stevenson hon (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Second edition, circa 1926. Good. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Burgundy cloth boards with modest wear at corners and spine-ends. Previous owner name/address/phone on front endpage. In addition, brief underlinings on pages 29 and 30, and 143 (which also has a small bit of marginalia). 238 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Gift inscription on flyleaf dated Christmas 1953. Top edge slightly dusty and minor rubbing on cover. The book traces the descendants of William Stevenson who came to Pennsylvania in 1748 and then settled in present-day Iredell County, North Carolina in 1763. Among his descendants were Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1835-1913), United States vice president and his grandson Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-1965), two time presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, 8pp. Partially unopened. About a Very Good copy.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Hon. Florence Fremantle (illustratore). First edition. A publisher's file copy of the first edition of Kenlis Langley's vanishingly scarce children's science fiction novel, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this very scarce work.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Stamped 'File Copy, Please Return', to the front free endpaper.This juvenile novel for boys is set in a lost world discovered by boy adventurers in North Africa, and is the work of Indian-born soldier and author Lieutenant-Colonel Kenlis Langley Stevenson.Illustrated with a frontispiece by Hon. Florence Fremantle.With four pages of advertisements to the rear.A vanishingly scarce work. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with fading to back strip tail. Spotting and handling marks to text block fore edge. Sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with price label to back strip. Wraps bright. Small closed tear to tail of front wrap. Light edgewear to back strip tail, with two closed tears to back strip head. Internally, binding strained. Stamp to front free endpaper. Pages bright, with light spotting and handling marks. Very Good. book.