Introductory Essay and Notes (28 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first edition. Octavo, red cloth covers, lxiv + 513 pages. Includes notes, index. Dust jacket has a bit of rubbing, still Very Good. 061507C.

HC. 30pp of text good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W ill. follow text (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Good Only. Normal book wear; moderate dust jacket wear including dark soils. Pennell, Joseph (illustrator). Book.

Near fine illustrated stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Estes and Lauriat, Boston, MA. 1893. Hardcover. International Limited Edition #545 of 1,000 copies. Reprint Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O bookplate on the front pastedown. Book Condition: Very Good -; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; small tear in fabric at head; small tear to frontispiece tissue. No DJ. Blue cloth boards and spine with worn suntanned paper label on spine. Gilt textblock top; deckle fore edge; clean internals; internal hinges are sound and not split. 321 pp 8vo. Old Mortality is one of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott. Set in south west Scotland, it forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of his Tales of My Landlord (1816). The novel deals with the period of the Covenanters, featuring their victory at Loudoun Hill and their defeat at Bothwell Bridge, both in June 1679; a final section is set in 1689 at the time of the royalist defeat at Killiekrankie. A clean very presentable copy.…

Condition: Very Good. 1918. Hardcover. 2nd Ed. Ex Libris with usual markings. Clean copy with some minor shelf wear, minor edge wear and light sunning to spine, some yellowing to endpapers, otherwise clear. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1918. Hardcover. 2nd Ed. Ex Libris with usual markings. Clean copy with some minor shelf wear, minor edge wear and light sunning to spine, some yellowing to endpapers, otherwise clear. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dustjacket included. Later Edition. ISBN 0268038732. Hardback. Near Fine Condition book in a Near Fine Condition Dustjacket. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. As new condition. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN 0268038732. Hardcover copy in fine condition with fine condition dustwrapper. First printing. Tight clean copy. CSB 18-6 2. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Brown Boards with gilt titles, 190 x 125 mm approx. xii +228 pp. Published in the Texts and Studies in the History of Education Series by C.U.P. First Edition 1971. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition.Near Fine/ Near Fine. (Book- a little dust spotting to top edge of book block, no previous owner name , insc. nor annotations. Dust Jacket- Price clipped with light tanning to exposed top edges of flap folds. No other defects to book or jacket).…

hardcover. 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. Book in good condition.Green bards in good order with only minor signs of wear and handling.Gilt lettering to the spine is nice and bright.Pages well bound and clean throughout with small signs of foxing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Original quarter white (spine) and orange cloth boards, stamped gilt lettering, 5 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches, annotated, index, xxvi + 298 pp. Very good, no dustjacket, presumably as issued. Spine tanned with some foxing there and along edges of textblock, 1/8th inch fraying at head and foot of spine, 1 ½ inch tear along front joint, previous owner's signatures, bookseller's label, tanning on endpapers, paper lightly age yellowed, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and apparently never really read. Religion; Buddhist; Buddhism; Burma; Miramar; Ceylon; Sri Lanka.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Burgundy Cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine and front, 210 x 150 mm approx. Top edges gilt- others uncut. Publisher's purple end papers with shield , lance and helmet - Border Edition to front paste downs, Vol I cxiv + 304 pp Vol II [iv] + 394 pp. 6 Etchings with guards to each volume all as called for, printed by F Goulding, London. 1st Printing 1892 of the First Two Volumes of the Border Edition with intro. and Notes by Lang. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good (Books -moderate shelf wear to cloth, spines a little sunned and soiled. Ink - same gift insc. Xmas 1892 to preliminary blanks. soiling to some of the tissue guards. Bindings sound with no cracks to end papers. No other notable faults).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 2nd pritning (1st-1923). Essays originally published 1811-1922. xxxvi+315 inc. facs. original t.p.'s; 1929-dated small sig. to front pastedown, a dozen or so lines of pencil notes to rear endpaper & pastedown, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked. Green cloth covers clean but front board cloth pigment has faintly mottled fading (this not serious however), spine darkened, otherwise unworn except for top spine which is rather rubbed and has a nick & chip repair which is small but a tad unsightly.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good- (Good). 1st Edition. Harper's Classical Series for Schools and Colleges, not original binding, front hinge taped, ink and pencil marks in the text, some browning and stains to end papers, cover and pages good. Presumed first (Gildersleeve).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. 3RD.EDITION.VG TIGHT COPY WITH WEAR TO BOARDS.NEAT NAME FEP.due to weight extra postage for non uk address.36.

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, gilt roundel to the front cover for 'Southend-on-Sea High School For Girls'. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 680 printed pages of text with 12 full-page monochrome illustrations throughout. Smart Prize Plate in side, spine not faded and in Very Good clean condition, corners sharp and pointed, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. NINETEENTH CENTURY.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, Hardback/Hardcover, usual stamps and marking. Clean text, sound binding. 1930 EDITION. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, gilt design to the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 661 printed pages of text with 10 full-page monochrome illustrations throughout. Light marking to the covers and in Very Good clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. NINETEENTH CENTURY.…

Paper. Condition: VG-. 78 pages. Some neat red ink annotation.

Fifty-six Drawings by Joseph Pennell. NY: The Macmillan Company, 1937. 30p text, 56 plates, each preceeded by leaf with title/description. 29x23cm, cloth. Cover spotted, VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. First Thus. This is a gorgeous volume with gilt decorations on the front board and spine, deckled edges, top edge gilt.

TWO VOLUMES SET. [BOTH VOLUMES]: 20.5X25.5 cm. [cxxxiv+231] + [232-658] pages. Softcover. Cover edges slightly folded. [VOLUME I]: Pencil writing and markings on several pages. [VOLUME II]: Front cover slightly dirty. Cover edges slightly wrinkled. [BOTH VOLUMES]: Else in good condition. The book is in : English.…

Condition: Very Good. The books cover does have shelfware including colour fading, scuffs and dark marks. Otherwise the content does have writting and a piece of of the first page cut out. Overall good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 3rd Edition. CIII, 9, 364 pages ; 23 cm. Reprint. Originally published: 2nd ed. London : Royal Asiatic Society, 1923. Originally published as v. 12 in the Oriental Translation Fund, New Series. With new introd.; 3rd ed. London : Pali Text Society, (1974). The first volume of the Abhidhammapitaka is a compilation from various sources analysing and classifying the phenomena (dhamma) that comprise all mental and material conditions.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. These 20 volumes with illustrations are an Edition de Luxe from the Hawarden Press, London, which is limited to 500 numbered copies of which this is number 303. The top edge is gilt.The edition The Antiquary has a loose title page. The Pirate is missing the title page. St.Ronan's Well has a few speckles/spots/discolorations front at the edge. Rob Roy has a discolored gutter as does Guy Manering which has not affected the inside printed pages. The volume, Quentin Durward , has the previous owner's gift inscription the covers 3/4 of the page and a discolored gutter. A few books have bumped spines. The publication dates are 1893 and 1894. No other markings were found. The books are good to very good. Shipping will be quoted at a later date. Photographs available upon request.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No date, circa 1952. INSCRIBED: "To Mrs. Miller (wife of Prof. Perry Miller who supplied the Preface) With the Compliments of the Editor, Yoshimori Harashima. January 10, 1953." Nice association copy. Small hardcover in original maroon cloth boards. Gilt titles on cover and spine somewhat rubbed, pages tanned. Scarce, WorldCat locates only one copy in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. collectable rare antique book. published by Adam Charles Black, in London, 1897. good condition. 576 pages.