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1998Q-0425161455Berkley Trade 1998-07-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Berkley Trade paperback
1811984Y23London: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1811. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 4.5". None. The fourth edition of George Ellis" popular anthology including an extensive selection of English poetry from Middle English to the 17th century. The fourth edition corrected. Complete in three volumes. Uniformly bound in half calf with marbled boards. The best known work of George Ellis offering an anthology of poems ranging from the age of the Saxons up to the reign of Charles II with early poems including 'The Battle of Brunanburh' and Layamon's 'Brut'. The Poets proved to be a popular work going through six editions between 1790 and 1851 with Ellis hailed in 1804 in the Critical Review as "the hope of poetic archaeology". His format was imitated by several writers connected with the Lake School including Robert Southey who intended his Specimens of the Later English Poets as a sequel.Compiled by antiquary and satirical poet George Ellis. Uniformly bound in half calf with marbled boards. Externally smart with rubbing to the extremities and marks to the calf. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with scattered spotting concentrated to the first and last few leaves. Very Good Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown hardcover
1885813D26London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. 1885. First edition. Vellum. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". None. A first edition copy of this wonderful collection of English prose in the publisher's original vellum binding from Burn & Co. First Edition Thus being the first time these works were compiled together. Bound in full-vellum by Burn & Co. A wonderful collection of prose from respected literary figures of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries from Sir Thomas Malory to Thomas Babington.Contents include 'The End of Empires and of Life' by Sir Walter Raleigh 'Dreams and Apparitions' from Thomas Hobbes and 'Public Schools' by John Locke. Selected and annotated with an introductory essay by George Saintsbury 1845-1933 the English critic and literary historian. Saintsbury was one of the most influential critics of the 19th and 20th centuries as well as being a knowledgeable wine connoisseur.Collated complete. In the publisher's original vellum binding. Externally very smart with minimal edge wear to extremities and spine. A few marks to boards with light discolouration to spine. Illustration on spines and boards has faded very lightly. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. hardcover
1990Q-0451450485Roc 1990-12-03. Mass Market Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Roc paperback
2002Q-1569717869Dark Horse 2002-11-25. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Dark Horse paperback
1993Q-0140184864Penguin Classics 1993-08-03. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Classics paperback
2005ABE-1706823060315Games Workshop 2005. Soft cover. New. New and lovely Games Workshop paperback
2007Q-0143112619Penguin Books 2007-10-02. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Books paperback
2012Q-0143121472Penguin Books 2012-08-28. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Books paperback
1998Q-0886777976DAW 1998-08-01. Mass Market Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! DAW paperback
58699London: George Newnes Ltd. June and July 1919. Literary Magazine FIRST APPEARANCE. Two octavo magazines 27 x 19cm pp.50 457-546 51-66; pp.48 100 49-64. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's red and blue paper covers stapled twice and a special summer number with colour-illustrated covers. Presented in a black fleece-lined clamshell box with gilt titles to spine. Text is fine and free from marking fragile covers are complete if a little worn to head and foot of spines. Generally clean and bright. Show well. Very good. London: George Newnes, Ltd., June and July 1919 unknown
1975903M1Not Stated: The Mervyn Peake Society 1975-1986. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. Near Fine. 8.5" by 6". Mervyn Peake. The first twenty issues of The Mervyn Peake Review forming a valuable collection of critical opinion regarding Peake and his work. Twenty issues in the publisher's original paper wraps. A collection of the newsletter "The Mervyn Peake Society Newsletter" which became "The Mervyn Peake Review" after the first two issues. This newsletter features numerous critical articles and reviews on Peake's work essays on aspects his life a list of recent and forthcoming publications concerning Peake as well a selection of his original artwork. "The Mervyn Peake Review" was issued by the Mervyn Peake Society between 1975 and the end of the 1990s for subscribers only. For the first nine years the newsletter was issued twice a year; after this its publication was sporadic.Contributors include: G. Peter Winnington also the editor; Brian Sibley; Hugh Brogan; Jacques Favier; Diana Gardner; and Laurence Bristow-Smith.Issue no. 10 contains an index to the rear listing articles reviews and the name of the contributor for the contents of the first ten issues. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally smart with the occasional scattering of spots to the wraps. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for some marginal age-toning to no. 19 and 20. Top edge spotted. Near Fine The Mervyn Peake Society unknown
