Oliphant Smeaton Intro (8 results)

Condition: Good. 1962. Reprinted. 199 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. First Everyman's edition in 1906. About 60 different essays by the 17th century writer, barrister, MP and lord chancellor (1561-1626). 200 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £7.20.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 13 cm tall, full leather, gilt title on spine, gilt top, frontispiece of The Gate of Honour , Cambridge. Boards lifting, wear along spine, wear and tears at spine ends and corners, wear to top gilt, foxing on eps, name top of ffep, some pencil writing on rear pastedown, play in front hinge with binding gap at half-title page, tanned sides, otherwise good. 300 grams .…

Condition: Good. 1958. Reprinted. 199 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No date or edition statement, liv, 286 pages, frontispiece and vignette title by A.S. Hartrick, coloured illustrations by A.S. Forrest, top page edges gilt, spine faded, front endpaper removed, foxing to endpapers and page edges, (The Golden Poets).

Hardcover. First edition thus (NAP) . Hardcover, original off white and gilt pictorial cloth (owl on front board, Corinthian column on spine) , top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, glossary, li & 291 pp, decorative red initial letters, rubrics, illustrated with sepia plates, (all present) . Very good, no dustjacket. Approximately 1/2 inch chipped or chewed off upper corner of rear board, some foxing on front board, minor soil on cloth. Internally, some smudges and foxing on first free front endpaper, with approximately 1 inch chipped off top edge there, approximately 1/16th to 1/8th inch chipped off top edge of next 4 or 5 leaves, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked, and never read, with some unopened leaves. Philosophy; science; Renaissance; fine binding; Victorian.…

Octavo hardcover (VG); all specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. GD+ original cloth, Introduction by Oliver Smeaton, with Index of Quotations and Foreign Phrases with Translation, and a Glossary.