edited r w chapman (39 risultati)

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good (in mylar). b&w Photos (illustratore). Third Edition. The Oxford Illustrated Vol. I.; Ink underlining and notations on about half the pages, else textblock is clean and tight; Black cloth binding, minimally shelf worn. Unclipped, edge-worn dust jacket, creasing to the head and foot of the spine, small tear to the back corner on the head of the spine. 429p., including index. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Later printing. Some ink underlining to first 40 pages as well as notes to the rear endpapers, else a clean, solid hardcover bound in full cloth. Mild soiling to the price-clipped dust jacket which otherwise remains attractive and whole. NOT ex-lib. A good, solid copy in jacket. Includes the complete text of both Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland as well as Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson. Fold-out map. xix, 447 + indexes.

HC. B&W ill., map (illustratore). 238pp ISBN 08081822522 A reliable and authoritative text along with an extensive introduction that examines the relationship between the three authors and the problem of their collaboration. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover).

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good (in mylar). B&W Photographs (illustratore). Reprint. Vol. VI of The Oxford Illustrated. Minimal marginalia, else textblock very clean and very tight. Black cloth binding, bumped head and foot of spine. Unclipped, edge-worn dust jacket, minor folding at the head of the spine, minimally shelf worn. 476p., including notes and index. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good (in mylar). B&W Photographs (illustratore). Third Edition. The Oxford Illustrated Vol. III.; Ink underlining and marginalia on about half the pages, else textblock is clean and tight; Minor bump to head and foot of spine; Tear at front corner head of spine, overall minor shelf wear. Dust jacket edge-worn and scuffed, closed tear at spine head; 568p., including appendixes and index. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good Jacket. 1965 reprint. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Condizione: Good. 1962. No Edition Remarks. 446 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is bright. Unclipped dust jacket. Panels to dust jacket have light edge wear with tears and creasing. Price sticker to front panel.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. 473pp. HARDCOVER. Clean copy internally. No inscriptions. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall. Book.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint. Very good, moderately worn in wrappers with a tape-repaired tear on the half-title page.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. 447pp + extensive index. Inscription to ffep., /w clean inside & out. Strong binding. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Second Edition - Reprint. Maroon cloth hard cover with gilt lettering - Good+. In DJ - fading to spine and top edge/very slight wear/Good+. 519 pages with additional illustrations + maps & illustrations at rear + Notes and Indexes. Bookplate to inside front cover. Content Good+. (1134g) Photo on request. As Books that Benefit gives the proceeds from the sale of this book to charity correct postage will be asked for when more than default price quoted.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardback 1948 in dust jacket Oxford.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Reprint. xix, 447, [26 index] pp. With a fold-out map frontispiece. Binding a tiny bit cocked with some sunning on the topstain, close to near fine in lightly spine-toned dust jacket that would be near fine save for the integral mylar jacket protector, adhered along the top and bottom edges.

133 pp. Bound in boards. Gift inscription on the flyleaf. Largely uncut.

Hb in Dw xlv,519, index, illustrations, maps and plates A Vg/Vg bright copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Reprint. 447pp. Illustrated with fold-out map. Boards and foredge slightly spotted, light sunning on topstain, about near fine in a very good dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine, and interior abrasions.

Condizione: Good. First edition of volume 3 (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), viii, 477pp. Original red cloth, dustwrapper. Light foxing to the endpapers and the edges of the text block, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (light sunning of the spine panel).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. hardback, 8vo, xxii,227pp, edges browning, text clean and tight, no inscriptions, marbled boards and quarter-cloth binding, board cornes scuffed, spine title label slightly browned (spare tipped in at rear), Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Pages clean and bright, no markings. Dust jacket unclipped with light edgewear. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Bound in maroon cloth over boards with gold lettering to the spine. Maroon dust jacket with white lettering to the front cover and spine. Dated 1979 on the copyright page. No date on title page. Stated second edition (reprinted). 519 pages, followed by a large section of notes and indexes, all unpaginated. There are 8 indexes cataloging, Jane Austen's Family; Other Persons; Places; General Topics; Authors, Books, Plays; Jane Austen's Novels; Jane Austen's English; Names of Ships. Binding is strong and square. Covers free of bumps or wear. Pages clean and free of marks or writing. A previous owner's name is written neatly at the head of the front free endpaper. No other marks to be found. Dust jacket is sunned along the spine. Some faint rubbing around the edges of the paper, but no tears or creases. DJ has been clipped. Overall good condition. Please email with questions or to see any photos.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Good condition hardback pale olive green boards no DJ. Title etc shown on spine in gilt lettering. 474 pages good and clean with clear print, indexed. Frontispiece: black and white plate of The White Horse Inn at Dorking.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two volumes (1796-1809, 1811-1817) in one. Many illustrations and foldouts, including maps and facsimiles of Austen's letters. Full orange cloth with title on paper label pasted onto spine. Text block is clean and binding is tight. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint. Volume One. 1984 reprint. Hardback. 22x14cm. xxxviii+452 pages. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. NO JACKET. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref R-NZ The Letters of Samuel Johnson. With Mrs.Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him. Volume One: 1719-1774. Letters 1-369. Collected and edited by R. W. Chapman. Published in 1984 by Oxford University Press OUP, UK.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint. Volume Three. Hardback 1984 reprint. 22x14cm. viii+477 pages. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. NO JACKET. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref R-NZ. The Letters of Samuel Johnson: With Mrs.Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him: Volume Three: 1783-1784. Letters 821.2-1174. Volume 3: 1783-84. VOLUME THREE. Collected and edited by R. W. Chapman.

