squire john edited by (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Undated edition. Firmly bound, pink cloth boards. Scuffing and fading on the spine. Marks on the end papers. No jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Mazure (illustrator). 1st Edition. Firmly bound blue cloth boards with gilt titles and decoration. Jacket not price clipped with wear mostly along the top edge including chipping, small tears and creases, also a little paper loss at the top and base of the spine.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original sea blue cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 138 printed pages of text with brown tinted illustrations throughout. Foxing to the end papers. Very Good condition book in near Very Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing to the corners and spine ends, short closed tear to the top of the spine, not price clipped 12/6. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. PLAYS (Theatre Performance).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Ernest H. Shepard (illustrator). 1st Edition. pp.181 with chapters on 11 english cheeses by various authors. Illustrated with drawings by Ernest H. shepard. Yellow cloth, gilt with wear to corners and head and foot of darkened spine. boards a little soiles at edges. pages 21 to 54 have a brown stain at fore edge and margin decreasing in size from 3cn to 2 mm. Endpapers lightly spotted. Heavy book which will require extra overseas shipping.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First US Edition; First Printing. Spine darkened, cloth foxing, light tone, 1931 owner's signature, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; First US Edition, First Printing of this classic pioneering anthology of alternative history by historians examining counterfactual events. First published in England in 1931 as If It Had Happened Otherwise, but few stories were deleted and Van Loon's Nieuw Amsterdam added for the US. The What-If scenarios of the historians have been considered more methodical with their focus largely on outcomes of specific military battles, than the imaginative leaps of the science fiction writers. Robert Reginald; Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: A Checklist 1700-1974; 13508. Contents: If the Moors in Spain had won / Philip Guedalia; If Don John of Austria had married Mary queen of Scots / G K Chesterton; If the Dutch had kept Nieuw Amsterdam/ H W Van Loon; If Louis XVI had had an atom of firmness / André Maurois; If Drouet's cart had stuck / Hilaire Belloc; If Napoleon had escaped to America / H A L Fisher; If Byron had become king of Greece / Harold Nicolson; If Lee had not won the battle of Gettysburg / Winston S Churchill; If Booth had missed Lincoln / Milton Waldman; If the Emperor Frederick had not had cancer / Emil Ludwig; If it had been discovered in 1930 that Bacon really did write Shakespeare / J C Squire.; (ix), 379 pages.