alaric jacob (20 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1946. No Edition Remarks. 320 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.

Zustand: Good. 1944. No edition remarks. 448 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth covered boards. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Book has slight forward lean.

hardcover. Zustand: very good(+). Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good(+). Color plates and sketches by Paul Hogarth. 160 pages. 4to, blue cloth, d.w. (lightly soiled). New York: Hill and Wang, (1969). Very good(+) in a very good(+) dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition THUS. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Pages are clear of marks and notations. Binding ios secire and sound. Dust jacket is protected in a mylar cover. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Good. Hardcover, rubbed at spine ends and bumped corners, spine faded, cover soiled and worn, pages lightly browned.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. As a Daily Express war correspondent the author observed Allied efforts in North Africa, the Chindit's in India and Burma and was present with the Red Army at the Battle of Kursk. Green cloth boards, faded to spine. Name on first free end paper. Blind stamp on half title page. 448pp.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1944. First edition. 8vo. Red cloth binding, decoration in black. 393 pp. First-hand observations and reporting by the Reuters writer. Jacob went to Africa and witnessed the Allied defeat at Tobruk and the eventual success at Alameida. Then he went to Syria, Iraq and the Caucasus. In India he witnessed the most recent fast of Gandhi. Ex-library with library markings. Dust jacket has long tear and chipping. Good in good dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.

Zustand: Very Good. 1962. Hardcover. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW showing some age and shelf wear. Remains a very good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. A fine unread copy. 320 pp. The jacket with minor wear to the extremities. Priced at 15s on the inner flap. Placed in a clear, protective and removable jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Good tight condition, red boards, dust wrapper has some minor wear and tear.

Zustand: Very Good. 1962. Hardcover. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW showing some age and shelf wear. Remains a very good copy. . . . .

Zustand: fair. 393, some soiling ins bds & flylves, sm stains to fore-edge, bds somewhat soiled, sm tears to spine & bd edges, bd corners worn.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 254pp Dustwrapper bit marked. Novel of the Cold War.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First US edition, jacket has moderate wear, nicks and fading, book has light wear, clean pages (somewhat yellowed), firm binding, owner signature of Russia scholar Marshall Winokur.

Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. RO40064890: 1946. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, 1er plat abîmé, Dos abîmé, Quelques rousseurs. 350 pages - 1er plat manquant - manque au dos - pages partiellement non coupées. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.

Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. R320109529: 1946. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Mouillures. 350 pages - Mouillures sur les plats - Des manques au dos et en pied du 2e plat - VENDU EN L'ETAT. . . . Classification Dewey : 940.53-Seconde Guerre mondiale 1939-1945.

8vo. Pp: 310. First edition, scarce title. Publisher's green boards with gilt lettering at spine. Previous owner's name and date written in pencil at front end paper. Good. Some spotting at text block edges. Toning at top edge of text block. Spine rubbed and worn with title obscured. The gilt in 'Alaric' and 'Secker and Warburg' at spine appear to have been gone over with a black pen. Split at rear of head of spine, approx. 1.5cm. Crease at head of spine.

Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. R260131414: 1946. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. défraîchie, Dos abîmé, Intérieur frais. 350 pages. Plats détachés. Manque au dos. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Good hardcover, no dust cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/ scuffing, minor spotting. Binding is tight, strong. A slight musty smell.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.310; [2] blank. Publisher's cloth in typographical dust-wrapper priced at 15s. Contents clean, no inscriptions, edges spotted, jacket is worn with some chips to extremities. Very good. Described by Paul Hogarth as 'the quintessential English journalist', Jacob had been a Reuters reporter in the '30s and a war correspondent during World War II, operating in North Africa, Burma and Moscow. A close friend of Margot Asquith, he was introduced him to Sir Roderick Jones who offered him a diplomatic post at Reuters, where he met the young journalist Ian Fleming. Scenes from a Bourgeois Life, is a semi-autobiographical novel and features the character Hugo Dropmore, a thinly-disguised portrait of Ian Fleming who owned the Dropmore Press (later the Queen Anne Press). The book is rare; this being the only copy currently available. From the collection of award-winning Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert (pencilled ownership within). Gilbert pp.656-7, 660.