William Robert Chambers Editors (44 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First U.S. Edition. Two volumes in one. A Good copy in embossed red cloth, rubbed at the spine, and with soiling to the rear cover. The binding is fairly tight, and the contents are unmarked. This edition contains the 1854 London Volumes XI & XII, with their original title pages, with the single Lippincott 1856 title page placed at the front for the U.S. edition. Book.

Disbound. Condition: VG+. Number 366. Single issue of a popular, early Victorian magazine. Topics covered included history, religion, language, and science, plus, some fiction. Issue of Saturday, February 2, 1840. pp9-16 [8pp]. Topics include - Institutional Food, Grace Brown, The Affair of the Macreas, The Athens of America - Boston, The Old Letter-Writer of Paris, A Few Weeks on the Continent, Weapon-Schawing, Walpoliana, Fannon's Mare, etc. Disbound from a folio, pages still connected. Bright, clean and unmarked. Weight, 20. Ships via inexpensive Lettermail.

Disbound. Condition: Near Fine. Single issue of a disbound weekly newspaper published in Edinburgh, Scotland, Saturday April 20, 1839. Founded in 1832, this weekly newspaper of 8 pages was priced at Three Halfpence. Features - history, religion, language,science. Bright, clean, white pages, sound binding, unmarked. Very light horizontal fold at centre, barely visible. A vey affordable periodical from the Age of Dickens. Weight, 21g. Ships via inexpensive Lettermail.

Disbound. Condition: Near Fine. Single issue of a disbound weekly newspaper published in Edinburgh, Scotland, Saturday February 22, 1840. Founded in 1832, this weekly newspaper of 8 pages was priced at Three Halfpence. Features - history, religion, language, science. Bright, clean, white pages, sound binding, unmarked. Very light horizontal fold at centre, barely visible. A very affordable periodical from the Age of Dickens. Weight, 21g. Ships via inexpensive Lettermail.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Half-leather binding with wear along joints and wear through the leather at all board corners. Marbled boards heavily rubbed with bits of loss along edges. Text block edges toned and soiled. Binding firm, unmarked copy.

Disbound. Condition: Near Fine. Single issue of a disbound weekly newspaper published in Edinburgh, Scotland, Saturday April 20, 1839. Founded in 1832, this weekly newspaper of 8 pages was priced at Three Halfpence. Features - history, religion, language,science. The Earth Worm, Etymology, Kidnapping, Strikes, Poetry of Sir William Jones, The British Museum, Feasts. Bright, clean, white pages, sound binding, unmarked. Very light horizontal fold at centre, barely visible. A vey affordable periodical from the Age of Dickens. Weight, 21g. Ships via inexpensive Lettermail.

Disbound. Condition: VG+. Number 369. Single issue of a popular, early Victorian magazine. Topics covered included history, religion, language, and science, plus, some fiction. Issue of Saturday, June 13, 1840. pp33-40 [8pp]. Topics include - The Heroines of Burns, Popular Info on Science, The Continental Blockade, A Few Weeks on the Continent, Education in India, Volcanic Island in the Mediterranean, fiction, etc. Disbound from a folio, pages still connected. Bright, clean and unmarked. Weight, 20. Ships via inexpensive Lettermail.

