Wright Thomas Introduction (18 results)

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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 286 pp. Good condition; pen underlining in various parts.

Condition: Very Good. Softcover, 31 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1650 pamphlet by Dury, laying out a plan for the organization of books and libraries. Clean, bright copy. Record # 386955.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Board spine ends are slighlty bumped. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Fresh covers, sound binding, clean pages and end-papers. No dust-jacket. Previous owner's name, Kerry Downes, in pencil at the front. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 14722041088. All our books are sent by tracked mail.…

Paperback. Thomas Hardy abandoned the novel form at the turn of the century, probably after public reaction toJude the Obscure, but continued to write verse displaying a wide variety of metrical styles and stanza forms and a broad scope of tone and attitude. This definitive volume contains selections from his numerous collections published between 1898 and 1928. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators. 1978, First edition. A good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Printing. Blue cloth covers with black lettering on spine. The covers are slighly scuffed and worn and a couple of the pages are crinkled, seemingly done at the binder's. The contents are tight and clean. The dust jacket is in similar condition, with just a bit of wear and scuffing. All-in-all, a nice copy. ; This book contains two classical works, "A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus" (1786) by Richard Payne Knight and "The Worship of the Generative Powers During the Middle Ages of West Europe" (1866) by Thomas Wright. The introduction for this edition was written by Ashley Montagu. The books are complete with their original illustrations. ; Black and white illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 217, 196 pages pages.…

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Good/Good. New York, NY: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. Good/Good. 1968. . Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 508 p.p., Shelf wear; head and tail of spine and corners of cover bumped; back dust jacket panel toned, top edge torn; top right front dust jacket panel and bottom left back dust jacket panel corners torn; head of dust jacket spine creased and torn; cracked inner hinge; shelf lean; page edges foxed; front dust jacket panel fold-over top right corner additionally clipped; pages clean and unmarked. . Black & White Illustrations (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Agora, New York, 1966. 413 pgs. Wrappers worn with some shelf-wear to the extremities present (chip present to the spine; spine is creased and worn). Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original Purbeck grey cloth covers, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains [xxviii] 465 printed pages of text. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, £25.00. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0701173009 LITERARY CRITICISM.…

2nd Edition. Very good, no d/w. Boards lightly marked, pages browned with some foxing. Please email for quote and information on any available discounts.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition thus. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, lxiii [introduction] + ii + 352 [facsimile] + 4 [index] + 17 [philosophical declaration] pages, gilt spine titles on beige cloth over black bards. A very good minus, sturdy hard cover first edition thus with minor shelf wear BUT one corner bumped, little exterior soiling BUT with foxing to the fore-edges; binding solid, paper cream white with a very slight touch of foxing to the endpapers. Without dust jacket, if issued. There seems to be some controversy over which 'Thomas Wright' this is. The Sloan introduction contends it is the work of an ex-Jesuit priest who had disappeared twenty years previous. But to this "Thomas Wright (fl. 1604), a protégé of Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton [q. v.], [who] had travelled in Italy, must be ascribed ?A Succinct Philosophicall Declaration of the Nature of Clymactericall Yeeres, occasioned by the Death of Queene Elizabeth. Written by T. W[right]. Printed for T. Thorpe,? London, 1604, 4to, and ?The Passions of the Minde in generall. By Thomas Wright,? London, 1601, 4to, which reappeared in 1604 ?corrected, enlarged, and with sundry new discourses augmented,? and was reissued in 1621 and 1630. This work was dedicated to Southampton in the hope that he may be ?delivered from inordinate passions,? and had commendatory verses by B. I. [? Ben Jonson]." Dictionary of National Biography. No matter. The work stands, and both Wrights have long been wronged. Without dust jacket (if issued).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 534 Pp. Black Cloth, Spine Gilt. First Printing Stated. Very Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant, No Marks. Dust Jacket Priced $7.50, Light Usage, Shallow Chipping Across Top Edge Of Spine With No Effect On The Lettering. An Excellent Selection. We Await A More Recent Similar Study Of The Best Modern Thinking About Men And Women In Their Social Relationships, Their Governmental Flail In The Wind, And Their Attempts To Self-Interestedly Influence The Thought And Culture Of Others (Although, Now, Of Course, Doing So Without Personal Or General Criticism Of Any Specific Primitive Bureaucrats And Autocrats, Media And Academic Or Corporate Clans, Or Their Grotesque Celebrities).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Thus. No date [1890s?]. 532 pages + frontispiece + plates. Maroon cloth boards with gilt illustration on spine and front board. Gilt lettering and rule on spine. Moderate rubbing to cloth covers. Some staining to front board. Moderate spots of foxing to endpapers. Some spotting to page edges.; 12mo. Illustrated by Stothard, T. ; with Portrait after Raffaelle (illustrator).…

name on fly leaf "Thomas Edward Oliver" Paris march 14, 1898,book plate insdide front cover 2 volumes ,spines wearing top & bottom and fading.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Slight fading to cloth, otherwise very good indeed. Small owner label to front pastedown. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book in l textured rich chestnut buckram covers with blind stamped decoration. Book was from the Virtue and Cahill Library Collection(No. 3736) neat bookplate to front paste down. Repair to spine and some loose pages reinserted. Some wear to the edges and the spine.Internally some grubby marks and foxing to to pages, a couple very tanned to rear. Filled with lovely illustrations some beautifully gilded and coloured.…

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Full morocco brown leather with embossed designs on boards, marbled endpapers, and five raised bands on spine. Tear to head of spine, split beginning on outer, rear hinge. Binding solid, interior unmarked with exception of some foxing.