This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...golfist plays a game, which would astonish St. Andrews, with clubs which would give that venerable city fits. But she calls it golf, and talks of it under that appellation from morning till night. Her soul is wrapped up in it. She lives K for it, dreams of it--and yet it is a game; a pleasure. There is--unmuzzled and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...golfist plays a game, which would astonish St. Andrews, with clubs which would give that venerable city fits. But she calls it golf, and talks of it under that appellation from morning till night. Her soul is wrapped up in it. She lives K for it, dreams of it--and yet it is a game; a pleasure. There is--unmuzzled and at liberty in the world--a class of young person with hair drawn from a rounded forehead as if by hydraulic pressure. She usually wears spectacles, and is so far above dress as to scorn anything approaching a frill or a fichu. To her more feminine sisters we would suggest, en passant, the consoling thought that if these young ladies did attend to fashion, they would effectually ruin any pretty novelty for the rest of the world by not knowing how to wear it. This is the literary maiden who reads a little, and talks a vast deal about that little in a high and authoritative voice. "Of course," we heard one of these young ladies say, "Blank is above the heads of the people. He is a great novelist. I have made a regular study of him. Unless you do that you cannot expect to understand him." This completely shut up her hearer, as it was intended to do. But it happened that he was the man who had written the books in question--under a pseudonym on account of the income-tax collector. We rather think that Blank, deep down in his own silent heart, had the best of that. Now it is all very well, but reading novels is not a science--neither is it a study, and the young person who pulls back her hair and gives herself airs because she reads anything that Mr. Mudie gives her is making a fool of herself. Novels are written for money--we know, because we write them, and are open to orders--and novel-reading is supposed to be a pleasure and n...
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E. Corbin. Good. A scarce copy of this selection of essays by Henry Seton Merriman First edition. Illustrated throughout by E. Corbin. With essays on matrimony, the sea, visitors, women and many more. In a red cloth binding. Externally sound, though with some wear to the backstrip (which has been previously repaired). Corners are slightly bumped, and there are a few marks to the boards. Front hinge tender. Internally, generally firmly bound. Ink signature to recto of front free-endpaper. Pages are bright, though with some scattered light spotting throughout. Good.
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Good. Good soiled panels/spine, cracked front hinge, 2&1/2in crack in back hinge, bumping of corners/ends, spine lean, foxing, brown spotting on inner panels/end pgs. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Very Good. No Jacket. 1893. Presumed first American edition. Hardcover, 208 pp. Half-leather with marbled boards. Illustrated with b&w drawings. Very good. Light wear to leather edges and front joint. Previous owner's bookplates to front endpaper, verso of front flyleaf and rear endpaper. Dampstain to rear endpapers.
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Very Good. First edition. Red cloth with Egyptian design on front board, gilt title on spine. Thirty illustrations by E. Courboin. Light scattered foxing, spine darkened, spine ends nicked, else very good. Tipped-in rear is a sixteen page pamphlet entitled: *A List of Mr. William Heinemann's Publications and Forthcoming Works*.