Search Results: valentine vox by henry cockton

The Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 537 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Thumb-marking present. Notable creasing to gutter. Cracking to hinges and gutters, leaving netting exposed. Front and rear boards are loose but still attached. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Notable crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Bubbling to boards. Notable dents to edges. Textblock is shaky.

Walter Scott, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 537 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Binding remains firm. Crinkling to pages at gutters. Pages are moderately tanned throughout. Front hinge is cracked. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Thumb marking present. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Book has a slight forward lean.

W. Nicholson & Sons Limited, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 464 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Binding is shaky, pages slightly loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Light wear marks overall.

New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1920. Hardcover. VG+. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, maroon cloth boards are clean with only minor corner bumps though spine is faded. The interior binding of the text pages is tight. The front hinge is good but the rear hinge shows a split starting at the bottom. The front end page shows where something was written in pencil along the top and then later erased, and there is a small rough spot about 3 inches down from the upper outside corner where something else was erased. The rest of the pages are unmarked, no bookplates, no library markings, no other evidence of handwriting or signatures. This is an undated volume from Burt's Home Library. The catalog in the back only goes up to the letter S, so it is likely this book was published somewhere between 1915-1920.

W. Nicholson & Sons, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Stated. 464 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards.

London: W. Nicholson & Sons. Fair with no dust jacket. ca. 1890?. Hardcover. Original cloth very good. Front inner hinge is badly cracked. Front free endpaper and half-title page are loose. Award presentation on endpaper. .

London: Milner and Company Red covers with gilt to spine and upper front board, with black flower illustration lower front board and rear board and black rules. 320pp with double coloumns. General modest wear to extrems, more particularly head and foot of spine. Heavy foxing to prelims and dusty page edges. ND but looks c1895. Binding a little strained in places, but overall a solid copy. Ref:093380. First Edition (?). Buckram. G+/N/a. 13x19cm.

William Nicholson. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. School prize presentation on front endpaper, 1889. No publication date - early 1880s. Robust and very ittle worn. A little darkening to spine. Titing etc. bright.

London: Milner & Co, 1890. Book. Good. Hardcover. Undated, c1890. Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in black. Extremities lightly rubbed, good..

London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1889. 8vo. vi, 602 pp. Brick-red cloth over beveled boards, gilt & blk decoration & lettrng, slight wear and shlfwr, frnt hnge startng, still a very nice copy, w/ ownershp stmp dated 1897 on ffep. Early printing of this novel in which the author uses his hero a ventriloquist magician to fight against the injustice and inhumanity of the Victorian lunatic asylum.

R. Denham, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Stated. 537 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. All edges gilt. Clean pages. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with tanning to spine. Notable scuffing, staining and marking to boards.

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark

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

Milner & Co Ltd Book. Fair +. Hard Cover Red Cloth. No jacket. Pages tanned and foxed, covers rubbed and spine discoloured. 320 pages. No date. 0.

LONDON: ROUTLEDGE, WARNE, & ROUTLEDGE, 1863. NEW EDITION . Half Morocco. Good/No Jacket. GOOD ONLY condition, rubbed and worn, with front joint split, board loose. A good reading copy.

Walter Scott, London, circa 1890. First Thus. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. b/w. frontis. plate, contents, tacked in list of publisher's volumes (uniform with this); originally published in the monthly serial format, popularised by Charles Dickens, 'The Life And Adventures Of Valentine Vox The Ventriloquist'' was an immediate success, enjoying great popularity and acclaim. Illustrations by Thomas Onwhyn were a prominent feature of this, and most of Henry Cockton's later novels. The first three chapters are set 'in one of the most ancient and populous boroughs in the county of Suffolk', a thinly disguised Bury St. Edmunds. Valentine Vox teaches himself ventriloquism after seeing a performer in a local tavern, then uses his skills to create mayhem and mischief. Fearing this will lead him into trouble, his family send him to stay with his uncle Grimwood Goodman in London. This provides unlimited opportunities to perform pranks, such as… Read More

British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011-03-17. Paperback. Good.

London, 'Review of Reviews' nd ( c 1890's?);. Soft cover. Penny Popular Novels. The Masterpiece Library . No.- 33 edited by W. T. Stead. Price One Penny. 60pp with 4pp period adverts including Fry's Cocoa, Swan Fountain Pens, Pears Soap & Hovis. Abridged. Good condition with pages yellowing. Enjoy an early original 19th century paperback. .