john r walker (12 risultati)

Condizione: Acceptable. BOOK AND/OR COVER HAS SOME WATER DAMAGE AND/OR LIQUID STAINING. COVER SHOWS SOME GENERAL WEAR, SUCH AS SCRATCHES, RUBBING AND CREASES. paperback 100% of proceeds go to charity! Acceptable reading copy with obvious signs of use, wear, and/or cosmetic issues. Item is complete and remains readable despite notable condition issues.

Octavo volume. Contemporary calf binding with raised bands and gilt decorative tooling to spine; later purple cloth repair present to spine section, as shown. Boards with marbled paper, heavily worn with rubbing, scuffing, edge wear, and loss to corners. Spine rubbed and worn but remains intact and solid. Text block complete. Pages age-toned throughout with expected foxing and light staining consistent with age. Title page present and clear. Binding sound despite cosmetic wear; hinges holding. No loose pages noted. A well-used but honest early 19th-century volume. Condition: Fair to Good (for age) ? structurally sound, cosmetically worn.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Volumes 11 and 12. Both volumes show aging to edges and folds, boards in good shape, gilt lettering good. Pages and ffeps show foxing. NO markings in text. Pasadena's best bookstore!!

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback: Very Good Condition For Age. No Jacket. Pages Clean And Unmarked. Shows Signs Of Aging Such As Tanning And Foxing. No Hindrance To Readability. Binding Tight And Secure. Clean Boards, Wear Along Edges . Photograph Is Added By Selling Site And Not Ours, Therefore May Not Reflect This Edition Or Condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good.

Quarter -Leather. Vol. 1; Half title page + Title page + viii + 288 pages. Vol. 2; Half title page + Title page + vii + 294 pages, original binding in Good condition, minor edge rubbing. Contents Very Good, Clean & Tight, NO inscriptions, NO foxing, some trace of folded corner pages. Charles Dibdin c1745? - 1814), musician, dramatist, novelist, actor and songwriter, Born Southampton the youngest of a family of 18. Dibdin's patriotic sea-songs influenced the national spirit and were officially used by the British navy during war with France that in 1803 he was induced by Pitt's government, with a pension of £200 a year, to abandon provincial engagements in order to compose and sing 'War Songs' in order to keep up popular feeling against France. 9 x 15cm Approx.

8vo. 5th edition. 2 volumes: Vol.I.- pp. 52/5/270. Vol.II.- pp 342. Rebound in brown goat skin. Gilt label to spine. VG.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. with a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by Dr Johnson, eight volumes, contemporary full-leather, raised bands, decorated in gilt, leather labels (several chipped with loss), minor chipping to heads of spines, hinges and corners rubbed, portrait frontispiece volume I, marbled edges, a handsome set. from the library of Edward Odell with his armorial bookplate front pastedowns and ownership signature in each volume; 173, 333, 337, 365, 303, 339, 376 and 330 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. [Fine bindings] 6 volume set. Bound in later 3/4 blue leather over brown cloth boards. Gilt ruled and decorated spines. Solid bindings and covers. Lacks frontis. A few stray marks. Contents: v. 1-2. Spectator. --v. 3. Spectator. Tatler. --v. 4. Guardian. Freeholder. Whig-examiner. Lover. (J. Swan, Printer) --v. 5. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, &c. in the year 1701, 1702, 1703. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. Of the Christian religion. An essay on Virgil's Georgics. --v. 6. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond. Story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus from the 4th book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Cato. To Sir Godfrey Kneller, on his picture of the King. Drummer. Poemata.

Small 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 133, [3]; engraved frontispiece and 3 engraved plates; original blue gray paper-covered boards, pink paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; spine a little sunned and rubbed; but generally very good and sound. Early ownership signature of G. Starhemberg, no doubt a member of the distinguished Austrian noble family. The terminal leaf of ads announces other works by Bloomfield.

FOUR VOLUMES. 8vo. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Volume the First, xvii + [i] + [2] + 489 pp.; Volume the Second, [ii] + 448 pp.; Volume the Third, xii + 426 pp. Volume the Fourth, vii + [i] + 447 pp. Bound in contemporary full calf, gilt, boards with decorative blind stamped and gilt borders; spines in compartments with raised bands, decorated gilt with contrasting title labels, gilt. All edges marbled. A little age related wear to extremities, including corners and spine edges. Offsetting of frontispiece on first volume title page and some scattered foxing throughout; otherwise a very good set. 1814 signature of H. Lloyd, Trinity College Cambridge on second or third free endpapers. Later pictorial bookplates in Latin of William Steven. Illustrated by engraved portrait frontispiece, 16 engraved title pages, 10 engraved plates, one music notation, and by the author's text illustrations, including 2 pages in marbled colour. A illustrated set of the collected works of the Anglo-Irish cleric and author, Laurence Sterne (1713-61), first published in 1783. It includes Tristram Shandy, A Sentimental Journey, forty sermons and 132 letters. THIS IS A LARGE AND HEAVY SET WHICH WILL INCUR SHIPPING COSTS ABOVE THE DEFAULT RATE QUOTED BY ABE. PLEASE CONTACT US DIRECTLY IF YOU WOULD LIKE A QUOTATION FOR POSTAGE BEFORE ORDERING. ART / LITERATURE SERMONS LIT. FICTION LIT. NON-FICTION CORRESPONDENCE 18TH CENTURY 19TH CENTURY ART / LITERATURE.

4to. xx, (ii), 693, (21) pp. A large paper copy contemporarily bound by Hering (with his ticket to the verso of the front free endpaper), full diced russia, rebacked to style with raised bands with the original gilt lettered green label preserved, endpapers and all edges marbled, neat old manuscript note lightly pencilled to the title page. A handsome copy.