G Sides: First Edition (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very good. 1st Printing. 9 x 20 inches, unfolded. Printed in 1962. Condition is Very Good; no stains, tears etc. HGS RGR.

1st edition. Softback. Small 12mo. Bw photo full to edge, whitelettering along top/bottom on front, green lettering + logo on rear " POSTCARD ". Slight concave shape to card else very clean with clear image and sharp other corners. VG+.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. True 1stedn. ORIGINAL 1895 PRINTING. First Edition of this self-published study of currency standards. The True First Edition of 568pp, bound in original grey cloth with titles stamped in silver and gold on the front board and spine with red and black borders and decorations.  8vo Original full grey cloth binding, decorated in silver, gold, with blue and red flag and eagle, covers very liittle worn. Pages are clean and unmarked eps show signs of bookplate removal. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/soiling.with a large stain on rear. Ow really VG/ndj: 568pp + Plus portrait frontis of Trumbull White. +32 portrait illustrations of the leading statesmen and economists. "A symposium of the views of all parties on the Currency Question" from the 19th century, an issue central to the political campaigns of William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley./ "Trumbull White was a noted editor, author, war correspondent, and director of the Bay View Assembly in 1916-1917. He advised Ernest Hemingway to "write what he knew." Hemingway had dinner in New York with him before leaving for Italy and World War I" (Mary Jane Doerr, Pinterest).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. London: The National Acting Drama Office, Not Dated [1845], First Edition. Adapted from Charles Dickens' The Cricket On The Hearth , A Fairy Tale of Home. Scarce work bound in full red morocco, no title to the spine, title and lined gilt decoration to the front board. The Cricket on the Hearth by Edward Stirling As Performed at the Theatre Royal, Adelphi. London: Published at the National Acting Drama Office, [ca. 1845]. Etched frontispiece by G. Dorrington reinforced to the rear stuck to another page. 36pp. Edward Stirling (originally, "Lambert") "adapted" or pirated eight of Dickens's works for the stage. ​He was also a prolific borrower from other writers, among them, Sir Walter Scott and William Harrison Ainsworth. By trade a banker's clerk, while still in his late teens, Lambert took the stage name "Stirling" when he entered the theatrical world in 1828 at London's Pavilion, and was soon a fast favourite with English audiences. He staged his first production, Sadk and Kalasrade, at Birmingham, and subsequently wrote and produced at least 190 other plays. On 20 December 1845, just days after the novella's publication, Stirling opened an adaptation of Dickens's The Cricket on the Hearth at the Adelphi which proved so popular that it ran for over ninety performances. Stirling pirated this work and seven others. While he may have been flattered by the attention, Dickens was soon angered by the liberties some playwrights took with his work. This was especially the case when dramatisations were produced before the serial publications were completed. Dickens put his anger into Nicholas Nickleby, ridiculing hack playwrights and adding I would rather pay your tavern score for six months, large as it might be, than have a niche in the Temple of Fame with you for the humblest corner of my pedestal, through six hundred generations . Despite this anger, Dickens worked with theatres and playwrights to adapt his work and create new plays. He collaborated with various theatres to produce his Christmas stories, each written with the stage in mind. In collaboration with Wilkie Collins and others, he wrote plays such as A Message from the Sea. He also acted in amateur productions and performed dramatic readings to the public. Yet Dickens never achieved a professional acting career, nor did he succeed very frequently in making his own adaptation of his own work the most popular version on stage at any one time. Approximately 6 ½ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition 7 double lined gilt bands separating 6 compartments, worn at the top. Joints good condition sound. Corners good condition gently bumped and worn. Boards good condition bright red boards with gilt lined decoration with gilt titles to the centre of the front, very small mark down the inner edge of the front board and a very small nick out of the leather down the outer edge of the front. Page edges good condition top edge slightly darkened, fore and bottom edges tanned with some foxing. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition intact. Paste downs good condition plain, the front paste down has an Armorial bookplate for Frederick Macmillan . End papers good condition plain, internal free end papers are lightly tanned with some foxing. Title good condition tanned and foxed, damp staining along in the bottom left hand corner, there is also some damage at the top left hand corner where it seems the frontispiece has adhered to it and then separated. Pages good condition b/w frontispiece The Cricket On The Hearth which is tanned and foxed and has some damage to the top right hand corner and also signs of moisture in the bottom right hand corner, pages are tanned throughout with foxing and also damp staining along the bottom edge of most pages. Binding good condition an attractive copy. See photos Publisher: see above. Publication.…