foreword lord halifax (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. ----------------Red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, book is 8 1/2" tall. 280 pages, with frontispiece and 7 other illustrations.VERY GOOD CONDITION, tight solid clean book- - - dust jacket is tattered and reassembled under new clear mylar cover.

Cloth. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Halifax writes as president of the Royal Agricultural Society. An ad at the end of the book is for an agricultural show in June 1949. The binding is open before the title-page. Book.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 1937. First edition. xi, 171pp. plus 4 pages detailing the first 'Ghost Book' together with press opinions. Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (1839-1934), was a British Anglo-Catholic ecumenist who served as president of the English Church Union. he was also a collector of ghost stories, and his first volume was published in 1936. This second selection includes the following stories: Exorcism at St. Donat's Castle; The Shrouded Watcher; President Lincoln's Dream; The Ghost of Tintern Abbey; Labedoyere's Doom; and Bishop King's Escape. The book is bound in the original red cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with light bumping to the spine ends and top front corner. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription. The unclipped dustwrapper has some shelf wear with light soiling and the spine is slightly faded. The corners and spine ends are bumped with a tear of about 1/4" on the top rear spine corner.