David John Simms (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. 1st Edition. bw & col illus.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. Adam Phillips "Commanded to Mourn" / R W Johnson "The Greatest Error of Modern History" / Brendan Simms "One Good Side" / Penelope Fitzgerald "Nuthouse Al" / Peter Clarke "On the Blower" / Wendy Doniger "Mae West and the British Raj" / James Davidson "Some Evil Thing" / John Banville "All Antennae" / James Francken "Pure TNT" / David Craig "It makes yer head go" / Terence Hawkes "Dr Blair, the Leavis of the North".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine.

Card Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 74pp. Covers lightly handled. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xii, 244 pages. Original publisher's rexine covered boards, with unclipped dust jacket. *Papers read before the Irish Conference of Historians, held at University College, Cork 23-26 May 1985. Topics include: Lliterary theory and the historian; The Irish hagiographer; Legend as critic; 'Winner and Waster' and the mid-fourteenth century economy; Bardic poetry as a historical source; Edmund Spenser on Justice and Mercy; Irish National Character 1790-1900; 'Sanditon': a Regency novel?; Fiction as 'the best history of nations': Lady Morgan's Irish novels; Jewish emancipation in nineteenth-century Germany and the stereotyping of the Jew in Gustav Freytag's 'Soll und Haben' (1855); Popular religion and irreligion in Victorian fiction; Mark Twain: historian of a lost world; Fictional images of Irish -America.* A fine copy without any library stamps, inscriptions, or other markings. Images available on request.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. A little shelf wear. Covers have been neatly laminated. Owner stamp on title page. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. 166 pp.

Softcover. 256 pp. Softcover. LCC: 831533 Good condition; touches of wear on covers; very light yellowing on perimeters of pages.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Condition: Very Good. Group lot of two signed items from former New Mexico Governors: a typed thank you letteron Governor's stationary SIGNED by David F. cargo (Governor 1967-1971). Plus a typed thank you letter, on governor's stationary SIGNED by Gov.John F. Simms (1955-1957). SIGNED.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 358 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A stunning set of eight volumes of the charming New Naturalist Library collection. This is a collection of eight volumes from the Collins The New Naturalist Library series.This set includes:Sea Birds by James Fisher & R. M. Lockley, number 28 first published in 1954. With ten colour plates, five black and white plates are missing, from va-viii, sixty-three black and white plates.The Common Lands of England and Wales by L. Dudley Stamp & W. G. Hoskins, number 45 first published in 1963. With six plates in colour and black and white plates ix, x, xia, xib, xiia, xiib are missing 27 photographs in black and white.Freshwater Fishes of the British Isles by P. S. Maitland & R. N. Campbell, number 75 first published in 1992. With twenty-one colour photographs and over 200 black and white photographs and diagrams.British Larks, Pipits & Wagtails by Eric Simms, number 78 first published in 1992. With four colour plates and over 200 black and white photographs and drawings.The New Naturalist by Peter Marren, number 82 published for a second time in 2005. With sixteen colour plates an dover 100 black and white photographs and drawings.Loch Lomondside by John Mitchell, number 88 first published in 2001. With eight colour plates and over 120 black and white photographs and line drawings.Dragonflies by Philip Corbet & Stephen Brooks, number 106, first published in 2008. With many colour photographs by Robert Thompson.Wildfowl by David Cabot, number 110, first published in 2009. With many colour photographs.Collated. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with a few marks to the earlier editions. There are inscriptions to the front free endpapers of Seabirds and The Common Lands of England and Wales. Internally, generally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dustwrappers. Sea-birds dustwrapper is the most worn with some taping to the wraps and fading to the spine. The earlier dustwrappers have some signs of shelf wear and fading but are all generally very smart. Very Good Indeed. book.