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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Road to St. Julien: The Letters of a Stretcher-bearer of the Great War This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Zustand: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair-Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. A 1st thus (Berkley Medallion G-471) of a collection of sci-fi stories from the 1940s and early 1950s. "The solar system and the outer stars." Light edge wear. Damp stain to the fore edge of the pages and the bottom corner. Moderate browning to the pages. A decent reader.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) of the 2nd Dell edition of a late 1950s collection of stories edited by Alfred Hitchcock. Dell Book F206. Reprints Dell D231. Includes Being a Murderer Myself by Arthur Williams, Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White, A Woman Seldom Found by William Sansom, The Perfectionist by Margaret St Clair, The Price of the Head by John Russell, Love Comes to Miss Lucy by Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler), Sredni Vashtar by "Saki" (H H Munro), Love Lies Bleeding by Philip MacDonald, The Dancing Partner by Jerome K Jerome, Casting the Runes by M R James, The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hudson, and How Love Came to Professor Guildea and by Robert S Hitchens. Light edge wear. Very light browning to the pages. A very good or better copy.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers. Rubbing on wraps, very good. Contributions by Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Henry Kuttner, Theodore Sturgeon, John D. MacDonald, Leigh Brackett, Joseph Shallit, Margaret St. Clair, Jack Vance, and William Ratigan.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Single issue. 98pp. Pictorial wrappers. Pages and wrappers stained and worn, page 37 has penned checkmark, a good only copy. Contributions by Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Henry Kuttner, Theodore Sturgeon, John D. MacDonald, Leigh Brackett, Joseph Shallit, Margaret St. Clair, Jack Vance, and William Ratigan.

hardback, 8vo, xxiv,477pp, clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Good dustwrapper., wrapper slightly frayed at spine ends and corners, not price-clipped. ISBN: 0192553615.

Original Red Cloth Hardback. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good Plus. First Edition Thus. 1974. xxiv, 477pp. Double page map of Asia to rear showing Trelawny's voyages. Oxford English Novels series. Edited with notes and introduction by William St. Clair. "The Adventures of a Younger Son is one of the great adventure stories: the wild, violent, and prejudiced journal of a British officer who deserts his ship in India and joins the corsairs. Trelawny maintained all his life that it was the story of his own life." Red cloth hardback with gilt titles to spine, in excellent condition with no inscriptions. Unclipped dust jacket has ligt wear to edges.

4to. pp x, 240. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Original publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering at spine. Inscribed by the editor to historian Richard Holmes. ISBN: 1844150178 Fine in fine dust jacket.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy paper covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 241 pp with splendid archive monochrome photographs throughout. Donation copy directly from the publisher to Kent Arts Archive Library, Canterbury, Kent. This has been stored in the trust's archive and has not been circulated as a lending book with labels neatly removed from the front free end paper. Very Good condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, £19.95. Member of the P.B.F.A. FIRST WORLD (Great) WAR.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First Edition. Toning to spine. First edition, first printing. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Binding tight. In removable protective plastic jacket. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. X, 405 Pp. Red Brown Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. An Extended Discussion Of General And Specifically 1947 Issues In Franker Language Than Modern Readers Expect. Book Near Fine, Small Bump To Lower Front Tip, Small Bookseller's Ticket On Front Pastedown, Small Usc Political Science Researcher's Name On Rear Pastedown. Dj Lightly Used, Not Price Clipped, Label Removal Scar In Parts Of Area 1/2" X 1" At Top Of Spine, 1/2" Tear At Top Of Front Panel, A Few Minute Losses.

56 pp.; staple bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Issue edited by Philip Leider. Essays "An Exhibition of Boxes,"[at Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles] by Donald Factor; "William Turner's Last Four Paintings," by Jerrold Ziff; "The Morgenroth Collection of Medals and Plaquettes," by Alfred Moir; "Four Drawings," by Manuel Neri; "The Wright Ludington Collection," by Gerald Nordland "Five American Sculptors at Pasadena," by John Coplans. Reviews by Virginia Allen, Fidel A. Danieli, Mary Ewalt, Betje Howell, Gerald Nordland, Curt Oplinger, Constance Perkins, John Reuschel, Clair Wolf, and Harriette von Breton. Cover: James Rosenquist, "Toaster." Good. Rubbing of covers and bumping of corners. Contents clean and unmarked.

