David john simms (5 Ergebnisse)

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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. xii, 244 pages. Original publisher's rexine covered boards, with unclipped dust jacket. *Papers read before the Irish Conference of Historians, held at University College, Cork 23-26 May 1985. Topics include: Lliterary theory and the historian; The Irish hagiographer; Legend as critic; 'Winner and Waster' and the mid-fourteenth century economy; Bardic poetry as a historical source; Edmund Spenser on Justice and Mercy; Irish National Character 1790-1900; 'Sanditon': a Regency novel?; Fiction as 'the best history of nations': Lady Morgan's Irish novels; Jewish emancipation in nineteenth-century Germany and the stereotyping of the Jew in Gustav Freytag's 'Soll und Haben' (1855); Popular religion and irreligion in Victorian fiction; Mark Twain: historian of a lost world; Fictional images of Irish -America.* A fine copy without any library stamps, inscriptions, or other markings. Images available on request.…

Zustand: Good. Name stamped on book edge. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Shows some signs of wear but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 358 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. A stunning set of eight volumes of the charming New Naturalist Library collection. This is a collection of eight volumes from the Collins The New Naturalist Library series.This set includes:Sea Birds by James Fisher & R. M. Lockley, number 28 first published in 1954. With ten colour plates, five black and white plates are missing, from va-viii, sixty-three black and white plates.The Common Lands of England and Wales by L. Dudley Stamp & W. G. Hoskins, number 45 first published in 1963. With six plates in colour and black and white plates ix, x, xia, xib, xiia, xiib are missing 27 photographs in black and white.Freshwater Fishes of the British Isles by P. S. Maitland & R. N. Campbell, number 75 first published in 1992. With twenty-one colour photographs and over 200 black and white photographs and diagrams.British Larks, Pipits & Wagtails by Eric Simms, number 78 first published in 1992. With four colour plates and over 200 black and white photographs and drawings.The New Naturalist by Peter Marren, number 82 published for a second time in 2005. With sixteen colour plates an dover 100 black and white photographs and drawings.Loch Lomondside by John Mitchell, number 88 first published in 2001. With eight colour plates and over 120 black and white photographs and line drawings.Dragonflies by Philip Corbet & Stephen Brooks, number 106, first published in 2008. With many colour photographs by Robert Thompson.Wildfowl by David Cabot, number 110, first published in 2009. With many colour photographs.Collated. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with a few marks to the earlier editions. There are inscriptions to the front free endpapers of Seabirds and The Common Lands of England and Wales. Internally, generally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dustwrappers. Sea-birds dustwrapper is the most worn with some taping to the wraps and fading to the spine. The earlier dustwrappers have some signs of shelf wear and fading but are all generally very smart. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…