Evelyn waugh preface (19 risultati)

Wraps. Condizione: Good+. Reprint. Light reading wear, light crease to top corners, else textblock is clean and tight; Reading crease along the spine, light to moderate edge wear and scuffed corners; 255p. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Photographs/Maps (illustratore). Paperback.

Condizione: Very Good-. First Published in 1958 in the UK Considered one of the finest Travel Books of the 20th century.An unforgettable journey from Mayfair to the mountains of the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan 252 pp. couple of creases back cover Nice corners.

Condizione: Very Good. Used - Very Good No marks or highlights.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condizione: Good/Good. Second Printing. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. Good/Good. 1964. Second Printing. Hardcover w/DJ. 8vo., 208 p.p., Shelf wear; dust jacket spine faded; head of spine torn; corners of cover and head and tail of spine bumped; dust jacket toned; corners of front dust jacket panel fold-over clipped; small stain at top edges of page 99 through page 101; small stain at top page edges; pages clean and unmarked. . Frontispiece; Black and White Plates (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Turquoise cloth boards/NF w/trace discoloration to edges. DJ/VG; price strike-out w/edge rubs & small losses to upper/lower spine edges, and trace discoloration. Small soil spot to title page. History of mountaineering. from earliest times to publication in the late 1970s, of successful ascents as well as memorable attempts. 21 chapters arranged by mountain site: Part 1, Mont Blanc & the Early Days in the Alps; 2, The Eiger; 3, Turkey; 4, New Zealand; 5, The American Continents; and 6, The Himalaya. Strong copy. Fine copy in lesser dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black hardcover.Orotava library stamp Spine slightly faded. Book has slight lean. Heavily foxed to first few pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Second Printing. Price clipped dust jacket has small edgewear repairs. Text has name and date on front end page, otherwise without flaw. 6 X 8.5" 208 pages. Daphne Fielding records Rosa Lewis's free-wheeling career set in the heyday of the Edwardian Era, a time of amoral jubilation after the Victorian lid had come off society. Outspoken and gifted, with a huge sense of fun, Rosa could swear like a trooper or assume the manners of a lady as the occasion required. She managed her Cavendish Hotel (81, Jermyn Street, St. James's, London), on principles that were uniquely her own. Her genius for handling both personalities and cuisine was famous. Evelyn Waugh calls her ".a warm-hearted, comic and totally original woman." **Bundle Up & Save On Postage**.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. First Edition Thus. 247 pp bw photos and maps. Worn copy spine and corners rubbed and creased, pages tanned, front hinge a little weak.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. New Edition. New edition small 8vo, illustrated. mild marks to unclipped jacket enclosed in plastic sleeve, very good black boards, sound binding, excellent internal condition. Christopher Sykes (illustratore).

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good PLUS. Book Club Edition. Readers Union Hardback in jacket 1966. 20.5x13cm. 281 pages. Clean & tight book. TANNED PAGES. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket has edge wear. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 375/26.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. With a Preface by Evelyn Waugh. A fine, apparently unread copy, with a small dent on the top edge of the front board. The dust jacket has a 2" tear and soiling on the rear panel. The spine is slightly darkened. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book. …

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

First edition of Duggan's classic historical novel. Octavo, original cloth. Preface by Evelyn Waugh. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Inscription. Jacket design by Edward Bawden.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition, Book Club Edition. First BCA Edition / First Print (first published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1958). Hardback copy in black cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 247pp. B/w photographic plates, b/w photographs throughout, b/w map endpapers. Not library copy, no inscriptions, fading to dustjacket spine. (44/3).…

Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Paperback. Large octavo. Yapped edges slightly shelf worn with slight abrasion at front fore-edge, otherwise near very good indeed in slightly edge-nicked glassine jacket with tape repairs at fore-edges.

Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Paperback. Signed by the Author with a preface by Evelyn Waugh. Very good indeed with some light wear.

Softcover. Dust jacket. First Edition. Original fragile glassine dj present, with a couple of small marks, some small closed tears (half-inch or less) with creasing to front panel. 2 larger closed tears to the rear of 1" and 2.5" and a portion of loss to the rear panel (approx 2.5" x 1.5" at the largest point). Vg.…

LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#45) SIGNED BY AUTHOR, tidy ex-lib, lack d.w,Imperial octavo, brown leather bound heavy boards, gilt tooling to spine and boards with raised bands to spine, top edges gilt, deckled page edges, 105pp, VG (usual library markings, slight damp staining to boards, light sporadic foxing to edge of pages and eps).…

First Edition. [Champagne] SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Large octavo (27 x 18cm), pp.[8] 54 [2]. With frequent black and white illustrations by Drian. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Publisher's yellow patterned soft covers, with the original glassine jacket. Some light wear to glassine. Near fine. A short biography of Madame Clicquot Ponsardin (1777-1866), the progenitor of vintage Champagne, and of Champagne as the ultimate luxury wine, having developed the Riddling process. Signed.…