Ashley thorndike ed (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1906). 346pp. Original brown cloth with blind decoration to covers, gilt titles to upper board and spine, blind titles to lower board. VG copy, binding square and tight, cloth covers reasonably clean, gilt dulled completely, a little rubbed, internally very good; no dust jacket.…

Zustand: Fair. 1936. No Edition Stated. 456 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with gilt lettering.From the personal library of previous owner, with expected ownership plates and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed with light tanning. Prominent forward lean to text block.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Everyman's Library (Dent/Dutton) nd circa 1930 hardback Green cloth lettered and decorated in gold to spine. 276 pages, spine edge split, has a library stamp and names to fep with just a few annotations but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Two volumes from the Belles-Lettres series comprising a collection of four plays by Jacobean playwrights Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, and John Webster. Two volumes from the Belles-Lettres series comprising a collection of four plays by Jacobean and Elizabethan dramatists. Whilst the 1904 volume contains two plays by collaborators Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, the latter volume comprises John Webster's tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi. The reader's are offered an introduction to the playwrights and their work in both volumes. With a sticker from booksellers 'B.H. Blackwell' to t front pastedown of The Maid's Tragedy. Prior owner's bookplate to the front pastedown of the volume with plays by Webster. The work belonged to Scottish lawyer and amateur criminologist William Roughead. Roughead was an early practitioner of the modern 'true crime' genre, attending almost every murder trial of importance at the High Court to provide him with material for his articles in the Scottish legal journal, the Juridical Review. In the publisher's original red cloth binding over hard boards. Externally, smart, particularly the earlier volume containing the works of Webster. The other volume is a little bumped to the head and tail of the spine, with some light wear to the extremities. The front hinge is starting, firm in the 1906 volume. Internally, firmly bound, with bright and clean pages throughout. Very Good Indeed. Not stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First thus. Very good Hardcover, 15 volumes. Copy #539. Light browning of pages. Covers rubbed lightly at spine ends and corners with some wear. Top edges gilt. Worn stamping on front covers and spine.