Search Results: cranford by gaskell mrs elizabeth

London: Collins, 1910. Later printing. . Hardcover. Good. pocket edition illustrated A A Dixon dark red cloth

George Routledge & Sons Ltd, nd c 1905. reprint.. Hardback. Cloth, VG. viii+280pp, cloth a little rubbed. New Universal Library - The Works of Mrs Gaskell vol I. Mrs Gaskell's fictional account of life in & around Knutsford in Cheshire in the mid Victorian era. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [ 1810 - 1865 ]. Popular English novelist noted for her realism & the potrayal of the lives of the very poor in Victorian England.

G. P. Putnam`s Sons; New York & London., 1111. Soft. Good-. 24mo. 5 1/2".. Tissue-guarded frontispiece.. Good-. Contemporary full red leather with gilt lettering and cartouched to front. Chipping to spine head and tail. Average wear and marking. A spot of foxing. Top edge gilt.

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1897. Book. Good. Hardcover. Original green cloth. Some speckling on boards, inner joint papers lightly cracked (joints tight), good..

GB: Penguin English Library, 1976. 1st Thus. Paperback. VG-.

London: Thomas Nelson & Co., 1960. Book. Good. Hardcover. Undated: mid C20th. Original cream coloured boards, with purple rectangle with gilt tiling on spine. Lightly sunned on edges, good..

Heron Books. Undated c1978 Heron Books hardback, dark blue boards with gilt decoration, no dj as issued; very good, appears unread, near as new condition; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Very Good. Hardcover. 1978.

Garden City, Ny: Doubleday. Good with no dust jacket. No pub date. Paperback. Slightly Soiled. .

Heron Books. c1968 Heron Literary Heritage Collection edition hardback, navy blue faux leather with gilt decoration, no dj as issued; VG clean condition, appears unread, light shelf ageing to top edge, publisher's blurb enclosed; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Very Good. Hardback. 1968.

(London: The Folio Society, 1987). Introduction by Susan Hill. Wood-engravings by Joan Hassall. 8vo; original decorative papered boards backed by gilt-margined red cloth with gilt-on-blue spine titles; papered slipcase; pp. xii + 201; engravings in text. Fine condition. "By now, almost two hundred editions of Cranford have appeared, and though I doubt if it is read as widely as it once was, or loved so universally - and what classic of the nineteenth century is? - it still has a loyal and devoted following, and acquires new readers every time it is re-issued. Many attempts have been made to account for its longstanding place in the hearts of the reading public, as will always be the case with a popular classic, and there have been many interpretations and explanations and academic dissections of the text. Cranford has been many things to many people. ... But although it has serious points to make, and indeed is at heart a deeply serious book, Cranford is first and foremost a work of… Read More

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1951. 228 yellowing pages, red boards with gilt ltrs on spine, corners & head-heel of spine are bumped, slightly cocked. DJ is red/black/and white decorative design with red ltrs in cream box while nicked and chipped on edges/ehead-heel of spine/and edges. #40 in the Novel Library with an introduction by Angela Thirkell.. Unknown Edition. Hardcover. Good+/Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

New York: H. M. Caldwell Company, [no date, c.1900]. Hardcover, green cloth, decorative spine. Good. Small handy volume, 330 pages, several b/w illustrations. Wear to spine ends, a few pages dinged/creased. Cranford, originally published in 1853, was presented as a BBC television program in 2007. It features several quaint old ladies & their social circle. Gaskell, 1810-1865, was an English novelist who depicted country and village life; she was friends with fellow female writers Charlotte Bronte & George Eliot.

Hurst & Co., New York, n.d. (ca. 1900). Good. Lovely little (18mo) gift edition with exquisite color miniature painting of snow scene on medallion placed on embossed brown and white front board; lettering blind stamped in white, but most of white has worn off. Little shelf wear--slight bumping to corners and faint rubbing at crown and foot of spine; area of slight discoloration at one spot on back board; spine sunned in absence of d.j. Binding firm. 316 p., immaculate and unmarked except for name of former owner on front end page and two tiny smudges there. Tiny open tear on lower edge t.p., obviously snipped out with scissors. Frontis. portrait of the author, who was as beautiful as she was talented.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Hardcover. 8vo. Bound in cloth with gilt decoration and titling. Top edge is gold gilt. 24 color plates. NEAR FINE. Shows slight wear to the topmost and bottommost of the spine, ever so slightly faded spine, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text and plates are clean and unmarked, and the boards are bright and colorful. Decorative binding, as pictured.

GB: Everyman's Library (Dent/Dutton), 1973. The painting on the front cover by Masterman is tinted green, yellow and blue. . Reprint Thus. Paperback. nrFine. Illus. by Dodie Masterman (cover).

New York : Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. N.D., ca 1900s, 12mo, xxi, 290pp, illustrated, with a Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Limp leather covers with gilt design and lettering, ribbon marker, top edge gilt. Extremities worn, particularly at spine ends, previous owner's inscription at front endpaper, backstrip slightly darkened, else G+. The classic story by Elizabeth Gaskell dealing with the life of the peaceful little English village of Cranford, inhabited chiefly by old ladies who practice elegant economy and a quaint social decorum under the leadership of the Honorable Mrs. Jamieson. The chief characters are the two Miss Jenkyns: Miss Deborah and Miss Mattie. See Benet, The Reader's Encyclopedia..

New York: The Federal Book Company, 1903. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/No Dustjacket. "Red cloth boards with gilt lettering; Top Book Edge is gilt; other Book Edges have light soiling from age; White Endpapers have tanned somewhat; Normal shelf wear, corners are lightly bumpedand very lightly rubbed; light to moderate soiling to front and back panels, spine has darkened slightly; rear gutter is but tight; page edges lightly aged; 12mo; 278 pages; illustrated; book is not dated, but Federal Books were only around for two years, 1902-1904 " 0.88#; P3;

Folio Society,, 1987 [1990]. 8vo., Second Impression thus, with illustrated title and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; decorative primrose boards, red cloth back ruled and lettered in gilt, red top, ivory endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.

Dent,, [1942]. 8vo., original series binding of red cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, dark top, patterned endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in EL in 1906. EL 83; Seymour: 414.0.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1892. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. With a Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Illustrated. Small spots of wear at the spine ends and corners. The spine is slightly slanted. Previous owner's name is written on the front free endpaper. Otherwise fine in a tight binding with hinges intact..