preface david nichol smith (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Book Good. No dust jacket. Volume 1. (Literary Historians, Sir Walter Raleigh, Correspondence).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. First printing. 6 x 9 inches. xxvii, 272 pages. With 9 illustrations. Condition is Very Good+; Spine very slightly cocked, very well preserved- exterior is excellent, text & illustrations are very clean, binding is tight. Vol. I only. STK.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. TWO VOLUME SET. Blue boards with gilt lettering to cover/spine. Bumped at corners and lightly rubbed at extremities. Deckled edges. Clean Interiors with no markings. B/W Frontis with tissue guards. 8vo; 569 pages. Handsome set! -- B.R. Box 119.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A smart two-volume collection of the letters of the English scholar Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, edited by Lady Raleigh. The second edition of Volume I, published in the same year as the first edition, and the first edition of Volume II, of this two-volume work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Ink inscription to the front free end paper of Volume II, dated 1935. Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861-1922) was an English scholar, poet, and author, probaly best known for the poem 'Wishes of an Elderly Man, Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914'. This is a two-volume collection of his letters from 1879 to 1922, which piece together interesting insights into his life and work. This collection was edited by Lady Raleigh, with a preface by David Nichol Smith. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart and bright, with just a little bumping to the upper extremity of the front board of Volume II. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, except for the odd spot to the first and last few pages of Volume I, and offsetting to the end papers of Volume II. Very Good Indeed. book.

First Edition. Plates One of 250 numbered copies 4to Binding somewhat spotted and soiled, but a very good copy; bookplate Although prepared for printing in the eighteenth century, the work appears here for the first time. Parchment-backed boards, upper cover with printed label.