Anonymous Scott Walter (23 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. The front has come off - needs to be re-attached. Anonymous (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair(pages browned). No Jacket. Everyman's Library. Anonymous (illustrator).

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair(pages browned). No Jacket. Not specified. Centenary Edition. Volume 1. Anonymous (illustrator).

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback. Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. Text commences at title page and ends with a blank leaf (after page 86). First and last pages rather dust marked. Whote text has some fairly heavy creases . Professionally rebound in plain strong brown cloth.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 38.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 38.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 38.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good (Minus). No Jacket. Later Printing. London: Thomas Tegg, 1839. In addition to the famous Waverly novels, Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) also edited collections such as this, an early posthumous volume that was originally published in 1802. (In an irrelevant aside, It seems rather odd that six years after his death, his name was not on the Title Page.) Large octavo; publisher's brown cloth binding, ruled, and blindstamped with a wreath (a memorial?) on the front cover. The spine title is bright gilt. Clean text, very bright an supple still; 559 pages, with Scott's 83-page Introduction. Previous (contemporary) owner signature on the title page, which is loose. Bumped, with wear to the head and foot of the spine. . Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good (Minus)/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. Edinburgh & London: Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1821. Scott's Elizabethan romance was published anonymously, although this was rather a polite fiction. These are Very Good copies of the Second Edition (really, the 2nd Printing), bound in contemporary full leather. Smooth calf boards, ruled and chased in gilt; darker leather spines with six raised bands; darkened red labels for title and the date 1821. Clean text; 320 pages, 339 pages, and 348 pages. Unfoxed; bright and readable today, with marbled endpapers and edges. All are rubbed at the margins, with short splits starting at the top of the spines on volumes One and Two. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Second Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Edinburgh & London: Archibald Constable & Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1824. This is a Very Good (minus) set (3 volumes) of the First Edition. Marbled covers and endpapers; black leather tips and spine. The spine is nicely decorated in chestnut, with green and red labels, all filled with gilt. Clean text; 310 pages, 325 pages, and 323 pages with four pages of publisher's ads. The text is still very bright, with only occasional foxing throuout. All volumes are rubbed at the margins, mostly at the foot of the spines; Volume One has a 1" chip at the head. Several gutters are split, but all holding well. This set would be graded higher, except that all boards are somehow warped into a convex shape. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint Edition. Boston & Chicago: Ticknor and Fields & S.C. Griggs and Company, 1858. This is a beautiful pair (Volumes 31 and 32 of a large set) in a full-leather Fine Binding. Smooth calf , ruled in gilt; five raised bands on the spine, highly decorated in gilt; labels in black and gilt; numbers of the set in gilt on the lower spine. Clean texts; 338 and 348 pages. Marbled edges and endpapers. Some very light rubbing at the margins. There is evidence of bookplates having been removed from the front paste-down. These are ASSOCIATION COPIES, with the discreet stamp on the second free endpaper of "Estate of Henry Farnam, New Haven, CT." Farnam (1803-1883) was a surveyor on the Erie Canal, who eventually rose as a railroad president. . Reprint Edition. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Early Edition. Boston: Samuel H. Parker, 1828. An early American printing of a two-volume collection of stories. The Scottish historical novelist (1771-1832) is not credited on the Title Page; he identifies himself in the Introduction. Volume I (198 pages) contains "The Highland Widow," "The Two Drovers," and "The Surgeon's Daughter." Volume II (242 pages) has only the novelette "The Antiquary. A Romance." These are Very Good copies of the First Edition Thus (Harper had published the year before). Uncommon. Leather bound with stamped gilt letting on the spine; books are rubbed at the margins and are lightly foxed throughout. The paper remains supple, and they are quite readable, The FFEP of Volume II has some loss. Withal, although worn, these remain attractive copies of an uncommon Scott title. