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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reissued. The hardcover binding of "Word Origins: The Romance of Language" is in good condition, with no visible dust jacket. The spine and covers show minimal wear, and the pages are clean and unmarked. The binding is tight, ensuring the book's longevity for readers and collectors. unknown (no dust jacket visible). John Nicolson, A.R.E., R.B.A. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 2nd Printing. Has DJ & illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Worn with tears and chips. Reissued 1962. This hardcover edition of "Word Origins: The Romance of Language" features a dust jacket that is worn, with noticeable tears and chips along the edges. The book itself is in sound condition, with a sturdy binding and clean pages. There are no inscriptions or library markings, making it an excellent copy for collectors and language enthusiasts. John Nicolson, A.R.E., R.B.A. (illustrator).…

Presumed first edition (no direct statement upon copyright page). x, 187 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.5cm. Dust jacket well soiled, nicks and several short tears along edges, small hole at top right of front panel. Purple cloth with gilt spine lettering. Pages are clean and binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a good+ dust jacket. With Foreword, section of b/w illustrations on unpaged leaves, and Appendix. Features the following essays: THE MODERN RELEVANCE OF THE RENAISSANCE by Louis B. Wright; THE COUNCIL OF TRENT AND TUDOR ENGLAND by John L. Lievsay; THE DISCOVERY OF SPACE by Marjorie Nicolson; THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BOOK IN MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITY COATS OF ARMS by Astrik L. Gabriel; LEAR, THE KING: A PREFACE TO A STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDY by Ernest William Talbert; HUMANISM, CONSCIENCE OF THE RENAISSANCE by Isidore Silver; THOMAS MORE: HUMANIST IN ACTION by Richard Sylvester; CHRISTIAN HUMANISM AND REFORM IN THE ERASMIAN CRITIQUE OF TRADITION by Ray C. Petry; PUBLICATION AND SCHOLARSHIP by Howard R. Webber.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Laminated Card Covers (Paperback) 205 x 135 mm approx.176 pp. First Citadel Press edition 1991. A comprehensive, absorbing and instructive book on the derivation of words and phrases from the names of people in fact, fiction and fable. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Occassional b/wi illus by artist John Nicolson ARE RBA. VG+(Book- minor rubbing/shelf wear. No previous owner name or insc.Black felt tip mark to bottom edge of book block at tail. Nicolson , John , ARE RBA (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Wilson Harris "Where Russia Stands" / G B Thomas "Russia's Objectives" / C M Woodhouse "How To Become A Spy" / The Arab Legion / Professor Eric A Walker "Dr. Malan's Minority" / R H Cecil "The Changing Police" / Ivor Thomas "Entente On Colonies" / Harold Nicolson "Marginal Comment" (Papers).…

Condition: Good. Hardcover. First Published in Great Britain in 1966 by Angus & robertson Ltd.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. vi, 222pp, index, bibliography, appendices, bw ills, map. Tan cloth in jacket. A couple of tiny flacks to front of price clipped jacket, very light edge wear to jacket, very light foxing to page edges. A very nice copy of this acocunt of the inhabitants of Pitcairn Island from the first arrival of Fletcher Christian's Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian companions. Includes full list of inhabitants from 1790-1856. Size: 8vo.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 152 pages. Features: Building the Caledonia Yawl - part 1; Auk - a lesson in seamanship; Boat Partnerships 101; Adapting a Crowninshield daysailer for a perfect fit; A lesson in dovetail joints; The Hardanger Fartoyvernsenter; The Chesapeake Bay Skipjack;and more. Moderage wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.; Magazine; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; WoodenBoat (Wooden Boat) Magazine, March/April 2005, Number 183 - The Magazine for Wooden Boat Owners, Builders, and Designers Building the Caledonia Yawl - part 1; Auk - a lesson in seamanship; Boat Partnerships 101; Adapting a Crowninshield daysailer f. Illustrated by La Vecchia, Nick (cover) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 1st. Hard Cover. VG+/VG. 1st. 24cm By 16cm. One of the most amazing stories of the Pacific is of the Bounty mutineers and their Pitcairn Island hide-away. Nicholson shed new light on this story with this extensively researched work which explores every facet of the island and it inhabitants, using archival and on-the-spot research. 