Michael Sadlier (33 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. First Edition. Vg- in blue cloth; minor soiling to cloth; corner bumped; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condition: Good. 1933. First Edition. 411 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Top textblock edge dyed green. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Minor tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Gilt lettering is darkened. Visible wear marks to boards.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. Contents: Warner, lThe way we write now: the reality of AIDS in contemporary short fiction. Ingersoll, The stigma of femininity in James Joyce's "Eveline" and "The Boarding House." Gold and Fick, A "masterpiece" of "the educated eye": convention, gaze, and gender in Spofford's "Her Story." Ford, When "life.becomes literature": the neo-Aristotelian poetics of Norman Maclean's "A River Runs through It." Beegel, Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates and male taciturnity in Hemingway's "A Day's Wait." Salzberg, The "loathly landlady," Chagallian unions, and Malamudian parody: "The Girl of My Dreams" revisited. Carrington, What's in a title?: Alice Munro's "Carried Away." Orton, De-centered symbols in "Endicott and the Red Cross." Sadlier, Modernity and femininity in He and She by Júlia Lopes de Almeida. Clasby, "Manabozho": a Native American resurrection myth. Ellis, Sherwood Anderson's fear of sexuality: horses, men, and homosexuality. 9.0" tall; 142 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. FOLIO SOCIETY. 1983. COLLECTIBLE. First edition. Good hardbound book, no dust jacket as issued, in protective, decorative, cardboard slipcase. GOOD - Collectible. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Thus. 305pp, colour plates. Introduction by Joanna Richardson. Patterned boards & green cloth spine in a slipcase. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Condition: Good. 1947. Reprint. 360 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Mild chipping to front hinge. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable sunning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Notable speckling to front board.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. xxiv, 336pp, with World Classics catalogue bound in at rear. In green cloth boards, embellished with blind rules, gilt titles to spine. Top edge sprayed green. 16mo. Cloth a little rubbed at edges and around joints. Previous owner's name, dated 1930, and separate gift inscription on front free endpaper. Endpapers and prelim page margins a little tanned.…

Condition: Good. Good condition. Slipcase Very Good. (Marguerite Blessington, Nobility, France, Biography).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Corners slighlty bumped.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Slipcase Very Good. ( Marguerite Blessington, , Countess, 1789-1849, biography) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Paperback (scruffy); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

1st ed. Pages clean; edges of cover a little worn. Contains 'On having sons at Oxford' by Sadlier. Used - Very Good. VG paperback magazine Used - Very Good. VG paperback magazine.

Condition: Very Good. . Slipcase Very Good. From the library of Charles Edward Roberts, owner and founder of Wonder Book & Video. With his custom bookplate on front endpage. (Marguerite Blessington, biography).

paperback (ex libris), all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Black paper cover detached from book, 8 water-colour reproduction plates of Charles John Holmes's water-colours. Foreword by British publisher, novelist and bibliographer Michael Sadlier signed to British broadcaster and writer John Arlott in May 1943. Original carbon copy of Sadlier's foreword included with comments at the end by Holmes. Foxing on title page and milder foxing on plates, pages slightly turned up at sides (see photos). Book 41 cms wide by 36 cms high. C.J Holmes (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. PAPERBACK 1961. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref M36.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Probable 1st. Very minor wear on the spine ends. Small owners book plate on the front pastedown.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1933. Original green cloth gilt VG. A little foxing, mostly confined to the prelims and the page edges. Pages clean & tight. No inscriptions. 2 pedigrees. Illustrated with 16 plates. 411 pages. pictorial endpapers.

First Edition. Novel Library Series - number 28. In the attractive standard design of decorated paper covered boards with a cloth spine with design repeated for the dustwrapper. With the bookplate of the publisher [Tragara Press] Alan Anderson to the front pastedown. VG in VG- dustjacket with a little wear to the foot of the spine.…

Cloth. No Jacket. First Australian Edition. Binding firm pages white orange cloth clean and bright. PP 503, Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. pp xi, 411, First published November 1933, this copy is the reprinted issued in the same month. Sixteen Plates and genealogies of the Power and Gardiner (Blessington) Families. It details the career of Marguerite, daughter of Edmund and Ellen Power, born at Knockbritt, Fethard, Co. Tipperary. A number of related newspaper cuttings are loosely inserted. Front board a little dusty - otherwise very good.…

