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Octavo in red boards in brown and orange illus. DJ (orange spine) ; 294 p ; 24 cm. In Catalan. || Fiction.
51 pages. Companion volume to "Selections From Dr. Low's Works, Volume I (1950-1951)". Includes articles from the 1952 and 1953 issues of the periodical "Recovery News." Significant quantity of pencil underlining. Average wear. Binding solid. Maroon boards with attractive gilt lettering thereon. Book
62 pages. Author published "Mental Health Through Will Training". Subsequently, many articles written by Dr. Low appeared in a periodical called Recovery News. This volume contains those articles published in 1950 and 1951. Significant quantity of pencil underlining, else unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Maroon boards with gilt lettering. Solid copy. Book
152 pages. eng
Hardback book with white cloth spine in purple slipcase. Signed by Alice Munro on front free endpaper. Alice Munro is the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, she is also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction.
About The Book : A Volume of Selected English Short Stories (nine-teenth century) was first published in 1914, This is a second volume selected on the same principles and from almost the same period. The Sailor Uncle by Mary ann Lamb, 1764-1847; First Going to Church – by Charles Lamb, 1775-1834; The Maypole of Merry Mount, The Grey Champion, Roger Malvin’s Burial, Old Esther Dudley-Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864; The Purloined Letter, The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849; The Holly Tree - Charles Dickens, 1812-1870; A Terribly Strange Bed - William Wilkie Collins, 1824-1889; ‘The Sweetness of a Man’s Friend’ (By kind permission of Mrs . White) - by William Hale White (‘ Mark Ruther- Ford ’), 1831-1913; Ananda the Miracle Worker (By hind permission of Mr, John Lane) by Richard Garnett, 1835-1906; The Outcasts of Poker Flat, How Santa Claus came to Simpson’s Bar. by Francis Bret Harte, 1839-1902; Peppiniello (By kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co.) by Charles Grant, 1841-1889; Horseman in the Sky. by Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1913 ; Owen Wingrave (By kind permission of Messrs. Harper Bros.), Four Meetings. (By kind permission of Mr . J. B. Pinker) by Henry James, 1843-1916; The Sire de Maletroit’s Door. (By kind permission of Messrs. Chatto & Windus) by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894; The Birthday of the Infanta (By kind permission of Messrs. Methuen & Co.) by Oscar Wilde, 1856-1900; A Poor Gentleman. (By kind permission of Mr. J. B. Pinker) by George Gissing, 1857-1903; The House of Eulalie. (By kind permission of Mr. John Lane) by Henry Harland, 1861-1905; The Gift of the Magi., A Municipal Report., Madame Bo-Peep, of the Ranches. by William Sydney Porter (‘0. Henry ’ )1867-1910; The Gap in the Wall., A Witch in the Peak (By kind -permission of Mrs. Gilchrist) by R. Murray Gilchrist, 1867-1917; The Stowaway. (By kind permission of Messrs. Grant Richards, Ltd.) by Gerald Warre Cornish, 1875-1916. About The Author : Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford (1877 – 1952) was an English publisher and editor who from 1913 to 1945 was publisher to the University of Oxford and head of the London operations of Oxford University Press (OUP). In this work, he made OUP a major worldwide publisher of noteworthy books, music, and educational material for the general public, complementing the scholarly work of the Clarendon Press in Oxford. Milford himself edited volumes of works of Robert Browning, William Cowper, and Leigh Hunt; and was principal editor of The Oxford Book of Regency Verse (later The Oxford Book of Romantic Verse) and a moving force behind the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Upon publication of the final volume of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1928, he was among those awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the University. He was knighted in 1936.The Times of London cited his “unfailing catholicity”, “nose for a good book”, and “rare sense of the practicable”. The Title 'Selected English short stories, XIX & XX centuries written/authored/edited by Humphrey Milford', published in the year 2023. The ISBN 9788121268639 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 491 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Short Stories. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-
About The Book : A Volume of Selected English Short Stories (nine-teenth century) was first published in 1914, This is a second volume selected on the same principles and from almost the same period. The Sailor Uncle by Mary ann Lamb, 1764-1847; First Going to Church – by Charles Lamb, 1775-1834; The Maypole of Merry Mount, The Grey Champion, Roger Malvin’s Burial, Old Esther Dudley-Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864; The Purloined Letter, The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849; The Holly Tree - Charles Dickens, 1812-1870; A Terribly Strange Bed - William Wilkie Collins, 1824-1889; ‘The Sweetness of a Man’s Friend’ (By kind permission of Mrs . White) - by William Hale White (‘ Mark Ruther- Ford ’), 1831-1913; Ananda the Miracle Worker (By hind permission of Mr, John Lane) by Richard Garnett, 1835-1906; The Outcasts of Poker Flat, How Santa Claus came to Simpson’s Bar. by Francis Bret Harte, 1839-1902; Peppiniello (By kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co.) by Charles Grant, 1841-1889; Horseman in the Sky. by Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1913 ; Owen Wingrave (By kind permission of Messrs. Harper Bros.), Four Meetings. (By kind permission of Mr . J. B. Pinker) by Henry James, 1843-1916; The Sire de Maletroit’s Door. (By kind permission of Messrs. Chatto & Windus) by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894; The Birthday of the Infanta (By kind permission of Messrs. Methuen & Co.) by Oscar Wilde, 1856-1900; A Poor Gentleman. (By kind permission of Mr. J. B. Pinker) by George Gissing, 1857-1903; The House of Eulalie. (By kind permission of Mr. John Lane) by Henry Harland, 1861-1905; The Gift of the Magi., A Municipal Report., Madame Bo-Peep, of the Ranches. by William Sydney Porter (‘0. Henry ’ )1867-1910; The Gap in the Wall., A Witch in the Peak (By kind -permission of Mrs. Gilchrist) by R. Murray Gilchrist, 1867-1917; The Stowaway. (By kind permission of Messrs. Grant Richards, Ltd.) by Gerald Warre Cornish, 1875-1916. About The Author : Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford (1877 – 1952) was an English publisher and editor who from 1913 to 1945 was publisher to the University of Oxford and head of the London operations of Oxford University Press (OUP). In this work, he made OUP a major worldwide publisher of noteworthy books, music, and educational material for the general public, complementing the scholarly work of the Clarendon Press in Oxford. Milford himself edited volumes of works of Robert Browning, William Cowper, and Leigh Hunt; and was principal editor of The Oxford Book of Regency Verse (later The Oxford Book of Romantic Verse) and a moving force behind the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Upon publication of the final volume of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1928, he was among those awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the University. He was knighted in 1936.The Times of London cited his “unfailing catholicity”, “nose for a good book”, and “rare sense of the practicable”. The Title 'Selected English short stories, XIX & XX centuries written/authored/edited by Humphrey Milford', published in the year 2023. The ISBN 9788121268677 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 491 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Short Stories. Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-
xxv, 468 pages, some fading to blue cloth covers, previous owner name on inside front cover, front endpaper clipped at top, (World's Classics ; 193). eng
Non précisé. 2005. In-4 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. Env. 25 pages. Illustré de dessins en noir et blanc. Ouvrage à spirales en plastique. Par des élèves du Collège. Le jour du départ. On s'en souviendra. Le pique-nique...
