Edited Arthur Ropes (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library. No date, circa 1900. Edition De Luxe, Limited to One Thousand Copies for England and America, No. 395. Lovely tinted frontis and engraved text portraits and tissue guards intact and crisp. Three-quarter leather binding, raised bands, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers--once very attractive but now marred by library "repairs" and marks. Clear laminate affixed over spine; white tape to front and rear hinges, resulting in split along front endpaper; various library inkstamps and black markings over some library marks appear on front blank endpapers, "Dandies" title page, verso of rear marbled endpaper, and top page block; scars from pocket- and sticker- removal to rear endpaper. Moderate wear to cover edges, moderate-to-heavy rubbing of marbled cover boards. Interior text crisp and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Text in French with English introduction and notes. Dark green marked covers with gilt lettering on spine, lightly rubbed edges, cracks in paper on internal hinges but covers are firmly attached, darkened end-papers with college stamp, clean pages and frontis. map. Pitt Press series. Text is in French. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 04411080021. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. OTTOMAN EMPIRE LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU SELECT PASSAGES FROM HER LETTERS. I have been listing railroad-related books, endlessly, it sometimes seems to me (and perhaps to you?) but I am going to change it up a bit, with some random vintage books, in need of an interested collector. Please find another vintage book here, this one titled: Lady Mary Wortley Montague Select Passages from Her Letters, edited by Arthur R. Ropes. Wikipedia, as always, came through with some interesting information about Lady Mary, a bit of which I excerpt her below (with my thanks): Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont; 15 May 1689 21 August 1762) was an English aristocrat, writer, and poet. Born in 1689, Lady Mary spent her early life in England. In 1712, Lady Mary married Edward Wortley Montagu, who later served as the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Lady Mary joined her husband in the Ottoman excursion, where she was to spend the next two years of her life. During her time there, Lady Mary wrote extensively on her experience as a woman in Ottoman Istanbul. She is today chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her letters from travels to the Ottoman Empire, as wife to the British ambassador to Turkey, which have been described as "the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient." This small hard cover book (6 x 8 inches, 308 pages plus 2 pages of publisher s adverts) was published by Charles Scribner s Sons of New York and is undated. The book is bound in dark blue cloth with embossed framing on the cover and wonderful gilt decorations and titles, also on the spine. The book is illustrated, according to the title page, with nine portraits after Sir Godfrey Kneller, and other artists. Condition: It is the very good condition of this vintage book which prompted me to acquire it and to list it here. The hard covers are generally clean and very presentable, especially the gilt decorations and titles. There has been some very slight bumping to the corners and spine tips. There is the mark of a shallow scrape on the rear board. Inside, the book is unmarked and the pages and plates are clean and bright throughout. Both hinges are intact, and the binding is tight, sound and square. This book is not ex-library or a remainder.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Cambridge University Press 1932 hardback no jacket black titles to light blue boards, viii 149 pp with folding map at front, text in French. from the private library of David Maskell the well respected Oxford Don, Academic Medieval and Modern Languages with his name stamp to fep. Fading to boards but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original dark green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7'' x 5''. Contains [viii] 188 [8 page Cambridge Press Catalogue] printed pages of French text. Minimal rubs to the spine ends and corners, age tanning to the end papers, with ownership markings to the front free end paper, and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).