Sibbett cecil j (8 risultati)

Condizione: Good. No Edition Remarks. 67 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Signed by the author to front pastedown: "To Malcolm Mackenzie with the author's best wishes for the new year". With illustrated frontispiece. Rough cut pages. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. Grubby pastedowns. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Blotchy sunning and marking overall. Spine is slightly sunned. Gilt is dulled and worn. Boards are rather bowed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author(s)67 pages (complete). A benign, generally owned copy. Ex-library (Rand Club Library) copy with consequent stamps, annotations, wear, marks and usage. The frontispage has an inscription from Sibbett: "Author's note: Read the preface before dipping in!" Simmins was well known as a businessman, Rotarian, war correspondent as an assistant political secretary to Cecil Rhodes. The covers of this copy are worn, stained, marked all about. An attempt to repair the spine has been made. The covers are secure and resolute. Within, the front pastedown has an ex-libris plate from the Rand Club. The back pastedown has a reprinted leader from the Cape Times for 17/12/48 reviewing the book. The contents are mild, bold, clean, clear and clubbable. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. signed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. 1st Edition. Inscribed and signed by Author(s). The jacket is torn but has suffered little paper loss. Damp marked through to boards -not affecting the text. Boards are worn, damp marked, scarring. Mild tanning, foxing. However, it is still in fair condition, tightly bound. K. [RF25]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. signed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Inscribed by Author(s)Jacket is rubbed and marked.Signed and inscribed by author.Excellent binding.Very good copy.Undated.Signature dated 1948.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. signed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. Signed by Author(s)The jacket is rubbed and worn.torn.Creased.Some foxing and insect gnawing.Signed.Well bound.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. signed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Inscribed by Author(s)The jacket is edgeworn and marked.A few inscriptions.Signed by the author.Relevant article pestered at the back of the book.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. signed. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author(s)The jacket is a bit marked and edgeworn. Internally clean and tightly bound. The ffep might be missing. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. signed.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. SIGNED AND DEDICATED BY AUTHOR on front pastedown 'To 'P.P.' Lady Charles with the author's best wishes for Christmas 1948'. Gilt title on blue cloth boards which have some fading and a mark to front. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Pages are deckle edged. Dustjacket has age darkening, some marks and a closed tear and is not price clipped. Frontispiece caricature by Dorelle. Foreword by Horace Flather (editor of The Star and Cape Argus). Cecil James Sibbett was a South African Naturalist, President of the South African Botanical Society, a politician, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the South African National Gallery. In this book he amusingly writes of cliches, and as Horace Flather states 'in the junkpile of dusty discards that Mr. Sibbett has assembled are to be found phrases of rare beauty, literary gems that still sparkle in their original setting'. 20 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.…