Varley charles varlo (12 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing octavo hardback 118 pp illustrated Very Good + condition in Very Good unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions.

hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in an age-toned and price clipped pictorial dust jacket, the text is clean and unmarked, b&w plates, 118pp.

hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved pictorial dust jacket, b&w plates, 118pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Preface of his life(?1725-?1795) and times by Desmond Clarke.

Condizione: Good. DJ may have small chips and tears, price clipped. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

Condizione: Good. 1964. No Edition Remarks. 118 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Faint ring mark to front board. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing.…

Top corner of front free end paper clipped otherwise VG; small glue-stain on front panel of dust jacket. First published in 1768 as 'The Modern Farmer's Guide'. With a preface of his life and times by Desmond Clark Used - Good. Good hardback in VG price-clipped dustjacket Used - Good. Good hardback in VG price-clipped dustjacket.…

1st ed. A tidy copy in tight binding. With a preface of author's life and times by Desmond Clarke. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. generally fine condition. Varley was an 18th Century agricultural writer, author of the anonymously published Modern Farmer's Guide. In this book he included an account of 'the author's life and travels, by a real farmer'. This autobiography, described by one commentator as 'remarkable as the contemporary picaresque novel' is what constitutes this book. While Varley's anonymity was maintained up until Clarke, who was librarian at the Royal Dublin Society, established him as the author, it looks as if nobody tried very hard to uncover him. It presented little problem to Clarke. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1964 FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 2nd class tracked post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 2 volume set. Old calf. Rubbing, edge wear. Crack down front hinge of vol. 2. Solid bindings. Unmarked pages. Includes 4 page list of subscribers. Only 5 foldouts (2 folding plates & 3 printed folding tables). Plate 2 on Vol. 1 p. 307 torn out. Some spotting, old worming to the margin of a few pages. [An aside: Varlo's attempt to claim New Albion in the aftermath of the American Revolution is a remarkable bit of roguery and waggery.] Provenance: Owen T. Price's copy, name on fep. From a collection of books purchased from an old Pennsylvania family. (Jonathan Jones, David Wister, Lower Merion, PA).…