rev george townsend (14 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. New and Revised Edition. 632 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with mild tanning and visible foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to reverse of front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.

Zustand: Good. No Edition Stated. 632 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Top corner of front endpaper cut out. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Heavy sunning to spine and board edges.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Undated version but thought to be from late 1800's or early 1900's. Mustard color buckram cloth hardback. Lion with hurt paw on front cover. Has a typo on the translator name. Every other edition has the translator as "George Fyler Townsend", but this edition has the author as "Rev. Geo. Tyler Townsend, M.D.". All original plates are intact. Book has an additional book after page 224 "One Hundred Picture Fables with Rhymes" by Otto Speckter. This particular edition appears to be very scarce. Overall good condition; appears to have had some glue repair to reattached pages to spine. Highly collectible. Nice edition. (BR) Box 216.

Disbound. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 16pp. No cover but pages still well bound together. Pamphlet disbound from a compilation is in good unfolded condition. Interior in nice clean condition.

Cloth. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Delivered in the Years 1937 & 1938 in the Church of Northallerton, postage reduced within the UK.

Blue Cloth. Zustand: Good. vii, 312 pages, colour and b/w plates, 1 colour and 3 b/w plates. No publication date on title page but there is an old name and a date '2-5-28' on front endpaper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Clean blue stamped cloth decorated with gilt. Text tight, clean & intact. Pictorial frontispiece. Engraved illustrations. An introductory essay by Rev. C. P. Milvaine, Bishop of Ohio. Rev. Fox, a Missionary to the Teloogoo People of South India. Religion ; Engravings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 429 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 344 pages, a very good plus hardback, publisher's original brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine and decoratively blind stamped to the covers. Book is in excellent condition - tightly bound and square, with extremely clean pages - virtually no foxing. Undated, and with no edition comments.

No Binding. Zustand: Good. A splendid antique portrait, 1850 Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

pp. 275, (i). Frontispiece and 16 plates, all coloured, many text illustrations in line. Original pictorial cloth, spine faded else a very good copy.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Harrison Weir (illustrator). A smart copy of Aesop's Fables featuring 50 illustrations by Harrison Weir RI, and a charming colour frontispiece. in the publisher's original red cloth binding with blind stamp decoration.This volume is undated, dated using Jisc from a copy held at The University of East Anglia Library.This edition is notable for featuring 50 illustrations by Harrison Weir RI, and a charming colour frontispiece. Collated, complete.Weir was known for both his extensive work as an illustrator, and as "The Father of the Cat Fancy", having organised the first cat show in England, at the Crystal Palace, London, in July 1871.This copy includes fables such as "Wolf and the Crane", "Hare and the Tortoise", "Vine and the Goat", Old Hound", "Fox and the Leopard", "Hare and the Hound", "Wolf and the Shepard", "Dove and the Crow", among many others.Aesop was a storyteller who is thought to have lived in ancient Greece around the 6th century BCE. He is best known for his collection of fables featuring anthropomorphic animals that illustrate moral lessons of honesty, wisdom and kindness. These fables have become enduring classics, continuing to be shared with generation after generation. Publisher"s advertisements to rear two leaves, typical of the era. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Rubbing and bumping to extremities, particularly to joints, resulting in minor loss to cloth. Fading to spine. Rubbing and the one or two handing marks to boards. One or two small closed tears at head and tail of spine joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot and one or two handling marks, heavier to fore edge. Slight creasing and damp staining to corner of frontispiece, not affecting the picture. Very Good. book.

1st Ed. Sm. 8vo. xii + 300pp. Institutional ink stamp and accession nos. to t.p., ex.-libris Algernon H. Belfield, light browning, original blind embossed cloth, minor marking to boards, rebacked with much of original gilt lettered spine laid down, faint stain to tail due to accession no. removal. Apparently the author failed in his attempt to convert the Pope to Protestantism. US$52.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Eighth thousand. GC plus.Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.No date given but presentation sticker inside the front cover displaying 1897.Eighth thousand.Pictorial green hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,mark on the edges of the front cover,some nicks,deants and scratches on the cover and spine) in GC plus, no Dj cover as issued.Illustrated with b/w drawings.Nice and clean pages with small ink marks and slightly tainted on the outer edges,small foxing marks,ink marks and creases on the edges of the pages,previous owner's presentation sticker inside the front cover.The book is in GC for its age with some shelf wear.288pp.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Van Der Heyden, Gerald; Clarke, W.W.; Broecker, Richard; Harper, George; Flucke, Harold (illustrator). First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Belgium Tries to Get on her Feet - a 94 Million$ loan will cost her 226 Million?; What is the Matter with Mexico?; Facts, Not Words - article by the secretary of the Episcopal Committee of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico; The Punishment of Sisyphus - is paralleled in that of a young man whose efforts get him nowhere; The Negro as the Lucky Child of Destiny; Any Mother to Any Daughter; Henry Ford's Page - what distinguishes false from true prophets; Editorials - the modern bucketeer (operator of a financial bucket shop), Cobb and Judge Landis and the baseball scandal, more light is needed on the Nicaraguan situation, Senator Capper and voter apathy; How Primitive was Prehistoric Man? - The Hunter; Man's Own Flat Wheels - part 2; The Garrulous Diplomatist; South Sea Island King (Tufele) of the Manua group of Islands - great photo-illustrated article; Training Junior For a Home - how the Children's Home Society give lonely little children a more congenial atmosphere; Chats with Office Callers - origin of Jewish names; Q & A; I Read in the Papers - the Hall-Mills case was 'dud', Barring the Garb of Old Gaul, Michigan's boundaries are divided, smoking suits for women; Briefly Told; Great winter sport photos inside back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy.