Hingston E P Ed (4 results)

1st ed. Front hinge cracked but tight; wear to cloth at head & foot of spine with short split in spine back joint. 1st UK edition, containing 2 chapters not in the US edition. Used - Good. Good hardback in brown cloth with gilt Used - Good. Good hardback in brown cloth with gilt.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. John Camden Hotten, UK, 1865. Hardcover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book Condition: Good. pp192+advertisements single publishers page tipped in at front original brown cloth, blindstamped front board with gilt titles to spine. Aged boards with light sunning to spine and front board, internal cracking to endpapers though binding sound throughout, occasional spotting, mostly clean and free from any kind of previous owner¿s marking.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Unknown (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of a work from the hugely popular and comical Artemus Ward series, as he tours across Salt Lake City, California and other North American regions. The first edition of Artemus Ward (His Travels) Among the Mormons, including both Part I: On the Rampage, and Part II: Perlite Litteratoor, a comical and fictional travel biography, written by Charles Farrar Brown. In the publisher's original cloth, with an ink illustrated frontispiece. Contains publisher's original advertisements to the front and rear of the work. Considered to be America's first stand-up comedian, Charles Farrar Brown's creation Artemus Ward, a barely literatre circus manage loosely based off P.T. Barnum, was hugely popular in both America and England, considered to the favourite author of Abraham Lincoln. In this particular work, Ward takes us to California, Salt Lake City, and Richmond. In the publisher's original brown cloth. Externally, the odd handling mark, and slight fading to the spine. Minor rubbing to joints, and bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities, with a small lift to cloth to top extremity. Brown end papers are clean. Tipped in publisher's advertisement to front pastedown. Internally firmly bound, with slight wear between front free end paper and first advertisement leaf, to last advertisement leaf and rear free end paper, and minor between pp.80-81. Previous owner's ink inscription to title leaf. Pages are bright and generally clean with a couple of small marks. Remnants of small sticker to bottom left corner of leaf p.97. Good. book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A smart three volume set of humorous nineteenth century works, illustrated throughout. A three volume set. In the publisher's original green cloth bindings. Including: (1869) Artemus Ward's Lecture (As Delivered at the Egyptian Hall, London.) The first edition. A work by Charles Farra Browne, an American humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward. Ward was the character of an illiterate rube with "Yankee common sense". Edited by T.W. Robinson and E.P. Hingston. With a frontispiece, and 34 plates. (1869) Carols of Cockayne. An early edition. By Henry S. Leigh,an English writer and playwright. The volume contains a collection of humorous verse and satire. With in text illustrations by Alfred Concanen and John Leech. [1870] Gamosagammon; or, Hints on Hymen. For the use of parties about to connubialize. The first edition. By the Hon. Hugh Rowley. With in text illustrations throughout by the author. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, smart. Fading to spines, with bumping to the heads and tails. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste downs. Odd small mark to boards. Binder's label to rear paste down of 'Carols of Cockayne'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with light spotting and age toning to the front and rear. Very Good. book.