Search Results: Titles starting with A from Sparrow's Bookshop

A.L. Burt, Publisher, no date given. Hardcover. Good/None. Assumed printed circa 1900. No dust jackets. Bindings are firm and square. All books have a previous owner's inscription on FEP. All other pages are clean and unmarked. Moderate rubbing on boards and bumping/fraying at corners and spine ends. List of Titles: Hypatia by Charles Kingsley, John Halifax Gentleman by Miss Mulock, Hagar by James Arthur Macknight, Donovan by Edna Lyall

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/None. First edition. With illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson. Travel memoir by an American journalist about the city of Paris, France in the late 19th century, a period of prosperity and optimism pre-WWI. Discoloration to spine and around fore edges of covers with corners and spine ends mildly bumped/frayed. Front hinge cracked with several instances of mildly split binding throughout. Previous owner's name on front endpaper, otherwise all pages are clean and unmarked. Smells faintly of smoke.

Dell Publishing, 1974. Paperback. Good/N/A. All pages are unmarked and bindings are tight. Spines have reading creases. Slipcase has moderate wear, bumped corners and rubbing to art.

Harcourt, Brace & World, 1939. Hardcover. Very good/None. Volume 1 states, "Seventeenth printing" while 2-4 have a code of "0.I.67" on copyright page. With photographs and scans on letters, cartoons, and documents. Complete War Years section of a larger set that also included two volumes of Prairie Years. Very mild scuffing to covers with shelf wear around the edges. Corners and spine ends softened and bumped. Text blocks sagging slightly with wear to bottom fore corner from rubbing. Binding remains strong on the whole. All pages clean and unmarked though tanned. Smells very faintly of smoke.

Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1966. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Book of the Month Club edition. Previous owner's embossment on title page. All other pages are unmarked. Binding is firm and square. Jacket has heavy rubbing and edge wear with multiple small tears and chips. Front jacket has come wrinkling likely due to humidity or prior water damage. The boards and pages were not affected. Light staining on fore-edge.

Joseph Manahan (Printer), 1822. Hardcover. Acceptable/None. Second edition. Edited and with commentary by J. L. Blake. Warped boards with chipping and bumps around the edges. Front hinge cracked. Many page edges creased or torn. Pages heavily foxed with sparse marks in pencil throughout.

Hubbard Brothers, 1878. Hardcover. Good/None. With illustrations. This edition stated as being sold by subsription only. Boards are curved and with discoloration and moderate shelf wear around the edges. Corners bumped and spine ends softened and fraying. Both hinges cracked with discolored strip down both pastedown endpapers. Spine is curved and cocked somewhat. Pages are tanned and with mild foxing around the edges of some, but remain otherwise unmarked.

Random House, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. First edition. Jacket is intact aside from small tears and scuffing around the edges. Boards are solid, the spine is square, and the pages are bright, crisp, and unmarked with textured endpapers. Front hinge starting to crack. Overall in excellent condition.

Avenel Books, 1982. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. 1982 edition. Jacket is clean and glossy, with minor edgewear. Opening edge of back inner flap is soiled. Pages are clean and unmarked. Boards are firm and even, with sharp corners. Binding is tight and square.

Heritage Press, 1976. Hardcover. Very good/None. Comes with publisher's original sandglass and slipcase. No internal markings. Binding is firm and square. Slipcase has some light fraying to corners and minor shelf wear.

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/None. First edition. Edges of boards and spine wrap are slightly worn and spine is slightly discolored. Wrap and rear board has a few creases. Pages are tanning, but remain clean and unmarked. Cracked hinges but pages are intact. Spine is square and binding is loosening somewhat.

Little, Brown and Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Acceptable. First impression of the trade edition. Pages are clean and unmarked and binding is tight. Pages and edges are faded. Corners are bumped and have some loose threads. Spine ends are worn and softened. Jacket has large tears, chips missing, and scratches.

David McKay, no date given. Hardcover. Near fine/Good. Assumed printed circa 1915. Golden Books edition, illustrated by Charles Folkard with 8 full-page color plates and black-and-white images throughout. Original green cloth, pictorial paste-on with large gilt border, gilt-lettered spine. In original color pictorial dust jacket with same illustration on front panel. Green pictorial endpapers. Jacket is protected in mylar and intact aside from a tear at the spinal edge of the front cover and other scuffing and dings. Boards are solid, the spine is square, binding is firm and the pages are bright, crisp, and unmarked aside from small previous owner's name on front endpaper. A beautiful copy, quite difficult to find in such an intact dust jacket.

Barnes & Noble, 2011. Hardcover. Near fine/None. Pages are clean and unmarked. Gilt text block edgestain is bright and clear. Ribbon marker is fully intact. Boards are firm and even, with very little shelf wear. Gilt lettering and deco on cover and spine is clear and unfaded, as is cover illustration. Binding is starting throughout first signature, but otherwise secure.

Grosset & Dunlap, no date given. Hardcover. Good/Good. Assumed printed circa 1957. A Flight of Swans: Poems from Balaka by Rabindarnath Tagore

Last Gasp, 2007. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Jacket protected in mylar. All pages are bright, clean and unmarked. Jacket is equally bright and free of any scuffing or tears. Binding is tight and square, but both top corners have been bumped.

Basic Books Inc, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. First edition. Price clipped. Aside from previous owner's inscription on FEP, all other page are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Rough cut fore-edge. Moderate edge wear on jacket with multiple small tears and chips. Large area of scuffing on back jacket.

Macmillan and Co, 1895. Hardcover. Good/None. Illustrated by H.R. Millar. Pages are unmarked but browned. Front hinge is cracked and binding is loosening in a couple spots throughout. Binding has a lean. Boards have foxing along fore-edges and along spine. One bottom corner is bumped and there's light rubbing on corners and on spine ends, which have softened. Spine is sunned.

The Library of Facetious Lore, 1927. Hardcover. Very good/None. Copy 410/750. Illustrated. Pages are unmarked with all three edges deckled. Binding is loosening throughout. Two stains on front board and some discoloration on both boards. Rubbing around all edges and cardboard is visible on corners and top and bottom edges of front board. Spine ends starting to fray. Sun lines across both back and front boards. Paste down on spine is sunned and has chips at edges.

Ungar Paperbacks, 1967. Paperback. Very good/N/A. Second printing of Ungar edition. No markings. Significant reading creases on spine. Otherwise very minor shelf wear.