John frederick conway (24 résultats)

Softcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. FAIR / NO DUST JACKET as Issued. [nd] presumed circa 1887. 192 pp. + ads. Text clean and unmarked. Pages tanned. Paper wraps printed in black, chipped and worn, tanned. Backstrip chipped and partly missing.Text block with sewn and stapled binding intact, complete. Hugh Conway (1847-1885), the p…

Wraps. Etat : Good to Very Good. No date (circa 1925). #186 in Westbrook's The Hart Series. The author died of typhoid fever in 1885, at the too-young age of 38. Curiously, bound into the back of the book are the first 39 pages -- ending in mid-sentence -- of another Conway/Fargas title, "Living or Dead," which Westbrook also pu…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Very good book in light grey board covers with a quarter vellum strip carrying bright gilt titles to a slightly darkened spine.Internally very good and free of inscriptions; binding tight; very minor foxing; unread copy as a number of pages not separated from the printing; ix + 144 pp. A v…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Arrowsmith's Bristol Library Vol 1. Undated, circa 1890? Hugh Conway appears to be a pseudonym used by Frederick John Fargus. [iv], 194 pages. Bound in red cloth with a leather spine. The spine is scuffed at the edges. Small ink stamp of the binder to the foot of the front pastedown - Birdsall & Son…

(iv), 194pp, 4pp ads. Orig. brown cloth, blocked in black, spine lettered in gilt; sl. rubbed. Not in Glover & Greene. Not in Hubin. Wolff records the 'first edition' published in late 1883 as part of Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual. The first 'book edition' was published in 1884. Copac records only Aberdeen and University of Lond…

Small octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-194 [195-196: blank] [note: last leaf (O2) is a blank], nineteenth-century three-quarter green leather and marbled boards. First book edition. Published earlier as ARROWSMITH'S CHRISTMAS ANNUAL FOR 1883. Conway's first full-length fiction, a short novel which brought him worldwide fame and establish…

Hard Cover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Later Edition. Early American edition of this thriller, a bestseller after its first appearance in Arrowsmith's Miscellany in late 1883, and cited by Emily Dickinson as a good read. Though dated 1884 on the title page, the books listed in our example's endsheet would date it to 1885, though of…

Small octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-194 [note: lacks original paper wrappers]. First book edition, first printing (title page dated 1884). Published earlier as ARROWSMITH'S CHRISTMAS ANNUAL FOR 1883. Conway's first full-length fiction, a novel which brought him worldwide fame and established the formula and format of the Victorian shi…

Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4-171 [172: blank] [3] 4-173 [174: blank] [175-182: ads] [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], flyleaves at front and rear, original brown cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, pale yellow coated endpapers. First enlarged (or combined) edition. The first half of…

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual for 1883. [10], 88, [12] p. 25 cm. Half leather with marbled paper boards. Advertising at front and rear. Text in two columns. Both boards detached and spine deteriorated, worn edges and rubbed boards. Tear in p. 87. Remains of clipping attached to front endpaper. News articl…

Octavo, three volumes: pp. [i-v] vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-250; [i-v] vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-248; [i-v] vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-207 [208: printer's imprint] + 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "March, 1886" on page [1], all three half title leaves present, original salmon cloth, front panels ruled in black, rear panels ruled in blind, spin…

FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Half titles, 32pp cata. vol. III (March 1886). Original salmon-pink smooth cloth, borders & rules on front boards & spines, back boards in blind, spines lettered in gilt. A nice bright copy. See Glover & Greene 86 for a new edition of the same year. Sadleir 613; Wolff 1426. Conway's last novel published af…