Mayhew alfred h (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. xix / 221 pp , bound in green cloth with gilt title, top edges gilt. SIGNED and dedicated by Buck on ffep. Spine faded, endpapers banded, edges untrimmed, sound book in tatty and grubby dust wrapper. Index volume only. Signed by Author(s). …

First Edition. Poor copy in the original decorated gilt-blocked cloth. Wear and tear as with age, with one page detached but loosely inserted. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Includes previous owner's signature. Provenance; from the library of Abraham C. Myrick with the owner's bookplate. Physical description; xix,[1], 221 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Dietrich von Bern. Wayland the Smith. Heldensage. Nibelungen, Legend of the. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. xxii, 222pp. Green cloth-covered boards; gilt design and titles on front, gilt titles on spine; top text block edge gilt, remaining edges uncut and untrimmed. 8vo. Slightly sun-faded spine, rubbed spine ends; some wear to rear board. Top text block edge gilt fading, remaining edges tanning. Free endpapers tanning; pages ageing, volume shaken. Otherwise, internally neat and clean.…

First Edition. Poor copy in the original decorated gilt-blocked cloth. Wear and tear as with age, with one page detached but loosely inserted. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Includes previous owner's signature. Provenance; from the library of Abraham C. Myrick with the owner's bookplate. Physical description; xix,[1], 221 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Dietrich von Bern. Wayland the Smith. Heldensage. Nibelungen, Legend of the. 1 Kg.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 221 pages including map plus 20 preliminary pages including frontispiece (page detached). Top edge gilt, other two edges roughcut. Condition: Some sentences underlined in biro. Good colouring and minimal wear to cover, though the outer corners are a little bumped. Green cloth boards with gilt titling. Every book is sent in a rigid cardboard posting box. Size: 22.5 cm x 18 Cm.…

Five copies listed on JISC. Now scarce. 8pp, 16mo. Stitched pamphlet, on good wove paper. In fair condition, lightly aged, with small closed tear at head of first leaf. First two leaves with light crease. Enfolded in 'wallet' of the same paper, repeating the title on the front (differently positioned), and also giving the price as sixpence. The poem, covering pp.2-7, is in small print, and the first stanza reads: 'I bind upon myself to-day / The Strength of the Holy Trinity: / That mighty Breastplate be my Stay! / I here invoke . . . I here confess . . . / The Three in One, the One in Three! / Creator! Judge! Wilt Thou not bless?' On the final page, above Mayhew's device and the slug, is a fifteen-line note by 'A. H. M.', including the following: 'The foregoing adaptation is based upon prose translations by Dr. Todd and Dr. Whitley Stokes, and a comparison with the Ancient Irish Text. Though made for the "Wayland-Dietrich Saga" it is felt that a separate impression may not be unacceptable.' Nearly a century later, there is still a bookshop on the same site, one of the few to survive the decline of the Charing Cross Road.…