Search Results: the life and times of oliver by john forster

Ward, Lock and Co., London, 1890. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1890. Third Edition. 472 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and heavy crushing to spine ends. Boards are slightly bowed and tanned.

Ward, Lock and Co, 1890. Hardcover. Good. 472 pp, half-leather. Light rubbing, some edgewear on exterior. Pages have slight yellowing; otherwise clean. Sound binding. . Size: 12mo - over 6 3/4 in - 7 3/4 in tall. Year: 1890.

Bickers and Son, 1877. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1877. Sixth Edition. 440 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece and illustrations. Volume I. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing and fraying to spine ends and corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards.

Bickers and Son, 1877. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1877. Sixth Edition. 494 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece and illustrations. Volume II. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing and fraying to spine ends and corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards.

London: Chapman, 1863. Hardcover. Good. 4th edition. Good. Rebound in 3/4 leather. Front board detached but present. Edges of leather worn. Leather spine cracked.

Leipzig: Bernh Tauchnitz Jun, 1873. Full-Leather. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Rear Middle Ivory boards Vol I [7]+viii-xxx+336p Vol II [5]+vi-xvi+498p,dep,facs.

Ward Lock, UK, No date. Hardcover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 472 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Ward Lock, UK, No date. *** CONDITION: This book is in fair condition but dust jacket is not included. More specifically: Covers have moderate rubbing/wear and mild soiling. Edges of boards have moderate edgewear and corners are moderately bumped. Pages are reasonably tanned and lightly creased. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 17020148..

HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

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Nabu Press, 2010-04-08. Paperback. Good.

Leicester Square, London: Bickers & Son, 1878. Full-Leather. Very Good. Sixth Edition. Handsome contemporary Red Calf Leather Binding with bright gilt Girls Public School design and lettering to front. 5 Raised Bands and gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Gilt decoration on board edges. Marbled Endpapers. Frontispiece is a portrait engraving after Joshua Reynolds, protected by Tissue Guard. Illustrated Title Page dated 1878. Page Edges Marbled. Prize Label dated 1888 on ffep. 472 Pages with some B&W In Text Illustrations. Some wear to cover but still a very nice copy. Pages in very nice condition, clean and bright. Weighs over 1 Kilo packed so Postage outside UK will be a little extra. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith Vol. 1.

London : Ward, Lock and co, 1890. New edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Frontispiece accompanied by a guard sheet. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xxxii, 472 p.: front., illus. (incl. facsim.) plates, ports.; 18 cm. Notes: Forster's 1st edn 1848, Bettany's 1st pubd 1888(?). Signature of 'Wm Pearson'; bequeathed by F.R. Pearson, 1971.Subjectd: Goldsmith, Oliver 1730?-1774. Goldsmith, Oliver. Biography. Goldsmith. Genre:Biographies. Illustrated.

London: Ward, Lock and Co . Original Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large. Type: Z Volume One 440pp + Volume Two 494pp No date, though a preface page is dated 1871. A charming copy with bright blue cloth boards and a gilt and black embossed picture and design to the front board and spine. Illustrated with numerous plates after designs by C. Stanfield, D. Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle and Robert James Hamerton. Steel engraving frontispiece plate. Light rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and to the corners of the boards. Little rubbing to the head of the front end paper with slight loss. Slight foxing to the fore edges and end papers. There is a small indentation mark to the reverse of the frontispiece plate. There is a short tear of 3 cm to the top margin of pp 191 of volume one and plate V has been reinserted by pp192 of volume one, using sellotape which has significantly browned in the inner hinge. A very good, heavily illustrated tome.

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