Joseph Jacobs Editor (62 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. A nice hardcover with a crisp dust jacket, a tight binding and an unmarked text. From a private smoke free collection. Shipping within 24 hours, tracking number and delivery Confirmation.

Hard Cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Unread book, illustrated. Batten, John D. (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: As New. Book is in excellent condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 166 pages, purple titles on gray cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear, binding solid, paper moderately yellowed. In a good, edge-worn dust jacket, chipping at the spine and flap-fold edges with the original price present.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Thus. This second collection contains 20 traditional Celtic folk legends & fairy tales, in 234 pages, including copious Notes & References by the editor, renowned folklorist Joseph Jacobs(1854-1916). This is an unabridged republication from 1968 of the original edition from 1894, with the stories brought to new life with the original pen-and-ink illustrations of John D. Batten, including 8 full-page plates + 38 additional illustrations. Permabound Dover trade paperback is in Good+ condition: very clean, binding strong & straight, pages lightly tanned around edges, with a random spot or two to exterior edges of text block, but completely unmarked. Exterior shows modest rubbing & 1 heavy vertical crease to back cover; all corners slightly curled with light chipping. SPECIAL: order at the same time as the original "Celtic Fairy Tales" (our # 021106) & take 20% + only $1.00 shipping for second book! 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); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. FT cse. Batten, John D. (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Collection of 46 classic fairy tales that "have charmed generations of Irish people." This volume combines two previous books into one: "Celtic Fairy Tales" & "More Celtic Fairy Tales,'' for over 500 pages with Notes & References & traditional black-and-white illustrations by John Batten throughout text. A small 8vo, this softcover book in decorative yellow-green wrappers is in Near Fine condition: exceptionally clean, square, & tightly bound. Pages show mild tanning to all edges. Covers are clean & bright with just a hint of edgewear. A couple of small spots to outside page edges is only flaw. 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 very next business day. Batten, John D. (illustrator).…

