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Published by Putnam, 1931
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Fair. 1931. First Edition. 293 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages, pastedowns and free endpapers. More prominent to text block edges. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Light cracking to gutters; some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
Published by Macgibbon & Kee, 1949
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1949. Reprinted. 293 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Book has slight forward lean.
Published by Putnam, London, 1932
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Third Printing. Minor spotting to covers. Jacket has edgewear with chipping and has some yellowing of the paper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 293 pages.
Cloth w/DJ. Condition: G/G. Not Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. London, UK: Putnam. G/G. (1931). First Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 293 pp., Dj rubbed, frayed, toned, chipped, cover rubbed, pages toned, cover rubbed .
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1932 edition on brown cloth some intermittent spotting.
Published by Macgibbon & Kee, 1949
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1949. Reprinted. 293 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.
Published by Macgibbon & Kee, 1949
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, Bucknell, SHROP, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1949 Revised Hb McGibbon; good in good unclipped jacket.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some tiny tears around the extremities.
Condition: Very Good. 1932. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Second Edition. A near fine copy in the publisher's original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 293 pages; Includes Arthur Balfour, Wilfrid Blunt, Oscar Browning, Disraeli, Anatole France, Walter Raleigh, and many, many others. 1 Kg.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Reprint. 293pp. A collection of essays, studies of authors and public men. Brown cloth cover, d.j. a little tatty, a short inscription on the first page, some faint spotting here and there otherwise sound throughout.
Published by Putnam, 1932
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Condition: Very Good. 1932. Hardcover. . . . . .
Published by Putnam, 1931
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. 1931. Putnam. First. Book - VG for age, spine ends and corners worn, slight spotting throughout. Gilt title on spine. 8.5.x5.5. 293pp.
Published by Macgibbon and Kee, 1949
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: VERY GOOD. 1949. Macgibbon and Kee. Reprint. Hardcover. Book-VG, gilt titles on spine, slight wear to corners and edges, mild damp caused markings on boards. 8.5x5.5. 293pp.
Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1954
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Second Edition. A near fine copy in the publisher's original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 293 pages; Includes Arthur Balfour, Wilfrid Blunt, Oscar Browning, Disraeli, Anatole France, Walter Raleigh, and many, many others. 1 Kg.
Publication Date: 2022
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1931 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 316 Language: English Pages: 316.
Publication Date: 2022
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1931 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 316 Language: English Volume v.1 Pages: 316 Volume v.1.
Published by MacGibbon & Kee, London, UK, 1949
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 296pp. Brown cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Rubbed corners and spine ends. Some bumping to edges. Text block edges starting to tan and fox. Prelims starting to fox and tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some internal tape repairs, 3cm closed tear bottom front, shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.
Published by Putnam, London & New York, 1931
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Brown cloth, gilt spine title. Gutter cracked with spine cocked, spine head dampstain, still very good.
Condition: Buone. inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Discrete con difetti, segni d'uso Condizioni dell'interno: Discrete con Difetti, bruniture.
Published by MacGibbon & Kee, Ltd., London, 1949
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Published by Putnam & Co. Ltd. November, 1931; Reprinted 1949. Fine coated brown cloth boards, gilt spine titles, slightest wear. Pages fine, no writing. Scarce dj moderate wear; clipped, protected in new clear sleeve. Very attractive. Bind fine; hinges intact. Living portrayals of Writers, Statesmen and Strange People the Author Has Known including: Asquith, Arthur Balfour, Oscar Browning, Bunyan, Richard Burton, Conrad, Disraeli, Anatole France, Goethe, Horace, Henry James, Cecil Rhodes, Walter Raleigh, Voltaire, Ruskin, Strindberg, Tetrazzini, Father Ignatius, et al. Amazing and intriguing insights beyond the veil. 293 pages. Printed in Great Britain by Jarrold and Sons Limited, Norwich. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by Putnam, 1931
Seller: Westmoor Books, Bedale, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Putnam, GB, 1931. Hardback. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Brown cloth, gilt. Externally the book is scuffed, small split to edge of spine, stain to lower edge, bumping to spine and corner.Internally it is clean and tight with minor spotting to prelims and slight tanning of the pages.
Published by London: Putman, 1931., 1931
Seller: Owl Books, County Leitrim, Ireland
First Edition
First edition. xii, 293 pp. Short biographies of 34 personalities, including Asquith, Arthur Balfour, Sir Richard Burton, Conrad, Disraeli, Goethe, Henry James, Cecil Rhodes, Walter Raleigh, R.L. Stevenson, Trollope, Voltaire etc. Spots of foxing on prelims and edges. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Top and bottom of spine and corners lightly rubbed. Overall condition VG.
Published by Putnam, 1931
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: VERY GOOD. 1931. Putnam. First. Hard Cover. Book- VG, some foxing, spine ends and board corners rubbed. 9x6. 293pp.
Published by Putnam. London and New York, 1931
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
pp. xii, 293, (iii). Dust wrapper with large tear at the top without loss, wrapper spine ends torn, overall a very good copy.
Published by Putnam, 1931
Seller: James Cummings, Bookseller, Signal Mountain, TN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Deluxe edition limited to 150 numbered and signed copies.
Published by Putnam, 1931
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. First Edition. 293 pages. Limited edition. The first in a planned series. Signed by the author on limitation page. Limited edition, #17/150. A very good copy in cloth. Spine is faded. Mild edge wear. Dust wrapper flaps included. Glassine wrapper lacking.
Published by Putnam , New York and London, 1931
Seller: Ocean Tango Books, North Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition with his signature #14 of a limited edition of 150 very good condition hard cover gently read clean pages. sunned spine , sound hinges, tea spot to front cover corner. Signed by Author(s).