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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.
103 pages. Former owner's information upon half-title page. English Canada's reply to the so-called 'French Fact." Imagine the English Canadians finally having their say about Quebec! There's a chuckle on every page - more than one on many occasions - to help make some of the uglier facts more palatable. A perffect blend of humour and history, of laughter and of shock. Perhaps the first real attempt by English Canadians to say a strong 'phooey' to all the French unrest in Quebec. Accomplished with sophistication and wit... agree with it or not... you'll be entertained greatly and probably slightly educated at the same time. Book
259 pages including index. "In a complex world which many face with feelings of ambiguous and divided loyalties, the role of secrecy and intrique in fantasy has grown progressively more significant. This work shows how some writers, by understanding and exploiting the public's need for such fantasies, have created successful novels - and, sometimes, major works of art." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book
pp. lxvi, 420. Illustrated with 140 wonderful descriptive woodcut vignettes. Text foxed. Engraved bookplate on front endpaper. Engraved and manuscript gift label presentation on front paste down "presented by the Council of King's College, London to George W.H. Fletcher as a prize for Divinity Dept. of General Literature & Science 29th June, 1852". 220mm. Original full leather binding. Boards detached. Front board decorated with the King's College coat of arms embossed in gold. Gilt decorated spine with homemade spine label. Could be fairly easily repaired. Hardbound. Good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SPORTS/ GAMES BX 5
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 323 pages. 4 3/4"w x 7 1/8"h. Orange cloth boards. Tears and edge wear to worn dust jacket.
Pages 237-276. Topics include: Remembrance Day in London; Fox Hunting; Moscow Anniversary; Terror in Cyprus; The Unification of Western Europe; Hong Kong Development; South of Nasser; African Women Demonstrate; Coronation of the Pope; Guided Missiles in East Anglia; Return of Bulwark; Ambitious Projects; Vespa Scooters; Oil Driling; Unmarked. Average wear with two inch opening at top of cover crease. Binding intact. Book
Full leather binding. 5 raised bands with red leather spine label. Corners and spine ends edgeworn. Gilt ruled boards. Former owner's name in faded ink to titlepage. Dampstaining to a few pages. Browning and foxing to endpapers. ; 303 pp + [9] pp ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall
287p. Hardcover Good condition, spine ends & corners worn, hinges cracked
Preface by John Galsworthy . 16mo. pp. 800. . Molto buono (Very Good). Senza sovracoperta (Without Dust jacket). . .
xiii, 385 p. ports. 25 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
23.5x16.5 cm. 338 pages. Gilt hardcover. Spine upper edge slightly bumped. Pen writing on front inner cover. Else in good condition.
Paris, A. and W. Galignani and C., 1845, in-8, legatura coeva in mezza pelle verde, titolo e filetti in oro al dorso (spellature), pp. VIII, 357. Asportati in margini bianchi superiori dell'occhietto e del frontespizio. Stesso anno della prima edizione di Londra.
pp. (125), (3). 8 vo. Title printed in red, blue and black. Drawings inserted and in text, including a reproduction of two pages of the manuscript. Illustrated with circus and clown drawings by Klee, Picasso, Chagall, Rouault, Toulouse-Lautrec, de Segonz. Attractive binding - blue and tan boards, backed in gilt lettered cloth. Red and white striped end papers. Original dust jacket in orange, yellow and blue; price partially clipped. Designed by Merle Armitage; printed under the supervision of M. A. Johnson. Though the dust jacket is somewhat soiled and torn, it is still attractive. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W41
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; red cloth, ackstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A standard reference
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, and 189 monochrome plates; pale blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. This standard reference is elusive in this condition.
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.
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 112 pages; (HOLO2-18-49)
pp.xxvii, 198 (1) + Twelve plates by Gordon Ross, hand colored by Charlize Brakeley. Designed by Richard W. Ellis; printed at Aldus Printers; set in Monotype Calson Old Face; on Liampre French Paper. Bound by Russell-Rutter Co. in full floral printed chintz. Heavy slipcase. Number 769 of an edition limited to only 1500 copies, signed by the artist. A fine example of this wonderfully entertaining English classic. It would make a great gift. W35
pp. xxviii, 198 + Plus frontis and full page color illustrations by Gordon Ross. Title page decorated with an oval color portrait of Joseph Addison. Top edge brown. Bookplate of the Union League of Philadelphia and presented to the Union League by Grahame T. Smallwood, Jr. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, gold lettered. Hardbound. Nice copy. A beautifully printed and affordable version of the original Limited Editions Club publication. THESE HERITAGE PRESS BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS. W84
208 pages. Designed to be a first course in Signed English for home or class study." - from Preface. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality working copy. Book
Very light creasing/edgewear along top edge of DJ else Fine. ; Early English Text Society No. 320; 324 pages; The historical romance of The Siege of Jerusalem was the most widely dispersed and popular Middle English alliterative poem in the medieval period apart from Piers Plowman. It was previously edited for the Society by Eugen Kölbing and Mabel Day (O. S. 188 (1932). This new edition offers a critical text based upon all the surviving manuscripts, some unavailable to Kölbing and Day. All extant manuscripts are fully described, and the editors discuss the sources and authorship, as well as the editorial methods best suited for presenting this text, which survives in many copies.
RARE FIRST EDITON of a famous book from the silver age of English Catholic controversial writing, written by the renowned English Roman Catholic priest and writer Robert Manning (1655-1731). 175x115mm. 342 pages [+14]. Hardcover rebound with cloth spine and original brown leather boards. Cover worn and scratched. Cover edges and corners bumped and peeling. Title page party taped, edges tattered. First two pages of the preface taped near binding - NO damage to text. Few page corners worn - NO damage to text. Pages browning, age-stained and wavy. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book is otherwise in good condition.
Sm. folio, Third Impression, with a coloured frontispiece and very numerous monochrome photographs throughout; cloth gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at head and tail of backstrip. Good, sound copy of the third impression of this standard reference first issued in 1964.
New York, 1958. Numerosas ilustraciones en b/n. 511 p. 4º mayor. Rústica editorial il·lustrada. Resto doblez. Buen ejemplar. Libro en inglés. Book in English.
56 leaves. Paper browned and very brittle. Top edge gilt. Though once ribon tied into boards, this is now disbound and fragile. This is likely part of the edition of only five hundred and twenty copies printed for England and America combined. This example apparently lacks the preliminaries, including the introduction. Still, it is interesting as an illustration of the look of early English printing. SW5 Lower Left
