Gibbons a o ed (4 risultati)

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. No dust jacket; boards are age-toned and bumped with 'Boots booklovers library' sticker on front; spine heavily sunned, gilt titling rubbed, edges bumped; binding is tight, though rear joint exposed; pages age-toned but crisp and unmarked aside from previous owner's sticker and off-setting on front endpaper, twenty-four pages of illustrations at rear. This is a nice copy interrogating Miss Moberly's so-called 'Versailles time-slip'. ; 5.75 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches; 106 pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very nice first edition (1958) of the fascinating analysis by various writers about the famous Versailles 'time slip', sometimes called the greatest ghost story of all time. Gibbons, Joan Evans, G W Lambert and C Harold Ridge are the heavyweight contributors. Pages are clean and bright with no inscriptions or foxing, just tanning on the front and rear end papers (see photos). All maps and illustrations including the fold-out are correct and in excellent condition. DJ is unclipped and intact: a previous owner has covered it in a form plastic tape-wrapper. This is not a removable covering, however neither is it attached to the book, only to the wrapper itself for protection. And the DJ itself is clearly in a very good state: a little browning and shelf wear, and a couple of red marks on the cover. Rare in this condition. All in all a very nice copy of one of the most interesting works on the famous Versailles time slip, and an essential addition to paranormal book collections. See all photos - we don't use stock photos, all pictures are of the actual copy for sale.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. GIBBONS, A.O. (Ed.). The Trianon Adventure: A Symposium. London: Museum Press Limited, 1958. First edition. A critical study of the famous Moberly-Jourdain time-slip incident. Charlotte Moberly (1846-1937) and Eleanor Jourdain (1863-1924), two respected Oxford academics, claimed to have time-traveled to Revolutionary France and to have encountered Marie Antoinette when they visited Versailles in 1901. Their account of the incident, An Adventure, was first published in 1911 and became a bestseller, maintaining its appeal through several subsequent editions and attracting a number of critical studies, including the present book. Its contributors — including G.W. Lambert, President of the Society for Psychical Research — tend broadly to support the original stories of the two women. This volume also reproduces the written narratives at the heart of An Adventure from the original manuscripts at the Bodleian Library. 106 pp; b/w photos, 1 folding plate. 8vo, original cloth, spine faded; partial browning to endpapers. Very good in very good dust jacket (slight edge-wear; price-clipped; minor spotting; some light browning to spine.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. A varied collection of uncommon to very scarce titles, all in original dust wrappers, featuring several illustrated works. A varied collection of several unusual modern publications, featuring titles on local history, travel, and a very scarce first edition novel, 'The Frights'.The entirety of this set contains the following:VeniceExperimenting with an AmenCountry CompanyCerne AbbasThe Last Victorian R. D. Blackmore and his novelsCountryside CharacterThe FrightsAll in original dust wrappers - Volumes 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7 unclipped, and volumes 3 and 6 clipped.Featuring several first editions: volume 7, volume 2, and volume 1 - which is first edition 2nd impression.'Venice' is a highly celebrated travel title by Welsh author Jan Morris, who transitioned from 'James Morris', the name listed on this copy, in 1972.Within, Morris enchants with a charming exploration of the city, with striking gilt motif to the front board.Featuring illustrated endpapers, a monochrome frontispiece, and 17 double-sided monochrome plates, and 1 single-sided monochrome plate. Collated, complete.The uncommon volume 3 features a colour frontispiece and 7 further colour plates, as well as further monochrome vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.Volume 4 features a monochrome frontispiece, 8 further unlisted double-sided monochrome plates, and a double-sided folding map/plate. No other collation record available.Volume 5 features 2 monochrome plates. Collated, complete.Volume 6 features a colour frontispiece, an unlisted colour plate, and 16 unlisted double-sided plates of monochrome photography, in addition to vignette illustrations. No other collation record available. Bound in original cloth. In original dust wrappers. Only dust wrappers 3 and 6 clipped. Externally, very smart. Occasional mild bumping to extremities. Spotting to vol4 boards. Occasional mild age toning to endpapers. Ink inscription to vol3 front free endpaper. Occasional chipping to dust wrapper extremities. Rubbing to vol1 dust wrapper extremities. Mild sunning to vol1 dust wrapper spine. Slight age toning to fly leaf of vol2 dust wrapper. Spotting to vol3 dust wrapper reverse. Small loss to paper to vol5 dust wrapper front cover. Loss to vol6 dust wrapper front cover. Creasing and chipping to vol6 dust wrapper extremities. Ink inscription to vol6 dust wrapper fly leaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, with the odd spot. Slight cockling to vol6 pages. Closed tear to 1 plate in vol1. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated; None (illustratore). book. …