Sir Sidney Lee Preface (3 results)

softcover. Condition: acceptable. no Jacket. Edward Fox & Son, 1916. Vintage A4-size slim paperback. 50pp, with 6 plates. Heavy creasing / wear to edges, with strong marking to back covers, marking to edges, spotting & tanning throughout. Fair copy of a rare vintage catalogue.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. The concise dictionary of national biography from the beginnings to 1930; an epitome of volumes covering the beginnings to 1930. A dictionary in the publisher's original cloth binding. Library stamp to the rear free end paper. Blind stamp to the title page. A dictionary of national biography, containing an epitome of the main work and its supplement from the earliest times to 1900, and an epitome of the twentieth-century volumes covering 1901-1930 in one alphabet. This work contains a wealth of brief biographies of famous people, from missionaries to actors, and architects to earls, arranged alphabetically by surname. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally sound, with shelf wear to the spine and extremities. Discreet tape reinforcements to the hinges. Remnants of a bookplate to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Condition: Near Fine. Hard back binding in publisher's original dark grey cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains [vii] 1503 printed pages of text. Very little wear to the covers and in near Fine condition book, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0198653018 BIO (Résumé, Memoir). …