Weightman J G (18 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Thomas Hodgkin & Elspeth Huxley "What Future for Africa?" / V S Pritchett "On the Scent" / J G Weightman "The Sorbonne" / Nigel Dennis "Mothers' Meeting" (theatre) / Kenneth Allsop "Jazz & Narcotics" / Richard Lowenthal "The Dangerous Year" / David Holden "Fear and Failure in the Congo".…

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Light general wear. 1963 Soft Cover. 95 pp. Includes: Editorial Note by M.J.L.; The Gaullist Republic by Raymond Aron; Hebrew Myths and Legends (II) by Robert Graves and Raphael Patai; Remembering Stalin by Walter Laqueur; A Woman on a Roof (Story) by Doris Lessing; Exploring the History of Africa by Roland Oliver; Walter Bagehot by R.H.S. Crossman; Fun with Fission by Nigel Dennis; In Defence of Cinema Art by Francis Wyndham; The Card-trick by Jorge Luis Borges; Conger by Ted Walker; Alone by Rod Stuart Pterandodon by Douglas Livingstone; To a Pomegranate Tree by T. Carmi; The End of the Affair by Sebastian Haffner; Going Into Europe (IV); G.M. Young and His England by John Gross; Valery as Social Thinker by J.G. Weightman; Novels by Kathleen Nott; Letters; Authors. …

Condition: Good. 1945. First Edition. 134 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate sunning and tanning, particularly to spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Tanning on pastedowns & endpapers. Pages toning with age. Text is unmarked. Price clipped dj quite worn around edges with scuffs, creases, toning & light soiling in a mylar cover. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Contents features the following Contributors "Henri Focillon. Andre Labarthe. L.de.Villefosse. Raymond Aron. J Kessel. Sadi de Gorter. L Aragon. Jean Oberle. Willy Fournier. Pierre Maillaud. Jean-Paul Sarte. Blue cloth hardback with small gilt decoration on front of cover. Small remains of a sticker on top 3dge of front left hand endpaper . Dedication to previous owner dated October 30th 1951 on front right hand endpaper, otherwise clean tight copy in good condition, 134pp First published September 1945 by the Sylvan Press Book#103262.…

Condition: Good. 1945. First Edition. 134 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Boards are slightly bowed.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Kenneth Allsop "Ignazio Silone"/ Henry Fairlie "TV, Idiot Box" / Brian Crozier "The Rightists" / Arnold Wesker "The Secret Reins" / J G Weightman "Robbe-Grillet" / Philip Toynbee "Critic's Credo".

Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Binding is sound. Pages age-darkened with slight dampstaining. Wraps faded, soiled, dampstained, moderately shelf worn. Contents: Wrong, "Rockefeller as Liberal Hero"; Van den Haag, "Affluence, Galbraith, the Democrats"; Weightman, "The New Wave in French Culture"; Jones, "Otto Rank: A Forgotten Heresy"; Marks, "Memory of Tolerance - A Story"; Glazer, "Is 'Integration' Possible in New York Schools?"; Richards, "The Answer to Soviet Anti-Semitism"; Schur, "Drug Addiction in America & England"; Teller, "Chaim Lensky's Ordeal"; reviews. 10.0" tall; 92 pages.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Thinner book, smooth fine blue cloth, bright gilt illustration of cross, rampant lion and unicorn at top front, gilt lettering bright on spine, smaller bookplate on first front end paper, 134 photo paper pages lightly browned. Contributors include: Henri Focillon, Andre Labarthe, Raymond Aron, J. Kessel, L. Aragon, Pierre Maillaud, Jean Oberle, Jean-Paul Sartre and others. DJ glossy white lightly browned, blue illustration of cross, lion and unicorn on front, ads for other books on back. DJ worn, torn and chipped with light brown tape. Poor DJ/Fine book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 96pp. Blue cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on front and spine. 12mo. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges starting to tan and fox. Endpapers starting to fox and tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Paper dust jacket has shelf wear, creasing, minor loss at spine ends, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped. A collection of five essays which have as their central theme "how language is present in the mind". …

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A collection of five essays on language: "Language and International Relations," "Writing for Academic Purposes," "Learning a Foreign Language," "The Technique of Translation,", and "Language and Thought." The fragile jacket is torn at the base of the spine and at the lower front cover -- the original price is overprinted with a red block and a new price" Net 6s. 6d." printed beneath it. I do not know if this is a point of issue or whether the entire run was corrected. Previous owner's small discreet name and date of purchase (July 17, 1947) on half-title.…

Cloth(Hrdcvr). Condition: FR/P. Great Britain: Sylvan Press. FR/P. (1944). . Cloth(Hrdcvr). 4to., ., dj stained, frayed, inside hinges weak . Photographs (Black & White) (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 110 pages. Marjorie Bremner, Jacquetta Hawkes, rayner Heppenstall, Marghanita Laski, Naomi Lewis, Colin MacInnes, Betty Miller, Victor Musgrave, Jenny Nasmyth, Richard Rees, Mary Warnock, J G Weightman. (SL#2B).

Sylvan Press, 1947. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, 95pp. D/j a little tanned and chipped. A fair copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 94 pages. Sir John Lomax "Why we like War" / J G Weightman "Frae a' the Airts" / Zulfikar Ghose "Schooldays in Bombay" / Patricia M Ball "Byronic Reorientation" / Richard Findlater "Two Brands of Ibsen" . Jonathan miller "The Medical Student" / Bernard Bergonzi "The Month".…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Essays and reviews by E L Allen, Malcolm Bradbury, Donald Davie, Eileen fraser, Inez Holden, G Ingli James, Norman Levine, Cecily McPherson, Richard Rees, Francis Tuker and J G Weightman (SL#5).

Condition: Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. Spot on front board; some light spotting to prelims; d/w slightly worn & lightly marked.

1st ed. Selected and translated by J.G. Weightman. Contains a selection of articles originally printed in the French monthly La France Libre. Pp. 134, owner's name to fep. Light blue cloth has gilt motif to front board, title faded to spine. G+.