Hereward the Wake by Charles Kingsley, First Edition (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Blue embossed cloth cover shows handling and shelf wear. Front hinge has been repaired. Previous price on front endpaper. Guttering open to show netting at beginning. Black and white photographic frontispiece. A novel based on Early English history.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. J. F. Taylor and Company, New York, 1889. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. One book from a set. Number286 of 350copies in this edition. Volume I & II (of two). First edition From the set the Novels and Poems of Charles Kingsley Edition Deluxe. h deckled edge and illustrations throughout with protective tissue sheets.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 1st Edition. Dark bottle green buckram cloth covers,titles to front cover and spine,edge wear top and bottom of spine and spine edges,book is clean and tight.Names on front paste down,frontis is present,illustrated copy.Arnolds English Literature Series for reading at home or schools.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No signatures. Small chip to blank margin of final leaf. The series number "621" has been written in on the front cover in ink. ; First printing of this title in the "Whitcombe's Story Books" series, with printed price of "1/3" on front cover. 160 pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 184 x 123mm. [Bibliographical reference: McLaren 611(a)] ; Whitcombe's Story Books No. 621.

Hardback. Condition: V.g. 1st Edition. Unpaginated. 20 B/w illustrations 1pp descriptive ltterpress forward. Facsimile sigtures of the author and artist. Orignal publisher's unfaded brown boards, gilt. Lacking f.f.e.p but a fine clean set of plates in a shaken binding. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. H. C. Selous (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition. Oblong folio (12" x 17 1/2"). Original gilt stamped brown cloth (minor rubbing). Title page with three facsimile signatures. Introduction page, with list of plates on the verso. Illustrated with 20 b/w plates by H. C. Selous, engraved by C. G. Lewis. Plates with small stain upper right corner; no foxing. With Art-Union prospectus. Very good. Bookplate of W. H. Edwards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Perhaps a review copy: a holographic note that reads "From the Publisher" appears on the half-title in the first volume. The story of Hereward, a historical Anglo-Saxon figure who led resistance against the Normans from a base in Ely surrounded by fen land. It was Kingsley's last historical novel, and was instrumental in elevating Hereward into an English folk hero. 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, two 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.

2 volumes. First edition. 8vo, original maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and upper covers. viii, 365 [2 ads]; viii. 402 [2 ads] pp. A handsome set with overall age to the cloth, but the gilt still bright and interior in good order, some restoration to the hinges. FIRST EDITION. "This novel tells the story of Hereward, a historical Anglo-Saxon figure who led resistance against the Normans from a base in Ely surrounded by fen land. Kingsley's last historical novel, it was instrumental in elevating Hereward into an English folkhero. It was first published in serial form in the monthly periodical Good Words from Jan to Dec 1865. The 2 volume publication was the first book edition. The novel had the effect of elevating Hereward into one of the most romantic figures of English mediaeval history. It is believed to have been read and used as a source of inspiration by J.R.R. Tolkien; verbal echoes include the use of 'horse-boy' and the verb 'ruffling', as well as Kingsley's mention of 'orcs' in a list of monsters." - Wiki.

First edition in book form, in publisher's cloth. Hereward was an enigmatic Anglo-Saxon landholder from Lincolnshire, who "was elevated by a historical novel written by Charles Kingsley . . . into one of the most romantic figures of English medieval history: an outlaw and national hero famous for his determined resistance to the Norman invaders of 1066, and a forerunner of the greatest outlaw of English popular mythology, Robin Hood." Dalton, The Outlaw Hereward the Wake (2009). It is even believed that Tolkien read Hereward and used several of its distinctive word choices in his own works. Gilliver, Marshall, Weiner, Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary (OUP 2006). 8vo. 2 vols. viii, 365pp., [1], [2, ads]; viii, 402pp., [2, ads]. Parrish, pg. 49-60. Sadleir 1338. Very good in publisher's gilt stamped red morocco cloth, recased with spines laid down, some staining to boards, bookplates in each volume and prior owner stamp/inscription in each, and blind stamp for "W H Smith & Son Library, 186 Strand" being Smith's short-lived lending library but without other indications of library ownership (Sadleir's copy had the same blind stamp).

1st edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Some foxing to spine cover. Scattered foxing internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; [2], 20 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 31 x 45 cm. Subjects; Hereward active 1071. Lewis, Charles George. Art Union of London. Charles Kingsley. Selous, Henry Courtney. Poetry illustrations. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Some foxing to spine cover. Scattered foxing internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; [2], 20 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 31 x 45 cm. Subjects; Hereward active 1071. Lewis, Charles George. Art Union of London. Charles Kingsley. Selous, Henry Courtney. Poetry illustrations. 1 Kg.

1st edition (NCBEL III, 937). 2 volumes (viii, 365, [3]; viii, [2] pp). 2 pages of adverts conclude each volume. 8vo. Spine cloth dull. Bookplates ["Hartley Clark" & "Oliver Brett"]. Small, discrete blindstamp of "United Service Library" to ffep lower corner. Prior owner signature [Walter Smith] to t.p. top margin. Withal, a VG set. Original publisher's red cloth bindings with gilt stamping (professionally rebacked). Each volume with a tan cloth clamshell case.

Condition: Good. SIGNED/INSCRIBED! London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1866. 1st edition. Volume 2. 12mo. viii,402pp. Inscribed by author on half title: "To General Wilder with the author's most cordial regards. CKingsley [illegible] Aug 10/74." Second gifter's inscription on same page: "Presented to Mary Wilder / J. T. Wilder / Feb 14th 1900." Signature matches that of John T. Wilder, a Civil War commander particularly noted for his actions at Chickamauga; Mary was his eldest daughter. Good book. Edgewear. Corners bent and frayed. (historical fiction, Anglo-Saxons, Great Britain, insurgency, outlaws) Inquire if you need further information.