Vanities by Arthur Morrison (27 results)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first issue with September 1905 ads at back. This copy has been respined, with the original spine laid one, with replacement blank endpapers. Contains 17 short stories including a ghost story and tales of witchcraft.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Green Cloth Hardback. Condition: Good - See Description. First Edition. 1905. First edition. viii, 356pp. plus a 38 page catalogue dated September 1905. Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for realistic novels and for stories about working-class life in the East End of London. He also wrote detective stories featuring a specific detective, Martin Hewitt. "Divers Vanities" is a collection of seventeen of Morrison's best short stories. Among them, one can find a ghost story (The Legend of Lapwater Hall), tales of witchcraft such as The Black Badger and The Torn Heart, and detective stories with a shadow supernatural in the plot. The book appears to have been recased in slightly later green cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in good to very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling and light staining on the boards. The spine is slighlt faded and the spine ends are bumped with some damage to the cloth. The contents are tight and the pages are clean apart from a few small marks and some pencil underlining or lines drawn on the margin of a few pages. The half-title page and title-page are fairly heavily foxed and the following few pages are moderately foxed. There is also scattered but lighter foxing elsewhere within the book. The fore edge of the text block is moderately foxed and on some pages this has seeped a little way into the fore margin. The front free endpaper has been removed and there are traces of an erased pencil inscription on the front fixed endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition later issue. This green cloth covered book has gilt titling on the front and spine. There are a few marks on the front and back but none detract from the generally very good appearance. There is a previous owners name and house name on the FEP. The front cover is well attached despite a slight gutter crack and there is some very mild foxing on a few pages. The book block is is in very good condition and hence the collection of short stories are a pleasure to read. At the end there is a 40 page Catalogue of Methuen books from October 1908. viii, 356pp.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 402. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1905 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 402.

SOFTCOVER. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo size (8vo) in black printed stiff paper wrappers, 295pp, rear cover book list dated October 1905, inserted 32pp catalogue at rear dated October 1, 1905. First printing thus . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved FINE little used copy (spine and covers very slightly tanned, covers faintly dusty, top edge of page block a little dust darkened). An uncommonly nice copy ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, (CATALOGUE AT REAR DATED SEPTEMBER 1905), octavo, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp lettering to front board, deckled lower page edges, printed eps, viii + 356pp + 40pp, VG (moderate scuffing & soiling/discolouration to spine & board edges, light to moderate cracking to spine & extrems, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. ownership ink stamp to full title page, moderate cracking to gutters, light foxing to prelims).

Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [1-2] 3-356 + 40-page publisher's catalogue dated "September 1905" inserted at rear, original dark green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Collects seventeen stories, five of which were reprinted for the selected edition of Morrison in the SHORT STORIES OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY series in 1929. "The Legend of Lapwater Hall" is a ghost story. "The Black Badger" and "The Torn Heart" are tales of witchcraft. "All three involve the recurring character of Cunning Murrell, who, as a local white witch, functions as a quasi-psychic detective. These stories bear some resemblance to Manly Wade Wellman's later stories of Appalachian magic featuring Silver John. Definitely a notch above the average, although the author's emphasis is on regionalistic verisimilitude and the phenomenology of crime rather than of the supernatural." - Robert Eldridge. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978), Day (1963), or Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (1994), p. 586. Wolff 4939. Considerable damp staining to cloth on front and rear covers, endpapers tanned, else a very good copy. A scarce book. (#118785).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. first 1905 some corner bumping . catalogue of books at end of book dated september 1905.

First edition, later issue. First edition, later issue. viii, 356 pp., 32-page publisher's catalogue dated September 1911. 1 vols. 8vo. Wolff 4939 Green cloth gilt. Some minor soiling and superficial wear. Very good plus viii, 356 pp., 32-page publisher's catalogue dated September 1911. 1 vols. 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 364 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.81 inches. This item is printed on demand.

First edition. First edition. viii, 356 pp., 32-page publisher's catalogue dated September 1905. 1 vols. 8vo. Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945), author of Tales of Mean Streets (1894), The Hole in the Wall (1902), writes his correspondent, a Mr. Charles Wilson of Co. Durham, on 10 Feb. 1933, that he has been preparing to send some of his best pictures ("43 to be exact") to an exhibition at the Oxford Art Club Morrison collected Chinese and Japanese works of art, beginning in the early 1890s, and "in 1902 published a series of articles on the subject in the Monthly Review. The culmination of his work in this area was his two-volume The Painters of Japan (1911), largely illustrated from his own collection" (ODNB). The collection was purchased and given to the British Museum in 1913. Wolff 4939 Green cloth gilt. Endpapers toned, front flyleaf margin defective. Autograph letter, signed, from Morrison, affixed to front flyleaf. Letter fine, with original mailing envelope viii, 356 pp., 32-page publisher's catalogue dated September 1905. 1 vols. 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 364 pages. 10.00x7.50x0.81 inches. This item is printed on demand.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1905 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 401 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 401.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1905 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 416 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 416 Language: English.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Arthur George Morrison (1 November 1863 - 4 December 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt. He also collected Japanese art and published several works on the subject. He left a large collection of paintings and other works of art to the British Museum after his death in 1945. Morrison's best known work of fiction is his novel A Child of the Jago (1896)Morrison was born in Poplar, in the East End of London, on 1 November 1863. His father George was an engine fitter at the London Docks. George died in 1871 of tuberculosis, leaving his wife Jane with three children including Arthur. Arthur spent his youth in the East End. In 1879 he began working as an office boy in the Architect's Department of the London School Board. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1905. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: - 302, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 302 302.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1905. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: - 412, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 412 412.