Robbery under law mexican (13 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition book. Ex library copy with usual stamps & sticker. Small tear to the top of the spine.…

Paperback. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. 1940. Catholic Book Club edition - the first edition by Chapman & Hall was in 1939. viii, 286pp. Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) is probably best known as a novelisy, but he also wrote biographies and travel books. Robbery Under Law is a polemic travel book that depicts the Leftist nationalization of the petroleum industry, and the persecution of Catholics in Mexico, under Lázaro Cárdenas, in 1938. The book is bound in the original blue-grey canvas cloth covered boards with black titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling to the boards. The top of the spine is bumped and the spine is noticeably browned with some water splashing and staining. The contents are tight and clean no inscription.…

hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, blue cloth lettered gilt to the spine, no dust jacket. A tightly bound copy with clean and unmarked contents, minor age-toned spotting to the closed page edges. 286pp.

Zustand: Good. 1st ed. Blue cloth, spine gilt lettered. pp viii, 286, [2]. Light sunning at head of spine and front cover; foxing and yellowing throughout. Waugh's political observations on the state of Mexico in the 1930s.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blue buckram, spine titled in gilt, lacking dust-jacket. Edges slightly worn with front pastedown with the stamp of the Canadian Auxiliary Services. A good copy of a scarce title.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of this travel work by Evelyn Waugh, covering Mexico under Lázaro Cárdenas in the late 1930s. The first edition of the work.Lacking the original dust wrapper.A smart copy of this travel work by noted author, Evelyn Waugh. Covering the nationalistion of the petrol industry and the persecution of Catholicism in Mexico in the early twentieth century. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with slight rubbing to the extremities. Slight fading to spine. Bumping to head and tail of the spine. Slight offsetting to boards and endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with marginal age toning, due to paper used. The odd spot to the fore edge. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. The second edition of Evelyn Waugh's searing critique of Mexico under Lazaro Cardenas in the late 1930s. In the vibrant original dust wrapper. First published the year prior by Chapman & Hall, this is the second edition of this work, published by the Catholic Book Club, and with a new dust wrapper.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Waugh offers a critical study of the socialist and anti-clerical leanings of the Mexican government in the 1930s.Throughout, Waugh reflects his own conservative and Roman Catholic beliefs, themes which he often analysed in his works of literature, such as 'Brideshead Revisited', and 'A Handful of Dust'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Back strip a touch age toned to head and tail, otherwise excellent. Sunning and light handling marks to dust wrapper back strip, with further handling marks to rear wrap. Small closed tear to rear wrap head, with minor chips to back strip head. Small tide mark to rear wrap tail, more pronounced to dust wrapper reverse. Minor hole towards front wrap head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. None (illustrator). book.…

Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition thus. Grey hard cloth lettered in black at the spine. With the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket. Without old inscriptions et. Both book and jacket in fine condition, with just some mild fading to the backstrip of jacket. Waugh's critique of the socialist and anti-clerical leanings of the Mexican government, reflecting his own conservative and Roman Catholic beliefs. Book.…

First Edition. Library copy. Very good copy in gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Minor library marks remain internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 286p. ; 22cm. Subjects: Mexico -- Politics and government (1910-1946). 1 Kg.…

dj. First Edition. First British edition and first printing. Hardcover. 286 pages. A near fine copy in blue cloth boards with some minor wear and in a very good first issue dust jacket with some small edge tears, other minor wear and a faint sticker shadow to the verso of the spine from an old dust jacket protector. Despite the flaws a solid copy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Some staining and wear on the boards, about very good in good or better dust jacket with shallow loss at the crown, rubbing and small chips, and an internal repair.

First edition, first impression, in the first-issue jacket priced at 10/6: scarce thus. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With dust jacket. Contemporary ownership inscription of R. B. Gower to front free endpaper. Tips very lightly rubbed, a few small pale markings to front board, portion of mild fading to rear, contents toned. A very good, bright copy in the toned and nicked dust jacket with a chipped spine panel, the rubbed joints split in places with old tape-repair on verso, and with faint damp-staining to rear panel. …