G t crook (53 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. No Jacket. Volume Two only. Wear to cover and especially worn spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Volume Five only.

Hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. No Jacket. Volume Two only. Wear to cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. History. Volume one ONLY of multi-volume set. Covers rubbed and faded, corners and spine ends bumped with wear. Interior clean and tight, pages tanned, endpapers foxed, top edge gilt, silk marker ribbon intact.

Hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. No Jacket. Wear to cover and spine Volume 5.

Hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. No Jacket. Wear to cover and spine Volume 3.

Pamphlet. Condizione: Very Good. Vol 28, No 1, pp. 41-60, Photos, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet else VG.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Volume Three only. Wear to cover.

Condizione: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. The Complete Newgate Calendar Being Captain Charles Johnson's General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, St. Book.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: Fair. 1926. 346 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Volume Five. Inscription to front endpaper. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine. …

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: As Described. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Part of privately printed limited edition set of 2000 copies. Some soiling & rubbing to extremities of black boards w/gilt image of Newgate Prison, gilt titles on spine, gilt top edge, there are slits along the hinges exposing the netting but the boards remain attached, binding still firm, frontis and other lovely engravings, black bookmark ribbon, deckled edges tanned, toning, spots to end papers, jacket w/b&w matching image of prison and Beggar's Opera quote, has edge wear, some shelf dirt and a few spots, list of Navarre publications on back cover. Grading commensurate with age of book. Dispatched from the UK same or next working day.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. The Navarre Soc, London, 1926. Hard covers, green boards, gilt titles. Book Condition : Very good. clean unmarked text. Rough cut pages. Fore pages browned Vol Three binding cracked. Spines bumped. Corners turned. Superb Illustrations. Heavy book please contact the bookseller for postal rates. Books will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #FW022285.…

