Samuel looker ed (29 risultati)

Condizione: good copy. 1. Red orig. cardboard hardcover with orig. dust jacket. Illustrations specially drawn by E. E. Briscoe. Contents: 1. London overture. 2. The story of my heart. 3. The lions in Trafalgar Square. 4. Sky over London. 5. Sunlight in a London square. 6. Nature near London. 7. A wet night in London. 8. The pigeons at the British Museum. 9. Fleet street. 10. Trees about town. 11. Flocks of birds about London. 12. A London trout. 13. The coming of summer near London. 14. Herbs at Kew Gardens. 15. The modern Thames. 16. On the London road. 17. Venice in the East End. 18. Red roofs of London. 19. After London.; Jahr: 1944; Format: Oktav; Anzahl der Seiten: 184; Auflage: 1.; Zustand: 2 (good copy)Shipping costs displayed on some platforms (mainly AbeBooks/ZVAB) may differ from the actual costs for items over 500 grams or in larger formats. If you are affected by this, we will ask you for your consent. PLEASE NOTE US CUSTOMERS: Due to the US government's customs regulations, goods can currently only be shipped to the US as parcels, which costs at least 30,00 USD. 265 gr. 184 pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Top right corner badly bumped, bottom corners bumped and top rear corner bumped. Spine Sunned. Red Leatherette cover Edgeworn, top of back panel faded. Binding tight, Endpapers lightly foxed. E E Briscoe (illustratore).

Condizione: Fair. 1944. First Edition. 182 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.…

Condizione: Good. 1941. No Edition Remarks. 64 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Medium tanning and water staining to spine and edges. Light foxing overall.…

Condizione: Good. 1922. No Edition Remarks. 230 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Minor thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking and creasing to gutters and hinges but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.…

Condizione: Very Good. Harvard University Press 11/19/48 Binding: Unknown dj wsm tear at top edge, in mylar 215 pages. Illustrator: 8 full-page and 16 smaller wood Engravings PublishPlace: Cambridge, MA Size: 12.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 3rd. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards are generally in good order, just a little grubby. Slight bumping to corners. Spine has bumping to the ends. Mild foxing to the page edges. B/w frontispiece. Occasional mild foxing. 184 pp. Printed on war standard paper. Pictoral paper dust jacket with black lettering to spine and green lettering to front. Dj has some creasing to the edges with several small nicks especially around the spine ends. Rather grubby. Now protected by a removable plastic sleeve. Not priceclipped. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 359g. Unless specifically mentioned, all our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 029874:1-Q12) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall Language: ENG 359 G. BRISCOE, E E (illustratore). Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Decorative owner bookplate. 291pp Illustrations.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Lutterworth Press 1944. Second Printing. Condition: Very Good. Clean copy - tight Harcover binding with clear and complete text. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Condizione: Fair. 1922. No edition remarks. 237 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters. Binding slightly loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. Constable, 1945, reprint. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, xxv,274pp, illust. Gift message, d/j worn and torn with loss. A fair copy. /0.3uk. Taylor, Will F., (photos) (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Hardcover with no dustjacket. 1943 reprint. Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK. Book.

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 first edition vintage book. An ex-library copy with the usual amount of stamps. Light rubbing and marks to the covers and spine. A shallow crack to the hinge at the start of the book but all pages are secure. Still a reliable copy fit for re-reads.…

1st ed. 1st edition, 1922. Page fore-edge lightly foxed; binding tight; spine slightly bumped at head & foot. With a frontis. by Claud Lovat Fraser. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket).

First ed. Fore-edge foxed; green cloth a little faded on front board. Frontis by C. Lovat Fraser. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dustjacket) Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dustjacket).

First Edition: Hardback, white illustrated bds., blue and brown titles, 130 x 195 mm., 200g., 64 pp., original, illustrated, unclipped dw., VG/VG copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. VG/G+ small pieces missing at top of dw, ill, quotation legend in pencil on front feps and penned poetry in rear.

Sm. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, and pictorial endpapers, some very light spotting (mainly marginal); sand cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy. Published in the author's 'Beechwood Books' series.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st ed. - 191 pp. Illus. with 5 b.w. drawings. 8vo. orig. cl. d/w. v.g.

Condizione: Good. Tatty dust jacket, with tears, nicks, wear, marks, scratches and fading. Bumps/wear at edges/corners of hard board. Marks, scratches and fading to hard board. Foxing to text blocks. Text very good/clean.

Condizione: Good. No jacket. A few small knocks, some dirty marks and wear on cover. Also a handwritten message on first blank page but content is fine.

First Edition. Well used copy; navy cloth with silver titles on front board and spine. Inscription on front free end paper; some scattered foxing. Lovely colour frontis. Dust jacket extremely tatty, with creasing, tears and loss. Used - Good. Good hardback in Poor dust jacket Used - Good. Good hardback in Poor dust jacket.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Good Plus. First Edition. Collection of autobiographical/country life/nature essays, previously unpublished. First Edn., 1948; full green cloth; titling blocked in gilt (quite bright) to spine; top edge green; 215pp.; illus. bw. wood engravings. Spine/boards quite crisp and very clean/bright; text very fresh, pages very clean/crisp/bright; lightly soiled dj. faintly stained on spine, with small chips to top/bottom edges, but bright. Printed/illus. prize label ('Winchmore County School'), dated Nov. 1955, affixed to front paste-down endpaper. VG+ in G+ price-clipped dj. PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING. Illus. by AGNES MILLER PARKER (illustratore). Hardback.…

1st edition hardback in original cloth Very Good tall octavo 58pp., col. frontis., col. pls., bibliog., Limited to 750 copies. Some sporadic light foxing o/w nice copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Second impression with rare dust jacket - collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Two scarce works on London and the English countryside, written by prominent British nature writer Robert Jeffries. London and The Life of the Fields, two scarce works on British nature written by nature writer and natural historian Richard Jeffries, and edited by Samuel J. Looker. Published by Lutterworth Press in 1944 and 1947 respectively.In the publisher's original cloth, with Fields in the original clipped dust wrapper. Fields contains a frontispiece and numerous in-text woodcuts by Agnes Parker. London contains a frontispiece by Briscoe, and nine other lovingly illustrated plates of London landmarks including St. Paul's and The British Museum. Collated complete.Growing up on a small Wiltshire farm, Richard Jeffries always had a deep appreciation of nature, and these two works encapsulate this love brilliantly, as we are taken through both the countryside surrounding Brighton and the Sussex Downs (Fields) and leafy London (London). Jeffries can be seen to inspire many nature writers to this day. In the publisher's original cloth, with Fields in the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with minimal marks to boards. Slight knocks to the head and tails of the spines, and to the extremities. Dust wrapper of Fields is generally bright and clean with slight fading. Signs of edgewear to wrapper, with a chip to the head of the wrapper spine, and a heavy chip to tail of wrapper spine. The odd small spot to end papers of London. Ink scribble to top right corner of front free end paper to London. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with small odd mark to first and last leaves of London. Very Good Indeed. E.E. Briscoe; Agnes Parker (illustratore). book.…

Leatherbound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 266. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1922 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 266.…

Leatherbound. Condizione: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 516. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1922 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 516.…

A golfing anthology, poetry, prose, fact and fiction. 1st edition. 8vo. Green cloth. 237pp, Illustrations to endpapers and frontispiece. Internally very good indeed, clean and bright. In the original green cloth, very mild shelf wear, corners square, boards fractionally bowed, one small (5mm) mark to upper foredge. Overall a magnificent copy. With the colour frontispiece by Claud Lovat Fraser.…