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A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 256 pages. Yellowing paper. Clarence, 9th Earl of Emsworth, is preoccupied with his prizewinning pig, the Empress of Blandings, and the upcoming Agricultural show, while the news that his brother, Galahad Threepwood is writing his memoirs, has many aging aristrocrats worried.
Nelson. 1964. In-8 Carré. Relié. Etat d'usage. Couv. convenable. Dos frotté. Intérieur bon état. 394 pages. Illustré de nombreux dessins edans et hors texte. Texte sur 2 colonnes. Revêtement plastifié des plats se détachant. Traces de scotch en pages de garde. Annotation en page de garde. Prefixes and suffixes. Countries, their people, language, capital, and money. Foreign words and phrases. Abbreviations. The Dictionary.
Nelson. 1964. In-8 Carré. Relié. Etat d'usage. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur acceptable. 394 pages. Texte sur 2 colonnes. Traces de scotch en pages de garde. F.R. Witty, M.Ed.B.Sc.
[xiv],316pp., facsimiles, orig. cloth-backed boards, spine a little frayed, uncut.
Numerous facsimiles, xvi, 268pp., orig. cloth, d.w.
11 Vols., large 8vo, frontispiece or portrait in each volume, plates and facsimiles throughout, with the British Museum shelf number against each item in their possession, (all but about 240 items), orig. cloth, a couple of spines lightly spotted. "The catalogue of the Ashley Library, which was acquired by the British Museum, is a useful reference work, especially in English nineteenth-century first editions, which are represented in unrivalled completeness. The late seventeenth and eighteenth-century collections are also very full".?Breslauer and Folter, 151. "... the most remarkable collection of rare books and manuscripts in modern English literature put together by a single collector in Great Britain in the hundred years before 1850 and 1950".?Simon Nowell Smith (introduction).
Early English Text Society No. 299; 160 pages; This book is the first separate critical edition of the Middle English Physiologus from its sole surviving manuscript, with apparatus, commentary, glossary, and introduction.
507 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
Very Good English Original b/w press photograph. 25 x 18 cm. It shows Mr. Churchill, accompanied by the Turkish Prime Minister Sükrü Saraçoglu, inspecting the Guard of Honor, before leaving Adana aerodrome. The two-day conference between Mr. Churchill and British Chiefs of Staff and the Turkish President and Premier and Chiefs of Staff on a special train in Adana, just over the border from Syria. The Prime Minister flew to Adana from Cairo immediately after the Casablanca discussion. Rare.
Very Good English Original b/w press photograph. 25 x 18 cm. It shows Mr. Churchill, President Ismet Inönü and Marshall Fevzi Çakmak, saying goodbye during his visit Turkey near the Adana aerodrome. The two day conference between Mr. Churchill and the British Chiefs of Staff and the Turkish President and Premier and Chiefs of Staff on a special train in Adana, just over the border from Syria. The Prime Minister flew to Adana from Cairo immediately after the Casablanca discussion. Rare.
Book shows light shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 404 pages. Contents include: English customs, On being merry, A world-betterer, Theatre, Books, War, Foreigners, Imprisonment, Extermination, Growing old, etc.
First Edition, engraved portrait, title in red and black, 11pp. list of subscribers, K4 (pp. 151-152) is a cancel, a little light staining on lower margins in a few places, xiv, [12], 320 pp., contemporary calf, hinges cracked, lacks label, a good copy. 'Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, D.S.P.D.' appears in the list of subscribers. 'Essentially a miscellany....; Winstanley's poems are not distinguished from the rest.' - Foxon. Rothschild, 2587; Case, 437; Foxon, pp.902-3.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and plates, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, upper hinge tender (but binding wholly sound), a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper.
A new edition, corrected and much enlarged, 12mo (170 x 105 mm), 183, [5]pp., orig. cloth-backed boards.
Paperback, original wrappers, 17x25cm, 218pp. A diachronic approach. Proefschrift. Orbis supplementa: Perspectives on English.
242p. Hardcover Very good condition good
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome reproductions throughout; olive cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
428 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
A beautifully-produced facsimile, interleaved throughout, of the only known copy of the only early edition of this anonymous play, generally attributed to Robert Wilson. An association copy, with the ownership signature of musicologist and music critic Harold Schonberg and ("Harold C. Schonberg / Nov. 9, 1943 / Cambridge, England") on a preliminary blank. Also with Schonberg blindstamp, and additionally signed by him on the half-title. 4to. Publisher's cloth. Cloth lightly worn and somewhat soiled. Paper spine label darkened and somewhat abraded. Internally clean. Very scarce.
Volume I of four. A series of imaginary colloquies usually set in Ambrose's Tavern in Edinburgh. First appeared in Blackwoods Magazine. The central characters are "Christopher North" (John Wilson) and "Timothy Tickler" based on Robert Sym. With plate of John Wilson. xxviii,384 pages. General wear to leather cover extremities, surface of boards rubbed.
A series of imaginary colloquies usually set in Ambrose's Tavern in Edinburgh. First appeared in Blackwoods Magazine. The central characters are "Christopher North" (John Wilson) and "Timothy Tickler" based on Robert Sym. With plate of John Wilson. xiv,428 pages. General wear to leather cover extremities, surface of boards rubbed.
London, Clare Double& S. Bevan, 2003. Numerosas ilustraciones en color. 63p. 8ºmayor. Apaisado. Tela editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Muy buen ejemplar. Book in English. Libro en inglés. Primera edición. 1ª edición. First edition. 1st edition.
Edited with a bibliography by G. K. Hunter . 8vo. pp. 244. . Molto buono (Very Good). . . .
Traduzione di Franca Cancogni . 8vo. pp. 312. . Molto buono (Very Good). Manca la sovracoperta (No DJ). Prima edizione italiana (First Italian Edition). .
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
