Oliver Manning (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Original green pictorial cloth. Very Good Plus in Very Good Dust Jacket with minor edge tears and chips. All color illustrations present. Wyeth, N.C. Charles Hargens. Stanley M. Arthurs. Manning deV. Lee. (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 356 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.89 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition Thus, Copyright Date: 1883 Sm Quarto, Hardcover, Black Cloth with Gilt Lettered Spine, pp. 83-116 of 356, This is One Of The Earliest Floras Prepared For Minnesota Good, Modern Library Binding, Black Cloth, First Pages Have Repairs.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Guy and Harriet Pringle, escaped to Egypt from a Europe overrun by Hitler, are here cut off from England, living a precarious existence and facing the prospect of capture by the enemy and separation from each other. They are complemented by a group of similar refugees, and their story is paralleled by that of the soldiers like young Simon Boulderstone, twenty, fresh out from England, thrown precipitously into the alternating boredom and heat of the desert and the horrors of its warfare. Sticker covering previous details on front title page. 196 pages. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Fiction; ISBN: 0297772961. ISBN/EAN: 9780297772965. Inventory No: 231162.…

Pictorial Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. Nice omnibus of writings on the opening of the West. Mark Twain, etc. In sturdy, strong tan boards, illustrated throughout with drawings and colored plates. Manning De V. Lee (cover) (illustrator).

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Second printing. Indians, cowboys, bad men, traders, homesteaders, scouts, trappers, soldiers, pioneers and gold-seekers march in an almost endless procession across the pages of this book. Their stories have been told by the men who knew them best - Bret Harte, Mark Twain, "Buffalo Bill", Hamlin Garland, George Bird Grinnell, and many others. There are many stories; Cowboy ballads, poems, biographical sketches and articles of a practical nature. Over 500 pp. brimming with vivid action and glorious adventure, and dealing with the most glamorous period in America's history. A tight, clean, beautiful copy. Only a little evidence of damp stain that may have affected the jacket and cover in the bottom right front corner. Looks like a few small white marks on cover and is not even visible on the jacket. Very good dust jacket with one inch and a half closed tear on back panel. Thick 4to. 9-3/4 x 7-3/4. Pictorial brown cloth stamped in gold orange and sky blue. Beautiful, pictorial endpapers printed in orange and brown. 12 illustrations in full color by Frank E. Schoonover, Manning DeV. Lee, Charles Hargens and Richard H. Rogers. (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A series of five decoratively bound and beautifully illustrated works set against idyllic English rural backgrounds. The first with these illustrations.A set of five volumes from the publisher's 'Series of English Idylls', comprising a charming selection of English literature set against the background of picturesque rural villages.Uniformly bound in the publisher's gilt-decorated cloth.Each volume contains twenty-four colour plates, comprising lovely illustrations from C. E. Brock, a widely published English painter, line artist and book illustrator.Collated, complete.This set comprises the following titles:1904 Our Village by Mary Russell Mitford - A collection of around one hundred literary sketches of rural life, first appearing in The Lady's Magazine and based upon the author's life in Three Miles Cross, a hamlet in the parish of Shinfield.1904 The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith - One of the best known novels from this Anglo-Irish writer, concerning a Vicar's family life in a country parish.1905 Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot - A simple but popular tale of a linen weaver who travels to settle in the Midlands in Warwickshire, this novel is noted for its strong realism.1906 The Household of Sir Thomas More by Anne Manning - An account of life in the house of one of England's most famous men, offering fascinating insight to the larger social and political context of 16th-century England.1906 The Keeping of Christmas at Bracebridge Hall by Washington Irving - A charming collection of short stories that portray old-fashioned Christmas customs at a quaint English manor. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original gilt-decorated cloth. Externally, very smart, with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Darkening to the spine and a few marks to the boards of 'The Keeping of Christmas' and 'Our Village'. With the bookplate of one David Gould to the front pastedown of ''The Keeping of Christmas'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers, heaviest to 'Vicar of Wakefield', and 'Household'. With the odd spot to the contents. Very Good. C. E. Brock (illustrator). book.…