Dons Delight Being Variations Theme by Knox (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket has torn corners, some wear. Red cloth cover has lightly worn edges. Pages are bright and unmarked, solid binding. Writing on endpaper.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second impression. 8vo. vii, 280. Original cloth, soe uniform wear & fading. A decent second-hand copy.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN.…

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Fourth Impression. Pages clean and bright, boards and binding tidy, light chipping to edges of dust jacket with small tape repair at head of spine. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Originally published in 1939 (this copy is a third impression), this work by Ronald Knox (1888-1957), Roman Catholic priest and Oxford Chaplain, is a series of imaginary dialogues between Oxford Dons at 50 year intervals from 1588 to 1938 reflecting the changing times and preoccupations of the Dons. A volume in The Ark Library. No dust jacket. Binding is firm if a little shabby and pages are clean. Inscription of a previous owner on first blank page. Copyright A© Sheed & Ward.…

Publisher's Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Impression. 2nd impression. [viii], 280 pp. Publisher's black cloth, a little bumped, in unclipped dustwrapper with silver lettering. Edge-wear to jacket, including a split and closed tear at its spine; mark to panel and board. Bookplate of Pauline Gunn, internally clean. VG in G to VG jacket. 8vo.…

Binding sound, text unmarked. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Dustwrapper price clipped but unfaded and protected in a removable clear plastic sleeve. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 4th edition. Owner's signature dated 1963. Binding sound, text unmarked. Size: 280pp. Owner's signature dated 1963.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Fourth Impression. Jacket complete but lightly chipped at the edges. Size: Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Inventory No: 73568. For further information on this title or for further photographs, please click on the "Ask Seller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We aim to reply within three working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Sheed and Ward 1958, fourth impression. Jacket is Good+ with some wear, tear and fading. Book is VG with slight chipping at top spine edge otherwise light wear, clean pages (lightly yellowed), firm binding.

1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 280 pages ; 21 cm. Subjects; University of Oxford. Intellectual life. All Souls College (University of Oxford). University of Oxford ; Miscellanea. Religious thought Great Britain. Religious thought. Oxford. University Intellectual life. Religious thought Great Britain. English wit and humor. Religious thought Great Britain. Humorous prose in English, 1900-1945 Texts. 1 Kg.…

1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 280 pages ; 21 cm. Subjects; University of Oxford. Intellectual life. All Souls College (University of Oxford). University of Oxford ; Miscellanea. Religious thought Great Britain. Religious thought. Oxford. University Intellectual life. Religious thought Great Britain. English wit and humor. Religious thought Great Britain. Humorous prose in English, 1900-1945 Texts. 1 Kg.…

FIRST EDITION, a few very faint spots to prelims and the occasional outbreak within, pp. [viii], 280, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt (now dulled), top edge yellow, edges faintly spotted, free endpapers likewise (and a little browned), dustjacket, very good. 'A kind of Cavalcade of Oxford religious and social opinions', in which the narrator - asleep in a common-room - hears the conversations there from seven ages (beginning in 1588 and then at fifty year intervals), before waking to that in his own time. The author's 'secular masterpiece' (ODNB), set in the fictional college of Simon Magus; the author had attended Balliol, before a fellowship at neighbouring Trinity College.…

First edition, first impression. A mildly fantastical series of reveries of incidents dreamed by a sleeping don from 1588 to 1938 at periods of 50 years. Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine in gold. With dust jacket. Light partial toning to endpapers, spine slightly creased, a very good copy in the dust jacket with a couple of splits to the spine panel.…