Search Results: ENGLISH LITERATURE from Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. . 8vo, gray/green paper-covered boards; slight abrasion on front pastedown caused by removal of bookseller's ticket. First American edition

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1913. . 8vo, green cloth, inner hinges cracked. Not a first American. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Miss Barnes Gratefully from the Author--in Memory of the Book Fair. Oct: 13. '19"

London: Medici Society, 1933. . 8vo, self wrappers, tied in centerfold with wool thread, original mailing envelope present. First Edition. Stewart 617

Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1896. . 8vo, royal-blue cloth, stamped in red, some soiling to front cover; ownership signature on front free endpaper; small hole in front inner hinge. First American Edition

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1934. . Large 8vo, gray cloth, front partially pictorial, printed in maroon; dust jacket slightly soiled and with a few very minor chips. The title is misleading and covers 20th century writers to the time of publication, although some of them were active in the Victorian and Edwardian reigns. First American edition

London, etc.: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1950. . 8vo, black cloth; dust jacket present but defective. Later revised edition

London: Nimmo, 1895. . Tall 8vo, dark green cloth, corners and extremities of spine chipped; half title partially detached at head. Ownership signature on blank following front free endpaper. First Edition, Babbington 67

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1961. . 8vo, green cloth, very slight fading to extremities of spine; dust jacket with some rubbing at head and tail of spine and over corners

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. . 8vo, aquamarine cloth, bottom corners bumped; dust jacket with minimal wear to extremities of spine and corners. First American edition

London: Macmillan, 1889. . 8vo, three quarter maroon morocco with arms of the Cambridge Union Society on spine and its date due slip styling this "second class book" pasted in; spine and tips scuffed; marbled boards worn. First Edition

London: Humphrey Toulmin, . . 8vo, maroon cloth, some wear to extremities of spine and corners. Ex-library with discreet shelf marks on spine; perforation stamp on title; pencil acquisition marks on copyright and dedication pages; rubber numerical stamp on dedication; bookplate of University of Washington; due slip and catalogue number pasted to back endpapers.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1929. . 8vo, navy-blue cloth; original glassine wrapper, somewhat chipped. First Edition, originally published in "The New Adelphi" in 1927

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1929. . 8vo, yellow stiff wrappers with small loss at top of spine and crease in upper inner corner. First Edition, originally published in "The New Adelphi" in 1927

London: Peter Colburn, 1826-1829. . 5 volumes. 8vo, modern buff-colored boards, natural linen spines; spines titled in black. Previous owner's signature on the blank proceeding the half-title in volume I SECOND EDITION.

New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1895. . Large 8vo, self-wrappers. Supplement to The Bookman, Volume I, Number 1.J. M. Barrie's "Scotland's Lament" is on pp. [3]/4; two tributes by Samuel Rutherford Crockett are on pages 5 and 6; and an "In Memoriam by Ian Maclaren on pp. 7/8

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1964. . 8vo, yellow paper-covered boards, front corners lightly bumped; blue cloth spine, dust jacket with very slight rubbing at extremities of spine and corners. First American edition

New York: William H. Smith, Jr., 1934. . 12mo, light blue printed boards. One of 500 copies. Mint

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927. . 2 volumes. Large 8vo, blue buckram, some wear to extremities, t.e.g. 

London: Chatto and Windus, 1876. . 8vo, cream cloth, soiled and browned; spine badly darkened. FIRST EDITION of Gosse's second book, inscribed to the sculptor Nelson MacLean on the half-title. Gosse was to write an article on MacLean in "The Century Magazine", vol. XXVI, No 2, June 1883, pp. 163-85, entitled "Living English Sculptors". '

New York: Edward J. Clode, 1914. . 8vo, red cloth, some wear to extremities; top edge soiled; ownership signature on front free endpaper; scribbling on verso of frontispiece; one leaf torn. First Edition--there being no English edition--Stott E-2