Quennell peter edited (92 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Good COndiiton hard cover 452 pages.

1st printing of 1st edition. 307 pages. Light foxing along top edge otherwise a clean very good trade hard cover book/ small dampstain on front dust jacket panel otherwise very good+ dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good minus. Very Good minus. Reprint. Originally issued by William Kimber in London in 1951. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 360 pages, gilt spine titles, brown cloth, sewn binding. A very good, generally clean hardcover edition with light shelf wear and rubbing, light stain and evidence of sticker removal on front endpapers, hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed with several small surface stains at bottom fore-edges. In a very good, lightly edge worn dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First U.S. Printing. This hardcover edition of "Marcel Proust 1871-1922: A Centennial Volume" is in good condition, with a solid binding and clean pages. The spine shows minor wear but remains intact. The dust jacket condition is not specified, but the book itself is well-preserved, reflecting careful handling over the years.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Hard Cover - Very Good - Other than slight fade to spine, book is clean and tight with only lightest of wear. Red cloth over boards with gilt lettering. No dust jacket if issued. 265 pages. First Edition as no prior printing noted.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. 592pp Heavy book extra overseas post.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Hardcover, 188 pp. [==] Book: Fine. Appears unread. Very clean. Black half cloth binding, gilt spine title. Remainder mark bottom edge. DJ: Very Good. Jacket design by Bob Aulicino. Clean but for some scuffing at the top edges and fold of the flap, small open and closed tears at the top back. Now covered in mylar.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st. (UK) 1st of this "New edition". Owner;s name and date, no other markings, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Boards, xx, 447pp, index, B&W plates. Hikey is one of the liveliest and least inhibited of 18th century memoirists, enjoying the pleasures of London and then travelling around the world before settling down as a lawyer at the Indian Bar. Quennell has pared Hickey's memoirs into the proportions of a single volume. (2.2 JM HOJ 300/b4 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. unmarked copy.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Later Printing. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. The Contents are: Introduction; Foreword; PROSTITUTION IN LONDON - General Remarks; Seclusives, or Those that Live in Private Houses and Apartments; The Prostitutes of the Haymarket; Board Lodgers; Those who Live in Low Lodging Houses; Sailors' Women; Soldiers' Women; Theives' Women; Park Women; The Dependants of Prostitutes; Bawds; Followers of Dress-Lodgers; Keepers of Accommodation Houses; Procuresses, Pimps and Panders; Fancy-men; Bullies; Clandestine Prostitutes; Female Operative; Maid-Servants; Ladies of Intrigue and Houses of Assignation; Cohabitant Prostitutes; Narrative of a Gy Woman at the West End of the Metropolis; Criminal Returns; and Traffic in Foreign Women. THEIVES AND SWINDLERS - Introduction; The Sneaks, or Common Thieves; Stealing from Street-stalls; Stealing from the Tills; Stealing from the Doors and Windows of Shops; Stealing from Children; Child Stripping; Stealing from Drunken Persons; Stealing Linen, etc., exposed to dry; Robberies from Carts and other Vehicles; Stelaing Lead From Housetops, Copper from Kitchens; Robberies by False Keys; Robberies by Lodgers, Robberies by Servants; Area and Lobby Sneaks; Stealing by Lifting Up Windows or Breaking Glass, Attic or Garret Theives; A Visit to the Rookery of St. Giles and its Neighbourhood; Narrative of a London Sneak, or Common Thief; Pickpockets and Shoplifters; Omnibus Pickpockets; Railway Pickpockets; Shoplifters; A Visit to the Theives' Den in Spitalfields; Narrative of a Pickpocket; Horse and Dog Stealers; Horse-stealing; Dog-stealing; Highway Robbers; A Ramble among the Theives' Dens in the Borough; House breakers and Burglars; Narrative of a Burglar; Narrative of another Burglar; Felonies on the River Thames; The Mudlarks; Sweeping Boys; Sellers of Small Wares; Labourers on Board Ship etc.,; Dredgmen and Fishermen; Smuggling; Felonies by Lightermen; The River Priates; Narrative of a Mudlark; Receivers of Stolen Property; Dolly Shops; Pawnbrokers, etc.; Narrative of a Returned Convict; Coining Forgers; Bank Notes; Cheques; Forged Acceptance; Forged Wills; Cheats; Embezzlers; Magsmen, or Sharpers; The Chard Tricks; Skittles; Thimble and Pea; The Lock; Swindlers. BEGGARS AND CHEATS - Begging-Letter Writers; Decayed Gentleman; The Broken-Down Tradesman; The Distressed Scholar; The Kaggs Family; Advertising Begging-Letter Writers; Ashamed Beggars; The Swell Beggar; Clean Family Beggar; Naval and Military Beggars; Turnpike Sailor; Street Campaigners; Foreign Beggars: The French Beggar; Destitute Poles; Hindoo Beggars; Negro Beggars; Disaster Beggars: A Shipwrecked Mariner; Blown-up Miners; Burnt-out Tradesmen; Lucifer Droppers; Bodily Afflicted Beggars; Seventy Years a Beggar; Having Swollen Legs; Cripples; A Blind Beggar; Beggars Subject to Fits; Being in a Decline; Shallow Coves; Famished Beggars; The Choking Dodge; The Offal Eater; Petty Trading Beggars; An Author's Wife; Dependants of Beggars; Distressed Operative Beggars: Starved Out Manufacturers; Unemployed Agriculturalists and Frozen Out Gardeners; and Hand-loom Weavers. Size: 8vo. Book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. First American Edition. 304pp. First published in French in 1920; First translated into English in 1960; First American Edition in 1961. Extracts from the Notebooks of Henry de Montherlant, 1930-1944, pp. 267-304. Green boards with bright silver lettering on spine. Diminished green on spine and in 1/2" strip across top front cover and 1" strip down the right side front cover (sunning due to placement of smaller adjacent book on shelf); light foxing speckles on edges, else Fine: strong binding, sharp corners, no previous owner names. Clean text. Solid copy. This is the way to read a book composed before 1920.…

