Mure Geoffrey (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Red cloth, silver lettering, front edge of cover has been chewed, text is still quite solid. We'll call it a reading copy. FER.

Condition: Good. Casebound with dust jacket, full board, 180 pp., 14x22x1,8 cm , with notes Slight signs of use cover, ex-libris on end page, letterbox mail.

Condition: Very Good. 263 pp., Hardcover, previous owner's name to title page else very good in a chipped and age-toned dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelf wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows light edge wear. Previous owner's name on end paper. Includes fold-out of Table I: The Categories of Hegel's Logic & Table II: Nature and Concrete Spirit. BOOK APPEARS BARELY USED.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day. …

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Full page colour illustrations and black & white within text. Nice clean copy inside and out. Binding slightly loosened but all still intact. Some edge wear to boards and slightly bumped upper rear corner. Trier, W. & Smith, May (illustrator).

1st edition. 1st edition, in russet cloth with silver; illustrated by H.R Millar; map end papers. Owner's inscription on half-title page; a few spots of foxing; cloth on spine a little darkened, with a light wear to silver lettering Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A very scarce work of children's literature by Geoffrey Mure, with a lovely colour frontispiece and in-text illustrations by H. R. Millar. Very scarce first edition.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and various in-text illustrations by Harold Robert Millar (1869-1942), a prominent Scottish illustrator.This is a work of children's fantasy by G. R. G. Mure, which was told to the author from his daughter Janet. The preface states that she 'says this story is not to be read by anybody who does not believe in Fairies'.Contents include 'A Wood and Fairies: Dull but Quickly Ended', 'His Giant Majesty Receives a Guest', and 'A Tricky Wrestler, But at Last He's Down'd'.Geoffrey Reginald Gilchrist Mure (1893-1979) was a British idealist philosopher, Oxford academic, and children's writer. He wrote a range of academic books on philosophy, particularly Hegel, and two books for children.With an ink inscription to the verso of half-title page which reads, 'Daphne, with love from Aunty Belly + Uncle Ernie. Xmas 1942'.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Minor wear to the extremities and the spine, with light fading and wear to the spine, head and tail of spine, and bands of joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean throughout, with the odd spot to the fore edge of text. Very Good. H. R. Millar (illustrator). book.…