R s swinton (4 risultati)

paperback. Condizione: Good. Ann Arbor, 1934; TWO BOOKS; Photo-Lithoprint reproduction; brown paper covers; previous owner's name on front covers; edge and corner wear; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; notations on interior pages; answers and corrections laid-in Course I; 77 and 62 pages, respectively. …

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME, imperial octavo, red buckram boards, gilt & black lettering to spine, gilt lettering & black lettering & illus to front board, viii + 800pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate rubbing & bruising to spine & extrems, moderate fading to spine & board edges, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional minor foxing/soiling throughout, moderate cracking to gutter at title page & sporadically throughout, binding a little sloppy).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by way of a sheet of his Woodstock Road headed notepaper pasted to the front free endpaper bearing the following inked inscription: "To Edward Michael, with the author's regards. April 1933". Tall 8vo. 321pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with red and green rules to the backstrip ends and upper and lower margins of the front board. With map-illustrated pastedowns, a photographic portrait frontispiece, nine plates of captioned photographs and facsimiles, and one folding multi-panel plan. Top edge dust soiled, and with a trace of spotting to the fore edge. Corner tips and backstrip ends very gently rubbed. Some quite light fox spotting to a number of preliminary and concluding leaves, and a single tiny tape-repaired tear to the base of the front free endpaper. A very good copy of the author's Great War memoirs (Swinton played a vital role in the development and adoption of the tank during the First World War, and is co-credited with initiating the use of the word 'tank'). Uncommon, and much, much more so with the author's contemporary presentation inscription. Inscribed by Author(s).…