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Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Bumped corners, and some shelfwear. Endpaper inscription and some light foxing. Crinkled fore edge but otherwise a good reading copy.
Seller: Tobo Books, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Description: 638 p. Leather over spine and corners plus marbled paper covers, end papers. Stamped gilt spine titles. Gilt top page block. Concave right trim. 19 cm. Classic novel which has been reprinted many times, including by modern methods, British author Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) became a broad church priest in the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. In literature, a Christian socialist, he formed labor cooperatives that failed but led to progressive era reforms. At a time of controversy about evolution scientist Charles Darwin, Kingsley was his friend and correspondent. This "Westward Ho! " early edition shows his descriptive skill, here with South American scenery. So popular was this tale, a village in England was named "Westward Ho! " complete with punctuation, as were a railway and hotel. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Spine leather has softened. Scuffing to leather edges, corners. Discard from tiny "Olive G Pettis Free Library, Goshen NH". Text pages clean. Front damage after title page, gauze holding. Earliest U.S. publications: Crowell, Macmillan. 1
Seller: Hedgehog's Whimsey BOOKS etc., Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$153.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: three volumes, contemporary half-leather over marbled boards, raised bands, ruled in gilt, leather labels, corners a trifle rubbed, marbled edges, a handsome copy. an impassioned narrative of high achievement, culminating in the overthrow of the Armada. A band of young adventurers from Devon sail on a fanciful quest to the Spanish Main; from the library of Richard L Pemberton Esq with his armorial bookplate front pastedowns; same year as the first edition; 303, 356 and 373 pages
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$185.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The uncommon second edition of one of Kingsley's most popular novels. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering. Complete in Three Volumes. This particular copy comes from the Worcester Public Library, Reference Department, with a library issue label to the front pastedowns stamped 1904. There is an ink library number to each title page, and ink stamps to the title page and several pages throughout the text. "Kingsley's greatest popular success, the historical novel Westward Ho! (1855), was originally planned as a patriotic anti-Catholic tale about the defeat of the Spanish Armada which he hoped would strike a sympathetic note amid contemporary anxieties about "the Pope and the French invasion", triggered by the restoration of the papal hierarchy in England in 1850 and the aggressive anti-English posturing of Emperor Napoleon III. By the time the novel was finished patriotic feeling had been redirected, as England was fighting Russia in the Crimean War, of which Kingsley was an enthusiastic supporter, but this made the novel seem even more timely" -ODNB. In a publisher's original cloth binding. The bindings are generally tight and firm. The front inner hinge of volume one is slightly strained with the title page and dedication only partially attached. There is only mild wear to the extremities, with just mild rubbing with sunning and labels to the spines. Internally the pages have slight browning and the occasional spot. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Kingsley, Charles. Westward Ho!. Macmillan & Co, Cambridge, 1855.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Second edition. 3 vols. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth. Bookplates of Charles Arthur Wynne Finch, signed C.W. G. Wynne 39 Portman Square on flyleaf, (with some offsetting and foxing). Spine ends and corners bumped, joints starting to fray, else very good
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Kingsley, (Charles). Westward Ho!. MacMillan, Cambridge, 1855.
Price: US$359.15 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Three volumes in the publisher's original blue cloth. 16pp of adverts at the rear of volume 3. All three volumes rebacked with blue cloth and with the original backstrip laid on. The rebacking cloth showing only at the edges and ends. A solid and presentable set. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 3-volume set (complete). Category: Literature & Literary; For further information on this title or for further photographs, please click on the "Ask Seller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We aim to reply within three working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.
Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$423.28 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: three volumes, contemporary half-leather over marbled boards, raised bands, leather labels, a trifle rubbed, marbled edges, occasional spotting, good. an impassioned narrative of high achievement, culminating in the overthrow of the Armada. A band of young adventurers from Devon sail on a fanciful quest to the Spanish Main; first edition; 303, 356 and 373 pages; keywords: fiction; Wolff 3813; Sadleir 1340
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 3 vols. 303, 16, vi, 356, vi, 373p. Original blue cloth. 20 cm. Later leather backed slipcase with rigid protective four flap enclosure around the books. Rebacked some time ago with trimmed and somewhat rubbed and worn original backstrips mounted. Extremities rubbed (modest loss of cloth), Original yellow endpapers preserved. Small bookseller's label (J. Andrews, Bookseller & Librarian 167 New Bond Street London") present in corner of front pastedown in Vol. I. Partial splitting along two edges of slipcase. Vol/ I has publisher's advertisements (1 leaf preceding the half-title and a 16p. catalog at the end which is dated February, 1855). Fiction.
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
KINGSLEY, Charles.. Westward Ho!. Cambridge: Macmillan & Co., 1855, 1855.
Price: US$5772.03 + shipping
Description: First edition, presentation copy, inscribed "From The Author" in a secretarial hand on the half-title of vol. I. Kingsley's greatest popular success, Westward Ho! was originally planned as a patriotic tale about the defeat of the Spanish Armada at a time when Napoleon III's anti-English posturing was alarming many of Kingsley's countrymen. By the time of publication the Crimean War had switched public angst towards Russia, but it remained just as timely and the novel's nostalgic and rose-tinted look at the Elizabethan golden age struck a chord with its Victorian readership. 3 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers. Housed in a custom blue quarter morocco box. With old bookseller's description from James F. Drake of New York (wrongly placing the inscription as in Kingsley's autograph) loosely inserted. Neat repair to headcaps of vol. I, and minor colour touch-up to the cloth, small chip to the rear cloth of vol. II with slight loss of colour to spine to the same, light bumps to vol. III at extremities, light ink mark to title of vol. III else contents clean. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom