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Pages lightly tanned. Spine creased. ; Penguin Classics; 7.6 X 5.0 X 1.1 inches; 384 pages
Minor shelfwear. ; Penguin Classics; 7.6 X 5.0 X 1.1 inches; 384 pages
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Original terracotta boards. Endpapers browned. ; Greek Text with Latin apparatus and introduction. ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis) ; Vol. 1; 170 pages
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece, a plate and 5 facsimiles in the text, free endpapers browned; original series binding of decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright copy. Sold from an institution with its cancelled bookplates on front paste-down. Oxford Historical Society, vol. XLV. Cordeaux & Merry 5035.
112 pages. Features: Nice 1/2 page color Fatima cigarette ad; 1-page color Hudson car ad - circus scene; 1-page color Maxwell House coffee ad features illustration of band practicing in the living room; Nice 1-page color ad for Zenith radios; 1-page color ad for Kelly Springfield tires features lady swimmer; RPM Delo ad features nice color photo of excavation scene in rugged territory; Renegade Canyon (fiction); The Man Who Hunts Old Bones - photo-illustrated article about Dr. Edwin Harris Colbert, curator of the American Museum of Natural History; Schoolgirl in Pursuit (fiction); G.I. Jim's In Love with Paris - color-photo illustrated article about the 1,300 American veterans studying and living under the G.I. Bill of Rights in Paris; Night of Trial (fiction); Senator Paul Douglas - Hard-boiled idealist - article with photo; We Bucked the Ice Pack - aboard the U.S.S. Edisto icebreaker as it ventured to previously unexplored waters - article witih photos; New help for that headache - combining medicine with psychiatry; Get That Rig Through (fiction); Tales of the Talking Taxis - photo-illustrated article explains how two-way radios are improving life for taxi drivers; Botts and the Brink of Disaster (fiction); Is Japanese Youth Going Communist? - photo-illustrated article; 1-page color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes features tobacco man Dan Currin of Oxford, NC; Nightmare in Manhattan (fiction); 1-page color ad for Oldsmobile cars featuring the new 'Holiday' coupe; 1-page color ad for De Soto cars features the new 'Carry-All' sedan; Nice 1-page color-photo ad for Old Gold cigarettes features blind-folded woman smoker; 1-page color-photo ad for Ford Trucks features photos Howard Johnson of hotel chain fame; Nice color-photo Kodak ad with rugged scenery in background; 1-page Chevrolet ad features the Styeline De Luxe 4-Door Sedan; Nice centerfold color ad for Mobilgas; 1-page color ad for RCA Victor televisions features Photographer Margaret Bourke-White; 2-page color ad for General Motors (GM) shows their range of products; Nice half-page color-photo ad for Florida orange juice; 1-page ad for Northwestern Mutual features photo portrait of Walter Geist, President, Allis-Chalmers; Nice 1-page color ad for TWA shows happy children in flight; 1/2 page color ad for Meadow gold ice cream; 1-page color Gulfpride motor oil ad shows new car by lighthouse; Nostalgic half-page 2-color ad for Elmer's of New Orleans features their Mint Bublets and Chee-Wees; Nice 1/2 page color ad for Beech-Nut gum; Sunkist oranges ad on back cover. One-inch opening to fore-edge of back cover otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
8vo., with a frontispiece and very numerous illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
London, Longmans, Green, 1951, in-8, br., pp. 45. Con 32 tavv. in b.n. ed una cartina.
208 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Guerrilla fighter, undercover agent, diplomat, Director of Chatham House, chief editor of of Penguin Books, MP for Oxford, industrialist and author, Mr. Woodhouse ventured much.... he spent the war years with the Greek Resistance and describes the hazards of working with rival guerilla groups as well as the rigours of partisan warfare in the mountains... A witty, stylish and above all thought-provoking account of a colorful and distinguished career." - dust jacket. Light wear to clean and unmarked book. Prior owner's blindstamp upon front free endpaper. Binding tight. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A nice bright copy. Book
5 vols., 8vo., with 5 frontispieces, 22 plates and large folding map, tops lightly dust-doiled; black cloth, gilt backs, dustwrapper of first volume laminated to boards else a very good, bright, clean working set in unclipped dustwrapper. SOLD FROM AN INSTITUTION WITH ITS STAMP AND LABEL ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPERS. Woodforde's account includes Oxford and the Somerset Curacies 1758-1776 and thereafter his residence in the Norfolk village of Weston Longeville. The set comprises Vol. I: 1758-1781; Vol. II: 1782-87; Vol. III: 1788-92; Vol. IV: 1793-1796; Vol. V: 1797-1802. Beresford's definitive edition was first published in five volumes between 1924 and 1931. This is the first complete re-issue. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE. Cordeaux & Merry 158; Darroch & Taylor 3369; Pargellis & Medley 671.