222 pages, 17 b/w illustrations, map. Book in excellent order with art DJ with few small tears, minor edgewear. B/w Illus, Map (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. First edition in publisher's white paper printed stapled tabloid 13" x 9". New short stories and articles by: H. E. Bates 'Country Life'; Colonel David Dale Logan 'A.R.P. Call in the Miners'; R. B. D. French 'Irish Extremists'; Francis Gower 'Broadcasting in Germany'; L. A. G. Strong 'Evening Piece'; Harold Nicolson 'People and Things'; Edmund Blunden 'Rejoice in the Lamb'; John Prioleau 'Motoring'. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATES, H. E. (1906-1974). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pages 353-418. Features: On the Grand Bank; "By Water in the Desert"; The Man Who Rememered; "Old Man Crag"; Phases of Life; My Adventures in "German South-West"; Short Stories; Forbidden Frontier - adventure along the Russia-Finland border involving a scientist who escaped from a Soviet prison camp; Dr. Weston's Marlin (fishing adventures); The Cat; Advertising for a Wife; Man and His Needs; and more. Covers separated from textblock but present. Above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Cuneo, T.T.; Prater, Ernest; Crombie, Charles; Carruthers, G.P.; Soper, George; Tresilian, S.; Nicolson, W.C. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mysterious Heart of Asia (part I) - Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes gives an account of his adventures during a war-time expedition, with photos; The Murder Ship - the Russian schooner Johannis and one of the most tragic narratives in the annals of the sea; The Lifted Veil (part I) - POWs in Turkey concoct a 'spook' and create an amazing deception for their captors; The Largest Camera in the World - constructed by George Lawrence of Chicago - fantastic photo-illustrated article; 'Twixt Earth and Sky - the story of a German's vengeance and the terrible ordeal that resulted for a timber-getter in the New Zealand kauri forests; The Great Zeebrugge Raid - And After (part II) - a Royal Marine captured on the Mole describes the full story of the historic landing (in part I) and curious adventures during subsequent captivity; The Bullet-Hole Cross - Guatemalan estate manager Mr. Dellplain incurs the wrath of an Indian who swears to have his life; The Mystery of the Missing Nun (part II) - Sister Janina disappeared from a peaceful little village in Michigan; Timber-Cruising in California - Terence H. Lambert describes interesting experiences among the big trees of California; Pirate Gold - The Buried Treasure of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia; After Big Game in East Africa - advice on the fitting out of expeditions, cost, and the game available; Photo of amazing bamboo scaffold structure over the great Ch'ien Men Gate, Peking as it was being rebuilt; A Two-Days' Battle with a Baboon - it escaped aboard a ship!; A Night With a Madman in India; The Sheriff's Bad Day - this story hinges on a very odd connection with this publication; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Soper, G., Nicolson, W.C.; Holloway, W.H.; Hodgson, E.S.; Webb, Arch; Carruthers, G.P.; Prater, E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Valda, J.H. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 266-352 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Poll Chunk's Son - a story from the hills of Kentucky; The Ivory Raiders - part 1 of a tale fromm the Turkanaland district of Central Africa on the western shores of Lake Rudolf where Major H. Rayne deals with Swahili elephant poachers and Turkana warriors; The Case for the Sea-Serpent - a mysterious Fijian monster; In the Wilds with a Camera - Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson take photos in the interior of British East Africa; The Land Sharks - criminal buying and selling of land in Canada; In Quest of the Unknown - part 3 of F.A. Mitchell-Hedges' adventures amoung the Chucunaque Indians; James Watson - Human Tiger - a remarkable American crime; An Eviction in Patagonia - a rich man attempts to drive away the cattle of a squatter; My Jungle Jaunts - part 1 of an Englishwoman's experiences in Burma, with nice photos; The Blue Powder - bewitching a District Commissioner in Nigeria; The Sea-Villages of Humboldt's Bay - photo-illustrated article on this Dutch New Guinea area; The Mad Jackal - how a homesick Pathan soldier in Mesopotamia got himself sent back to India; Imprisoned in a hollow tree - Harry Comstock spent horrible days and nights inside a tree in Bexar County, Texas; The Tiger I didn't Get - Movie star Tom Mix recounts an adventure that befell him while tiger-shooting in Bengal; Nice one-page General Electric ad with illustration of new street lighting in Nagoya, Japan; One-page photo-illustrated ad for Hobart Bradstreet of Chicago. