Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Some small marks to slipcase otherwise fine.
Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Free of markings. Very good slipcase.
Language: English
Published by Folio Society, 1967
Seller: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good Condition. Reprint. Folio Society vintage edition, 1967. In slipcase. Quarter dark orange cloth with marbled paper boards. Gilt lining at the paper/cloth seam, Gilt lettering and decoration on the spine. Endpapers are a lovely olive green. Matching olive green top stain. Slip case is a milk chocolate brown. Slight rubbing. Size: 8vo. 158 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 pounds or less. Category: Literature & Literary; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Full refund if not satisfied.
Condition: Very Good. Illus. By Gordon Ross (illustrator). Very Good condition. Slipcase Good. 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.
Hardcover. Reprint edition. Very Good/None (8834) 1945 Heritage Press. No dust jacket, no slipcase. Book is very good with a somewhat darkened spine. Clean and free of marks. Color drawings by Gordon Ross. . 198.
Published by Heritage Press
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Condition: New.
Language: English
Published by Heritage Press, New York, 1945
Seller: Bohemian Bookworm, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Ross, Gordon + illusstrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. AS NEW, brown cloth over boards w tan title plate in gilt font, gilt font on spine, 198 pps + illustrated plates. From the Spectator, London 1711-1712 with notes by Thackery. Beautifully illustrated by Gordon Ross. As Thackeray notes in his introductory comments, "as we read in these delightful essays, the past age returns." for anyone who is interested in truly understanding the character of life in 18th century England. Unmarked, clean, bright and tight. The slip case is not included.
Published by The Heritage Press, New York, 1945
Seller: Russ States, Oil City, PA, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Gordon Ross (illustrator). (1945), 198pp, illus., slipcase, light shelfwear to cover, crease to last numbered pg, slight soiling & shelfwear to slipcase, contents clean.
Published by D. C. Heath & Co., 1911
Seller: SmarterRat Books, Chagrin Falls, OH, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1911 D. C. Heath & Co. Small, thin (6" x 4.5") cream cloth-bound hardcover has brown decorative lettering on cover and spine. Cover title is bordered by brown frames. Spine is faded and browned. Covers lightly soiled, spotted and stained, but not very worn. Corners bumped with a small amount of fraying. Spine ends also lightly frayed. Name and date in ink on front free endpaper. Glossy frontispiece illustration of Addison and title page are heavily foxed. All other pages only lightly yellowed. Eight pages have pencil underlining on a few lines. Three pages have a few lines written in margins in pencil. 'With Introduction and Notes by William Henry Hudson, Professor of English Literature in the Leland Stanford Junior University.' Illustrated; includes map of London and notes. 208 pages. Heath's English Classics series. No dust jacket.
Published by Heritage Press, NY, 1945
Seller: Pepper's Old Books, Hanson, KY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Gordon Ross (illustrator). From the Spectator, London 1711-1712 & Illustrated.
Published by Heritage Press, New York, 1945
Seller: Canal Bookyard, Upper Black Eddy, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Gordon Ross (illustrator). Gold titles on red/brown cloth, 198 pages including notes plus 12 full page illustrations and 28 pages of introductory material. Some very light soiling to cover.
Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Moderate wear; an adequate readable copy. Book.
Language: English
Published by The George Macy Companies, 1945
Seller: Miki Store, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is verygood. Binding is tight/good.
Language: English
Published by Folio Society, United Kingdom, 1967
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, marbled paper sides, red/brown cloth backstrip lettered gilt, bookplate of a previous owner on front pastedown, no slipcase, no wrapper issued, portrait frontis, 158pp.
Published by The Folio Society, London, Great Britain, 1968
Seller: Lucky Panther Books, Leonia, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Richard Shirley Smith (illustrator). A beautiful edition of a classic text. 2nd impression, printed from the text edited by D. F. Bond for the Clarendon Press. Richard Smith did wood engravings which are above chapter titles and on frontispiece. A crisp, clean, fresh copy in a slipcase in similar "as new" condition. 158 pages, 9 1/4" x 5 3/4".
Published by NY: Heritage Press, 1945
Seller: Lorrin Wong, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
1st printing of 1st US edition. From The Spectator (London: 1711-1712) Fine hard cover book/ no dust jacket.
Published by The Heritage Press, New York, 1945
Seller: Browse Awhile Books, Tipp City, OH, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good (spine sl. darkened). No Jacket. Gordon Ross (illustrator). Slipcase is edgeworn and split at bottom. Size: Large Octavo. In Slipcase.
