Cornwallis West (241 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 12pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with portraits and photographs, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXVI, #2, June, 1908. Another segment from the serialized appearance of reminiscences by the mother of Winston Churchill. Includes Princess Furstenberg, court functions, the Bismarcks, Paris society, General Boulanger, Duchesse de la Tremoille, King Milan, Duc D'Aumale, and Bourget. Illustrations include a full page plate of various royalty, a full-page plate of Prince and Princess Bismarck and family, and portraits of Kaiser William I and Kaiserin Augusta, Sir Edward B. Malet, William I on horseback with Count Von Moltke, Princess Furstenberg and Princess Radziwill in fancy dress in La Fille De Mme. Angot, M. De Breteuil, and General Georges-Ernest-Jean-Marie Boulanger. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 7pp article, printed in double columns, illustrated with a portrait of the author, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Cosmopolitan, Volume XXXVII, No. 4, August, 1904. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. Andre Castaigne (illustrator). 21pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 12 drawings and photographs, including several portraits, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXV, No. 1, November, 1907. Early Recollections of Paris in 1869. Illustrations include Miss Jennie Jerome as a Vivandiere at ten years of age, Miss Jerome again as a young woman, Leonard Jerome, Miss Clara Jerone, later Mrs. Moreton Frewen, the Empress Eugenie, Lady Randolph as a young woman after the drawing by George T. Tobin, the Prince Imperial in uniform at about 13 years of age, Napoleon III and Eugenie, Princesse Mathilde, the Duc De Persigny, Emile Ollivier, and Marechal Bazaine and Mme. La Marechale. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 13pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 9 photographs, including 7 portraits, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXVI, No. 1, May, 1908. Includes A Visit to Russia, Domestic Life and Recreations, An Audience with the Czar, Impression of Russian Society, Moscow, and Russian Characteristics. Illustrations include the winter palace at St. Petersburg, the Kremilin at Moscow, and portraits of the Grand Duke Alexander, later Alexander III, and the Princess Dagmar, now Dowager Empress of Russia, the Grand Duke Serge, who was assassinated at Moscow in 1905, the Grand Duchess Serge, or Princess Elisabeth of Hesse, Constantini Petrovitch Pobiedonostzeff, the Grand Duke Paul, the Grand Duke Vladimir, and the Grand Duchess Vladimir, or Marie Pavlowna, Duchess of Mecklenburg. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. Andre Castaigne (illustrator). 17pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 8 drawings and photographs, including 3 portraits, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXV, No. 4, February, 1908. Includes London Political Society, Friendships with English Statesmen, The Primrose League, and Campaign Experiences. Illustrations include the Ladies' Gallery in the House of Commons, the Harriers at Blenheim, the insignia of the Order of the Crown of India, somewhat of a caricature of The Fourth Party in the House of Commons, showing Lord Randolph Churchill, Mr. Arthur Balfour, Sir Henry Wolff, and Sir John Gorst, the horse-drawn carriage used in the election contest for Woodstock in 1885 being driven by Lady Curzon, with Lady Randolph Churchill at her side and Lord Curzon standing, and small portraits of Sir William Harcourt, Sir Charles Dilke, and Joseph Chamberlain. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. Andre Castaigne (illustrator). 11pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 6 drawings and photographs, including several portraits, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Magazine, Volume 75, No. 3, January, 1907. Official life in Dublin, hunting experiences, the Empress of Austria, a visit to Kilmainham Gaol, and the Juvilee Wonder. Illustrations include a full-page portrait of the Empress of Austria in the costume worn at her coronation as Queen of Hungary, Captain Bay Middleton who rode the horse Empress of Austria in the hunting field, and portraits of Lady Churchill in riding costume, and the Marchioness of Londonderry. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 16pp extract, printed in double columns, portrait, numerous photos, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXVII, #1, November, 1908. Includes South Africa, Life on the Hospital Ship Maine, Capt Town, a Remarkable Hail Storm, Durban, War Scenes, Visit to Chieveley Camp, Relief of Ladysmith. Illustrations include the tomb of Napoleon at St. Helena, Napoleon's home Longwood at St. Helena, Field Marshall Lord Roberts, Sir Walter Hely Hutchinson, Governor of Natal, Cecil Rhodes' house at Cape Town, the Executive Committee of the hospital ship Maine, and Salisbury Hall, St. Albans. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. Andre Castaigne (illustrator). 13pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 12 drawings and photographs, including 6 portraits, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXV, No. 5, March, 1908. Includes Royal Hospitality at Sandringham, The Comtesse de Paris and the League of the Rose, Queen Victoria at the Jubilee, Lord Hartington, and Racing Matters. Illustrations include a view of Sandringham, a view of the dining room, Hardwick Hall, the bed in which Queen Elizabeth slept, the Presence Chamber, and portraits of King Edward VII when the Prince of Wales, after George Frederick Watts, engraved by C. W. Chadwick, a group portrait of the daughters of Edward inclujding Princess Victoria, Princess Louis, and Princess Maud, Queen Alexandria when Princess of Wales, Princesse Helene D'Orleans, Isabelle, Comtesse de Paris, the Marquis of Hartington, and a group portrait at Sandringham. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 12pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with portraits and photographs, water staining noted mostly at edges, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXVI, #3, July, 1908. Another segment from the serialized appearance of reminiscences by the mother of Winston Churchill. Includes Lord Randolph's candidature for Birmingham, relations with Lord and Lady Salisbury, the Shah's visit to London, Lady de Grey's salon, Colonel North the Nitrate King, Baron Hirsch, murder and robbery in Paris, visit to Bayreuth, and anecdotes of musicians. Illustrations include Hatfield House, the Grand Dining Hall, the Wagner Theater at Bayreuth, and portraits of Nasr-Ed-Din the late Shah of Persia, Baron Maurice von Hirsch, Colonel North, Lady de Grey, Jean de Reszke, Edouard de Reszke, Franz Liszt, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Anton Rubinstein, and Sir Arthur Sullivan. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 14pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with portraits and photographs, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXVI, #5, September, 1908. Another segment from the serialized appearance of reminiscences by the mother of Winston Churchill. Includes Lord and Lady Curzon, the Anglo-Saxon Review, and correspondence with contributors. Illustrations include Sir Frank Swettenham and a tiger cub, and portraits of Lord Curzon of Kedelston, Lady Curzon, Mrs. Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes), and Cecil Rhodes from a sketch by the Duchess of Rutland. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 13pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with portraits and photographs, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXVI, #4, August, 1908. Another segment from the serialized appearance of reminiscences by the mother of Winston Churchill. Includes war with China, a theater audience, life and customs of the country, a Japanese Summer resort, Tokio, gardens and shops, Nikko and its temples, and the Mikado's Palace. Illustrations include the Randolphs in Japan atop rickshaws, travel in a straw chair, the simple interior of a Japanese home, the uncountable stone images near Nikko, the Yomeimon Gate, a Japanese funera, and a portrait of Lady Churchill from a photo taken in San Francisco. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