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Nicolson, W.C. (cover); Leigh, Conrad; De Walton, John; Rogers, Stanley; Skelton, J.R.; Prater, E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Brock, H.M.; Lane, H.; Robinson, H.H.; Eyles, D.C. (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 1-84, plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: Through the Shan States - part 2; The King's Ju-Ju; Phases of Life - Fire-Walking in Java, Gomez the Killer, The Queensland "Mounted"; A "Side-Show" in Borneo; The Queer Side of Things - What the Palmist Foretold; Our Japanese Burglar; The Pickle-Bottle; A Papuan Interlude; Seven Days' Bad Luck; Man and His Needs; Stamps of the World. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue.; Magazine; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World - The Magazine for Men, April 1935, No. 445, Vol. 75 Through the Shan States - part 2; The King's Ju-Ju; Phases of Life - Fire-Walking in Java, Gomez the Killer, The Queensland "Mounted"; A "Side-Show" in Borneo; The Queer Side of Things -. Illustrated by Stott, W.R.S.; Nicolle; Golden, Grace; Soper, George;Cuneo, T.; Osmond, Edward; Holloway, Cyril; Nicolson, W.C.; Wigfull, W.E.;Tresilian, S. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: 'Twixt Sunset and Sunrise - Mining Engineer William Bartle relates a story from Mexico where, outside the large cities "no foreigner's life is worth a farthing"; The Cannibal Islands - Part II - photo-illustrated article by Clifford Collinson who has lived in the Solomon Islands for several years and, in this instalment, visits the little-known atolls of Ong-Tong-Java, with nice photos; The Disappearance of Annie Mooney - A thirty-year-old mystery is solved in a strange and unlooked-for manner - was she kidnapped by the Chinese all those years ago?; The Most Wonderful School in the World - A remarkable "sun-cure" establishment at Aigle in the Swiss mountains where children - recently hopeless cripples - learn their lessons and romp in deep snow clad only in loin-cloths and boots! - with photos; Obyada, Bad Indian - story related by a member of the Royal North-West Mounted police about a troublesome individual near Red Deer, Alberta; The Rum-Runner - the story of a sea captain's first smuggling voyage, as told in St. Pierre, headquarters of a fleet of ships engaged in the liquor-running business; Soliman the Seer - the mysterious fortune-teller of the Pyraid of Cheops; The Children of the Wilderness (Conclusion) - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated travels in little known Mongolia; A Wildfowling Adventure - a nasty little adventure on the Solway Firth; Fishing for Crocodiles - using a special hook and line; On Patrol - a quaint little experience related by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force; The MIssing Links - An Indian magician discovers a thief when the police had failed; Round the World With a Lasso - former Texas Ranger Captain George Ash tours the world giving exhibitions and training troops in the use of the lasso - article with photos; The Strangest Mutiny on Record - The Schooner Pedro Varela; Six Hundred Thousand Francs - One of the most audacious jewel robberies ever perpetrated (in Paris); and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Prater, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Wood, Stanley L.; waters, D.B.; Nicolson, W.C.; Robinson, T.H.; Hiley, F.E.; Sindall, A.; De Walton, John; Edwards, Lionel; Whitaker, W.G.; Elcock, Howard K. (illustrator). …

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1928 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 16 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 16 Volume 1928.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1714 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 306 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 306 Language: English.…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1714. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: : - 302, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 302 302.…