Constable edition first thus (11 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First THUS. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back. 8vo. 8'' x 5¼''. Contains 159 pp. Minor wear to the boards. Very Good condition book in near Very Good condition dust wrapper with rubs to the spine ends, shallow rubs to gutters, front edges and corners, not price clipped 21s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH LANGUAGE. …

Zustand: Good. First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original navy blue corded cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains (xxxvi), 514 pp. Ink name to the front free end paper 'John Coles - February 1903', spine slightly sun faded, spotting to the end papers and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH HISTORY.…

Zustand: Good. First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original navy blue corded cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains (xxix), 404 pp. Ink name to the front free end paper 'John Coles - February 1903', spine slightly sun faded, spotting to the end papers and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH HISTORY.…

Zustand: Good. First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original navy blue corded cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains (xxxii), 458 pp. Ink name to the front free end paper 'John Coles - February 1903', spine slightly sun faded, spotting to the end papers and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH HISTORY.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Thus. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Good. First Constable edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet paper covered boards. Quarto. 10¼'' x 7¾''. Contains [32pp] with monochrome and colour-wash illustrations throughout. Spine sun faded and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. From the private library and estate of Edward Ardizzone and SIGNED by him to the front free end paper 'Edward Ardizzone.' Member of the P.B.F.A. ARDIZZONE, Edward (1900-1979).…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original fuchsia pink cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, photographic lining papers. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 871 pp with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Very Good condition price clipped dust wrapper with short closed tear to the top of the spine. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. GAMBLING & BETTING.…

Zustand: Very Good. Rebound hard back binding in contemporary black patterned cloth covered boards, quarter leather spine, chagrin patterned lining papers. 4to. 12½'' x 9¼''. Contains title page, pp 253-398 pp with 3 large folding colour plates, 1 other large folding plate, 1 colour plate, many monochrome plates and text illustrations throughout. In Very Good condition bright and firm condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. HAMPSHIRE (Hantescire).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Illustrated Edition. 4to., [viii], 197pp., four finely engraved full-page plates and a fine decorative engraved half-page headpiece to chapter 1 by Abraham Raimbach from pictures by Robert Smirke, preliminary "Advertisement" by Walter Scott,original ribbon marker still present, a few very light occasional spots to title-page, marbled endpapers, bound in good quality contemporary straight-grained morocco, inner gilt decorative floral borders, gilt ruled borders with gilt decorated spine in compartments with raised bands, slightly rubbed on some leading edges. Overall a generally VG+ copy in an attractive binding of this, the finest illustrated edition of this work. [Courtney & Nichol Smith, p.89]. Ex Libris Mathew Wilson with his fine heraldic bookplate to upper pastedown. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, originally titled The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale, though often abbreviated to Rasselas, is an apologue about happiness by Samuel Johnson. The book's original working title was "The Choice of Life". He wrote the piece in only one week to help pay the costs of his mother's funeral, intending to complete it on 22 January 1759 (the eve of his mother's death). The book was first published in April 1759 in England. Johnson is believed to have received a total of £75 for the copyright. Johnson was influenced by the vogue for exotic locations. He had translated A Voyage to Abyssinia by Jeronimo Lobo in 1735 and used it as the basis for a "philosophical romance". Ten years prior to writing Rasselas he published "The Vanity of Human Wishes" in which he describes the inevitable defeat of worldly ambition. Early readers considered Rasselas to be a work of philosophical and practical importance and critics often remark on the difficulty of classifying it as a novel. Johnson was a staunch opponent of slavery, revered by abolitionists, and Rasselas became a name adopted by emancipated slaves. While the story is thematically similar to Candide both concern young men travelling in the company of honoured teachers, encountering and examining human suffering in an attempt to determine the root of happiness their root concerns are distinctly different. Voltaire was very directly satirising the widely read philosophical work by Gottfried Leibniz, particularly the Theodicee, in which Leibniz asserts that the world, no matter how we may perceive it, is necessarily the "best of all possible worlds". In contrast the question Rasselas confronts most directly is whether or not humanity is essentially capable of attaining happiness. Writing as a devout Christian, Johnson makes through his characters no blanket attacks on the viability of a religious response to this question, as Voltaire does, and while the story is in places light and humorous, it is not a piece of satire, as is Candide. The plot is simple in the extreme. Rasselas, son of the King of Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia), is shut up in a beautiful valley, "till the order of succession should call him to the throne". He grows weary of the factitious entertainments of the place, and after much brooding escapes with his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah and his poet-friend Imlac. They are to see the world and search for happiness, but after some sojourn in Egypt, where they encounter various classes of society and undergo a few mild adventures, they perceive the futility of their search and abruptly return to Abyssinia.…

Zustand: Very Good. First thus edition hard back binding in publisher's original quarter Persian blue buckram over gold straw textured cloth, gilt title lettering to the spine and to the front cover, top edge gilt, fore and lower page edges untrimmed, bevelled edges. Folio. 12¼'' x 9¼''. Hand written number 41 of 50 Limited Edition copies SIGNED by the artist 'Ronald Balfour.' Printed on Japanese vellum paper with an additional colour illustration. Contains [ii, blank], [viii], 152 unnumbered pages with 6 tipped-in full colour plates, 1 additional full-page colour illustration (opposite the title-page) heightened in gilt and water-colour with original tissue-guard, 14 tipped-in two colour plates, 18 tipped-in black and white plates, and numerous black and white text illustrations throughout. House illustrated bookplate belonging to 'Willougby Statham Smyth - Benchams, Devon' to the front paste down. [Willoughby Statham Smith (c1861-1946) of Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd., was a long established electrical instruments company which played an early role in the development of computers in the United Kingdom]. Benchams was built by Willoughby Statham Smith, a successful businessman, when he moved to the area in 1906. The cottage was originally built as an engine house which generated electricity for Southerton and was completely destroyed by fire in 2017. Minor rubbing to the corners and in Very Good clean and bright condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.…