William Bryce (18 results)

Condition: Acceptable. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A readable copy. All pages and the cover are intact (dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes--in pen or highlighter--but notes cannot obscure the text. First Edition. Wear to spine. Back board is coming loose from textblock. Binding is loosening. Good reference copy.…

Decorative Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Minor shelf wear, corners frayed, the stitching is beginning to loosen and so there is a crack appearing at pp 50-1, but the binding is sound overall, a good copy. Early inscription penned to the first free endpaper, 'Gertrude White, with love from Julie(?),' also dated but scarcely able to make out 1892 in old pen. Text is quite clean. Bound in decorative green embossed cloth with gilt title to the front cover, blank spine. Illustrated. 125 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Publication of 107 pages. Frontispiece. There is gilt on the spine and on the front cover. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. There is foxing around the block of the book and on the first few pages. All pages are accessible. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Leather Bound. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Circa 1865, eight thousand (the first was in 1861). Not actually dated but old inscription dated 1865. 19th Century half-leather binding in good+, tight condition, with light wear. 237-page text in good+, tight condition. Hand-coloured frontispiece and vignette title page. Slight colouring of title. Weight 219g. See photographs attached. (BM41).…

Hardcover. Condition: VG. First Edition. Bound in pictorial blue boards. Fold-out colour frontis, lots of black and white illustrations including many full page. Artists include Ernest Prater, Alfred Pearse, Norman Wilkinson and many others. Boards edgeworn, front hinge cracked but holding. 476 pp.

Condition: Good. Hardback. 1st Ed. Blue covers with bevelled edges. Gilt Fr.ont cover & spine titles. Some wear to spine-ends & tips. Top section of Ffep excised. Owner bookplate to inside Front cover. 8.8" x 5.8". viii pp. + 313 pp. inc. index + 23 pp. publisher's list. Wt: 1.0 Kg. Good.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. the boards are edge worn and shelf rubbed. marked. spine sunned. some foxing. internally clean and tightly bound. [P.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. A good oversized red hardcover with pictorial boards. Cover:Sailor and boy on deck of tallship. Wear to edges, short tears along spine, Frontis glued to inside cover, missing ffep, pages browning.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Revised & Enlarged edition. Oblong 32mo, 57pp., grey-blue pictorial scenic cloth, needs to be recased. two short, closed tears in margin of the folding map. Issued as Bryce's Tourists' Illustrated Handbook to the Canadian Dominion. This work, dated December, 1888, reproduces Queen Victoria's commendatory note for Mr. Bryce done May 2, 1889. Excellent views across Canada, including the Falls of Niagara. 60 views on 57 litho plates. Folding map: "Map of the Dominion of Canada Showing Railway Connections from Atlantic To Pacific" (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Frontis, 7 x 4.5", half black leather, black boards, 195pp. Covers detached, lacks spine cover, endpapers/blank pages toned. Page 193/194 archivally repaired at lower margin affecting last few lines of text. Textblock tight. Bookplate "M.A. Maude Hendrie, Homestead, Hamilton, Canada". Plus her ink note on ffep "Maude Hendrie 1890 On Train From Calgary North West Territory", same info on title page. In 1890 she married Henry Brockholst Ledyard III of Detroit, his father was president of Michigan Central Railroad. SCARCE. SWAF. FISRT CANADIAN EDITION. …

First Canadian edition, later issue (no earlier than 1890). 8vo., orig. brown cloth dec. in black, lettered in gilt on the upper board, 137, (7)pp. Inner hinges cracked, spine worn, tape to front free e/paper, a good copy only.

Softcover. Condition: Good -. No Dust Jacket. Not Stated. 322 pages. Black lettering on an orange paper cover. Back cover is missing. Corners are bumped and worn. Some pencil markings in the text. A good reading copy of this extremely scarce edition of Mackay's Twin Soul.

First edition. [6], 313pp, [25]. With half-title, an engraved frontispiece, numerous engraved in-text illustrations, and a terminal catalogue of publishers advertisements for William Andrews of Hull. Original publisher's gilt-tooled blue cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked, with wear to extremities, spine sunned. Bookplate of Thomas Parkin to FEP; two inked gift inscriptions to verso of FFEP, one of which signed in Parkin's name. Light spotting to initial and terminal leaves. The first edition, in original cloth, of a comprehensive history of Scotland's foundations and development by historian David Maxwell, comprised primarily of a series of discerning sketches, each placing the reader within the traditions and customs of a certain era. Published as part of the 'Bygone' series, produced by Andrews and Co. of Hull, the volume features an interesting chapter on 'Witchcraft in Scotland', including an accurate re-print of an accusation levied against Thomas Leyis of Aberdeen in 1597, declaring him the leader of 'ane gryt number of ither witches, cam to the mercat and fish cross of Aberdene, under the conduct and gyding of the dewill'. Size: 8vo. …

First Canadian edition, later issue. 8vo., orig. rust cloth dec. in black, lettered in gilt on the upper board, (ii), (140)pp. Lacking the front free e/papers, rubbing to the spine ends and extremities, a very good cop.

In-16°, legatura editoriale in tutta tela con ricche impressioni a secco al dorso e ai piatti, titolo in oro al dorso, e tagli dorati; pp. 86 (in nn. romani le prime X), più (2) di novità editoriali. Con 11 incisioni in acciaio di vedute e monumenti, su tavv. f. t. in carta forte (mm. 68 x 85 alla battura), antiporta incisa con titoli e vignette, e una pianta della città (mm 250 x 280 ca.) a colori, più volte ripiegata all'inizio del volumetto. Due ex-libris applicati al contropiatto. Leggere abrasioni ai bordi della legatura, e fisiologiche fioriture sparse; nel complesso buon esemplare di questa graziosa piccola guida di Edimburgo e del sobborgo di Leith.…

An important late 19th century railway map of Canada depicting railway connection from Atlantic to Pacific.William Bryce was a prominent late-19th/early-20th-century Toronto-based wholesale book publisher, stationer, and publisher of Canadian maps, booklets, postcards and souvenir books., Size : 182x595 (mm), 7.17x23.43 (Inches), Printed in Color with Some Hand Coloring Very Good; backed with acid free tissue paper for long term preservation. …

Condition: Very good. First Edition. First English edition; 7 x 4 3/4; pp. [2], 5-160, [8]; yellow, pictorial wraps; spotting to front wrap and a thin, discolored band to bottom margin of first few leaves; a bit of wear to edges and a small cut to fore-edge of front wrap; very faint gift inscription to top margin of front wrap; in about very good condition.Number 236 in publisher William Bryce's "Home Series," the book was the first English edition of Russian peasant philosopher Timofei Bondarev's "The Triumph of the Farmer or Industry and Parasitism," which was published only because of Tolstoy's involvement and the latter's going to great lengths to have the work released. His first two attempts were censored, but in 1888 the Russkoe Delo journal serialized it with an afterword by Tolstoy. In 1890, thanks to Tolstoy, it was translated and published in book form in French and right after - in English (the current edition) - by American novelist Mary Cruger (1834 - 1908). The text would be reverse-translated into Russian and published in condensed form by Posrednik in 1906.…