19700064013Farnborough UK: Gregg Intl. Pub 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Complete set in 4 volumes. 1970 second impression of the reprint edition. Hardcover matching bright orange covers 8vo. Near Fine copies no dust jackets. Covers show minimal soil. Owner's small bookplate and adhesive remainder on each front pastedown; else clean and crisp copies. Reprint edition. Complete set in 4 vols. "The Musical Antiquary" one of the first British musicology journals was published quarterly by Oxford University Press from October 1909 to July 1913 when publication ceased without explanation. Gregg Intl. Pub hardcover
1961941Y6Oxford : Oxford University Press 1961-1965. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A pleasing set of twelve volumes from this book series on the history of the United Kingdom. Containing twelve of fifteen volumes from the publisher's 'Oxford History of England' series. Lacking volumes IV VII and XI.With the first edition first impression of 'Fifteenth Century' and 'English History'. Remaining volumes are either second editions as stated or later impressions.Uniformly bound in the publisher's cloth. This notable book series traces the history of Britain from Roman Britain and the English settlements up to the Second World War with extensive studies and historical sketches from various eminent historians.Some of the volumes are considered to be classic works for their respective periods and some have been reissued as stand-alone works.Comprising the following volumes:I - 'Roman Britain and the English Settlements' by R. G. Collingwood and J. N. L. Myres 1963 - Second edition seventh impression. II - 'Anglo-Saxon England' by F. M. Stenton 1965 - Second edition sixth impression.III - 'From Domesday Book to Magna Carta 1087-1216' by Austin Lane Poole - Second edition third impression. V - 'The Fourteenth Century 1307-1399' by May McKisack 1963VI - 'The Fifteenth Century 1399-1485' by E. F. Jacob 1961 VIII - 'The Reign of Elizabeth 1558-1603' by J. B. Black 1965 - Second edition third impression. IX - 'The Early Stuarts 1603-1660' by Godfrey Davies 1963 - Second edition second impression. X - 'The Later Stuarts 1660-1714' by Sir George Clark 1961 - Second edition second impression with corrections. XII - 'The Reign of George III 1760-1815' by J. Steven Watson 1963 XIII - 'The Age of Reform 1815-1870' by Sir Llewellyn Woodward 1962 - Second edition first impression. XIV - 'England 1870-1914' by R. C. K. Ensor 1963XV - 'English History 1914-1945' by A. J. P. Taylor 1965 Uniformly bound in the original cloth. Externally very smart. With minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Front hinge starting to 'Roman Britain'. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spot to the first and last few leaves. With neat contemporary ink inscriptions to the front free endpapers. Very Good Indeed Oxford University Press hardcover
1908952M14London: George Newnes Limited 1908. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 7". Harry Furniss; John E. Sutcliffe; Will Owen; et al. Two volumes from the year 1908 of the famous 'Strand Magazine'; this set includes the first publication of Churchill's 'My African Journey'. Volumes XXXV and XXXVI of the Strand Magazine uniformly bound in the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Two volumes from the Strand Magazine covering the year 1908. Volume XXXV comprises January to June; Volume XXXVI comprises July to December. Contributions include the first publication of Winston Churchill's 'My African Journey'; 'The House of Arden' and 'The Spy-Glass' by E. Nesbit; 'Recollections of Lewis Carroll' by Harry Furniss; 'Corporal Sam' by A. T. Quiller-Couch; 'The Silver Mirror' 'The Pot of Caviare' and three Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle; a few stories by E. Phillips Oppenheim and Arthur Morrison; and much more. The illustrations for the first edition in book form of Churchill's 'My African Journey' were taken from the original serialised publication in the Strand Magazine. With black-and-white frontispieces twenty-eight colour plates to Volume XXXV and thirty-eight colour plates to Volume XXXVI including numerous in-text illustrations by Harry Furniss John E. Sutcliffe Will Owen and others. Collated complete. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Externally smart. Fading and shelf wear to the spines including a small loss to the tail of the spine to volume xxxvi. Front hinges are slightly strained but remain firmly held by cords. Small marks to the fore edge of volume xxxvi not affecting the pages. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good George Newnes Limited hardcover
