A Sister of the Red Cross. A Tale of the South African War by Meade, L.T. [Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith] - 1901

A.L. Burt Company, 1900-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. No DJ. No date found.....looks to be c.1910-20. Text unmarked with minimal page-turn soiling marks. Light damp stain along pages fore edge.....does not go into text. Covers (green boards with illustration of woman with umbrella) show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing and bumped corners. Spine edge wear and is faded. Biding is still fairly tight. Previous owner's name on end paper. Heavily used but pages still quite legible/readable.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

M.A. Donohue & Company, S.a. . Hardcover. Good. One of 300 books for girls written by the author, this volume is hard to place. There is no information on t.p. or copyright page and no gift inscription. The author died in 1914 but the d.j. depicts girls dressed and coifed in 1920s style. Because of the author's feminism (she was a member of the Pioneers Club and wrote a biography of its founder), her stories remained popular well into the 20th century. 244 p., clean and unmarked anywhere; binding firm; unfaded red boards well protected by d.j., which itself however has suffered many tears, open and closed--the lower portion of the spine panel is missing entirely. Back panel features a list of selections in the "Girls Prize Library.

New York: Thomas Whittaker. Small Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. No publisher date. General wear, pencil name on front free endpaper. 72 pp. 9 in OCLC. Brown cloth boards with illustration of child in a crib with a fallen dolly on front board. L. T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith, a prolific writer of girls' stories. She was born in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, daughter of Rev. R. T. Meade, of Nohoval, County Cork. She later moved to London, where she married Alfred Toulmin Smith in September 1879.--Internet Archive

New York: Hurst & Co, [ca 1903]. Small octavo (19cm). Publisher's pictorial green cloth; dustjacket; 184,[10]pp. Straight, tight and clean, very near to Fine in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly soiled and with a few marginal chips; Very Good. In Hurst's "Home Series For Girls." A typically wholesome girl's book of the period, one of more than 150 similar titles churned out by the enormously prolific Meade (1844-1914) between 1872 and 1915. According to adverts in Publisher's Weekly, this title was originally published in the U.S. by the small publishing firm of Thomas Whittaker in 1897, though we can locate no institutional holdings for that edition. The current edition, issued by the popular New York reprint house of Hurst & Co., is undated; based on rear advertising copy, 1903 is highly probable. In a quite lovely color pictorial binding, depicting a teenaged girl clutching a book to her breast on front cover and reading the same on the spine; jacket art mimics the same design in black… Read More

London: George Newnes, July 1899 to December 1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six octavo magazines (28 x 19cm), pp.xl; 120; xli-xlviii; pp.xxxii; 121-240; xxxiii-xl; pp.xxxvi; 241-360; xxxvii-xliv; pp.xl; 361-480; xli-xlviii; pp.xlviii; 481-600; xlix-lvi; pp.lvi; 601-804; lvii-lxviii [8]. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled in dark blue, stapled twice. Presented in a black fleece-lined quarter morocco clamshell box, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and navy cloth over sides. Moderate general wear, with rubbing and bumping to covers, and some chips from spines. Christmas number spine more heavily worn, with large losses to head and tail. Rare thus. Very good. All six parts of the co-written 'Sanctuary Club,' concerning a private detection consortium, and all three parts of Doyle's 'The Croxley Master,' in which a poor medical student agrees to take part in a prize fight in order to win the money he needs to complete his studies. Also… Read More

London: George Newnes, January to December 1898. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Clean internally, with moderate wear to cloth, including some wrinkling to spine of volume 15, and a crack to the binding of volume 16, manifesting at p.595. An attractive, practical pair. Very good. A significant collection, including all seven parts of Doyle's 'Round the Fire' stories, and all ten parts of both Meade / Eustace's 'The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings' and Allen's 'Miss Cayley's Adventures' - a pair of detective novels featuring strong female lead-characters. Also including numerous interesting short pieces by other authors, including H.G. Wells.

London: George Newnes, July 1903 to December 1904. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three volumes. Octavo (24 x 27cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 724; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations, including Paget's famous illustrations for the Holmes stories. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Moderate wear and marking to covers; spines toned and rubbed. Numerous gatherings a little proud or loose. Spotting and toning to endpapers and facing leaves. Well-used but essentially intact. Good. A significant collection, containing all thirteen parts of Doyle's 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes' and all twelve parts of Nesbit's 'The Phoenix and the Carpet.' Also featuring a selection of short pieces by Jacobs, Mason, Meade, Pemberton, Pain, Nesbit, Maugham, Marsh, and Morrison, and a vision of the tank from Wells more than ten years before it was deployed on the battlefields of France.

London: George Newnes, May to December 1897. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Eight octavo magazines (27 x 19cm), pp.xxviii; 481-600; xxix-xxxvi; pp.xxxii; 601-804; xxxiii-xlviii; pp.xxxii; 120; xxxiii-xliv; pp.xxiv; 121-240; xxv-xxxii; pp.xxiv; 241-360; xxv-xxxii; pp.xxxii; 361-480; xxxiii-xl; pp.xxxii; 481-600; xxxiii-xlviii; pp.xl; 601-804; xli-lx. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled and illustrated in dark blue, stapled twice, and priced at 6d. Presented in a navy fleece-lined quarter morocco clamshell box, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and blue cloth over sides. Internally clean. Covers lightly handled, but with heavy rubbing and some chipping to spines, including some careful repairs. Very good. Containing all nine parts of Doyle's modern Egyptian adventure, six parts of Allen's 'Glimpses of Nature' series, and numerous short pieces by authors including Bret Harte, L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace.