Edited Sir a W (33 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Literature, Fiction, Drama0 A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

Hardcover. Copyright Date: 1964 sm Quarto, Hardcover, Blue Cloth, , PP.928, Solid Ex. Library, Some Cover Soil. B & W And Color Plates, Text Figures (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Pbk, 16 p. : music ; 22 cm. Cynnwys / Contents : Y ferch a'r capten = The maid and the captain -- Mab annwyl dy fam = Dear son of my heart -- Morgan Jones = Morgan Jones -- Yr eneth gadd ei gwrthod = The rejected maiden -- Y mochyn du = The black pig -- Y diogyn = The sluggard -- Mae Robin yn swil = My Robin is shy. [Folk songs Ballads - Wales, Welsh] c735.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Published w/out dj. First edition thus. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1981. 1st edition thus, F/. Book has very little wear. Full leather, gilt designs on both covers and spine, ribbon book-mark, a.e.g. Illustrated with a selective collation of the original drawings by Frederic Dorr Steele, Sidney Paget and others, color frontispiece. Intro by Vincent Starrett. Beautiful book, 764 pp. BP.…

small h/b (no dj.) 392 pgs. Good. Letter to a friend & Christian Morals.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Faded maroon boards with gilt decorations and titles. Some handling wear and marks with and rubbing to edges and corners. Mostly clean inside .Undated edition, probably from mid 20th century. Signed inside by the previous owner.

Burgundy Cloth. Condition: VERY GOOD (AVERAGE+). Dust Jacket Condition: Good (BELOW AVERAGE). This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Not Illustrated (illustrator). Not Inscribed or Signed.

Burgundy Cloth. Condition: Near Fine (NEAR NEW). Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE (NEAR NEW). First Edition. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Not Illustrated (illustrator). Not Inscribed or Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Longman Edition: 1969/Norton Edition: 19. 774 + xviii pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy and dust jacket with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Dust jacket shows minimal wear around edges. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. Mackay, Chatham (Jacket); John Giles Eckhardt, Sir Joshua Reynolds (Illustrations) (illustrator).…

Burgundy Cloth. Condition: FINE ( AS BRAND NEW). Dust Jacket Condition: FINE (AS NEW). First Edition. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Not Illustrated (illustrator). Not Inscribed or Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fabulous hardback book, with gilt title impression, set in brown coloured blocked box, positioned on the top part of the spine. Comes with dark green coloured box, slipcase. The book is in excellent condition, it looks like its hardly been used or read. Normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. First published by The Folio Society in 1976, reprinted with a new binding in 1998, this specific edition is the fifth printing 2001. Endpapers drawn by Reginald Piggott. 261 pages all intact, all pages, text, maps and illustrations are in excellent, clean readable order. Printed at St Edmundsbury Press, Bury St Edmunds. Bound by Cambridge University Press. Binding Illustration: Mutineers on HMS Bounty casting Captain Bligh adrift. Oil painting by Robert Dodd, 1790 (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.) Another stunning book from The Folio Society Folio.…

Condition: Very Good. Reprinted edition hard back binding in publisher's original powder blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 431 pp. Lower spine end turned-in with shallow rubs, mottling to the upper front cover. Near Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0521045169 ENGLISH LITERATURE.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1894 FIRST EDITION. Two-Volume DELUXE LARGE PAPER LIMITED FIRST EDITION numbered by publisher on printed limitation page. Two volumes complete. Original orange cloth boards with gilt coat of arms on front covers, navy spines and corners with gilt lettering spines, TEG, original dark greenish navy coated EPs, untrimmed fore-edge and bottom edge both volumes. Both volumes have loss of much of the spine covering (see photos), but bindings are very solid and not broken or cracked. This set is an obvious candidate for rebacking. The covers have significant rubbing along edges and corners but the boards are relatively clean and bright with a few faint dark smudges (nothing serious). Each volume has previous owner's bookplate and small bookseller ticket on front pastedown otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages, Some fore-edge foxing is present but nearly all pages are completely free of foxing and are clean. Each volume measures 251mm tall x 200mm (compared to 195mm tall for the regular first edition). Volume one has 494 pages, 20 b/w full-page illustrations and photos, 57 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume two has 483 pages, 13 full-page illustrations and photos, 56 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume one covers hunting in the arctic (whacking a giant walrus with an ax from a small whaling boat), three chapters on hunting in the Caucasus, a chapter on Mongolia, two chapter on hunting chamois and stags in the Alps, a chapter on elk in Scandinavia, a chapter on big game throughout Europe, hunting in Spain and Portugal, hunting in India tigers, a chapter on travel/camping considerations, a chapter on rifles and ammo, a chapter on taxidermy, a small bibliography. Volume two mostly about hunting in Africa with specific chapters on various types of big game hunting: lions, antelopes, hippos, giraffes, ostriches, rhinos, buffalo, elephants, with several chapters on South Africa including some history, a chapter on travel with Livingstone, some chapters on East Africa including special hunting considerations regarding gear, routes, etc. Volume two concludes with one chapter on big game hunting in North America (bears, wapiti, moose, cougars, bison, deer, elk, caribou, bighorn, mountain goat, antelope mainly in British Columbia, Alaska, Colorado and Pacific NW), and a brief chapter on hunting musk ox. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED. Charles Whymper, J. Wolf, H. Willink (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Hardcover(dated 1902 on title page) in green boards with titles blind stamped on front cover and embossed in gold gilt on spine in near fine condition, no DJ, personalized copy of research scholar Charles Grant Ellis with his bookplate inside front board dated 1954 and his personal notes and underlining in text, transparent name label of Gretchen Ellis applied below bookplate, book trade label of W.Heffer & Sons bookseller inside front board, 186 pages inclusive of supplement, well preserved inner hinges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in dark green cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to front and spine, no dustjacket as issued. 1114pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (33/4).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in dark green cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to front and spine, no dustjacket as issued. 6281064pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (32/6).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in dark green cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to front and spine, no dustjacket as issued. 628pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (17/4).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in dark green cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to front and spine, no dustjacket as issued. 754pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (17/4).

Leather Bound. Condition: Acceptable. Fifth edition on red leather covers but front board split down side seam nearly loose but repairable and apart from this one defect a lovely copy.

Condition: Very Good. First cheap edition 1934, Wirral County School crest to upper cover and prize bookplate to front end paper, presented to J H Wilson VI Modern, First Prize. In very good condition in green cloth, covers lightly marked, spotting and thumb marks to the edges, the pages are crisp and clean in a firm binding. This book comes from the private collection of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his wife Mary who died recently at the age of 102. During his lifetime Harold Wilson kept the book in the Ashley Gardens mansion flat in Westminster that the couple shared until his death in 1995. After she lost her husband Mary Wilson continued to live in the couple's flat, surrounded by a lifetime's accumulation of books and memories until 2016. Very Good Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.…

Condition: Very Good. First cheap edition 1934, Wirral County School crest to upper cover and prize bookplate to front end paper, presented to J H Wilson VI Modern, First Prize. In very good condition in green cloth, slight staining to the covers, spotting and thumb marks to the edges, the pages are crisp and clean in a firm binding. This book comes from the private collection of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his wife Mary who died recently at the age of 102. During his lifetime Harold Wilson kept the book in the Ashley Gardens mansion flat in Westminster that the couple shared until his death in 1995. After she lost her husband Mary Wilson continued to live in the couple's flat, surrounded by a lifetime's accumulation of books and memories until 2016. Very Good Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Dustjacket. First Edition, First Printing. 243 Pp. Cloth. First Edition. A Near Fine Example With A Small Bump To The Upper Tip Of The Front Board. Bookplate Of W H L "Herman" Mayer, University Of Chicago Mathematician, With Photograph At Top, And Also His U Of C Name Stamp. Clean Dj With Some Chipping At Edges/Corners, Loss Of 1/2 Of "N" In Macmillan On Spine, And Last Few Letters In Publisher's Address On Rear Panel. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. XIX, 351 pages, include 5 page index, last two leaves still uncut. 25 x 18 cm.¾ red leather with slight wear. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece portrait of Burton with facsimile of his signature, tissue-protected. Title printed in red and black. 1st edition of this collection of 3 essays unpublished before Burton's death in 1890. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed; title & author lettered in gilt on spine. Printed by Hazell, Watson, and Viney, LD., London and Aylesbury. A collection of three essays which remained unpublished until 1898. Material was first collected while in the consular service at Damascus from 1869-71, but the manuscript was not finished until 1874 while in London. Twice he considered publishing it, but each time was advised to withhold it due to its anti-Semitic content. To this day, it is an embarrassment to Burton biographers and devotees. Burton began his research for "The Gypsy" while he was lieutenant in the Bombay Army quartered in Sindh, and continued gathering material for the next thirty years in his travels mostly in Asia, but also in Africa, South America, and Europe. In contrast with his hatred for Jews, he felt a close affinity to the Gypsies. His wife stated that although it was not certain whether he himself had Gypsy lineage, 'he showed many of their peculiarities in appearance, disposition, and speech - speaking Romany like themselves. Nor did he ever enter a Gypsy camp without their claiming him: "What are you doing with that black coat on?' they would say 'why don't you join us and be our king?'" Burton's close emotional tie to the Gypsy psyche make this ethnographic study especially rich and worthwhile the last essay was probably written soon after his famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1853, about the time of the poem "The Kasidah." It was an insider's look at the Muslim faith and way of life, since Burton lived amongst Arab pilgrims and visited their most sacred pilgrimage sites. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of Arabic language, sexual practices and life. His work reveals a profound acquaintance with the vocabulary and customs of the Muslims, with their classical idiom as well as colloquialisms, philosophy, modes of thought and intimate details. Burton supported the blood libel of Damascus: The Infamous Damascus Blood Libel . Arnold Fine Jewish Press January 18, 2002: The canard that "Jews use Christian blood to make Passover matzos" plagued Jewish communities worldwide for centuries. The blood libel led to many massacres of Jews throughout the Middle Ages and pogroms in Russia, was revived by the Nazis, and has been used by anti-Zionists to our day. While it is well known that blood libels thrived in Christian Europe, it is less known that this scourge reached Moslem lands