Fifty Bab Ballads, First Edition (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. Very Good condition, small discoloration mark bottom edge. Tight crisp copy. 12mo, green cloth, gilt top edge, gilt title cover and spine, front board caricature illustrations. Many illustrations by the author. "Bab" ballads much sound and little sense. 234 pgs plus 16 pgs of Street & Smith adds.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. 1st Edition. 1891 Routledge first thus edition paperback, with139 illustrations by the author; acceptable condition, very worn covers and spine loss, missing back cover and possibly some pages (this ends at page 254), name on front and inside; UK dealer, immediate dispatch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. MOORE SMITH (illustrator). 1st Edition. SOLID & CLEAN, ONLY MARKING IS FORMER OWNER'S NAME ON FRONT ENDPAPER. ORNATE BINDING. GOLD GILT TOP EDGE. UNIQUE ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS. SHIPPED AT REDUCED RATE. FURTHER SCANS ON REQUEST, THANKS.

Fabric & Board. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Bab (illustrator). 1st Thus. A selection from the previous two Bab books. Green fabric board covers with gilt titles to front and spine, some occasional light pencil marks including identifying Gilbert as Sir William Schenck. Previous owners name to fep dated 1905. 317 numbered pages, unmarked save pencil marks already mentioned. Binding secure split to blank end page before end paper. Size 10.2 x 13.7 cm.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 255 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Subject; Ballads, English 19th century. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Profusely illustrated in line within the text. Original green cloth, ornately stamped in gilt on the spine and front cover, a.e.g., slight rubbing to extremities. Slight foxing to half-title. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Moore Smith (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1899 5inch tall first edition hardback, with highly decorative cloth covers and gilt tite panel and decoration to spine. Described as "much sound and little sense" this collection of 50 humerous/satirical verses first appeared in a magazine called Fun edited by Tom Hood. TItles include A Discontented Sugar Broker, the Ghost and the Goblin,The Precocious Baby, The Rival Curates. With 20 humerous illustrations by Moore Smith. An absolutely charming volume, small inscription to blank page otherwise clean interior and all pages tight within binding. Covers clean and unscufed.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 255 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Subject; Ballads, English 19th century. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Boards starting. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Series; Routledge's pocket library ; 17. Physical description; 317 pages ; 14 cm. Notes; Humorous verse. Small illustration on title page. Subjects; Humorous poetry. Ballads, English 19th century. English Poetry. Ballads, English. English wit and humor. 1 Kg.

First Edition. With drawings included throughout the text by the author. 8vo, publisher's original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover, the front cover also pictorially decorated in black. t.e.g. iv, 234 pp, 16 ads. A very nice copy, bright and clean and in very pleasing condition . A CHARMING BOOK BY GILBERT OF "GILBERT AND SULLIVAN" FAME. These Ballads were originally published in the columns of Fun. Later they were published in book form in 2 volumes. This is the first issue of the one compact illustrated volume including only the best ones.

First Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Boards stained with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xi, [1], 13-255, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. Notes; With a half-title. Subjects; Ballads. W. S. Gilbert. 19th century ballads. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. original highly decorated yellow cloth hardcover, illustrated throughout, 255 pages, an unusually clean and bright copy in near fine condition. We are a real bookshop with real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Boards starting. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Series; Routledge's pocket library ; 17. Physical description; 317 pages ; 14 cm. Notes; Humorous verse. Small illustration on title page. Subjects; Humorous poetry. Ballads, English 19th century. English Poetry. Ballads, English. English wit and humor. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Boards stained with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xi, [1], 13-255, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. Notes; With a half-title. Subjects; Ballads. W. S. Gilbert. 19th century ballads. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. W.S. Gilbert (illustrator). 1st Edition. Undated, early edition, possibly first edition. Inscribed on front free end paper. Bookplate on front fixed end paper. The cloth cover is clean and the gilt is bright. Minute amount of rubbing to spine ends and corners.

First edition thus. First edition thus. 12mo. Attractive Arts and Crafts binding (signed N.S.L. in rear dentelle. Full light brown crushed morocco with central inlaid stylized tulp and leaf pattern (light green), spine with blind-stamped leaf patter and lettering. 317pp. AEG. Near fine.