Search Results: life and labour or characteristics of by samuel smiles

J. Murray, 1898. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1898. Popular Edition. 474 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Full title: Life and Labour: Or, Characteristics of Men of Industry, Culture and Genius. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Slight cracking to gutters and hinges with exposed netting, pages slightly loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Tears to cloth to spine. Wear marks overall.

London: John Murray, 1905. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Red decorated cloth boards. Clean and firmly bound. Minor handling wear with some marks on cover. Foxing on free end papers and closed page edges.

London: John Murray, 1887. maroon embossed c w/gilt decorations/titles, moderate wear at extremities; owner's stamp; rear hinge neatly reset;474 clean, unmarked page/indeexs+publisher's listings. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 Vo.

HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

John Murray 1887. Octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering with black & gilt rule to spine & front board, xii + 474pp, VG- (minor scuffing to extrems, light fading & chafing to spine, light chafing to boards, light tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name to ffep, v heavy crack to front gutter- front board v shaky, minor cracking sporadically throughout)

John Murray 1887. Octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering with black & gilt rule to spine & front board, xii + 474pp, VG- (minor scuffing to extrems, light fading & chafing to spine, light chafing to boards, light tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name to ffep, v heavy crack to front gutter- front board v shaky, minor cracking sporadically throughout)

John Murray, 1887. Hardcover. Good. . Full leather, marbled textblock. Spine faded but still looks beautiful on a shelf- gorgeous gilt spine embellishments. Light shelf wear. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

London, Murray, 1887. 474 S., 2 S. Anz., Ln., Rckn. verblichen, Kap. l. bestoßen. . -- Erste Ausgabe. -- The man and gentleman. Great man - great workers. Great young men. Great old men. Lineage of talent and genius. Health - hobbies. Town and country life. Single and married - helps-meet. Evening of life - last thoughts of great men..

Paperback / softback. New.

London: John Murray, 1887. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book Bookplate of contemporary workmen's library on front pastedown, the only indication of library use.Slight fading to maroon cloth on spine.

Hardback. New.

John Murray, London, 1887. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine copy in the publisher's original wine cloth. Spine a little sun toned with the slightest suggestion of wear to the spine bands. Front board gilt and blind bordered with a blind armorial stamp. ; 474 pages; Description: 8vo. 448 p. 19 cm. Subjects: Conduct of life.

London: John Murray, 1912. reprint. Nice copy. octavo. full leather xii + 474pp., index, India paper edition. Superbly bound in blue leather with decorated gilt spine with raised bands, green leather spine titles & device of Camberwell Grammar School on front board. Marbled edges & marbled end papers. Prize-label on front paste-down o/w a lovely prize binding

London: John Murray, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. xii, 474pp. Finely bound in full tan calfskin, outer gilt dentelles, five raised bands and red leather title label to spine, gilt lettering and embellishments, Trinity College, Harrogate armorial emblem on front board. Text block edge fully marbled. Marbled endpapers, with inner blind dentelles. 12mo. Boards just a little rubbed on edges, slightly rounded at corners. Internally fresh and bright barring the very occasional sign of fingering. A very handsome, well-preserved volume. A study of the private and working lives of successful men in history. Smiles achieved wide fame with his 1859 work, Self-Help, which promoted self-reliance and self-improvement. "Believing that his essential message was only partially accepted and cautious about the effect of the extension of the franchise in 1867, he developed his theme in Character (1871), Thrift (1875), Duty (1880), and Life and Labour… Read More

London : John Murray, 1887. First edition. Samuel "Self-Help" Smiles with "many fresh instances of what can be accomplished by honest force of will and steady accomplishment" from right across the range of human endeavour. Treated thematically, there are inspiring chapters on Man and Gentleman; Great Men - Great Workers; Great Young Men; Great Old Men; Lineage of Talent and Genius; The Literary Ailment (Over Brain-Work); Health and Hobbies; Town and Country Life; Single and Married, and the Evening of Life. Crown 8vo (180 x 117mm). xii,474pp. Bound in an elegant contemporary full plum prize calf, banded and gilt, with the arms of the Crypt School in Gloucester on the upper cover, by George Davies & Son of Gloucester; marbled edges and endpapers; some minor rubbing and a few tiny scuffs, but a very good and sound copy. Midsummer 1888 Mark Prize school label of the Crypt School made out to G. W. Crump - George Wallace Crump (1874-1915), the son of a local iron railing manufacturer.

London: John Murray, 1907. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A study of the private and working lives of successful men in history. With chapters including Health-Hobbies, Town and Country Life, Single and Married and many more. In a Bickers and Son binding (binder's ink stamp to recto of front free-endpaper). In an armorial calf prize binding. Externally, generally smart, though with a couple of marks and some dampstaining to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Prize bookplate to front pastedown. Pages are bright, though with the occasional patch of foxing. Very Good