R Austen Freeman (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Popular Library #70. A Dr. Thorndyke Mystery. Cover art by Hoffman. Very good- condition. Minor edge-wear on front cover. Small crease on upper right corner of front cover. Staining/fading on front cover (see photo). Wear on top and bottom of spine. Reader's crease on spine. Minor edge-wear on back cover. Crease on backcover toward middle-right. Small crease originating from spine on back cover. Small crease on lower left corner of back cover. Weak front hinge. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardcover. No DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Light blemishing/staining on page edges and margins. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Heavier scuffing on spine. Binding is loose, hinges strong. Previous owner's name on end paper. Book very slightly shelf-cocked.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First U.S. edition. First American edition, 1930. Red cloth, black lettering. 338 pp. + 4 pages ads.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First U.S. edition. First American edition, 1939. Yellow-orange cloth, red top stain, monkey illustration to cover, red lettering to spine. 312 pp.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. First Edition. Illus. 8vo, red cloth, pictorially stamped in black & gilt. Phila., (1914). Precedes the English edition.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Lovely collection of critical and biographical works on Jane Austen and the times she lived in, featuring eight first editions and a number of illustrations. Interesting collection of works on Jane Austen and the times she lived in. Eight out of ten texts are first editions.Collection comprised of:(1917) Jane Austen and Her Times by G. E. Mitton;(1932) Jane Austen: Her Life and Art by David Rhydderch - first edition;(1937) Jane Austen: Study for a Portrait by Beatrice Kean Seymour - first edition;(1943) Talking of Jane Austen by Sheila Kaye-Smith and G. B. Stern - first edition;(1945) Emma by Gordon Glennon - first edition;(1949) Jane Austen and Southampton by R. A. Austen-Leigh - first edition;(1950) More Talk of Jane Austen by Sheila Kaye-Smith and G. B. Stern - first edition;(1955) Jane Austen: A Critical Bibliography by R. W. Chapman;(1956) T'Other Miss Austen by Kathleen Freeman - first edition;(1970) Women in Profile: A Study in Silhouette by F. Gordon Roe - first edition.In publisher's original cloth bindings. Jane Austen and Southampton is the publisher's original cloth paperback edition.Jane Austen: Her Life and Art contains a frontispiece portrait of Jane Austen. Jane Austen and Southampton contains a frontispiece, maps to each endpapers and three further monochrome plates. T'Other Miss Austen contains six double-sided plates. Women in Profile contains sixteen double-sided plates, with an additional tipped-in postcard. Collated, complete.The majority of the included works shed light on the life and writings of the popular English novelist. This is excepting Emma, which is Gordon Glennon's stage adaptation of Austen's novel, and Women in Profile, a lovely investigation into the artistry of silhouettes, popular in Austen's time, complimentary to the collection in its visuals of the everyday heroines Austen's novels depict. In publisher's original cloth bindings. Jane Austen and Southampton is the publisher's original cloth paperback edition. Contemporary inscription to front free endpaper of Talking of Jane Austen, dated Xmas 1943, and signatures of previous owners to Emma and More Talk of Jane Austen. Previous bookseller's insert tipped in to the rear of Jane Austen: Study for a Portrait. Externally, smart with slight bumping and rubbing and the odd mark. Women in Profile encased in protective binding. Internally, generally firmly bound. Binding of Jane Austen and Her Times a little fragile to the first page. Page 13 to Jane Austen: Her Life and Art loose and binding delicate between pages 96 and 97. The occasional delicate page also to Jane Austen and Southampton, especially to pages 6-7, 24 and towards rear. Modern penmanship to the penultimate page of More Talk of Jane Austen. More spotting to Jane Austen and Her Times, otherwise reasonably bright and clean collection with the odd spot throughout, heavier to first and last few pages to each volume. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

HARD BACK BLUE. Condition: GOOD. JACKET: WORN DJ. FOURTH PRINTIN. Dust jacket is tattered/chiped at top, fading and discolored from age. Cloth covered boards shows some fading at edges, very clean. Inside is foxing and browning. Binding is good. DATE PUBLISHED: 1950 EDITION: FOURTH PRINTIN 317.