Phelps william lyon introduction (17 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Acceptable. 1st Printing: August, 1941. The book shows signs of wear consistent with its age, particularly along the spine and edges. The cover is slightly worn but intact, and the pages are yellowed, typical of publications from this era. There is no dust jacket, and the binding remains secure, ensuring the book is still readable and a worthy addition to any collection. unknown (no dust jacket visible).…

Hardbound Clothbinding. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 439 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Pen and pencil markings on front and back covers, first and last front end pages, and main title page.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Printing July 1960. 605 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing on page edges.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. A selection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, edited and with an introduction by William Lyon Phelps. Includes his notable "Virginibus Puerisque," as well as biographical sketches of authors such as Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Pepys and Walt Whitman; and on many other topics relating to human nature. An entry in publisher's Modern Student Library series. --- In full navy cloth-covered boards with titling and series vignette gilt-stamped on cover, titling in gilt on spine. Volume has no dust jacket. --- With near complete dulling to spine titling, some chafing to head of spine, else a clean, unmarked, tightly-bound copy.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xvi, 323, [6, ads] pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. Text is clean. Some staining to front free endpaper. Cover shows light wear. Dust jacket has minor wear along edges and chiping to head of DJ. Small tear to top edge of front panel. Includes introduction by William Lyon Phelps. Reissued with new introduction in 1950. ; Toledano binding '8', Kent Endpapers, Dust jacket style 'h5', listing 334 titles. DJ artwork release 4 of 5. [VanMeter, America in Historical Fiction, 33 (The Age of Exploration and the Colonization of America, 1492-1775 - Colonial America) ] [Burt: The Novel 100 - A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time, #42] [Webster's Dictionary of American Authors, (Major Works of American Literature) pg. 483] [Kilpatrick & Wolfe, Books that Build Character (Historical Fiction - Older Readers) pg. 190 (Title listed, not this edition) ]; Modern Library; Vol. 93.2; 0.9 x 7.2 x 4.9 Inches; 303 pages. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Slight foxing to upper corners of frontis and title page. ; James Fenimore Cooper Jr. Bookplate on the front endpaper.

Hardcover. No Dust Jacket. Second Edition. Red colored boards, clean, good binding. Undated. Introduction by William Lyon Phelps. Contents include: Preface to the Second Edition, Introduction, The Custom-House - Introductory. 24 chapters including the Conclusion.

Hardcover. Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. xxii, 441 p. 21 cm. ; original Halcyon LCCN 48000549 ; LOC No BX885 .S45 1947 ; Dewey 282.082 ; white, black and green pictorial boards ; no dustjacket ; "Biographical note": p. 409-438. ; Contents: The Nativity/St Luke - Eight beatitudes/St Matthew - I am true vine/St John - Crucifixion/St Mark - Mission of Saint Paul/Acts of Apostles - Greatest of these/St Paul - Before throne/ Apocalypse - From canon of Mass/Missale Romanum - Petition to God saints/Litany of saints - Prophecy/Justin Martyr - Fire of love/Epistle to Diognetus - To Romans/St Ignatius - presbyters/St Polycarp - martyrdom of St Polycarp/Eusebius - Testimony of Christian soul/Tertullian - In memory of Nepotian/St Jerome - St Augustine & his mother/St Augustine - Shadow of things to come/St Augustine - To Mother of God/St Cyril - Abbot/the rule of St Benedict - Cellerar/the rule of St Benedict - Prayer to Virgin Mary/St Bernard - Glory of body/St Bernard - Consolatrix afflictorum/St Bernard - Conversion of Abelard/Peter venerable - St Bernard/Alan of Auxerre - Charlemagne/Eginhard - King Otto is victorious/Luitprand of Cremona - St Louis/Joinville - Of blessed man Paul simple/Paradise of fathers - Of blessed woman Thais/Paradise of fathers - On fall of Eutropius/St John Chrysostom - A mother's demand/Liber exemplorum - Jackdaw of Rheims/Patrologia latina - A storm at Matins/Guibert, abbot of Nogent-sour-Coucy - Give that ye may receive/Caesarius of Heisterbach - Virgin of Chartres/Abbot Haimon - Wisdom & Church of God/King Alfred - Life of man/Venerable Bede - Death of Caedmon/Venerable Bede - King Canute passes/Thomas of Ely - Love without ending/Blessed Juliana of Norwich - Cross/Richard Rolle - Meditation/Cloud of Unknowing - Testimony of St Jeanne D'Arc/Trial of Jeanne D'Arc - St Francis & stigmata/The "Little Flowers of St Francis" - A parable/Thomas of Eccleston - Of nativity of our lord Jesus Christ/St Bonaventure - Hail Mary/St Bonaventure - Pope Benedict XII/Thomas de Burton - Husband & wife/St Bernardine of Siena - Saint Martin/Jacobus de Voragine - Saint Elizabeth/Jacobus de Voragine - Saint Marcellinus/Jacobus de Voragine - Just war/St Thomas Aquinas - Evil men do/Roger Bacon - Science/Roger Bacon - Sermon preached against tyrants/Girolamo Savonarola - Meeting with Beatrice/Dante Alighieri - Dante/Giovanni Boccacio - O stelliferi conditor orbis/Geoffrey Chaucer - Books/Richard de Bury - Paradise/John Mandeville - Morality/Innocent morality - From 'Morte d'Arthur'/Thomas Malory - Holy poverty/Rule of St Francis - Customs of chivalry/John Froissart - All work & no play/Fitzstephen - At table/ErasmusFaith & comfort/St Thomas More - Last letter to his daughter/St Thomas More - Farewell of Saint Thomas More/William Roper - Death of Lady Margaret/John Fisher - Lady Margaret/Robert Southwell - Mary, Queen of Scots/Pierre de Bourdeille - Letter to Pope Gregory XI/St Catherine of Siena - Letter to Sister Daniella of Orvieto/St Catherine of Siena - Dialogue of heart/John Gerson - O sweet & savory word/Thomas a Kempis - Things that bring much peace/Thomas a Kempis - Prayer against evil thoughts/Thomas a Kempis - Prayer for mental illumination/Thomas a Kempis - True comfort/Thomas a Kempis - How great is abundance/Thomas a Kempis - Judgment day/Blessed John Ruysbroeck - Address to beloved/Ramon Lull - Questions/Ramon Lull - Hope in mercy of God/St Teresa of Avila - Distribution of alms/St Ignatius Loyola - Michaelangelo & religious art/Francisco de Hollanda - Leonardo da Vinci/Giorgio Vasari - Image & reality/Baldesar Castiglione - On heights/Francesco Petrarca - Elizabethan seminarians/Anthony Munday - Popular preacher/Joseph Francis Isla - Adventure of windmills/Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Saladin & Rosader/Thomas Lodge - Divine goodness/St Francis de Sales - Courtesy/St Francis de Sales - Brother Lawrence/Practice of presence of God - Prayer/Jacques-Benigne Bossuet - At profession of Madame de la Valliere/Jacques-Benigne Bossuet - education of girls/ ; FINE. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Full set. Seven Volumes. Limited edition, 1232 sets. Hardcover books with blue cover, cover faded and stained, spines beginning to fray on edges, light foxing to pages, otherwise pages near very good. black and white illustrations throughout. Individual volumes: Vol. I - First page detaching from binding, inscription, some foxing, mostly to page edges, writing and underlining on some pages. Vol. II - Light foxing to pages, mostly page edges, writing and underlining on some pages. Vol. III - Light foxing to pages, mostly page edges and end pages, writing and underlining on some pages. Vol. IV - Light foxing to pages, mostly page edges, writing and underlining on some pages. Vol. V - Light foxing to pages, mostly page edges, writing and underlining on some pages. Vol. VI - Light foxing to pages, mostly page edge, writing and underlining on some pages. Vol. VII - Inscription, light foxing to pages, mostly page edges, writing and underlining on some pages. …

