First Earl Birkenhead (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition in black, gilt stamped spine. Selected and Introduced by the First Earl of Birkenhead. A collection of 50 real and fictional fighte between men and also between men and beasts. Includes: King Arthur, St. George and the Dragon, David and Goliath,…

Condition: Good. 1931. First Edition. 960 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gilt. Ex libris plate at front. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with lig…

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. First Edition, 1932. No dust j…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Good DJ (small chips/browning). Second Edition. London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1951. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Jacket is price clipped. Not a book club edition. This book was originally published in…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN . B000LA8GLY Hardback. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Slight wear to corners and edges; minor browning and dustsoiling throughout; light foxing on endpapers and on edges; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Good condition. Fair condition d…

Condition: Good. 1951. 2nd Edition. 384 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Grey dust jacket over blue cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket ha…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Hutchinson, undated Pocket Library edition. Softcover. Tanning to page margins. Binding firm. Book appears unread. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE T…

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. (1926) and its sequel More Famous Trials (1928) are collections of historical legal cases written for general entertainment by Frederick Edwin Smith, the 1st Earl of Birkenhead and former Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. Written with a clear, personal narrative style, the books explore the dram…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black buckram covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, black dyed upper edges. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 384 pp. Tiny rubs to spine tips and corners, foxing to page edges and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPORT…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 567 pages in very good condition. n.d. (1920s?). Pages are clean and unmarked with occasional black and white illustrations throughout. Page edges are lightly darkened. Bound in red cloth with black titles. Faded and lightly stained on the spine. Lightly worn around the edges. VG/- -.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Hardcover with printed front board, no dust jacket, in very good condition for its age. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. Boards are scuffed, with closed tears on the spine edge, rear side. Board edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed, with small tears at the spine…

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London: Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Ltd n.d. [1938]). First UK Edition. Publisher's pale brown boards with front board and spine stamped in black. 461 trials; 41 illustrations and 575 pages. A near fine (or better) copy (offsetting to the end-papers and foxing to the page block edges) in…