Editor Rhys Ernest (169 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are unmarred. The binding is tight. 335pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. Everyman Library; this is a fine copy; a tight, square binding, clean spine, brown cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Printing of 1929, first published in the Everyman's Library in 1913. Some shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, previous owner's name to the front endpaper, else clean and unmarked. Orange cloth, single cartouche to spine, no. 658. From the introduction: "This is a book of short essays which have been chosen with the full liberty the form allows, but with the special idea of illustrating the life, manners and customs, and at intervals filling in the English country background." Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Fair. POETRY. Everyman's Library. Small olive cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, 560 pages. Fair condition: front hinge split, pages age darkened.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. Later Printing. VG- in cloth (spine faded, light ex-library) 198pp Series: Everyman's Library, No. 381. Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall. Book.

hard cover, name and address inside, spine decorated with gold, front hinge is loose, picture end papers, 292 pages, 4 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches, fair book condition, no dust jacket, juvenile fiction.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition hardback green boards no DJ. 847 pages good and clean with clear print, indexed. No foxing, corner of boards bumped, previous owner written name on fly sheet.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback. Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Burgundy cloth with discolored gold lettering on spine. An imprint of J.M. Dent and Sons on the cover. Some soiling to back cover. Hinges are slightly loose. Illustrated end papers. A small tear on the title page. The top page edges are tinted. Over 35 short stories. No date stated.…

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Minor edge and corner wear to the dj, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, some light shelf wear, overall a clean used copy! Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! 472 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "There have been several translations of Moliere, but the most spirited and lifelike and idiomatic was the eighteenth-century version here reprinted. It caught the sparkle and colloquial ease of the comedies as no other succeeded in doing. The late Brander Matthews called Moliere the father of modern high comedy and the greatest figure in all French literature. Here he drops his French mask and is as alive in the English make-believe. The new Introduction by Professor F. C. Green, author of French Novelists and Eighteenth-Century France, is a model of trse biographical and critical writing." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.…

Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Sixth Printing. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, front hinge is cracked, lightly shelf worn, overall a very clean used copy! Decorative endpapers. Green cloth with gilt lettering and design on the spine. 554 unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "Nothing now remains to say about John Milton: his place among the immortals is secure. None of the great gifts were denied him, except humour; and the place of humour, in preventing over-emphasis and lack of proportion, was taken in him by something of the Grek instinct for form. It has been noticed that the chief artistic defect of the Teutonic races is a certain caprice and wilfulness; they are a law-abiding race, but they like to make their own laws." ---- from the Introduction Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. FAIR/NO DJ xxvi 468 pp. Text clean and unmarked. Green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine in fair condition. Binding firm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Endpaper is heavily foxed. Covers have some wear, and back cover is slightly warped. Spine is faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 12 mo, hardcover, ornate design on spine, beige boards with gilt lettering. Everyman's library. Library stamp on endpaper else VG. Introduction by John Paine. Interior clean and unmarked. 253 pp. Decorated endpps. The Acharnians, The Knights, The Birds, The Peace. Volume I with an introduction by John P. Maine. Everyman's library. Edited by Ernest Rhys. Book.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First thus, 1930. Volume Two in the Shorter Novel Series. Red cloth with decorative gilt titles. Spine has tear at corner edge. Pages have some pencil notes. Former owner's signature inside cover. Ornatius & Artesia. Oroonoko. Isle of Pines. Incognita. Solid reading copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: USED Good. Reprint of First Edition from February 1906. Boards have some staining/scuffing. End pages have some foxing.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Acceptable Jacket. The jacket is worn with archive tape repairs on the inside. Previous owner's ink inscription. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. vii, 173 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Everyman's Library Volume No. 306 IN - clean book in original dust jacket now protected by new clear removable mylar cover. Green cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Decorated endpapers are clean, with very small previous owner name and date at top edge of front free endpaper. Pages and edges are clean. Introduction by John Masefield. 461 pages with index. Clean dust jacket has shallow chipping at spine ends, a few short closed tears along spine fold. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. London, UK: Walter Scott. Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. circa 1920. . Hardcover. "THE ETHICS OF ARISTOTLE. Chase's Translation (Newly Revised), with Introductory Essay by George Henry Lewes. (The Nicomachean Ethics.)" . 12mo., 333pp., Cover light shelf wear to edges, label on spine is lightly chipped, small spots on back cover, otherwise very good; pages are clean and unmarked . Not Illustrated (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 319 numbered pages. Former owner's name at top edge of front free endpaper. 16 color plates of English scenery and a like number of black and white plates. Binding somewhat soiled. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

hardcover. reprinted. B039622; 313 pp hardcover, 4 x 6 , no dustjacket; good contents & covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Thus. Frist printing of 1907. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, especially the upper tip which is frayed on both sides, previous owner's name; no jacket. First printing, none noted, date not stated. Includes The Prelude; The Excursion and 18 other poems and a Wordworth bibliography. Green cloth, 6 flower cartouche spine. Reginald Knowles endpapers. Introductory note by the editor Ernest Rhys. EL 203, Seymour 1082.0, Printed by Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and(generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition, First Thus. Text/As New w/light endpaper discoloration. Boards/NF w/light wear to upper spine edge & showing trace discoloration. DJ/None. Collection of prose narratives and verse for nature lovers, worshippers of sun and wind, tree and field. In size, a convenient portable companion for the pleasure of wayfarers. Included is Wordsworth's :"I wander'd lonely as a cloud/ that floats high o'er vales and hills/ When all at once I saw a crowd/ A host of golden daffodils/ Beside the lake, beneath the trees/ Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.".…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover, red leather over stiff cardstock. Gilt on cover and spine. Gold topstain. Placemarker ribbon bound-in. Clean, square copy. Very light shelfwear. Small chip in red leather at bottom of back cover. tbrc/fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Missing. Green cloth covered boards with gold spine titles; minimal wear; 12mo - over 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; some toning to first and last pages; interior is unmarked; 247 pages.