Published by Stonehill Publishing Company, New York, 1973
ISBN 10: 0883730022 ISBN 13: 9780883730027
Seller: The Librarian's Books, Cranford, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Laurance Housman, Walter Crane, Richard Doyle and others (illustrator). A Fair copy in a Fair dust wrapper of an anthology which "Contains: Four complete novels; Novellas, stories, poetry; Almost six-hundred pages; Over two-hundred illustrations; Eight color plates; In-depth introductions by Jonathan Cott and Leslie Fiedler" May have musty smell. Dust wrapper is not price clipped. From front of dust wrapper:"Includes Authentic Victorian Fantasy Art and Many Full-Color Illustrations!" Dust wrapper is sunned especially along the spine. Library spine label remains on dust wrapper spine. Tears and chipping to dust wrapper and inside front flap. Wear to page edgings on all sides. Library stamp in black ink along top page edgings. Spot on bottom page edgings. Piece of invisible tape along side edge of front flap. Dark green boards have crisp black lettering on spine. Slight curl to top corner of front boards. Staining inside dust wrapper at base of spine. Reside inside covers where tape was removed. Rear flyleaf has been torn out along the spine with a piece remaining. Library information has been embossed on front flyleaf. From Verso:"First printing" Library catalog notes in black & red ballpoint on Contents page. "Contents: Introduction by Leslie Fiedler; Notes on Fairy Faith and the Idea Childhood by Jonathan Cott; Novels, Stories and Poems: The King of the Golden River or The Black Brothers by John Ruskin; Petsetilla's Posy by Tom Hood; Wooden Tony: An Anyhow Story by Mrs. Clifford; Through the Fire by Mary de Morgan; The Wanderings of Arasmon by Mary de Morgan; Wanted--a king by Maggie Browne; Tinykin's transformations by Mark Lemon; The golden key by George MacDonald; The day boy and the night girl by George MacDonald; The goblin market by Christina Rossetti" "Description: xlix, 1, 519 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm." Due to weight of this volume, International postage will only be processed with additional charges for shipping from the buyer.
Published by Colour Library Direct 01/01/1998, 1998
ISBN 10: 1858338417 ISBN 13: 9781858338415
Seller: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Published by Stonehill Publishing Company, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1978
ISBN 10: 067179017X ISBN 13: 9780671790172
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: VG+. Houseman, Laurence; Boyle, Eleanor; Crane, Walter; Doyle, Richard; Green, Charles; Furniss, Harry (illustrator). First Trade Paperback Edition. A lovely compendium of Victorian literature for children, in 519 pages with an Introduction by editor Cott & special introductory essay by Leslie Fiedler, "Notes on Fairy Faith and the Idea of Childhood." Contains 4 complete novels & a plethora of novellas, short stories, & poetry about fairies, goblins witches, gnomes, pixies, princesses & princes, & other enchanted creatures & realms. Beautifully decorated throughout with 200+ pen-and-ink illustrations & 8 full-color plates by noted illustrators of the period. Orig. published in hardcover in 1973, this is the First Trade Paperback Edition, first printing, from 1978. With colorfully decorated wrappers, condition is VG+: exceptionally clean, binding strong & straight, but creased. Pages creamy white but completely unmarked. Minor edgewear & dust dulling to exterior page edges. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship next business day.
Published by Viking, New York, 1977
ISBN 10: 0670691593 ISBN 13: 9780670691593
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Rackham, Doyle, Dulac, Cruikshank, Crane, Nielsen, Robinson etal (illustrator). 1st. 1st ptg. Square 8vo, full turquoise cloth, selected fairy tales with classic illustrations by Rackham, Richard Doyle, Edmund Dulac, Cruikshank, Walter Crane, Kay Nielsen and many others. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.