Cloth. Condizione: Good. A complete twentieth-century illustrated edition, featuring an extensive range of influential crime stories originally published as The Newgate Calendar. Complete in five volumes. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth. Each work is illustrated with a frontispice. Volume I is then followed by seven plates; Volume II contains three further plates; Volume III contains five further plates; and Volumes IV and V contain four additional plates each. Collated, complete. An extensive twentieth-century edition of The Newgate Calendar. Originally appearing as a monthly bulletin of executions by the Keeper of London's Newgate Prison, the title was appropriated by a number of publishers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who released numerous macabre chapbooks on notorious criminals of the time. Edited by J. L. Rayner and G. T. Crook, the present work compiles writings from a range of sources, including the notable, previously compiled collection of Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original cloth. Previous ownership signature to the front free endpaper of Volume I, dated 1927. Externally, generally smart with moderate bumping and rubbing, resulting in notable chips to the spine tail of Volume I and spine head of Volume IV. Further, more minimal, shelf wear and a few small tears to the spine heads and tails of the remaining volumes, and cracking towards the top half of the front joint of Volume V, the board remaining firmly bound. Light marking to a few of the boards. Internally, generally firmly bound, the hinges a little weaker in places and especially to the front hinge of Volume V. Reasonably bright and clean with more significant spotting to the first and last few pages of each work. Good. Not Stated (illustratore). book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. This Complete Five Volume Set is clean, solid and in great shape. These old hardcover books include many illustrations. The bindings are strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages show some light soiling and foxing. The pages have roughcut fore edges. The title page shows 1926 as the published date. This Set is handsomely bound with brown cloth covers and bright gold designs and text. The covers show some light edgewear, light soiling and scuff marks. We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Five volumes. Hardcovers without DJs. Black cloth over boards with gold lettering and decoration on spine and front covers. Binding is good and tight on all five volumes. The spine of Volume II is detached along one side but the binding is still intact. Covers are generally clean on all five volumes, with mild signs of wear; rubbing at crown and foot of spines, along outer edges. Deckled pages. Golden top-edges. The Complete Newgate Calendar: Being Captain Charles Johnson's General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers and Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, 1734; Captain Alexander Smith's Compleat History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Foot-Pads, Shop-Lifts and Cheats, 1719; The Tyburn Chronicle, 1768; The Malefactors' Register, 1796; George Borrow's Celebrated Trials, 1825; The Newgate Calendar, by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin, 1826; Camden Pelham's Chronicles of Crime, 1841; etc. Privated Printed for the Navarre Society Limited. Title page dated 1926. No date on copyright page. Volume I: 333 pages. Volume II: 327. Volume III: 333 pages. Volume IV: 335 pages. Volume V: 335 pages. Overall nice copies. Be sure to request photos before purchasing. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: If there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Includes dust jacket. 5-volume set. dust jackets show minor wear, tear, chipping, tanning. pages tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. G. Nice, clean, tight copy of the Navarre Society Five Volume Set. Some minor toning to endpapers and minor tears to top and bottom of spine. Minor soiling to covers.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. xii+831 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. light cover wear, small tear at top & bottom of spine. Contents: The necessity of scientific education in China to-day; The peoples of Kwangtung: Their origin, migrations, and present distribution; The manufacture of leather in Canton; On the palm and sole prints of Chinese; Manufactures weather; The study of botany in Fukien; A note on Gnetum scandens; The Magnoliaceae of Kwangtung, Macao, and Hong Kong; The botany of Kwangtung and its relation to agriculture; Differentiating fungi by precipitation with water-soluble specific substances; The number of vascular bundles in Ephedra sinica and E. equisetina; Grasses of Canton vicinity; A brief historical survey of the Lingnan University Herbarium; The local resident's opportunity for productive work in the biological sciences in China; Unrecorded plants from Kwangtung Province II; A review of the literature on the growth of Bamboo; Remarks on citrus and citrus relatives in China; The marine and freshwater algae of China; The collection of mosquitoes in south China; On two species of Sphaeridium from the oriental region (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae); Gall midges or gall gnats of the orient (Itonididae or Cecidomyiidae); The membracidae of China; A common moth and some of its enemies; The Brethnidae and Lycidae of China; Our present knowledge about the Pupipara of Tabanidae of China; A new species of stonefly from China (order Plecoptera, family Nemouridae); Biological notes on a Chrysomelid pest of bamboo; Termites, destroyers of wood and man's fight against them; Present status of our knowledge of the termites of China; Insect inhabitants of the fruiting sprays of the pagoda tree, Sophora japonica; Studies on the Chinese honey-bee; Some principles useful in solving economic biological problems; Study of Brachyplatus subaëneus Westw.; The nervous system of the white grub (the larva of Osmoderma socialis Horn) Part I. External characters of the nervous system; The nervous system of the white grub (the larva of Osmoderma socialis Horn) part II. Internal structure of the brain and ventral nerve cord; External morphology of the corn ear worm; The present status of knowledge bout Chinese Gryinidae; On the cricket locusts (Gryllacrids) of China; A list of the coprophagous Coleoptera of China; Notes on the life history of a wild silkworm; History of Rhynchocoris humeralis Thumb. (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Limited Edition (2000 Copies Only). THIS COMPLETE FIVE VOLUME SET IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN 3/4 DARK BLUE CRUSHED MOROCCO WITH BRIGHT GILT RULE TO BOARDS, FOUR COMPARTMENTS AND THREE RAISED BANDS TO SPINES WITH ELABORATE GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. SOME DISCREET REPAIRS TO HINGES, SOME LIGHT WEAR TO EXTREMITIES. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD, MARBLED END PAPERS AND PASTE DOWNS. TOP EDGES GILT. NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND CLEAN, WITHOUT MARKS OR FOXING. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED-FULL PAGE PLATES, FRONTISPIECES WITH CLEAN TISSUE GUARD, BOOKS MEASURE 9.25"x6". PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR THE NAVARRE SOCIETY LIMITED, 95 YEARS OLD. AN ATTRACTIVE SET. …

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.