Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Edison, N.J. : Chartwell Books, Inc., 1994., 1994
ISBN 10: 1555219993 ISBN 13: 9781555219994
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 336 pp. : color illustrations ; 30 cm. ; ISBN: 1555219993 ; OCLC: 31920160 ; LC: PN6725; Dewey: 741.5/0973/075 ; black cloth with gold lettering, in color dustjakcet ; small tear on page 121-122 ; small tear to front top corner of dustjacket ; "[C]ontains four main sections, covering the history of comic books plus chapters on comic culture; collecting, and how to form and maintain a collection; and the grading and assessment of value. In addition, there is a mass of useful information on such things as the use of price guides, artists and writers of comic books. Finally, there is an exhaustive index of the titles and their publishers."--jacket ; VG/G. Book.
Verlag: London, Harvill Press, 1949, 1949
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. ix, 212 p plates. 23 cm ; LCCN: 50-28410 ; LC: GT2955; Dewey: 394.1 ; OCLC: 2102496 ; 8°. green cloth ; no dustjacket ; foxing ; Battiscombe was a James Tait Black Memorial Prize winning author, writing several biographies of eminent Victorians ; "This gallimaufry of Englsih Picnics is intended to amuse rather than instruct.I have modernized passages.where the difficulty of deciphering the original would detract from the ordinary reader's pleasure." ; Contents: What is a picnic? -- Medieval picnics -- Tudor and Stuart picnics -- Eighteenth century and Regency picnics -- Victoriana -- The chosen guests -- The poets' picnic -- Picnics in ficition -- The nursery goes picnicking -- Epilogue ; G. Book.