Smith sir j e (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Very slight shelf wear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. Staining and rubbing to boards. Ex libris bookplate, Charles C Dawson.; xxiii, [1], 352 pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 192 x 126mm. Illustrated. Series: Everyman's Reference Library.

Navy cloth. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 7th edition. Front board detached.Bookplate of Henry Sidney. Spine missing. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Bound in Card Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The full set of 39 parts of the first and second supplement volumes (of the first edition of Sowerby's English Botany), all in original blue wrappers. The supplements have been bound into a two bespoke hardback boxes as seen. All are uncoloured apart from plate nos. 2593 to 2692 of which 12 hand-coloured. Each volume has over 100 finely engraved botanical plates. Two plates are folding and are partially finely hand coloured. All the original wrappers are near fine whist the wrapper of the very first issue is too small as issued. Contents clean and tight and unmarked with no foxing, inscriptions or significant marks. A near fine set of the first two supplements. See scans and email for more.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 56 pages. Features: Brief news items - The Dominion's 71st Birthday, No Province Can Live to Itself, Unwholesome Periodicals, Women Under Fascism and Communism, Dominion Day, The South African Election, and Franco-Italian Conversations; Land of Wish-It-Were (verse); Air Liner (part 1 of this short story); Just Beginning (short story); Man the Lifeboat - interesting photo-illustrated article on lifeboats and their need; Smooth Joe (short story); The Autobiography of Sir Herbert Barker (part II); Salvage (conclusion); Golf's Grand Old Man - photo-illustrated article on George S. Lyon; Palmolive ad features the Dionne Quints; Hollywood news, with photos of Edna May Oliver, Spencer Tracy, Alice Brady, Cora Witherspoon, John Barrymore, and others; The Dead Letter (short story); Dr. Robert H. Coats, Keeper of the Domesday Book, Custodian of the Censuses of Canada; Sweet Caporal cigarette ad features photo of dog "Bob", an Alsatian owned by Miss Elizabeth Brice of Westmount, Quebec; Business News/Personal Finance article; Summer cookery article; Glammour Girl in the Making - illustrated fashion article; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; National Home Monthly Magazine, July 1938 - Lifeboats / Sir Herbert Barker / Golf's Grand Old Man - George S. Lyon The Dominion's 71st Birthday, No Province Can Live to Itself, Unwholesome Periodicals, Women Under Fascism and Communism, Dominion Day, The. Illustrated by Sambrook, Russell (cover ); Clymer, John F.; Garland, C.George; Smith, Ralph C.; Watson, Emmett; Lowthian, Louis R.; Phillips, John (illustrator).…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. A smart, twenty-three-volume, illustrated edition of the works of Sir Walter Scott. Collection comprised of:The Abbot;Red Gauntlet;The Monastery;Ivanhoe;Woodstock;Peveril of the Peak;Castle Dangerous;Waverley;The Black Dwarf and A Legend of Montrose;The Bride of Lammermoor;The Fortunes of Nigel;The Talisman;Old Mortality;The Poetical Works of Walter Scott;St Ronan's Well;Guy Mannering;Rob Roy;Kenilworth;The Antiquary;The Pirate;Quentin Durward;The Heart of Mid-Lothian;The Betrothed. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original maroon leatherette soft covers. Undated, dated from copies held by the National Library of Scotland. All copies are illustrated by the likes of Wilmot Lunt and J. E. Sutcliffe, including with a vignette title page and, excluding Castle Dangerous, with a frontispiece. With the exception of Waverley, which contains fourteen plates, all volumes also feature a further six plates. An exhaustive collection of twenty-three of the Collins illustrated pocket edition of the works of Sir Walter Scott. An eminent writer and historian, Scott remains a leading figure in Scottish history, best known for his "Waverly" novels and impressive narrative poems, such as Marmion and The Lady of the Lake. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original maroon leatherette soft covers. The Abbot features a colour postcard tipped in to page 266; The Betrothed features the frontispiece and first two pages of the John S. Brown and Sons Canadian edition of the Holy Bible, folded in two and heavily discoloured and spotted, tipped in to the front of the work; Peveril of the Peak contains an advertisement for the Glasgow-based wholesale musicseller Frank Simpson to page 210. Externally, lovely condition with only minor bumping and rubbing. Light fading along some of the spines, especially to Castle Dangerous and The Bride of Lammermoor. A few marks can be seen across the collection, more prominent to the rear of Rob Roy. Peak and Peveril features slightly heavier loss of cloth along the rear joint, reinforced with tape. Internally, firmly bound. The frontispiece and title page of The Antiquary and Woodstock remain unopened, as does page 386 to The Antiquary. A very bright and clean collection with only occasional spotting, more common to the first and last few pages of each volume. Very Good Indeed. D. Chamberlain; Wilmot Lunt; A. T. Smith; R. Johnson; J. E. Sutcliffe; Paul Hardy; A. H. Buckland; S. V. Spence; John Schonberg; Malcolm Patterson; T. H. Robinson; C. J. Staniland; Herbert E. Butler (illustrator). book.…