1908952M13London: George Newnes Limited 1908. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 7". Harry Furniss; John E. Sutcliffe; Will Owen; et al. Volumes XXXV and XXXVI of the famous 'Strand Magazine' covering the year of 1908; this set includes the first publication of Churchill's 'My African Journey'. Volumes XXXV and XXXVI of the Strand Magazine uniformly bound in the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Two volumes from the Strand Magazine covering the year 1908. Volume XXXV comprises January to June; Volume XXXVI comprises July to December.From the library of Steve Forbes the American publishing executive and politician who is the editor-in-chief of the magazine Forbes.Contributions include the first publication of Winston Churchill's 'My African Journey'; 'The House of Arden' and 'The Spy-Glass' by E. Nesbit; 'Recollections of Lewis Carroll' by Harry Furniss; 'Corporal Sam' by A. T. Quiller-Couch; 'The Silver Mirror' 'The Pot of Caviare' and three Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle; a few stories by E. Phillips Oppenheim and Arthur Morrison; and much more.The illustrations for the first edition in book form of Churchill's 'My African Journey' were taken from the original serialised publication in the Strand Magazine.With twenty-eight colour plates to Volume XXXV and thirty-eight colour plates to Volume XXXVI including numerous in-text illustrations by Harry Furniss John E. Sutcliffe Will Owen and others. The black-and-white frontispieces have been bound facing the first page of text instead of facing the title page. Collated complete. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Externally very bright and smart. Minor shelf wear to the extremities and spines. A little fading to the spines. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed George Newnes Limited hardcover
2000Q-1557833095Applause 2000-02-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Applause hardcover
1959000011525Glencoe Illinois: The Free Press 1959 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 4 v-ix 3 3-549 1 pp. Quarter navy cloth over red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Edited with an introduction and commentary by Patrick Gardiner. Part of the series Readings from Classical and Contemporary Sources. A selection of readings on the philosophy of history from Bertrand Russell Marx Hegel Nagel Mill Popper and others. A few leaves with a corner crease a name on the front pastedown; jacket has traces of edge wear especially to the rear panel. The Free Press (1959) hardcover
2009Q-0375855548Golden Books 2009-08-11. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Golden Books hardcover
190084890Goupil Et Cie - Jean Boussod Manzi Joyant. As New. 1900. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - THREE 3 VOLUME SET. Text in French. Volume 1: 276 pages; Volume 2: 401 pages; Volume 3: 253 pages. 22 x 31 cm. "ILLUSTRATIONS: Bien complet des 100 gravures sous serpentes légendées / Complete with 100 gravures with captions: dont frontispices d'apres Watts Burne-Jones Hebert Prudhon Gerard Flandrin Meissonier Isabey Hayter Dmitrieff Couder Baudry Chapu Puvis de Chavannes Gerome Gervex Bartholdi Ernest Laurent Dupre Detaille Sinibladi Millet Besnard Raffaelli Roll Liphart de Wentworth Beraud Lhermitte Ingres Vernet Geoffroy Bonnat Boilly Bracquemond Besnard Toschi Pioller Edelfelt David Dawant Pickersgill Coignet Lassalle Stieler Falguiere Delacroix Delaroche Lemud Herkomer Rossetti Hunt Regamey Laurens Biennoury Raffet Bouguereau Bonnat Gaillard Laurent-Desrousseaux de Court." -- with a bonus offer-- . Goupil Et Cie - Jean Boussod, Manzi, Joyant hardcover
1888942Y35Vienna : Alfred Holder 1888-1903. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 9" by 6". None. A smart selection of volumes from this very scarce Viennese journal centring around oriental studies. First edition. This set offers eleven volumes from the 'Vienna Journal for the Knowledge of the Orient'. Uniformly bound in quarter crushed morocco with marbled paper covered boards.This journal publishes articles and reviews in the field of Egyptology ancient oriental philology Sumerian Akkadian Hittite Hurrian Elamite etc. social history Near Eastern archaeology Islamic art history and more. With various editors including scholar Georg Buhler and orientalist David Heinrich Muller. Articles are written in a mixture of German and English across the volumes. The entirety of this set comprises the following volumes:II 1888 III 1889 IV 1890 V 1891 VI 1892 VII 1893 VIII 1894 IX 1895 X 1896 XI 1897 XVII 1903 Contents include 'Notes on Sraddhas and Ancestral Worship among the Indo-European Nations' by M. Winrernitz 'Further proofs for the authenticity of the Jaina tradition' by G. Buhler and 'Some Account of the Genealogies in the Prithivirajavijaya' by James Morison. Uniformly bound in quarter crushed morocco with marbled paper covered boards. Externally smart with rubbing to the extremities heaviest to the spines. Internally firmly bound. With age toning to the endpapers otherwise pages are bright and clean. Very Good Alfred Holder hardcover
