Yeast Problem, First Edition (8 results)

First Edition. Poor set in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; two volumes. Subjects; Charles Kingsley. 19th century fiction. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Poor set in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; two volumes. Subjects; Charles Kingsley. 19th century fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. First American edition. 292pp. Octavo [20 cm] Original cloth over boards, with heavy fading to the backstrip and board edges, chipping to the edges of the backstrip, and several minor stains on the front board. There is a bookseller's discreet stamp and a contemporary owner's name in pen on the preliminary leaves, and there is occasional light foxing within. Twenty pages of publisher's advertisements at the rear. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letter press printer, John Ruyle. Kingsley's first novel, a novel with strong social commentary, serially published in Fraser's Magazine in 1848, and in book form in 1851.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American Edition. Reprinted, with corrections and additions from Fraser's Magazine. Black cloth boards with blind stamped border rulings on front and rear, with gilt titling on spine. Blue gray endpapers. Book is tight and square - pages 229-232 have a small tear in the middle of the page, otherwise book is near fine with only the prior owner's signature and date of 1851 on FFEP. 1st American Ed. - now protected in a mylar jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Small octavo. 292pp + multiple ads. Blue cloth gilt. Scattered foxing throughout, some fraying at the edges of the cloth, a decent and good copy. Charles Kingsley's pseudonymously published first book.

Condition: Very good. INCLUDES THE FIRST CONTINENTAL EDITION OF CHARLES KINGSLEY'S FIRST NOVEL - Octodecimo (18mo), 6-1/2 inches high by 4-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover, two books bound in three-quarter dark brown leather & cloth by Rollinger, titled in gilt with raised bands on the spine. The covers & leather are rubbed & scuffed. 348 pages bound in with the floral-decorated series title for "The Parlour Library XXVI. The Triumphs of Time by the Author of 'Two Old Men's Tales,' &c."; and x & 337 pages with the series title: "Collection of British Authors. Vol. CCVII. Yeast by the Author of Alton Locke. In One Volume." There is some scattered foxing & staining throughout. Very good. First edition of the Third part of the first work.Parts 1 and 2 of "The Previsions of Lady Evelyn" by novelist Anne Marsh [1791-1874] were first published in 1844 as part of "The Triumphs of Time". The third and concluding part was published here (in 1849) for the first time. [See Wolff #4557].The first Continental edition of Yeast, the first novel by Charles Kingsley, was published in the same year as the first English edition.

4pp ads. Original rose-madder wavy-grained cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; spine sl. dulled. Ownership inscriptions of Katharine Louisa Rowden, Sydney Cooper 1907 & Geoffrey Tillotson 1947. (xx), (356), 6pp ads. See Sadleir 1341 & Wolff 3814 for the first edition, 1851, in (viii), 288 pages. This edition is in smaller format to the first. Kingsley's first novel. The new 12pp preface looks at improvements in rural life since the first edition was published.

FIRST EDITION. 12mo. 8pp cata. Orig. rose-madder wavy-grained cloth, blocked in blind; recased with loss to head & tail of spine but retaining most of orig. spine; spine faded. Signature of Charles Bray, Coventry, on leading f.e.p. Sadleir 1341, Wolff 3814. Kingsley's first novel, influenced by his association with F.D. Maurice and the Christian Socialist Movement. The controversy caused by the novel on its first appearance in Fraser's led to its being cut short in serial, to be later expanded when published in book form. The copy of the Owenite reformer, philosopher, philanthropist, successful ribbon manufacturer & friend of George Eliot, Charles Bray. Bray helped to found the Coventry Labourers & Artisans Co-operative Society and was owner of The Coventry Herald.