Aldis Wright W Ed (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Noticable fading due to exposure to sunlight. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ex-library (The Queen's College, Oxford), contemporary half-calf, 312pp. + adverts. Worn, with scattered foxing, heavier only at endpapers. A sound working copy. Contents (excluding those needing Greek or Hebrew characters to list): Munro: The Last Elegy of the Third or Second Book of Propertius, Munro: Seneca's Tragedies, Palmer: Emendation of a Passage in Propertius, Fennell: Notes on Certain Derivations, Wratislaw: Origin of the Word 'Gypsy', Cowell: On the Word Glamour and the Legend of Glam, Bywater: Heraclitus and Ammianus Marcellinus, Wratislaw: Miscellaneous Notes, Nettleship: Duumviri and Triumviri; Saeculum; Superstes, Superstitio, Superstitiosus, Jackson: On Dislocations in the Text of the Fifth Book of the [Nicomachean] Ethics, Paley: On Pseudo-Archaic Words and Inflexions in the Homeric Vocabulary, and their Relation to the Antiquity of Homeric Poems, Taylor: Note on Isaiah VIII, Arblaster: Note on a Passage of Plato Soph. 262 D. Cowell: The Hastamalaka, W.A.W: Conjectural emendation of the Samaritan Targum on Gen. xiv. 5. Mayor: Notes on (1) To save apperances; (2) In puris naturalibus, Wratislaw: Notes on the Ajax of Sophocles, Roberts: Note on Plato, Theaetetus 207 E, Heath: On the so-called Arabicus Mons, Monro: On Eth. Nic. II. 7. Cowell: The Legend of the Chapman of Swaffham Church, Tozer: Modern Greek Ballads from Corsica, Jackson: On a MS. of the Niomachean Ethics, Notes by the late Professor T.H. Key, Swainson: On .

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 570 pages. No dust jacket. Green paper covered boards. Volume I. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Light creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Slight scuffing to edges.

Condition: Good. 1896. Reprinted with Corrections. 388 pages. Half bound brown leather with marbled paper covered boards. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription and stamp to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Chipping to leather to spine.

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:

Condition: Poor. Volume 4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Re-bound by library. Larger blue cloth 8vo with gilt lettering on backstrip. Boards have numerous faint stains. Bumped corners, light shelf wear. Page 231 semi detached. A couple of pages have repaired tears. Light foxing. Red speckled trimmed edges. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1300grams, ISBN:

Condition: Poor. Volume 7. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Re-bound by library. Larger red cloth 8vo with gilt lettering on sun faded backstrip. Bumped corners and shelf wear with a couple of large tears in backstrip seam. Page 16 and 258 detached and chipped. Several pages have some chipping of edges. Several pages marked in pencil. Some grubbiness on a few pages. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Volume 1 Good + Copy in Good unclipped D/J. Some chipping around jacket edges, otherwise sound. Spine sunned. End papers free of inscriptions. Contents clean and tidy. Volume 2 Good + Copy in Good unclipped D/J. Spine jacket is sunned. End papers free of inscriptions. Contents clean and tidy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Reprinted 2001 in one volume. Cloth, In stock, not printed to order.

Paperback. Wrs sl frayed & rubbed. Early English Text Soc OS 55 70.

Reprint. Golden Treasury series. Owner's inscription & name on front free end paper & half-title page; some underlining; front hinge clumsily reglued; spine a little bumped at head & food; gilt bright. Used - Good. Good hardback in green cloth with gilt Used - Good. Good hardback in green cloth with gilt.

6.25 x 4.25", rebound in 3/4 turquoise leather; cloth, teg, 388pp with Glossary, covers a bit dull and stained, corners worn, hinges loose, first few pp waterstained, pp toned. INSCRIBED IN REAR (on recto of original endpaper) "From the library of my father, Eugene Field." AND SIGNED BY EUGENE FIELD II, who adds the date, Sept 12, 1924. PRESENTATION COPY, BOLDLY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HARRY D SICKLES, 1927. Sickles and Eugene Field II sold off Eugene Field's library one piece at a time, and Sickles (or EFII) forged the signatures of various luminaries of the elder Field's time (Remington, Twain, Kipling, Teddy Roosevelt, etc.) on books to add to the value; the even sold several fake Abraham Lincoln signatures! Whether or not this actually came from Field's library is not proven, but the backstory is interesting.

Full Morocco. Condition: Very Good. xxxii, 388 pp. Full calf prize binding with gilt crest to board and raised bands, gilt-decorated compartments and gilt-lettered dark leather label to spine; all edges gilt and marbled endpapers. Fading and rubbing to binding, with one or two small marks to board. There is a misprint in the gilt crest, seen in a few other works awarded as prize bindings by Forest School, Walthamstow, which was founded in 1834. Ink prize inscription dated 1879. Minimal spotting, generally quite clean. Notes and glossarial index by W. Aldis Wright. Part of the Golden Treasury Series. 15.5 cms tall. Small 8vo. Prize Binding.

Full Morocco. Condition: Good. One of 500 large paper copies. xxxi, 464 pp. Bound by Holloway in full blue morocco, with gilt borders and gilt-stamped monogram to boards. Raised bands, gilt devices, ruling and lettering to faded spine; t.e.g. Rubbing along joints and light wear to extremities, including chipping at head of spine. Ink inscription dated 1866 to foxed prelims, otherwise internally clean. 8vo.