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Kingsley, Rev. Charles.. TWO YEARS AGO: VOL. II.. Macmillan, 1857.
Price: US$13.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1857. Macmillan. Hardcover. Book - VG for age, spine ends, edges and corners worn. Decorated covers. Half leather bound. Gilt title on spine. 7.x5. 280pp.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Kingsley, Charles. Two Years Ago (1857). Macmillan & Co, London, 1857.
Price: US$19.08 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Three volumes bound as one in publisher's blue beaded remainder cloth; brown endpapers. Cloth well worn with small losses to sine ends, general grazing, inner joint papers cracked but joints holding. A good reading/rebinding copy.
Seller: Richard Beaton, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
KINGSLEY Charles Rev.. Two years ago, vol 2.. Macmillan & Co, 1857.
Price: US$33.91 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO60004934: 1857. In-12. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 280 pages. Une tache sur la dernière garde. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
Kingsley, Rev Charles.. TWO YEARS AGO. VOL 3.. Macmillan, 1857.
Price: US$38.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1857. Macmillan. Hard Cover. Book-VG. Half-Leather.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Kingsley, Charles Rev.. Two Years Ago. MacMillan, Lon, 1857.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Three volumes bound in matching green pebbled probably replaced cloth with gilt titles. Each volume has the bookplate of W. T. R. Powell, a member of the British Parliament from a long line of Aristocracy. Some foxing to the prelims. The bindings are cracked with one of the covers detached on volume 3, although the text block is not affected. Contents and appearance otherwise clean.
Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$89.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Complete, in 3 volumes, first edition, Two Years Ago, by Reverend Charles Kingsley (1857, Macmillan and Co., Cambridge). About the Work - "In Two Years Ago (1857), Kingsley once more returned to contemporary life, dealing with such of its moral difficulties and of its material evils as more particularly came under his cognisance. The main teaching of the book may, perhaps, be said to be that the processes of Providence are to be read by him who runs in both the happiness and the unhappiness of which the world around us is fullin the beauty of nature, and in the power granted to human action to set right much of the wrong wrought by human sloth and self-indulgence, and that, consequently, man is called upon for faith and hope and the self-devotion of love, thus receiving the one answer for which pure and honest spirits are, consciously or unconsciously, in search." Cambridge History of English and American Literature About the Author - Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives that failed but led to the working reforms of the progressive era. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin. He was also the uncle of female explorer Mary Kingsley. Physical Attributes - Each measures approx. 19 x 13 x 2.5 cm. 1/2 leather, ruled in gilt, boards marbled. Title, author, volume and year in gilt on spine, with five raised cords. Top-edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Volume one - (1) vi, xxxii, 304, (1). Volume two - (1) vi, 280, (1). Volume three - (1) vi, 315, (1). Condition - See pictures. Shelf wear, with some board rubs and edge wear. Rear joint and hinge of volume one cracked, board held on by binding cords. Also, slight chipping at top of spines. Some pencil bookseller notes on volume one front unpaginated blank endpaper. No other writing. Occasional spot (singular). Occasional dog-eared page. 1400 grams
Seller: Rare Tome, Newberg, OR, U.S.A.
Kingsley, Charles. Two Years Ago 3 Volumes. Macmillan and Company, Cambridge, 1857.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. First edition. In this novel Kingsley writes of the effects of the Crimean War on his doctor hero, and of the cholera epidemic and its surrounding issues of public health and sanitation - and public apathy that takes hold. A secondary plot focuses on denouncing slavery in the U.S.A., and is thought to have been influenced by Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", which was published a few years earlier in 1852. In original blue cloth with gilt titles to spines. Chipping and wear to spine ends and corners of all volumes and rubbing to all boards. The book cloth along the exterior hinges of volume III is starting to crack, though the boards remain firmly attached. The interiors are clean overall with a few small spots of foxing and a few light smudge marks. Signature of previous owner, Hartley Clarke, to ffep of volume I. Yellow end pages to all volumes. Very good condition. Volume I: 304 pages plus 4 pages of ads; Volume II: 280 pages plus 24 pages of ads dated Jan. 1857; Volume III: 315 pages plus 24 pages of ads dated Jam. 1857. This set may require an extra shipping fee. LIT12/2042.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.
KINGSLEY Charles. Two Years Ago. Macmillan & Co 1857, 1857.
Price: US$101.76 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: three volumes, original cloth, spines chipped with minor loss, volume III rebacked with original backstrip relaid, advertisement leaves volume I, publishers catalogue dated January 1857 volumes II and III, scattered spotting, ownership signature front pastedowns, joints cracked, good. first edition; 304, 280 and 315 pages
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
KINGSLEY Rev Charles. Two Years Ago. Macmillan & Co 1857 (second edition), 1857.
Price: US$114.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: three volumes, original cloth, spines bumped and a trifle chipped, hinges a trifle rubbed, advertisement leaves volume I, publisher's catalogue dated January 1857 volumes II and III, ownership signature front free endpapers, joints cracked volume III, a nice set. same year as the first edition; 304, 280 and 315 pages
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
KINGSLEY(Rev. Charles). Two Years Ago. Macmillan, Cambridge, 1857.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: Three volumes, octavos, contemporary half morocco gilt, somewhat rubbed and worn, bookplate, signature on front blank fly -leaves. Not in Sadleir. First edition; uncommon. This set will require extra postage,with the exact amount depending upon the destination.
Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$159.00 + shipping
Description: THREE VOLUMES. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 5.25 x 7.25 inches. Vol. I, [2] + vi + xxxii + 304 pp.; Vol. II, [2] + vi + 280 pp.; Vol. III, Bound in original half morocco over marbled boards; spine in compartments with raised and decorated gilt bands with contrasting black morocco title labels, gilt. Red edges. Extremities lightly worn and scattered foxing, but otherwise a very good copy. First edition of a three decker novel by Charles Kingsley (1819-75), opening at 'Whitbury' in Berkshire but also set in North Devon and Wales. ART / LITERATURE NOVELS LIT. FICTION 19TH CENTURY FIRST EDITION ART / LITERATURE
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Kingsley, Charles. Two Years Ago (3 volume set). Macmillan and Company, Cambridge, England, 1857.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NOTE: Oversize, will require additional charges for international shipping, please inquire prior to ordering. 12mo. Vol. I, xxxii, 304, vol. II, vi, 315, vol. III, vi, 280 pages, publisher's adverts all vols. Full brown leather, gilt spine titles over blue and green labels, gilt spine decorations, decorative gilt borders to front and rear boards, gilt decorations to board edges; decorative edges; marbled endpapers. Only minor blemishes to boards, interiors mildly age-toned. Very good to very good plus copies. Remarkable condition for this set.
Seller: Gold Beach Books & Art Gallery LLC, Gold Beach, OR, U.S.A.
Kingsley, The Reverend Charles (1819-75). TWO YEARS AGO. Macmillan and Co, Cambridge, 1857.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With the Crimean War as its backdrop, this novel called attention to the issues of sanitation and public health. From the library of Scottish lawyer, university administrator, and bibliophile Dr. Alexander Bennett McGrigor of Cairnoch LLD (1827-1891), with his gilt-stamped leather bookplate to each front pastedown. Octavo, three volumes. In three-quarter brown morocco over marbled paper bindings by Maclehose of Glasgow, with gilt titles, five raised bands, and matching marbled endpapers. The original cloth has been laid down on blank leaves and bound in at the rear. The spines are a touch sun faded; otherwise very good and quite lovely.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
KINGSLEY, Charles. TWO YEARS AGO. , 1857.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: KINGSLEY, Charles. TWO YEARS AGO. Complete in three volumes. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1857. First edition. 8vo., original blue cloth double-ruled in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Much sun and wear to the boards, with light fraying and chips to extremities. Text blocks are rather sound. Good plus.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Kingsley, Charles. Two Years Ago.. Macmillan and Co, Cambridge, 1857.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's classic work, containing some of his most profound passages of descriptive imagery. Octavo, three volumes bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In very good condition. Priest, university professor, social reformer, and historian Charles Kingsley was particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms. A close friend of Charles Darwin, Kingsley became Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge in 1860 and later sat on the 1866 Edward Eyre Defence Committee along with Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, John Tyndall, and Alfred Tennyson, where he supported Jamaican Governor Edward Eyre's brutal suppression of the Morant Bay Rebellion against the Jamaica Committee. Kingsley's chief asset as a novelist lay in his descriptive faculties: the descriptions of South American scenery in Westward Ho!, of the Egyptian desert in Hypatia, and of the North Devon scenery in Two Years Ago. American scenery is vividly and truthfully described, in part stemming from his observations during a lecture tour of the United States that he undertook in 1874.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.