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Etat : Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Darkened spine, top edges of boards a bit toned, contents clean and crisp. ; 8vo, half tan cloth over blue boards, gilt title on cover, 44pp. , PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND DATED ON FRONT ENDPAPER BY THE AUTHOR, with quote "For death, he taketh all away, but love he cannot take…

Hard Back. Etat : Very Good. Good -. 211 very clean bright pages. Red boards. The jacket has suffered a loss from the lower section of the cover. Very atmospheric art work of a couple on the bacnks of the River Thames, with a silhouette of the Houses of Parliament on the opposite bank. The cover has a very 'period' style, and is…

Etat : Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good hardcover ex-library first…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. 212pp. Brown publisher's cloth boards (rounded and worn on corners and spine ends, a few mild marks). Lending sheet on front free endpaper, else no other library markings. Internally a few marks on soft-touch pages, slightly dusty edges). In its original, vintage d…

Brown Card Wraps. Etat : Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1987. First edition in a limited edition of 170 copies, of which this is number 140. 41pp. plus 1 page giving edition details. George Robert Gissing (1857-1903) was an English writer and novelist, probably best known as the author of The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street…

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Café-au-lait wrappers, printed paper label. Edition limited to 170 numbered copies. Edith Sichel was a writer and "amateur philanthropist" whose critique of George Gissing in Murray's Magazine in 1888 attracted Gissing's attention (though he didn't take to the title, "Two Philanthropic Novel…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. ND. c.1954, book club edition, with toned stock, but otherwise in VG order throughout. No inscriptions. Smart red boards. Scarce with d/j, this attractive and in VG order with light wear to edges and a little marking to rear. Now in removable protective sleeve. 12mo.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Cloth-backed patterned boards, printed paper spine-label. Edition limited to 170 numbered copies. of which this is one of 30 specially bound and printed on paper made by Amatruda of Amalfi. Edith Sichel was a writer and "amateur philanthropist" whose critique of George Gissing in Murray's Mag…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 41pp. Printed in a limited numbered edition of 170 copies. Numbers 1 to 30 were printed on paper made by Amatruda of Amalfi. This is copy #16. Original quarter brown cloth with title label tipped to top of spine. Decorated paper covered boards. Untrimmed lower page edges. Sing…

Paperback octavo, as new condition, black & white drawings, frontispiece, minor edgewear. 72 pp. A bibliography of 'The Native Companion', an important but short-lived literary periodical published in Melbourne in the early 20th century (1907 only). The editor was E. J. Brady (Irish-Australian poet) and the pages contained the w…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Near Fine. Limited and Numbered First Edition. Number 72 of 110 copies printed. Handset in Garamond Light and Hadriano Stone-Cut and bound by William M. Robbins & Sons, Roachdale, Indiana in quarter leather over cloth, gilt lettering. Near Fine, slight scattered foxing at end pages, in a Near Fine du…

No Binding. Etat : Very Good. Printer's corrected page proofs: 36 leaves, loose, printed rectos only, lacking only pp. [1] (half-title), [4] (copyright page), [43] (limitation page) and the illustrations facing pp. 18 and 26; with the editor's manuscript queries and printer's corrections on 21 pages. Some pages mildly creased, t…