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DJ is price-clipped. DJ Spine is browned. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and tears. Minor foxing. Scholar's name to ffep (Philippa Goold née Forder). ; Defines the extent and character of the influence of classics upon English literature. ; 272 pages
335p. Hardcover Very good condition good
New English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 176 p., ills. Türk ve Arap. Translated by Cemil Üzen. First Ediiton in 1912 in Ottoman Turkish. Türk ve Arap (Turk and Arab) was written addressing the incited Arabic people against the Ottoman Turks by the Britain. It address Arabs and the basic idea of the book is that Turks and Arabs can not live separately and if they separate Muslims would loose their independence.
Name/date to both inside covers in bold felt tip. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to page edges, minor bumping to a few adjacent lower page corners and no bumping to cover corners. 487pp. A concise yet thorough handbook, covering more than 2,000 alphabetical entries the problems that give (or should give) a writer pause for thought before he sets words to paper - questions of use, meaning, grammar, punctuation, precision, logical structure, and colour.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece ands numerous fine photographs throughout; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, silver endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; red cloth, ackstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A standard reference
Two poems in one volume. Middle English text in modernised spelling, with English introduction and notes. xxv, 150 pages.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 57 plates, neat signature and stamp on front paste-down, occasional light annotation in the text; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Rather than an exhaustive work of reference, this is a plain man's guide to the things to be found in and around almost any parish church irrespective of size. A very readable introduction complete with select blbiography
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured photographs (the majority full-page) in the text; original cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges. Peterson B178.
8vo., Best Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous plates and 7 maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper. Significantly expanded version of a work first published in 1937.
An examination and discussion of the English language. 180pp.
Numbered pages run from 481 to 520. Lots of photographs and nice advertisements, covering wraps in colour. Staple bound. Slight wear to edges.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Accounts of village life with contributions by Edmund Blunden, William Cobbett, John Moore et al. With splendid illustrations by Anthony Brandt, full page and in the text. 221 pages. Green cloth covers. Page edges greyed with dust marks.
8vo., First Paperback Edition, with very numerous full-page illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. A very useful guide, with a good general survey of each cathedral or church featured. Includes essays on Christianity in English History, Important Dates in the Development of the Church in Britain, visitor facility chart, visitor information and extensive ecclesiological glossary.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. With the errata slip mounted on title. The catalogue describes over 660 items with full index.
This is a very good copy in red cloth, endpapers soiled, otherwise generally clean inside and out. Superb survey by one of the best writers on this subject, well illustrated with 135 black and white plates + 4 color plates, also 7 drawings in the text. Bibliography. 10" high X 7" wide, 93 page text + plate section. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
"Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood.and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap "Macaroni.". 417p. bibliography.index. (tiny damged bit on rear cover) Book
"With dazzling wit and astonishing insight . Bryson brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, re silience and sheer fun of the English language . the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries" 270p. bibliography.index Book
This is a very good hardcover copy in printed paper-covered boards with light soil and wear to the covers. Very clean inside. Margaret Burton was long associated with different porcelain studios in Chelsea, England. Illustrated with 6 black & white tipped-in plates. 7.5" high X 5.5" wide, about 15 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
".designed to offer a substantial introduction to the prose of nine major writers of the 17th. century" it includes selections from Francis Bacon, Robert parsons, Lancelot Andrewes, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes, Sir Thomas Browne , Jeremy Taylor. 514p. Bibliography. Clean tight text. Book
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. The jacket is virtually complete, but a few small chips out of the bottom edge and an abraded area at the bottom of the jacket spine. (The previous owner had taped an number to the spine. Not ex-library.) Very clean inside, no marks anywhere. 64 black & white photographic plates + 31 line drawings in the text. Bibliography. 10" high X 6 1/2" wide, 248 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
A guide and appreciation of English poets in the 1930's. Includes : Cecil Day Lewis, W.H.Auden, Stephen Spender, Louis Macneice, Geoffrey Grigson, Frederic Prokosch, Kenneth Allott, Dylan Thomas, George Barker, Julian Symons, Henry Treece and others. 208p, plates. Neat tight copy, overall very good, but some underlinings. DJ protected by old lamination Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 142 pages. Text in French and English. Slightly soiled white cover.