Editor Edwin Valentine Mitchell (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good minus. Without dust jacket. First Edition. Essays, fiction, poetry. 12mo, 7 1/4" tall, 322 pages, map endpapers orange titles on blue cloth. A very good minus, generally clean, neat original hard cover edition with moderate shelf wear and rubbing to the fore-corner tips and back strip edges; binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. Without dust jacket.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ex-library, typically marked/stamped, only modest actual wear. Mylar cover protecting dust jacket is taped to binding. Brown cloth. 285 pp. Dust jacket toned, chipped with minor loss at head of spine. Publisher's edition with priced dust jacket, though not a 1st. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book Notes Illustrated. Volume V. Number 6. August-September, 1927. In tan wraps with titling and cover illustration in red, 8vo, pp. 233-288. (Nicking and wear to spine tips and corner, slight browning). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". b/w Illustration & Folding Maps (illustrator). Book. …

hardcover. Condition: Good. Garden City, 1926. Brown cloth covered boards with black title blocks and gold titles; mild edge wear; jacket is worn with small chips and tears along edges; top 1 1/2" of rear jacket flap is missing; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; illustrations in black and white; interior is clean and unmarked; 265 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 1926. Moderate general wear. 265 pages. Tales from Newgate criminal prison, London. 6222.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Unknown. Quarto, softcover, beige pictorial wraps. Near fine with pheasant woodcut by Thomas Bewick on cover. Features: A unique Dickens collection by Cecil Palmer. 32 pages dated Jun-July 1925--Vol. 3, No. 5 Some of the other subjects are: "Mrs. John Milton, Family Life of the Puritan Poet" by Louis J. McQuilland; "Margaret Kennedy Commits Literary Murder" by Muriel Stuart; "A Literary Letter From London" by Henry Savage; "Tom Moore and the Immortal Irish Melodies" by Colum Kaye; "London's Bohemia By The River". Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. viii, 266pp, five black and white plates. Green cloth-covered boards; black titles on front and spine; top text block edge sprayed green. 8vo. Signature bound. Sun-faded spine and joints of covers, lightly bumped spine ends; lightly cocked. White paint drops on rear cover; small dent towards top of rear fore-edge. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges starting to tan; untrimmed. Endpapers tanning. Prelim pages foxing. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Further twenty eight in-text, black and white plates throughout. Some of the uncut pages were previously poorly detached; some damage to page margins. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Type: Book 1st printing. 2 edges untrimmed.

2112 Seiten Großformat, ohne Schutzumschlag, Ecken/Kanten bestossen, Einband fleckig, Buchkörper verfärbt, Seiten leicht vergilbt und teilw. fleckig, Buchschnitt mit Lagerpuren, eher mittel bis gut für das Alter Altersfreigabe FSK ab 0 Jahre Sprache: Englisch Hardcover/Pappeinband, gebundene Ausgabe 20th edition, Thoroughly Revised at Each New Printing.…

Mitchell, Edwin Valentine, [1890-1960], Editor. Savage, Henry, [1879-1965?], Introduction. The Newgate Calendar. Comprising Interesting Memoirs of the Most Notorious Characters who have been convicted of Outrages on the Laws of England. With Speeches, Confessions, and Last Exclamations of Sufferers. Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Pub. Co., [1926]. Frontispiece. Illustrations. 265 pp. Publisher's original cloth, with gilt lettering pieces to spine and front board. Moderate shelfwear. Bookplate of Sidney L. Peiser to front pastedown. Internally clean. A very good copy. $45. * This book contains 43 selected cases detailing the lives and executions of notorious figures like Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild and Dick Turpin. It serves as a primary source for studying the 18th and 19th-century British legal system, social conditions and the public's historic fascination with "true crime". …

Condition: Good. 8vo. Dust Jacket. Signs of shelf wear. Minor discolorations. Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Full Year 1925-26. 8 issues, i.e. Dec-Jan, 1925-26, Feb. Mar, 1926, Apr. May,1926,June, July 1926, Aug, Sept, 1926,Oct Nov, 1926, Dec, Jan,1926-27 : Each issue approx 42 pp., illustrated throughout, DEc, Jan 1926-27 issue has full page tipped-in illustration of Edgar Allan Poe from a woodcut by James Britton; June-July, 1926 issue has a full page illustration of Mark Twain from a woodcut by James Britton; Oct, Nov 1926 has a full page illustration of Ralph Waldo Emerson by James Britton. All issues are in tight, clean Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book.…