Taylor Gordon Foreword (14 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very good. softcover, minor wear, binding tight and pages bright, a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 140pp. 24.5cm. Indexes of personal names and subjects. Hard cover. Lettered in gilt. Spine lettering faded. A good clean copy.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published In 2006 : 1st. Edition : Tagl Publishing : Very Light To Faint Face Rubbing : Very Small Cluster Of Light Shallow Bumps To The Top Right Hand Corner Of The Front Cover : Otherwise , As New Throughout : No Inscriptions : Good Solid Binding With Bright Clear Text & Photographs : Overall , A Very Nice Book .…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 84 pages. 5.50x0.25x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Tight binding, clean interior. Wraps have mild wear and creases, back wrap age toned. Interior is unmarked. Illustrations by Covarrubias. New introduction by Robert Hemenway. 236 pages. Covarrubias (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 157pp. B/w photographs throughout. Signed to half title page 'Best Wishes Tony Ford'. Not library copy, no creasing to spine. (22/5). Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Plus. SOFTCOVER 1995. xxviii+236 pages. 20x13cm. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Flat covers. Flat spine. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref BLUIKE. Born to be (Blacks in the American West) by Taylor Gordon; Introduction: Muriel Draper; Introduction: Thadious M. Davis; Foreword: Carl Van Vechten. Published by University of Nebraska Press. Covarrubias (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy blue paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 7½''. Contains 176 printed pages of text with colour and monochrome photographs throughout. Spine ends scuffed, ink name and address to the front paste down. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with tiny nicks to the lower corners, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 090762118X ROYAL NAVY (RN).…

Paperback. Condition: New. New Book, Direct from Publisher.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover; 8vo; 603 pages. First U.K. edition. Blue cloth with gilt on spine, stamped glyph on front. Light edgewear. Bright and clean interior. In a blue illustrated jacket, white titles. Moderate shelfwear/rubbing. NF/VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 4th Edition. Xx, 1229 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt. Fourth Edition, American Issue (1956). Volume I Only (Of Two). Lightly Used, Gilt Brilliant, No Marks. Per The Royal College Of Surgeons, George Grey Turner, After Work At King's College Hospital, London, And In Vienna, He Returned To Newcastle And Quickly Made His Name On The Staff Of The Royal Victoria Infirmary And As A Lecturer In The Medical School. He Also Built Up The Largest Surgical Practice In The North Of England By His Skill And Energy. Following Rutherford Morison, Whom He Always Revered As A Master, He Made His Own Notable Contribution To The Great Tradition Of Newcastle Surgery, Which Has Developed Independently Of Both London And Edinburgh. He Carried In His Head An Encyclopaedic Knowledge Of Modern Surgery, Knew Its Makers Personally And Surrounded Himself With Their Photographs And Writings From All Over The World. He Had The Courage To Give Up His Great Position At Newcastle, And To Become The First Director Of Surgery At The New British Postgraduate Medical School At Hammersmith In 1934. This Post, Which Carried A Professorship In The University Of London, Provided Him With Increased Scope As A Teacher And Operator; Without So Many Extraneous Pre-Occupations. He Held The Position, With Growing Usefulness And Distinction, Till The End Of The Second World War In 1945. His Work Attracted Young Men From All Over The World To Attend His Teaching. His Clinic Earned The Unique Distinction Of Being Twice Described In The British Journal Of Surgery: "Professor Grey Turner At The Postgraduate Medical School", 1937, 24, 595-600, And 1947, 34, 366-373, With Portraits And Select Bibliography. On Retiring He Was Elected Emeritus Professor Of Surgery In London, As He Already Was At Durham. At The College He Was A Hunterian Professor In 1928, Bradshaw Lecturer 1935, A Vice-President, 1937 And 1938, And Hunterian Orator In 1945. At The Royal Society Of Medicine He Was President Of The Sections Of Surgery And Proctology, And President-Elect Of The New Clinical Section At The Time Of His Death. He Was A Vice-President Of The British Medical Association, And Had Been President Of The Surgical Section At The New¬Castle Meeting.…

hardcover, 8vo. Condition: Good. First edition. Internally free of markings. Spine a little rolled. No dust jacket. Brown cloth is a lightly faded on spine and has a few marks. Emmanuel Taylor Gordon (April 29, 1893 May 5, 1971) was an African American singer, vaudeville performer and author. This autobiography, Born to Be, recounts his youth in White Sulphur Springs, a small-town in Montana, and his experiences in 1920s Harlem. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A smart seven-volume collection of scarce domestic science and cookery books charting the shift from Victorian thrift to interwar modernity, with three first editions. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.This is a smart seven-volume collection of British domestic cookery and home management, from 1898 to 1938, charting the shift from Victorian thrift to interwar modernity, consisting of: Up-to-date and Economical Cookery [1898]. This volume is the second edition. This copy is undated. Dated here using Jisc from copies held at The British Library and National Library of Scotland. Publisher"s advertisements to rear. This volume offers Victorian, budget-minded recipes and household economy. Cookery by Mary Duke Gordon and Eleanor Sinclair Rohde (1922). This volume is a first edition. This is a comprehensive interwar guide to everyday and entertaining cookery. Food Wisdom: A Book for the Housewife and Everyone Responsible for the Care and Preparation of Food by D. D. Cottington Taylor assisted by P. L. Garbutt (1926). This volume is a first edition. A concise manual on nutrition, planning, safe storage, and thrifty cooking. The Green Label Cookery Book (1930). This volume is the first edition, first printing of this work, with numerous practical recipes and menus for modern kitchens. Practical Home Making by D. D. Cottington Taylor [1930]. This volume is undated. Dated here, using Jisc, from a copy held at the University of Cambridge Libraires. This is an interwar domestic handbook on cookery, cleaning, budgeting, and efficiency. Meatless Dishes for Hay Dieters by Mabel Osborne with a foreword by Doris M. L. Grant (1937). This edition is a reprint of this compact vegetarian cookbook. Good Food from Sweden: Selections from Swedish Dishes Suited to an English Table compiled by Inga Norberg (1938). This is the third impression of this work. This copy has 7 pages for additional recipes to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, generally very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Previous seller"s small sticker to rear paste down of "Food Wisdom". Bookplates from "martin & Pamela Finch: Exlibris Gastronomique" to front free endpapers. Previous owner"s written recipes to front and rear paste downs and rear free endpapers of "Meatless Dishes". Previous owner"s pencil recipe inscriptions to two rear blank "additional recipes" pages of "Food from Sweden". Blind stamp to front free endpaper of "Cookery" from "Hampton Park, Hereford", with previous owner"s inscriptions to front endpapers. Tide marks and heavier offsetting to endpapers of "Cookery". Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd spot and slight age toning heavier to older copies. Very Good. Various (illustrator). book.…