Mess by Lever (48 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Complete in one volume. Illustrated with engraved plates. Good to Very Good, red cloth and 3/4 red leather with raised bands and gilt title and decoration on spine, gilt page tops, marbled endpapers, faint name written at top of title page, light foxing especially on pages next to plates and on some of the plates, binding is solid. Phiz (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Numerous illustrations on wood and steel. Leather and marbled boards, plain eps, frontispiece portrait, 396 pages. Heavy wear to boards and leather, wear and tears at spine ends and corners, cracking to leather on spine, front hinge broken, ffep almost entirely detached, foxing on pages at ends, heavy foxing on plates, plate facing page 13 is torn on the side, sides darkened, otherwise good. 900 grams.…

Condition: Fair. 1843. No Edition Stated. 395 pages. Blue leather boards, half bound in a grey marbled covering. Vol.1. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Volume I (only, of 2). Ivory cloth, lettered/decorated in gilt, deckled text block edges with top edge in gilt. No. 44 of an edition limited to 250 copies, hand-numbered on copyright page colophon. Cover cloth typically foxed/tanned, with only slight wear. Firm binding, clean interior. xiii,299 pp., illus. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Phiz (illustrator). Book.…

Condition: Fair. 1843. No Edition Stated. 396 pages. No dust jacket. Green leather boards, half bound in a green marbled covering. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Ownership plate to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are notably crushed. Slight forward lean to text block. Boards are slightly bowed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First. Jack Hinton: The Guardsman is set in early 19th-century Dublin, following the adventures of Jack Hinton, a young Englishman who finds himself navigating the complexities of Irish society. As an aide-de-camp, Jack encounters a colorful array of characters, humorous misunderstandings, and social intrigue, all while adjusting to the vibrant and unpredictable world around him. Lever's storytelling blends satire, romance, and adventure, offering a vivid portrayal of Irish life and customs during the period. This copy is very good in 1/2 leather on marbled boards with gilt title and design and raised bands on the spine. Very slight wear to the bindings. Text is slightly age toned, and there is occasional foxing, primarily on the plates. A tiny label of a previous owner is affixed at the top of the front pastedown. No other marks or damage. Phiz (illustrator). …

Condition: New.

Condition: Fair. 1844. No Edition Remarks. 372 pages. Half bound black leather with marbled paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining and tears to some pages, text remains readable. Pencil inscriptions to endpapers. Severe cracking to hinges and gutters causing boards and binding to be loose. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Chipping to leather to spine. Paper worn away to both boards.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. William Curry Jun & Co, Dublin, 1844. Hard cover, brown boards, gilt titles. Book condition : Good, clean text. Superb engravings by Phiz. Binding exposed at front but firm. Fore pages browned, spotted. Page edges marbled, browned. Covers worn, Spine worn. Some pages spotted. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #021770. Phiz (illustrator).…

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: With All Faults (W.A.F.). No Dustjacket. Deluxe Edition. 299 + 291 pages. Both volumes have a DIRE appearance most of both spines and 20% of covering to Vol I front board & 40% of covering to Vol II rear board have been chewed off by very small mammal, probably a field mouse or vole (house mouse would have caused more damage), two other edge sections chewed to Vol I, front hinge chewed & board OFF to Vol II, inner hinges cracked causing wobble to Vol I. End-papers a little browned, text is a little bowed. Very attractive tissue covered plates on very white clean paper of good quality. Page-edges a little age-darkened. Undated - look mid-late Victorian. Text is very clean & in nice condition. Need a rebind. Phiz (Illustrated by) (illustrator).…

Half Morocco - Marbled Boards. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1843 and 1844 First Edition. Volume 1, printed in 1843 is Jack Hinton, The Guardsman. Volume 2, printed in 1844 is the first volume of Tom Burke. Size octavo, 396 and 372 pages. Half green morocco over marbled boards five raised bands to the spine with gilt frames and titles in the compartments, gilt edging to the morocco on the covers, marbled paste-downs and end-papers. Condition very good, corners and edges rubbed, frontispiece spotted, offsetting from frontis onto title page, pages slightly toned, slight offsetting from the other plates, a couple of spots in the margin of a couple of the plates else contents generally clean. With bookplate to the front paste-down of each volume of "Cromarty". Phiz (illustrator).…

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Back cover board is missing, and its accent page is torn near it's corners & edges. Front cover board and the first two preliminary pages are detached from the spine. Front cover has visible shelf wear. Pages themselves are in good condition with no acid damage. Page binding to spine is in good condition. …

Gebunden. Condition: New.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Limited. Good white Gilt blocked cloth boards with gilt lettering along spine. Binding and hinges tight and square; Contents clean and unmarked. No dust jackets. V. I - 299 pp., v. II - 291 pp. Number 22 of 250 limited edition. White covers ligthly soiled, deckled page edges on side and bottom, slightly bumped corners, black and white illustrations. Other similar volumes in the set are available.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. s, [ii], A nice half calf binding and a tight text block, but with damp staining to the plates. A complete set of plates. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. Faux ink signature by the author on the frontis. engraving of Charles Dickens facing the title-page.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Main interior in decent acceptable condition for the publish date but please note there is some heavy age-marking to many of the illustrated plates, to both front and rear of plates, occasional age marks to pages, f/p heavily motteled to rear/foxed to front (please see photos) no text obscured, looks to have new e/papers as these clean and bright; boards are poor, age faded/patchy, rubbed to cloth at extremities but all intact./.…

