Peter Southey (11 results)

Condition: Good. Meets or exceeds the good condition guidelines. Nice copy. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. xxvi, 832 pp. Dustjacket. LCC: 9144272.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. wraps are shelf rubbed and a bit edge worn. ownership stamps. no inscriptions well bound. good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 156 pages (complete). Primarily aimed at schools this is a carefully chosen anthology of short stories examining how South Africans define themselves. The cover has edge wear and some creasing along the spine seams. The binding is firm and sure. The paper trims are thumbed and used. The early pages have slight creasing. The frontispage has a previous owner signature. The pages are bright, relaxed, comfortable, clean, clear and assured. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. The wraps are shelf rubbed.light creasing.Internally clean and tightly bound.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The wraps are creased at the corners and worn at the extremities. Place and date of acquisition in pen to title page. There is a brown stain halfway up the textblock outer edge which has bled into the outer margin of some of the pages and affected the inside of the front wrap. 155pp. unmarked.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. reprint. shelf wear on the wraps. some usage marks. all pages clear and intact. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint . Publication of 115 pages. Reprint 2002. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. The text within the book is clear and bright. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. The wraps are a bit rubbed. Internally clean and tightly bound. Tanned. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 2nd Impression. The wraps are bit edge worn, creased and shelf rubbed. Spill marks at the top of page 121-150, not affecting the text. Tightly bound. [P.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

The subject of the letter is the surgeon Henry William Robert Davey (1798-1870), son of surgeon Henry Sallows Davey (1781-1855) of Beccles, who also studied under Sir Charles Bell at the Hunterian School of Medicine in Great Windmill Street, London. Printed in black on one side of a 21 x 16.5 cm piece of paper. In fair condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to edge on blank reverse. An attractive item, with an engraving of the front of the hospital at the head, beneath which, in an arrangement of types and point sizes: 'MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL. | THIS IS TO CERTIFY, | THAT | [Mr. Henry W. R. Davey] | HAS DILIGENTLY ATTENDED | [One] | COURSES OF OUR LECTURES, | ON | The Practice of Physic. | DATE. | [7 May 1820] | SIGNED | [P: Mere Latham MD] | [H H Southey M.D]'. Enclosed within rules, with printer's slug at foot. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.