Mrs Oliphant, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Second Edition. xvii, 618 p. 19 cm. B&w illustrations. Black leather with gilt trim, including coat of arms for The King's School, Parramatta, on front cover. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. School bookplate on front pastedown states Essay Prize given by The King's School Old Boys' Union June 1899. L. Harrison. A. H. Champion, Head Master. "In Four Books: I. Honourable Women Not a Few; II. The Popes Who Made the Papacy. III. Lo Popolo: And the Tribune of the People. IV. The Popes Who Made the City." This school presentation copy is associated with The King's School, Parramatta, Australia, now an independent Anglican boarding school for boys in the suburbs of Sydney, NSW. Founded in 1831, it is Australia's oldest boarding school.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. A Beleaguered City by Mrs. Oliphant (First Edition) Includes a Signed Letter A firm copy with slight spine lean. Mild sunning to the spine. Gift inscription and owner's name to the title page. First Edition. Title page dated 1880. Blue cloth with gilt lettering; patterned endpapers. 267 pp. Publisher's catalog dated December 1879, bound in rear. Includes a laid in signed letter by the author. Very uncommon signature.Margaret Oliphant?s A Beleaguered City stands out as one of the most original works of Victorian supernatural fiction. Unlike traditional ghost stories focused on haunted houses or individuals, Oliphant imagines an entire French town, Semur, besieged by the spirits of the dead. The townspeople are forced to confront questions of morality, faith, and mortality as their daily lives are overturned. Blending her trademark realism with a bold spiritual vision, Oliphant created a haunting tale that explored the tension between rationalism and the unseen world in a way few of her contemporaries dared.Though Oliphant was one of the most prolific writers of the 19th century, producing over ninety novels and countless essays, A Beleaguered City remains one of her most personal works. It paved the way for her later tales of the afterlife, such as The Land of Darkness and The Little Pilgrim. The novella has also won modern critical respect: the literary theorist Tzvetan Todorov singled it out in his classic Introduction à la littérature fantastique as a key work of the fantastic. Today, it?s remembered as a visionary blend of ghost story, social commentary, and spiritual reflection - a gem in the Victorian canon. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Front cover of Vol I detached bu present, rear hinge of Vol I starting, edgewear to both volumes, some tipped in letters have some edgewear or splits to fold, bookplate (ex-libris George A. Zabriskie) in Volume I; Mrs. Oliphant. The Victorian Age of English Literature (2 volumes complete). New York: Lovell, Coryell & Company, 1892. Octavo (8" x 5.5"). xvi + 624 + lxxiii + 9 pages. Full gilt-tooled red morocco, top edges gilt, gilt rules, 5 raised bands with floral decoration to panels, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles with corner devises. This two volume set is a labor of love, created by collector and bookbinder George A. Zabriskie in the early 1900s. It includes 37 original tipped-in notes, letters or manuscript poems from and signed by historically significant authors, mostly women, mentioned in the book (see list below). It also includes an original 6-line note handwritten by author in Volume I, and an original 2 page handwritten signed letter by author tipped-in to Volume II. In addition to the 16 illustrations (with captioned tissue guards) included by the publisher, there are approximately 30 portrait plates (removed from other documents and skillfully bound in by Zabriskie) of people mentioned in book. Authors with original, tipped-in signed items include: Samuel Rogers, Maria Edgeworth, James Montgomery, Joanna Ballie, Amelie Opie, Barbara Hoffland, TA Trollope, Mary Howitt, Lady Blessington, Thomas Campbell, Sophia Lockart, Lady Duff Gordon, Hannah More, T.B. Macaulay, L. Aiken, Harriet Grote, Robert M. Milnes, Thomas Talfourd, James Sheridan Knowles, Samuel Warren, Frederick Marryat, Mary Somerville, Francis Power Cobbe, Emily Pfeiffer, Lewis Morris, Jean Ingelow, Letitia E. Landon, Felicia Hermans, Dina M. Mulock, Margaret Gatty, M.E. Branddon, F.L. Linton, Rhoda Broughton, Allan Cunningham, Agnes Strickland, Anna Jameson, and Shirley Brook. ; 8vo; xvi + 624 + lxxiii + 9 pages; Signed by Author.