1865941Y8London : N. Trubner and Co. 1865-1893. Cloth. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None . A terrific collection of uniformly bound early English texts published for the Early English Text Society. An impressive collection of twenty-two volumes from the Early English Text Society a society founded in 1864 dedicated to the editing and publication of early English texts. The publication is noted for being the first to print many important English manuscripts including Cotton Nero A.x which contains Pearl Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and other poems. This set was previously held at the Chiswick Free Public Library and therefore has the relative bookplates and check-out cards tipped in to the front pastedown and front free endpaper.Uniformly bound in half cloth with marbled paper covered boards. With the original purple wraps bound in. Includes a pleasing variety of Middle and Old English texts including a very scarce copy of John Lydgate's poem 'The Temple of Glass' which was written in the late 15th century.With several editors including Frederick J. Furnivall an English philologist best known as one of the co-creators of the New English Dictionary as well as for providing monumental contributions to early English literature notably his parallel text edition of 'The Canterbury Tales'. The entirety of this set comprises the following: 'Alexander and Dindimus: or The Letters of Alexander to Dindimus King of the Brahmans with the Replies of Dindimus; Being a Second Fragment of the Alliterative Romance of Alisaunder' Edited by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat 1865 'The Book of Quinte Essence or The Fifth Being; That it to say Man"s Heaven' Edited by Federick J. Furnivall 1866 'The Stacions of Rome and the Pilgrims Sea-Voyage with Clene Maydenhod' Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall 1867 'The Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry Compiled for the Instruction of his Daughters' Translated by Thomas Wright 1868 'Caxton"s Book of Curtesye Printed at Westminster about 1477-8 A. D.' Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall 1868 'The Romance of the Cheulere Assigne' Edited by Henry H. Gibbs 1868 'Queene Elizabethes Achademy by Sir Humphrey Gilbert: A Booke of Precedence The Ordering of a Funerall &c.; Varying Versions of The Good Wife The Wise Man &c.; Maxims Indgate"s Order of Fools A Poem on Heraldry Occlebe on Lords" Men &c.' Edited by F. J. Furnivall; With Essays on Early Italian and German Books of Courtesy by W. M. Rossetti 1869 'Bernardus de cura rei famuliaris with some Early Scottish Prophecies &c.' Edited by J. Rawson Lumby 1870 'De Liflade of St. Juliana' Translated by Rev. O. Cockayne and Edmund Brock 1872 'The Select Works of Robert Crowley; Namely his Epigrams A. D. 1550; Voyce of the Last Trumpet etc.' Edited by J. M. Cowper 1872 'A Treatise on The Astrolabe; addressed to his son Lowys by Geoffrey Chaucer' Edited by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat 1872 'England in the reign of King Henry the Eighth Part I: Starkey"s Life and Letters' Edited by Sidney J. Herrtage 1878 'The Three Kings of Cologne; An Early English Translation of "Historia Trium Regum" by John of Hildesheim' Edited by C. Horstmann 1886 'The Curial made by maystere Alain Charretier Translated thus in Engyssh by William Carton 1484' Collated by Prof. Paul Meyer and Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall 1888 'Lancelot of the Laik: A Scottish Metrical Romance From a Manuscript in the Cambridge University Library' With introduction notes and glossarial index by the Rev. W. W. Skeat 1889 'Arthur; A Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century' Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall 1889 'Caxton"s Eneydos 1490: Englisht from the French Liure Des Eneydes 1483' Edited by the Late W. T. Culley and F. J. Furnivall 1890 'Caxton"s Blanchardyn and Eglantine c.1489' Edited by Dr. Leon Kellner 1890 'Lydgate"s Temple of Glass' Edited by J. Schick 1891 'Orthographie and Congrnitie of the Britan Tongue; A Treates noe shorter then necessarie for the Schooles Be Alexander Hume' Edited by Henry B. Wheatley 1891 'The Wright"s Chaste Wife: A Merry Tale by Adam of Cobsam' Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall 1891 'The Earliest English Translation of the First Three Books of De Imitatione Christi Now First Printed from a MS. In the Library of Trinity College Dublin with Various Readings from a MS. In the University Library Cambridge' Edited by John K. Ingram 1893 Uniformly bound in half cloth with marbled paper covered boards. Externally smart. With rubbing and bumping to the extremities and fading to the spines. Library ink inscriptions to the spine tails. With the Chiswick Free Public Library bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean. With the Chiswick Library ink impressions to the title and copyright pages. With the library"s check-out card to the front free endpaper. Good N. Trubner and Co. hardcover
2002Q-0452283329Plume 2002-07-30. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Plume paperback
192656058Portland Maine: Thomas Bird Mosher 1926. Limited ed of 925. In tanned slipcase which has 2 inch tear to open edge. DJ tanned and chipped with some small holes to spine area. Some light foxing frontis tissue guard detached but extant contents VG. Limited Edition. Hard. Very Good/Good. 12mo. Thomas Bird Mosher Hardcover
1856060272New York: D. Appleton and Company 1856. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. First American Edition. Brown half leather cover with marbleized boards. Marbled edges. Marbled end-papers. Illustrated. 1058pp. Covers and spine are rubbed in places. Back cover almost detached but holding. Foxing throughout. Text body is free from underlining highlighting or notes. Full refund if not satisfied. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
