bonnie brier bush de john watson (20 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Acceptable. Pages are clean and bright with no markings. Binding is slightly loose but still intact and functional. Moderate rubbing to the edges and corners of the boards. Both the back and front boards have a deep verticle crease. 1/4 cloth and marble paper.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Has been repaired by replacing the spine and meanding the hinges. Has been glued back into its covers after being shaken loose. The hinges have been meanded preserving the original covers and spine. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Has been repaired by replacing the spine and meanding the hinges. Has been glued back into its covers after being shaken loose. The hinges have been meanded preserving the original covers and spine. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Etat : VERY GOOD. First American edition. The first, and most popular, book by this Scottish author and minister, published under the pen name of Maclaren. A collection of stories of Scottish rural life, which combined humor with pathos and a liberal use of Scots dialogue. The title of this book alludes to the Jacobite song ("There grows a bonnie brier bush in our Kailyard") and the term "Kailyard School" (kailyard is a small kale, or cabbage, kitchen garden attached to a cottage) was applied to a group of Scots writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who were considered to be overly sentimental by their critics - or perhaps just too widely popular. 317 pp. Very good light green cloth with a dark green border and decoration on front cover, gilt lettering on front and spine (gift card from Christmas 1896 affixed to front pastedown, previous owner's name).

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Original Edition. Reprint. Publisher's full brown cloth, silver lettering and decoration on spine and cover. nd (c. 1894). John Watson (1850 1907), was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He is remembered as an author of fiction, known by his pen name Ian Maclaren. Maclaren's first stories of rural Scottish life, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush (1894), achieved extraordinary popularity, selling more than 700,000 copies. Paper very brittle (as usual), browning. Spine slightly worn at head and heel, else fine: unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. . 12mo (6 x 4.5"). 258 pp.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. The book is good with edge wear, light soiling to covers and binding a bit loose.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. 5 1/8 X 7 5/8 Inches. 327 PP. Original cloth with four leaf clover illustration and gilt title-stamping to front cover. No additional printings noted on title-page. Maclaren's most famous book, a collection of stories of Scottish country life. Hint of scuffing to edges and spine. PO gift inscription to FFEP. A bit of foxing. An attractive copy in the first binding.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Squarish octavo, hardcover, no dj. Early Edition.3/4 bound in turquoise cloth on spine and corners. with greenish marble boards. This edition of Ian Maclaren's famous book has been prepared for those who can't understand the Scotch dialect. All difficult words and expressions have been translated. 95 pp. Includes Domsie, A highland mystic, his mother's sermon, the transformation of Lachlan Campbell, the cunning speech of Drumtochty, a wise woma n, and a doctor of the old school. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. First Canadian Edition. Decorative green cloth with shamrock design and gilt titles; both hinges cracked but text tight and unmarked. Dodd, Mead New York stated as well as Revell Toronto on copyright page, but Revell only on spine. ; 9.53 X 7.40 X 0.87 inches; 322 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. green cloth. 327 pp. [16] plate illustrations. Spine tilted and sunned. Rubbed to extremities, bumped to spine ends and corners. Ink ownership inscription to ffep.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Illustrated edition, 83 photographs . Gilt on top. Gilt on front and spine. Ornate cover.This copy is well worn but complete. Gift inscription on front endpaper to "Mrs. St. John, Xmas 1896" Inside cover has a newspaper article obituary pasted, along w/a portrait .

