Search Results: Titles starting with U from Richard Beaton

London: George Newnes, 1900. Book. Fair. Disbound. 1st Edition.. Extracted from Pearson's Magazine, Volume X. Short storySome foxing, fair/good..

London: Macmillan & Co., 1895. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Macmillan's Colonial Library. Original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Rear board quite dulled with trace of removed label, corners scuffed, inner joint papers lightly cracked, bookplate of South African Public Library on front pastedown, accession date stamp (4 June 1895) on title page with handwritten note on verso, small stamp at top of first page of text, thus fair only. Cromarty wrote novels set in Scotland or -- as here -- in Yorkshire and Lancashire. Most of her adult novels are scarce..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1924. Book. Good. Hardcover. New Edition. Original plain red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Lightly sunned, good. Love and adventure in North Africa..

London: Richard Bentley, 1878. Book. Good. Hardcover. 3rd Edition.. Favourite Novels. Favourite Novels binding: blindstamped green cloth, decorated in gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Corners rubbed, endpapers replaced, good. A German junker and Polish countess fall in love, but have to deal with the long-standing antagonism between their nations. Scarce..

London: Macmillan & Co., 1874. Book. Good. Hardcover. Second [and First One-Volume] Edition. Original crimson cloth, with decorative bands in black and gilt across front board and spine, lettered in gilt on spine; black endpapers. Spine darkened and lettering dulled/oxidised, cloth nicked at foot of spine, foxing spots through second half of volume, good. The title page states only "by the author of Christina North", but Towle's pseudonym appears on the spine..

London: Macmillan & Co., 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Pocket Edition. Full navy blue calf (leather), with author's initials blindstamped on front board, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; top edge gilt. Minimal shelf-wear: a clean, bright, tight copy, very good+..

London: John Murray, 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Third Impression. Original dark grey-green cloth, illustrated (whip) and lettered in red on front board, in gilt on spine. Speckled on leading edge of front board, W. H. Smith's Subscription Library plate on front pastedown, very good. Russell's novel is pro-British and anti-Boer, which perhaps explains its great popularity, running through 4 or 5 impressions in the year of publication..

London: Cassell & Co., 1924. Book. Good. Hardcover. School edition, with "exercises" at the end. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in black: good. Original dustwrapper (in protective plastic sleeve), with loss on corners and along top edge of front portion (see photo), fair.

London: Grant Richards, 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original light blue cloth, lettered in black. Tiny crack to cloth on lower hinge, foxing, small stamp on front pastedown, signature (1941) on half-title, otherwise very good. Twelve short stories..

London: Grant Richards, 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original light blue cloth, lettered in black. Tiny crack to cloth on lower hinge, foxing, small stamp on front pastedown, signature (1941) on half-title, otherwise very good. Twelve short stories..

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1913. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Original green cloth. A few light marks on boards, tiny hole rubbed on upper hing, otherwise good. Collection of nine short stories: The Miracle of the Stigmata, The Holy Man, The King of the Jews, The Irony of Chance, An English Aunt, Mr Jacob's Philiosophy, The Ring, The Spider and the Fly, The magic Glasses..

London: Edward Arnold, 1925. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Original black cloth with blindstamped borders, lettered in pale blue. Label ("File Copy") on front board; stamp and file number on title page: otherwise a crisp, tight, apparently unread copy, very good. Savile started writing in the 1890s with a reversed pseudonym ("Knarf Elivas") and his best known-book is probably Beyond the Great South Wall (1899), a lost race novel set in Antarctica. Utter Happiness is an adventure novel of love, commerce and treachery set in and around the British Residency at "El Orfan" in "North-East Africa" (Egypt)..

Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1910. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Copyright Edition. Early C20th crimson leather over marbled boards; patterned endpapers. Lightly scuffed. corner of blank prelim torn, otherwise very good. Todd [4174]. First/only issue. Half-title bound in. Inscribed on a blank leaf before the half-title: "Mrs Max Beerbohm, with the kind thoughts of the writer, Marie Belloc Lowndes". The dedicatee was Florence, Lady Beerbohm (nee Kahn)..