Disbound. Condition: VG+. Single issue of a popular, early Victorian magazine. Topics covered included history, religion, language, and science, plus, some fiction. Issue of Saturday, June 13, 1840. pp161-168 [8pp]. Topics inclue 'Eye Hints', 'Political Economy', Falconry', 'Sanatoriums', 'Commercial Travellers', fiction & 'Doctor Channing on Hard Work'. Disbound from a folio, pages still connected. Bright, clean and unmarked. Weight, 20G.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. This was a weekly Magazine that began in 1832 and lasted until 1956 with various changes in title etc. Published in 1839 at Three Halfpence per issue. This low price, party due to lack of images, was in some measure responsible for its early success. 8 page issue, pp 9-16. Some features of this issue - Stories of the Irish Peasantry - The Colony of Mettray - Foreign and British Pictures - The Wandering Jew - The Seven Men of Glenmorriston - Warm Baths for the Working-Classes - Salmon Fishing Anecdote - Extension of the South Australian Principle of Emigrationl - etc. Very small type - allows for considerable text - but hard on the eyes! A bright, clean copy, unmarked. Disbound from a larger volume but with a sound binding. May ship via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, or via the USPS Media Mail, in card sleeve. From US$5.00 to US$9.50 depending on exact end-weight etc. [Media Mail rates in the USA do not apply to Magazines]. Those requiring Tracking in Canada will find postage considerably more. Tracking with all shipments to the USA. Image available if required. Overseas orders, Postage, at cost, determined by final weight and destination.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. This was a weekly Magazine that began in 1832 and lasted until 1956 with various changes in title etc. Published in 1839 at Three Halfpence per issue. This low price, party due to lack of images, was in some measure responsible for its early success. 8 page issue, pp225 -232. Some features of this issue - Stories of the Irish Peasantry - Constitution of the Chamber of Deputies of France - New Work of Medical Anecdote - SIr Woodbine Parish on South America - Samuel Wingrave, The Tobacconist - A Whale Chase - - The History of an Auld Naig - The Tread-Mill - etc. Very small type - allows for considerable text - but hard on the eyes! A bright, clean copy, unmarked. Disbound from a larger volume but with a sound binding. May ship via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, or via the USPS Media Mail, in card sleeve. From US$5.00 to US$9.50 depending on exact end-weight etc. [Media Mail rates in the USA do not apply to Magazines]. Those requiring Tracking in Canada will find postage considerably more. Tracking with all shipments to the USA. Image available if required. Overseas orders, Postage, at cost, determined by final weight and destination.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. This was a weekly Magazine that began in 1832 and lasted until 1956 with various changes in title etc. Published in 1839 at Three Halfpence per issue. This low price, party due to lack of images, was in some measure responsible for its early success. 8 page issue, pp121 -128. Some features of this issue - Stories of the Irish Peasantry - The London and Birmingham Railway - Walks in the British Museum - Little Snowdop [A Story for Little Folks] - Brazilian Vesper Bell - Walking [for exercise] - Migratory Expedition of Ants. Very small type - allows for considerable text - but hard on the eyes! A bright, clean copy, unmarked. Disbound from a larger volume but with a sound binding. May ship via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, or via the USPS Media Mail, in card sleeve. From US$5.00 to US$9.50 depending on exact end-weight etc. [Media Mail rates in the USA do not apply to Magazines]. Those requiring Tracking in Canada will find postage considerably more. Tracking with all shipments to the USA. Image available if required. Overseas orders, Postage, at cost, determined by final weight and destination.

Softcover. First Edition, First Printing. Book condition is Very Good, bound in wraps. Some rubbing and edgewear to exterior. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo. 9"h x 6"w. Contents: Moral Conversation and Moral Reasoning, Paying for Parts, Ethics and Suicide, Epidemiology, Families, Troubled Bodies/Disabled Bodies, Birth and Death, Gendered Relationships.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Mid C19th green cloth on light boards; hand-cut leather title label on spine. Corners scuffed, some faint marking on edges on rear board, very good. Book.