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Collection of 26 traditional Celtic folk legends & fairy tales, in 267 pages, including copious Notes & References by the editor, renowned folklorist Joseph Jacobs(1854-1916). This is an unabridged republication from 1968 of the original edition from 1892, with the stories brought to new life with the original pen-and-ink illustrations of John D. Batten, including 8 full-page plates + 37 additional illustrations. Permabound Dover trade paperback is in Near Fine condition: extremely clean & bright save for slight darkening & light soil to all outside page edges & very mild rubbing to extremities. Else, completely clean & bright, binding strong & straight, pages white. 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); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Batten, John D. (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. First Thus. (xiv) 689 pp. Trade paperback format - First American revised and expanded edition. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the covers and spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Foreword; The Haunted House by Elizabeth Albright and Ray Bradbury; The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton; Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu; A Case of Eavesdropping by Algernon Blackwood; A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf; Ghost Hunt by H. Russell Wakefield; Dark Winner by William F. Nolan; The Old House in Vauxhall Walk by Charlotte Riddell; No 252 Rue M. le Prince by Ralph Adams Cram; The Southwest Chamber by Mary Eleanor Freeman; The Toll House by W. W. Jacobs; Feet Foremost by L. P. Hartley; Happy Hour by Ian Watson; The Ankardyne Pew by W. F. Harvey; The Real and the Counterfeit by Louisa Baldwin; A Night at a Cottage by Richard Hughes; The Considerate Hosts by Thorp McClusky; The Grey House by Basil Copper; Watching Me Watching You by Fay Weldon; A Spirit Elopement by Richard Dehan; The House of Dust by Herbert de Hamel; The Kisstruck Bogie by A. E. Coppard; Mr Edward by Norah Lofts; House of the Hatchet by Robert Bloch; Napier Court by Ramsey Campbell; Lost Hearts by M. R. James; The ShadowyThird by Ellen Glasgow; A Little Ghost by Hugh Walpole; The Patter of Tiny Feet by Nigel Kneale; Uninvited Ghosts by Penelope Lively; Playing with Fire by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson; Bagnell Terrace by E. F. Benson; The Companion by Joan Aiken; The Ghost Hunter by James Herbert; Computer Science by Ruth Rendell; In Letters of Fire by Gaston Leroux; The Judge's House by Bram Stoker; The Storm by McKnight Malmar; The Waxwork by A. M. Burrage; The Inexperienced Ghost by H. G. Wells; Sophy Mason Comes Back by E. M. Delafield; and The Boogeyman by Stephen King; followed by an appendix: Haunted House Novels: A Listing. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing, green paper over boards with title in black on spine, b/w frontis, 256 pp, b/w illustration. A tight unread book. Jacket lightly age-darkened on flaps, small wrinkle at bottom of front panel, in Brodart archival wrapper. Shelf 4. 6/26. John Batten (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Good Plus. Reprint Edition. 256pp. A collection of 26 Irish fairy tales, including "Connla and the Fairy Maiden," "The Sprightly Tailor," and "The Battle of the Birds.". Batten, John D. (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 208 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Thus. Glossy pictorial boards. Lightly rubbed on the corners with some minor rubbing on the panels; no interior markings; as issued, no dustjacket. Cover art by Mark Oldroyd. Illustrated with line drawings by: S. A. Field; Ronald Lampitt; H. A. Seabright; Colin Orme; Bertram Prance; Norman Howard; Margaret Bradley; Freeman; Cyril Holloway; S. Tresilian; and H. M. Brock. This anthology contains: The Electric King by Lord Dunsany; The Regent's Park Murder by The Baroness Orczy; They Never Got Caught by Margery Allingham; The Interruption by W. W. Jacobs; Nobody at Home by C. D. Heriot; St Catherine's Eyes by Mrs Belloc Lowndes; The Screaming Skull by F. Marion Crawford; The Ghost at Massingham Mansions by Ernest Bramah; The Idiots by Joseph Conrad; The Vampire by Sydney Horler; The Magic Casket by Austin Freeman; The President of San Jacinto by H. C. Bailey; Outside the Law by Anthony Berkeley; Before Insulin by J. J. Connington; The Perfect Murder by Stacy Aumonier; The Shadow of the Shark by G. K. Chesterton; The Marionettes by O. Henry; Diamond Cut Diamond by F. Britten Austin; Murder at the Microphone by Augustus Muir; Death in the Kitchen by Milward Kennedy; The Vertical Line by Freeman Wills Crofts; The Clue of Monday's Settling by Edgar Wallace; The Ghost of a Smile by Gerard Fairlie; Sons of the Chief Warder by Bertram Atkey; Query by Seamark; The Room on the Fourth Floor by Ralph Straus; The Wounded God by A. E. W. Mason; Charles by A. J. Alan; The Funeral March of a Marionette by John Metcalfe; The Interlopers by Saki; The Travelling Grave by L. P. Hartley; The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe; The Bird Woman by H. Spicer; The Dabblers by W. Fryer Harvey; Marsyas in Flanders by Vernon Lee; The Room by Eleanor Scott; Florence Flannery by Marjorie Bowen; The House on Big Faraway by Norman Matson; Madam Julia's Tale by Naomi Royde-Smith; The Cigarette Case by Oliver Onions; and A Pair of Hands by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Size: 8vo. Mark Oldroyd; S. A. Field; Ronald Lampitt; H. A. Seabright; Colin Orme; Bertram Prance; Norman Howard; Margaret Bradley; Freeman; Cyril Holloway; S. Tresilian; H. M. Brock; (illustrator). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket. Later Printing. Later [5th] printing. An anthology of fiction, folklore and poetry about ghosts. Brown pictorial buckram binding, 187+ pages. Near Fine copy [purchase price and date partially erased from the rear-paste-down no dust jacket. clph.

