Life's Little Ironies a Set Of Tales With Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled a Few Crusted Characters

London: MACMILLAN & CO LTD, 1903 Blue Cloth Boards with gilt titles to spine and gilt blocked device to front panel. 302 pp + Map + 32pp publisher's catalogue. Collection of short stories + observations on some local characters. First published 1894 the copy offered by us is the 1903 New Edition. Good (Book- Shelf rubbing to cloth including nick… Read more about this item

Macmillan,, [1912]. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with frontispiece in sepia photogravure (original tissue guard present), half-title and title in red and black, and double-page map in the text, endpapers and half-title lightly browned; original maroon cloth, backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp copy. Macmillan's 'Wessex Edition' (the name was suggested… Read more about this item

[Osgood, McIlvaine],, [1894]. 8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper; decorative green cloth gilt, covers tooled in gilt and red to an art-nouveau floral design by Charles Ricketts, gilt back, back very lightly faded else a remarkably bright, clean copy. The binding is identical to that of the first edition published earlier in the same year. Purdy, p.85.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1894, First Edition Macmillan's Colonial Library edition, 'intended for circulation only in India and the British Colonies'. HB. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, no dustjacket (as issued?). 301pp, plus publisher's catalogue. Good overall. Cover has some scratch marks to back, a few light marks to front, fraying to spine cloth at top, dulled… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1894. Green boards, gold title on spine, gilt title and 6 small faces on front, 268 pages plus page of ads. Boards smudged, rubbed along edges, corners bumped. Cracked at ffep, previous owner's name in ink and erasure mark on ffep. Contents page creased and smudged, occasional light smudging on… Read more about this item

Macmillan,, 1922. Sm. 8vo., Pocket Edition, with title in red and black, and full-page map in the text; original series binding of plum cloth, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and blind, back gilt extra, gilt top, a near fine copy. Nice copy of the tooled cloth issue of this most attractive edition.

Harper & Brothers, 1894. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1894. No Edition Remarks. 268 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Heavy cracking at the hinges with exposed binding material. Title page and contents page are detached but present.… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers. 1894. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in boards. 1 inch open tear at bottom of title page. .

New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1894. First American edition. Octavo, original light green gilt decorated cloth, pp. 268, + [2] publisher's ads. A collection of nine interconnected stories. Published the same year as the English edition. The front free endpaper has split along the gutter and has been tipped back into the book, some splitting to the hinge paper,… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Bros, 1894. First American Edition. Hardcover - as published. Decorative green cloth with gilt lettering spine and front board, now in protective acetate, some soiling to rear cover. VG+ Ink name of first owner on ffep.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

British Library, Historical Print Editions. paperback. New. 7x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing