Search Results: By the Ionian Sea, Notes Of a Ramble In Southern… by George Gissing

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy.

Paperback / softback. New.

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

Portland: Thomas B Mosher, 1920. One of 700 copies for sale in America. Small octavo, drab green boards with paper spine label, pp. viii, 215. Foxing to page edges, rear gutter and spine edges have some cracking and repair, else about a very good copy. With a 3 mil mylar wrapper that should keep the book well protected and preserved while in use..

Portland, ME: Thomas B Mosher, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. viii, 215 pp. Limited edition of 700 copies for sale in America. Original green textured paper boards with paper spine label. Corners rubbed, uneven sunning to rear board; contents clean and sound. Gissing's journal of travel in southern Italy, including Naples, Cotrone, Catanzaro, Reggio, and elsewhere. No dust jacket.

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

Portland: Thomas B Mosher, 1920. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, Limited. Fine but for light bumping and wear to extremities, and a faint dampstain at heel of spine..

Chapman and Hall, 1921T. hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. NOT an ex-library book. Clean copy in good condition. This is the 1917 Chapman and Hall edtion. Some spotting/discolouration of pages due to age, but text remains clear.

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

London: Chapman and Hall, Ld, 1905. 8vo.  195 x 130 mm., [7 3/4 x 5 inches].  235 pp.  Illustrated with a folding map of Southern Italy and a few illustrations in the text.  Original green publisher's cloth,  title and decoration in gilt on cover; title and author on spine; spine somewhat faded, otherwise a nice copy in sound condition. "New and Cheaper Edition/Illustrated", originally published by Chapman and Hall in 1901.  Beginning in Naples, Gissings account records his travels south to the toe of Italy and across the Strait of Messina on his way to Palermo.  Organized in eighteen chapters, Gissing text brims with an enthusiasm for the countryside and the ancient architecture of the place.  He is especially taken with the stark landscape that is juxtaposed with the blue water and sky of the Mediterranean and Ionian Seas.   But, as only the English are capable, Gissing evocative text is accented with the paternalistic view, which characterizes many of the Italians he met as clumsy,… Read More

Loanhead, UK: Tragara Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1992. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 45 copies. On the limitations page designated as "printer's proof copy". Book plate of designer and printer Alan Anderson on the front endpaper. Included are a prospectus and also the pamphlet Gissing at Cotrone A Footnote by Norman Douglas, The Tragara Press, 2003. The pamphlet was designed to accompany the Tragara Press edition and was limited to 30 copies. .

Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Reprint, VG/G as dj shows chips, slight dampstaining, small 8vo, 203pps, gentle insights during a golden period of travel, ads in rear. Uncommon.