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Paperback. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 206 pages. 8.43x5.85x0.73 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart collection of the works in English of Giles Fletcher the Elder, a new critical edition with annotations by Lloyd E. Berry. The first edition thus, being the first time Fletcher's English work were collected in one volume with his letters.In the original price-clipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with four platesThe collected English works of Giles Fletcher, the Elder, in one volume, comprising of 'Licia', 'Of the Russe Commonwealth', and 'The Tartars or Ten Tribes', as well as forty-one of Fletcher's letters.This edition includes textual and critical introductions, alongside annotations by Lloyd E. Berry.Giles Fletcher, the Elder, was a notable diplomat of Tudor England, and was sent to Russia as an ambassador in 1588 to establish a treaty with tsar Feodor I.Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Boards are a little bowed. Dust wrapper is smart with light marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

The letter is something of a puzzle. The letterhead of 10 Downing Street suggests that the letter was written during Lloyd George's premiership, 1916-1922, and this seems to be supported by the dating of the letter, which appears to read 'September 1st.: 21.' And yet Lloyd George's sister 'Pollie' Davies died in 1909. The letter has a more youthful feel: did Megan or another of Lloyd George's daughters also go under the name of 'Pollie'? The letter is docketed at top left of first page: 'written by / From Mrs Lloyd George.' In any event the letter is of great interest as it is written by an intimate of Lloyd George. 2pp, 4to. In fair condition, on brittle and lightly-discoloured paper, with creasing and closed tears to extremities, but all text present and clear. Folded for postage. Begins: 'My dear Grace. / Your letter - which was forwarded to me here - was very welcome. I have been hearing about you all from various friends - & feeling rather sore that you did not turn up to see us at Carnarvon - but I know only too well how rapidly the days go by, & the difficulty of achieving many of our plans.' She has 'thought a lot' about the recipient 'since you have come to this part of the world to live - & had I been in Liverpool for more than a day my first pleasure would have been to call upon you'. She writes that they have been at their present location 'since to-day week - enjoying the breezes of Criccieth - the house is at our disposal until Dame Margaret returns from Scotland which will probably be the end of next week - we have one of our maids here - & the other is at home looking after John & Robert Ellis'. They would be 'charmed' to see her if she could 'call here on your way back'. She ends with 'regards to Mr. Lewis'.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Prater, Ernest; Brock, H.M.; Wightman, W.E.; Peddie, T.H.; Inns, Kenneth; Moorsom, F.G.; Sutcliff, Norman; Holloway, Cyril; Lloyd, Stanley; (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Cycling Round the World - Part I - Kai Thorenfeldt spent over two years travelling over 20,000 miles on his own!; Akimaldo's Great Idea - A story which proves West Africans have a sense of humour "even if in a somewhat perverted form"; The Girl Stowaway of the 'Cecilie' - Part I - Jeanne Day snuck aboard the Herzogin Cecilie before it departed Australia for Falmouth - with photos; The "Teak-Wallahs" of Northern Siam - A fascinating photo-illustrated look at the teak industry of northern Siam; Two Men and a Donkey - Part III - The adventures of two young artists walking from the South of France to Spain; Europeans Walk Through Fire! - An amazing photo-illustrated account of two Europeans who traversed white-hot coals barefoot with Hindu devotees, emerging apparently unscathed!; Hide-and-Seek With a Lion - A rare time when a can opener saved a life; All in the Day's Work - J.A. Browne, a policeman at Antler, Manitoba, heads out to gather a tough character - with photo of Browne; The Secret Pass - "Slippery" Wiley continues his misdeeds in the West Australia goldfields; The Yok San Mystery - Ning Wo solves another puzzling mystery in the Malay States; The Avenger of Blood - A curious case of Eskimo blood-vengeance from Alaska; "The Land of Opportunity" - Part II - Arthur W. Upfield provides readers with an idea of what lies in store if they elect to 'try their luck' in Australia, with photos; An African Man-Hunt - E.E. Stuart-Reid chased a rogue native constable of the Northern Rhodesia Police through the forest for three weeks; 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. Square inch of loss to upper corner of front cover. A sound copy of this great vintage issue.

4to, pp. [3]-23; bound without the half title; in modern marbled limp boards First edition. These two poems are parodies of odes by William Mason and Thomas Gray, and are among the few examples of the poems composed by members of the Nonsense Club. The club was a small group of young men who had been at Westminster School together Lloyd and Colman were joined by Bonnell Thornton, William Cowper, Charles Churchill and two others and they dined together every Thursday when in London. In this publication the two most talented comic writers of the group took the opportunity to mock the solemn pretensions of an older generation of writers, with the pindaric odes of Mason and Gray their target. Mason is parodied in the 'Ode to Oblivion', and Gray's Progress of Poesy and The Bard are played with in the opening piece: Daughter of Chaos and old Night! Cimmerian Muse, all hail! That wrapt in never-twinkling gloom canst write, And shadowest meaning with thy dusky veil! Heard ye the din of Modern Rhimers bray? It is cool M-----n: or warm G---y Involv'd in tenfold smoke. (pp. 5-6) Woodcuts on the title page and p. 15 also seem to be mocking the solemn poets: on the title, a bearded druid plays the harp in a wild landscape; and on p. 15 a winged horse knocks a man (whose wig goes flying) off a rocky eminence. A manuscript note in a contemporary hand on the verso of the title page reads: 'Dr Johnson said that Colman never produced a luckier thing that his first Ode in imitation of Gray. A considerable part of it may be numbered among those felicities, which no man has twice attained'.