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 16mo. (17 cm.) vi, 218p. Decorated title page. Black and white frontispiece drawing of a woman coming through a gate set against the backdrop of pasture, house and mountains. Green decorative cloth with silver letters on the front cover and the spine and with a vignette in green, black, blue and silver of a cottage with smoke coming from the chimneys and with a teakettle on the spine. Binding signed FBS for the designer Frank Berkeley Smith . Just touches of wear to extremities with nothing rubbed through, cloth clean and bright, silver bright, frontispiece in fine condition, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. The binding designer, Frank Berkeley Smith [1869-1931] was a noted author, as well as an illustrator and designer, active from 1897 to 1916. Working largely in the poster style, Smith was a prolific cover designer, and according to Gullans/Espey, he worked "in outline or with pure color areas without outline." He died in Artennes, France, where he lived with his wife, Jeanne Constentin Chester Smith. A fine copy for any collector of Frank Berkeley Smith. John Watson [pseudonym Ian Maclaren, 1850-1907] was a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman in Liverpool [1880-1905] and author who won fame with BESIDE THE BONNIE BRIER BUSH (1894), which was followed by other portrayals of humble Scottish life. He was a member of the kallyard school and wrote several religious works as well.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. George Wharton Edwards (cover) (illustrateur). 1st or early printing with 1894 copyright date and 1895 on title page. 218pp with lots of ads. Light brown cloth with illus of a winding road with a tree and some flowers and a cottage in the distance. Gift inscription, dated Christmas 1896, on title page. Corners a little bumped, some cover soil, else very good.

Hardcover. Early printing. vi, 218pp + 28pp of publisher's advertisements. Pictorial beige cloth stamped in green. One of the most famous works in Scottish literature. Toning to cloth, a few stains to rear panel. About very good. ; 16mo.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. 2nd Edition. This is a Second American Edition. The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and wear. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a beginning crack to the front inner joint, and a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front endpaper. "Maclaren's first stories of rural Scottish life, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush (1894) , achieved extraordinary popularity, selling more than 700,000 copies, and was succeeded by other successful books, The Days of Auld Lang Syne (1895) , Kate Carnegie and those Ministers (1896) , and Afterwards and other Stories (1898). By his own name Watson published several volumes of sermons, among them being The Upper Room (1895) , The Mind of the Master (1896) and The Potter's Wheel (1897). Today he is regarded as one of the principal writers of the Kailyard school.".

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. William Hole (illustrateur). An early illustrated edition of John Watson's bestselling book of short stories with illustrations by William Hole. Early edition of Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by John Watson under the pseudonym Ian Maclaren in the original publisher's cloth binding.Illustrated edition with etchings by William Hole, the well renowned Scottish artist, illustrator and etcher. Includes twelve monochrome plates. Collated, complete.This collection of short stories was first published in 1894. It was a best selling novel in the years following its publication.With gilt to the front board and spine.Undated, dated from Jisc and the recent publications advertised.Prior owner's book plate to the front pastedown. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, very smart. There is some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities resulting in some slight bumping to the cloth. The front hinge is slightly strained. Prior owner's book plate to the front pastedown.Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Tall 8vo., cont. half calf, tartan paper boards, raised bands, xv, 326pp. Name, some rubbing to outer front hinge o/w very good.

LeatherBound. Etat : NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 194. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1909 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 194.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Limited Edition. Quarto. [7], 323 pages., [2]. Illustrated by William Hole. Three quarter light Moroccan green binding with blueish marbled paper covered boards. 4 raised bands, title and gilt floral decorations on spine. Gilt top edge. Untrimmed foredge. Blueish marbled paper end sheets. Edge wear to boards and corners. Light rubs to outer joints and one raised band on the spine. Limited edition - hand written number #40 (of 450 copies). Small binders stamp upper left corner, verso of right front flyleaf - "Bound for Stewart Kidd by Whitman Bennett." Book includes author letter signed (ALS) pasted down on the front blank end sheet. The letter, written on Sefton Park Church, Liverpool note paper, dated March 16 '95, is addressed "Dear Madam. I am greatly obliged by your note and kind references to my book.(difficult to transcribe next two lines).(signed) Yours Faithfully, John Watson." Pastor John Watson's pen name was Ian Maclaren. "Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush", stories of rural life in Scotland, first appeared in 1894.

Leather Bound. Etat : New. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1909. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Vol: - , Pages: - 194, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 194.