Compiler John Scott (9 results)

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. From the foreward: "This booklet is going to trace these struggles from approximately 1750 throught 1840. The reader will get a glimpse of life on the frontier and how these people's spirit made life meanifngful and worthwhile." A publiction of the Shelby County Historical Society.

Franklin Library Limited Edition. [14], 586 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 16.5cm. Full brown leather binding; vibrant gilt stamping to spine and both boards; spine additionally decorated with four raised bands; slight soiling to spine. All edges gilt. Sewn-in silk ribbon page marker. Dark brown silk moire endpapers. Interior leaves are bright and clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. Features twenty-eight short stories divided among four sections. {#1} EARLY SUCCESS - "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz;" "Bernice Bobs Her Hair;" "The Ice Palace;" "May Day;" "Winter Dreams;" "'The Sensible Thing;'" "Absolution." {#2} GLAMOUR AND DISILLUSIONMENT -"The Rich Boy;" "The Baby Party;" "Magnetism;" "The Last of the Belles;" "The Rough Crossing;" "The Bridal Party;" "Two Wrongs." {#3} RETROSPECTIVE: BASIL AND JOSEPHINE - "The Scandal Detectives;" "The Freshest Boy;" "The Captured Shadow;" "A Woman with a Past." {#4} LAST ACT AN EPILOGUE - "Babylon Revisited;" "Crazy Sunday;" "Family in the Wind;" "An Alcoholic Case;" "The Long Way Out;" "Financing Finnegan;" "A Patriotic Short;" "Two Old Timers;" "Three Hours between Planes;" "The Lost Decade." Please note that this thick book has an approximate shipping weight of 3.5 pounds (1.58 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.

Edition limited to 2000 numbered copies (No. 509 / 2000) and signed by both authors. Foreword by Geoffrey Bolton. XV, 336 PP with b/w illustrations (maps & plans, photos & portraits). Laminated pictorial boards. Name of previous owners on front endpaper, o/wise fine. 24.8 x 16.5.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, small previous owner inscription on front endpaper, boards and binding tidy with sunning to spine. Size: 8vo.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. Bound in full period calf with black spine label, 440 pp, 25 engravings, full page and within text. Calf is scuffed, with chips at spine extremities, rounded at tips, still attractive with a nice patina. Pages light to moderate foxing , heavily so at inside cover linings. Howes S230.

4to. 35pp including two frontis plates, 88 further leaves of plates, title page printed in red and black. Original highly decorated maroon cloth gilt, bevelled edges. Spine sun-faded, some wear to extremes. Has the feel of a late Victorian vanity press item but exceptionally well produced. DISCOVER: BL, Oxford, LSE, Newcastle, Leicester (Special Collections), NT.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Red cloth covered boards with the title and illustrations on the front in gilt. Some bumping along the edges and there is a 2" tear down the side of the top spine. The book consists of the portraits of ecclesiastical, political and civic chiefs of Newcastle Upon Tyne from 1835 - 1900. There is also a brief account of the rise and progress of Newcastle and then lists of the Mayors and Sheriffs; the town council of Borough of Newcastle for 1836; a list of the council for the year ending Oct 31st 1901 and finally the names of those men standing in the elections, with their count from1835 - 1900. A fascinating account of a city on the rise.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Duodecimo. 7.25 x 4.5 inches. Original light brown cloth-covered boards. 200 pp. Cloth stained, spotted, and edge-worn. All corners soft. Tips and some edges rubbed through. Lacking spine label. Turn-in partially detached at foredge of front board. Binding solid. Hinges loose but secure. Damp stains to endpapers. Small blue pencil markings to front pastedown. One-inch closed tear to foredge of front pastedown with paper detached from board. Two half-inch diameter unidentifiable stamps to front free endpaper. One-inch rough diameter missing material in front free endpaper, as if a third stamp had been excised. Creasing to front free endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked with significant foxing throughout. Howes S230. Quite scarce. Second Edition, carefully revised, corrected and enlarged.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1914 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 210 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 210 Language: English.