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MacLeod, Donald [ed.]. Good Words for 1900. Isbister and Co Ltd, London, 1900.
Price: US$107.75 + shipping
Description: 240mm x 180mm (9" x 7"). viii, 860pp. B/w plates + in-text illustrations. Includes 'The Half-Hearted' by John Buchan. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. VG: in very good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and marked. Light edge-wear to cover. Browning to title. Sporadic light foxing. Aeg
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Buchan, John. The Half-Hearted. Isbister, London, 1900.
Price: US$113.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Blanchard A11. Early rebinding in blue linen hard covers, with gilt title and decoration on red spine-label. All edges gilt. Front hinge cracked through cloth but holding neatly by cords; moderate handling and shelf-wear to covers. Old owner's heraldic bookplate inside front cover. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound copy, in mylar protective wrap. 376pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada
Buchan, John. The Half-Hearted. Isbister, London, 1900.
Price: US$121.86 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Covers are rubbed and worn at the edges. Cracking at endpapers. Owner's name.
Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom
Buchan, John. The Half-Hearted" in Good Words Vol.XLI, no. 1.. Isbister, London, 1900.
Price: US$135.71 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first appearance, in serial form, of this novel subsequently published in England by the same publisher. The complete novel in 33 chapters contained in the bound edition of Good Words for 1900. Original decorative gold and black printed green cloth hard covers. All edges gilt. Moderate handling and shelf-wear to covers. Edges and endpapers toned. Small inkstamp to front endpaper and corner of title-page; small dampstain to corner of tissue-guard and title-page. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. 860pp. Blanchard A11 (note). Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada
Macleod, Donald (editor). Good Words. London: Isbister & Co, 1900.
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: F. Good Words was the house literary magazine of Isbister & Co. This volume incorporates all issues for the year 1900 produced in book form. Usual immense variety of subject matter, this magazine being somewhat lighter in tone than, for instance, Blackwoods or Chambers. There are numerous illustrations. It includes the whole of the early John Buchan novel The Half-Hearted and this incorporates illustrations by Gordon Browne which did not appear when published in book form. Original binding unknown but this copy has been rebound in burgundy cloth with gold lettering on a black label. The text block edges are speckled red. Other than a lightly dusted top edge this is in fine condition throughout and belies its 110-year age being bright, clean and undamaged in every respect.
Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom
BUCHAN John. The Half-Hearted. , 1900.
Price: US$538.76 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue. 8vo., original decorated green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. London, Isbister. Light wear to extremities, some faint dust marking to fore margins of opening few leaves, otherwise an excellent copy.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
BUCHAN, John.. The Half-Hearted.. Isbister, London., 1900.
Price: US$833.80 + shipping
Description: First edition. First issue binding of grey-green pictorial buckram, top edge gilt. Octavo. 375 pages. One of the author's early novels, written when he was 24, and the first to be set in the present-day. The first half takes place in Scotland before the disheartened main character travels to northern India where he redeems himself in defence of the Empire.On the front pastedown is the gilt monogrammed Brackenbury bookplate of Hugh Walpole. A number of these bookplates were fixed by an unscrupulous dealer into books which did not come from Walpole's library and there is no way knowing if this was one such. There are, however, a couple of other links between the two novelists: in 1917 Walpole was appointed to a post in the Foreign Office at the Department of Information which was headed by Buchan; on the publication of Walpole's novel Rogue Herries, it was described by Buchan as the finest English novel since Jude the Obscure.Contemporary (1900) ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Some light spotting to fore-edge. Small snags to head and tail of spine. Very good indeed. Scarce, bordering on rare in such presentable condition.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom