Downes G L (7 results)

Soft Covers. Condition: Good. None. First Edition. 30 cm, unpaged (1.5 cm thickness,) maps with corresponding commentaries, soft covers - plastic cover - sticky tape adheres to first and final pp a little. A tidy library-cancelled copy. A heavy book - overseas buyers please ask for a freight quote.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2016 Palgrave hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: (1) 'Thys ys my boke' Imagining the Owner in the Book by Daniel Wakelin, (2) Reading John Walton's Boethius in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries by A. S. G. Edwards, (3) Reading in London in 1501: A Micro-Study by Julia Boffey, (4) Not for Profit: 'Amateur' Readers of French Poetry in Late Medieval England by Stephanie Downes, (5) Playing Space: Reading Dramatic Title-Pages in Early Printed Plays by Tamara Atkin, (6) Navigation by Tab and Thread: Place-Markers and Readers' Movement in Books by Daniel Sawyer, (7) Reading without Books by Katie L. Walter, (8) '[W]hethyr thou redist er herist redyng, I wil be plesyd wyth thee': Margery Kempe and the Locations for Middle English Devotional Reading and Hearing by Ryan Perry and Lawrence Tuck, (9) Privy Reading by Mary C. Flannery, (10) Mapping the Readable Household by Heather Blatt. …

Soft Covers. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. 30 cm, unpaged (1.5 cm thickness,) maps with corresponding commentaries, soft covers - very light marginal creasing. VG copy. A heavy book - overseas buyers please ask for a freight quote.

Quarto softcover (VG); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Atlas of Isoseismal Maps of New Zealand Earthquakes. (Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences monograph 11) by G. L. Downes. Softback, very good condition, binding firm, some creasing, fading and chipping to covers, no inscriptions, pages very good, minor marks. 304 pages. Published by Geological & Nuclear Sciences, 1995. Maps with corresponding commentaries. Dimensions 29.7 x 21 centimetres. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. All books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand. …

Hardcover. B/W photos. Very good condition. No dj. Includes chapters on Wood Properties of Interest in Plantation Productivity; Models of Within-Tree Variation; Within-Tree Variation and Sampling Point Correlations; Tools for Rapid and Cost-Effective Analysis of Wood Properties etc. 130pp. ISBN 064306284X.…

Hardcover. First Edition. pp. xiii, 1238. List of Members, (p.ii), Table of Contents (pp. iii-x), Royal Warrant (pp. xi-xiii).[Majority] Report (pp. 1-645; Index (p.646); List of Principal Recommendations (pp. 647-670); Separate Report by the Prebendary H. Russell Wakefield, Franccis Chandler, George Lansbury and Mrs. Sidney Webb (pp. 719- 1238. The Commission was appointed in 1905 'to inquire: - 1) Into the working of the laws relating to the relief of poor persons in the United Kingdom; 2) Into the various means which have been adopted outside of the Poor Laws for meeting distress arising from want of employment, particularly during periods of severe industrial depression.' The Commission was famously split and its recommendations were published in one report. A large propganda campaign was organized by Sidney and Beatrice Webb in support of the recommendations for prevention of destitution. In the years that followed, the fabric of the old Poor Law was gradually dismantled and the new system of social insurance took its place. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in full leather, rebound with original covers. Spine with 5 raised bands. Title and date in gilt on leather labels on spine. Covers are worn and scuffed. Binding is tight, gutters intact. Marbled endpapers. Ex-lib, wihdrawn from G.L.C. Members Library. …