Language: English
Published by Folio Society, United Kingdom, 1967
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, marbled paper sides, red/brown cloth backstrip lettered gilt, dust jacket not called for. Fading a little to the spine, tightly bound and with clean and unmarked contents, evidence of a small label or price sticker having been removed from the head of the front free endpaper. 158pp. Housed in a rubbed slipcase.
Language: English
Published by Heritage Press, New York, 1945
Seller: The Bookworm, Oroville, CA, U.S.A.
Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Description: ''From The Spectator, London: 1711-1712, With Some Prefatory Notes by W M Thackeray, and illustrations Drawn for this Edition by Gordon Ross.'' Includes the publisher's insert, the Sandglass. BINDING/CONDITION: dark wine colored cloth with red and gilt; the top edge tint is red; the cloth is slightly darkened at the spine, otherwise a Fine book, with a Fair slipcase. The slipcase is taped. 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall). 198 pages.
Language: English
Published by THE HERITAGE PRESS, 1945
Seller: Shadetree Rare Books, Chatham, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ross, Gordon (illustrator). Hardcover - Very Good condition. 12 color plates. PLEASE REVIEW PICTURES.
Language: English
Published by The Heritage Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1945
Seller: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine+. No Jacket. Gordon Ross (illustrator). First Edition Thus. The Heritage Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1945. First (1st) Edition Thus. Near Fine+ condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, soft white, tight, straight and square with no markings other than the remains of occasional erasures of underlining in pencil in the first 63 pages. The Binding is fulll reddish-brown cloth, color uniform throughout, with design, title and author in bright gilt to the front board, the same to the spine, off-white endpapers unmarked except for a prior owner's name plate on the front endpaper, and all corners square and sharp. No Dust Jacket. Twelve (12) color illustrations by Gordon Ross on unnumbered pages. xi+198 pages, including the Prefatory Notes by William Makepeace Thackeray, XXVI chapters, Translations of the Mottoes and Some Notes, etc. 6 3/8" x 9 1/2". Sir Roger de Coverly is a fictional character, devised by Joseph Addison, who portrayed him as the ostensible author of papers and letters published in Joseph Addison and Richard Steele's journal. The Spectator. The name of the character is taken from the name of an English and Scottish country dance from the 17th century, which is also referenced, inter alia, in a short story, "The Bedford-Row Conspiracy", by Thackeray.
Published by Charles E. Merrill, 1906
Seller: Rare Reads, Athens, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No dust jacket. Cover a bit rubbed with bent corners. Writing on front end page. A few marks here and there, but pages mostly clean. Very Good condition.
Published by The Heritage Press
Seller: Biblio Pursuit, Lenhartsville, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The Heritage Press. Hardcover. Very Good.
Published by Ginn & Company, 1902
Seller: Sperry Books, Rollinsford, NH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Lightly worn blue boards w/ frayed ends on tanning spine, no jacket, tight binding, name inside, margin marks, some underlines Prompt, reliable service, shipped next business day. Int'l mailed via first class or priority.
Published by The Heritage Press, New York, 1945
Seller: Shamrock Books, Lubbock, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Gordon Ross (illustrator). Modern Reprint. Sub-titled: "From the Spectator, London: 1711-1712" Full cloth with gilt titles; 8vo.,198pp. Fine in V.Good+ slipcase. Sir Roger de Coverley, fictional character, devised by Joseph Addison, who portrayed him as the ostensible author of papers and letters that were published in Addison and Richard Steele's influential periodical The Spectator. As imagined by Addison, Sir Roger was a baronet of Worcestershire and was meant to represent a typical landed country gentleman. He was also a member of the fictitious Spectator Club, and the de Coverley writings included entertaining vignettes of early 18th-century English life that were often considered The Spectator's best feature.
Published by The Heritage Press, New York, 1945
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy. Illustrated by Gordon Ross. Housed in decorated slip-case. Fine.
Published by The Heritage Press, New York, 1945
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Gordon Ross (illustrator). First Edition. xxviii + 198 pp., illus., brown-burgundy cloth. Lacks original publisher's slipcase. From "The Spectator," London, 1711-1712. Prefatory notes by Wm. Makepeace Thackeray. Cloth at lower back strip slightly darkened where a call label has been removed; rear endpapers show very slight residue where circulation apparatus has been removed; no other library marks. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by The Folio Society, 1967
Seller: Jon A Sewell, Rugby, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. UK hardback, 1967 The Folio Society. The book is in fine condition, the slipcase is in fine condition. Edited by John Hampden with wood engravings by Richard Shirley Smith.