Brown Ivor Intro (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. New Edition". VERY GOOD CONDITION; 189PG pages; word study development .WHERE OUR WORDS COME FROM.DERIVATION & EARLY MEANINGS. HISTORY OF LANGUAGE. SEMANTICS; FOLK ETYMOLOGY; DOUBLETS; FAMILY NAMES; INDEXED.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. edgewear to dj.

1st ed. Pages a little yellowed; gift inscription on front free end paper; binding tight; black cloth slightly wrinkled at edge of front board. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket).

Condition: Very Good. None. Color pictorial wrappers, 44 pages, many photographs by Angus McBean. Perfomers include Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, directors include John Gielgud and Peter Brook. Illustrated throughout. Includes seperate sheet of Olivier and Leigh in Macbeth. Clean, bright copy. Record # 412235. …

Hardback. Condition: VG-. No DW. 1st Edition. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

vii, 461 Pages. Cloth bound in very good condition; Front cover edges a bit faded.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. A handsome complete four-volume Nonesuch Press Edition of Shakespeare's Works, complete with the scarce publisher's slipcase. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding over marbled cloth boards. Complete with the original card slipcase. The newly designed four-volume Nonesuch edition of Shakespeare, published in 1953 and dedicated, by permission, to Queen Elizabeth II in the year of her coronation. It reproduces the Nonesuch text established by Herbert Farjeon in 1929, with a new introduction by Ivor Brown. Complete in four volumes, comprising: Vol. I, Comedies; Vol. II, Histories, and Troylus and Cressida; Vol. III, Tragedies, and Pericles; Two Noble Kinsmen; Edward III; Sir Thomas Moore; and Vol. IV, Poems. Printed and bound by William Clowes and Sons at Beccles on India paper made by Robert Fletcher and Son, with Japon vellum supplied by C. Townsend Hook and Company. The open lettering of the title pages, half-title headpieces and dedication were taken from wood engravings by Reynolds Stone, while the version of the First Folio portrait was by Leonard Beaumont. The edition was designed by Francis Meynell. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding over marbled cloth boards. Externally, lovely. Very minor shelf wear to extremities. One or two very minor marks to spines. Slipcase, worn. Rubbing and scuffing, splitting to the joints and edges, and slight loss, particularly around the extremities. Splitting to rear resulting in slight lifting to panel. Bumping to lower corner of rear panel. Slight fading to perimeters with the odd light mark. A little fragile, but intact. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two very light spots to fore edge. Very slight cockling to fore edges. Light creasing to lower corners of pp. 1115-1130 in vol II. Near Fine. Reynolds Stone; Leonard Beaumont (illustrator). book.…