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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 4th Printing. 4th printing (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1140). Includes publisher's slipcase. Fine book in near fine slipcase. Slipcase faintly scuffed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. 288 pp. A collection of humorous vignettes by various authors, with contributions by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Winston S. Churchill, the Queen of England, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, etc., etc. Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge. The best speakers are natural story-tellers - Gerard Hoffnung, reading a selection of letters from continental hoteliers: 'There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects'; John Mortimer telling the woeful tale of a man's numerous unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife: 'At no time did Mrs Scott feel that the magic had gone out of their marriage' - and in this collection of post-prandial treasures you will find the very best of them, from Groucho Marx on how to resist a femme fatale, to Ralph Steadman surreally addressing the Lewis Carroll Centenary Dinner. 'Goodness', said a friend on greeting Mae West, 'where did you get those beautiful pearls?' 'Goodness', replied Mae, 'had nothing to do with it.' Shaggy dog stories, practical jokes, sporting anecdotes, rousing toasts, travellers' tales and risque reminiscences rub shoulders in this essential collection with real-life revelations and moments of history. Among the guests are Peter Ustinov, Jilly Cooper, Brian Johnstone, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Robertson Davies, Henry Grady and A.P. Herbert. There is food and drink in abundance. There is gentle reflection and endearing charm as well as defiant frivolity. Above all there are stories for every occasion - witty, absurd, momentous, philosophical, fascinating, poignant, and forever entertaining.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Caesar, Gaius Julius. De Bello Gallico: Commentariorum I (Gallic War Book I). Edited by Arthur S. Walpole, M.A. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1899. Hardcover, Macmillan's 'Elementary Classics' series, with frontispiece map ('Gaul in the Time of Caesar'). School edition with notes and vocabulary. A late 19th-century classroom Latin text, presenting Caesar's Gallic War Book I with scholarly apparatus for students. Walpole's edition reflects the period's pedagogical approach, combining the original Latin text with explanatory notes, vocabulary aids, and contextual essays such as 'The Roman Army.' The included engraved map of Gaul provides geographical context central to Caesar's campaigns. This example is particularly notable for its extensive period student use - marginalia, ownership inscriptions, and drawings - which together form a vivid record of classical education at the turn of the 20th century. Original cloth binding (publisher's gray-green boards with Macmillan emblem) in Poor condition: heavy soiling, staining, and edge wear; corners frayed; spine worn with visible weakness. Textblock remains largely intact but shows significant wear, including torn pages, losses (notably to one leaf), and age toning. The front pastedown and endpapers are filled with early handwriting and drawings, including repeated ownership signatures (notably 'T. A. Keelan' and 'Clem Brooke'), reference to 'Loyola College,' doodles, and pen trials. Marginal annotations and underlining appear throughout the text. The map is present and complete, though toned. A well-used but character-rich surviving relic of a late 19th-century educational setting. Edition statement: title page dated 1899; verso notes 'First Edition printed 1882' with multiple reprints listed, including 1899 (twice), indicating this is a later reprint within the original Macmillan educational series. Printed at the University Press, Glasgow (Robert MacLehose and Co.). Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE) was a Roman general, statesman, and writer whose military campaigns expanded the Roman Republic. His Commentarii de Bello Gallico is both a historical account of his conquest of Gaul and a foundational text in Latin literature, valued for its clear prose and enduring use in classical education.…

Condition: Good. 1935. Hardcover. Good clean copy in original cloth covers. Heavily scored throughout. Light shelf wear. Lightly sunned spine. Light foxing on top of pages, remains a good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1960. Hardcover. Fine clean copy in original cloth covers. Light shelf wear. Lightly sunned spine. Light foxing on top of pages, remains a fine copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1950. Hardcover. Fine clean copy in original cloth covers. Light shelf wear. Lightly sunned spine. Light foxing on top of pages, remains a fine copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Light blue cloth, lettered/illus. in red. 1st ptg.: Nov. 1939. Prefatory note by Queen Elizabeth, wife of George VI and later known as "the Queen Mother" (parents of Elizabeth II), with contributions by 50 British authors and artists in aid of the Lord Mayor of London's Fund for the Red Cross and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Published on the eve of, and mostly occasioned by, British involvement in WW2. 255 pp., illus. Cover cloth faded somewhat unevenly,tanned spine panel and text block edges. Firm binding, unmarked interior. Top corner of title page neatly clipped (not affecting lettering), perhaps to remove a gift inscription, otherwise complete and intact, lacking dust jacket. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.…

Condition: Very Good. 1960. Hardcover. Fine clean copy in original cloth covers. Light shelf wear. Lightly sunned spine. Light foxing on top of pages, remains a fine copy. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1950. Hardcover. Fine clean copy in original cloth covers. Light shelf wear. Lightly sunned spine. Light foxing on top of pages, remains a fine copy. . . . .

Condition: Good. 1935. Hardcover. Good clean copy in original cloth covers. Heavily scored throughout. Light shelf wear. Lightly sunned spine. Light foxing on top of pages, remains a good copy. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. 1st printing; black c w/gilt titles; 378 clean, unmarked pages. 8 b/w Plates (illustrator).

Condition: New. 1977. Hardcover. . . . . .

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. 1977. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardback. Condition: New.

Paper backed boards, 25x18.5cm, 304 pages, charts, maps, tables, stains to boards, cloth spine, some board fading, rear board has been retaped.

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 412 pages. 7.00x10.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 1st printing; dj in mylar; 557 clean, unmarked pages; maps on end papers. b/w Illus (illustrator).

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Hardback. Condition: New.

VERY GOOD COPY - NO DUSTWRAP. VOLUME 40. BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS. SCRATCH ON SPINE, BUT VERY GOOD.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Three volumes. lxvi, 412pp; viii, 588pp; viii, 502pp. Occasional illustrations. Set uniformly bound in deep blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 4tos. Cloth covers gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends and have the odd mild mark and signs of shelf wear. Two labels taped to spine of each volume. A little smudging on text block edges. Usual lending library markings on front endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Early leaves in the first volume show signs of over-compression. The complete 'Horace Walpole Correspondence' comprises 48 volumes. The three volumes offered here cover all his correspondence with Anne FitzPatrick, Countess of Upper Ossory between the years 1751 and 1797. Walpole was a writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig political.…