Introductory Memoir (31 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good+++. Bright and attractive trade paperback. A compilation of the classic mountain-exploration books Nanda Devi and the Ascent of Nanda Devi. Former owners name on inside flap of front cover. 2000. Remainder mark to head of page ends and light wear to spine. Nice solid copy. With Photographs (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Reprint. 8vo, 505 pp. COvers rubbed and worn with light fraying at extremities, front hinge cracked, page edges tanned, browning to endpapers, a few marks in text.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. No Dustjacket. xxviii + 420 pages. No dustjacket. Dark blue hardback binding with impressed black and gilt-coloured decorations and titles to front board and spine. Moderate wear/frays to spine-ends and boards' corners. Title-page and back free-endpaper is heavily browned o/w pages clean and tidy.…

Hard Back. Condition: Book Good ++/VG. No Dustjacket. xxxii + 218 + 188 pages + adverts to rear. Blue binding, ornate impressed titles to boards, in gilt & black to front & spine with gilt titles, blind to rear. Some wear with small splitting to spine-ends, some wear with slight rubbing to corners. Slight wear to edges. Spine is a little darkened as too edges of boards due to use. Gilt page-edges to all 3 sides, very bright to opening edge & bottom. Slight superficial paper-cracks to inner hinges. Yellow coloured end-papers as of the period. Pages 23-26 have never been bound in & are free, but this is not immediately visible at all. Pages are very slightly yellow with age & have a slight wave, but text is very clean & in very nice condition. Excellent b/w drawings. Small ink name to flyleaf, slight flecking to half-title page. A very nice old volume, probably mid-late Victorian. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 296+8 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Green covers are fading to yellow, mostly to front board, but still looks okay. Light foxing to endpapers. Illust. w/ a b/w frontispiece of Maurice Hewlett. Contents nice.…

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: With All Faults (W.A.F.). No Dustjacket. 253 pages. Very attractive marbled & gilt decorated boards but VERY worn, front board is OFF, rear board nearly OFF, bottom third spine covering missing, small loss to top and remainder fissured/no title legible. Blue maerbled end-papers, blotching to half-title & frontispiece pages, slight blotching to text , reasonably clean for age. Binding is sound. Needs repair.…

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: With All Faults (W.A.F.). No Dustjacket. 264 pages. Very attractive marbled & gilt decorated boards but VERY worn and front board is OFF/detached, rear nearly OFF, bottom third & top edge of spine covering missing, the remaindered fissuerd & illegible. Bookplate to inner front board. Blue marbled end-papers, blotching to title,half-title & frontispiece pages, slight blotching to text , reasonably clean for age. Binding is sound. Needs repair.…

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: With All Faults (W.A.F.). No Dustjacket. 262 pages. Very attractive marbled & gilt decorated boards but VERY worn and front board is OFF/detached, rear board loose, spine covering missing. Bookplate to inner front board. Blue marbled end-papers, blotching to title,half-title & frontispiece pages, slight blotching to text , reasonably clean for age. Binding is sound. Needs repair.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Unknown edition. 240pp. Gilt stamped with topedge gilt. Faint scratch on front cover, a few white dots near title on spine, corners and spine ends slightly worn, very good. Volume I only.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. Not Issued. Brown cloth, decorated in blind, with gilt title on upper front cover and gilt decoration on spine panel. Mildly rubbed at spine extremities, along joints, and at corners. Binding lean, with some unevenness to text block along fore-edge, but all leaves remain firmly anchored, without detachment. Spine panel lightly sunned. Pale yellow endpapers are slightly foxed, and the text block very slightly toned but otherwise nicely intact. Introductory memoir by William North precedes text. 207 pp. + 4 facsimile title pages advertising publisher's other works at rear. Among the most influential, and now among the most neglected, Gothic novels of the early 19th century. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 4th Edition. Fourth edition, first printing, octavo hardback, 300 pp. Frontispiece Very Good condition in Very Good unclipped dust jacket No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near fine in original dark green cloth-covered boards with light rubbing at the tips.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Blue cloth. Volume 1 & 2 only. Spine ends rubbed else fine. 302pp, 385pp all in very good condition. Dust Jacket, Spines faded, else fine. Not Price Clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Very Good -. 8vo. xiii (iii), 294 (2) pp, with 4 illus. and an Introductory Memoir by Edward Hewlett. n.d. [Preface 1925]. Not Price Clipped. Small chipping, mostly along top edge spine d. Age-toned text block. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6" x 9". Olive green cloth with black cloth backstrip, and white paper title plate and black lettering to spine. In acetate protector. "Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923) was an English historical novelist, poet and essayist." Size: Octavo. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. :: The Autobiographical Account of the Development of Molecular Orbital Theory with an Introductory Memoir by Friedrich Hund. :: 33 Illustrations. :: Bound in publisher's printed paper-covered boards, front board bears author, title, publisher, and photograph of Mulliken taken by Ransil. Author, title, and publisher's emblem lettered in white upon spine. Octavo (9 1/2 x 6 5/8 inches; 240 x 161 millimeters). 256 pages. Condition: Very Good+. Minor shelf-wear to covers, interior clean.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Green cloth boards, foxing. Frontispiece of Darmesteter. 310 pgs. ads rear. Owner's Name.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1883, First Edition, Very Good/no dj, 12mo.,160pp., gray cloth hardcover, decorated front cover and backstrip, neat owner's bookplate and inked name on front endpapers, owner's inked excerpt from Hawthorne written in bottom margin of page 91 o/w text unmarked, binding tight. …

