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library. Condizione: Good.

Unknown. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Good. shelf wear, library Used - Good All purchases support Project HOME - ending homelessness in Philadelphia.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. 4th Printing. 4th printing (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1140). Includes publisher's slipcase. Fine book in near fine slipcase. Slipcase faintly scuffed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. 288 pp. A collection of humorous vignettes by various authors, with contributions by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Winston S. Churchill, the Queen of England, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, etc., etc. Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge. The best speakers are natural story-tellers - Gerard Hoffnung, reading a selection of letters from continental hoteliers: 'There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects'; John Mortimer telling the woeful tale of a man's numerous unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife: 'At no time did Mrs Scott feel that the magic had gone out of their marriage' - and in this collection of post-prandial treasures you will find the very best of them, from Groucho Marx on how to resist a femme fatale, to Ralph Steadman surreally addressing the Lewis Carroll Centenary Dinner. 'Goodness', said a friend on greeting Mae West, 'where did you get those beautiful pearls?' 'Goodness', replied Mae, 'had nothing to do with it.' Shaggy dog stories, practical jokes, sporting anecdotes, rousing toasts, travellers' tales and risque reminiscences rub shoulders in this essential collection with real-life revelations and moments of history. Among the guests are Peter Ustinov, Jilly Cooper, Brian Johnstone, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Robertson Davies, Henry Grady and A.P. Herbert. There is food and drink in abundance. There is gentle reflection and endearing charm as well as defiant frivolity. Above all there are stories for every occasion - witty, absurd, momentous, philosophical, fascinating, poignant, and forever entertaining.…

Condizione: good. The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.…

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

GREEN CLOTH. Condizione: GOOD+. 427 PAGES. BRIGHT CLEAR GOLD GILT LETTERING ON SPINE. FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT OF SAMUEL PEPYS. SMALL SIGNATURE OF OWNERS NAME ON FRONT INSIDE COVER AND FRONT BLANK ENPAGE. A BIT OF LIGHT SPOTTING ON CLOTH. DESPITE FLAW AN OVERALL CLEAN STRONG BOOK, BRIGHT WHITE PAGES. MATCHING VOLUME II ALSO AVAILABLE. Size: OCTAVO. …

Softcover. Condizione: Good with no dust jacket. Slightly cocked, sound binding. Pages clean, slightly tanned. Wrappers have edge wear with overall shelf wear, some tattering at spine. Full-page color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on back of wrappers. Contents: Pringle, Barbecues in Politics. Wilkins, "No Foxes Seen" (log of Arctic flying adventures). Maitland, Knights of the Air. Crowther, Henry Ford Talks about Edsel (and Edsel talks about his father). Lawes, Who Is a Criminal - and Why? Beaverbrook, Political Battles of the World War. Wilhelm, Working with Hoover. MacAdam, Where White Men Travel Alone. Harris, New Styles in Lumberjacks. A British Aviator, With the British Air Patrol in Irak. Thoams, Raiders of the Deep. Reviews. Many black and white advertisements for railroad equipment, automobiles and other items. Cover art, frontispiece; 9.5" tall; 231 pages. Illustrated by Adolph Treidler, J. S. Woolf (illustratore). …

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition book. Volume two only in blue boards. No dust jacket. Typical signs of handling and age for a vintage book but a lovely copy overall with clear and bright internal contents and a good binding.…

library. Condizione: Good. Ex-Library hardcover book no dust jacket, usual library marks are present. Has some light reader wear.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: GOOD (BELOW AVERAGE). No Jacket. First Edition of This Edition. This is Pan Book No:- GP33. Browned pages , faded creased spine. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK ONLY). Please e-mail for further details Size: Mass Market Paperback. 5 Black & White Illustrations , 1 Diagram & 4 Maps (illustratore). Not Inscribed or Signed.…

Condizione: New.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Firmly bound with some handling wear including creases down the spine.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 92 pages. Lord Ponsonby "Are We Too Tolerant?" / Marjorie Bowen "The Faith Of A Novelist" / Lord Snell "The Common Heritage Of Man" / Professor J B S Haldane "Why I Am A Materialist" / Llewelyn Powys "A Foot-Path Way Of The Senses" / Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell "The Twilight Of Civilization" / Sir Richard Gregory "Science And Social Ethics" / C E M Joad "The Gosprels Re-Read" / W B Curry "Rationalism And Education" / Ernest Thurthe "The Ebb And Flow Of Freedom" / Henry W Nevinson "The Bible's Influence" / A Gowans Whyte "When The Pope Was Happy" / J W Poynter "The Catholic Ideal Of Sanctity" / John Rowland "The Synthesis Of Superstition" (U.P.).…

