light von fielding (14 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

2nd edition. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands worn; panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Boards stained. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 252 pp.; 21 cm. Subjects; Buddha and Buddhism. Burma Religion. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. 1908 edition. Moderate wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Goble, Warwick (illustrator). First Edition. Ex-library with library stamps and markings. Boards soiled and warped. Gutters badly split. Spine creased and warped. Spine lean. ; vi, 369 pages + plates + frontis. Illustrated green cloth boards. Page dimensions: 186mm x 120mm. "Towards the close of a hot Australian summer day two horsemen might have been seen jogging slowly across a wide salt bush plain, which formed part of the property 'Burrawolla,' a sheep station about sixty miles from the inland town of C-, in New South Wales." - the opening sentence. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo, pp viii, 252 + 4 pages publisher's adverts at rear. Bound in blue cloth covered hard boards. Presentation copy with blind stamp to title page. Small ownership signature of Hugh de Sélincourt, dated 1908 to ffep. There are some margin notes across four pages in Sélincourt's hand. Laid in is a manuscript letter, four pages length, from Fielding Hall to de Sélincourt, wherein he attempts to explain his theories on Buddhism which he believes have been misinterpreted by the book's audience. Hugh de Sélincourt (1878-1951) was an English author and journalist, literary critic of The Observer, and author of the 1924 novel, "The Cricket Match", a classic account of Village Cricket. Harold Fielding Hall (1859-1917) was an Anglo-Burmese writer of military and religious books. The book is in VG condition.

[ii], iii, [i], 94pp. 12mo. Trimmed quite close but without loss. Contemp. speckled calf, borders in blind, morocco spine label; some wear with loss to bottom 3cm of spine, nonetheless a pleasing copy. Cross iii, 324. A monitory pamphlet published as a measure towards stemming an increase in violent crime. The work, as the imprint suggests, was aimed at a popular audience: 'Price bound One Shilling, or Ten Shillings a Dozen to those who give them away'. Evidently, Fielding was successful, a first print run of 2,000 copies being quickly followed by another (from the same type) of 1,000. Despite the large print run, copies in commerce are decidedly rare, the last copy selling at auction in 2015, the copy before that in 1947. Fielding includes 33 examples of crimes dating from the stories in Plutarch to the very contemporary sensational case of Mary Blandy who murdered her father and was hanged in April 1752. In the first example, Fielding begins by lamenting the rise in murders, caused by 'the general neglect ( I wish I could not say contempt) of religion': 'That the most dreadful crime of murder hath of late encreased in a very deplorable degree in this kingdom, is a fact which every man must confess, and which every good man must very bitterly lament. Till this age, indeed, cruel and bloody actions were so seldom heard of in England, that when they happened, they appeared as prodigies, and raised not only the detestation, but the arts of fraud, knavery and theft, we haVe long since been equal to any of our neighbours; but Murder is very lately begun, perhaps is even now beginning to be common among us'. A rare title by Fielding, 1707-54, playwright, novelist, magistrate and founder of the Bow Street Runners, acknowledged as London's first professional police force.