May seton (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good-. First Edition. 4to. 72pp. Illus.,col.frontis. Covers rubbed and bumped, front hinge tender, donor's ink inscription, dated 1912, on ffep, rear endpaper offset, slightly foxed. Book.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 79, [1] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm. Notes; With a final advertisement page. Subjects; Children's stories, English. Fairy tales England. Children's literature. May, Seton. 1 Kg. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 291 pages : illustrations ; 34 cm. Introduction : Once upon a time this book was going to be the Great British Catalogue, a cousin of Stuart Brand's excellent American shopping list of resources, the Whole Earth Catalog. But it is information, rather than products, that we have indexed, borrowing and stealing elements from encyclopedias and the 'underground' press, the prototype popularisers of amazing facts, the Illustrated London News, the Children's Wonder Book of Marvels, H.G. Wells' universal histories of just about everything, to name but a few. Over the last 18 months we have argued the book into existence, exhausting, exhilarating and transforming ourselves in the process. From entropy to Zen, metabolism to PSI, we chased metaphors and cross-references, fought over definitions, and had our preconceptions exploded. Our enormous ambitions were cut down to size by our capabilities, our sources of information, and our bank balance. When we began, we confidently wrote that our aim was "to reassemble and cross-reference information, compare and contrast alternative theories, generate involvement and to catalogue resources." Now that it is finished, we are still arguing about the result, and the book will have to be its own definition. The contents and theme, the myths and speculation, and the patterns they make, are the result of our individual bias and curiosity - an index of just some of the possibilities. …

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Foolscap8vo,79, [1] pp. 23 full page illustrations, 12 in colour by C. Norman. Original green cloth, lettered dark green with colour picture onlay of three frogs, floral pattern endpapers. Front hinge cracked, lacking the rear free endpaper, two inch tear in one page otherwise a VG copy. First edition.…