Single issue. Paged as [2], 87-152 plus covers (pagination in succession to preceding issue). Paperback: H 25.25cm x L 17cm. Tan paper covers toned/foxed with some soiling and light staining; tearing and chipping to surface paper at spine heel; some edge-wear to covers with creasing/curling at corners with a few leaves affected likewise. Toning to text block edges. Past owner's personal blind-stamp to unpaged initial title leaf; some minor soiling but overall interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Features the following: "Repair of and Changes in the Old Capitol" by A.S. Cody; "Census of Wilkinson County, Mississippi Territory, 1805" edited by Madel Jacobs Morgan; "The Joseph Dunbar Shields Letters" edited by Charles L. Salley; "Claudius Wistar Sears, Soldier and Educator" by Karlem Riess; "Alfred W. Garner: An Autobiographical Sketch; Introduction by Glover Moore.".…

hardcover. Condition: Good. NO DUST JACKET. 1966 editor. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is good. Binding is tight/good. NO DUST JACKET.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Scuffs to cover. Same day dispatch (Mon- Fri) from the UK if ordered by 1pm. Ardizzone, E. (illustrator).

Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Used-Acceptable. No Jacket. 5th Printing 1959. 174 pp. A perfectly acceptable reading copy. No dust jacket. Front cover board corners are damaged. Some page edges are damaged. Ex-Library (Jr.Sr. H.S., Westbrook, CT)-Book with all the typical signs (stamps, stickers, and envelopes, etc.). Kurt Wise (Illustrator) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dustjacket. First Thus. Clean dark green cloth boards with gold decoration and lettering on cover and spine. No fading. Small spots of wear-through to corner tips, spine ends. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean with gilt top page edges. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 24 illustrations by Chris Hammond; frontispiece with clean tissue guard. With Introduction by Joseph Jacobs. 310 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Red cloth-effect boards, lettered/decorated in black. Text block edges a bit tanned, both flyleaves quite tanned/foxed, interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Firm binding. 5th ptg.: 1956. viii,332 pp., illus. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John D. Batten (illustrator). Book. …

Hard Cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Unread book, illustrated. Batten, John D. (illustrator).

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. States "First Schocken Edition 1966" on cr page. Prior to isbn numbers. A slight opening crease near spine of front cover. Spine is not creased from reading. Spine paper has a minor wrinkle in paper from publisher. Looks never read. Remarkable condition. Square and tight with sharp corners. Willing to state this is the best copy of this first edition. Profusely illustrated. Richard Heighway (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Dark olive green cloth, lettered/illus. in black. Undated, likely printed from British plates. A bit of foxing to top and fore-edges, otherwise essentially as issued. No statement of edition/ptg. xiii,291 pp., 8 full-page plates, additional illus. in text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John D. Batten (illustrator). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This is a later printing of the 1894 First Edition. Blue cloth with title and editor amid an elaborate floral design in black. Back cover is lightly soiled and the spine has faded. Front hinge is cracked exposing the webbing but the text block is firm. The names of two previous owners are neatly penned on the ffe and one also on the page after the ffe. Otherwise the book is clean with smooth unmarked pages. Frontis in color. Profusely illustrated throughout in black and white. 222 pp.…

brossura. Condition: nuovo. New Copies., Ill. bn: 6, Ill. colori: --, Peso: 475 gr.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. One of 200 copies. Sewn binding. Manson. C B (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. manila pictorial wraps; tissue guard at frontis. H. Ryland; also fold-outs: "Pedigree of Barlaam and Josaphat" 9 3/4" X 10" and "Pedigree of the Three Caskets" 7 3/8" X 10". (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 178 pages. 6.00x0.38x9.00 inches. In Stock. Ganapathy, Kalyani (illustrator).

Reprint, 22 cm, 234 Seiten, mit Illustrationen von John D. Batten, kartoniert. leichte Gebrauchsspuren, gut erhalten. Sprache: Englisch.