Literary Biography / Letters from Bygone Books

New York: Harcourt Brace And Jovanovich, 1977. First American edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Introduction by Quentin Bell. 1st American ed., 8vo, black cloth, b/w illustrations throughout, notes, index. Condition: VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD jacket: minor wear, ½" closed tear to jacket top edge, slight discoloring along top edge and spine of jacket. … Read more about this item

London / New York: Frederick Warne, 1892. Hardcover. VG. With notes by W. C. Ward, and prefaced by Lord Macaulay's Essay "Madame D'Arblay." 3 volumes, 12mo, burgundy pebbled cloth w/ gilt titles on spine, top edge gilt, vol. 1: 447pp, engraved frontispiece of Burney (based on a drawing by Edward Burney); vol. 2: 468pp, engraved frontis of George… Read more about this item

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970. First Edition . Hardcover. NF/NF. 1st ed, 8v0, burgundy cloth, 174 pages, 1 b/w illustration, index. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: owner name on fep; jacket has a small faint stain to front cover, tiny tear to front top corner. Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), one of the first… Read more about this item

London: Phoenix, 2000. Soft cover. VG+. 1842121669 Reprint ed. [originally published in 1977 by Jonathan Cape], 8vo, wraps, 332 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography, index. Condition: VERY GOOD+ with little wear.

London: Peter Nevill, 1952. First Thus Edition . Hardcover. VG-/VG. 1st UK edition [originally published 1950], 8vo, reddish cloth, 424 pages, b/w illustrations, extensive bibliography and notes, index. Condition: VERY GOOD- book / VERY GOOD jacket: rubbing to board edges, small tear to spine tail, first 3 pages have small tears at top edge,… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1924. First Edition . Hardcover. VG-. 1st edition [NAP], 8vo, navy cloth, 292 pages, color frontispiece by Kitty Shannon, 16 b/w plates, chronology, index. VERY GOOD- / no jacket: some faint scuffing to the boards, a few tiny tears to spine head, light spotting to page edges, some faint… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover. Fine. There is no publication information - this is a reprint of the 1931 edition by Jonathan Cape, bound in black buckram, published by Houghton Mifflin. 8vo, black cloth, 468 pages, b/w frontispiece, index. The introduction by F. V. Barry is an early literary analysis of Edgeworth [1768-1849];… Read more about this item

NY: Macmillan, 1903. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+. 1st American edition, a title in the English Men of Letters Series, edited by John Morley, with the EML logo in gilt on front cover. This title on Burney seems to be the first biography of a woman writer in this series; a "new volume" list appended… Read more about this item

NY: Haskell House Publishers, 1969. Hardcover. VG+. Reprint of edition first published in 1927, edited with a preface, a supplement chronologically arranged and containing hitherto unpublished or uncollected material and a bibliographical note by W. Clark Durant. 8vo, dark green cloth, 352 pages, b/w illustrations. VERY GOOD+ / no jacket (as issued): … Read more about this item

NY: Stein and Day, 1981. First American edition . Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 0812827619 1st Am edition [First published in 1981], 8vo, tan boards with burgundy cloth backstrip, 232 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: slight edgewear to book and jacket; jacket has slight yellowing and scuffing to white… Read more about this item

Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. LIKE NEW/LIKE NEW. 081301106x 1st edition [NAP], 8vo, navy cloth, 169 pages, bibliography. NEAR FINE book / NEAR INE jacket: like new.

Glasgow: Truseets of the National Galleries of Scotland, 9164. Soft cover. VG+. 12mo, stapled wraps, unpaginated, b/w illustrations. VERY GOOD+: slight edgewear. Thirty portraits of some of those in Scott's immediate circle and the distinguished people he knew.

NY: Columbia University Press, 1977. First American edition . Hardcover. NF/NF. 0231042620 1st American ed., 8vo, black cloth, 283 pages, bibliographical notes. Condition is NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket.

Chicago, IL: Cassandra Editions, 1978. Hardcover. VG+/VG. Reprint edition (originally published in 1932) 8vo, teal cloth, 203 pages, bibliography. Condition is NERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD jacket: very faint spotting to top page edge, otherwsie like new; jacket has light edgewear, a slightly tanned spine.

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press,, 1978. Hardcover. VG/VG-. 0252006763 1st edition, 8vo, burgundy cloth hardcover, 324 pp, b/w illustrations, bibliography. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has a slightly "dusty" top page edge, internally clean and tight; jacket has small chips and tears along top edge, sunning to spine… Read more about this item

Bennington, VT: Images from the Past,, 1997. Soft cover. NF. 1st softbound edition. 198p, b/w photographs. Condition is NEAR FINE. The story of Kipling's stay in Vermont during the years 1892-96, when he wrote the Jungle Books.

NY: Simon and Schuster, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. NF/NF. 068481093X 1st ed., 8vo, hardcover, 333 pp, b&w illustrations, bibliography. NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: new except for remainder mark on bottom page edge.

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914. Hardcover. G+. No edition statement, printed at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh. 8vo, brown paper-backed boards / olive green backstrip, 396 pp, 30 b&w plates. Condition is GOOD+ / no jacket: boards are rubbed, esp. at corners, spine head and tail have small tears, front hinge… Read more about this item

NY: E.P. Dutton, 1934. First Edition . Hardcover. VG-/Fair. 1st edition, 8vo, blue cloth, 253 pages. VERY GOOD- book / POOR - FAIR jacket: book has lr. rubbing along edges and corners, sl. "dusty" top page edge, owner name on fep, sm. stain on title page, otherwise clean and unmarked;… Read more about this item

NY: NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974., 1974. First American edition . Hardcover. VG/VG+. 0151515395 1st American edition 9stated, letter line], 8vo, purple boards backed in black cloth, 316 pages, b/w illustrations, chronology, bibliography, family tree on endpapers. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: light sunning to board edges at top and bottom, … Read more about this item