Search Results

London: Remainder Centre Ltd.. xi, 322pp - Undated, but apparently 1950s. A lesser known Defoe novel, "Roxana" is Defoe's final novel (published originally in 1724). It tells the story of the "moral and spiritual decline of a high society courtesan". Unclipped DJ is lightly soiled, edgeworn and creased. Covers (blue-green limp cloth boards with green titles to front board and spine) is slightly edgeworn. Textblock has very slight foxing to the page edges, otherwise clean and tight.. ... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

London: Bancroft Books, 1972. 188pp inc frontis - A Bancroft Classic abridged edition of this classic adventure. VG+ except for age-tanned pages.. Reprint. Decorative Paper. Very Good +/No Jacket. ... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

London: Dean & Son Ltd. 216pp - No date listed, but appears to be late 1950s or '60s. Blue faux-leather boards with black text to spine. Corner bumps and slight edgewear. Pages yellowing. Inked inscription on FPDP. Very clean and tight.. First Thus. Faux-leather. Very Good/No Jacket. ... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

London: Rylee Ltd. 252pp inc colour frontis, one other colour plate and many full page and intertextual b&w illustrations by un-named artist - Undated, but apparently ca 1950s. Cover is blue cloth with decoration to front and titles to sunned spine. Bumps to corners, slight soiling to tanned pages, prior owner's inked name and address to FEP, but otherwise clean and tight.. First Thus. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 5 x 7 1/2". ... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

London: Sands & Co, 1906. 378pp inc 20 engravings by C Heath - "A verbatim reprint of Stothard's edition of 1820, with reproductions of the 20 engravings." Book (red leather with embossed gilt title and vignette of Crusoe and "his man Friday" on front and embossed gilt title and vignette of Crusoe alone on spine) is in Good condition with some discolouration of spine, soiling and very slight edgewear. Inside pages are untrimmed, edges are soiled, front cover starting to separate ... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

London: Bancroft Books, 1973. 195pp inc frontis - A Bancroft Classic abridged edition of this classic. VG+ except for age-tanned pages and white paint spot on front cover.. Reprint. Decorative Paper. Very Good/No Jacket. ... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

London: Bancroft Books, 1972. 195pp inc frontis - A Bancroft Classic abridged edition of this classic. VG+ except for age-tanned pages and white paint spot on front cover.. Reprint. Decorative Paper. Very Good/No Jacket. ... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

London: Odhams Press Ltd. Undated, but apparently ca 1920s. Cover is brown faux-leather with blind-stamped decoration to front and spine. Titling in gilt on spine. Slight bumps to corners, slight soiling to pages, but otherwise Fine. First Thus. Faux-leather. Fine/No Jacket. 5 x 7 1/2". ... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

London: Cassell & Co Ltd. 302pp inc colour frontis and three other b&w plates - An early (undated but The British Library estimates 1910) reprint of the classic children's tale. <P>The artist, Gordon Frederick Browne (1858-1932), was the son of Hablot Knight Browne, who as "Phiz" provided so many of the classic illustrations for Dickens' works. He was only in his twenties when he became one of Great Britain's most prolific illustrators, contributing regularly to many new... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

London: Odhams Press Ltd. 704pp - Part of the Odhams Fifty series. Undated, but the British Library says 1937. This title includes short stories by Alexander Woolcott, Andrew Lang, Mabel Smyth, Sir Algernon E. Aspinall, J. G. Lockhart, Daniel Defoe, Oscar Cook, Harold Dearden, and 17 b&w, full-page illustrations. <BR> Red leatherette binding is blind-stamped with rules and the the image of something strange, which I can't figure out, to the front board and spine with gilt title to spine. So... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

London: Blackie & Sons Ltd. 159pp inc frontis and one other b+w plate by Gordon Browne, plus 48-page publisher's catalogue - Undated but The National Library of Scotland estimates 1885 and Sunday School prize certificate tipped to FPDP is dated 1887. <P>The artist, Gordon Frederick Browne (1858-1932), was the son of Hablot Knight Browne, who as "Phiz" provided so many of the classic illustrations for Dickens' works. He was only in his twenties when he became one of Great Britain... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

