Crane David Lisle (16 results)

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Marriage a la Mode (New Mermaids) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. reading copy only Standard-sized.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ. Gift message to endpaper.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Condition: Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. pp.lxii+388+LXVIII. 23cm. bLack and white photographic illustrations. Plans. Index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Very good clean copy. (c.300 letters from and to a boy at Clifton College, with full details. Life in a Public School in the last decade of the 19th. century).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. [lxi prelims] 385 pages [lxviii pages of documents]. Numerous b&w photographs, line drawings, maps and facsimile letters throughout the text. Preface by David Newsome, Archivist of Clifton College; Introduction by Julie Crane. The letters of a Clifton College schoolboy to his parents, siblings and masters. Fine in Very Good jacket which is a bit creased at the spine ends and in its corners. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 590 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A first (and only?) printing of the true first edition, which was privately printed. Illustrated with black & white photos, line drawings, and maps throughout the text. ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. No discernible faults. The boards are beautifully clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions or annotations. Pages clean. No foxing. No creases or tears. The book has a high-quality binding and is printed on nice quality paper. With three integral coloured place mark ribbons. ***In a near fine illustrated dustwrapper, which is unpriced. Also, no discernible faults. Extremities of dustwrapper just very slightly rubbed. No creases, chips or tears. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***240mm x 170mm. 385 pages + LXVIII pages of Documentary Appendix. ***'This volume presents a text with extensive commentary, introduction, photographs and other supporting material, of about 300 letters between a boy at Clifton College called Tankred Tunstall-Behrens and his parents, siblings, schoolmasters, during the years 1892 to 1895. The letters offer an immensely detailed, vivid and dramatic exchange that not only covers the events of three years at a Victorian public school but gives a solid impression of the kind of life lived by a well-off middle-class family at the end of the nineteenth century, the interests, attitudes, beliefs, enthusiasms and fears, and the tremendous effort made to keep and hold things in a desired framework, moral, domestic and educational.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***A first (and only?) printing of the true first edition, which was privately printed, complete in its original dustwrapper in extremely nice, bright, clean collectable condition. A good historical document for those researching Victorian private schools and Victorian social history. A beautifully produced heavyweight hardcover book. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Durham, Jean Wrangham, 1999. Thick small quarto; cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Tankred Tunstall-Behrens (1878-1939) attended Clifton College, before joining the Royal Engineers, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Letters between a Victorian Schoolboy and his Family, 1892 - 1895. David Lisle Crane and Jean Wrangham (Editors). Hardback, 1999. Both book and dust-jacket are in Very good condition.A volume presenting the text of about 300 letters between a schoolboy at Clifton College and his parents, siblings and schoolmasters, during the years 1892 - 1895.The Editors provide extensive commentary, introduction, black-and-white photographs and other supporting material. Blue boards with illustrated dust-jacket. See photographs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This volume presents a text with extensive commentary, introduction, photographs and other supporting material of about 300 letters between at Clifton College and his parents, siblings, schoolmasters, during the years 1892 - 1895.The blue boards and text block are good, tight and clean, the text is accompanied by black and white photographs. The dust jacket show some readers wear with creasing to its head and flaps. All book prices include 2nd class tracked and signed for UK Only. …

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. nrFine DW. 1st Edition. Name of owner at front of book. Book and dustwrapper/dustjacket are in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. With three original ribbons.SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES MAY APPLY Packed weight 1500g.