Search Results: English Literature from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

New York: Random House (Haddon Craftsmen), 1937. Illustrated by in color by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. First thus edition. (c.1824. London) (original book dividend pamphlet laid in). Illustrated cloth, gilt print spine label. 4to. pp. [32], 403, [3] colophon, [2] blank. VG-/No jacket. Light soil and rubbing, two corner bumps, spine edge foxed pastedowns. Introduction by Christopher Morley..

London: Thomas Nelson, 1906. Illustrated by b/w tissue frontis and 3 plates. Limp full leather, gilt dec spine and topboard emblem, marbled eps, india paper, marking ribbon, a.e.g. 16mo. pp. vi, [1], 266, iv, 372. VG+/No jacket, as issued. Cap and corner rubbing, internally fine..

London: Thomas Nelson, 1906. Illustrated by b/w tissue frontis and 3 plates. (c.1823) . Limp full leather, gilt dec spine and topboard emblem, marbled eps, india paper, marking ribbon, a.e.g. 16mo. pp. xv, [1], 556. Notes. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Traces of cap and corner rubbing, internally fine..

London: MacMillan, 1906. Illustrated by several line drawings. Globe (later) edition. c.1893 (first thus). Green blind-stamped cloth, gilt top emblem, gilt print spine, uncut & unopened. Cr.8vo. pp. xxiii, 718, [2] Ads. VG/No jacket. Cap and corner wear, bumped corners, foxing starting at eps., many sections unopened, ink owner. Based on the 1804 edition. Double column format, Title page and advertisement from the original 1791, 2 volume quarto edition..

New York: Century, 1916. Illustrated by I.W. Taber frontis and 20 plates. Later edition. c.1897. Green cloth, (B.M.M.) binding in black and red, gilt print. 12mo. pp. [ii], viii, [2]. VG/No jacket/In mylar protector. Boards soiled with some discoloration, several lines rubbed, sunned spine, internally fine..

New York: D. Appleton, 1900. Illustrated by 4 photogravures, 2 color plates. Aldine edition. (from The World's Great Books). Green Cloth, printed spine tiles, uncut and unopened, t.e.g. 8vo. pp. xxv, 507. VG. Bookplate, sunned spine, head chipped, some soiling, yet internally fine with many sections unopened. Biographical and critical note by Ripley Hitchcock, includes Suspiria De Profundis (Sequel to Confessions of an English Opium-Eater) and the English Mail-Coach and Literary Reminiscences: Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Society of the Lakes..

New York: Charles Scribner, 1864. [early American] edition. Quarter leather over marbled boards, eps and fore-edges, 4 raised bands. Medium 8vo. pp. xix, 620, [4] blank. Very Good. Caps, edges and corners worn and starting to chip, foxing starting. Solid copy seeking volume 2; 1861 author preface..

New York: Harper & Row, 1973. Illustrated by B/W photographs. First US edition. Red cloth. 8vo. pp. 250. Very Good/In like jacket/Clipped price in mylar. Light soil back panel, edgewear, closed tear..

Berkeley CA: Bern Porter, 1947. (Later) edition. Clay illustrated boards, mock 1/4 brown, uncut. Oblong 8vo. pp. [98]. Fine/Near Fine/No price in mylar. Several tiny closed tears and trace of removed rear sticker. "Forty-six illustrations for the famous Dickens novel augmented by interpretative short passages taken from the original text"..

New York: Doubleday, McClure , 1898. Illustrated by 8 b/w plates, line drawings. First American edition. Green embossed cloth decorated black, gilt print, t.e.g., uncut. 8vo. pp. [xii], 431. VG/No jacket, as issued/In mylar protector. Near fine internally with the exception of dampstain to plate facing 218 which removed several text letters, backstrip reglued, (ink owner). Bright boards and spine..