lii, 505, [1] pages. Hardcover: H 18.5cm x L 13cm. Discreet two-line black ink stamp "Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., | Binders" at front free endpaper verso's top left corner. Black leather spine with five raised bands; gilt lettering to second compartment from top; slight scuffing at ends, to band ridges, and at front joint. Blue cloth boards with slightly scuffed black leather corners; some brown staining to front board's upper third. Gilt top edge; light soiling/staining to fore-edge. Marbled patterned endpapers. Foxing to several initial and rear leaves; Easter 1934 ink gift inscription to an Eton student on front flyleaf; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. Lii, 573 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt, All Edges Gilt. First American Printing, 1896, Reprinting The Globe Edition With Addition A, Notes, Corrections. Near Fine, No Marks, Gilt Bright.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Paper label to spine a little rubbed. Very faint scattered foxing to prelims. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 139 pages. 8 essays by the classical scholar and translator known for work on ancient philosophy and ancient Greek religion.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reprint, 1st Hogarth Press-1927. Blue hessian cover. Issued as Brunner/Mazel Classics in Psychoanalysis No.3 (was originally No.13 in the Hogarth Press series). f/piece Abraham portrait+527 pp.; pristine copy in nearly mint jacket in protective sleeve as acquired, but must, being a neurotic obsessional, note however a faint brown outline of a very slight water-stain half-way down spine. Abraham (1877-1925) was a pioneer in attempting to apply psychoanalysis to personality or 'character' (notably identifying and naming the 'anal' and 'oral' characters). This posthumously published work includes a full bibliography of Abraham's publications.Very scarce both in UK and with jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Near fine, fourth impression, tight clean copy in dust wrapper, neat ownership signature, wrapper slightly tanned with minimal edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. In goede staat. Hardcover. Randen rug wat beschadigd. Rood leer met gouden opdruk en gouden randen pagina. 608 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Firmly bound, decorated brown cloth boards. Scuffing on cover and spine. Marks on some pages. No jacket. numerous illustrative engravings from designs by Kenny Meadows (illustrator).

