Ripley b k (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:9781853464447.

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

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Very Good+ dj. First Edition. [spine slightly turned, light wear to extremities; a review copy, with the original publisher's slip laid in; jacket is lightly scuffed on the front panel, tiny nick at bottom of rear panel]. "Meet Mary Campbell -- high school English teacher, widow, housewife, mother, weight watcher -- who is by a series of the wildest flukes in the American political process, elected President of the United States." (A woman! Imagine that!) "The result is a series of outrageously comic confrontations between Mary and everyone concerned, a rash of romantic complications when the old-hand politicians try to influence Mary, and a busy four years of fixing up all the problems of the country, while also trying to cope with her teen-age son and his hippie girl friend." The author -- who according to the jacket blurb was very much like her heroine, and supposedly "wrote this [book] in a month while her children were visiting their grandparents" -- was later (and better) known as Alexandra Ripley, a popular author of historical novels whose most notable achievement (I guess) was the much-publicized 1991 sequel to "Gone With the Wind," entitled "Scarlett." An uncommon book. Illustrated by (dj design) Lawrence Ratzkin (illustrator).…

London, Scolar Press, 1978, in-8°, xv pp + 395 pp, publisher's cloth with dust jacket in slipcase. First edition , hardback. Price clipped from d.j., but a fine copy. Contents: I The Anglo-Saxons. Chaplais, P. : The letter from Bishop Wealdhere of London to Archibishop Brihtwold of Canterbury: the earliest original 'letter close' extant in the West; Pope, J. C. Palaeography and poetry: some solved and unsolved problems of the Exeter book. II Scribes. Bishop, T. A. M. : The prototype of Liber glossarum; Alexander, J. J. G. : Scribes as artists: the arabesque initial in twelfth-century English manuscripts; Thompson, R. M. The 'scriptorium' of William of Malmesbury. III The Commercial Production of Books. Pollard, G. The pecia system in the medieval universities; Doyle, A. I. & Parkes, M. B. The production of copies of the Canterbury tales and the Confessio amantis in the early fifteenth century. IV Libraries and Collectors. Piper, A. J. The libraries of the monks of Durham; Hunt, R. W. : The library of the Abbey of St. Albans; Watson, A. G.:Thomas Allen of Oxford and his manuscripts. V Authors and Their Texts. Rigg, A. G. : Antiquaries and authors: the supposed works of Robert Baston, O. Carm; Rouse, R. H. & Rouse, M. A. The medieval circulation of Cicero's 'Posterior academics' and the De finibus bonorum et malorum. VI Gibbs, J. A : Bibliography of the published writings of N. R. Ker.…