Search Results: tom browns school days by thomas hughes

New York: Porter & Coates exceptionally nice, clean condition, not dated, c1880's, no names, etc.. Green Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Black & White Illust.

Belford, Clarke & Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1888. Hardcover. Tom Brown; 418 pages .

P. F. Collier & Son, 1903. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hurst and Co, 1920-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Unidentified (illustrator). 6th Edition, 357 pp. lithographs by an unidentified artist, pastedown on front cover that is rubbed and top corner torn off. Cloth on book is a light green that is darkened. Gift inscription and light foxing on endpaper. Pages lightly yellowed. One page tanned where a catalogue order form was laid in. A couple of fingerprints but overall clean and binding is tight.

New York: JH Sears, undated, circa 1920. No edition stated, printed at Kingsport Press.. Hardback in maroon cloth boards with gilt medallion titlling & edge decorations, no jacket.. Good unmarked, faded gilt. light wear.. Very popular novel set in 1830s at Rugby Public School, orig published in 1857, later adapted into film and tv. Solid clean tight copy with nice decorative endpapers, faded cover gilt, no interior markings. 4-1/4 x 6-3/4,242 pp, b/w decorative endpapers.

1877, James Osgood, Boston; Author's Edition. Brownish boards, loose but intact. Wear on spine and edges. Cover and text, good.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1897. Finely bound example of the author's popular and influential work. Octavo, bound in three quarters crushed levant morocco by Morrell, gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated. In very good condition. Although there were as many as 90 stories set in British boarding schools published between Sarah Fielding's The Governess, or The Little Female Academy in 1749 and 1857, Tom Brown's School Days was responsible for bringing the school story genre to much wider attention. Tom Brown's School Days' influence on the genre of British school novels includes the fictional schools of Billy Bunter's Greyfriars School, Mr Chips' Brookfield, and St. Trinian's. It also directly inspired J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, set at the fictional boarding school Hogwarts. The series' first novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone has many… Read More

Pages 376 & 546 pp.8vo. 2 volumes uniformly bound in 3/4 red leather with red cloth over boards. Marbled end papers, top edge gilt. “New Edition” Illustrations by Arthur Hughes and Sydney Pior Hall. Bookplate & owner’s signature. Spines a bit faded. In very good condition. A nice set.