Conscript Tales, Used (7 results)

Condition: Good. 1892. No edition remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Prize dedication to front, dated 1892. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate to heavy marking and tanning, particularly to spine. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Uncredited (illustrator). First ( No Additional printings). Original brown cloth decorated in brown and blue florals with gilt title on boards. Prize presentation plate from Greenock Academy awarded to Robert N. MacCunn, June, 1889. Robert ( born 1877 and died 1938) was a brother to Hamish MacCunn, a well-known classical musician. Tiny bookseller label from F. Logan, Stationer, Greenock. Twenty-two tales from Scotland. 256 pp. Negligible spine and corner tip wear. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

HARDBACK GREEN. General wear, loose spine, good gilt design to cover and spine, lightly bumped corners and spine, indented design in covers DATE PUBLISHED: 1884 EDITION: 47+192.

HARDBACK GREEN. General wear, loose spine, good gilt design to cover and spine, lightly bumped corners and spine, indented design in covers, torn front endpaper crease, loose front hinge, soiling stains to front pages DATE PUBLISHED: 1890 CIRCA EDITION: 408.

Hardcover. First American Edition; Early Printing. Very Good in boards. Top FEP corner torn.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1873 printing of this edition.

1st Edition. First edition of the first title; later reprints of the other works. Bound without half titles. [3]-288; [ii]-viii, 280; [3]-400; [3]-384 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Uncommon novel by Lady Lyons, Sir Philip Hetherington; bound with reprints of works by novelist T.C. Grattan (1792-1864), High-Ways and By-Ways (originally published in 1823) and Agnes de Mansfelt (first published in 1835); The Cagot's Hut and the Conscript's Bride is its first appearance with this title but it seems to be a reprint of part of the third Series of High-Ways and By-Ways (1827). Published as nos. 54, 7, 69, and 82 in the Parlour Library series (see Sadleir under 3755a for his description of this "revolution in cheap-novel publishing . an achievement unique in the history of the nineteenth-century book trade"). Sadleir 3755a. Sir Philip Hetherington: Wolff 4228, OCLC 22969937. The Cagot's Hut: Sadleir 1059, OCLC 35756762, not in Wolff Nineteenth century half green morocco, rebacked preserving spine. Very good plus Bound without half titles. [3]-288; [ii]-viii, 280; [3]-400; [3]-384 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo First edition of the first title; later reprints of the other works.