Full leather. Zustand: Very Good +. The complete set of the first illustrated edition (1835), bound in the late 19th century in a full tan morocco by the formidable Zaehnsdorf Bindery of London (for the Gardenside Bookshop of Boston). Intricate gilt-tooling and design within the compartments, 3 separate offsetting dark-brown leather labels along each spine. Just the faintest touch of light soiling to several of the panels, lavish former owner bookplates (The McGinley family of Wilton, Connecticut) at each front pastedown and facing front free endpaper. Uniform 16mos, top-edges gilt, wonderful full-page drawings by C. Stanfield, Sir Joshua Reynolds, H. Corbould and J. Smith, engraved by E. Finden. (Continuing from the title page: "To Which Are Added, Anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy, Tyers, Reynolds, Steevens, &c -- And Notes by Various Hands"). C. Stanfield, E. Finden, Sir Joshua Reynolds, J. Smith, H. Corbould (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Twelve volume set with 2,754 fine hand coloured copper engraved plates. Each vol. with seperate Latin and English plant names as published. 8vo. Hardback. Contents very clean with only very occ. quite minor spotting, a little more so to the text sections of two vols. Contemporary cloth binding, internally very sound, externally showing rubbing and some wear, more so to five of the twelve vols. A magnificent work. '"English Botany" is of value even to the present day as a work of reference, and as an illustrated flora of our country it has never been surpassed.' (Henrey).…

Zustand: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original Chieftain goatskins, dyed the exact shade of RAF wool-barathea wartime uniform fabric. The front cover is gold-blocked with the title and incorporates specially woven RAF wings of 1940 type by Gieves and Hawkes, No. 1 Savile Row, London, with the King's crown, the marker ribbon of blue silk bearing the emblems of the Battle of Britain Fighter Association, 22-carat gold edging. 4to. 13¼'' x 10''. The print run is strictly limited to 401 copies, No. 1 being presented to HM The Queen. This copy being number 173. Each copy bears the handwritten signatures of the twenty-five selected Battle of Britain pilots: Wg Cdr P. P. C. Barthropp; Wg Cdr R. P. Beaumont; Sqn Ldr G. H. Bennions; Air Vice-Marshal H. A. C. Bird-Wilson; Air Cdre P. M. Brothers; Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling; Gp Capt W. D. David; Air Cdre A. C. Deere; Sqn Ldr B. H. Drobinski; Flt Lt J. H. Duart; Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris; Gp Capt T. P. Gleave; Wg Cdr N. P. W. Hancock; Sqn Ldr C. Haw; Cdr R. C. Hay; Gp Capt C. B. F. Kingcome; Colonel Henry Gaston Lafont; Air Cdre A. R. D. MacDonell; Sqn Ldr M. J. Mansfeld; W Cdr A. G. Page; Wg Cdr P. L. Parrott; Gp Capt D. F. B. Sheen; Wg Cdr F. M. Smith; Wg Cdr J. E. Storrar; Wg Cdr G. C. Unwin. Housed in matching buckram clamshell box with blue silk lining and gilt titling. Unopened book in new condition in Fine condition box. Pocket inside the box holds original sales receipt, The Times colour supplement advertisement, typed letter from the original purchaser to Air Vice Marshall Freddie Hurrell confirming his order and enclosed cheque, he also mentions that he would wish to collect the book himself from Hartnolls in Bodmin when the book was ready. SIGNED letter from Air Vice Marshall Freddie Hurrell to the recipient on Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund letter-headed paper with details of the book. Hartnoll Delivery Note. Advertisement prospectus giving in-depth details concerning the various elements of production with a photograph of the six protagonists: Michael Pierce, John Golley, Roy Asser, Bill Gunston, Brian Masterton, and Freddie Hurrell to the front cover viewing the finished product. Remains wrapped in Hartnoll's original brown paper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATTLE OF BRITAIN. …