as well. The Damascus Blood Libel began in Syria in 1840. At that time, the great European powers were gravely concerned about the fate of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Syria was ruled by Muhammed Ali, then ruler of Egypt, and France supported his rule. Austria and Great Britain supported Turkey, and were anxious to prevent the extension of French influence in the Middle East. On February 5, 1840, an elderly Italian monk, Padre Tomaso de Camangiano, Superior of a Capuchin cloister in Damascus, vanished without a trace, together with his servant. Foul play was suspected. There was a rumor that a few days before the monk's disappearance, he had been involved in a quarrel with a Turkish mule driver. According to rumors, during the dispute, the Turk heard Father Tomaso blaspheme the prophet Muhammed and had sworn, "that dog of a Christian shall die by no other hand but mine!" Tomaso's fellow monks deliberately ignored this rumor, and preferred to spread the story that their Superior had been murdered by the Jews for ritual purposes. The French consul in Damascus at that time was a vicious individual by the name of Ratti Menton. He accepted the blood libel charges, and suggested that the investigation be turned over to. . . …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Frontispiece portrait of Burton with facsimile signature in both Latin and Arabic script, with tissue guard, XIX, 351, (1) pages. 25 x 18 cm. Top edge gilt. 3/4 leather binding. Last two leaves still uncut. Burton's work here on the Jews is a vile anti semitic one. Some of it deals with the Jews of Damascus, where Burton was a British Consul in the British Foreign Service. Burton was in Damascus with his wife during the Damascus affair of 1869-1871. "The Gypsy" material was gathered over three decades and was completed c. 1880, and "'El Islam" is based on a manuscript Burton wrote soon after his return from Mecca in 1853. These three works were in Burton's unpublished material at his death. El Islam Although Burton's essays might appear detached and analytical, they are anything but that, See Penzer, p158; Casati, 41. No expense was spared in producing this edition with its very attractive binding, typography, and high quality paper. What a pity that the quality of the book production does not extend to some of the despicable contents Burton wrote here. The editor, Wilkins, is an anti Semite in his own right, like so many Englishman of his day, and of today. Wilkins writes in his preface, page X, that as executor of Burton's estate he feels an obligation to publish the anti semitic portions he was entrusted with, but that he has "thought it better to hold over for the present the Appendix on the alleged rite of Human Sacrifice among the Sephardim and the murder of Padre Tomaso." For Wilkins the blood libel against the Jews is not discredited. It's an "allegation.".…

Condition: Good. First edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), xiv, 444pp. Frontispiece, plates. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. The boards are rubbed, and there is some foxing to the preliminary pages and the edges of the text block; overall, this book is in good plus condition.…

Condition: Near Fine. First cheap edition 1934, neat ownership inscription to front free end paper of J Harold Wilson. In near fine condition in green cloth, covers very lightly marked, thumb marks to the edges, the pages are crisp and clean in a firm binding. This book comes from the private collection of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his wife Mary who died recently at the age of 102. During his lifetime Harold Wilson kept the book in the Ashley Gardens mansion flat in Westminster that the couple shared until his death in 1995. After she lost her husband Mary Wilson continued to live in the couple's flat, surrounded by a lifetime's accumulation of books and memories until 2016. Near Fine Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. School prize label on front endpaper. Lacking the folding map at the rear. 1 plate detached. Creasing to one of the folding maps. Creasing to the free endpapers. All illustrations present.; 359, [1] pages + frontispiece + 84 illustrations + 4 of 5 maps ( 3 folding). Charcoal cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. School gilt stamp on front board (Otago Boys High School). Page dimensions: 194 x 127mm.; 8vo.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Edited by Willam Ward. Contributions by A.R. Orage - Will Dyson - Sir Harold Bowden - W.T. Symons - Philip McDevitt - The Earl of Tankerville - The Dean of Canterbury ( Hewlett Johnson ) The Rt Hon. Thomas Johnston - C. Marshall Hattersley - Major C H Douglas - A.L. Gibson.…

hardback, 4to, xiv,137,(3)pp., decorations by Eric Gill, owner's name on endpaper, top edges gilt, fore-edges slightly browned, otherwise clean and sound, green cloth gilt, slightly soiled, unevenly faded, spine title label scuffed, Good condition.

T.Fisher Unwin. London. 1914. Third Impression. Hardback. No DW. Illustrated black cloth. All plates and maps present. 359pp including appendices and index. Generally a clean and sound copy.