No Binding. Condition: VG. Sized 6 x 9 inches, with facsimile signature, unrelated portrait on verso, generally clean and bright, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Cosmopolitan, Volume XXII, No. 2, December, 1896. Reprinted from The Book Of Beauty, NY: George D. Sproul, publisher.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Biography. Covers rubbed and worn, corners and spine ends bumped and frayed. Owner ink stamps and names on the front endpapers, hinges cracked and shaken.

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. Brown lettering on tan covers. 8vo, 451pp.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Frescoes and Sketches from Memory. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover. No DJ. SCARCE. Pages are unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/scuffing. Front hinge cracked but binding intact. Book slightly shelf-cocked.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Hardcover / No jacket.

Condition: Fair. 1908. Second Impression. 372 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Rebound with original cloth for library. Pencil marking to pages on occasion. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Ex-library with usual stamps, inserts and markings. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Notable sunning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Book has a forward lean.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Fair. 1933. Reprinted. 218 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Slight cracking to hinges and gutters, with exposed netting, frontispiece partially detached. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil mark to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

Condition: Fair. 1932. First Edition. 218 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Moderate cracking to hinges. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 2002 spiral bound paperback. Near fine, doesn't really look as if it was used. A nice clean copy. 586 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In red cloth with fading to cloth on spine. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. 451 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Spine ends bumped and somewhat frayed. Spine title rubbed or faded, no longer readable. Some rubbing to gilt title on front cover. Front hinge cracked. (J8).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Modest foxing and soiling on then boards, about very good lacking the dust jacket.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. cloth hard cover.photo illustrations.359 PP.very good copy.