Falloden viscount grey (9 Ergebnisse)

paperback. 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.…

paperback. Zustand: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Zustand: Good. 1947. Fourteenth Edition. 308 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by Robert Gibbings. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.…

Zustand: Good. 1947. 308 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. A few marks here and there.

hardcover. 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. No dust jacket.…

Paper covers. Zustand: V.g. No Jacket. 1st edition. Little used. Some press cuttings loosely inserted. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

3 vols., 8vo., with portrait frontispiece; black cloth, upper boards and backstrips lettered in blue, backstrips with printed paper labels, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Grey's classic autobiography was first published in two volumes in 1925. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Hard Cover. INSCRIBED BY BINDER. Third Popular Edition. Octavo, pp. xii, 305, [3]. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and vignette to title page by Robert Gibbings. Later craft binding in full bottle green morocco with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to upper board and bird design in gilt over both boards and spine. Aeg, gilt dentelles and leather doublures and endpapers by Desmond Yardley. Spine lightly sunned, minor chip to lower edge of upper board (see photograph). Contents clean and bright with inscription to final blank to fore: "D. Yardley Rebound 1937 L.C.C. C.S.A.C.", with number 7 written above a crossed-through 9, all in the same hand. A Near Fine copy. Handsome binding by the widely admired craft binder H.J. Desmond Yardley (1905-72), whose skilled work was much in demand by collectors. Yardley began his binding career with music scores in the early 1930s, after which he studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts (the C.S.A.C. of the inscription) and he was elected to the Guild of Contemporary Binders in 1956. Examples of his meticulous work may be seen at the British Library, V&A and Bibliotheque Royale, Brussels. An early "apprentice piece" by Yardley whilst at the Central School where he received tuition from William Matthews, George Frewin and Peter McLeish. Harrop, Dorothy A : Craft Binders at Work V H.J. Desmond Yardley, pp. 245-250 [1975 Book Collector].…