Search Results: the waverly novels the monastery by sir walter scott

P. F. Collier & Son 496 pages including glossary and index, maroon cloth with black and gilt design on upper corner near spine, frontispiece with glassine covering intact, illustrated, faded gilt ltrs on spine, faded spine with same emblem, shelf soiled and yellowed edges, corners and head-heel of spine are bumped and worn. Library pocket glued to inside front cover while checkout sheet is glued to ffep. Lib stamps on title page and bottom of last page. Cataloging numbers on black square at heel of spine.. Unknown Edition. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. Ex-Library (Holy Cross Abbey).

Philadelphia: Porter and Coates. Fair/No Jacket. Later Printing. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Used G- in green cloth with gilt titling; wear, rubbing, fraying to cloth at extremities; corners bumped; hinges cracked.. Keywords: Ficiton, Sir, Walter, Scott, Waverly, Novels.

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368 p.p. Foxing insides covers and a few pages in front and back. Wear to cover as photographed. Spine is mainly intact. Slight bend in the boards. Second volume of The Monastery begins at Chapter 18. One volume in the Waverly Novels. Printed by R. and R. Clark, Edinburgh. This volume dated 1879.

Boston: Dewolfe & Fiske & Co. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 5 x 8. GOOD / NO DUST JACKET. 430 pages. Text is clean and unlined, pages are toned. Former owner's nameplate on the inside front cover. Orange and gold board with black and gold lettering. Cover is edge worn with some light rubbing. Binding and hinges are firm.

DeWolfe, Fiske and Co, nd (1800's). Hardcover Leather 3/4. Good. in x in x in. No DJ. No marks in lightly read book. Browning of page margins. Tight binding. Hardcover, leather spine and corners with edge wear. Etching illustrations. Contains The Monastery (397 pages), The Abbot: Being a Sequel to the Monastery (430).

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1879. This is a two volume set. Red leather and marbled boards, rubbed with edgewear. Vol. II had small scrape on back board. End pages foxing. Text is clean with no markings, binding is sound. Sheet edges marbled. . Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: E. B. Hall and Company. 1893. Buckner Library Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in boards. Rubbing along spine. Top text block edge gilded. .

Edinburgh: A & C Black Ltd, 1890. Book. Good. Decorative Boards. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Seven volumes of the 1890 release of the Waverly Novels - Bound in contemporary grey-blue half-calf with intricate gilt decorartions. marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. All with spines missing, bottom edges have signs of wear. With frontispieces and vignette titles. Novel titles are: Woodstock: The Fair Maid of Perth: Kenilworth: The Monastery: The Abbot: Count Robert of Paris: The Betrothed. All have bookplates on front pastedowns (Philpot Brookes). Pages are all clean and tight..

Boston: S.(Samuel) H. Parker (1850). 246+252 pages. NearFine Hardcover, no dj. DimGray cloth with Black Leather spine, Gilt spine title, no dj. Light rubbing to the ends and edges of the spine otherwise The binding is in excellent shape: strong tight with perfect hinges and smooth edges. The book is Clean, the text is free of foxing and looks as unused. 7.4"x4.8"x1.1". be22678.

Robert Cadell , 1830-1833. Hardcover. Like New. 6 books in Fine condition hardly ever used 3/4 leather with marbleized boards raised ribs on spine very very tight

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. , 1854-1856.. Very good examples of this famous series. With double frontispieces. Some wearing to extremities, some volumes with chipped or missing labels. Interiors are clean and crisp.. Binding: Full contemporary straight-grain calf boards. Gilt fillet on upper and lower. Spine with 5 raised bands in 6 compartments, densely gilt. Series title in gilt on red label in 2, volume title in gilt on green in 3. Gilt rolls on board edges. Blind dentelles. Marbled paste-in and free endpapers. All edges marbled., Notes: The Waverley Novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe. Because Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, the series takes its name from Waverley, the first novel of the series released in 1814. The later books bore the words "by the author of Waverley" on their title pages.Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832) was a Scottish… Read More