David Nichol Smith Ed (15 results)

Condition: Good. 1966. 727 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Beige pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. The clipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1967 (reprinted form 1st ed of 1918), 331 pages, A compact volume 5 x 7.5 ins, hardback, not exlib. The first fifty pages are an essay by Nichols then come the 'characters': seven-six passages in total although fewer people than that are covered (some get two profiles, Milton and Laud three, Cromwell four). They have been left in the rather antique English in which they were written. Condition; very good: text clean, dark blue cloth and d-j still smart: no wear. Tape marks on d-j.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. TWO VOLUME SET. Blue boards with gilt lettering to cover/spine. Bumped at corners and lightly rubbed at extremities. Deckled edges. Clean Interiors with no markings. B/W Frontis with tissue guards. 8vo; 569 pages. Handsome set! -- B.R. Box 119.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 727 pp., Very Good, Blue Cloth, sun-fading, rubbing, & edge wear on covers; front board lower corner dinged; minor staining on pages, end papers, and edges of text-block; previous owner's stamp on front end papers; splitting along gutters on title-page and p. 727; shelf-wear.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 727 pp., Very Good, Blue Cloth, sun-fading, rubbing, & edge wear on covers; minor staining on pages, end papers, and edges of text-block; shelf-wear.

Condition: Good. 8vo., 204 pp., Good, Blue Cloth, minor stains on cover, shelf wear. Previous owner's name stamped on FFEP.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 727 pp., Good, Blue Cloth, Dust Jacket with browning & tears, edge wear, shelf-wear.

2 VOL SET, super octavo, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, frontispieces- tissue guard to vol 1 only, vol 1- xxvii + pgs 1-272, vol 2- xii + pgs 273-571, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate staining & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, ex-libris plates to front pastedowns, sm chunk of prelims to vol 1 loosened but still attached).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Lii + [332] pp. Printed blue cloth binding/boards, deckle edge, inscription inside front cover.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 331 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Ex-library copies with usual stamps, etc, both volumes have some page tanning, else internally in very good condition; both volumes have some mild shelfwear, volume 2 has bumping to bottom corners. No wrappers.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN.…

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, Probably. Crown, black cloth (spine faded), no dj, xvi+204 pp., vg, ownership label on flyleaf. An introd to Dryden, life, chronicle, expert and historic evaluations, much poetry, some prose. A nice copy with full notes. Size: Crown. Frontis Portrait (1732) (illustrator). …

8vo., Second Impression, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in gilt, gilt top, a very good, bright, crisp copy. With the trade ticket of Erskine Mayne of Belfast on rear paste-down. Published in the same year as the first edition. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A smart two-volume collection of the letters of the English scholar Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, edited by Lady Raleigh. The second edition of Volume I, published in the same year as the first edition, and the first edition of Volume II, of this two-volume work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Ink inscription to the front free end paper of Volume II, dated 1935. Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861-1922) was an English scholar, poet, and author, probaly best known for the poem 'Wishes of an Elderly Man, Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914'. This is a two-volume collection of his letters from 1879 to 1922, which piece together interesting insights into his life and work. This collection was edited by Lady Raleigh, with a preface by David Nichol Smith. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart and bright, with just a little bumping to the upper extremity of the front board of Volume II. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, except for the odd spot to the first and last few pages of Volume I, and offsetting to the end papers of Volume II. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A seven volume collection of Oxford classics spanning early verse, sermons, Anglo-Saxon prose, Dantean translation, and apocryphal scripture, with their original dust wrappers. In the publisher's original navy cloth bindings.Complete with the original dust wrappers, all but two of which remain unclipped.A varied seven-volume selection of Oxford literary and theological editions spanning medieval secular lyrics, Anglo-Saxon prose, Renaissance and seventeenth-century sermons, apocryphal scriptural texts, Dantean odes, and eighteenth-century verse.Compromising:Donne"s Sermons: Selected Passages with an Essay by Logan Pearsall Smith (1950). First published in 1919, this edition is a reprint. This volume's dust wrapper is price clipped.Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries (1955). First published in 1952, this is the second edition.Sweet"s Anglo-Saxon Reader: In Prose and Verse (1962). The fourteenth edition, reprinted.The Odes of Dante (1963). Translated by H. S. Vere-Hodge.The Apocryphal New Testament (1966). Reprint.Lancelot Andrewes: Sermons (1967). Selected and edited with an Introduction by G. M. Story. This volume's dust wrapper is price clipped.The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse (1971). First published in 1926, this is a reprint. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.Externally, generally smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight fading to extremities. Slight offsetting and the odd spot to endpapers. Previous bookseller"s discreet label to front paste down of "Sweet"s." Dust wrappers, generally smart. Spot of red damp staining to front wrap of "Sweet"s." wrap of "Apocryphal" not price clipped, but with original price obscured by sticker. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in the odd small chip, closed tear and crease. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot to first and last few leaves and fore edges. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…