Comedy Conscience by Mitchell Weir (63 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 20pp story, printed in double columns, illustrated with 5 drawings by Hutt, including 2 full-page plates, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXI, #3, January, 1901. Housed in protective mylar report cover. Henry Hutt (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Dark blue cloth, white lettering, no dj, lightly rubbed, ex-lib. Novel; 23910.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Sorry, No international shipping on this item.Hardcover, blue deco.bds, frontisw/tissue guard, 129pp. Illus. 4 1/2'' x 7'', (shelf wear, corners bumped, page ends yellowed, previous price written in pencil inside front cover, text clean, binding good).

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Fair. 1903. No Edition Remarks. 129 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to back pastedown. Hinges are moderately cracked with exposed netting. Binding is slightly loose. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear and water marks to spine and boards.…

Condition: Good. 1904. 108 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Rough cut pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. No dust jacket. Cover has slight rubbing and residue. Spine leaning. Very slight soiling and rubbing on pages. Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Moderate bumping to corners of covers, mild age toning. Binding cocked but functional. Former owner's name on front paste-down, else clear. Pages very bright considering age.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. First Edition. v, 129 pages; illustrations; illustrated blue cloth binding with lettering on the spine. Interesting spiral design on the cover in silver color. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE # 14216, 1st state "probable sequence". Very good clean copy. Fiction.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . 1st printing [BAL 14216]. Four plates. (Conscience, Theft, Fiction).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First printing. Light wear to the extremities. The spine is slanted. Previous owner's bookplate is on the front pastedown. Otherwise fine in a sound binding with hinges intact. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Octavo, original decorated blue cloth. First edition. A short novel concerning a stolen ring. BAL 14215. Smith, American Fiction, 1900-1925 M-867. Not in Hubin (1994). Endpapers foxed, else an internally clean, externally nearly fine copy with the highly perishable white enamel stamping entirely intact. (#113226).…

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book. Solid binding. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Blue Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. 1904. First UK edition (the first American edition was in 1903). 108pp., 5 black and white illustrations believe to be by Henry Hutt (1875-1950), and a 4 page catalogue. Top edge gilt. Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) was an American physician, scientist, novelist, and poet. He is considered the father of medical neurology, and he discovered causalgia and erythromelalgia. The book is bound in the original blue cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear on the boards, light bumping to the spine ends and wear to the titling on the spine. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription. Henry Hutt (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. A Comedy of Conscience by S. Weir Mitchell follows Miss Serena Vernon, who is described as a "spinster by choice." Beautifully written, the novel may be read in part as an interesting social history of early twentieth century America. The author Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) himself was fascinating figure. A physician by trade, he was an army surgeon who is credited with developing the later controversial treatment of the "rest cure." In addition to the numerous medical articles he wrote on a wide variety of topics, he anonymously published poetry and other works, including short stories and stories for children. This beautiful art nouveau edition of his novel A Comedy of Conscience may be rated as being in Fair condition. There are some remnants of an old sticker on the cover, the top and bottom of the spine is somewhat worn, and there is some light bumping and wear to the corners. There is discolouration to the tops and bottoms of the pages, and the front hinge is cracked. The binding in general is tight, though there is at least one loose page. Nevertheless, an aesthetically pleasing and readable copy.…