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MacMillan Company, 1921-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Fair hardcover, no dustcover. Text unmarked. Covers show edge wear with rubbings/scuffing and bumped corners. Book shelf-cocked. Previous owner's name on inside cover. Cover does not match illustration.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

London: Hawarden Press. 1894. vg. Hardcover. Edition de Luxe Limited #445 of 500 numbered copies; green cover with gilt lettering & decoration (fleur de lys) on spine; top edge gilt, fore edge uncut; watermarked paper; b/w frontis drawn by Le Blant & etched by Dobie, with tissue guard; 2 additional b/w glossy plates .

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippencott Company Olive cloth boards with pictorial pastedown, scuffed with minor rubbing to edges, light chipping to spinetips. Uncut pages, 12 reproductions in colour of original drawings by Vedder. No publishing date stated. Pages are clean and untoned with no markings.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Vedder, Simon Harmon. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Marcus Ward & Co, 1878. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. With Illustrations". From series "The Illustrated Waverley Novels". Edition and printing not known. In very good dark green bevel edged cloth boards, with blind stamped ruled and decorative edges on all sides, gilt circle to front with gilt male head; gilt titles to back strip. The covers are very clean, bright, tight and straight. The end papers are foxed around the edges and lightly tanned; name and address sticker to front paste down (crossed out) and name and address in ink on front free end paper. Slightly age-toned cut edges; tinted brown top edge. The text block is in very good condition, tightly bound and clean except for the prelims which are foxed and lightly tanned. With many b/w illustrations and with attractive head pieces. Thought to be issued without dust jacket. Part of colllectable collection.

Philadelphia: David McKay 388pp. 12 color platges by Simon Harmon Vedder. Preface by Hon. Mrs. Maxwell Scott of Abbotsford. Red cloth binding with elaborate gold stamping. Photos on request.. Circa 1930.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: David McKay Company. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1927. First Edition Thus. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Original publisher's antique red cloth with gilt titles and gilt-ruled decorations on cover, including border comprised of crenellated gothic tower with architectural details and seven shield medallions, framing titles and central medallion; gilt lettering and medallion on spine, t.e.g. nd (cir. 1927). Illustrated with full-page color reproductions of twelve original drawings by Simon Harmon Vedder. Preface by the Hon. Mrs. Maxwell Scott of Abbotsford. "The Talisman" takes place at the end of the Third Crusade, mostly in the camp of the Crusaders in Palestine. Scheming and partisan politics, as well as the illness of King Richard the Lionheart, are placing the Crusade in danger. The main characters are the Scottish knight Kenneth, a fictional version of David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, who returned from the third Crusade in 1190; Richard… Read More

Ipswitch: The Limited Editions Club. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1968. Limited Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Limited edition (No. 1012 of 1500 copies). Signed by the illustrator on the Limitation Page. Quarter bound in Persian sheepskin dyed dark green over crimson English buckram, gilt lettering, borders, and decoration on spine, gilt borders on covers, red Tumbra Ingres endpapers from Sweden. Illustrated with 14 full-page aquatint etchings (two double-page) by Frederico Castellon. Printed on Abbey Mills antique laid paper from Wales. Introduction by Thomas Caldecot Chubb. . Several small spots of wear on the spine, else as new; unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. The red slipcase and its paper label show only the slightest shelf-wear. NEAR FINE. . Waverley Novels Series. Aquatint Etchings. 4to 11" - 13" tall. xxvii, (i), 369, (1-Limitation) pp .

Estes & Lauriat, Boston, 1894. This is a gorgeous book in green and white cloth with elaborate gilt and green cover and spine decoration. The backstrip is soiled and darkened, the back cover is also somewhat soiled. Binding is firm , pages crisp and clean: about GOOD to GOOD PLUS condition. Top edge gilt with ribbon bookmark bound in. This edition has 10 illustrations, of which 6 are actual etchings. Four from art by J. Le Blant, 1 by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, and 1 by Herbert Dicksee. 468pp. Glossary.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.