Chatto windus 1981 (35 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. An very nice copy in a clipped, but otherwise fine, dust jacket.

Title taken from half-title. Title page reads "Hakluyt's Voyages". 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. 640, incl. index; maps; illustrations in text. Some foxing to reverse of dustwrapper and flaps, also to edges and endpapers. Very good condition. "Like Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Hakluyt's collection has been unjustly neglected because of its enormous length. Many abridgements are too short to do justice to the variety and scope of the original, while others concentrate on its historical or economic interest. The present selection conveys all the variety of the original while emphasizing the extraordinary human interest of the documents.". …

paperback, 144pp, owner's name insdie front cover, text clean and sound, Good condition. ISBN: 0701116293.

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, price clipped). Pp. 640, with b&w illus (previous owner's neat pencil inscription on rear endpaper).

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 29 cm, 119 pp,colour ills From the blurb: "This is the first comprehensive selection in colour of manuscripts from 1200 to 1500 - the richest period of English manuscript painting. The authors provide a history of the subject and describe the different centres of production. The influence of Italian and French artists is discussed in relation to English manuscript painting; the work of Matthew Paris at St. Albans and the East Anglican school are reappraised, and the role of court and aristocratic patronage is fully assessed. The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting covers the centuries of the luxury personal psalters and Books of Hours. The manuscripts rank among the finest achievements of medieval painting, and include masterpieces such as The Lindesey Psalter, The Life of Saint Alban, The Trinity Apocalypse, The Oscott Psalter, The Liber Regalis, The Beaufort/Beauchamp Hours, and the Sherborne Missal. The volume includes forty colour plates, each faced by a detailed commentary, an introduction with black and white photographs, and an up-to-date bibliography. It contains the most recent scholarly research on English Gothic manuscript painting, but at the same time provides a fascinating introduction to the subject for the general reader." Wrappers slightly rubbed, otherwise Very Good.…

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 29 cm, 119 pp,colour ills From the blurb: "This is the first comprehensive selection in colour of manuscripts from 1200 to 1500 - the richest period of English manuscript painting. The authors provide a history of the subject and describe the different centres of production. The influence of Italian and French artists is discussed in relation to English manuscript painting; the work of Matthew Paris at St. Albans and the East Anglican school are reappraised, and the role of court and aristocratic patronage is fully assessed. The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting covers the centuries of the luxury personal psalters and Books of Hours. The manuscripts rank among the finest achievements of medieval painting, and include masterpieces such as The Lindesey Psalter, The Life of Saint Alban, The Trinity Apocalypse, The Oscott Psalter, The Liber Regalis, The Beaufort/Beauchamp Hours, and the Sherborne Missal. The volume includes forty colour plates, each faced by a detailed commentary, an introduction with black and white photographs, and an up-to-date bibliography. It contains the most recent scholarly research on English Gothic manuscript painting, but at the same time provides a fascinating introduction to the subject for the general reader." Non-authorial gift inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise Near Fine.…

first edition 217pp NF (orange cloth,sl.bumps to extrems.) in NF d/w (sl.rubbed w.sl.bumps to extrems.).

softcover octavo (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.

Cloth, 4to, 29 cm, 119 pp, colour plates. From the blurb: "This is the first comprehensive selection in colour of manuscripts from 1200 to 1500 - the richest period of English manuscript painting. The authors provide a history of the subject and describe the different centres of production. The influence of Italian and French artists is discussed in relation to English manuscript painting; the work of Matthew Paris at St. Albans and the East Anglican school are reappraised, and the role of court and aristocratic patronage is fully assessed. The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting covers the centuries of the luxury personal psalters and Books of Hours. The manuscripts rank among the finest achievements of medieval painting, and include masterpieces such as The Lindesey Psalter, The Life of Saint Alban, The Trinity Apocalypse, The Oscott Psalter, The Liber Regalis, The Beaufort/Beauchamp Hours, and the Sherborne Missal. The volume includes forty colour plates, each faced by a detailed commentary, an introduction with black and white photographs, and an up-to-date bibliography. It contains the most recent scholarly research on English Gothic manuscript painting, but at the same time provides a fascinating introduction to the subject for the general reader." Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper.…

Super 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.…

8vo, 442pp. A good paperback copy. Minor crease to corner. Remainder markk.

Cloth. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Jacket design by the author. 337 pages. Edges of pages marked, otherwise good.

Condizione: Très bon état. in-8, cartonnage sous jaquette illustrée, 337 pp. Texte en anglais. Très bon état. Exemplaire provenant de la bibliothèque d'Alain Resnais.

Reprint. Octavo-size, stitch-bound paperback. A short gift inscription on the top of the half-title page, o/w very good. The German text, with an English translation, introduction and commentary by J.B. Leishman and Stephen Spender. An attractive edition, good translations with facing pages of English and German text.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1981, Chatto & Windus, 4to., 119pp., 40 coloured and 23 plain illustrations, top edge dust soiled else Very Good, wrappers.

Original Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed from the author and dated 14/XI/81, in the Phoenix Living Poet series. Signed by Author.

8vo, 187pp. A very good hardback copy in like, price-clipped, dust jacket.

Condizione: Very Good. First edition uncorrected proof copy in publisher's original pink card wrap covers [softback]. 8vo. 8'' x 5''. Contains 338 printed pages of text. Sun faded spine edge, light rubs, marking and creasing to the cover, pale foxing to the closed page edges and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0701125721 PROOF COPY (Advance).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 8vo in purple cloth, spine title in gilt. Binding tight and square, virtually no shelf wear, light foxing to the top edge. The dustjacket is not price-clipped, light foxing to the rear top and foredges.

reprint orig. cloth Near Fine octavo xviii + 924pp., ep maps, index, An abridgement of the classic work by D. M. Low. Much of military interest.

First Edition. 8vo.pp.xviii +222 . Hardback Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0 7011 2601 9.

HB BROWN CLOTH NEAR FINE PP640 DW FINE 8V0 Sea journeys against most odds.

1st edition / 1st printing hardback with dust jacket Very nice copy octavo 239pp., Nice copy in a John Woodcock dust jacket. Noted theatre critic Leonard Radic's copy with his signature.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Fine octavo 177pp., Fine copy in like unusually bright price-clipped dust jacket.

XXVI,326 p. Hardbound 22 cm 700 gr.

First edition. A fine copy in near fine price-clipped bright yellow dust jacket printed in black and red, with three small closed tears (two on rear panel, one on front) along top edge.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. In goede staat. Hardcover met stofomslag.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First edition. Cloth, 640pp. Fine in d/w.

1st edition dust jacket Very Nice Copy octavo 640p., frontis., maps, index, Selection of 37 major voyages recorded & described by Richard Hakluyt.