Search Results: ventures in book collecting by william harris arnold

New York.London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. Hard Cover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Good/No dust jacket. Moderate wear, soliling to gray boards & brown cloth spinstrip, owner's plate on inside pastedown, frontispiece portrait w/tissue guard, illustrated w/plates on glossy, facsimiles, photos. 356pp. Contents clean & solid. . Hardcover. 1923.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1923, xvii, 356pp, index, illustrated. Extremities badly worn, moderate soiling, previous owner's bookplate at front pastedown, and name at first endpaper. Those interested in English literature might find this book interesting and of benefit in pursuing their own collections. The author, William Harris Arnold, assembled two great libraries of mostly English and American 19th Century literature. He concentrated his later efforts on his Robert Louis Stevenson and Alfred Lord Tennyson collections, creating the first major collection in America of Tennyson..

Charles Scribner's Sons. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1923. Hardcover. Dust jacket missing. Book is in good overall condition. Average wear, foxing to fore-edge of pages, occasional small blemishes. Brief dedication on first page. .

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Darkening to boards. .

Charles Scribners' Sons, New York: 1923., 1923 pp. xvii; 356. Frontis plus numerous illustrations. 8vo. Original cloth backed paper boards. Loss at top of spine. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! REF2 Language: eng. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 356p. Ex-library. A 1/4 navy blue cloth hardcover book in FAIR CONDITION. Edges scuffed through to the cardboard, and spine so heavily chafed that the title is illegible. Apart from the usual library markings, the text is clean and the binding secure for normal handling. READING COPY ONLY.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Internally fine, externally worn .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 356pp. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards. Gift inscription, slight wear on the boards, near fine without dustwrapper.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Near fine with light wear at the corners, lacking the dustwrapper.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Reprint. Large chips and tears to jacket. Bottom corners of boards rubbed, pencil name on front endpaper. Stained. 1923 Hard Cover. xvii, 356 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations and plates. "One of the foremost bookmen of America here recounts the pleasures to be had in adventuring among books." CONTENTS: The Making of a Book-Collector; A Book-Hunter's Garner; Luck of a Book-Collector; Some Eighteenth-Century Books and Letters; Some Victorian Books and Letters; My Tennysons; My Stevensons; Letters of Notable Women; Index.

NY. Good with no dust jacket; Hard Cover; Charles Scribner's Sons; 1923. Black cloth spine with grey hard cover boards. Good, spine rubbed, corners bumped, several notes in pencil on rear free end paper. Frontispiece of author and numerous other illustrations. 356 pages with Index. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Frontis. xvii, 356 pp., illus. Owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, wear to extremities, water damage to considerable portion of the text, still a good reading copy.

New York: Charles Scribner and Co., 1923., 1923. Second printing after the limited edition. Quarter black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Dampstain to top quarter inch of most pages. Lightly soiled, gilding on spine a little muted, endpages age-toned. Overall in fair condition. A GOOD reading copy. UncleAndy. Quarter Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

NY: Scribner's, 1923. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xvii, 356. Index. Illustrated with portraits and facsimiles. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Some foxing here and there, cover little soiled, and bumped at corners, o/w a VG tight copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's 1923. (Hardcover) Good, no dust jacket. 356pp. Frontispiece, photographs, illustrations, index. (Books About Books, Book Collecting).

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. hardcover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. From the library of ABAA book seller, Tom Nicely. New York and London, 1923. Gray paper covered boards with black cloth spine and gold spine titles; mild wear; jacket is worn, spine and edges darkened/discolored; small chips in spine ends, now in Brodart like cover; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; illustrations in black and white; Interior is clean and unmarked; 356 pages.

NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 1923 Book. Very Good (+) Book. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Nice condition with light cover wear. .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. 8vo. 353pp. Hard cover. Black and white plates. Good. Some water damage.

New York ; London : C. Scribner's sons, 1923. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked, cloth-backed boards. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Bumped corners. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 356 pages; xvii, 356 p. : front., ports., facsims. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Book collecting -- Book history.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Good. Octavo. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. Published September 1923 stated on copyright page. xvii, [3], 356pp. Frontis & 16 other plate, in addition to many illustrations in text. Grey paper over black cloth, gilt vertical stripe separating them near spine gutter, gilt spine text. Deckled page edges. Small bookseller's stamp on front end page (Chas. E. Lauriat Co. of Boston). Binding is tight, sturdy and square. Light shelfwear to boards, mainly at corners, gilt spine text remains bright. Light foxing to top edge of text block. Text is very good throughout, some foxing to interior pages. Moderate amount of shelfwear to dust jacket, a few small chips around edges, top corner of inner flap torn. DJ protected in Mylar wraps. From a private collection. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.