Hardcover. Condizione: UsedVeryGood. Hardcover; edited with a comprehensive introduction and notes by Peter Quen nell; light fading and shelf wear to exterior; fading to pages; in very goo d condition with clean text, firm binding. Dust jacket shows scuffing, ligh t soiling, and small edge tears.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Later Edition. ISBN Hardback. Later Printing. Very Good condition book, with some browning and dustsoiling to edges of interior pages, in a Very Good Condition dustjacket with minor small closed tears, rubs and creases to edges, slight browning to jacket edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. Price clipped on inside front jacket flap. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Very good, nice condition. Previous owner's name written on first inside page. Dust jacket has some chips and is preserved in mylar, good+. Book is flat, tight and (otherwise) clean.

Condizione: Good. 360 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over beige cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Later Edition. ISBN Hardback. Later Printing. Very Good condition book, with slight dustsoiling and browning to edges of interior pages, in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor small closed tears, rubs and creases around its edges, slight fading to jacket spine. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. Price clipped on front jacket flap.…

Hard Cover. Fifth Impression, 1965. Very good; top portion of backstrip is faded due to large chip in the dj. 'Being Selections From Those That Will Not Work, the fourth volume of London Labour and The London Poor, by Henry Mayhew'. Illus. with sketches. 427pp. (loc 261).

Condizione: VG. 1984. Originally published 1851. Blue Cloth hardcover with gilt lettering. Dust jacket now protected in clear plastic BRODART cover. Original price Sterling to front endflap. 592pp. Selections from London Labour and London Poor by Henry Mayhew. VG/VG. Pages clean. Binding sound. Dust Jacket has minor edgewear.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Small tears, scuffing and creases on jacket, also price clipped with a faded spine.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Revised Edition. xv + 256pp; D/w rubbed and slightly chipped at edges and edges sunned else a bright copy; Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Very Good Minus. Later Edition. The green boards have bright letters, no mark, no date but 1960's, with 360 pp. The dust jacket has chip and tear at top of spine.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Vol. IX, No. 4, April 1959. ix, 221-293pp. Illustrated in black and white from photographs and artwork. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Ex-library with stamps on the front wrapper, foxing to the rear wrapper, and light edgewear, very good or better. Features "The Inevitable War (The Arab-Israel War of 1947-1949)" by "Probitas", "Mussolini: Artist in Propaganda" by Denis Mack Smith, "The Hospital of the Holy Spirit" by Iris Origo, and more. Laid in is an advertisement with order form for the book, *The Zimmermann Telegram* by Barbara W. Tuchman.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Second printing. "Being selections from *Those That Will Not Work*, The Fourth volume of *London Labour and the London Poor*" by Henry Mayhew. Octavo. 434pp. Owner gift inscription on front fly, stain on page foredges and bottom corners, one inch tear on front joint, a good only copy lacking the dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. 139pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Some age-toning on the title pages, else near fine in near fine, lightly rubbed dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. 265pp. Portrait frontispiece. Small spot on topedge, covers lightly soiled, spine slightly faded, very good, lacking the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Being selections from Those That Will Not Work, The Fourth volume of London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew. Very good minus with cloth cover soiled.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Revised edition. Octavo. 256pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Small owner name on front fly, pages toned, thus very good in a price-clipped and somewhat edgeworn, very good dust jacket with a short internal tape repair.…

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First American edition. Trade paperback. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Cover edges lightly worn, else fine.