from JimsOldBooks

London: Peter Nevill, 1953. Creasing and small tears to top edge of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends of buff-coloured boards, a previous owner's name and date (January 1961) on f/ep, some yellowing to the pages, but otherwise a not too bad, tight copy of this hard-cover book, an early, non-fiction, work by the author, best-known for her many… Read more

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948. Creasing and some tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, with some bits missing from same at spine ends and at top edge, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of red boards, some yellowing to outer pages, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Contains all seven of the mid-nineteenth century… Read more

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1927. Blue leather binding. No dustwrapper, slight bumping, and the tiniest bit of wear to corners and spine ends of blue leather-covered boards, some fading to spine but gilt titles thereon are still bright, slight yellowing to outer pages, but otherwise a good clean tight copy. Contains shorter stories by the author, originally… Read more

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1927. Blue leather binding. No dustwrapper, slight bumping, and the tiniest bit of wear to corners and spine ends of blue leather-covered boards, some fading to spine but gilt titles thereon are still bright, slight yellowing to outer pages, but otherwise a good clean tight copy. Introduction by Charles Dickens (the younger). … Read more

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1927. Blue leather binding. No dustwrapper, slight bumping, and the tiniest bit of wear to corners and spine ends of blue leather-covered boards, some fading to spine but gilt titles thereon are still bright, slight yellowing to outer pages, but otherwise a good clean tight copy. Introduction by Charles Dickens (the younger). … Read more

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1925. Blue leather binding. No dustwrapper, slight bumping, and the tiniest bit of wear to corners and spine ends of blue leather-covered boards, some fading to spine but gilt titles thereon are still bright, slight yellowing to outer pages, but otherwise a good clean tight copy. The author's final, unfinished novel. Introduction… Read more

Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1999. Original owner's name and date (2011) inside front cover, quite a lot of pencil notes and underlining in the introduction, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of ths soft-cover book. Part of the publisher's "Broadview Literary Texts" series, this contains the text of the 1818 edition of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" , along with… Read more

Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2003. Very slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, some pencil notes and underlining to the introduction, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Part of the publisher's "Broadview Literary Texts" series, this contains the author's first novel "Emmeline: the Orphan of the Castle" which… Read more

Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2001. Very slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Part of the publisher's "Broadview Literary Texts" series, this contains the author's 1792 epistolatory novel "Desmond", along with other contemporary late eighteenth century material, edited and with an introduction by… Read more

Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. Very slight scuffing to corners of cover, some pencil notes and underlining in the introduction, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this soft-cover book. Part of the publisher's "Eighteenth Century Novels by Women" series, this contains the text of the 1766 novel "The History of George Ellison" by Sarah Scott,… Read more

Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2003. Very slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, some pencil notes and underlining in the introduction, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Part of the publisher's "Broadview Literary Texts" series, this contains the text of the author's 1798 novel "Walsingham: or, the Pupil of… Read more

Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1998. Very slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Part of the publisher's "Broadview Literary Texts" series, this contains the text of the author's 1795 novel "Secresy: or, the Ruin on the Rock" along with introduction and appendices… Read more

Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2005. Very slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Part of the publisher's "Broadview Literary Texts" series, this contains the author's 1784 novel "The Old Manor House", along with contemporary late eighteenth century reviews, edited and with an introduction… Read more

Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2001. Very slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, quite a lot of pencil notes and underlining, mainly to the introduction, but otherwise a not too bad, tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Part of the publisher's "Broadview Literary Texts" series, this contains the text of the author's 1762… Read more

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. A good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this soft-cover book. Deals with the father-daughter relationship as depicted in eighteenth and early nineteenth English novels. Originally published in hardback in 1996 as part of the publisher's "Cambridge Studies in Romanticism", this is a later, print-on-demand, paperback copy.… Read more

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Some pencil markng and underlining in the text, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this soft-cover book. A collection of eleven pieces by different authors on the notion of "sociability" in English radical culture during the Romantic period (late eighteenth- early nineteenth centuries). … Read more

London: Oxford University Press, 2008. A few pencil markings in the text, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or cover, of this soft-cover book. Originally published in 2002, this is a later, print-on-demand, copy. Looks at travel writing in the late eighteenth and early ninteenth centuries, particularly at accounts of Egypt,… Read more

London: Penguin Books, 2008. Some minor scuffing to spine ends and to edges of cover, a previous owner's name and date (2015) inside front cover, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this soft-cover book. Contains an English translation of the Icelandic Saga of the People of Laxardal (also found as Laxdaela or Laxdale Saga) along with the… Read more

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Original owner's name and date (2006) inside front cover, some pencil notes and underlinings in the text, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this soft-cover book, part of the publisher's "Cambridge Studies in Romanticism" series. Looks at Mary Woolstonecraft, author of the 1792 "A… Read more

New York: St Martins Press, 2000. Some creasing and scuffing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends of blue boards, a couple of pencil notes in the text, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the women in the lives of the three "Lake Poets", including Wordsworth's wife Mary, his sister… Read more