W E Henley Ed (27 results)

Condition: Very Good.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Thus. Red leather boards, cloth spine, the whole showing light edgewear, remains of label on spine. Minor library markings: bookplate on pastedown, ink stamps on indicia and last pp, barcode on BEP. Front hinge cracked. Contents otherwise clean and sound throughout. Ex Library.…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Large 8vo with cream cloth. Gilt motifs and borders on front board and backstrip. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Bumped corners. Pencil markings on title page of volume 1. Volume 2 and 3 have frontispieces with tissue guards. Exterior is frayed and worn. Interior is secure. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,2400grams, ISBN.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Photographic illustrations. 8vo. Near fine laminated boards, as issued without dust wrapper, clean with square corners, a smart example; from the publisher's 'Nineteenth Century' series. xxv, 366pp.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition thus. VG : in Very good condition without dust jacket. Cover edge-worn and scratched. 220mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). xl, 327pp; xii, 383pp. Danett 1596 translation. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. Red/gilt hardback cloth spine over red boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Books measure 22x16cm, 273,312pp. Bound in original publishers quarter cloth with gilt title lettering, red paper backed boards. Bindings with some wear, rubbed corners and edges. Bindings in good clean, firm condition. Internally, private library bookplate on paste down of both volumes, otherwise pages clean. A very good clean set.…

Condition: New.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition thus. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. 220mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). xxxvi, 287pp. Red/gilt hardback cloth spine over red boards.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardback. Printed pages: 706. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The true first printing of Wells' first novel, published in five parts in The New Review between January and May 1895. Contemporary half brown morocco leather binding with brown cloth boards. Spine with five raised bands and gilt title. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Slight rubbing to spine and corners of boards. Excellent solid binding. Foxing to leading and trailing blanks. Light foxing to title page and final page of text. Small stain to margin of pages 550 and 551 text is otherwise very clean throughout. Slight rippling to upper margin of a few pages. One lower page corner is folded and mis-cut. The text of The Time Machine is very clean and complete in 15 chapters plus epilogue. This work had a complex genesis. Wells first explored the concept of time travel in 'The Chronic Argonauts' published in his college magazine in 1888. He later attempted to suppress the work by buying up all back numbers and destroying them. In 1894 the story was completely rewritten and issued as a series of fictionalised essays in the National Observer newspaper. This series was abandoned however when W.E. Henley stood down as editor. A new draught was finally published in full when Henley took over as editor of The New Review. As Wells states in his introduction to the 1924 edition, there was a struggle between author and editor on the final text, Henley wanted to 'put a little writing into the tale'. As a result Wells added approximately 1000 words to the start of chapter XIII, 'The Further Vision'. This section (later referred to as 'The Grey Man') was removed from both the UK (Heinemann) and US (Holt) first book form editions, published in May 1895. The Grey Man section was copied via mimeograph and issued as a stapled booklet by an American fan in 1940, and only appeared again in a printed publication in 1958, in Satellite Science Fiction magazine. The complete New Review version of the text only appeared in print again in the 1960 Dover omnibus edition, 'Three Prophetic Novels of H.G. Wells'. The first printing of a true classic of the science fiction genre. Rare. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 6.75 x 9.25 inches (17 x 23.5 cm).…

Condition: Very Good. First Edition thus. VG : in Very good condition without dust jacket. Cover edge-worn and lightly marked. 220mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). lviii, 273pp; 313pp. Fenton 1567 translation. Matteo Bandello, Bishop of Agen was an acclaimed author of novellas, which served as the basis for plays by Shakespeare. Bandello wrote a number of poems, but his fame rests entirely on his extensive collection of Novelle, or tales (1554, 1573), which have been extremely popular. They belong to the same genre as Boccaccio's Decameron. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. Red/gilt hardback cloth spine over red boards.…

