J C T Oates (68 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: VeryGood. No Highlighting or underlining. Some Wear but overall very good condition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 23p slim booklet, white and brown illustrated card cover, text fresh and clean, black and white illustrations Language: English.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Spine is slightly browned. ; Contents include W. J. B. Owen - Letters of Longman & Co. To Wordsworth, 1814-36; Alan Lang Strout - Writers on German Literature in Blackwood's Magazine, with a footnote on Thomas Carlyle; and others.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Covers slightly faded at spine.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Cambridge University Library 1975 reprint. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. p276-282. Stiff wrapper. Offprint from Essays in Honour of Victor Scholderer. Signed dedication by the author to Professor Larry Thompson. A fresh clean copy.

Paperback. 23p. A slim softcover booklet in fine condition. New; appears unread.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 128 pages. George Whalley "Portrait Of A Bibliophile VII:Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834" / J C T Oates "An Old Boot At Cambridge" / Boies Penrose "Contemporary Collectors XXVIII - The Library At Barbados Hill, Devon, Pennsylvania" / P H Muir "Further Reminiscences XIV" /Howard M Nixon "English Bookbindings XXXVIII".

stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp.291-300. A reprint from The Book Collector, Autumn 1961. On books given to Cambridge by T. Ramsay and information on the books that he wrote. Illustrated. Presentation on front cover "CFB (Curt F. Bühler), ex domo sutoris JCTO, Lou -: 61" and also bears the ownership inscription of Bühler "Curt F. Bühler, 24. x. 61.".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 140 pages. Illustrated. Arthur Rau "Portrait Of A Bibliophile XIII Henry Geotge Quin, 1760=1805" / Marie Walter "Concerning The Affair Walsunggenblut" / J C T Oates "Contemporary Collectors XXXIX Sir Geoffrey Keynes" / Berthe van Regemorter "The Binding Of The Archangel Gospels" / Nancy Cunard "The Hours Press".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-library. Library rebound. Original paperbacks are preserved inside book. Boards and spine are slightly grubby. Spine foot is rubbed. Page block head is slightly age tanned. Embossed library stamps on FEP, title page and front papercovers. Library plate residue on BEP. Binding remains intact, contents are clear. T. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-library. Library rebound. Original paperbacks are preserved inside book. Boards are slightly grubby and scratched. Lower leading corner of front board is lightly bumped, marked and rubbed. Embossed library stamps on FEP, title page and front papercovers. Library plate residue on BEP. Binding remains intact, contents are clear. T. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-library. Library rebound. Original paperbacks are preserved inside book. Boards are slightly grubby and scratched. Embossed library stamps on FEP, title page and front papercovers. Library plate residue on BEP. Binding remains intact, contents are clear. T. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Ex-library. No jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Minor shelf wear on cover. Spine ends slightly bumped and worn. Corners lightly rubbed. Library book plate on pastedown, catalogue No. on spine and stamp on title page. Endpapers and pastedown are tanned. Page block has a few grubby marks. Page block head slightly foxed. Pages are clean, tight, in good condition. BW. Ex-Library.

Condition: Good. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1150grams, ISBN:0521306566.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 32pp. Printed in a limited edition of 1250 copies. Lecture given in the Senate House, Cambridge on 18 March 1968 by the author, to mark the bicentenary of the death of Laurence Sterne. Pink thin card wrap-around covers with portrait of Sterne on front cover - also repeated b/w on frontispiece. Thread binding. Sun fading to spine area of covers. No inscriptions. In VG+ condition. Laid in is an Invoice for this book for previous owners.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 26p offprint from Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, nice clean copy, note of authorial provenance, with illustrations Language: English.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Wrappers. From the collection of David J. Hall; sold in aid of the Friends of the National Libraries. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Wrappers. Covers slightly marked at spine. From the collection of David J. Hall; sold in aid of the Friends of the National Libraries.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Covers slightly darkened at spine. From the collection of David J. Hall; sold in aid of the Friends of the National Libraries.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Wrappers. From the collection of David J. Hall, with his few pencillings on the upper cover; sold in aid of the Friends of the National Libraries.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 8vo, 23, [3] pp, plates facs. (some coloured), [Reprinted with minor alterations from the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science vol. 4 pp 50-70] From the text: "The earliest specific references to a library of the University at Cambridge are to be found in the wills (both proved in March 1416) of William Hunden and William Loring, the former bequeathing to it three volumes "to remain forever in the new library at Cambridge for the use of graduates and scholars in residence," and the latter all his books of civil law "to remain forever in the common library of the scholars of the University." There are, of course, earlier references to books in the possession of the university. Richard de Lyng, three times Chancellor of the University, who died in 1355, is included as the donor of a chest of books." Booklabel of the bibliophile A R A Hobson on front inside wrapper, with a manuscript note from the author on a CUL card thanking Hobson for "your splendid lectures" (Hobson had given the 1974-75 Sandars Lectures - "Some book collectors, booksellers and binders in sixteenth century Italy.") Endpapers faintly foxed, otherwise Near Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Ex-library. No jacket. Grey boards with cloth spine. Minor shelf wear on cover. Spine ends slightly bumped and worn. Corners bumped and rubbed. Library book plate and wallet on pastedown, catalogue No. on spine and stamp on title page and page block head. Page block has a few grubby marks. Page block head slightly foxed. Pages are clean, tight, crisp, in very good condition. BW. Ex-Library.

Card Covered Booklet. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1968. [iv], 31pp. B&W frontispiece and a B&W illustration. "This lecture was given in the Senate House at Cambridge on 18 March 1968 by J.C.T. Oates, Fellow of Darwin College and Under-Librarian of the University Library, Cambridge. It was delivered for the Master and Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge, to mark the bicentenary of the death of Laurence Sterne." Light shelf wear to covers. The booklet is otherwise in excellent condition. There are no inscriptions and all contents are tight and clean.

Condition: New.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. vi, 51pp, notes. Or white card. Near new. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 509 pages. Illustrations photos in b/w. Very good hardback in like dust jacket. Very tiny nick to top of front cover. Of all the departments in the University of Cambridge, the University Library is by far the oldest. Oates traces its evolution in its first three and a half centuries, from its hesitant beginnings to its designation as a place of copyright deposit in the legislation of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He pays special attention to benefactors, on whom the Library was almost entirely dependent during the Reformation, but also to its subsequent recovery and dramatic Cambridge University Library: A History from the Beginnings to the Copyright Act of Queen Anne. J. C. T. Oates. Cambridge University Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Authoritative history of Cambridge University Library, covering its origins through to 1709. Includes bibliographical references and illustrations. Very good in like dust jacket, clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

4to, 163-165pp., 1 illustration, orig. printed wrappers. Presentation inscription on upper cover. Provenance: From the library of Howard M. Nixon (1909-1983), British librarian and bookbinding historian.