Search Results: lavengro the scholar the gipsy by borrow george

Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1930. Small blue hardcover. No date listed, circa 1930.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Brock, H.M.. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Cassell, 1909. Hardcover. Good. 1909. No Edition Remarks. 555 pages. Black cloth boards with black lettering in text box to spine. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as inscriptions and mild tanning. Boards have mild edge wear with light rubbing and crushing. Some light marking and tanning. Lettering is darkened. There is bumping to corners. Book has a slight forward lean.

Thomas Nelson, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 576 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated dustjacket over brown cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Binding is weak. Some pages are dog-earred. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Spine is heavily tanned.Sticker to front flap.

Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 576 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with black lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Boots library rebind with associated stickers and markings to pages and boards. Binding is shaky, pages slightly loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Illustrations are bright and clear, with some light tanning and foxing to edges. Small hole to frontispiece. Stains and markings to some pages with pen marks to title page. Minor dog-eared corners. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light sunning to spine with crushing to ends. Slight staining overall.

Henry Frowde, 1907-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Good. No dust jacket as issued. small thick red book

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1917. Paperback. Good. 1917. Reprinted. 550 pages. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and sunning.

Dent, 1111. First Everyman's Library edition of 1906 with an Introduction by Thomas Seccombe. 547pp, red cloth covered boards, with gilt floral ornament to the spine, which is a little rubbed to the edges. Decorated endpapers and title pages. Original owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. An autobiography which is part fact and part fiction, first publiished in 1851.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1924. Hardcover. Good. 1924. 1924 Reprint. 629 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1907. Hardcover. A 1907 reprint of the 1906 issuance. Per Donald Armstrong Ross, "Lavengro" is part autobiography and part novel. The author, George Borrow (1803-1881) was an English author who traveled extensively in Europe and was intrigued with the Romany people he found there. Includes an introduction by Thomas Seccombe. Entry 119 in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In flatback binding style 1, full carmine cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, dark topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With conspicuous sunning to spine and prior owner's discreet rubberstamping to front free endpaper, else a tightly-bound, sound copy.; 16mo (6 to… Read More

J.M. Dent & Sons, 1913. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. New York, 1913; red cloth covered boards; edge and corner wear; spine edges bumped and slightly frayed; no jacket; 12mo - over 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; Previous owner's name on front paste-down; Interior is clean and unmarked; 551 pages.

London: Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford, 1937. 629 pages, blind stamped navy cloth covers with blue printers ink on top edges, navy silk ribbon intact, bottom edges scruffed, tight. DJ is black & yellow pictorial with black ltrs while nicked on edges. First publised in1851 and this pubication in The World's Classics in 1937.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4 x 6.

London: J. M. Dent, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Hinge completely cracked else very good plus. From the Lancaster PA library of the novelist Reginald Wright Kauffman inscribed by him as A Romanany Chad.

London: OUP, 1922. Book. Good. Cloth. First Thus. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Small pocket green cloth edition, spine sunned, corners lightly bumped - endpapers foxed. Pages tight and clean, binding sound..

London: J M Dent & Sons, 1930. Reprint . Leather. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. xxiv, 550pp. In red limp leather boards with gilt decoration and lettering. Elaborately decorated endpapers. Extensively etched, double spread title page. (Boards are lightly rubbed at corners and spine ends, minor fraying at spine ends). Small bookseller's ticket on the front free endpaper, indicating the volume was once in the stock of J W Mason & Son, Antiquarian Booksellers, St Leonards; mild signs of fingering, small ink mark on page 92, else internally neat, clean and tight. No 119 in the Everyman's Library series.

Oxford University Press , 1924 . Hardback. . 12mo green cloth. The image on this listing page is of the actual book for sale. VG+ hardback (light edgewear, ownership sigs otherwise clean and unmarked).

Dent,, [1911]. 8vo., original series binding of plum ribbed cloth, gilt back, dark top, pictorial endpapers, an unusually bright, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. First published in EL in 1906. EL 119; Seymour 103.0.

London: Limited Editions Club, 1936. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club at the Curwen Press. Number 1446 of an edition of 1500, signed on the limitation page by the illustrator, Barnett Freedman. Introduction by Hugh Walpole ; illustrated with sixteen lithographs in colour and pen drawings by Barnett Freedman. Illustrated endpaper and top edges gilt. Two volumes set lacking slipcase.

Limited Editions Club, 1936-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Original VG burgundy cloth covered boards with gilt on black lettering along spine. Binding and hinges tight and square; contents clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. 375pp. Illustrated with sixteen lithographs in color and pen drawings by Barnett freedman. Volume 1 only. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.

London.: George Newnes, Limited., 1897. First published 1851.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Near fine. Light spine end wear. Minor spine darkening. Beautifully bound. Stylishly rounded spine, w/ concave right page block.. 1 Sturdy copper-toned cloth over boards, front repeating scrolling design embossed on copper w/ black and gold highlights. Gilt top page block. Deckled right page block. xviii, 532p. 20 cm. Christian based tales set in the British Isles during "the first quarter of the present century", 19th, from unsigned author Preface. Recounted in the first person, Lavengro, introduces a scholar, a gypsy, and a priest are the "principal actors in this dream, or drama". Themes of "the encouragement of charity, and free and genial manners, and the exposure of humbug, of which there are various kinds, but of which the most perfidious, the most debasing, and the most cruel, is the humbug of the Priest". Author George Borrow, b.1803, Norfolk-d.1881, was a… Read More

G.P. Putnam, NY, 1851. 1/2 Leather Hardcover. Good. 1/2 Leather Hardcover. SCARCE ORIGINAL 1851 PRINTING. Steel-engraved frontispiece Of Borrow. Small tear on fore edge of frontispiece page. Text unmarked with minimal page-turn soiling marks. Gilt top page edges. Covers (marbled boards with raised band leather spine and leather corners) show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing. Front hinge cracked but binding intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!