Condizione: Very Good. 31 Pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: Edinburgh Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

blue embossed oblong hardcover ~ 2º (folio ~ 10"x12"). large ("coffee table" book), international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg+ cond. minor chipping along the top edge, top of spine, couple of tiny (1cm) tears, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first american edition so stated . first printing (NAP). illustrated endpapers. 256p. 44 glossy full color plates. 265 b&w figures. almost every page illustrated. glossary. dictionary of sea terms. types of sailing ship. bibliography. world history. nautical history. maritime history. exploration. cartography. geography. ~ The sailing ship era is part of a continuing adventure, which lives on in the dawning spaceship age; an adventure of the human spirit, discernible not only in great voyages and moments of danger, but also in the discovery of techniques in advances in shipbuilding and navigation. The inspiration of the sailing ship for the artist, manifest in the great marine paintings of four hundred years, is part of the adventure too. So are the excitement and love inspired by the sailing ship in ordinary people, which created the demand for innumerable simple prints of ships throughout the age of sail. Captain Donald Macintyre has written a historical record of four centuries, from the first circumnavigation of the world to the virtual disappearance of the square~rigged ship. This is followed by a selection of contemporary writings of many nations, from 1520 to 1914 ( Francisco Antonio Pigafetta, William Bourne, Sir Francis Drake the Younger, Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, Gerrit de Veer, Willem Cornelison Schouten, Thomas Heywood, A. Richer, George Lord Anson, Louis de Bougainville, Captain James Cook, Horatio Viscount Nelson, Captain Isaac Hull USN, Richard Dana, Captain H. A. Chippendale USN, Basil Lubbock, Basil Greenhill CBE, Joseph Conrad, etc.), each piece showing an important aspect of the age of sail, the whole combining with over three hundred beautiful illustrations to give a comprehensive picture of the sailing ship experience. Captain Macintyre traces the development of sails, rigging and hull design, from the caravel, carrack and galleon to the clipper epoch, when the sailing ship became a thing of visual and functional perfection; and beyond to the autumn of the age of sail, to the great steel~hulled four and five~masted barques and barquentines, which had a strange beauty of their own.' He tells the story of maritime exploration and the establishment of commerce : a story of friendly or hostile competition among nations sharing the common experience of the struggle against the sea. Adventure, in the ordinary sense of dramatic and exciting episodes, fills the history of sail and has received an extraordinary amount of eyewitness documentation. The selection of contemporary documents in this volume unfolds a stirring tale of storms, shipwrecks and fights, of famous ships and the men who sailed in them. It shows, as nothing else can, what life in sailing ships was really like. It relives great moments of discovery or despair, such as the first rounding of Cape Horn, or the last voyage of Willem Barents in his brave and futile search for the Northeast Passage, ennobled by the courage and dignity of a crew lost among ice and polar bears in the dark, dreaded Arctic winter. It evokes the brutality of life at sea, but also its warmer, more humorous side. After the horrors of Anson's voyage it is a relief to read of Bougainville's reception at Tahiti and the meeting of Cook's sailors with the nymphs of Nootka Sound. The odyssey of the human spirit is ever present in The Adventure of Sail, from the perceptive introduction by the famous modern sailing man and boat designer, Uffa Fox, to the highly.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 2nd Briish Paperback. A lightly creased spine with light edge rubbings. No store stamp. A true story with b/w illustrations. Wilton , Carl (illustratore).

Paperback. Seven issue broken run, various pagination, 5.5x8.25 inches, poetry, criticism, essays, ads, lightly worn paperback journals in printed orange wraps. Issues include: vol. 39:4, 40:1, 41:5, 42:2-5. Oct/Nov 1948 through Sept/Oct 1951. The Poet in the English Theatre by E. Martin Browne. Dr. Sitwell & the American Genius. North American Voices etc. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Deluxe Edition. Deluxe, limited edition of 1000 copies - #301. Ex-library copy w/usual stamps, etc. Red covers and rough-cut pages. Faded spine with red turned gold. Smooth, gilt top edge. Light rubbing to edges/corners. Top of spine has the outer cloth gone for about 1/8". Binding very good, just beginning to crack inside front hinge. Light toning to pages. 484 pgs. Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 96 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm ; ISBN: 1859678785; 9781859678787 ; Dewey: 635.9312; 635.9/32 ; OCLC: 44153145 ; OCLC: 44153145 ; "Richard Bird is Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto." ; color photographic boards in similar dustjacket ; features the gardens of Richard and Hillary Bird, Mavis Seeney, Davis Seeney, and Merriments Gardens, Kent ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 96 pages. Thomas C Moser "Conrad, Ford, and the Sources of Chance" / Peter D O'Connor "The Function of Nina in Almayer's Folly" / Richard C Stevenson "Stein's Prescription of 'How to Be' and the problem of Assessing Lord Jim's Career" / Jackson Heimer "Betrayal in The Secret Agent" / Gloria L Young "Chance and the Absurd in Conrad's 'The End of the Tether' and ' Freya of the Seven Isles" / Adam Gillon "Joseph Conrad and Shakespeare, Part Four: A New Reading of Victory".(SL#82).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Good+ condition in worn dust wrapper in protective cover, octavo, mid brown cloth spine with tan cloth boards, Lonsdale initial and crown in gilt on front, titles and gilt across spine, neat gift inscription dated 1962 on front free end paper, Foyles booksellers label on front end paper, one instance of marginalia - the list of winners of the Grand National stop at 1954, a previous owner has completed from 1963 to 1967. otherwise text is clean and bright and the binding firm, illustrated with a colour plate frontis piece and 69 other illustrations on plates and 5 other illustrations in text (there is a discrpancy between the dust wrapper and the number of plates called for; 334 pages including index. [QP]. Various (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good -. Hard cover brown embossed cloth, gilt shield to upper bd, some wear to corners and spine ends, rubbing and chipping to spine top, some cracking to hinges at the front but holding, age-spotting and darkening to first pges and leading pge edge block, diary clean and tight up to last pge where a little age-spotting, pp450.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 4 vols, viii + 551pp, 471pp, 499pp, 567pp, a very good plus, tight set of matching hardbacks, publisher's original dark blue cloth binding with bright gold gilt lettering to the spines.