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Peter Fenelow Collier, Publisher. Hardcover. Fair. Volume 29, Quentin Durward PART TWO ONLY, small dark (once green?) hardcover with gilt spine lettering. 17.7cm tall. 480 pages. Undated, circa 1890. The pages are VG (unmarked with mild age-yellowing) and the exterior is fair+ with light wear, slight soiling, and slight fraying at the spine bottom. [13oz]

Peter Fenelon Collier. VG/NONE. circa 1907. Hardcover. Part Two for The Fortunes of Nigel and Part One for Quentin Durward. Drk green boards with minor staining. Gld lettering still quite nice. Light normal edge wear. Text is clean/tight/light normal page browning/light finger smudgies. All outside edges of text speckled. All 3 illustrations accounted for with the frontispiece in green. ; Waverly Novels; Vol. 28; 43/4x7; 552 pages .

Boston: Dana Estes & Company. Illustrated Sterling Edition . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Boston: Dana Estes & Company. Illustrated Sterling Edition . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. No Date , Waverly Novels, blue covers with title label on spine, Three Books in One, Text unmarked , tight cover has minor edge corner wear <br/> <br/>

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1881 Book. Good. Three-Quarter Leather. Scarce copy of this work of Sir Walter Scott, being one of the "Waverly Novels". Cover has moderate edgewear; interior is VG+. Illustrated..

BOSTON: SAMUEL H. PARKER, 1836 Book. Good. Hardcover. TITLE: WAVERLY NOVELS: QUENTIN DURWARD; A ROMANCE Vol. 29 only 1836 AUTHOR: SIR WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) / COPYRIGHT: SAMUEL H. PARKER, BOSTON 1836 EDITION: Reprint Edition, PARKER'S EDITION ISBN: NONE CATEGORY: Literature BINDING/COVER: Hardback without dust jacket COLOR: BROWN SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 ½ (approximately) PAGES: 278, 272 pages. CONDITION: The outside has some scuffing to the spine and edges. The front hinge is a little cracked and slightly loose (possible old glue repair). The second front endpaper has about a two inch rectangle box cut from the top edge. The book has oldstyle like time stains and some age foxing present throughout. There is a Red Cross like stamp to the first front free endpaper. Book is without other marks or writings, pages are fairly clean and book is tight and sturdy. All the pages are present in book. Good/None dust jacket condition as issued. BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION:… Read More

DeWolfe, Fiske and Co, nd (c. 1800's). Hardcover Leather 3/4. Good. in x in x in. No DJ. No marks in lightly read book. Browning of page margins. Tight binding. Hardcover, leather spine and corners with edge wear. Etching illustrations. Contains The Black Dwarf and Old Mortality (565 pages), Quentin Durward (464).

Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1852. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Good. in x in x in. No DJ. Owner bookplate front paste-down page: William and Augusta Dawson. Water stains end pages. No other marks in lightly read book. Binding tight. Hardcover leather spine and corners, edge wear. From title page: [Complete in Twelve Volumes. Printed from the latest English Editions, Embracing the Author�s Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes.] Engravings. 563 pages.

New York: E. B. Hall and Company. 1894. Buckner Library Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in boards. Light rubbing along panel edges. Top text block edge gilded. .

Boston & Chicago: Ticknor and Fields & S.C. Griggs and Company, 1858. This is a beautiful pair (Volumes 31 and 32 of a large set) in a full-leather Fine Binding. Smooth calf , ruled in gilt; five raised bands on the spine, highly decorated in gilt; labels in black and gilt; numbers of the set in gilt on the lower spine. Clean texts; 338 and 348 pages. Marbled edges and endpapers. Some very light rubbing at the margins. There is evidence of bookplates having been removed from the front paste-down. These are ASSOCIATION COPIES, with the discreet stamp on the second free endpaper of "Estate of Henry Farnam, New Haven, CT." Farnam (1803-1883) was a surveyor on the Erie Canal, who eventually rose as a railroad president. . Reprint Edition. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Century Company, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good +. Seven Volumes, 8vo, 5 x 8, approx. 500 pages each Attractive burgundy cloth with blue title tag on back strip; minimal shelf wear; interior clean with minimal age toning; top edge gilt

Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1883. The Centenary Edition of Sir Walter Scott's Waverly Novels. Octavo, 12 volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Robertson with burgundy morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Illustrated title page and tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume, in-text illustrations. In very good condition.

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. , 1854-1856.. Very good examples of this famous series. With double frontispieces. Some wearing to extremities, some volumes with chipped or missing labels. Interiors are clean and crisp.. Binding: Full contemporary straight-grain calf boards. Gilt fillet on upper and lower. Spine with 5 raised bands in 6 compartments, densely gilt. Series title in gilt on red label in 2, volume title in gilt on green in 3. Gilt rolls on board edges. Blind dentelles. Marbled paste-in and free endpapers. All edges marbled., Notes: The Waverley Novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe. Because Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, the series takes its name from Waverley, the first novel of the series released in 1814. The later books bore the words "by the author of Waverley" on their title pages.Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832) was a Scottish… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne; And Hurst, Robinson, and Co., London, 11816-1821. Complete first edition set of Scott's Waverly Novels. Octavo, 74 volumes uniformly bound in full morocco by Morrell, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional set. A lengthy series of novels by Sir Walter Scott, The Waverley Novels were among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe for nearly a century. Because Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, the series takes its name from Waverley, the first novel of the series released in 1814. The later books bore the words "by the author of Waverley" on their title pages. "Scott s influence as a novelist was incalculable; he established the form of the historical novel, and the form of the short story" (Drabble, 879).