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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition & printing. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Good+ condition. "Faber Paperbacks" edition. Book.

Condition: good. Fast Free Shipping â" Good condition. It may show normal signs of use, such as light writing, highlighting, or library markings, but all pages are intact and the book is fully readable. A solid, complete copy that's ready to enjoy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good with moderate wear to covers and no marks to text. Poetry Annex; Scottish Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 269 pages.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDSmudge mark foreedge, else good.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

No Binding. Condition: VG. Sized 9.5 x 6.5 inches, with facsimile signature, and tissue guard. The English humorist. W. G. Jackman (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Good. Contains marginalia and/or underlining. Mild general wear. Binding sound.

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First U.S. Edition. [1934] 384 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly rubbed along extremities; bottom corners bumped. Front inner hinge starting; rear inner hinge cracked. Neat inscription to previous owner on front blank endpaper; pencil notes to front and rear blank endpapers. Edges of leaves a bit age toned. Illust. w/ several b/w plates and 9 fold-out maps.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 36 Pp. Black Cloth Stamped In Red. Fifth Printing Indicated On Copyright Page And Front Flap. Wit And Humor, Always At Less Fortunates' Expense, An Epitome Of English Privilege And Education, The Last Unpleasant Gasps Of The Medieval Aristocracy. Fine In Very Good + Dust Jacket With Browning Around Spine, Minute Loses At Most Corners, 3/16" Closed Tear At Bottom Of Front Panel. Frontispiece (illustrator).…

(XI) 478 p. Bound in the publisher's green cloth with red title labels and gilt lettering (Fine copy.).

Hardcover. xx, [2], 296 p.: front. (port.); 20 cm. Peter Plymley letters: 10, essays: 7, sermons: 2, speeches: 2, letters: 4, miscellanea. Contents: `What is a Puseyite?' verse, 8 quatrains -- The letters of Peter Plymley (anonymous, 10 in 1807-08) -- Selected writings: Bentham's book of fallacies, Persecuting bishops [Marsh's `cobwebs to catch Calvinists'], Poor-laws, Game laws, Characters of [Charles James] Fox, Chimney sweepers, The Society for the Suppression of Vice -- Sermons: On the rules of Christian charity (Guy Fawkes Day 1828), On the immortality of the soul -- Speeches: On the rejection of the Reform Bill, On the Reform Bill -- Letters to the press: Petition of the House of Congress at Washington on American debts, On the American debts (both 1843), "Locking-in" on railways (1842), Third letter to Archdeacon Singleton [on the Ecclesiastical Commission, 1839] -- Miscellanea: `Philosopher Malthus came here last week. I got an agreeable party for him of unmarried people. There was only one lady who had had a child; but he is a good-natured man, and, if there are no appearances of approaching fertility, is civil to every lady.' (282) -- `His drollery produced uproarious merriment. His fun was the spontaneous overflow of superabundant animal spirits.' (Edward Irving Carlyle, in DNB) -- In a letter of September 11th, 1842 he made plain his view of the Oxford movement, Tractarian: `I have not yet discovered of what I am to die, but I rather believe I shall be burnt alive by the Puseyites. Nothing so remarkab le in England as the progress of these foolish people. I have no conception what they mean, if it be not to revive every absurd ceremony, and every antiquated folly, which the common sense of mankind has set to sleep.' Good dull orig. blue cloth, lettering chipped from spine. …

Condition: New. In English.

Soft cover. Condition: VG-. 1st ed. In light brown issue wrapper.pp.137-228+(2, various publishers' ads, also inside both front and back covers); internally clean, tight and unmarked, slight curl to bottom front corners, bottom spine chipped with loss of most of year number, spine tanned. Two notable papers are Arthur O.Loverjoy's 'The Meanings of 'Emergence' and its Modes' and G.Elliot Smith's 'The Philosophical Background of Ethnological Theory', there are also short surveys of recent philosophy and psychology books, the latter by Beatrice Edgell plus book reviews of works including Whitehead's 'Religion in the Making' (by Susan Stebbing), Head's 'Aphasia and Kindred Disorders of Speech' (by John Laird) and William Brown's 'Mind and Personality' (by Aveling). Finally there is a 'Correspondence' section in which 2 reviewed authors take great exception to their reviewers, who then respond robustly (Stebbing again being one of them).…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Preface by Sir Compton Mackenzie. Edited with an Introduction by Duncan Glen. Drawings by Leonard Penrice. Small quarto. Quarter calf and decorated papercovered boards. Moderate rubbing on the spine, else about near fine. One of 350 numbered copies Signed by Glen and Penrice.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.36. Publisher's card wraps, stapled, printed price of sixpence to upper. Paper toned, some wear and marks to covers. Very good. A special "Tribute to MacDiarmid" number.

Cloth Covered Boards. Condition: Good Minus. No Jacket. Boards rubbed in places, spine ends and corners bumped, very light foxing to endpapers, previous owner's inscription to ffep, pp clean and clear to read, binding secure. Size: 8vo.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ten technical papers from the 1940s issued by the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen. Card covered booklets (owner name on front cover): Helical Gears for Marine Turbines/Duncal Carmichael; Design of Structural Welded Details/Frank H Abrahams; Introduction to the Construction of Nomographs/William W Calder; High Pressure Hydraulic Control Equipment/ J Rodger & R Hartkopf; Mechanical Method of Calculation/Sydney Hartley-Smith; Fundamentals of Metallurgy/Kenneth G Keeling; Turbo-Supercharging of Internal Combustion Engines/C V J Mackenzie-Kennedy; Production of Accurate Screw Threads/J W K Murch; Modern Screw Propeller Geometry/A W Riddle.Nine books for 1 postal charge. Postage at cost for set. Will sell separately at £8 plus postage. Contact book seller for individual items (V3).…