Cetera Collection by Augustine Birrell (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fair+ hardcover. No DJ. ORIGINAL 1930 EDITION. Ex-Library with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned, Covers show edge wear with rubbing/soiling. Bumped corners. Binding still fairly tight. all pages present and still readable.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

hardcover, Condition: Good, Chatto & Windus, London, 1930, small 8vo., cloth, 277pp., ex-lib.- spine label, pocket, stamps, G $.

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.

Condition: Good. Boards have little wear. Pages tanned with spotting.

Condition: Good. 1941. 277 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. hardback, small 8vo, 277pp, owner's card on endpaper, page edges browned, text otherwise clean and sound, brown cloth, gilt decorated spine, slightly rubbed, Good / no dustwrapper.

Condition: Poor. Jacket in poor condition with tears/creases/heavily marked/tanned. Boards faded/bumped/edgeworn. Tanned roughcut textblock edge. Tanned/marked endpapers. Light tanning to page edges, content all good/legible/clear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; 4 p. 1., 3-277 p., 1 1. 20 cm. ; LCCN: 30-15141 ; OCLC: 1578256 ; LC: PR4115; Dewey: 824/.8 ; beige cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents: A few warning words for would-be autobiographers -- Boswell disrobed! -- The province of the reviewer determined -- The biographer of Sir Walter Scott -- John Wyclif -- John Bunyan -- George Whitefield -- Dr. Codex -- Dr. Doddridge -- Clergymen and churchwardens in the eighteenth century -- The birthplace of "Pamela" and "Clarissa" -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- "No Crabb, No Christmas" -- Thomas Love Peacock -- Hickey -- A church unchurched. ; Although he was most known as the British Chief Secretary for Ireland, Birrell had literary connections, and was well received as an essayist. For his unique style of humour, the word "birrelling" was coined. He was opposed to universal suffrage, and resigned as Secretary at the outbreak of the Easter Uprising ; the essays reveal a man of considerable literary taste, widely read, and somewhat of a francophile ; interesting and thoughtful reading ; VG. Book.