Introduction John Simpson (29 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. new edition. 160 pages. 7.80x5.10x0.45 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 238 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hard Back. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine - Slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Unnumbered limited edition issued to subscriber's of the Hudson's Bay Record Society. Bound in black cloth with gilt stamped cover and spine. Minor wear to edges and corners. Text and images unmarked. Small abrasions to front pastedown. Foldout maps are intact. The grey dust jacket is price-clipped and shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 212pp.

Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided). x, 250 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Pale blue-green cloth with several stains; sunning to spine. Text block edges toned with leaves affected at margins; two small stains to fore-edge. Light toning to endpapers. Binding is firm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Octavo, 196 pages.

Hard Back. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slip Cased. Gower, Neil - Map (illustrator). Assumed First Edition. 230 Pages Indexed. The title of this book is The English Language. It could just as well be called A History of The English Language. There are eleven illustrations. The Frontispiece is street entertainers reciting songs and poems, from Cries of London, 1760. This book is in near new condition as some would say it is gift quality. No defects noted. The endpapers are the same burgundy color. The boards are composed of green letters over a light tan background with a burgundy quarter/spine with gold lettering. All of this in an attractive burgundy slip case with no lettering. Interior text pages are bright, tight, and white. There never was a more sparkling refutation of Dr Johnson's famous definition of the lexicographer - a harmless drudge - than the life and work of Robert Burchfield. As Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, he made the English language news. Or perhaps more accurately, he recognised that what was happening to the mother tongue in the late twentieth century was unprecedented, and he used his position at Oxford to publicise the fact. Before Burchfield, the state of the language was an unreported story; after him, it was always a source of debate, and often a headline. Burchfield's foray into linguistic controversy occurred first in the late 1970s, a world now almost as unimaginably remote as the Regency. His thrilling and controversial thesis, which caught the imagination of young arts graduates like me, as well as the attention of the world's press, was simple enough, and linked to Britain's post-imperial twilight. According to Burchfield, English was like Latin. Just as, with the decline of the Roman Empire, Latin broke up into mutually unintelligible languages like French, Spanish and Italian, so in the course of many centuries, said Burchfield, global English would similarly disintegrate into separate tongues. To the delight of cultural commentators from Sydney to Saskatchewan, Burchfield pointed out that, historically speaking, languages have always had a tendency to break up, or to evolve. There were, he argued, some powerful models of the severance of a language into two or more constituent parts, especially the emergence of the great Germanic languages of Western Europe - English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish and so on - from the mutually intelligible dialects of the fifth century AD. The obvious objection to this model, which his critics were swift to deploy, was the contemporary vigour and interconnectedness of global English. In the age of mass media, the future of world English, said Burchfield's opponents, would never follow the Latin model.

Hard. Condition: Fine in very good slip case. Illustrated with glossy plates. (illustrator). First printing thus. Fine in very good slipcase. RRP £24.95.

Pbk 220pp.VG.

Hardcover in Slipcase. Condition: Fine. Neil Gower (Maps) (illustrator). A fine unread Pictorial board Hardcover, in a near fine slipcase. Not ex. library. No marks or inscriptions. 398 pages, illustrated with maps and b/w photographs. Contents as new, unread. Book.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Still stiff to open and about new in decorated red buckram; in clean sturdy black slipcase. ; 369 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Presumed first edition. "First published in 2007 by the Bodleian Library" stated. No additional dates, editions or printings indicated. Fine if not new hardback in fine, if not new dust jacket (￡12.99 $25.00) on rear panel.

Hardcover with dustjacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; 1st Printing. Book is a hardcover. Book and the dust jacket are in fine condition. This Book is a collection of Letters of General Frank Paxton. The Book is Published by Hill Junior College Press. 102 pages. ; 6 1/4"-9 1/4"; 102 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. The English Language. Burchfield, Robert; Robert McCrum (Introduction); John Simpson (Afterword). Published by The Folio Society, London, 2006. 8vo up to 9½" tall., xxiii, 230pp., illustrated. Quarter burgundy over diamond patterned boards; housed in a burgundy slipcase. Volume is in fine, unread condition; slipcase has the lightest of shelf wear.

