Search Results: 19th Century English Literature from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1887. Original publisher's binding, half red cloth [including tips] over marble paper covered boards. 310pp. plus 10 pages of publisher's ads appended. Illustrated with 20 full page plates, including portrait frontis-piece, Holograph extract from a letter from Mr. H. Rider Haggard to Messrs. Harper & Brothers printed on the front endpage. First authorized American edition. No previous ownership marks. Covers show light age wear but a generally clean and square. Hinges strong, all pages firmly attached. Text very clean. Scans sent on request. A near very good copy of one of Haggard's best known and most popular novels.. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. Large Trade paperback. 551pp. Introduction by Gordon S. Haight. Eleventh printing. Some writing on botton edge of bulked sheets. A clean, sound used copy. No writing, underlining or highlighting in text. Excellent reading copy for students, with useful bibliographical essay. Good.. Later Printing. Soft Cover. Good.

Londion: G. Bell and Sons Ltd. 1932, 1932. Hardcover, original cloth. A study of English letters from 1830 to 1870. Includes chapters on Carlyle, major and minor poets, fiction, theology and phil osophy, and science. Light mottling to cloth, else very good.. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Hardcover, bright red cloth lettered in gold with figural vignettes on spine and front cover. T.e.g. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 15 full page black and white plates. No date but circa 1900. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine. . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

D. Appleton & Company, 1903. Hardcover, red cloth with printed paper spine label. 244pp. Illustrated with 24 full color plates by Thomas Rowlandson, plus color title page and frontispiece. Former owner's name and brief incsription inside front cover. Paper spine label worn and toned. Slight wear to cloth at top of backstrip. Text untrimmed. A solid, internally clean copy with 24 wonderfully wry color plates. Based on the 1817 edition published by R. Ackermann. One of the more illusive titles in the Dr. Syntax series. First thus. Good+.. Hardcover. Good+/Not Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

ReadHowYouWant, 2008. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition Thus. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Two volume set, large format paperbacks. 432 and 398 pages respectively. Printed in super bold and large 18pt. type. First edition thus. No previous ownership marks. No spine creases. Clean, sound tight and unmarked copies, appear unread and like new. Fine set. A heavy set, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible. .

New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004. Trade paperback. 476 pages. Introduction by Steven Marcus. Reprint. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good.. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Wm. L. Allison Company, 1893. Hardcover, red cloth lettered in gold on backstrip. Top edge gilt. Decorative endpapers. Preface by Charles Lee Lewes, reprinted from the first edition of 1883. Christmas inscription on verso of front endpaper, dated 1895. Paper browned, especially at margins, as per usual with this edition. Large type edition. Very good.. Early Printing. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Smith, Elder, and Co. , 1861. Original Cloth. A very nice copy of this novel bound in the original heavily embossed green cloth with gilt spine. First edition, first issue, with the title the same on the half-title page and title-page. The 16 page publishers catalog appended to rear is dated November, 1861. [McCutcheon catalog, 438]. Text free from foxing, as is common for this title. Full page engravings retain original tissue guards, which do show moderate foxing. Light rubbing to cloth at headband and corners very lightly bumped. A very good+ copy of this fragile little book. . Hardcover. Very Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, quarter white cloth lettered in copper over black boards, in publisher's dust-jacket. 593 pages. With an introduction and notes by P.D. Edwards. A volume in the World's Classics edition of The Barsetshire Novels, published by Oxford University Press (1989). The fourth of six Barsetshire titles, the novel was immensely popular when it first appeared in 1860 and cemented Trollope's place as a favorite with the English reading public. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, pristine and like new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .

New York: Barnes and Noble Clasics, 1993. Oversize trade paperback. 242pp. No name, no remainder marks, no underlining, etc. Small sticker on front free end-paper, upon which price is written, else a square, clean, copy. Fine.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1966. Trade paperback. 377pp. Norton Critical edition incldes: authoritative text, backgrounds, sources and contemporary criticism . Edited by George Ford nad Syvere Monod. Paper age toned and general waer from reading. No underlining or prevoius ownership marks. A tightly bound, sound copy with all pages firmly attached. Good readiong copy. Reprint. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Wm. L. Allison Co. Publishers Hardcover, quarter dark brown leather over marbled paper covered boards. T.E.G. 662 pages. Index, contains Glossary. Reprint edition, circa 1900 but no date specified. The Heart of Mid-lothian is the seventh of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels, written after the successful Rob Roy and originally published under the title Tales of My Landlord, 2nd series. Often regarded as the author's finest novel, many editions contain the glossary as the dialogue is in Lowland Scots. No previous ownership marks. Spine and leather tips shows wear but volume is tight, clean and internally unmarked with no foxing, writing or other marks. A vintage copy with the appropriate patina of age. Good. . Reprint. Hardcover. Good/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1844. Full tan polished leather with raised and gilt spine, two leather spine labels, marbled endpapers, and t.e.g. Slight rubbing to bands on backstrip a nd book plate inside front cover. A fine copy of this first edition by an erudite man of letters of whom one reviewer wrote, "we must be content, in a few words, to express our belief that, after Colderidge, there is no critic to whom the young student of poetry has so much reason to be grateful as to Leigh Hunt." [Northern British Review, Nov. 1860, vol. 33] CBEL III 645, Ireland 177,. First Edition. Full-Leather. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Metro Books, 2010. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, oblong quarto in printed paper covered boards. 160 pages. Includes a Bibliography, Image Credits and Notes about the Author appended at rear. Profusely illustrated throughout in color and black and white with drawings, paintings and photographs. With six transparent envelopes, tipped-in, containing facsimile letters, drafts and art, collated and complete. Second printing by this publisher, originally published in 2008. A compilation of art, text and other memorabilia celebrating the like and work of Jane Austen. No previous ownership marks. A clean, sound, tight and unmarked copy, near like new. Fine. .

Philadelphia: Courage Books, 1991. Haardcover in dust-jacket. 336pp., With essays by Virginia Woolf and Kathleen Tillotson. No previous ownership marks. An as new copy, clean and unmarked. Dust-jacket shows very mild shelf-wear, else as new. A very fine copy in a very good+ dust-jacket.. Reprint. Boards. Very Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Hyperion Books, 1996. Large trade paperback. 466pp., Illustrated with photographs from the Miramax film. First edition, first printing thus. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh copy. A near as new copy. Fine.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1903. Hardcover in decoratively embossed red cloth sans dust-jacet [as issued?]. 401pp. Second impression in the Illustrated Standard Novels series. Illustrated by Henry M. Brock with full page and vignette engravings. . Introduction by David Hannay. Endpapers toned, light wear to cloth and name stamped inside front cover. A good+ copy of a scarce edition of this title.. Reprint. Decorative Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Barnes and Nobles Classics, 2003. Oversize trade paperback. 440pp. Introduction and notes by Amy M. King. Stated first printing with number line intact. No previous ownership marks. Small crease in middle of front cover affecting pages up to first line of text--no perferations just a small bump apparently fron a small hard object left inside book. Else a clean, well bound, square copy with no underlining, highlighting or other marks. An excellent reading copy.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1887. Cloth Spine Over Boards. No Jacket. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Red cloth spine over paper covered boards. Roan spine label. Backstrip lightly age darkened and extremities of boards rubbed. A good nineteenth century copy of Scott's famous poem.. Reprint. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Good/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.