Cromwell's Understudy the Life and Times of General John Lambert and the Rise and Fall of the Protectorate (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards are generally in good order, just a little shelfwear. Corners are bumped, edges are worn. Spine is age darkened with bumping to ends. Just a couple of spots of foxing to page edges. Age discolouration to endpages. Both inner hinges are cracked, but holding. The binding on the textblock is rather loose, the bundles are separating. Text block is generally clean. 192 pp. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 804g. Unless specifically mentioned, all our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 031380:7f) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall Language: ENG 804 G. Book.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Heavy foxing throughout. Dust jacket is edge chipped, worn and scuffed; covered with mylar. Boards are edge worn, curled and scuffed. 464 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Frontispiece (= Plate I), 464 pp; 11 plates. Original cloth. Very Good, without dust jacket. Copy of T. C. Mendenhall, with his signature dated London 1938. Thomas Corwin Mendenhall II (1910-1998) 'was a professor of history at Yale University, the sixth President of Smith College, and the leading authority on the history of collegiate rowing in the United States. . . . The grandson and namesake of Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1841-1924), physicist and meteorologist, his father was a Professor of Physics at the University of WisconsinMadison, Charles Elwood Mendenhall (1872-1935), and his mother, Dorothy Reed Mendenhall (1874-1964), a well-known pediatrician. The young Thomas Mendenhall grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and went to Andover before attending Yale University, where he graduated in 1932. Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, he attended Balliol College, Oxford in 1935-36, earning a B.Litt. degree. While at Oxford, he was captain of the Balliol Boats. Mendenhall returned to Yale, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the Welsh wool trade in the 16th and 17th centuries, receiving his Ph.D. in history in 1938. As a graduate student, he rowed on the Berkeley College (Yale) intramural crew' (Wikipedia).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1938 Hardcover. Ex-Library with neat library markings. Text is clean, Binding is strong. Includes a postcard from the author and a newspaper obituary of the author. Sepia illustrations. Nice blue cloth cover with stamped border & gold lettering. Very nice condition for 1938.

Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.