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Early Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Later Printing. Exeter: J. & B. Williams, 1834. Originally published in 1827, these is are Near Fine copies of an early reprint of the First Edition, in a beautiful rebind by Whitman Bennett. Although published anaonymously, certainly most would have known the author by now, and a contemporary owner has written "Sir Walter Scott" in pencil on the Title Page of Volume One. Marbled paper-covered boards with deep blue leather spine and tips; five raised bands; all filled with gilt. The text is clean, although with moderate foxing. Volume One is 494 pages; volume Two has 414 pages, with an additional 64 pages of Appendices. There are interesting notations and marginalia on the endpapers of both volumes. I: stamped on front new endpapers "Bound for Stewart Kidd by Whitman Bennet," with an American postage stamp ("Mothers of the World" - 3 cents worth, from 1934) fixed to one of the free papers; a 19th century signature appears in both volumes on an original endpaper. Volume Two has more pencil notes: "I picked this up after the war - Columbia, Tenn, Capt. Wm. P. Wolf. Wilmington, Ohio," The added stamp and the foxing of the text are the only noted "defects;" else Fine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Later Printing. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Second edition. This is a lovely presentation copy of the second edition of this Christmas anthology, edited by Robert Frost's eldest daughter, featuring several noteworthy signatures, inscriptions, and presentations. This copy offers a compelling and ostensibly unique convocation of associations - including the poet Robert Frost, his daughter Lesley Frost, (in)famous Frost collector Earl J. Bernheimer, and newspaper columnist and syndicator George Matthew Adams. A two-page facsimile manuscript of Robert Frost's poem "Good Relief" fills two pages preceding the title page. Below his facsimile signature, in six lines in black ink, Frost signed and wrote "Robert Frost - | second | signature | for | Earl J. Bernheimer | April 5 1936". The Editor, Leslie Frost, signed "Lesley Frost" below her printed name on the title page. She further signed and inscribed the front free endpaper recto in five lines (three at the upper center, two at the lower left): "For | George Matthew Adams | from | Lesley Frost | N.Y.C. | June 1951". Already unique by inscriptions and association, this copy is also noteworthy for condition, approaching fine in a very good plus dust jacket. It is an attractive little book, bound in blue cloth with elaborate gilt print and illustration on the spine, the contents bound with red and yellow head and tail bands and yellow-stained top edges. The dust jacket is striking, printed in green, red, and black on a silver background, the holly leaves and banners design of the binding spine repeated in color on both the jacket spine and front face edges, with further illustrations on both faces. This copy's blue cloth binding is square, clean, bright, tight, and sharp-cornered, with only trivial hints of shelf wear to extremities. The contents are clean and bright, with no spotting, no soiling, no appreciable toning, and retaining a crisp feel. The dust jacket is bright, unclipped, and nearly complete, with only fractional loss at the spine head, flap fold corners, and the bottom edge of the front face. Light soiling to the rear face and minor scuffs, primarily to the extremities, joints, and flap folds, do not significantly mar the book's excellent presentation. The book is housed in a marbled-paper-lined black cloth chemise nested within a black cloth slipcase with three, gilt-printed, dark red leather spine labels. The slipcase is intact, though worn with some loss to the perimeter of the labels. The circa 1929 facsimile manuscript of Frost's poem "Good Relief" herein is the first published appearance of this poem, which was never included by Robert Frost in one of his collections. "The poem was begun in Beaconsfield, England, in 1912." It was first printed in the first, 1929 edition of Come Christmas, and printed again here in the 1935 second edition.The recipient for whom Frost inscribed this copy was one of the twentieth century's first significant Frost collectors. A wealthy, Beverly Hills bibliophile, Earl J. Bernheimer began collecting Frost's books and manuscripts in 1936 - the same year Frost inscribed this copy of Come Christmas to him. Capitalizing on Frost's financial anxieties, Bernheimer eventually acquired from Frost a magnificent trove of Frostiana, with Frost entertaining the hope and understanding that "Bernheimer would one day donate everything to a single university library." Instead, owing in part to a rancorous and expensive divorce and to Frost's manifest resentment Bernheimer sold off his collection in a famous 1950 New York auction.The editor, Lesley Frost Ballantine or Lesley Frost as she always liked to be known (1899-1983) was the second child of Robert and Elinor Frost. She spent her early childhood on the Derry, New Hampshire farm that informed her father's developing poetic voice and where he drafted many of his early poems. It was during her first marriage and after the birth of her first daughter, Elinor (named after her mother and to whom this book is dedicated) that Leslie edited this collection of "Christmas Poetry, Song, Drama and Prose". This 1935 second edition was issued when Lesley was divorced and teaching. She was an author and worked in various fields, but her most well-known work was as custodian of her father's legacy. She eventually served as the first chair of the Robert Frost Foundation, oversaw restoration of the Frost farm in Derry, and gained "an international reputation for her correspondence with her father's friends and for her articles and lectures on his work."George Matthew Adams (1878-1962), to whom Lesley's inscription is addressed, was a newspaper columnist and founder of the George Matthew Adams News Service, which syndicated columns and comic strips to more than one hundred newspapers all over the world over the course of half a century.References: Crane E17; Parini, Robert Frost: A Life; Tuten and Zubizarreta; University of New Hampshire; University of Rochester, ANB.…