Condition: Very Good. First Edition thus. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. 220mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). xxix, 290pp. Translated in 1587 by Underdowne from the original Greek of Heliodorus of Emesa. The 'Æthiopian History' has been called "the ancestor in a direct line of the Novel of Adventure," notable for anticipating every artifice of the historical novel. Red/gilt hardback cloth spine over red boards.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Thus. First Thus hard cover, (no jacket), in very good condition. Navy blue boards have gilded pageblock head and gilt book details to spine. General shelf and handling wear, including rubbing and light wear to board edges and bumped corners, with minor creasing at spine head and foot. Book details to spine are clear and bright. Roughcut pageblock is tanned and foxed, this leading into pastedowns, endpapers, and, lightly to page edges, with occasional foxing spots throughout. Within, pages are tightly bound; a couple of instances of pencilled marginalia noted, otherwise content is unmarked. CN. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Thus. First Thus hard cover, (no jacket), in very good condition. Navy blue boards have gilded pageblock head and gilt book details to spine. General shelf and handling wear, including rubbing and light wear to board edges and bumped corners, with minor creasing at spine head and foot. Lightly blemished. Book details to spine are clear and bright. Roughcut pageblock is tanned and foxed, this leading into pastedowns, endpapers, and, lightly to page edges, with sporadic foxing spots throughout. Within, pages are tightly bound, and other than a couple of instances of pencilled marginalia (in beautiful script), content is unmarked. CN. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Thus. First Thus hard cover, (no jacket), in very good condition. Navy blue boards have gilded pageblock head and gilt book details to spine. General shelf and handling wear, including rubbing and light wear to board edges and corners, with minor creasing at spine head and foot. Book details clear and bright. Roughcut pageblock is tanned and foxed, tanning and foxing to pastedowns and endpapers, and lightly to page edges, with sporadic foxing spots throughout. Within, pages are tightly bound, and other than a couple of instances of pencilled marginalia, content is unmarked. CN.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Thus. First Thus hard cover, (no jacket), in very good condition. Navy blue boards have gilded pageblock head and gilt book details to spine. General shelf and handling wear, including rubbing and light wear to board edges and bumped corners, with minor creasing at spine head and foot. Book details to spine are clear and bright. Roughcut pageblock is tanned and foxed, this leading into pastedowns, endpapers, and, lightly to page edges, with occasional foxing spots throughout. Within, pages are tightly bound, content unmarked. CN. …

Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. G: in good condition without dust jackets. Covers rubbed and marked. Edge-wear. Spines sunned. Marking and abrasion to front cover of vol I. 220mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). lxxxiii, 415pp; xvii, 508pp; xv, 495pp; 483pp; xv, 462pp; xi, 469pp. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. Published 1901-1903. Red cloth spines with maroon hardback board covers.…

Condition: Very Good. First Edition thus. VG : in Very good condition without dust jackets. Covers rubbed and lightly marked. Scratch to front board of vol III, front corner bump to vol V. 220mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 414pp; 402pp; 283pp; 358pp; 347pp; 400pp. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. 1611 King James translation. Red/gilt hardback cloth spine over red boards.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. A very scarce large paper limited edition set of the writings of Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns, illustrated throughout. A very scarce ten volume limited edition set of Burns's works, with this being set 119 of 250 large-paper sets produced for Great Britain.Edited and with essays on 'Burns's Life, Genius, and Achievement' by W. E. Henley, and with an introduction from novelist John Buchan.Illustrated with ten plates to volume I, including a folding facsimile plate; sixteen plates to volume II, including one folding plate and one double page plate; six plates to volume III; eleven plates to volume IV; nine plates to volume V; five plates to volume VI, two of which are folding facsimiles; three plates to volume VII; three plates to volume VIII, including a double page plate; three plates to volume IX, and three plates to volume X. Collated, complete.A truly lovely set collecting together the poetry, miscellaneous writings and letters of the national poet of Scotland. In the publisher's original quarter calf bindings, with cloth covered boards. Light rubbing to front joints of volumes I, II and X and rear joint of volume IX. Minor discolouration to back strips, otherwise externally excellent. Small instance of worming to head of front pastedown, front free endpaper and half title of volume IV. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. #664/1000cc. 10 vol. Printed in Edinburgh by the late queen's printer. Small folio-sized, 3/4 red Morroco leather with cloth boards. Marbled endpapers. Heavily illustrated with engravings in black and white and in color. Some shelfwear with leather starting flake along edges. Spine of volume 8 missing a small square on top right corner.…

382 pp., (2 pp. blank), 32 pp. publisher's catalogue. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to W. E. Henley by A. M. M. Stedman, with occasional marginal annotations by Stedman. Original brick red cloth. Bookplate of W. E. Henley. Spine faded, else very good 382 pp., (2 pp. blank), 32 pp. publisher's catalogue. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed.…