Hardback. Condizione: nrFine. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG+ DW. 1st Thus. Blue cloth lettered in gold on spine. No Catalogue. Yellow typographic DW with "shield" on front cover and "OTHER VOLUMES OF LETTERS" on rear cover. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. No signatures. Fading to spine. Split to gutter at title page. ; This is a single volume, containing the novel "Sense and Sensiblity" from a five volume set of "The Novels of Jane Austen - The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions". This is the 1953 fifth printing of the 1933 third edition. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 186 x 120mm. Contents includes Preface; Introductory Note; Notes; Appendixes - Miss Austen's English; Reading and Writing; The Early Editions; Index of Characters; Addenda.

HardBack. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Early Reprint, Oxford University 1964. Portrait frontispiece, profuse further illustrations, lithographs, drawings, manuscript facsimiles, miniatures, maps and plans. Internally very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, 2 discreet attractive ownership inscriptions, no further marks of any kind, relevant newspaper clipping tipped to endpaper under blurb, well held in joints and hinges, clean crisp corners and edges, lower edges attractively untrimmed. Bound in bright gilt lettered brown cloth, housed and protected in original unclipped dustwrapper slightly chipped to head of spine with gently surface loss not intruding or detracting, now in transparent removable Mylar dustwrapper. A lovely Edition, and a great buy for reader, scholar and collector alike, especially in this 250th Anniversary year of the birth of Jane Austen.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Fading to spine and boards. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Lacking the dust-jacket.; This is a single volume, containing the novels "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" from a five volume set of "The Novels of Jane Austen - The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions". This is the 1959 sixth printing of the 1933 third edition. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 185 x 122mm.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Charles Whymper, J. Wolf, H. Willink (illustratore). 1st Edition. 1894 FIRST EDITION. Two-Volume DELUXE LARGE PAPER LIMITED FIRST EDITION numbered by publisher on printed limitation page. Two volumes complete. Original orange cloth boards with gilt coat of arms on front covers, navy spines and corners with gilt lettering spines, TEG, original dark greenish navy coated EPs, untrimmed fore-edge and bottom edge both volumes. Both volumes have loss of much of the spine covering (see photos), but bindings are very solid and not broken or cracked. This set is an obvious candidate for rebacking. The covers have significant rubbing along edges and corners but the boards are relatively clean and bright with a few faint dark smudges (nothing serious). Each volume has previous owner's bookplate and small bookseller ticket on front pastedown otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages, Some fore-edge foxing is present but nearly all pages are completely free of foxing and are clean. Each volume measures 251mm tall x 200mm (compared to 195mm tall for the regular first edition). Volume one has 494 pages, 20 b/w full-page illustrations and photos, 57 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume two has 483 pages, 13 full-page illustrations and photos, 56 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume one covers hunting in the arctic (whacking a giant walrus with an ax from a small whaling boat), three chapters on hunting in the Caucasus, a chapter on Mongolia, two chapter on hunting chamois and stags in the Alps, a chapter on elk in Scandinavia, a chapter on big game throughout Europe, hunting in Spain and Portugal, hunting in India tigers, a chapter on travel/camping considerations, a chapter on rifles and ammo, a chapter on taxidermy, a small bibliography. Volume two mostly about hunting in Africa with specific chapters on various types of big game hunting: lions, antelopes, hippos, giraffes, ostriches, rhinos, buffalo, elephants, with several chapters on South Africa including some history, a chapter on travel with Livingstone, some chapters on East Africa including special hunting considerations regarding gear, routes, etc. Volume two concludes with one chapter on big game hunting in North America (bears, wapiti, moose, cougars, bison, deer, elk, caribou, bighorn, mountain goat, antelope mainly in British Columbia, Alaska, Colorado and Pacific NW), and a brief chapter on hunting musk ox. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Third Edition. The Oxford Illustrated edition of the works of Jane Austen - a set of six volumes complete in their dustwrappers - the third edition - later printings from 1989 ("Northanger Abbey and Persuasion" is 1988). Printed and bound in Great Britain by William Clowes Limited, Beccles and London. Each volume has an original Preface, along with a Note to the Third Edition by R. W. C. (Chapman), and facsimile title pages to each volume. The third edition first appeared in 1933, and was reprinted 14 times between 1944 and 1988 before this 1989 printing. ***Each of the six volumes is otherwise in near fine condition in black cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles and lining to the spine. Boards clean and unmarked - just light foxing to the toip edge of "Emma" (please see scans). No bumps or creases - just a light indentation mark to the front board of "Sense and Sensibility" (please see scans). No reading lean to the bindings. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean and bright. No foxing. Printed on thin but nice quality paper. With original title pages included and occasional illustrations. ***Near fine pale blue and cream dustwrappers. All dustwrappers clean and unmarked, with just light rubbing at the edges - just a light indentation mark to the front panel of "Sense and Sensibility" (please see scans). No creases, chips or tears. No fading except for gentle fading to the spines of "Pride and Prejudice" and "Northanger Abbey and Persuasion". Dustwrappers otherwise bright. ***2832 pages in total.193mm x 125mm. ***A complete six-volume set of the works of Jane Austen - extremely hard to find now in any edition in their original dustwrappers in such nice collectable condition. Uncommon. A lovely uniform set that would make a lovely gift for the Austen enthusiast - especially in the 250th year since the author's birth. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. ***PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SET IS HEAVY AND IF SENDING OUTSIDE THE UK WILL INCUR EXTRA POSTAGE FROM THAT QUOTED ON ABE***.