New York: Doubleday, McClure , 1898. Illustrated by 8 b/w plates, line drawings. First American edition. Green embossed cloth decorated black, gilt print, t.e.g., uncut. 8vo. pp. [xii], 431. VG+/No jacket, as issued/In mylar protector. Cap and joint rubbing, hinges starting, pages and plates fine..

London: Harap, (1985). First thus edition. Black cloth. 8vo. pp. 245. Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Author edited and selected by with introduction and postscript..

New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d. Illustrated by frontis and plates. Popular Edition edition. c.1866. Two title pages: Novels of George Eliot (15 volumes total, this volume 3, published separately). From the second US Edition. Olive cloth, gilt print spines "George Eliot's Works". 12mo. pp. 529, 8 Ads. VG-. Wear to caps and corners, one foxed area where newspaper bookmark removed..

New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1969. Stated First edition. Library style pictorial purple and tan cloth by New Method Book Bindery. Small 8vo. pp. vi, 334. Fine/No jacket..

New York: Oxford University Press, (1977). Illustrated by Warren Chappell duotones. First thus edition. c. 1726. Based on 1735 edition, with Swift's corrections. Tan illustrated cloth, quarter brown cloth printed gilt, t.e.yellow. 8vo. pp. xxxii, 299, [1], [3] blank. Near Fine/In like jacket/No price in mylar. Introduction by Jacques Barzun. Owl bookplate front pastedown, light crush to jacket head..

New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Illustrated by Warren Chappell. First thus edition. c.1726. (from the text based on the 1735 Edition). Quarter cloth. 8vo. pp. xxxii, 300. Fine/VG+/No price in mylar. Several short closed tears, some rubbing. Introduction by Jacques Barzun..

Boston: Jordan, Marsh & Co. (Beewick & Smith), 1887. Illustrated by 214 drawings in text by the author, Richard Doyle, Mrs. Butler, George Du Maurier, John Collier, H. Furniss, G.G. Kilburne, M. Fitzgerald, J.P. Atkinson and W.J. Webb. Reprint edition. c.1849 London, c.1869 Tauchnitz and Smith, Elder, c.1887 Worthington Co., NY (with 118 illustrations). Olive silk, decorated black, printed gilt and black. Cr.8vo. pp. x, 518 (History of Samuel Titmarsh through The Book of Snobs, [2], 356 (Mrs. Perkins's Ball through Ballads). Good+/No jacket, as issued. Cap and corner wear, bumps to topedge resulting in tiny tears/chips from pp. 51-94 first page number and pp 81-104 of second page numbering (non affecting text), light toning, foxed and offset stains to title page, some illustration offset. Mock dos-o-dos and unusual collection of Thackeray's Works issued by the famous department store established in 1851 (probably for a holiday season play on words; Titmarsh vs. Jordan March) ..

Franklin Center PA: Franklin Library, 1980. Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson. (from the 3 volume 1792 Dixon). Green cloth, gilt, raised bands, aeg. 8vo. pp. [xxii], 736, [2] About Artist. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Some spotting to gilt..

London/New York: Ernest Nister/E.P. Dutton, n.d.. Illustrated by Arthur A. Dixon in b/w. Gift reprint edition. Printed in Bavaria 490. Decorated paper, quarter vellum, aeg. 16mo. pp. 72. Good/No jacket, as issued. Caps and corners chipped, first section loose, one corner chip, joints starting, spots of soil to several pages..

Boston: Estes and Lauriat (University Press), n.d (ca. 1870). Illustrated by each volume with b/w tissue frontis and 15 additional plates. (from the 20 volume) Handy Volume edition. 6 volumes. Burgundy marbled boards, endpapers and edges, half burdundy morocco with five raised bands, gilt tooled and stamped spine. Cr.8vo. pp. 392; 391; 457; 443; 404; 414. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Unread (internally as new) copies in VG-NF bindings: with 1/6 heels chipped, 3/6 heads chipped, 6/12 joints starting, 6/24 corners worn, some spine rubbing. Marbeling still brilliant, no ownership..