ARNOLD, EDWIN LESTER

The Adventures of Phra The Phoenician

London, Chatton & Windus. 1936, New Impression. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Very Good Copy in pale blue cloth on boards with Very good unclipped D/J. Slight damp mottling to boards. Slight tanning to end papers. Free of inscriptions. Clean and flat contents.

-- Balfour Books

Book number: 017629

Keywords: The Adventures of Phra the Phoenician Edwin Lester Arnold 1936 Chatto & Windus

ARNOLD, EDWIN LESTER,

Bhagavad Gita the Song Celestial.

Norwalk, Easton Press, 1995.Hard Cover, Fine.Easton Press Hardbound, bound in full leather with gilt top edge; gilt cover designs; Silk Moire endpapers, silk place band.Former owners Bookplate to a preliminary page, else a Fine copy!.

-- Gerry Kleier Books

Book number: 252005

ARNOLD, EDWIN LESTER

Coffee: Its Cultivation and Profit

London: W.B. Whittingham & Co, 1886. Hardcover. First edition. Half calf with decorated spine, marbled paper boards and endpapers, 5.5x9", xi+270 pp, b&w illus. Library stamps on front endpapers & title page, otherwise clean, light scrapes on covers, else VG, clean & tight..

-- Aardvark Book Depot

Book number: 15492

Catalogue: Botany

ARNOLD, EDWIN LESTER.

Lepidus the Centurion. A Roman of to-Day.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers. [1901]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original decorated brown cloth stamped in gray and white, titled in white on front panel, gilt titles to spine. 305 pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Moderate dust soiling to the cloth, spine panel a bit darkened; a very good copy.
¶ Fantasy novel of reincarnation. A country squire, while walking his estate, discovers the underground tomb of a Centurion of ancient Rome. In some unexplained way, the Centurion returns to life. The Squire befriends the Centurion, called Marcus Lepidus, and the Roman (introduced as an Italian cousin), joins a party of guests at the Squire's manor house. Strong elements of mysticism, touching upon themes such as reincarnation, the "doppelganger" myth and the "life element" which pervades creation. Arnold also wrote the fantasy novels "PHRA THE PHOENICIAN (1890) and "GULLIVER OF MARS" (1905). Very Good .

-- Thompson Rare Books - ABAC/ILAB

Book number: 302367

Catalogue: Old Fantasy Books

ARNOLD, EDWIN LESTER

Lepidus the Centurion : A Roman of Today

Toronto, Copp,clark & Co. 1st.Can Ed. Decorative Cloth. A Roman centurion revived to encounter life in Edwardian England. Clean, neat text, but cloth binding scuffed. Very Good.

-- Kalamos Books

Book number: 15787

Catalogue: Rome - Ancient - Fiction

Keywords: Fiction Ancient Rome

ARNOLD, EDWIN LESTER,

The Light of Asia Or, the Great Renunciation.

Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1880.First US Edition, Hard Cover, Near Fine.Yellow cloth with gilt lettering.Ink stamps from a Metaphysical Library on the endpapers and title page; residue from a card pocket to the front endpaper; otherwise a clean and bright copy.; Small Format Volume.

-- Gerry Kleier Books

Book number: 240249

ARNOLD, EDWIN LESTER

The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician (1891)

London, Chatto & Windus. 1891, First One-Volume Edition. Hard Cover. Ill.: H. M. Paget. With an introduction by Sir Edwin Arnold. Original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in bronze (title lettering in gilt on spine); black endpapers. Endpapers replaced, light scuffing, small nick at head of spine, good. A fantasy of reincarnation over the centuries. "Full of dash and go, and an easy elasticity of spirit that nothing can daunt" (Opinions of the Press). Publisher's catalogue dated June 1891 bound in at end.

-- Richard Beaton

Book number: 61005

Catalogue: Historical Novels

Keywords: Sci-Fi, Fantasy H.M. Paget

EDWIN LESTER ARNOLD

The Wonderfull Adventures of Phra the Phoenician Hardcover

London, Chatto & Windus. 1927, First Thus. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: H.M.Paget. Book, Original Hardcover Fascinating fantasy novel of a man's reincarnation in Britain th ru the Celts to Roman Britain on thru and past 'King Alfred' and the Vikings. A little wear at the top of spine else solid clean and tight. No writing inside on pages on this original Occult fantasy with full page illustrations H.M.Paget illus. Good/None.

-- Three Geese In Flight Celtic Books

Book number: 007706

Catalogue: Norse/Anglo Saxon

Keywords: h.m.pagetceltic britain fantasy time travel fantasy roman britain fantasy celtic reincarnation novel fiction roman britain king alfred viking norse

HENTY, G. A. & LOUIS TRACY; HAROLD BINDLOSS; EDWIN LESTER ARNOLD; LT. -COL. A. F. MOCKLER-FERRYMAN

Hazard & Heroism

London: W. & R. Chambers, 1904. First Edition. Original Cloth. Illustrated by Groome, W. H. C.. (viii), 403, (1) pages + frontis + 7 plates. Pink cloth covers with illustration and lettering and red, gilt, black, and white on spine and front board. Bevelled edges to boards. Cloth covers clean. Prize label on front endpaper. No splitting to hinges. Minor spotting to page edges. Includes the fictional narrative "Finding of the White Lama : A Story of Tibet" by Lt. -Col. A. F. Mockler-Ferryman. The story is set in Ladakh. An English officer on a shooting expedition is thought to have drowned on a river crossing. He has not drowned but instead stumbled across the secret of a white "English Lama" living at the Hemis monastery.; 12mo. Very Good with no dust jacket .

-- Renaissance Books

Book number: 002341

ARNOLD EDWIN LESTER

The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician

London, Chatto & Windus. 1893, New edition. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ tall. Fascinating fantasy novel about an immortal man's reincarnation in Britain through the Celts to Roman Britain on thru and past 'King Alfred' and the Vikings and his multiple reincarnations. Blue cloth gilt design of fetaher fan and title to cover gilt dulled, decorative gilt spine also dulled, joints rubbed, spine ends frayed, corner bruised, front hinge cracked and loosened, old pencil to fep frontis with tissue guard and 9 plates by H M Paget. intro by Sir Edwin Arnold, authors father. viii, 347 +32 pp catalogue at rear, signatures loosening, fore edge untrimmed, some age browning and soiling to pages. Scarce work said to have influenced Edgar Rice Burroughs in his youth and cited as a source for the John Carter tales ( QV Lupoff; Edgar Rice Burroughs Master of Adventure). Two leaves have corners torn off, loss of text to one leaf only though. Good/No Jacket.

-- Fortuna Books

Book number: 000799

Catalogue: Science-Fiction Fantasy & Horror

Keywords: Edwin Arnold Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan John Carter