First Folio Society Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); pictorial cloth boards; map endpapers; publisher's black paper-covered slipcase; xviii,369,[3]pp; illus. Tiny creases to a few lower page corners, else Fine in a Fine slipcase. Reed's classic eyewitness account of the first ten days of the Bolshevik-led October Revolution in 1917. Reed joined the staff of the prominent Socialist magazine The Masses in 1913, the same year his first book was published, and married his wife, journalist Louise Bryant, in 1916. "On the Masses, Reed's modus operandi, as a reporter, was to get arrested, which he regularly did, while looking for trouble. Soon, weary of provoking the US authorities, he broadened his horizons to take in the ferment in the old world as well as the new. In 1917, appalled by Woodrow Wilson's declaration of war against Germany, the newlyweds set off for Europe, and wound up in St. Petersburg at the beginning of the revolution. Reed saw at once that this was his great opportunity. Where previously he had written and published poetry and flirted with the Mexican revolution, now his prose caught fire at the prospect of a worldwide socialist catharsis" (McCrum, Robert. "The 100 best nonfiction books: No.47 - Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed (1919). The Guardian, 19 December, 2016). Upon his return to the United States, according to his editor Max Eastman, Reed shut himself away, and wrote his account of the revolution in ten days. A landmark of 20th-century journalism. 83626.

Hardback. Reprint. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. The DJ has a chip to the spine tail and rubbing to edges and corners. 172 black and white plates by John Everard. 46pp [Text] + 172 Plates. Designed as a comprehensive reference book for for all artists, sculptors, and students of the human figure. The author was a British portrait, fashion, stage and studio photographer and noted for his nude photography. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R200042611: 2011. In-4. Broché. Parfait état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 208 pages- nombreuses illustrations en couleurs et en noir et blanc accompagnées de légendes. . . . Classification Dewey : 900-GEOGRAPHIE, HISTOIRE, SCIENCES AUXILIAIRES DE L'HISTOIRE.

Condition: Good. 8vo., pp.xvi,303, blue cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 7 further b/w plates; ownership bookplate to front free endpaper, foxing to fore-edges, cloth lightly sunned to spine, light rubbing to extremities, overall very good, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which has small area of loss to rear upper corner, toning and light wear to spine - now in a protective cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. First UK edition, first impression - translated from the French by John A. Spaulding and George Simpson. Originally published in French as "Le Suicide" in 1897. ***Near fine in dark-green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and publisher's device to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine just slightly creased. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Slight marks to the fore-edge of the page block. Internally also near fine, with two ownership names on the front free endpaper. Interior pages clean with no creases or tears. ***In a very good typographically printed dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped but has an additional publisher's 30/- net price sticker on the front flap. The dustwrapper is complete, with just slivers of loss at the head and tail of the spine and corner tips. Some slight creasing to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. No tears or chips. Dustwrapper nice and clean (please see scans). ***223mm x150mm. 404 pages including a detailed Index, plus a 16pp publisher's catalogue for The International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction at the back of the book. ***'David Émile Durkheim (15 Apr 1858 - 15 Nov 1917) was a French sociologist. Durkheim formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, along with both Karl Marx and Max Weber. Much of Durkheim's work was concerned with how societies can maintain their integrity and coherence in modernity, an era in which traditional social and religious ties are much less universal, and in which new social institutions have come into being. Durkheim's conception of the scientific study of society laid the groundwork for modern sociology, and he used such scientific tools as statistics, surveys, and historical observation in his analysis of suicides in Catholic and Protestant groups. Durkheim's first major sociological work was "De la division du travail social" (The Division of Labour in Society) (1893); followed in 1895 by "Les Règles de la méthode sociologique" (The Rules of Sociological Method). Also in 1895 Durkheim set up the first European department of sociology and became France's first professor of sociology. Durkheim's seminal monograph, "Le Suicide" (1897), a study of suicide rates in Catholic and Protestant populations, pioneered modern social research, serving to distinguish social science from psychology and political philosophy.' (Wiki) ***'How can difference in the rate of suicide be explained? It was always possible to explain the incidence of suicide--why one person rather than another committed it--but the problem of why one country has a higher rate of suicide per thousand of the population than another, why one social class or religious group has a higher rate than another, was never adequately explained before Durkheim wrote his book. It was perhaps his most important work, serving for successive generations as a model in social theory. Its influence on the social sciences has increased with years.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the first UK edition - extremely hard to find now in the original dustwrapper. A scarce title in first edition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

