas Books, states that "this is the best contemporary account of the ill-fated colony of Napoleonic refugees in Texas." Jenkins BTB 85-B.

Saddle-stapled. Condition: Good Reading Copy. No edition designated. 57pp [covers chipped and completely detached; edgewear; text complete and together - starts with page 3, but first page of text - no title page (as published?)] An Exhibition of Books and Letter at The University of Texas, June 1-September 30, 1946 - SOLD AS IS Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condition: New. pp. 214.

Condition: New. 1977. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1944 Knopf hardcover - with some wear; torn dj; standard-sized, GOOD Standard-sized.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. First. llustrations. 591pp., tall 8vo, blue cloth. New York: Knopf, 1944. First Edition. Fine.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New.