Barcelona, Martínez y Cía., s.a. (hacia 1890), 22,5 x 15,5 cm., hol. piel con pérdida de la piel en la mitad inferior de los lomos, 1,180 págs. + 7 láminas en colores = 1.172 pág. + 7 láminas en colores.
White duodecimo; 315 p ; 18 cm. Fiction; Sexual.
8vo., Sixteenth Edition, free endpapers lightly browned; original terracotta pictorial cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in black, backstrip blockad in black and lettered in gilt, a very good, clean copy. First published in 1898. With a personal bookplate on front paste-down and 32pp publisher's catalogue (dated February 1910) bound in at end. Collects fifteen of the author's inimitable short stories. Nice copy of an early printing.
Features: California's first canoe; Black coral off Cozumel; Coral Crab Showdown; Past and Present merge in the storied Strait of Messina; buried alive!; Of men and waters - the Mariner's Museum at Newport News; Thieving Dolphins a growing problem in Hawaii's fisheries; Ferdinand Magellan - the greatest voyager of then all; The mating game. Sound copy. Book
Features: Ships in the News - "Kungsholm" for British Flag; Farewell to the "St. Rognvald"; Liner "Pembroke Castle" of 1883; Ferry Scene - "Aquamart's" Uncertain Future; South American Sail Survey; Tug to Table Bay - Part II; New Medway Steam Packet's 140 Years; New Ships - North Sea Success. Book
Features: Ships in the News - Lost in the Atlantic; Long Shadows in Coastal Sail; Steamers of the Past - Blue Funnel Liner "Aeneas" of 1910; New Ships - Containers to the Mediterranean; Towage News - Thames Tug Modifications; Ferry Scene - Farewell "Normannia"; Hovertravel - will travel; Booth Line's Rise and Progress - Part II. Book
Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva, 1929, 19,5 x 13,5 cm., rustica editorial con la cubierta anterior desprendida, retrato + 315págs. + 3 hojas.
Features: Behind the scenes of news gathering - a co-operative, non-profit organization aids in disseminating accurately the news of the world (the Associated Press); Editorials - cause or effect of war? - fundamentals of education - "Rolling down to Rio" by airplane - drug control; More hard luck for the ether - a funal blow is dealt to the ether theory by experiments performed with a highly refined interferometer; Tungsten bows to the plating bath - this important metal can now be deposited electrolytically; The sun an atom builder - a new theory - an attempt to explain where the sun gets the energy which it radiates; Wings over three Americas - safety and comfort for passengers are the aims of international airways; Science lends a hand to the Red Cross; New paints from synthetic resins; Are swimming pools a health menace?; Some important exhibitions in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; A solar observatory for the amateur - how to build simple equipment for solare research work; Cotton stalks - a new source of rayon; Celluloid taxidermy; Taming Silicosis; Combating magnetism in watches - Elinvar makes possible non-magnetic watch parts; When a sunbeam splits - an elementary principle of physics and an unusual analogy; The private car, yacht of the rails - the utmost in luxury that can be built within the limitiations of a railroad car. Two creases to front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1st edition. VG pbk. Inscription on the front endpaper. Includes an article on the phenomena of supersonic flight. 12146. eng
1st edition. VG pbk. Page edges browning. Includes an article on ballooning for research. 12145. eng
1st edition. VG pbk. Page edges browning. Inscription on the front cover. Includes an article on the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1949-52. 12144. eng
1st edition. Good pbk. Front cover creased.12017. eng
Madrid, Imprenta de la Compañía Bibliográfica, 1843, 12,5 x 9 cm., cubiertas en papel de época, 135 págs. (Temprana traducción de la novela del Conde de Gobineau mas conocido por su "Ensayo sobre la desigualdad de las razas humanas" sobre la supremacía de la raza aria).
Buenos Aires, Guillermo Kraft, 1955, 20 x 13'5 cm., 281 págs. - 2 h.
M., "La Nave", s.a., 22 x 15'5 cm., tela original, retrato - 318 págs.
Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1934, 21,5 x 14,5 cm., rústica editorial decorada, 269 págs.+ 1 hoja. (Primera edición castellana).