Clockmaker by Slick Samuel (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. cover shows minor weawr, tear, bumped corners, fading. pages lightly tanned and foxed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Green decorative binding with stamped Victorian designs; floral scrollwork and gilt lettering. Boards with heavy wear; edges and hinges torn; spine sunned; hinges weak and end pages loose; pages dusty with age toning. Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796 - 1865) was a Nova Scotian politician, judge, and author. Politically, he played a significant role in the history of Nova Scotia prior to its entry into Confederation. He was the first international best-selling author from what is now Canada. Sam Slick was a character created by Haliburton. With his wry wit and Yankee voice, Sam Slick of Slicksville put forward his views on "human nature" in a regular column in the Novascotian, beginning in 1835. The twenty-one sketches were published in a collection titled The Clockmaker, or the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slicksville, First Series in 1836, supplemented by an additional 12 unpublished or new sketches. The book was Canada's first international bestseller and was hugely popular, not only in Nova Scotia but also in Britain and the United States. Slick's wise-cracking commentary on the colonial life of Nova Scotia and relations with the U.S. and Britain struck a note with readers, leading to a second series in 1838 and a third in 1840. The satirical sketches, mocking both Canadians and Americans, made Haliburton one of the most popular writers of comic fiction in English of that era. This volume contains all three series.…

Hard Back. Condition: Book - Poor/Fair. No Dustjacket. viii+160+193+179 pages. Three series or volumes in one book. Battered copy, green binding with ornate impressing to boards, ornate gilt design & titles to boatds, shabby spine-ends with 1-2cm losses, much of both outer hinges split with fraying, inner hinges have paper cracks showing cloth 7-8mm, are holding but rear boad has a wobble. Spine is faded to beige, heavy wear to corners, book has a backward lean, a little foxing to text, page-edges slightly darkened. Text has a light wave but is generally clean and unimpeded. Reading copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. New Edition. Small loss to top & bottom spine. Book.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Spine cracked. Stamped on inside. (Nova Scotia, Satire).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Third series. Original blue cloth backed boards with paper spine label, binding good but boards somewhat marked and soiled. Contents good, hinge reinforced at some stage with sellotape, a little spotting a light reading wear. A good copy. Size: 8vo. Book.

Condition: Fair. 1862. New Edition. 533 pages. Half bound blue leather with marbled paper covered boards. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Brown staining to pages throughout. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to hinges and gutters, leaving netting exposed. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Noticeable peeling leather to spine and corners. Visible scuffing to boards.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Later Edition. 179 pages. Paper over board covers with paper label on spine. Hinges tender. Edge and corner wear. Label worn with some letters missing. Some foxing to pages. First printed in Nova Scotia. The book is a political and social satire of the times.…

Hardcover. Condition: G/NO DUSTJACKET. Philadelphia, PA: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1838. Hardcover. Sm 8vo., 179 pp., Foxing, missing spine label .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Two Sam Slick / T. C. Haliburton title and one by (Harriet Ann) Lady Scott, bound as one. Combined are Slick/Haliburton's The Clockmaker, Third Series (Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1841; [i]-vi, 199pp.), The Old Judge (NY: Stringer & Townsend, 1849; [1]-114pp., [6 publisher's ads]), and Lady Scott's Hylton House (NY: H. Long & Brother, 1850; [1]-115pp., [5 publisher's ads]). Likely reprinted from their respective publisher's plates, as paper is uniform throughout, but print style is not. The Clockmaker title page states it includes "The Letter-Bag of the Great Western" however this does not appear to have been included. Navy half-leather and marbled boards binding, gilt titling on spine, red speckling to page block edges; moderate amount of wear, rubbing to edges and corners, rubbing to marbled paper as well; binding remains firm and fully intact; previous owner names inscribed in pencil on title pages (apparently different owners for each book), else text is free of markings. A nice little group for the collector of 19th century humor. Photos, further explanation available upon request. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Condition: Fair. 1839. Fourth Edition. 325 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Rebound with new end papers. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Heavy cracking throughout binding. Text block split in two. Evidence of previous insect damage. Damp stains to bottom of pages throughout. Binding is shaky. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Spine head and tail are have large splits down both board joints. Book has a slight forward lean. Sunning to spine and front board. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Top edge of text block is dust marked. Damp staining to bottom edges of boards.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Foolscap8vo, viii, 533, [2 - catalogue] p. Original red quarter leather, green cloth, gilt, pale yellow endpapers, top edge gilt. Near fine clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Good with foxing and moderate wear.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Good. Third Edition. Wear to boards, heavily foxed and age toned, binding tight and square. Size: duodecimo (12mo). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 038486.

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG hardback. 5th ed. 5th edition, 1840, in original purple cloth with gilt. Front hinge cracked but tight; small stain on back end paper; cloth badly discoloured on spine & front board; spine browned & bumped with a little wear at head & foot. Used - Very Good. VG hardback.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Post8vo, guarded engraved frontis, xi, 297 p. Original purple blind-stamped cloth, gilt, pale yellow endpapers. Backstrip slightly faded to brown, name erased from the front pastedown, paper cracked on the front hinge otherwise a VG tight copy.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Not dated but Slick's opening letter is dated 1836. Front board as embossed vignette 'Ship Store Royal Navy'. 0001U7AEJE Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition, Second Series. 8vo. Pp. 220. 1/4 brown cloth over blue boards, printed title label on spine. Very Good+, owner name "corner of Grand & Mulberry Street / New York 1838", soiling and rubbing to boards and spine, edgewear. "Wise-cracking commentary on the colonial life of Nova Scotia and relations with the U.S. and Britain" (Wikipedia).…

Condition: Acceptable. The Clockmaker; or the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville. 1837.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 4th Edition. 435 grams. Former Gordonstoun Library book.

