Price: US$25.42 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Half brown leather. Rubbing to leather. Previous owners bookplates (Thesiger Family). 325pp and 319pp. Light foxing to a few pages. A couple of illustrations.
Seller: M and M Books, Barkway, HERTS, United Kingdom
Oliver Goldsmith. The Works of Oliver Goldsmith With Life and Notes. Henry Bohn, London, 1848.
Price: US$140.14 + shipping
Description: A beautifully four volume set of of The Works of Oliver Goldsmith Complete in four volumes. With 7 full page plates. Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield , his pastoral poem The Deserted Village and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer. He also wrote An History of the Earth and Animated Nature. Uniformly bound in a full calf binding with gilt detailing. Externally worn with heavy rubbing and wear to spines. Lacking six of eight spine labels with the remaining two suffering loss. Loss to head of the spine of volume I. Front hinge of volume I strained with frontispiece and endpaper detached but present. Internally, generally firmly bound though strained in places. Pages are generally clean and bright throughout with the occasional spot and offsetting at plates. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$153.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 326 p. (1), 320 p. (2), 340 p. (3), 346 p. (4). With some beautiful steel engravings (also by the author) and title drawings in each volume. Beautiful original cloth binding with gold embossing on the spine and ornate blind embossing on the covers. Paper slightly browned due to age. The volumes are in a neat, beautiful, good condition. Only slight age-toning. Slightly bumped in places. ++++ Mit einigen schönen Stahlstichen (auch vom Verfasser) sowie Titelzeichnungen in jedem Band. Schöner Originalleinenband mit goldener Rückenprägung und kunstreicher Blindprägung der Buchdeckel. Papier altersbedingt leicht gebräunt. Die Bände sind in einem ordentlichen, schönen, guten Zustand. Ledliglich leichte Spiren der Zeit. Teilweise leicht bestoßen. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1400
Seller: Buchhandlung Neues Leben, Salzburg, S, Austria
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4 Volumes. Original full publisher's red cloth with elaborate blind stamped panelled and bordered covers and spine. Gilt lettering on spine. All volumes in Very Good condition except volume II which has chipping at the top and bottom of the spine at the board. Previous owner's bookplate on front free endpage. 325pp, 319pp, 341pp, 346pp Overall GOOD condition. Oliver Goldsmith (November 10, 1730(?) April 4, 1774) was an Irish writer and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.