Meredith George Edited (6 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers. 131-254pp. Fine. Fiction, articles, poetry and more by Jorge Luis Borges, Jon N. Olson, John P. Sisk, Robert Erwin, Berel Lang, David St. John, George Monteiro, Arthur Holmberg, mary Beth Pringle, Judi M. Roller, Jennifer Smith, Nancy Schoenberger, Rebecca Bailey, Jane Marie Satterfield, Lynda Hull, Barry Goldensohn, Paul Scheye, and John Meredith Hill.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. 3rd impression. 3rd impression, 1913. A Very Good set. 2 Volumes. 8vo., bound in half brown leather with marbled boards and matching end papers, title on 6 compartment spine, top edge gilt, engraved frontis in both volumes. Ex-library. Some wear to tips, minor signs of shelf wear. Previous owners bookplate inside front cover. Library stamp on end paper, blind stamp on title pages. Text appears unmarked. An attractive set. George Meredith OM (12 February 1828 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first, his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but Meredith gradually established a reputation as a novelist. Meredith was an encourager of other novelists, as well as an influence on them; among those to benefit were Robert Louis Stevenson and George Gissing. Meredith was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times.…

Hardcover. Condition: g to vg. First edition. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8"). xvi, 384pp (Vol. 1); xvi, 384pp (Vol. 2). Original 3/4 crushed morocco over burgundy cloth, with gold lettering and tooling to spines. Raised bands. Etched frontispiece in each volume. Splendidly illustrated throughout with numerous full-page and in-text wood-engravings, this 2-volume set contains a selection of old and new British ballads illustrated by some of the best illustrators of the their times. Moderate rubbing along joints. Covers slightly darkened / soiled. Some foxing to very first pages of both volumes. Bindings in overall good, interior in good+ to very good condition.…

Hard Cover. Condition: very good. Limited Edition. Octavo. Pictorial covers. Forty beautiful designs and full page black and white illustrations "invented, drawn and written by Lawrence Housman. Limited to 1000 copies. Some age-taning to covers and endpapers. Separating of gutter in middle of book but secure.…

Hardcover. Condition: very good. First Edition. Octavo.7 1/2' x 5'. 37pp.Cream pictorial boards. With 44 designs invented, drawn and written by Lawrence Housman. Limited to 1000 copies. Lawrence Housman's first book. Lawrence Houseman (illustrator).

First Edition. Plates Two volumes Spines darkened and spotted, but internally a nice copy.