London adelphi (225 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. 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.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Not price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 224 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map, col. ports. ; 22 cm. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. 212. Subjects: National characteristics, English. England - Social life and customs - Pictorial works. England - Description and travel - Pictorial works. 1 Kg. …

Zustand: Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial light yellow wraps. The wraps are bumped & soiled with small stains. The spine is darkened & creased with a tear near the tail & pieces out of the head & tail. iv & pages 269-360. The fore-edge is soiled & foxed & there are ink stains to several pages with occasional light foxing. Good. Among the contents of this issue are "On Fear; and on Romanticism" by John Middleton Murry, "On Love and Marriage" by D. H. Lawrence, "More Extracts From a Journal" by Katherine Mansfield, and "Chronometricals and Horologicals", an essay extracted from "Pierre", by Herman Melville.…

Zustand: Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed, stapled golden yellow wraps. The wraps are darkened & lightly bumped with stains around the staples & with some minor foxing. There is a tiny tear to the front edge of the rear wrap. Pages [257]-304. There is occasional light soiling. Good. The editor, John Middleton Murry, explains in a note on the rear wrap that "The Adelphi" is being temporarily edited from The Adelphi Centre in Langham, Essex, a center founded in anticipation of the war to support "works of constructive pacifism" and to explore "new forms of social living". It combined a refuge for victims of bombing raids, a community farm and market garden and educational activities directed towards the regeneration of society. Among the contents of this wartime issue of the magazine are "Meditation on Heine" by Murry, "When It's Thursday" by Jack Common and "The Little Grave" by Glyn Jones.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2005). ND (2005) 1st edition. Square 4to (248 x 248mm). Pp160. B/w photographs by Amanda Lockhart throughout. White lyrics to black end-papers. Red cloth, spine titled in silver-gilt. Slight use o/w very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. A coffee-table book of monochrome photographs of the hunting field. "Amanda Lockhart has spent the last five years photographing with hunts around the British Isles and Ireland, from the Mid Devon to the Galway Blazers on the west coast of Ireland and as far north as the Kincardineshire above Aberdeen. In The Art of the Chase, she evokes the living heart of the sport and all the traditional aspects that have evolved over more than three hundred years. Amanda Lockhart's photographs beautifully portray the people for whom hunting is a way of life, the trades that depend on it and the glorious landscapes of the British and Irish hunting country." .…

Soft Cover. Zustand: Good +. The Sign of the Open Book,1930. Third Series, Vol. XVIII, No. 13. Soft Cover. Cover has moderate shelfwear, small tears/chips at edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight. Very nice copy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good +. 1st Edition. 92 Pp. Yellow Wrappers Printed In Black And Green. Lightly Used With Some Browning To Spine And Edges.

Paper Cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 12pp in nice clean condition - no deliberate marks. No names or inscriptions. Undated but about 1954.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper is protected by a layer of clear, non adhesive pl;astic.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. stapled paperback, large 8vo, 52pp, contents clean and sound, covers slightly marked, Good condition. ISBN: 086079041X.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. stapled paperback, large 8vo, 52pp, owner's inscription inside front cover, contents clean and sound, covers unevenly browned, Good condition. ISBN: 0860790428.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. centrefold l split, some tape. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Fair condition hardback navy boards showing title etc clearly on spine in gilt lettering with a gilt decoration, title also shown clearly on spine in gilt lettering, no DJ. Front and back boards spotted with damp marks. 320 pages good and clean with clear print. A few spots of foxing on edge of pages, no previous names. …

Yellow paper cover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. G: in good condition without dust jacket as issued. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 80pp.