Plum Cloth. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No dj. 1856 printing, copperplate name on title page and preface page. This is a very worn book with text in grubby condition, the first half has with smudges, fingermarks, the odd ink stain and brown mottling, not too bad when you get further through. The spine corners are very worn and frayed, servicable as-is though a re-back would not go amiss. Gilt title clear to spine, and attractive blind embossed boards worn at corners. One torn page, binding sound with shaky inner hinges. Many diags in text. 281pp. Size: 16mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Bound together in half black leather over marbled boards, each volume contains 416 pages clean and unmarked, light occasional age toning; covers lightly worn, binding is loosening somewhat but volume is still solid and presentable [photo], spine inexpertly repaired but presentable; Vol. IX contains serialization of Capt. Mayne Reid. Oçeola, a Romance, 2 January 1858 to 26 June 1858 (weekly)., as well as many other Familiar Sketches, essays, Poetry, Popular Science, Tales and Other Narratives, and Miscellaneous Articles of Instruction and Entertainment; Index in 3 columns, text in 2 columns.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth, spine decorated in gilt, 832 pages clean and unmarked, light occasional age toning; covers lightly worn, binding is loosening somewhat but volume is still solid and presentable [photo]; contains serialization of John Vale's Guardian. By David Christie Murray and A Dead Reckoning. By T.W. Speight., as well as many other Familiar Sketches, essays, Poetry, Popular Science, Tales and Other Narratives, and Miscellaneous Articles of Instruction and Entertainment; Index in 3 columns, text in 2 columns.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Tight binding. 3/4 black leather with marble boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Previous owners' names written and stamped on endpapers. Foxing on endpapers and edges of pages. Two pages have separated from binding. Illustrated with woodcuts and engravings. Wear around edges of coverboards. Leather on spine is split and a piece is missing at tail of spine. A nice compendium of information from the mid-1800's including such topics as the human mind, phrenology, superstitions, in-door amusements, drawing, painting, sculpture, gymnastics, archaeology, printing, music and more. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 807 pp.

Poor condition - needs to be re-backed and sold as is. Sectional pagination. Hardcover: H 18cm x L 11.25cm. Spine leather perished with underlying paper back-strip exposed lengthwise; rubbed marbled paper boards with well worn leather spine margins and leather fore-edge corners. Toning/foxing, some soiling, and a few stains to leaves; insect nibbling at top fore-edge corners of rear leaves. Both boards are tenuously attached at joints/hinges but text block remains firm. Although no copyright date is provided OCLC indicates that this volume (issued among a larger set) was published circa 1845; the book's paper and typeset certainly seem contemporary to that date. Conflicting Memphis, Tennessee bindery ticket "Bound by Boyle & Chapman, 279 1/2 Main St., Memphis, Tenn." affixed at front pastedown's top left; Boyle & Chapman was a rather short-lived firm as OCLC cites company imprints from only 1871 to 1876; presence of Boyle & Chapman ticket should mean the binding is their product but, with the spine leather perished and the board leather degraded, it is difficult to ascertain whether the binding reflects American or British/Scottish work; antebellum and Reconstruction-era/postbellum bindery tickets for the American South are quite uncommon. Contents: {No. 96} Life of Columbus; {No. 97} Narrative of the Russian Campaign; {No. 98} Love is Power; {No. 99} Story of Alexander Andrayne; {No. 100} Anecdotes of Spiders; {No. 101} The Village Mayor; {No. 101} The Story of Fritz; {No. 101} The Bird-Catcher and his Canary; {No. 102} An Account of the Borders; {No. 103} Select Poetical Works of Cowper; {No. 104} Life of Peter the Great; {No. 105} Story of De La Tude; {No. 106} The Moors in Spain; {No. 107} The Montyon Prizes et al; {No. 108} Curiosities of Art.-I. Architecture; {#109} The Persecutions in Scotland; {#110} The Three Ways of Living et al; {#111} The Child of Elle, and other Ballads.

4to, (253x175mm), viii,848p. Disbound HEAVY BOOK please note that this title weighs more than the 1 kg packed average on which postage charges are based. Overseas customers may wish to email us through the 'Ask the bookseller a question' option for delivery options and possible additional charges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Bound together in half black leather over marbled boards, each volume contains 416 pages clean and unmarked, light occasional age toning; covers lightly worn, binding is loosening somewhat but volume is still solid and presentable [photo], spine inexpertly repaired but presentable; the volumes contain short stories and tales, as well as many other Familiar Sketches, essays, Poetry, Popular Science, Tales and Other Narratives, and Miscellaneous Articles of Instruction and Entertainment; Index in 3 columns, text in 2 columns.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Bound together in half black leather over marbled boards, each volume contains 416 pages clean and unmarked, light occasional age toning; vol 20 has an extra 32pp New Years Double number; covers lightly worn, binding is loosening somewhat but volume is still solid and presentable [photo], spine inexpertly repaired but presentable; the volumes contain short stories and tales, as well as many other Familiar Sketches, essays, Poetry, Popular Science, Tales and Other Narratives, and Miscellaneous Articles of Instruction and Entertainment; Index in 3 columns, text in 2 columns.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bound volume of Chambers's Journal for the period Dec. 1897 - May 1898, paginated viii, 416 including the title and contents for the entire volume ; this volume contains serialization of Victorian novels and other novelettes and short stories: specifically the FIRST APPEARANCE of John Buchan. John Burnet of Barns, 4 December 1897 to 30 July 1898 (weekly). This volume includes only the first 32 chapters.the serialization was completed in the following months Bound in half dark green leather over marbled boards. This is the true First Edition of this novel, the serializations appearing before the published book form. Very Good condition, mild overall handling wear;

