Rayner Crook (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. History. Volume one ONLY of multi-volume set. Covers rubbed and faded, corners and spine ends bumped with wear. Interior clean and tight, pages tanned, endpapers foxed, top edge gilt, silk marker ribbon intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Condition: Good. 327 pp., hardcover, ex library, else text and binding clean and tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The Navarre Soc, London, 1926. Hard covers, green boards, gilt titles. Book Condition : Very good. clean unmarked text. Rough cut pages. Fore pages browned Vol Three binding cracked. Spines bumped. Corners turned. Superb Illustrations. Heavy book please contact the bookseller for postal rates. Books will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #FW022285.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. A complete twentieth-century illustrated edition, featuring an extensive range of influential crime stories originally published as The Newgate Calendar. Complete in five volumes. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth. Each work is illustrated with a frontispice. Volume I is then followed by seven plates; Volume II contains three further plates; Volume III contains five further plates; and Volumes IV and V contain four additional plates each. Collated, complete. An extensive twentieth-century edition of The Newgate Calendar. Originally appearing as a monthly bulletin of executions by the Keeper of London's Newgate Prison, the title was appropriated by a number of publishers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who released numerous macabre chapbooks on notorious criminals of the time. Edited by J. L. Rayner and G. T. Crook, the present work compiles writings from a range of sources, including the notable, previously compiled collection of Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth. Previous ownership signature to the front free endpaper of Volume I, dated 1927. Externally, generally smart with moderate bumping and rubbing, resulting in notable chips to the spine tail of Volume I and spine head of Volume IV. Further, more minimal, shelf wear and a few small tears to the spine heads and tails of the remaining volumes, and cracking towards the top half of the front joint of Volume V, the board remaining firmly bound. Light marking to a few of the boards. Internally, generally firmly bound, the hinges a little weaker in places and especially to the front hinge of Volume V. Reasonably bright and clean with more significant spotting to the first and last few pages of each work. Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. This Complete Five Volume Set is clean, solid and in great shape. These old hardcover books include many illustrations. The bindings are strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages show some light soiling and foxing. The pages have roughcut fore edges. The title page shows 1926 as the published date. This Set is handsomely bound with brown cloth covers and bright gold designs and text. The covers show some light edgewear, light soiling and scuff marks. We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Five volumes. Hardcovers without DJs. Black cloth over boards with gold lettering and decoration on spine and front covers. Binding is good and tight on all five volumes. The spine of Volume II is detached along one side but the binding is still intact. Covers are generally clean on all five volumes, with mild signs of wear; rubbing at crown and foot of spines, along outer edges. Deckled pages. Golden top-edges. The Complete Newgate Calendar: Being Captain Charles Johnson's General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers and Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, 1734; Captain Alexander Smith's Compleat History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Foot-Pads, Shop-Lifts and Cheats, 1719; The Tyburn Chronicle, 1768; The Malefactors' Register, 1796; George Borrow's Celebrated Trials, 1825; The Newgate Calendar, by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin, 1826; Camden Pelham's Chronicles of Crime, 1841; etc. Privated Printed for the Navarre Society Limited. Title page dated 1926. No date on copyright page. Volume I: 333 pages. Volume II: 327. Volume III: 333 pages. Volume IV: 335 pages. Volume V: 335 pages. Overall nice copies. Be sure to request photos before purchasing. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: If there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. (1926), Limited Edition of 2000 sets; Near Fine/Very Good to Find djs, 5 volumes complete: 335, 328, 335, 336, 346pp., black cloth hardcovers, bright gold lettering on backstrips, last pages of index of several volumes still un-cut & never-opened, bindings tight, very slight tanning to endpapers o/w texts clean & unmarked, all djs excellent & mylar-enclosed, an exceptionally nice set, requires extra postage for International shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. G. Nice, clean, tight copy of the Navarre Society Five Volume Set. Some minor toning to endpapers and minor tears to top and bottom of spine. Minor soiling to covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition (2000 Copies Only). THIS COMPLETE FIVE VOLUME SET IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN 3/4 DARK BLUE CRUSHED MOROCCO WITH BRIGHT GILT RULE TO BOARDS, FOUR COMPARTMENTS AND THREE RAISED BANDS TO SPINES WITH ELABORATE GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. SOME DISCREET REPAIRS TO HINGES, SOME LIGHT WEAR TO EXTREMITIES. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD, MARBLED END PAPERS AND PASTE DOWNS. TOP EDGES GILT. NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND CLEAN, WITHOUT MARKS OR FOXING. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED-FULL PAGE PLATES, FRONTISPIECES WITH CLEAN TISSUE GUARD, BOOKS MEASURE 9.25"x6". PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR THE NAVARRE SOCIETY LIMITED, 95 YEARS OLD. AN ATTRACTIVE SET. …

Condition: Near fine. Limited Edition. 5 volumes, 8vo., 8 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches (213 x 143 mm). Vol. 1: xvi, 335, frontispiece + seven plates; Vol. 2: xv, 328, frontispiece + three plates; Vol. 3: xv, 336, frontispiece + five plates; Vol. 4: xvi, 336, frontispiece + four plates; Vol. 5 xvi, 346, frontispiece + four plates; appendixes and index in each volume. Rubricated half title, rubricated title page, engraved frontispiece in each volume with tissue guard. 3/4 levant morocco bindings with gilt rules and compartments, gilt titles, raised bands, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Pages very lightly and evenly toned, some pages unopened, 1-inch split to front hinge on vol. 5, all volumes firmly bound. Limited Edition of 2000 copies, printed on fine quality paper. A smart complete set of this historical collection of moralizing stories of sin, crime, and criminals. Complete in five volumes. The Newgate Calendar was a popular collection of moralizing stories of sin, crime, and the criminals who commit them in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Originally produced as a monthly bulletin of executions by the Keeper of Newgate Prison in London, the title was appropriated by many publishers and collected editions began to appear from the mid-eighteenth century. This edition includes: General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers and Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, 1734. Written by Captain Charles Johnson, a British author whose true identity remains a mystery. Compleat History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Foot-Pads, Shop-Lifts, and Cheats, 1719; The Tyburn Chronicle, 1768; and The Malefactor's Register, 1796. Written by Captain Alexander Smith, a British biographer. Celebrated Trials, 1825. Written by George Borrow, an English novelist and travel writer. The Newgate Calendar, 1826. Written by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin, English writers. Chronicles of Crime, 1841. Written by Camden Pelham, a British author. Collated and edited with some appendices by J. L. Rayner and G. T. Crook. …