Full morocco. Zustand: Good+. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. xii, 297, [1, 2 titles 'Published by J. Aiken']. Full green morocco, spine ruled in gilt and stamped in blind, double gilt ruling to boards, gilt roll-tooled turn-ins. AEG. Marbled endpapers. Spine sunned, joints and edges rubbed, corners bruised. Armorial ex libris of Abel John Ram Esqr. to front pastedown, POIs of William St. Clair (pencil to verso of ffep) and Frances Anne Ram at Clifton (faded brown ink to half-title, and trimmed at leading edge). Ink spots to leading edge. A few marks, small losses to top corners of final gathering, else, clean and bright. Good+ A pleasing copy of John Aiken's epistolary introduction to English poetry, addressed to "Dear Mary," and owned, first, by Frances Anne Ram and later re-bound and incorporated into the library of her barrister brother, Abel John Ram Esqr., with his armorial bookplate (featuring numerous rams heads), before finally joining the shelves of the historian William St Clair, a renowned collector of the Romantics. Poets included by Aiken: Pope, Dryden, Waller, Addison, Swift, Milton, Gray, Spenser, Cowley, Butler, Green, Shenstone, Goldsmith and others. Frances Anne Ram (1836-1922; later Miller) and Abel John Ram (1842 - 1920) were the children of Rev. Canon Ram and Lady Jane Ram (formerly Stopford); Abel became a KC, practised at the parliamentary bar and specialised in local government matters. His son was Sir Granville Ram, the Anglo-Irish lawyer and parliamentary draftsman. Also from the collection of William St Clair (1937-2021) historian and author of important biographical studies relating to Romanticism and the creation of modern Greece, whose "collection of Romantic-era first editions was so immense that it spilled out into the homes of his friends" (Wilson, 2021). Frances Wilson (2021) 'William St Clair,' Obituary via Royal Society of Literature website.

No Binding. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. loose-leaf publication ; OCLC: 857088726 ; a six-year run of Old-House Journal, as well as The Old-house journal catalog, with the indexes ; lists over 5,873 products and services, with 525 companies for the renovation of old houses; many articles on various aspects of repair; laid the groundwork for the Public Television series This Old House ; V.1.no.1: An old house is a way of life -- Protecting the aging house from winter storms -- Old-house living: a brownstone in Brooklyn -- Sealing leaky windows -- Quieting a steam heating system -- Flat-roof repairs -- Chimney check up -- The care and cleaning of brass -- v.1 no.2 : Refinishing secrets of the Boston Museum -- The bare-brick mistake -- A schoolhouse in Kentucky -- Restoring shutters to working order -- Surgery on a staircase -- Coping with frayed electrical wiring -- How to apply French polish -- Recipes for reviving and refinishing - v.1 no.3: Teaching a fireplace not to smoke -- Antique wallpaper preservation -- Victorian gingerbread -- The art of getting plastered -- Tricks an old farmhouse plays -- Matching bricks & mortar -- How to paint a cathedral -- v.2 no1: Catalog your house's secret passages -- An Italian villa in New Haven -- Major repairs to plaster surfaces -- Tips on mixing plaster -- Mansard roof -- A tale of two houses -- V.2 no 2: How to stiffen sagging floors -- Let's do away with incentives that destroy old houses -- Wallpaper in old houses -- Where to buy 18th & 19th century wallpaper -- Duplicating plaster cornices -- v.2 no.3: Duplicate plaster castings -- A townhouse in Trenton -- Parts of a staircase -- One way to insulate an attic -- V.2, no4: Drapes & curtains -- A family plantation in Virginia -- Don't get stuck with the wrong glue -- Restoration of sandstone -- V.2 no.5: Repairing old floors -- Octagon house on the Hudson -- Re-creating period window hangings -- v.2 no 6: A restorationist view of windows -- Queen Anne revival in Little Rock -- Repairing & restoring marble mantels -- Windows and parts -- V.2 no 7: Sawn wood ornament -- Pre-Civil War manse on the Mississippi -- Mix your own wood stain -- Running electrical wire -- Restoring and re-creating sawn wood ornament -- V.2 no 8: Eastlake -- Preserving woodworkers' art in St. Paul -- Restoring rotted window sills -- Improved process for stripping paint -- v.2 no 9: Tips on stripping shutters -- in Covington, a riverboat captain's Italianate berth -- restoring a frame house exterior -- Early American roof types -- Victorian fancywork -- v.2 no 10: The domestic architecture of Downing -- Caustic approach to exterior paint removal -- A restored federal enclave in Charlestown -- Detecting & defeating rot in old houses -- Downing on color -- v.2 no2 : Preventing rot in old houses -- How to make an electrical survey -- Greek revival on the immigrant road -- Classical orders -- v.2 no12: Refinishing old wood floors -- Insuring townhouse living -- Tips on sanding -- Painted floors -- Cast iron fences -- Care & repair of ornamental iron -- v.3 no 1: Early American wall stenciling -- Restored, a hopeless 1865 Greek revival ruin -- Selecting the best floor finish -- v.3 no2: Victorian stenciling -- Romanesque revival in the inner city -- The case against removing paint from brick masonry -- Replacing a clapboard -- Glenview, Victorian stencilling restored -- v.3 no.3 Restoring old brickwork -- Dual personality saves 1836 Greek revival -- The peril in Portland cement -- Marbelizing -- v.3 no 4: Late Victorian art movement -- Reviving a 1745 stone manor -- Selecting & using chemical paint removers -- v.3 no5: Greek revival decoration -- Self-supporting shingle-style seaside cottage -- v.3 no6: How to grain like a professional -- Moving story of a Swiss chalet in Vermont -- Locating buried artifacts -- v.3, no.7 : Lighting for the old house -- Victorian charm re-created in San Francisco -- Rebuiling fireplaces -- Adapting old fixtures -- Fancy butt shingles; etc ; a mark or two; else FINE. Book.