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242p. Hardcover Very good condition good
Rebound in attractive red leather boards with marbled boards. Gilt lettering and tooling to spine. 5 raised bands to spine. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Very attractive. A bit of chipping along edges of boards. ; Xxviii, 406 pp. English only. No date. Early 1900s? ; Philobiblion Edition; 406 pages
Small abrasion to front wrap. Light edgewear. Pages tanned. Creasing to spine. Former owner's bookplate on inner cover. Else VG. ; 7.1 X 3.7 X 0.9 inches; 320 pages
4to, pages not numbered, colour illustrations, plus a map. eng
1st edition. Fine pamphlet. Photographs by Chris Andrews.8257. eng
Book is in excellent condition, as new.. 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. 367 pages with b&w illustrations and maps throughout. Chapters include: Above Oxford, Oxford to Abingdon, Abingdon to Streatley, Streatley to Henley, Henley to Maindenhead, Maidenhead to Windson, Windsor to Hampton Court, Hampton Court to Richmond, Richmond to Battersea, Battersea to London Bridge, London Bridge to Gravesend, Gravesend to the Nore.
Minor Shelfwear; Penguin Classics; 7.5 X 5.0 X 0.4 inches; 128 pages
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
First edition, folio, imprimatur leaf before title, [4], 36 pp., uncut in modern wrappers, spine label. Goldsmiths'-Kress, 5401.
xxxiv + 406pp., 24cm., previous owner's name on first page, hardcover (cloth), VG, ISBN 0-521-35419-6, [English translation]
1 Vol. In-4 t. editoriale, sovracopt. ill. Ex-libris pag. (6) 33 tavv. a p. pag e 2 foto d'epoca f.t PROG 41641 CATT_ATT 55
Splendid black and white photographs of Oxford taken in the days when you could park your car there. 33 plates in total. Spine rather frayed, with a little loss in parts.
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.
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.
Book in mint unread condition. 51pp. Concise histories about a number of tram networks based on towns and cities including Cheltenham, Gloucester, Luton, Oxford, Northampton, Reading, Swindon and Worcester. Well illustrated with maps.
[Arte Oxford Ashmolean Museum](cm. 29) Cartonato editoriale, sovracoperta, sguardie figurate. -pp. 144 n.t. varie immagini in nero e una tavola più volte ripiegata con immagini a colori. Il volume presenta le collezioni dell Ashmolean Museum.Testo in inglese. Minime tracce del tempo e della giacenza in archivio, peraltro buon volume. [n41] Libro
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 4 plates, fore-edges lightly dust-soiled; original green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, moderately browned dustwrapper. Includes I. Juvenilia 1790-3 (Volume the First, Volume the Second, Volume the Third), II. Lady Susan, III. Fragments of Novels, IV. Plan of a Novel, V. Opinions of Mansfield Park and Emma, VI. Verses, VII. Prayers. It was originally intended to issue 'Minor Works' first as a limited edition on Large Paper to range with the 1923 editions of the novels, but the scheme was abandoned making this the work's first appearance. Increasingly elusive, especially in this condition. Gilson F15.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 64pp. Embroidery magazine with features on Japan indigo patterns, Margi Hennen dolls, Lord Middleton collection, Pakistan to England cloth and stitch, creative screen printing, Sian Martin, Oxford Community Embroidery, lightweight felts, stitchers on the internet, Bowes Mueum, amber into gold, changing times and embroidery sales, events, books and exhibitions.
Endpapers browned. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover and name to ffep (G. P. Goold). ; Latin Text with Latin Apparatus. ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis)
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, free endpapers lightly browned; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and lettered in black, gilt back, blue top, a bright, clean copy With series catalogue on title verso.
Browning and foxing to endpapers. Very light shelfwear. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Latin Text with Latin Apparatus ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis) Oxoniensis; Vol. 1
Former owner's name stamped to ffep and titlepage (J. D. Fitton). Spine a bit faded. Front inner hinge cracked. Very faint dampstain to front board. ; Latin Text with Latin Apparatus ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis) Oxoniensis; Vol. 1
Former owner's name stamped to ffeps (J. D. Fitton). Upper corners lightly bumped. Endpapers have tape stains. Faint waterstaining to rear board; Latin Text with Latin Apparatus ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis) Oxoniensis; Vol. 5; 356 pages; This is the sixth volume in the Oxford Classical Texts series of Livy and contains a Latin text (without translation), together with full apparatus criticus and Latin introduction, of Books 36-40. It covers the period from 192 to 179 B.C. during which Rome gained control of Greeks and Asia, and struggled for dominance of northern Italy and Spain. Livy also depicts this period as the beginning of Roman moral decline.
Former owner's name stamped to ffep and titlepage (J. D. Fitton). Minor shelfwear. 1 corner bumped. Endpapers have tape stains. Faint waterstaining to base of textblock. ; Latin Text with Latin Apparatus ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis) Oxoniensis; Vol. 4
". in which the Provost of Worcester College shows the [fictional] Fellows of St. Thomas's College engaged in the fascinating and difficult task of preparing a peculiar guide book, which, as they fondly hope, will enable them, without discredit to themselves, to interpret Oxford to their American Guests" Stories enhanced by an illustrated endpaper,photographic plates and academic endnotes. Clean tight copy, name of previous owner on ffep Book