Search Results: selections from the writings of john by john ruskin

New York: John Wiley & Son. Fair with no dust jacket. 1868. Hardcover. Inner hinges have small splits. Binding mostly cracked following the title page. Pages 201-8 loosely attached by single thread. Covers have rubbing and touches of edge wear. Owner's name written on front free endpaper. ; Many pages unopened. .

Routledge, 1979. Textbook Binding. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: George Braziller, Inc, 1963. Hardcover. Edited by John D. Rosenberg. 8vo. Yellow and black cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 560pp. Near fine/near fine. Small front pastedown ownership signature. Superbly bright , fresh, tight first edition of this assortment of the famed critic's best essays on art, architecture, Society, etc.

New York: John Wiley, 1876. Moderate shelf wear, with frayed spine ends. Otherwise fine in a square, tight binding with hinges intact.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

John Wiley & Sons, New York: 1882., 1882 pp. xii, 479. All edges marbled. 12mo. Original quarter blue leather over marbled boards. Binding faded, rubbed and worn with slight loss. Hardbound. LITERATURE BOX 1 0.0. Hardcover.

London: Smith, Elder and Company, 1863. 440+pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Lightly soiled. Corners bumped. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Foxing to first few leaves. Frontispiece portrait of John Ruskin. Pg. edges lightly browned.. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

John Wiley & Sons, 1879. Hard Cover Hardcover. FAIR/NOT ISSUED. • Binding: Hard Cover • Packaging: Poly Bag Protected • 1879 • Clean tanned pages. Brown cloth over boards with gilt title and decorations. Edgewear. Front joint is cracked. Bumped corners. •

New York: John Wiley & Sons. 1868. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good- to Fair in boards. Ex-library with the usual markings. Damp staining. Some tearing to exterior fabric. Hinge is starting. .

LONDON: SMITH ELDER, 1862. ASSUMED FIRST. . Hardcover. Near Fine/NoNE. 3/4 LEATHER BOUND BY A FINE BINDER END PAPERS MATCH THE FRONT AND BACK COVERS PORTRAIT OF RUSKIN WITH FACIMILE SIGNATURE TISSUE IN PLACE ROMAN NUMERALS M.DCCC.LX11 FIVE BANDS AND DECORATED SPINE TINY SCRAPE LOWER MIDDLE FRONT COVER

London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1886., 1886. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature. Full period blue morocco, a.e.g. (a little spotting at ends; front joint cracked, light wear to tips) Very good. 440 pages. Enclosed in a custom 1/2 blue morocco slipcase. With a gift inscription from Lewis Carroll to his sister-in-law, inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper: "Alice J. Dodgson* from her affectionate brother, CL Dodgson. March 20, 1886." *Alice Jane (nee Donkin) Dodgson was married to Lewis Carroll's brother Wilfred. **See letter of 3/18/1886 in The Letters of Lewis Carroll p. 625, to Maud Standen in wherein Carroll mentions his sister-in-law's visit to Oxford in March of 1886. ***Dodgson read and admired the works of John Ruskin (1819-1900) early, and his desire to meet the artist-critic was stimulated by long talks about him with R. St. John Tyrrwhitt (Diaries, p. 106) and, on one occasion at least, with Tennyson (p. 126). Finally the meeting took place. "At… Read More