John a buckland (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Light foxing to top edge of pages. - Great overall condition. Minor cosmetic wear. No noteworthy blemishes. No writing. ; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

[NONE] [00no date], 3rd edition. (hardcover) Very good. 141pp. 12 mo. Forest green cloth, gilt title to spine (bright) with black and grey decoration to both front and spine. Horden was the first Bishop of Moosonee (Ontario) and this work is considered of significant cultural importance. Starting at the front hinge, otherwise in very good condition, and though starting at pages 128 -129, remains solid, clean, bright with black and white lithographs. Third edition. There is a name penned to the front free endpaper (small, neat) as well as a pencilled notation which indicates this particular volume was once housed in the personal library of H. C. Wolfhart, the esteemed Canadian researcher, editor, translator and Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manitoba.…

[NONE] [00no date], 7th edition. (hardcover) Very good. 141pp. 12 mo. Olive green cloth, black and grey titles and decoration to both front and spine. Horden was the first Bishop of Moosonee (Ontario) and this work is considered of significant cultural importance. Starting at the front hinge, otherwise in very good condition; solid, clean, bright with black and white lithographs. …

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. A smart, twenty-three-volume, illustrated edition of the works of Sir Walter Scott. Collection comprised of:The Abbot;Red Gauntlet;The Monastery;Ivanhoe;Woodstock;Peveril of the Peak;Castle Dangerous;Waverley;The Black Dwarf and A Legend of Montrose;The Bride of Lammermoor;The Fortunes of Nigel;The Talisman;Old Mortality;The Poetical Works of Walter Scott;St Ronan's Well;Guy Mannering;Rob Roy;Kenilworth;The Antiquary;The Pirate;Quentin Durward;The Heart of Mid-Lothian;The Betrothed. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original maroon leatherette soft covers. Undated, dated from copies held by the National Library of Scotland. All copies are illustrated by the likes of Wilmot Lunt and J. E. Sutcliffe, including with a vignette title page and, excluding Castle Dangerous, with a frontispiece. With the exception of Waverley, which contains fourteen plates, all volumes also feature a further six plates. An exhaustive collection of twenty-three of the Collins illustrated pocket edition of the works of Sir Walter Scott. An eminent writer and historian, Scott remains a leading figure in Scottish history, best known for his "Waverly" novels and impressive narrative poems, such as Marmion and The Lady of the Lake. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original maroon leatherette soft covers. The Abbot features a colour postcard tipped in to page 266; The Betrothed features the frontispiece and first two pages of the John S. Brown and Sons Canadian edition of the Holy Bible, folded in two and heavily discoloured and spotted, tipped in to the front of the work; Peveril of the Peak contains an advertisement for the Glasgow-based wholesale musicseller Frank Simpson to page 210. Externally, lovely condition with only minor bumping and rubbing. Light fading along some of the spines, especially to Castle Dangerous and The Bride of Lammermoor. A few marks can be seen across the collection, more prominent to the rear of Rob Roy. Peak and Peveril features slightly heavier loss of cloth along the rear joint, reinforced with tape. Internally, firmly bound. The frontispiece and title page of The Antiquary and Woodstock remain unopened, as does page 386 to The Antiquary. A very bright and clean collection with only occasional spotting, more common to the first and last few pages of each volume. Very Good Indeed. D. Chamberlain; Wilmot Lunt; A. T. Smith; R. Johnson; J. E. Sutcliffe; Paul Hardy; A. H. Buckland; S. V. Spence; John Schonberg; Malcolm Patterson; T. H. Robinson; C. J. Staniland; Herbert E. Butler (illustrator). book.…