8° , Leinen. xiii, 473, xv, 520, xix (Appendix), xii, 455, xxvii (Appendix), xvi, 436, vii (appendix), viii (Supplement). Best condition, Sehr guter Zustand. -- Perhaps the most important legal treatise ever written in the English language, Sir William Blackstone's "Commentaries on the Laws of England" (1765-69) was the first effort to consolidate English common law into a unified and rational system. Clearly and elegantly written, the work achieved immediate renown and exerted a powerful influence on legal education both in England and America. This handsomely produced, slipcased four-volume set includes facsimiles of the eighteenth-century first edition, undistorted by later interpolations. The "Commentaries" is divided into four books. The first, introduced by Stanley N. Katz, deals with what Blackstone called "the rights of persons," what a modern lawyer would call constitutional law, the legal structure of government. Book II includes an introduction by A. W. Brian Simpson and describes the law of property. Book III, introduced by John H. Langbein, analyzes civil procedure and remedies. The last book, which is devoted to criminal law and procedure, includes an introduction by Thomas A. Green. Now regarded as a literary, as well as a legal classic, Blackstone's "Commentaries" brilliantly laid out the system of English law in the mid-eighteenth century, demonstrating that as a system of justice, it was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. Ironically, the work also revealed to the colonists the insufficiencies of the system and became a model for the legal system of the fledgling American nation in 1789. Supplemented with commentary by experts in the field, these classic facsimile volumes belong on every lawyer's bookshelves. Volume I: "Of the Rights of Persons (1765)"Volume II: "Of the Rights of Things (1766)"VolumeIII: "Of Private Wrongs (1768)"Volume IV: "Of Public Wrongs (1769)" Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 3700 First University of Chicago Press Edition. ERSTAUSGABE.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Free Press Ppbk Edition 1966. 405 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

1963, a numbered copy from a limited edition of no specified number. (4to in slipcase) Near fine, no dust jacket. 204pp. Grey leatherette stamped in gilt in a fine grey cloth slipcase. Signed by the publisher and editor. Plain blue endpapers, portrait frontispiece, appendix, 2 folding maps. There is a small crack on at the foot of the front hinge, and a tiny scuff at the top of the back hinge. Written by his brother and originally published in London in 1845. Book about Thomas Simpson. Edited with introduction by John Gellner. Publisher series: Canadian Heritage Series 3 . Identified on spine as Our Canadian Heritage Series Volume 3. (Arctic/Polar, Exploration--Arctic, Hudson's Bay Company, Voyages and Travels--Arctic).

Editions de La Martinière - 2011 - In-4, broché, couverture à rabats illustrée en N&B - 208 p. - Très nombreuses reproductions photographiques en N&B et en couleurs hors-texte et en pleine page Bon état - Menus frottements sur la couverture - Dos légèrement voilé.

Condition: Very Good. 8vo., pp.vii,444, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and one further b/w plate; a very good, clean copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly chipped and worn to edges.

Condition: Very Good. 8vo., pp.xiv,354, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and five further b/w plates; a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which has chipping and several closed tears to extremities, most notably to ear upper margin.

Condition: Very Good. 8vo., pp.xix,479, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 2 further b/w plates; light foxing to top edges, a very good, clean copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly chipped and worn to edges, with light surface soil to the pale paper, and a couple of small closed tears to the upper edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. xxii, 85pp. Small abrasion on rear pastedown, moderate foxing on the cover with a small tear along the joint, very good, lacking the unprinted glassine dust jacket. Contains the first book appearance of five poems by Louis Simpson (as Louis Marantz Simpson) [1923-2012], who eventually earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University and was awarded the Medal for Excellence from Columbia University; his first collection of poems was The Arrivistes: Poems, 19401949 (published in 1949 by Fine Editions Press).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. xxii, 85pp. Spine and edges sunned, very good being poet Daniel Hoffman's copy with his name penned on the front fly, lacking the unprinted glassine dust jacket. Contains the first book appearance of five poems by Louis Simpson (as Louis Marantz Simpson) [1923-2012], who eventually earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University and was awarded the Medal for Excellence from Columbia University; his first collection of poems was The Arrivistes: Poems, 19401949 (published in 1949 by Fine Editions Press).