THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER Or The Black Brothers A Legend Of Stiria by John Ruskin - 1863

Boston, MA: Ginn & Company. 1916. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Spine faded. School stamp on front free endpaper. ; With drawings after Richard Doyle. ; 71 pages .

Ginn & Company, 1895. Hardcover. Good/Missing. Tan paper covered boards with cloth spine; edges worn with boards exposed; 12mo - over 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; no jacket. Pencil gift inscription on free front endpaper; illustrations in black and white; gutter gaps at page 30 and 46; pages toned, interior is unmarked; 53 pages.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. Very Good- with no dust jacket; Some smudges to pages. Spine slightly . bumped.. N.D.. Hardcover. A beautifully illustrated edition.; 8vo; 68 pages .

New York: Mcloughlin Brothers. Good with no dust jacket. 1905. Hardcover. E--Wear and rubbing to green cloth covers. Binding has been repaired, and repair cloth can be seen at spine ends, and a few spots along the spine where the original cloth is missing small pieces. Cloth hinges and new pastdowns have been added. Color frontis, B&W illustrations, name and address on front end page. End pages age toned, mild margin tanning on text pages. Text clean and bright except for an occasional smudge or spot, spine stained, covers slightly bowed, lovely pictorial on front cover . Binding sound. Text clean of highlighting, underlining or other pen/pencil marks. A Little Store that's BIG on Service. Tracking on every package. ; Drawings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 41 pages .

Hardback, no dust jacket, spine ends and corners rubbed, maroon cover has wrinkles and light spots from water, gold embossed print on spine a little dull, gold on top outside edges of pages spotted and scuffed, some spots on other outside edges, pages a little yellowed, text clean

London: Collins, 1908. 1st Edition . Hardback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. T.H. Robinson. First edition? No date but gift inscription dated 1908 Small octavo hardback 96 pages illustrated with five colour plates plus colour plate on front cover and colour end papers with numerous black and white illustrations by T.H,.Robinson Good condition Covers quite rubbed at edges and spine but very sound and clean interior.

LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN Dark Brown Cloth boards with gilt blocked rustic titles and image to front board, 195 x 140 mm approx. Publisher's original decorative end papers, 64 pp. Illustrated Frontis, Title and 20 other wood engravings in text by Richard Doyle all as called for. Seventh Edition of Ruskin's classic Fairy Tale undated circa early 1880's. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG ( Mild to moderate shelf wear to cloth with small chip - 4x3 mm approx to tail of spine, previous owner book plate to top corner of front paste down and gift insc. in ink to front free end paper May 12 /89. Original cover price in pencil to reverse of 6/- mild browning to half title and last text page. Binding sound with no cracks to end papers and no other defects). A particularly bright clean copy.

Mass: McLoughlin Brothers, 1920. Hard Cover. vg+. Blue decorated cloth. Full page black and whtie illustrations by G.A.Davis. In original box. (damaged) Gift inscription from former owner . A bit of rubbing to back cloth cover.

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1863. Ruskin called this a "fairy tale," and he wrote it for the twelve-year-old girl that he later married. It dates to 1841 and was first published ten years later. It became rather wildly popular. This is a Very Good copy of the Fifth English Edition. Bright orange cloth binding, ruled on the covers; gilt titling and decoration on the spine and front cover. Clean text; 64 pages; with twenty-two illustrations by Richard Doyle. Very bright and fresh text. The spine has darkened, and the orange binding shows some soiling. There is an armorial bookplate on the front paste-down. The front hinge is cracked but appears to be holding well.. Fifth Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Richard Doyle. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: McLoughlin, 1905. hardcover. near fine. G.A. Davis. Illustrated by G.A. Davis with a full page colored frontispiece. 43 pages. Slim square 8vo, pictorial green cloth. New York: McLoughlin, (1905). Near Fine.<br/><br/>