Sir basil blackwell (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1932. 51 pages. No dust jacket. Green marbled boards with black lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Zustand: Good. 8vo. 96 pp. First Edition. Very Good+. Soft Cover. Red printed wraps.

Zustand: Good. 8vo. 96 pp. Soft printed red wraps. Very good.With an introduction by Sir Basil Blackwell. First Edition.

pp. 13. 8vo. Wrapper stapled as issued. The English Association Presidential Address 1970.

12pp., 8vo. Stapled into light-brown printed wraps, with title in dark-brown on white label on front wrap. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Blackwell's address is on pp.3-10; p.11 carries a 'List of Members 30th June 1937', in two columns, including R. Cobden-Sanderson, Geoffrey Faber, Rupert Hart-Davis, Harold Macmillan, Stanley Unwin and Sir Hugh Walpole. The final page carries details of the Society's officers, committee, secretary and offices. Blackwell begins his address: 'I have nothing new or strange to propose to-night. Not seldom, when the shadows have lengthened, what time men's hearts go out to each other, and some group of Publishers and Booksellers has been discussing Trade affairs, not seldom have we heard one say, "Of course, there ought to be one Trade Association"; and forthwith the company is magicked into architects of "cloud-clapped towers" and "solemn temples" until some interruption (as it might be "Time, gentlemen, please!") breaks the spell; and as the company disperses, so dissolves the baseless fabric of their vision.' Uncommon: the only copies on COPAC at Oxford, the LSE, and Reading. …

1983, xxvi,602pp. Illustrated. Halfcloth, in slipcase. In very good condition.

First Edition, quarter gilt linen over boards, matching slip-case. Roy.8vo, c.pp628, a fine copy. Includes 70 illustrations and numerous other facsimile pages. Highly useful and informative descriptive bibliography by a leading authority and collector of Morris. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.…