Published by Stonehill Publishing Company, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1973
ISBN 10: 0835207943 ISBN 13: 9780835207942
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Houseman, Laurence; Boyle, Eleanor; Crane, Walter; Doyle, Richard; Green, Charles; Furniss, Harry (illustrator). First Edition, 2nd Printing. A lovely compendium of Victorian literature for children, in 519 pages with an Introduction by editor Cott & special introductory essay by Leslie Fiedler, "Notes on Fairy Faith and the Idea of Childhood." Contains 4 complete novels & a plethora of novellas, short stories, & poetry about fairies, goblins witches, gnomes, pixies, princesses & princes, & other enchanted creatures & realms. Beautifully decorated throughout with 200+ pen-and-ink illustrations & 8 full-color plates by noted illustrators of the period. Orig. published in 1973, this is the Second Printing. EX-LIB copy, with minimal stamps & markings. Thick hardcover book has brown cloth over boards with embossed title to front cover & gilt lettering to spine. Condition is VG-: generally very clean, with dust dulling to outside page edges. Binding strong & straight, pages creamy white. Besides the library stamps, NO writing/underlining/highlighting. Worst flaw is heavy rubbing to lower extremities from shelf. Having been protected under library mylar, the unclipped DJ is Fine: bright & colorful with NO discernible wear! Please see our photos: they show the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have on hand! Description & photos property of Gargoyle Books. Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Published by Florence, Kentucky, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1997
ISBN 10: 041515944X ISBN 13: 9780415159449
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. List price $360.00.
Published by University of Arizona, 2008
Seller: Wearside Books, Durham, United Kingdom
Soft cover. Condition: USED_FINE.
Published by Einaudi, 2019
ISBN 10: 880624163X ISBN 13: 9788806241636
Seller: libreriauniversitaria.it, Occhiobello, RO, Italy
Condition: NEW.
Published by Routledge 2013-03-15, 2013
ISBN 10: 0415852129 ISBN 13: 9780415852128
Seller: Chiron Media, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: New.
Published by Routledge 1997-03-06, 1997
ISBN 10: 041515944X ISBN 13: 9780415159449
Seller: Chiron Media, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: NEW.
Published by The S.S. McClure Co, New York, 1898
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Volume 9 includes: "Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats" by Whitman on page 600; "Camps of Green" by Whitman on page 999; "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Whitman on page 1052 (all three Whitman poems are later printing from "Leaves of Grass"); the conclusion of the first appearance of "Captain Courageous" Rudyard Kipling; first American appearance of short story "The Voyage of Copley Banks" by A. Conan Doyle on page 862; first appearance of "Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Expedition" by Stephen Crane on page 1045; first American appearance of "The Governor of Saint Kitts" by A. Conan Doyle on page 565; "Slaves of the Lamp" by Rudyard Kipling on page 837; "The Two Barks" by Doyle on page 769; and "Pharoah and the Sergeant. A Poem" by Kipling on page 925. Bound in three quarter black leather with marbled paper covered boards and gilt title to spine. Minor wear to edges of boards and corners. A few chips to leather on spine and sunning to spine. Bookplate to front pastedown and previous owner inscription in pen dated 1938 to front free endpaper. Minor browning and occasional spots of foxing to margins, but clean overall. Illustrated. Pages 559 - 1004. PER/061418.
Published by World, 1946
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. First Edition. AND THE DARKNESS FALLS, World, 1946, first edition, just about fine in in near vg color pictorial dust-wrapper with some wear and tear. Contributions by Maurice Level, Oliver Onions, E. F. Benson, Guy Du Maupassant, Lafcadio Hearn, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Donan Doyle, John Buchan, Algernon Blackwood, August Derleth, F. Tennyson Jesse, L. P. Hartley, H. R. Wakefield, Dorothy Sayers, Somerset Maugham, John Collier, William Butler Yeats, Edgar Allan Poe, Upton Sinclair, Cornell Woolrich, Walter de la Mare, W. W. Jacobs, Thomas Burke, Stephen Crane, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft, Joseph Conrad, et. al.
Published by Century, 1896
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. First Edition. ** THE TRUE FIRST EDITIONS **"CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS" & ST. IVES in McClures Magazine for 1896-1898, first edition, 3 volumes #8, 9 & 10, November, 1896 through April, 1898, some light wear to the corner tips, some light rubbing and scuffing, else vg+ or better copies bound in half leather with marbled boards and raised spines. Also includes the work of Walt Whitman (thrice), Arthur Conan Doyle (thrice), John Kendrick Bangs, Browning, Stephen Crane (twice), Robert Barr (4 times), S.P. Langley, Guglielmo Marconi, Mark Twain, Fridtjof Nansen, as well as writings about Benjamin Franklin, U.S. Grant, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, William T. Sherman, George Washington, John Wilkes Booth, Henry Clay, Grover Cleveland, Heavier Than Air Aeroplanes, Andrew Jackson, The Civil War, The Klondike Gold Fields, The Log of the Mayflower, Queen Victoria, John Quincy Adams, The Andree Party (Balloon Expedition to the Pole), Wireless Telegraphy, The Railroads, et.al.