Selected Adam Gowans (11 results)

Condition: Good. 1914. No edition remarks. 176 pages. Fully bound blue leather with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Covers dusty with some staining o/w internally a clean unmarked copy in good condition. m1631.

Leather, Full (Flexible). Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st. Seller's image, know what you are getting! Pre-packing weight is 0 lb. 3.5 oz . ORIGINAL, NOT A REPRINT OR PHOTOCOPY!! NO Dust Jacket. The ODD flexible leather cover has stiffened or was not so flexible to begin with, the thong that is woven through the cover and used as the binder has deteriorated and is missing in places, notably on the Front cover. Due to the broken thongs, the volume is hinged at the front. Minor Foxing noted, light tanning throughout, wear and soil to covers. Has Owner markings noted on Title page! See Picture! The Copyright date is 1904 for this Printing. This volume was purchased through local public auction. Thank you for your purchase from Sunset Books! Help Promote World Literacy, GIVE a Book as a GIFT!! In stock, Ships from Ohio. WE COMBINE SHIPPING ON MULTIPLE PURCHASES!!!! SEE PICTURES!!!!! ANY ODD/GREEN TONES ON THE SCANS ARE CAUSED BY MY SCANNER!! All of our Technical/Textbook/Ex-Library volumes were obtained legally through Public or Auction sales. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Book.

Card. Condition: Fair. N/A (illustrator). First Edition. Paper on card cover. First edition. Printed illustrated two tone cover. 13 x 10.3cm. 85 pages + 2 further pages of publisher listings. Opens with Hilaire Belloc. Includes: Robert Bridges. Rudyard Kipling. Henry Newbolt. Yeats and many more. Condition: cover is poor, torn and age discoloured. Internally clean, little wear, colour good, binding firm. Cover lets it down hence fair condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. GOWANS, Adam L. (selected by). The Hundred Best Poems (Lyrical) in the English Language. Pocket Anthologies No. 1. London: Gowans & Gray Ltd, 1925. Small octavo / pocket format. Original publisher's cloth. Condition: Good. A sound and serviceable copy. The boards are firm and square, and the binding remains secure. The text block is complete and clean, with light age-related toning consistent with a 1925 publication. No inscriptions, annotations, or other markings. Modest shelf wear and handling wear present, as expected. Overall, a solid example of this popular pocket anthology. Description: This compact anthology brings together one hundred of the finest lyrical poems in the English language, selected by Adam L. Gowans. Issued as the first volume in the Pocket Anthologies series by Gowans & Gray, it reflects early twentieth-century tastes in English poetry and remains an appealing collectible for readers and poetry enthusiasts alike.

Condition: Very Good. Second impression of the second edition. A collection of classics of the ghost story genre including No. 1 Branch Line: The signalman by Dickens and The old Nurse's story by Mrs Gaskell. It is bound in red cloth which has a faded spine but is generally sound. The interior is quite heavily foxed as far as the end papers are concerned, but the text is absolutely clean and clear.; 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall Very Good.

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered in black. 12mo. 6'' x 4¼''. Contains art nouveau colour printed title, (xvi), 144 pp. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.

Condition: Good. Publisher's original illustrated peppermint green card wrap covers [soft back]. 18mo. 6'' x 4''. Contains art nouveau colour printed front cover, (xvi), 144 pp. Chips to the spine ends and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint November 1907 (first printing 1904). Small format book 6 x 4 inches. Publishers green suede covers with gilt titles and black decoration to front, black titles to spine. Gilt top edge.Edges of suede covers curling with chipping to foot of spine. Previous owners neat ink signature to front endpaper. Content generally clean with occasional fox spots. Not ex-library. pp. An attractive copy. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Cover a bit soiled and shelfworn with spots on front.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Published during the early years of the First World War. ***Near fine in pale grey cloth-covered boards with black & white titles to the spine and decorative black borders to the front board. The boards are clean with only very minor marks, and a slight bubbling to the cloth at the top of the back board. The head and tail of the spine are just very slightly creased. Corners sharp. No bumps, splits or tears. Internally near fine with no foxing. Interior pages clean. No inscriptions. Spine tight. No dustwrapper. [please see scans] ***188 mm x 125 mm. 275 pages, including an Index plus four pages of adverts at the back of the book. ***'It is a great matter that we should understand thoroughly the point of view of "those who are at present our enemies." We wish to judge them neither more harshly nor more leniently than they deserve. In order to form our judgements wisely, we must know upon what information their point of view is founded. We must know what their beliefs are regarding the origin of the war, its progress and ultimate result, and also what motives inspire them and what they believe to be the objects for which they are fighting. Our chief means of doing so are the German newspapers. They are quite as unanimous on most of these matters as our own newspapers are, and though they are rigidly censored by the Government, perhaps, indeed, because they are, they unquestionably reflect, at the same time as they guide, the opinion of the vast majority of the nation. It therefore seemed to me that to make from these newspapers a number of selections, which would fairly represent their general tone, was a task well worth attempting and one likely to result in a book of permanent historical value. Some of the extracts included have already appeared in more or less complete form in some of the daily newspapers, but many of them are so important as to be indispensable to every student of the war, and therefore to deserve preservation in a complete form and in a volume of handy dimensions.' [Quote taken from the author / compiler's Preface. ***'These extracts are selected from fairly complete sets of eight representative German papers: "Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" (North-German Universal Gazette), "Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger" (Berlin Local advertiser), "Vossische Zeitung" (Voss's Gazette), "Berliner Tageblatt" (Berlin Daily Newspaper), "Vorwarts" (Forward), "Frankfurter Zeitung" (Frankfort Gazette), "Kolnische Zeitung" (Cologne Gazette), "Hamburger Nachrichten" (Hamburg News). ***So far as can be judged from the German newspapers, life in Germany proceeded during December much as it did here. There is no evidence of any serious doubt of ultimate victory. There was no lack of business advertisements, in fact nothing to show that normal conditions were not prevailing everywhere, apart from the war.' [Quote taken from the Introductory Remarks] ***First impression of the true first edition, in nice collectable condition - published during the First World War. This original wartime publication, now over a hundred years old, is scarce and virtually unobtainable now - especially in such well-preserved condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. ***.