Unwin ltd (6 Ergebnisse)

hard cover. Zustand: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood, hard cover book with torn dust jacket, book club edition, slightly dented, deckle pages, 436 pages, 8vo.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

London: G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1917. Lambert, Richard C. The Parliamentary History of Conscription in Great Britain; Being a Summary of the Parliamentary Debates, &c., with an Index & Text of the Military Service Acts and a Preface. London: G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1917. xv, 367 pp. Original cloth with gilt stamped spine and front cover. Light shelfwear. Small scuffs to board edges. Ex-library with shelf location label to foot of spine. Bookplate to front pastedown. Property stamps to endpaper. Pencil annotaions to title page, otherwise internally clean. $25. * The book summarizes the parliamentary debates concerning conscription during World War I. Lambert compiles the arguments and discussions that took place in the British Parliament related to the Military Service Acts of 1916, which introduced mandatory military service. London: G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1917. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. Hardback in fair condition- with jacket. Ex libris plate on front endpaper. Pages are slightly tanned throughout but in good condition otherwise. Binding remains tight. Jacket is creased and torn in places.

Both items in good condition, lightly aged and worn. Letter: 1p., 4to. With RSA stamp and manuscript note. He would like 'a list of the plaques you have placed in London', and would like to hear from Menzies, if he has 'anything to say on the subject, or have any article in your Journal'. Press release. 2pp., 8vo. Headed 'Literary Notes', it deals with E. T. Raymond's 'All and Sundry', Thomas Wright's 'The John Payne Society', Arthur Hayden's 'Bye-Paths in Curio Collecting' and H. C. Dowdall's 'Local Development Law'. Of the second book Unwin writes: 'Mr. Wright by an extraordinary exercise of tact and sympathy was able to pass the barrier which shut Payne off from anybody who sought to know the man behind the books. For twelve years before Payne's death in 1916 he was his most intimate friend, [.]'.…

4to, 2 pp. Thirty-two lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged and creased paper. A tactful letter in response to an enquiry concerning the possibility of employment as a translator of Dutch publications. Unwins 'very seldom have occasion to translate from Dutch, but we should always be glad to give consideration to any important Dutch book which you were able to bring to our attention'. He suggests times when Thompson might be able to meet Stanley Unwin, who is travelling on the continent. Thompson's 'best plan' would be to get the catalogues of 'the most important Dutch publishers' and 'keep on the lookout for important books [.] bring them to the attention of an English publisher, having first ascertained that the translation rights are available and not under offer elsewhere [.] Our own list of would-be translators is a long one and we have not sufficient work of this nature to give out in order to keep our regular people fully employed'.…