Search Results: beside the bonnie brier bush by maclaren ian john

New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Co. Very Good+. 1895. Early printing. Hardcover. This is a small format book (approx. 4" x 6.5") . The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book has some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The spine of the book has spots of toning, and there is foxing to the spine. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front endpaper. "Maclaren's first stories of rural Scottish life, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush (1894) , achieved extraordinary popularity, selling more than 700,000 copies, and was succeeded by other successful books, The Days of Auld Lang Syne (1895) , Kate Carnegie and those Ministers (1896) , and Afterwards and other Stories (1898). By his own name Watson published several volumes of sermons, among them being The Upper Room (1895) , The Mind of the Master (1896) and The Potter's Wheel (1897). Today he is regarded as one of the… Read More

Toronto: Revell. Good with no dust jacket. 1894. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Decorative green cloth with shamrock design and gilt titles; both hinges cracked but text tight and unmarked. Dodd, Mead New York stated as well as Revell Toronto on copyright page, but Revell only on spine. ; 9.53 X 7.40 X 0.87 inches; 322 pages .

David Cook, Elgin, Ill. c1899., 1899. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Squarish octavo, hardcover, no dj. Early Edition.3/4 bound in turquoise cloth on spine and corners. with greenish marble boards. This edition of Ian Maclaren's famous book has been prepared for those who can't understand the Scotch dialect. All difficult words and expressions have been translated. 95 pp. Includes Domsie, A highland mystic, his mother's sermon, the transformation of Lachlan Campbell, the cunning speech of Drumtochty, a wise woma n, and a doctor of the old school.

New York:: Dodd, Mead,, 1895.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good light green cloth with a dark green border and decoration on front cover, gilt lettering on front and spine (gift card from Christmas 1896 affixed to front pastedown, previous owner's name) . First American edition. The first, and most popular, book by this Scottish author and minister, published under the pen name of Maclaren. A collection of stories of Scottish rural life, which combined humor with pathos and a liberal use of Scots dialogue. The title of this book alludes to the Jacobite song ("There grows a bonnie brier bush in our Kailyard") and the term "Kailyard School" (kailyard is a small kale, or cabbage, kitchen garden attached to a cottage) was applied to a group of Scots writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who were considered to be overly sentimental by their critics - or perhaps just too widely popular. 317 pp.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1920. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. green cloth. 327 pp. [16] plate illustrations. Spine tilted and sunned. Rubbed to extremities, bumped to spine ends and corners. Ink ownership inscription to ffep.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1895. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. George Wharton Edwards (cover). 1st or early printing with 1894 copyright date and 1895 on title page. 218pp with lots of ads. Light brown cloth with illus of a winding road with a tree and some flowers and a cottage in the distance. Gift inscription, dated Christmas 1896, on title page. Corners a little bumped, some cover soil, else very good.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1895. Hardcover. Early printing. vi, 218pp + 28pp of publisher's advertisements. Pictorial beige cloth stamped in green. One of the most famous works in Scottish literature. Toning to cloth, a few stains to rear panel. About very good. ; 16mo.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, c1911. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". William Hole. An early illustrated edition of John Watson's bestselling book of short stories with illustrations by William Hole. Early edition of Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by John Watson under the pseudonym Ian Maclaren in the original publisher's cloth binding. Illustrated edition with etchings by William Hole, the well renowned Scottish artist, illustrator and etcher. Includes twelve monochrome plates. Collated, complete.This collection of short stories was first published in 1894. It was a best selling novel in the years following its publication. With gilt to the front board and spine. Undated, dated from Jisc and the recent publications advertised. Prior owner's book plate to the front pastedown. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, very smart. There is some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities resulting in some slight bumping to the cloth. The front hinge is slightly… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton. Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to her Majesty, at the Edinburgh University Press, 1896. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. [7], 323 pages., [2]. Illustrated by William Hole. Three quarter light Moroccan green binding with blueish marbled paper covered boards. 4 raised bands, title and gilt floral decorations on spine. Gilt top edge. Untrimmed foredge. Blueish marbled paper end sheets. Edge wear to boards and corners. Light rubs to outer joints and one raised band on the spine. Limited edition - hand written number #40 (of 450 copies). Small binders stamp upper left corner, verso of right front flyleaf - "Bound for Stewart Kidd by Whitman Bennett." Book includes author letter signed (ALS) pasted down on the front blank end sheet. The letter, written on Sefton Park Church, Liverpool note paper, dated March 16 '95, is addressed "Dear Madam. I am greatly obliged by your note and kind references to my book.....(difficult to transcribe next two… Read More