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Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First impression of the true first edition. Illustrated with six monochrome plates, including frontispiece titled "They danced in the moonlight on the sward." All plates present as called for. ***Very good in red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and borders to the spine and front board. Head and tail of spine slightly creased, nicked and rubbed but no major tears or creases. Corners of boards slightly rubbed. Some staining to the back board near the spine. The spine is browned and faded. Fore-edge of page block rough-cut [i.e untrimmed]. Internally also very good, with hardly any splitting to the fragile binding - just slight splitting at p.224/5. Spine tight. With a contemporary ownership inscription "A. W. Corrie, Park Hall, Oswestry" on the front pastedown, along with the owner's attractive armorial bookplate "Alfred Wynne Corrie" on the front free endpaper, and a pencil name on the second blank page. There is some offsetting to the title page caused by the tissue guard to the frontispiece. Very light unobtrusive sporadic foxing to pages. Spine tight. ***198 mm x140 mm. vii prelim-pages plus 320 pages and a 40 page publisher's catalogue dated September 1897 at the back of the book. ***Contents: Preface, Chapter. I. Oyez!; II. In the Cellar; III. Crispin; IV. The Bowling Green; V. The Jack; VI. A Mad Wedding; VII. Stand! Deliver!; VIII. The Rock Tavern; IX. Nan; X. Castle Foregate; XI. A White Devil; XII. Petty Treason; XIII. The Last in England; XIV. A Challenge; XV. Vashti; XVI. Drie; XVII. Kynaston's Cave; XVIII. A Crooked Finger; XIX. A Second Flight; XX. A Tally Stick; XXI. A Protector; XXII. Holy Austin Rock; XXIII. Meg-a-Fox Hole; XXIV. At the Rock Foot; XXV. Nan, Farewell!; XXVI. The Crooked Finger Again; Appendix; Publisher's Catalogue. ***'Sabine Baring-Gould (28 Jan 1834 - 2 Jan 1924) was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1,240 publications, though this list continues to grow. His family home was the manor house of Lew Trenchard, near Okehampton, Devon. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers", "Sing Lullaby", and "Now the Day Is Over". Baring-Gould wrote many novels, including "The Broom-Squire" set in the Devil's Punch Bowl (1896), "Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes" (1880), "Guavas the Tinner" (1897), the 16-volume "The Lives of the Saints", and the biography of the eccentric poet-vicar of Morwenstow, Robert Stephen Hawker. He also published nearly 200 short stories in assorted magazines and periodicals. Many of these short stories were collected together and republished as anthologies, such as his "Book of Ghosts" (1904), "Dartmoor Idylls" (1896), and "In a Quiet Village" (1900). His folkloric studies resulted in "The Book of Were-Wolves" (1865), one of the most frequently cited studies of lycanthropy. One of his most enduringly popular works was "Curious Myths of the Middle Ages", first published in two parts during 1866 and 1868, and republished in many other editions since then. H. P. Lovecraft termed it "that curious body of medieval lore which the late Mr. Baring-Gould so effectively assembled in book form."' [Wiki] ***A true first edition, complete in the original cloth-covered boards. Of interest to collectors of Sabine Baring-Gould, and the mythology, legends and history of the Middle Ages. A very uncommon title. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Baring-Gould, S.. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Methuen & Co., London, 1897.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on cover and spine, bevelled boards, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges deckle, violet endpapers with gilt decoration. Profusely illustrated with tissue-protected photogravures at the beginning of each chapter, and hundreds of in-text illustrations. Sabine Baring-Gould (1834 1924) of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, biographer, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. He was regarded as one of the top ten novelists of his time, but wrote prolifically on his travels, religious matters, historical figures and on many other topics. Over 1200 publications are listed in his bibliography. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers", "Sing Lullaby", and "Now the Day Is Over". Professionally rebacked with original spine and endpapers laid on, marks from the removal of a bookplate on fep, gilt faded, covers rubbed, else fine, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. A large, heavy book (nine pounds) - additional shipping charges may apply. VERY GOOD. . B&W Plates. 4to 11" - 13" tall. xxxi, 624 pp
Seller: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, U.S.A.