Porter Roy Foreword (10 results)

Hard cover. First edition. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. 660 p. Audience: General/trade. book and jacket are very good plus, clean and tight, no markings, not price clipped first edition with the full number line. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The late British historian's culminating volume in his history of the Enlightenment. Starting with the grim Britain of the Civil War era, with its punishing sense of the body asa corrupt vessel for the soul, Porter charts how, through figures as diverse as Locke, Swift, Johnson and Gibbon, ideas about medicine, politics, and religion fundamentally changed notions of self, providing a sublimely orchestrated confrontation between the soul-oriented beliefs of the past and the body-centered knowledge of today. Bibliography, index. 574p. …

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good Jacket. . Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. VG, Edgewear, crease, ink name, some pencil underlining in the text/NO DUST JACKET. 248 pages, including bibliography & index. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Paperback, 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. 1st American Edition: 2004. 573 + xviii + pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and very light shelf wear. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require extra postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. Mark Melnik (Jacket Design); Franzisca Augstein (Author Photo); 'Still Life With Skull' {Detail} by Gerard Dou (Jacket Painting) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Yellow cloth with broad black cloth spine region, gilt-lettered spine. xviii + 574. Unclipped jacket, will add protective sleeve when ordered. A pristine copy. Roy Porter's last book, left as a complete draft when he died, but half-finished end-notes had to be dropped. This 2nd printing presumably 2007 or later as 13 digit ISBN to back of jacket. 16 cm x 24 cm.…

Condition: Very Good. 8vo.,pp. xvi,256, paperback, b/w illustrations; light toning to margins, light sunning to spine, a very good copy.

Condition: Good. Hardcover, some brownish spots and large blackish/grayish mark on righthand edge of pages, otherwise inside in very good condition, 574pp.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.