Morison introduction (16 Ergebnisse)

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

Hardcover. Zustand: VERY GOOD. NONE. 431 clean, unmarked, tight pages; name inked on upper front flyleaf; pale spots on upper edge of textblock; cover is clean and sturdy with bump to lower spine, tear on upper spine, slightly worn corners, small abrasion on front, and a vertical dent on back from storage; book has a slight musty smell.…

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. Good condition hardback with dust jacket. Ex library copy with usual stamps and stickers. Light wear and loss to jacket with minor wear to boards. Light foxing to textblock with main text in good clean condition.…

Zustand: VERY GOOD. First edition. "The story of the ship from the designer's first ideas about a class of tough new frigates, through her construction, her first cruise in 1798, her encounters with Barbary pirates and her famous victories in War of 1812 through 1830 when Holmes wrote his poem 'Old Ironsides'" - a poem, included here on the first page, which saved the ship from destruction. Foreword by President John F. Kennedy; introduction by Samuel Eliot Morison. Illustrated thoughout with black and white photographs. Index. Large format. 104 pp Very good in a good only dust jacket (rubbing, edgewear, split along side of spine, price-clipped).…

2nd (revised) edition. 8vo. 342pp. B/w. illustrations. Occasional slight foxing. Original boards. Rubbed and chipped grey d/w. lettered in red and black, spine browned. US$15.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 9.00x6.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition ; blue cloth with gold lettering, in full-color dustjacket with mylar protector ; owner unfortunately used celeophane tape to adhere dustjacket flap to front of dustjacket, although jacket unharmed and cloth covers have minor effect ; ot herwise very clean and sound ; VG/VG. Book.…

Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 342pp. Numerous full-page plates. Near fine/near fine. Jacket spine faintly age toned. Outstandingly tight and lovely revised third edition of this well-illustrated 1924 classic.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Fine. Very Good slipcase. First Edition Thus. Jacket Condition: 'Very Good Slipcase' Condition: 'Fine' Notes: Binding is square, tight, and solid. Grey quarter cloth pictorial boards; titles are complete and bold. Pages are unmarked, crisp, clean, and not bent. Red slipcase has general minor wear, scuffs.…

4to, 20pp., original typographical printed wrappers, stitched as issued.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 672 pages. 11.50x8.25x1.75 inches. In Stock.

First Edition. Illustrations Rear blank removed, otherwise a nice copy.

4to, 20pp., original boards, gilt stamp on upper cover, untrimmed, a fine copy. From the private press reference library of David Chambers (1930-2025), with his bookplate.

Ohne Stempel, keine An- und Unterstreichungen. Vorsätze erneuert. Rücken und Seitenränder des Einbandes mit geringfügiger altersbedingter Bräunung. Innen tadellos. Kopfgold. Unterschnitt unbeschnitten. Hardcover. Original geprägter grüner Moire-Stoff.

Copy number '62' of an edition limited to 105 copies. The texts were hand-set in Sabon-Antiqua foundry cast types, and printed on Arches Vélin Blanc and Zerkall Ingres paper on a Korrex Hannover press and a Schelter & Giesecke Pheonix IV platen press. Burgundy quarter cloth over blue printed paper covered boards, blue paper label to the spine, burgundy endpapers. 340 x 230 mm, pp. [32]. Illustrated with a linocut portrait of Claude Garamond by John Watson printed on remnants of Barcham Green 'Bodleian' hand-made paper; three plates showing types cut by Le Bé I and II, together with Jean Jannon. A book in Fine condition, now in a clear, archival quality, protective display pocket.…

Slim Folio. 2 parts. [xxx] + 23pp. text + [i]. 15 double page facsimile plates. Text bound in red limp card wrapps. with paper title label to upper wrapp., lower leading corner of leaves bumped, plates unbound as issued in black card folder with paper title label; together in worn splitting and sl. squashed pale grey presentation box. From the Library of Glyn Tegai Hughes (19232017) Welsh scholar, writer and literary critic. He was a Liberal Party politician and Welsh nationalist. From 1964 to 1989 he was warden of the Gregynog Centre, University of Wales. In 2000 he was made a fellow of the University of Wales Aberystwyth. In 2004 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales Bangor. US$111. …