Herbert vernon d (16 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good condition. No dust jacket. First Edition (so stated). New York:: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. A clean, square copy. Inner hinges are perfect. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Introduction by the editor. Has chapters by William Ralph Inge, George Angier Gordon, Herbert Hensley Henson, Joseph Fort Newton, Ernest William Barnes, Newell Dwight Hillis, Vernon Faithful Storr, Lynn Harold Hough, Leyton Richards, and Frederick Franklin Shannon. At the start of each chapter is a 1-page biographical profile of the author. Bound in the original red cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. First Edition (so stated). Hard Cover. Very Good condition./No dust jacket. 8vo. xiii, 218pp.…

Softcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Magazine. Printed wrappers. Octavo. 59pp. Rubbing, edgewear, and a long tear on the rear panel, good. This issue features Hugh MacDiarmid, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Sir Compton Mackenzie, Naomi Mitchison, Douglas Young, A.V. Stuart, Alexander Buist, William Kean Seymour, David Low, C. Day Lewis, Sir Francis Meynell, Canon Adam Fox, John Smith, Lady Margaret Sackville, Vernon Scannell, and Margaret Stanley-Wrench. Additional contributors include Gilbert Thomas, Paul Selver, Ilko Iliev, Paula Nelson, Phyllis M. Scott, Canon Adam Fox, Mary Field, Rita Spurr, M. Shand Smith, Evelyn D. Bangay, Stephen Graham, Kathleen Valmai Richardson, Joan Forman, Geoffrey Johnson, Geoggrey Dearmer, Herbert Palmer, Robert Armstrong, and Kennedy Williamson.…

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Magazine. Octavo. 160pp. Fine in perfectbound wrappers. British literary magazine that includes contributions from Carol Lee, D.J. Taylor, Richard Zimler, Beatrice Garland, Fergus Allen, Stephen Spender, John Gohorry, Amanda Eason, Ruth Fainlight, Moniza Alvi, Alice Kavounas, Naomi Wallace, Vernon Scannell, Priest Noin, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Paul Lester, Merlin James, Daniel Hoffman, C.J. Fox, Jason Wilson, David Holbrook, George Sims, Nien-Lun Yeh, Evelyn Juers, Fergus Allen, Oliver Reynolds, Simon Carnell, Herbert Lomas, Ian Gregson, and others. "The Novels of Frank Tuohy" by Jason Wilson, "Afternoons with Lowell" by Daniel Hoffman.…

Hardcover. xii, 343 p.; 22 cm. Good orig. green cloth. Spine dull, sides dampstained.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Binding solid. Pages unmarked but somewhat tanned. Tiny gift inscription on front free endpage. Cover is generally scuffed, and spine cover is quite faded (but titles still legible). No dustjacket.

Condizione: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good-. 96 pages.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

Condizione: New. In English.

Hardback. Condizione: New. The authors recount how the synthetic rubber industry was created virtually overnight following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They examine early attempts to extend natural rubber reserves. The rest of the story is that of the full scale effort by government, industry, and academia to develop a viable alternative to natural rubber within a short time and on an economically sound basis. The authors also provide an account of what has happened to the synthetic rubber industry between the end of the war and 1980, identify some lessons that can be learned from the synthetic rubber experience for government-industry programs, and draw parallels between the rubber dependency of the 1940s and the energy dependency of the 1980s.…

Hardback. Condizione: New. The authors recount how the synthetic rubber industry was created virtually overnight following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. They examine early attempts to extend natural rubber reserves. The rest of the story is that of the full scale effort by government, industry, and academia to develop a viable alternative to natural rubber within a short time and on an economically sound basis. The authors also provide an account of what has happened to the synthetic rubber industry between the end of the war and 1980, identify some lessons that can be learned from the synthetic rubber experience for government-industry programs, and draw parallels between the rubber dependency of the 1940s and the energy dependency of the 1980s.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. ND, 1898 (WorldCat). Excellent and entertaining selection of essays collected from the pages of 'Literature' magazine. Stock lightly toned but otherwise in VG order throughout. Green cloth boards with bevelled edges and gilt titling to front and spine. This faded, boards only lightly marked and thus a nice copy of a scarce book. 8vo. 158pp. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green cloth boards with gilt titles. Published by Elliot Stock. No date. UK 1st edition. No dust wrapper. Uncut page edges. The book is in very good condition, with a darkened spine with wear to the top and base. There are some marks to both covers. Internally the pages are clean and free from any marks or foxing, with some discoloration to the inside cover page. A selection of essays taken from the 'Literature' magazine. Humfordmillbooks welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIVE ISSUES. Five volumes, octavos (20 x 14cm). Publisher's card wraps lettered to uppers. Undated but circa 1951-52. Some toning to covers. Very good.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. 398 pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography.tears at top & bottom of spine, tape residue along spine, cover is age-toned, bookplate inside front cover, pencil notes on table of contents, small chip on back cover edge, binding is loose but all pages are bound, includes 5 page reprint of "Exploratory flights of Admiral Byrd (1940)" by Roger Hawthorne. Expedition on auroral phenomena, bacteriology, botany, cosmic rays, glaciology, magnetism, medicine, meteorology, micropaleontology, ornithology, petrography and petrology, physiography, physiology, seismology, structural geology, and zoology.…

FIRST EDITION, pp. 190, crown 8vo; pp. 192, crown 8vo, original turquoise and navy blue cloth, the first voluem lettered in gilt to backstrip, the second volume lettered in pink to upper board and backstrip, the latter with fading at ends, the second volume with small breach to cloth of lower board, corresponding to pierce-mark on dustjacket, this volume with flyleaf and initial blank an little spotted, the dustjackets gently soiled overall with a few light marks, the backstrip panels browned and a little chipped at ends, very good. Two volumes based on the Fabian Lectures in successive years during a critical moment in modern history, as Europe accelerated towards War - the spectre of which dominates the second volume. The contributors to the first volume 'predict the future of Capitalism [G.D.H. Cole], of Soviet Communism [Sidney Webb], of Dictatorships [Wickham Steed], and of Economic Nationalism [Sir Arthur Salter]' (blurb) - whilst in its penultimate talk, P.M.S. Blackett considers 'The Next War: Can it be Avoided?' The second volume's update to the title of its predecessor reflects the hesitancy caused by the growing threat of War, which informs the discourse to varying degrees throughout, beginning with Bertrand Russell's assertion regarding the 'lowering of the intellectual level' in Nazi Germany and the negative effect on its scientific prowess, and proceeding to Vernon Bartlett's assessment of 'The War Horizon' and G.D.H. Cole and Sir Stafford Cripps on, respectively, the economic and political implications of a new conflict. …