Decorative Hardcover Canvas. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 303 pp. A rare, hard-to-find, out-of-print, scarce, true collectible gem! A wonderful copy! Solidly and well bound copy with moderate external and overall wear and use. Copy with crisp pages and clean text. Minimal, light, slight or very mild browning, tanning, foxing or discoloration on page edges, not affecting text. Damage to top and bottom of spine. Slightly bumped cover board corners. No dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Full set. Seven volumes. Limited edition, 1232 sets. Whole Set: Hardcover books with blue cover, cover faded and stained, spines beginning to fray on edges and a bit loose, some foxing to pages, otherwise pages near very good. Black and white illustrations throughout. Vol. I - Spine peeling and a bit loose, first few pages detaching from binding, foxing mostly to end pages, writing and underlining on some pages. Vol. Two - Foxing mostly to end pages, writing and underlining on a handful of pages. Vol. III - Spine peeling, light foxing, writing and underlining only on first few pages. Vol.IV- Light foxing, writing and underlining on some pages. Vol. V - Spine beginning to crack, light foxing, writing and underlining on some beginning pages. Vol. VI - Light foxing, mostly to page edges and end pages, writing and underlining on some beginning pages. Vol. VII - Light foxing, mostly to end pages, writing and underlining on some pages. Vol.VIII - Inscription, light foxing, writing and underlining on some pages. …

(4),392;vi,393 Pp. VolumeI has 4 full page illustrations incuding frontis ill.by C.E. and H.M. Brock, all with tissue guards; Volume 2 has 3 illustrations including frontis illus. by C.E. and H.M. Brock & a facsimile of an autograph letter of Jane Austen Previous owner's stamp on title page. Worn and chipped to top and bottom of spine, generally very good (both vols) 1/2 red leather with marbled boards and endpapers. Top edges gilt & gilt titles & decorations to spine #284 of a limited edition of 1250 numbered and registered copies(Stoneleigh Edition).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Complete in Two Volumes. New York: Frank S. Holby (1906). Eight Plates. LXVI + 225 = 302 Pages. Chawton Edition limited to 1,250 numbered copies of which this is No.1,004. NearFine Hardcover (DarkGoldenRod cloth, Bookplates with title on the spine, no DJs). No Wear. Free of marks, inscriptions, etc. throughout. Strong tight binding, perfect hinges. 8.75"x5.75". be30x.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Nicely-printed (by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press) collection of the British cavalier poet's verse, many on themes of chivalry & honour. Lyon Phelps, in his introduction, considers Lovelace a lesser Sir Philip Sidney, also comparing him to Donne. Two small volumes in slipcase, as pictured; Piehl XXIV. Books show light rubbing to corners, bookplate of one John Thomas Lee in each volume, engraved by Sidney Lawton Smith in 1921; slipcase rubbed with light chipping, splits at spine ends. Text clean; [xv], blank, 174; [x], blank, [185] pages. Size: Duodecimo. Set.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. All seven volumes uniformly square, strong, completely unmarked, and worn with heavy wear at edges and corners, elsewhere light. Lightly toned interiors. From a 19 volume collection of Richardson's works limited to 1,232 copies, these volumes are from #147. Tissue covered illustrations. All volumes are stamped with a light, "Withdrawn," at the base of text block; no other indications of use. Blue boards with deckle edge stock.…

[Classic Literature] Limited Edition, number 1 of 25 copies on Dutch hand-made paper with additional coloured plates. Octavo (24 x 16cm), in seven volumes. With numerous illustrations in 2 states, engraved on paper and on vellum. All frontispieces have the vellum plate hand-coloured. Decorative title page printed on vellum to each volume. Bound in half red morocco, gilt, over buckram sides, t.e.g. marbled endpapers, monogrammed bookplate. Edges toned, some gentle spotting within, bindings nicely aged with some rubbing to joints and extremities. Very good. The full text of Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison in seven volumes, from the complete novels edition.…