Charles Robert Swift (39 results)

PF. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: Fair. 1927. No Edition Remarks. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated grey cloth hardback. Black & white illustrations. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Binding is weak. Stamp to front endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Spine is heavily tanned. Book has forward lean.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. **HARDBACK** 1948 Self-Published.

Condition: Good. 1927. No Edition Remarks. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated brown cloth with a colour illustrated frontis and black and white illustrated plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. uk1st.edition.1st.printing/near fine red covers.no date-1950's? states first edition and has 3/- price on front cover.

Condition: Good. Good condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear, tear to spine. Book has clean and bright contents with no inscriptions, endpapers toned, 48pp with monochrome drawings.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good undated hardcover copy with dustjacket. Light wear to dustjacket edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No publishing date, 1950s? Original pale cloth very clean. Pages clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated. 48 pages.

Condition: Used - Good. Good hardback. 1st edition. In paper-covered boards, with black lettering & pictorial on-lay on front board. Illustrated with drawings; colour frontis. Brief gift inscription on front free end paper; text clean in firm binding; spine browned & worn, & seems to have been repaired at some time.

Condition: New. In.

8°, Hardcover/Pappeinband. Condition: Gut. 96 S., Einband altersbedingt leicht nachgedunkelt und etwas berieben, Gelenke am Rücken etwas angebrochen, Bindung ist fest, innen sauber und gut erhalten Wir senden umgehend mit beiliegender MwSt.Rechnung. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 310.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, xii + 408pp. Softcover, in very good condition. Firm binding and crisp, unmarked, interior. Raised blind stamp to bottom of half-title, otherwise no signs of prior ownership. Minor shelf-wear or rubbing to extremities. A great copy overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 48pp. HARDCOVER Foxing apparent toendpapers at both ends. O/w clean copy internally. No inscriptions. P/clipped. D/w is present & complete, but has edgewear, abrasion to top of spine & tiny fragment of loss at base of spine. D/w will be improved where possible & supplied in protective sleeve. Will appear smart when work completed. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Jule Gotlieb (Robin Hood interior); Rudyard Kipling (Just So interior); Roy Krenkel (Wizrard of Oz cover and interior) (illustrator). All nine classics are about Near Fine, unread condition! (Note: The Wizard of Oz is only Very Good condition). The Airmont paperback Classic Series have interesting and generally very well done new cover art for each title usually with an insightful introduction.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Olive green cloth binding with black lettering and red anchor centre front, spine unlettered, no obvious faults. xv+47, 30 text ills.; only flaw is tanning to outer sides of end-papers off-set from jacket, so probably common to all copies. Unclipped jacket minimally worn with just a few tiny flecks and hints of edge-tanning, Black lettering to front with red image of country in centre, no spine lettering, will add protective sleeve when ordered. A large proportion of the Inns covered are in St.Albans, on the buildings of which the author had published several other monographs. Undated but internal evidence suggests mi- to late 30s. Apparently very scarce. 19cm x 25 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Cash. **'Pinocchio' is the only volume with a year stated (1939).** Blue hardcovers. The covers have an illustration of a boy and girl reading a book together. A red rope goes around the boarder of the front cover. That rope pattern is also on the spine, where it encircles red illustrations of a boy and girl dancing (separately). Red blocks at the top and bottom of the spine with the title, author, and publishers in gold gilt lettering. General surface and edge wear to all volumes. Light soiling to the covers. The corners have been bumped. Light fraying in a few of the corners. The previous owner's name has been stamped inside of each of the volumes twice. Pages show reader and age wear with some discoloration. Some volumes have heavier tanning than others. A few pages in 'Christmas Stories' has soiling. The bindings are all a little loose with a few cracks in the spines throughout each volume. Pages all appear to be secure still. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A very smart four-volume set exploring the signs and origins of various English inns. This set comprises four volumes on English inns, in particular looking at the origins and designs of various signs found across London, Kent and the rest of the country.In the publisher's original cloth bindings.Includes the following works: Old London Coaching Inns and Their Successors by Arthur Groom (1928) - With a tipped in slip 'With Compliments from The London Midland & Scottish Railway Company', dated 1937. With a colour frontispiece, one further colour plates and four double-sided monochrome plates. Inns and Inn Signs: Sacred and Secular by Charles Robert Swift (1947) - With many in-text illustrations. English Inn Signs: Being a Revised and Modernized Version of History of Signboards by Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten (1951) - With eight double-sided monochrome plates through the text and a sixty-four page catalogue of further monochrome illustrations. Kent Inns, A Distillation (1955) - Profusely illustrated with annotated monochrome photographs throughout the text.Collated, complete. In the original cloth bindings. Externally, very smart, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities, most notable to 'Old London Coaching Inns'. With marks to the boards of 'Kent Inns' and a tipped in 'With Compliments' slip to the front pastedown of 'Old London Coaching Inns'. Bookplate of one Richard Falkiner to the front pastedown of 'Inns and Inn Signs'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers to all and occasional scattered spots to 'Old London Coaching Inns'. Contemporary ownership inscription to the pastedowns and title page of 'English Inn Signs'. Very Good Indeed. book.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 112. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1927 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 112.

Condition: VG. St. Albans (1948). Introduction by George Harcourt. Foreword by sir W. Gurney Benham. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 48pp., illustrations,cloth. VG, head of spine lightly worn, no DJ.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1914 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 163 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 163 Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745,Gaston, Charles Robert, b. 1874.

Complete in fifty-three volumes, 8vo, Chaucer in six volumes, Dryden and Spenser in five, Burns, Churchill, Cowper, Milton, Pope and Swift in three and Butler, Prior, Thomson and Young in two. Portrait frontispieces of all the poets except Falconer, as published, some light foxing, armorial bookplates of Philip Stapleton Humberston in all but the Spenser volumes, Pickering's small bookseller's label to the paste downs of 22 volumes. Original full morocco in various colours, a.e.g., the Spenser volumes with some wear to the joints and spine ends, otherwise a very good set.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted by the prestigious organization "Rare Biblio" with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1914. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: - 163, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 163.