CARTER, John and Michael Sadlier. VICTORIAN FICTION. (London): The National Book League, 1947. 8vo. Wrappers. xiv, 50 pages. First edition. An exhibition catalogue, the first serious appreciation of book production in 19th century England. Fine.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. The first edition of this informative collection of transcribed broadcast talks on the subject of book collecting, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition.In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper.This work features four broadcast talks on the subject of book collecting with noted speakers from the book collecting world. The talks included are; Robert William Chapman's discussion of old books titled 'The Sense of the Past', John Haywood's 'Why First Editions?', John Carter's 'The Technical Approach', and lastly 'Mr Sadlier's 'Book-Shop and Auction Room'. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely with only light offsetting to the endpapers. The wrap is excellent with sunning to the spine and minor handling marks. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages. Fine. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. in publisher's shrinkwrap. First Martino printing, Limited to 350. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Maurizio Martino Publisher, 1992. 2 separate HARDCOVER volumes, complete. BRAND NEW in perfect condition. STILL SEALED in the publisher's clear plastic SHRINKWRAP. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. No date (but 1992, First Martino printing "strictly limited to 350 copies"). A key reference. Illustrated with 48 plates, mostly photos of bindings and title pages. Facsimile reprints of the two volume set, both originally published in 1951. Vol. I: xxxiii, 399pp. + 32 plates. Vol. II: vi, 195pp. + 16 plates. Subtitle: A Bibliographical Record Based On His Own Collection. Contained here are thousands of detailed descriptions, many with extensive notes. The introductory essay should be required reading for all book collectors. According to Otto Penzler, "these volumes illustrate how great a collection can be." In his address to the 1995 annual meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America, Stephen Weissman of Ximenes Rare Books paid tribute to this work. He said XIX CENTURY FICTION "remains to this day perhaps my favorite single contribution to bibliography. I am not alone in my admiration. If a new collector comes into my shop, as happens from time to time, or if a young bookseller asks me for guidance, as happens all too often these days, this is inevitably the first book I recommend. (Sadleir's) book has had as much influence on collecting, whether sentimental or scholarly, as any other I can think of." Among the authors comprehensively covered are W. H. Ainsworth, R. D. Blackmore, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Richard Jefferies, Charles Kingsley, Henry Kingsley, Joseph Le Fanu, Charles Lever, Frederick Marryat, George Meredith, Ouida, Charles Reade, Somerville & Ross, William Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Mrs. Frances Trollope, Mrs. Henry Wood, etc. Works by many other authors, such as Poe, Stowe, Twain, Melville, and Hawthorne, are also described. Breslauer/Folter 209: "The fundamental bibliography of Regency and Victorian fiction. by one of the most influential English bibliographers." Uniformly bound in the original gilt-stamped maroon cloth. Besterman 2159. Oversize Hardcover. 8.5" wide by 11.25" tall. This heavy 2 volume set will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments. But for media mail, you pay only our standard charge for 1 volume and we ship the second volume at no extra cost. First Martino printing, Limited to 350. Oversize Hardcover. New/in publisher's shrinkwrap. Illus. by We ship 2 volumes for cost of 1 via media mail. 2 volumes: xxxiii, 399pp. + vi, 195pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. We ship 2 volumes for cost of 1 via media mail (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition (foxing). No jackets. First Edition, Limited to 1,025 copies. London: Constable & Co., Ltd., 1951. 1951. First Editions. 2 separate HARDCOVER volumes, complete. Limited to 1,025 sets. Very Good condition but for small brown speckles (foxing) -- moderate on the endpapers; otherwise quite light. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. A key reference. Vol. I: xxxiii, 399pp. + 32 plates. Vol II: vi, 195pp. + 16 plates. Contained here are thousands of detailed descriptions, many with extensive notes. Illustrated with 48 plates on glossy paper, mostly photos of bindings and title pages. NO foxing on the plates. The introductory essay should be required reading for all book collectors. According to Otto Penzler, "these volumes illustrate how great a collection can be." In his address to the 1995 annual meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America, Stephen Weissman of Ximenes Rare Books paid tribute to this work. He said XIX CENTURY FICTION "remains to this day perhaps my favorite single contribution to bibliography. I am not alone in my admiration. If a new collector comes into my shop, as happens from time to time, or if a young bookseller asks me for guidance, as happens all too often these days, this is inevitably the first book I recommend. (Sadleir's) book has had as much influence on collecting, whether sentimental or scholarly, as any other I can think of." Among the authors comprehensively covered are W. H. Ainsworth, R. D. Blackmore, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Richard Jefferies, Charles Kingsley, Henry Kingsley, Joseph Le Fanu, Charles Lever, Frederick Marryat, George Meredith, Ouida, Charles Reade, Somerville & Ross, William Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Mrs. Frances Trollope, Mrs. Henry Wood, etc. Works by many other authors, such as Poe, Stowe, Twain, Melville, and Hawthorne, are also described. Printed by the University Press, Cambridge for Constable & Company, Ltd. Breslauer/Folter 209: "The fundamental bibliography of Regency and Victorian fiction. by one of the most influential English bibliographers." Top edges gilt. Uniformly bound in the original gilt-stamped maroon cloth. Besterman 2159. Oversize Hardcover. 9" wide by 11.25" tall. This heavy 2 volume set will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments. But for media mail, you pay only our standard charge for 1 volume and we ship the second volume at no extra cost. First Edition, Limited to 1,025 copies. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition (foxing)/No jackets. Illus. by We ship 2 volumes for cost of 1. 2 volumes: xxxiii, 399pp. + vi, 195pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. We ship 2 volumes for cost of 1 (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. 1933. First Edition. 411pp. 16 plates. Previous owner's signature. Keywords: Local history, biography. First edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bright marbled paper binding with gilt-lettered red spine label, in protective acetate wraparound sleeve which has unfortunately resulted in some off-set tanning to outer sides of end-papers. Black half-title page with title and author on tipped central label+title only half-title+full t.p.422-461 a/b+black end-paper+rear end-paper. Verso t.p. has: 'Of this books six copies have been printed on on blue and six on apricot paper', this being on apricot (bar pastedowns and end-papers), Ornamented initial letter, initially read to the Bibliographical Society in 1938 and included as a Supplement to the Society's Transactions, no.12. This is clearly then a high grade vanity publication but itself of bibliographic interest. 17.5 cm x 22 cm.…

Condition: Very Good. 1933. First Edition. 411pp. 16 plates. Previous owner's signature. Keywords: Local history, biography. First edition copy. . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good+. First Edition. Two volumes. 399; 195 pp. Polished gilt buckram, spines lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, solidly fine and free of all markings. Jackets are solid Very Good -- some toning and minor edge chipping and spotting, but solidly presentable in the protective mylar wraps. Nice clean working set.…