Samuel mckechnie (13 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Hardcover in good condition. 240 pages.

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: Good. No Jacket. Discoloring and minimal marking to front cover. Slight foxing to pages. Top of spine has a small dent. Otherwise in good condition.

Zustand: Good. No Edition Remarks. 240 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Boards are slightly bowed.…

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (Great Britain, Entertainment, Performing Arts, History) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. …

First Edition. Good copy only in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands are worn. Boards damaged. Text remains in fine condition. Physical description; xiv, 242 p. : plates, ports., facsims. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Civil service Great Britain History. Executive departments Great Britain. 1 Kg.

Reissue. Fine cloth copy; tight, bright, clean and quite sharp cornered. A particularly well preserved copy. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photo and other plates. ; 240 pages 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvi, 240 p., [70] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports, music. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; Amusements England History. Popular culture England History. Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) Great Britain History. 1 Kg. …

Cloth (faded). Plates. Size: 8vo. xvi, 240pp.

Cloth. Plates. Size: 8vo. xvi, 240pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 242 pages plus advertisements, with 65 black and white photographs and reproductions. Blue cloth covers with black titles, edges are worn, spine is faded, top and base of spine and corners are bumped and worn, spine is loose, 8 cm tear to edge of spine at front hinge, heavy wear, endpapers are yellowed, pages are fading, Fair. Book.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. A richly illustrated first edition tracing the history of English popular entertainments, complete with four colour plates and the vanishingly scarce original dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper.This volume is a first edition.This copy is undated. Dated here using Jisc, from copies held at various institutions including the British Library, University of Oxford Libraries, and National Trust Libraries among others. McKechnie offers a richly illustrated historical survey of popular entertainment forms across eras in England, tracking their evolution from early street performers to the diverse spectacles of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Chapters include: "Mimes, Minstrels and Strolling Players," "The Fun of the Fair," "The Comedy of Masks," "Punch and Judy," "Pantomime," "The "Halls", "The Cinematograph," and "The Circus." This volume is richly illustrated, including four colour plate illustrations, including a frontispiece, with a further sixty-eight black and white plates and one in-text illustration. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Bumping and slight rubbing to extremities, more so to tail of spine. One small perforation to upper edge of rear board. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Dust wrapper, smart. Rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in the odd chip, closed tear and crease. Slight loss to tail of spine and upper edge of front panel and extremities. Slight soiling to wraps with on or two minor handling marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if slightly age toned, with the odd spot heavier to fore edge and first and last few leaves. Very Good Indeed. Various (illustrator). book.…

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1931, Or. cloth., XVI, 240 pp. With 3 colored plates and many b/w plates. Back discolored, otherwise in good condition.