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. [4], v-x, [2], 55pp, [3]. Original cloth in DJ, marbled endpapers. Slightly rubbed to extremities, acetate DJ chipped at head of spine, head of lower panel, and corners. Small light stain to front free endpaper, running on to the edge of text block, but nothing too obtrusive. The glue used to fix the tipped in photograph of the author has deteriorated, leaving a stain and the photograph loose. Copy two hundred and ninety of six hundred, bound in Sanderson's William Morris rough pattern cloth. An early production from The Whittington Press. The Whittington Press - A Bibliography, 1971-1981: 2 Size: 4to. MacKarell, Peter (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A true first edition, published in 1922, edited and selected by Gordon Bottomley with a 50 page Introductory Memoir by Laurence Binyon. Rosenberg's "Complete Works" wasn't published until 1937, and "Collected Poems" not until 1949. With a portrait frontispiece of Isaac Rosenberg. Inserted loosely in the book is an envelope dated 2 May 1944 postmarked Manchester - unfortunately, there is no letter inside! ***Very good in black cloth-covered boards with a paper label to the spine, which is completely clean and undamaged. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases to the boards. Corners sharp. Fore-edge of page block just slightly foxed. Please note that the book would be considered to be near fine but for signs of some expert professional restoration to the spine along the edge with the rear board (please see scans). No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. No foxing to the pages which are clean. No creases or tears. ***In a very good light blue printed dustwrapper, which retains the publisher's printed price of 6/- net on the spine. The dustwrapper is largely complete, with just some slight loss at the top of the spine, which has been reinforced on the back. Some wear and surface rubbing to the bottom of the spine of the dustwrapper. Just very light edge-wear to the extremities. No tears. No chips. Spine lightly browned with age and exposure to light and handling. Internal folds retain the original slightly darker blue and are uncreased. ***198mm x130mm. 186 pages. ***Contents: Introductory Memoir [by Gordon Bottomley], Moses - A Play, Poems from Camp and Trench, Fragments of "The Unicorn", Earlier Poems. Some of the poems appeared in a privately printed pamphlets "Night and Day", published in 1912, and "Youth" published in 1915. "Moses A Play" was originally published in 1916, completing the works published in the author's lifetime. [Taken from the Bibliographical Note] ***'Youth is still childhood: when we cast off every cloudy venture, and our thoughts are clear and mature; when every act is a conscious thought, every thought an attempt to arrest feeling; our feelings strong and overwhelming, our sensitiveness awakened by insignificant things in life; when the skies race tumultuously with our blood, and the earth shines and laughs; when our blood hangs suspended at the rustling of a gown. Our vanity loves to subdue--battle, aggressive. How we despise those older and duller--we want life, newness, excitement. (Isaac Rosenberg, circa 1916) ***'Isaac Rosenberg (25 Nov 1890 - 1 Apr 1918) was an English poet and artist. His "Poems from the Trenches" are recognized as some of the most outstanding poetry written during the First World War. On 21 Mar 1918, the German Army started its Spring Offensive on the Western Front. A week later, Rosenberg sent his last letter with a poem "Through These Pale Cold Days" to England before going to the front lines with reinforcements. Having just finished a night patrol, he was killed on the night of 1 Apr 1918 with another ten KORL soldiers; there is a dispute as to whether his death occurred at the hands of a sniper or in close combat. (Wiki) ***An original first edition of "Poems" by Isaac Rosenberg. Of interest to literary academics and collectors of Isaac Rosenberg's poetry, and First World War literature and poetry titles. The book is itself scarce, and copies with complete surviving dustwrappers are exceedingly scarce. ***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. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis; 4th Impression (1949). 527 pages. NearFine Hardcover, no DJ. Green cloth, Gilt spine title. Very light soiling to the top edge otherwise The book looks perfect. 8.8"x5.75"11.25". be33651.

8vo. 21cm, first US edition, 353p., frontis portrait with facsimile signature, 1 plate, index, fine binding in half dark green morocco grained calf, gilt borders and titles on the spine, lighter patterned green cloth boards in gilt ruled borders, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, signed binding by "Macdonald, N.Y.", some slight wear on the corners, a very good sound copy (). Mary Gladstone was the private secretary and advisor to her father, Prime Minister Gladstone. The letters date from 1879 to 1885. The frontis is a photogravure portrait of Lord Acton with facsimile inscription. Attractively bound.…

Half-Leather/Marbled Boards. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Hardback. Foxing to end inside covers. Six raised bands to spine. Wear to leather spine. Wear to edges and corners. Gold paper tile on spine with title in gilt lettering. Printed from the edition in twelve volumes (Complete in one volume). Complete bound in half leather and marbled boards.1303 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hadrback.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Translated by Doublas Bryan and Alix Strachey. Scarce. Standard green cloth. 527 pages, including index. From the collection of H. S. Lippman, long time director of the Wilder Child Guidance Clinic. Pocket in rear and his ink signature on title page. Very good. Light wear at head, heel and corners. Spine reads: Selected Papers on Psycho-Analysis Karl Abraham, M.D. …