ROBERT TEMPLE BOOKSELLERS CATALOGUE, File G: Yellowbacks. ALLEN (F.M. [i.e., Edmund Downey]). Through Green Glasses. Sixth edition. London: Ward and Downey, 12, York Street, Covent Garden, W.C., 1888. (All rights reserved.) Globe 8vo; half-title not called for; pp.236; publisher’s inserted 16pp. Catalogue at end, dated August 1888; glazed yellow boards printed with publisher’s advertisements in black on back cover, in scarlet, black, and olive green on front cover and spine; end-papers printed with publisher’s and commercial advertisements. Slight wear to edges and corners; spine and edges of covers somewhat dusty; a generally nice copy, nonetheless, of an uncommon title. BLACKMORE (R.D.). Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Limited, St. Dunstan’s House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C., 1893. Final blank; pp.viii+517+[iii]; pale blue glazed boards printed in dark blue, black, and red on front cover and spine, in dark blue on back cover; light blue-green end-papers printed with commercial advertisements in black. Paper covering of back board a little chipped at one corner, and spine a little rubbed; otherwise a nice copy. FARJEON (B.L.). Great Porter Square: A mystery. Sixth edition. London: Ward and Downey, 12, York Street, Covent Garden, N.D [1886]. (All Rights reserved.). Globe 8vo; two leaves integral advertisements at end; pp.[viii]+[3] — 372+[iv]; glazed yellow boards printed with publisher’s advertisement in black on back cover, printed in black, red, and green on front cover and spine; front end-papers printed with trade and publisher’s advertisements, back end-papers plain. Ownership inscription on front end-papers; otherwise a nice copy. MERRIMAN (H. Seton) and TALLENTYRE (Stephen G.). From Wisdom Court. By H. Seton Merriman Author of “The Sowers” And Stephen G. Tallentyre. Thirty Illustrations by E. Courboin. London, William Heinemann, 1896. (All rights reserved). Integral frontispiece; other illustrations in text; pp.xii [including frontispiece]+[207]+[i (printer’s imprint)]; pale yellow glazed boards printed pictorially in black, green, and red on front cover and spine, printed in black on back cover with advertisements. Horizontal tear to spine, memded internally but leaving the top two inches of the front joint cracked; slight wear to corners and one bruised; otherwise a very nice copy. OLIVER (Pen, F.R.C.S. (Sir Henry Thompson).). Charley Kingston’s Aunt: A study of medical life and Experience. Revised Edition. Frederick Warne and Co., 1893. Paper covering of corners slightly chipped; otherwise nice. OUIDA [i.e., Louise de la Ramée]. Pipistrello And other stories. A new edition. London, Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1882. Integral advertisement leaf precedes half-title; leaf bearing publisher’d device on recto, blank on verso, followed at end by publisher’s catalogue, 32pp., dated July, 1882; pp.[viii]+305+[i (printer’s imprint)]+[ii]; pale yellow glazed boards printed in red, green, and black; yellow end-papers printed with commercial advertisements. Unobtrusively re-backed, with the original backstrip laid on; small flexion crease to corner of front board; otherwise a very nice copy, with no rubbing. SEWELL (Anna). Black beauty: The autobiography of a horse. London, Jarrold & Sons, 10 & 11, Warwick Lane, E.C., 1899. 10pp. commercial and publisher’s advertisements on text-paper precede half-title, the outermost serving as paste-down; commercial and publisher’s advertisements on verso of half-title, title, and Contents leaves; final leaf commercial advertisements, serving as paste-down; two wood-engraved illustrations in text; pale grey-green boards, cut flush, applied spine, printed in red and black on sides, in red up spine, the back cover bearing commercial advertisements. Small piece chipped from front cover towards spine, showing underlying cloth binding strip, larger pieces from head and tail of spine; covers creased along edge of binding strip; poor quality paper lightly embrowned throughout; otherwise a nice copy. VANCE (Louis J.). Terence O’Rourke, Gentleman adventurer. By Louis Joseph Vance, Author of “The Private War” London, E. Grant Richards, 1907. Double demy 16mo, printed in double column; pp.160; scarlet wrappers, cut flush, printed outside in black, the back wrapper bearing publisher’s advertisements; issued without end-papers. Very slight chipping to paper at tail of spine; reader’s notes on first and last page of text, apparently in indelible pencil; some offsetting of colour from wrappers onto last page; otherwise a nice copy of a scarce title. |