Introduction by john buchan (13 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Prester John: Authorised Edition 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.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 240 pages. 7.50x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. No Jacket. VG+, Part of a set of uniform editions that include Precious Bane, The House in Dormer Forest, The Golden Arrow, Seven For a Secret, and The Spring of Joy. Dark red top stain to top edge of text block. Clean text and interior. Tight, square binding. Metallic green wraps over red cloth, since faded along spine panel. Gold gilt title on spine. Decorative end papers. Black and white illustrations throughout. I also have Precious Bane from this series. Color frontispiece. No date. (1924?) Uncommon edition of a readily available book. 0. Norman Hepple (illustrator). …

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 240 pages. 7.50x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Undated edition. Firmly bound, green cloth boards without a jacket. Ex library copy with ink stamps on the title page and front end paper which also has a presentation label, small number on the spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Firmly bound, gilt decorated red cloth boards. Scuffing and remain of a small label on the spine. Front free ad paper removed. No jacket, foxing on the half title and back end paper pages. illustrated (illustrator).

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 363 p. on strong unaged paper but with many pencil underlinings and occasional faint stains--a volume loved well but not wisely. Bindign is firm; and despite absence of d.j. dark blue boards with still-bright gilt lettering have minimal wear. 18mo.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Reprint. Firmly bound, gilt decorated red cloth boards. Minor scuffing of colour on the spine. Foxing on closed page edges. Tears, creases and dust spotting on jacket. illustrated (illustrator).

Zustand: Very Good. Limp hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth over thin card boards, ruled and blocked lettered gilt back and front. 8vo. 8'' x 6½''. Contains (xx), 675 pp with many monochrome illustrations throughout. Ink name to the front free end paper dated 1923, light rubbing to the spine caps and corners and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE.…

The Large-Paper edition of the complete works of Robert Burns. Royal octavo, ten volumes bound in three quarter contemporary dark blue crushed morocco by the Riverside Press with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, ribbons bound in, illustrated with tissue-guarded engravings, some in color, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Robert Burns after a painting by Alexander Nasmyth in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh to the first volume. One of seven hundred and fifty copies for the United States of America and fifty copies for Great Britain, this is copy number 24 of the American Issue. With An Essay on Burns's Life, Genius, and Achievement by W.E. Henley and an Introduction by John Buchan. Nautical bookplate to the pastedown of each volume. In near fine condition. A very nice set. Widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is in a "light Scots dialect" of English, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these writings his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement, and after his death he became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism, and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish diaspora around the world. …