London: Cassell & Co Ltd, 1890. 2pp inc 3 engravings by Browne - An essay about the joys and sorrows of the singer as a result of his accompanist. <P> The author, Mary L. Pendered, was a successful journalist, a writer of various volumes of fiction and nonfiction, and is perhaps best known as author of <B><U>JOHN MARTIN, PAINTER His Life and Times</b></u>. She was an early influence on H. E. Bates's views and writing. <P>The artist, Gordon Frederick Browne (1858-... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

London: Cassell & Co Ltd, 1890. 1pp inc one illustration by Gordon Browne - Barr, a Scottish poet (1831 - unknown) was a contributor of poetry to several periodicals and authored two or three collections of his work. His poem here describes the dreams and the realities of an organist in love. <P>The artist, Gordon Frederick Browne (1858-1932), was the son of Hablot Knight Browne, who as "Phiz" provided so many of the classic illustrations for Dickens' works. He was only in his twenti... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

London: Hutchinson & Co. 459pp - Undated, but apparently mid to late 1940s. Intended as a collection of reading material to bring some entertainment to the depressed victims of WWII England. Edited by J. B. Firth, it contains an extraordinary variety of materials by Joseph Addition, Matthew Arnold, Jane Austen, Earl Baldwin, Maurice Baring, Hilaire Belloc, Laurance Binyon, and William Blake. <P>Also Edmund Blunden, George Borrow, Boswell, Emily Bronte, Rupert Brooke, Robert Browning, Bunyan, Edmu... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

London: William Glaisher. 384pp inc index - Undated but inscription on FEP is dated "Oct 1918". William Davenport Adams (1851-1904). Commentary on various works of literature including More's <B><I> Utopia, </B></I> Pepys' diary, Defoe's <B><I> Robinson Crusoe </B></I>and more. Covers (red cloth with gilt titles to front and sunned, faded spine) is worn with bumped corners and faded top edges and frayed and splitting hinges. Inked inscrip... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1846. (), 2-208, (), 214-225 inc many in-text and one full-page illustrations - Plague book is thought to be by Daniel Defoe and Fire book by John Evelyn (1620-1706). According to The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008, "Defoe's great novels were not published under his name but as authentic memoirs, with the intention of gulling his readers into thinking his fictions true. Two excellent examples of his semihistorical recreations are the p... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

London: Odhams Press Ltd, 1934. 1079pp inc index to titles and authors, b&w frontis and 16 other b&w full-page illustrations - A collection of mystery, crime and supernatural. Four-page introduction by Thomson. <P>Authors include: Max Beerbohm, J. J. Bell, Ambrose Bierce, W. Wilkie Collins, Guy deMaupassant, Charles Dickens, Mrs Gaskell, O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells, Anton Chekhov, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dorothy L. Sayers, Robert Louis Stevenson... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

London: Printed for T Longman and 16 Others, 1741. 502pp - Subtitled, "Written originally in French, by the late Reverend Divine of the Protestant church of Paris, Charles Drelincourt. Translated into English, by Marius D'Assigni. 15th edition, newly corrected. With an account of the author, and his last minutes". D'Assigni was apparently Daniel Defoe. <BR> Lacking front and rear boards. Frontis, title page and prelims all detached with some burnt spots and other major edgewear and... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

Norfolk, UK: S. H. Bousfield and Co., Ltd.. 1012pp inc index and nearly 1,000 b&w illustrations "including six drawings" - The 1903 bound annual volume of "The Girl's Realm". This is a rather special volume of the magazine's annuals, for it is very much focused on G. A. Henty (George Alfred, 1832-1902), who had died in the previous year. <P> As such it includes Henty's "A Soldier's Daughter: A Girl's Adventures in Afghanistan", serialised in three ... more information

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-

London: Dodsley, J., 1770. Complete set of 6 indexed volumes with engraved title vignettes and headpieces. <P> The books in this set are bound in contemporary full calf with gilt rules to front and rear boards and gilt design to spine panels with morocco title label. All volumes - AEG and with professionally printed bookplate of "Catherine Wylde, Southwell" to FPDP. Also discoloration of outside edges of Prelims up to and including half-title page and rear endpapers from final index page. &... more information

Featured in: Rare Books > Poetry & Drama Books

Offered by Books at Star Dot Star (West Midlands, United Kingdom) +/-