John Elderkin Editors (10 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Unmarked hardcover no jacket. Includes speeches by Twain, T. Roosevelt, W.S. Gilbert, Carnegie, O.W. Holmes, Wilkie Collins, et al.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Original 1875 hardcover in fair condition, with two significant blemishes: a 2.5x1cm piece of the lower front corner is gone, the middle pages are slightly loose, but completely secure. Otherwise, this book is in good condition with light wear, slight fraying of the spine ends, and the original owner's vintage bookplate, otherwise unmarked. 411 pages. The mostly green exterior is decorated with gilt lettering, and the page edges are gilt. [3.3 lbs]. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: NF. Hardback in Near Fine condition without dust jacket. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 414 pages. Unnumbered copy of 100 copies made with hand-made paper. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided * Binding solid, interior clean.

Condition: Fine. Biarritz, April 18, 1903., 1903. Fine. - Over 280 words penned on 4 sides of 8-1/2 inch high by 5-5/8 inch wide "Hotel d'Angleterre, Biarritz" pictorial stationery with an elaborate engraving of the Hotel adorning the head of the first page. The author and editor of books on The Lotos Club and race horses, John Elderkin writes to the American lecture manager Major James B. Pond about encountering British novelist Hall Caine at his hotel, "I was reminded of you today by meeting Mr. Hall Caine at this hotel." "He asked me to remember him very kindly to you. He inquired very particularly after you and was much pleased that I had met and talked with you so recently. at the Lotos Club." He mentions visiting Madrid and mentions attending a bullfight, "The Bull Fight is exasperatingly brutal but is very exciting and affords a great spectacle." Signed in full "John Elderkin". Folded for mailing with minor creases to the edges. Else near fine. The American author John Elderkin (1841-1926) was a member of The Lotos Club and author of "A Brief History of The Lotos Club" published in 1895. He had previously edited "Lotus Leaves" with John Brougham in 1875. An afficionado of race horses, he wrote "Slow Horses Made Fast and Fast Horses Made Faster" in 1871, contributed to "Every Horse Owners' Cyclopedia" in 1875 and wrote an article for the Atlantic Monthly in 1868 "The Turf and the Trotting Horse in America". Elderkin in 1896 authored a book on his ancestor "John Elderkin, One of the Founders of Connecticut, and some of his Descendants".…

Half Morocco. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. xxiv, 414 pp., Half red morocco by Stikeman & Co. with marbled boards and top edge gilt. Number 46 of an unnumbered limited edition. Joints are rubbed with some loss to the front board. Internally clean and bright. A collectection of speeches from a borad array of historic figures, from President Uylsses S. Grant to actor Henry Irving and writer Wilkie Collins. Founded in the 1870s the Lotos club has long been asscoiated with the artistic set, boasting Mark Twain amongst its founders. 8vo. Limited Edition.…

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First state with Welch, Bigelow Co. University Press device on copyright page. Extensively decorated full leather boards with gilt and brown imprint. Leather is scuffed with rubbed edges and bumped corners. Spine shaken. Marbled endpapers with some cracking at hinges, all edges gilt with a few scuffs and light soil. Endpapers and a few text pages have light soil, small tears, and light shadows from tissue over plates. This book, a product of the members of the literary Lotos Club, which took its name from Alfred Tennyson's poem "The Lotos Eaters," contains the first appearance of member Mark Twain's short story " An Encounter with an Interviewer." BAL 3363. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 411 pp. …