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HARDPRESS. Trade Paperback. GOOD. 0 9781290916967 BRIGHT SOFTCOVER, PEN NAME INSIDE FFEP [REPRINT OF 1868 TEXT]
Last leaves. by SMITH (Alexander) - 1868
by SMITH (Alexander)
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Last leaves.
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Sketches and criticisms, By Alexander Smith, Author of “A Life-drama,” “Dreamthorpe,” etc. etc. Edited, with a Memoir, by Patrick Proctor Alexander, M.A., Author of “Mill and Carlyle,” etc. Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1868. Half-title not called for; engraved portrait frontispiece with thin paper guard of smaller paper precedes title-page; integral advertisement leaf followed by publisher’s inserted 24pp. Catalogue at end, dated ‘4.68’ at foot of first leaf; pp.cxxiii+[1 (blank)]+334+[ii]; bevelled deep cerise sand-grain cloth ruled and blocked blind on back cover, gilt on front cover, ruled, blocked, and lettered gilt on spine; a.e. uncut; end-papers coated chocolate. Printed on two different grades of paper, gatherings A - L, and N on a good quality white paper that does not tend to embrown, gatherings M and O - X, and the prelims., signed [ - ], A1, B2 - H2, on a paper that embrowns but does not tend to become brittle. (No gatherings are called for bearing the signatures A2, J, V, or W). Very slight wear to cloth at head and tail of spine; otherwise a very nice copy. Scarce. Includes essays on Scottish Ballads; Dreams and Dreaming; Mr. Carlyle at Edinburgh; Winter; Literary Work; The Minister Painter; Sydney Dobell; Essayists, Old and New; Edinburgh; etc.
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LAST LEAVES; SKETCHES AND CRITICISMS. EDITED WITH A MEMOIR
by SMITH, ALEXANDER
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Dreamthorp with Selections from 'Last Leaves'
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London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1914. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Introduction by Hugh Walker. In the World's Classics collection. First edition and printing from this publisher. In very good shiny dark red cloth boards, gilt titles to back strip.The covers are tight, straight and clean; wear to spine ends. Unmarked end papers; name of previous owner on front free end paper. Gilt top cut edge; the fore and tail edges are very lightly tanned. The text block is tightly bound and clean - very good condition - especially for age. With red ribbon marker. Without jacket.
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Dreamthorp, with selections from 'Last leaves
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Last Leaves; Sketches and Criticisms. Edited with a Memoir
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Dreamthorp With Selections From 'Last Leaves.'
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London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1914.. 16mo. Green Cloth, Very Good. 319 pp.
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Last Leaves
by Alexander Smith
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London: Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, 1914. Leather. Near Fine. 6" by 4". None. A finely bound collection of essays from Scottish poet, Alexander Smith. Bound by Syd. A Howe, Sheffield. In a very unusual and fine leather binding. A collection of essays, including: Dreamthorp, On the Writing of Essays, William Dunbar, Men of Letters, and Geoffrey Chaucer. The collection is noted especially for the essay A Lark's Flight, in which Smith describes the song of a lark breaking the silence just before the trapdoor is sprung under two condemned men. Written by Alexander Smith, a Scottish poet of the Spasmodic School, and essayist. With an introduction by Hugh Walker, a British scholar and educator. Bound by Syd. A Howe, Sheffield. Bound in full red crushed morocco with gilt decoration. Externally, very smart with light fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. Bound by Syd. A Howe, Sheffield. Near Fine
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