New and Improved Series. 369-384pp. 24.3 x 16cm. Leaves evenly browned, a good copy.

Half-Leather. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. - VOLUME ONE: 820 pages - VOLUME TWO: 826 pages both have illustrations - both volumes have textured boards covers with quarter leather bindings and five raised bands on the spine - black title label on spine - page edges marbled to match endpapers and pastedowns VOLUME ONE has front hinge detached and foxing on early blank pages -VOLUME TWO has front hinge detached and damage to top of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hard Cover -- Good -- Dark green decorative cloth over boards with gilt letering and design to spine. No dust jacket if issued -- Other than light discloration at bottom edge, book shows only minimal wear - Circa 1880's.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Bound volume of Chambers Journal of popular literature, science and arts for the year 1892; this volume contains complete serializations of 2 Victorian novels and other novelettes and short stories: By Mead and Stream. by Charles Gibbon, and 'Two Days in a Lifetime,' By T.W. Speight Bound in publisher's dark burgundy red embossed cloth with front cover and spine lettered and decorated in gilt. This is the true First Edition of both novels, the serializations appearing before the published book form. Good condition, mild overall handling wear, spine somewhat faded with light chips at top, covers starting to loosen; pages clean and uinmarked, text block tightly bound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Bound volume of Chambers Journal of popular literature, science and arts for the year 1892; this volume contains complete serializations of 2 Victorian novels and other novelettes and short stories: A House Divided against Itself. By Mrs Oliphant., and 'Dunleap Tower.' and 'At Trevenna Cottage by T.W. Speight Bound in publisher's dark burgundy red embossed cloth with front cover and spine lettered and decorated in gilt. This is the true First Edition of both novels, the serializations appearing before the published book form. Good condition, mild overall handling wear, spine somewhat faded with light chips at top, covers starting to loosen, text clean and tight.

large 8vo. half-calf. cloth, protective modern dust jacket with paper spine label. [ii], 800 pages. New & Improved Edition. Volume II. Volume two only.Contains No. 90: Printing-Engraving-Lithography, pp. 625-640. Illustrated. Worn and boards faded, pages tanning, scattered foxing. Signature "Sedgwick," on front pastedown. HInges reparied. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. half-calf. cloth, protective modern dust jacket with paper spine label.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Bound together in half black leather over marbled boards, each volume contains 416 pages clean and unmarked, light occasional age toning; covers lightly worn, binding is loosening somewhat but volume is still solid and presentable [photo], spine inexpertly repaired but presentable; the volumes contain 2 Victorian novel serializations: The Bateman Household, and what became of them. By James Payn; and The Wild Huntress. By Captain Mayne Reid, as well as many other Familiar Sketches, essays, Poetry, Popular Science, Tales and Other Narratives, and Miscellaneous Articles of Instruction and Entertainment; Index in 3 columns, text in 2 columns.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bound volume of Chambers Journal of popular literature, science and arts for the year 1888; this volume contains complete serializations of 1 Victorian novel and other novelettes and short stories: This Mortal Coil. By Grant Allen; and a quite scarce early title by Fred M. White: 'The Silver Stream: an Idyl of the Wye.' Also stories by T. W. Speight and others Bound in dark green cloth with spine lettered and decorated in gilt. This is the true First Edition of these novels, the serializations appearing before the published book form. This short novel was the fourth written by White, who thus begins a long storied career writing mystery and science fiction. Very Good condition, mild overall handling wear, text clean and tight.