Zustand: Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed golden yellow wraps. The wraps are darkened & lightly bumped with some very light foxing & soiling. There are a few tiny ink stains to the front wrap. Pages [225]-256. The contents are very good. During World War II, "The Adelphi" was temporarily edited from The Adelphi Centre in Langham, Essex, a center founded in anticipation of the war to support "works of constructive pacifism" and to explore "new forms of social living". It combined a refuge for victims of bombing raids, a community farm and market garden and educational activities directed towards the regeneration of society. The editor, Max Plowman, reports that the centre "is experiencing a great revival.I believe we are on the eve of making the Langham Voluntary Service Scheme a great pioneering example of creative pacifist living."Among the contents of this wartime issue are "A Turn at the Trance", an article on working in a factory by Jack Common; "Religious Objections to Evolution" by Robert Hamilton; "Old Hat--or New?" by Dorothy Plowman; and "Lighten Our Darkness", an article on evil and "Sunday school goodness" by Max Plowman.…

Zustand: Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed golden yellow wraps. The wraps are darkened & lightly bumped with a small stain to the rear wrap. Pages [305]-336. There is a small piece out of the bottom corner of each of the last 5 leaves & the top page corners are lightly bumped. Good. The editor, John Middleton Murry, explains in a note on the rear wrap that "The Adelphi" is being temporarily edited from The Adelphi Centre in Langham, Essex, a center founded in anticipation of the war to support "works of constructive pacifism" and to explore "new forms of social living". It combined a refuge for victims of bombing raids, a community farm and market garden and educational activities directed towards the regeneration of society. Also announced is the death of Max Plowman, the previous editor, at the age of 57. "His death was attributed to the severity of his exertions at the Adelphi Centre."This issue is mainly concerned with the war. Among the contents are an article by Murry on Rudolph Hess; "What is War?" by Reginald Reynold; and poems by Elizabeth Welch MacKenzie and Alex. Comfort.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 160 p. : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Hunting Great Britain ; Pictorial works. Fox hunting Great Britain ; Pictorial works. Genre: Sport. Language: English. 1 Kg. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Spine very slightly faded. Inscribed by the author to Anne Norwich, "For my darling Sister with all my love Lanta 16.X.94". Historical novel about a cavalryman at the time of Waterloo. "Impressively researched, it is a memorable debut" (Antony Beevor). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Paperback. Zustand: Good+. First Edition. Book.

Paperback. Zustand: Good+. First Edition. early hancock. Book.

First Edition. Library copy. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 224, [3] p. : front., plates (incl. port.) ; 22 cm. Subjects: Windmills; Flour mills England; Millers England; Windmills; England Description and travel. 1 Kg. …

1st ed. Owner's name on front free end paper; slight wear to edges of dust jacket. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. hardback, small 8vo, 128,(6)pp, pages browning, a pencil sketch for a stage setting facing first text page, text clean and sound, green cloth gilt, spine rubbed, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. hardback, 8vo, 243pp, owner's name on endpaper, clean and sound, red cloth, gilt titles, spine slightly faded, Good / no dustwrapper.

Joly, John, 1857-1933. Reminiscences & Anticipations. With nine illustrations. London: T. Fisher Unwin, Adelphi Terrace, 1920, 263pp., good purple cloth, but faded and with a tear at the bottom of the spine, previous owner's stamp: Ex Libris Trefethen. The author was professor of geology and mineralogy in the University of Dublin and he collects essays here on his educational proposals, holiday reminiscences of Foze Rocks and Tour of Irish Lighthouses, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, the Origin of the Submarine, and on the "defence of Trinity College during the Sinn Fein Rebellion". "So far as I know, it is the only account of that incident written by one who lived within the College walls throughout those terrible days. It is accurate in every particular so far as it was in my power to make it so.".…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 384pp. to include the Index.Thick 8vo. Bound in the Publisher's original navy blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper cover with devices. Top edge blue.A really nice smart copy but without the front free end-paper. Otherwise very clean and unmarked. A practical guide for the collector. Tightly bound. Black & White photograph Frontis plus nearly 300 other illustrations (illustrator).…

Zustand: Used - Good. Good paperback. Spine a little worn and creased; internally VG. Includes 'Letters from Prison' by Luxemburg, & a poem by Stephen Spender.

1st edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvii, 274 p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. Notes; With a half-title. Subjects; England Description and travel. 1 Kg. …

1st Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.Previous owner's inscription. Physical description: 205, [1] pages; 19cm. Subjects:English verse. English poetry 1900-1945. 20th century English Literature. Service, Robert William (1974-1958). 1 Kg. …

Zustand: Good. 8vo. [4] pp. Wraps. Program with cast for July 3, [1880], of play written by Dion Boucicault, and Wreck Ashore by Mr. Buckstone? Interesting advertisements.