2 volumes. 8vo. Prelims. + 372pp. + x + 294pp. 2 frontispieces and steel engraved plates by Phiz (H.K. Browne). Some slight offsetting of plates onto text, frontispiece of volume I unprofessionally restubbed with tape, marbled e.ps. and edges, rebound in rubbed half calf with marbled boards, gilt decorated spines with 2 leather title lables, heads of spines chipped and torn, with loss of approximately 3.5cm. to head of spine of volume I. US$44.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of this work by Charles Lever, 'Our Mess'. Our Mess was originally serialised monthly in the Dublin University Magazine, this is the first edition in book form. With publisher's advertisements to the front, half titles present as called for. 'With a portrait of the author and numerous illustrations on wood and steel by Phiz'. With twenty-four plates and nine vignettes by Phiz. Phiz, or Hablot Knight Browne, was a well known English artist. He also illustrated the works of Charles Dickens and Harrison Ainsworth. Appears to be lacking three plates, 'The Packet', 'Irish Sport with a Cockney' and 'La Vivandiere'. Charles Lever was an Irish novelist and raconteur. He is probably best known for his The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer. This work comprises of Our Mess volume I parts 1-13, which is the story of Hack Hinton, The Guardsman. In a half calf binding with cloth covered boards. Externally, smart with patches of rubbing to the spine and extremities, particularly to the head and tail. A few spots to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Repair to page 77-78 in the outer margin. Some pages are cut more closely than others, not affecting text. Pages are slightly age toned with instances of spotting, particularly to the plates. Very Good. Phiz (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Get your hands on this rare and fascinating book. 'Our Mess Vol.Il. Tom Burke Of 'Ours' Volume First immerse yourself in this captivating story that will take you on a journey through history. Discover the tale of Tom Burke a soldier who fought bravely in the army during the 19th century.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 'Our Mess Tom Burke of "Ours" ' by Charles Lever. William Curry 1843-44. 1st edition in book form. 3 volumes. Half leather with marbled boards. Small repair to one contents page, small inscription. Some rubbing to boards. 67 plates all complete, usual tanning. A good set.…

Half Leather. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Brown calf spine (with red labels) & corners with brown cloth boards. 2 of 3 Vols. - Vol 1 Jack Hinton, The Gaurdsman, Vol 2 Tom Burke of Ours with numerous illustrations by Phiz. Shelf wear to binding, plates are foxed/discoloured. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 2 volumes of the 3-volume set. Heavy foxing throughout. Illustrator: Phiz. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Fiction; Ireland; 19th century; Inventory No: 41447. For further information on this title, click on the "Ask Bookseller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We will try to reply within two working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying. Phiz (illustrator). …

Condition: Good. Steel Plates (27 including portrait of Lever) by Phiz. Volume I complete in itself but further adventures of Our Mess are recounted in TOM BURKE (qv). Octavo half calf, gilt spine in compartments with 4 foliated corners and central design to each (tips bit worn/slight scuffing/rubbing/Lower board bowed) x+[4]+396pp. *Sold as a Binding - looks very handsome on the shelf but the plates are heavily foxed (as frequently) and a few pages and plate at the end are stained but legible. The rest of the text is almost entirely white. Reading copy in a handsome binding. 1 volume. Hardcover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Different edition from the advertised. Rarely collectable and antique book. Published by Chapman And Hall, in London, 1842. Illustrated by H.K. Browne. 396 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. 1st. Bound in half leather, 5 raised bands and gilt stamped spine leather spine label. Gilt ruled covers. All edges and endpapers marbled. Frontis and additional illustrations throughout with the usual foxing. Text is fairly bright.

LEVER, Charles. OUR MESS. In Three Volumes. Volume One: "Our Mess; Jack Hinton, The Guardsman." Dublin: William Curry Jr., 1843. Volumes Two & Three: "Tom Burke Of Ours." Dublin: William Curry Jr., 1844. All volumes are first editions. All are bound in brown quarter-calf leather & marbled boards, with Volume One bound differently from the other two volumes. Very Good (some rubbing covers; contents tight but with some of the usual foxing text & particularly to the plates, small bookplate in one volume). $150.00. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 893 grams. In two volumes. Edition De Luxe Limited to Five Hundred copies. No. 437. Edited by Harry Lorrequer. Phiz (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Three volumes. Illustrated with numerous steel engravings by Phiz in each volume. First editions thus. Octavos, half bound in tan leather with marbled boards, raised bands and gilt lettering along the spines. Light shelf wear and aging, else all volumes are very good. Bindings are solid and tight. B0042P46SG.…

Half Leather with Cloth Sides. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Leather Case, No Jacket. First Editions. 396 pp. 372 pp. 294 pp., 1843-4, many Phiz steel engraving plates most of them with some foxing mainly round edges of drawings, text itself not foxed.; raised bands, finely blocked spines, restored leather, 2 leather labels per volume. minor blemishes but pretty good trio for itheir age. These stories originally appeared in the Dublin University magazine which Lever edited during his medical studies at Trinity College. He later served in diplomatic service & died in Trieste. Size: 8vo. Phiz. Many Full Page Steel Engravings (illustrator).…

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. 3 vols - 396 + 372 + 294 pag - illustrated by Phiz.