5 vols., 8vo., with 5 frontispieces, 22 plates and a large folding map; navy cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Woodforde's account includes Oxford and the Somerset Curacies 1758-1776 and thereafter his residence in the Norfolk village of Weston Longeville. The set comprises Vol. I: 1758-1781; Vol. II: 1782-87; Vol. III: 1788-92; Vol. IV: 1793-1796; Vol. V: 1797-1802. Beresford's definitive edition was first published in five volumes between 1924 and 1931. Much-needed reissue of the first reprint of 1968. Cordeaux & Merry 158; Darroch & Taylor 3369; Pargellis & Medley 671.
3 vols., [of 5], 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with frontispieces and plates; original black cloth, backstrips with printed paper labels, backstrips worn and split, labels worn (but just legible), uncut, a good, sound working collection of the first three volumes. Sold from an institution with its bookplate and press-marks on endpapers, and small blind stamp on titles. Woodforde's account includes Oxford and the Somerset Curacies 1758-1776 and thereafter his residence in the Norfolk village of Weston Longeville. The first three volumes comprise Vol. I: 1758-1781 (second impression, 1924); Vol. II: 1782-87 (first edition, 1926); Vol. III: 1788-92 (first edition, 1927). Beresford's definitive edition was first published in five volumes between 1924 and 1931. See Cordeaux & Merry 158; Darroch & Taylor 3369; Pargellis & Medley 671.
242p. Hardcover Very good condition good
in-8°, 300 pages, broche, couverture illustree plast. Bel exemplaire. [MI-15][NAN-1] L’histoire vraie de l’une des plus étonnantes épopées intellectuelles du XIXe siècle : l’élaboration de l’Oxford English Dictionary.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 12 pages of coloured and monochrome plates; decorative buckram, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Elegant new edition of the astonishing story of William chester Minor, American Civil War surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum, who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language. His considerable (and anonymous) contributions to the making of the OED resulted in his being unmasked by the Dictionary's editor James Murray.
8vo., First Edition, with 58 plates (a number double-page), and front and ear endpaper maps; original green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped at headband. With a personal pictorial bookplate on front free endpaper verso. Scarce in this condition.
8vo., First Edition, with 58 plates (a number double-page), and front and ear endpaper maps; original green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy.
Creasing and tears to spine. Fraying to spine ends. Scholar's name to ffep (Alan E. Samuel) and additional name (Edward Fitch). Front inner hinge weakening. Light ink marginalia on a few pages. ; Greek Text with Latin apparatus and introduction. ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis); 170 pages
Book shows very light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have lightly bumped corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Dust jacket shows light wear no tears, price clipped. Published in Colaboration with the Gibert White Museum. This is the redesigned and illustrated edition with additional material of the first publication in 1789. 256 pages with large color prints throughout.
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, gilt back, upper board lettered in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gfit or for presentation. Published to accompany the exhibition held at RIBA's Heinz Gallery and the Ashmolean Museum. SCARCE.
8vo., on laid paper, endpapers lightly marked; buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
Mm 140x225 Two volumes in one, with portrait. Volume cartonato, legatura editoriale in tela blu, titoli in oro al dorso, 573 pagine. Testo in inglese - english text. Copia molto buona. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
Sm. 8vo., Third Edition, with plates, and maps and plans (a number folding), small annotations on front free endpaper; original series binding of red cloth, covers and backstrip printed in black, radial corners, covers sunned else a bright, clean copy. With front and rear endpaper trade advertisements. Tipped-in is the publisher's printed disclaimer slip 'owing to the Control of Maps Order we have removed from this Guide all maps and plans likely to be useful to the enemy'. The COM Order 1940 banned commercial publication of maps and plans on a scale greater than one inch to one mile and therefore of likely use to the enemy. In this edition the omissions include the plan of Oxford City normally placed as frontispiece.
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. Very tiny crease to lower corner of cover, no other creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 96pp Apparitions, manifestations and related supernatural phenomena of Oxford.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 32pp. History, architecture and fittings of the City Church in Oxford.
Light edgewear to corners of wraps. ; Oxford World's Classics; 7.7 X 5.0 X 1.3 inches; 480 pages