New edition. Poor leather-backed, marbled-boards copy. Boards and spine nicked, cracked, roughly rubbed as with age (with some loss); somewhat detaching from the text block. Tape to the inner hinges. Physical description; 193 pages, 17.5 x 13 cm. Subjects; Samuel Slick of Slickville. British fiction. Great Britain 19th century fiction. 1 Kg.…

New edition. Poor leather-backed, marbled-boards copy. Boards and spine nicked, cracked, roughly rubbed as with age (with some loss); somewhat detaching from the text block. Tape to the inner hinges. Physical description; 193 pages, 17.5 x 13 cm. Subjects; Samuel Slick of Slickville. British fiction. Great Britain 19th century fiction. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Three volumes, Series 1, 2, & 3; Series 3 published 1840; 3/4 brown sheep & purple moire over boards, gilt spine titles on red leather labels, raised bands, top edges darkened, fore & lower edges peppered, frontis illustrations, & a full page black & white illustration or two per text; A good clean set with wear to the extremities & a hint of foxing; 295, 325, & 309 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. London: Richard Bentley, 1848. This book is divided into 3 parts, Part 1 - viii, 160pp, Part 2 - [vi], 193pp and Part 3 - [iv], 179pp. The first few pages are 'Slick's Letter'. Sam Slick is a character created in 1835 by Thomas Chandler Haliburton, a Nova Scotian judge and author. With his wry wit and Yankee voice, Sam Slick of Slicksville put forward his views on "human nature" in a regular column in the Novascotian. The twenty-one sketches were published in a collection titled "The Clockmaker, or the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slicksville". The First Series was published in 1836, supplemented by an additional 12 unpublished or new sketches. The book was Canada's first international bestseller and was hugely popular, not only in Nova Scotia but also in Britain and the United States. Slick's wise-cracking commentary on the colonial life of Nova Scotia and relations with the U.S. and Britain struck a note with readers, leading to a second series in 1838 and a third in 1840. The satirical sketches, mocking both Canadians and Americans, made Haliburton one of the most popular writers of comic fiction in English of that era. The Clockmaker (which was also translated into German) established Haliburton as one of the founders of North American humour. As Arthur Scobie notes in The Canadian Encyclopedia, The Clockmaker stories "proved immensely popular and, ironically, have influenced American humour as much as Canadian." Approximately 7 inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine - good condition - gilt titles on a black label, 5 raised gilt edged bands dividing 6 compartments, 5 of which have gilt decorations, gently worn top and tail. Joints - good condition - gently rubbed. Corners - good condition - bumped and worn. Boards - good condition - half leather/marbled boards with blind tooled lines separating, the front boards has some marks down the left hand side on the leather and the leather corners are also worn, the rear board has minor damage to the marbling and the leather corners are also worn. Page edges - good condition - top edge slightly darkened, all marbled. See above and photos. Internally Hinges - good condition - sound. Paste downs - good condition - marbled. End papers - good condition - marbled, Title - good condition - lightly tanned with minor foxing. Pages - good condition - book is divided into 3 parts, each part beginning with the same title page, pages are lightly tanned throughout with minor foxing. Binding - good condition - sound. See photos.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Clockmaker Samuel SLICK of Slickville 3 Volumes 1839. Volumes 1and 2 states fifth edition and Vol 3 seems to be a first edition. All three in matching binding. Leather spine and corners somewhat rubbed and frayed to frayed to edges. Green cloth boards. Internally very good. Includes picture plates. 12 in total. Three in each volume and three frontispiece sketches. 1st and 2nd Vol dated 1839. 3rd 1840. Condition is good with wear to corners. Internally very good.…

Cloth. Condition: Good Only. The complete series of The Clockmaker by 'Samuel Slick'. First, Second and Third Series First series is the fourth edition. Second series is the third edition. Third series is the first edition. Sam Slick was a character created by Thomas Chandler Haliburton, a Canadian judge and author. With his wry wit and Yankee voice, Sam Slick of Slicksville put forward his views on "human nature" in a regular column in the Novascotian, beginning in 1835. The twenty-one sketches were published in a collection titled The Clockmaker, or the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slicksville. The book was Canada's first international bestseller and was hugely popular, not only in Nova Scotia but also in Britain and the United States. Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1796 1865, was one of the first major Canadian authors. He attended University of King's College in Windsor and became a lawyer, opening a practice in Annapolis Royal. Haliburton became noted local business man and a judge, but his great fame came from his writing. He wrote a diverse number of books on history, politics, and farm improvement. He rose to worldwide fame with his Clockmaker serial that first appeared in the Novascotian. From 1826 to 1829, Haliburton represented Annapolis County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Haliburton retired from law and moved to England in 1856. In 1859, Haliburton was elected the Member of Parliament for Launceston, Cornwall. Haliburton received an honorary degree from Oxford for service to literature and continued writing until his death. In cloth binding. Externally, rubbing, with mild wear to the extremities, including mild bumping, discolouration, and some ink marks. The rear hinge of volume II has failed. The front hinge of volume 3 has failed, and the rear hinge is starting. Internally, binding is loose in places with some of the pages coming away. Pages of volumes I and III are bright with occasional spotting, whilst volume II has slight browning and occasional spotting. Good Only. Various (illustrator). book.…