Robert maxwell london (36 Ergebnisse)

"A history of punishment in Britain". Owner's name; slight surface damage to front pastedown; dust jacket edges bound in tape. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good price-clipped dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Cover boards very slightly darkened along the top edge with shelf wear, dust jacket rubbed along edges in places, with a couple of iny nicks at front top and near spine, no loss. Overall a very satisfactory VG?VG copy.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Previous owner's name on the FEP, shelf wear to d/j. Used.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge dulled and worn, now mylar-sleeved dust jacket. Remains overall particularly well preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 226 pages; Description: xiv, 226 p. 23 cm. Subjects: Punishment --Great Britain --History. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. A very acceptable VG copy with a G dust jacket having lightly rubbed edges.

Red hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Fair. Reprint. Worn reading copy. Cover rubbed and marked. Inner hinge cracking. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 379pp.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. ix, 88 pages. A delightful and intriguing collection of 'agony' letters to English women's magazines from 1691 to 1966 and their replies. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in red textured boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Price clipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 113pp. B/w portrait frontispiece, b/w photographs and fold-out map. Not library copy, name/date in ink to top corner of ffep, some rubbing to dustjacket. (10/7).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. The first edition was published an unillustrated triple-decker on 22 December 1884 in a printing of 500 copies. This edition was published by J. and R. Maxwell, in a one-volume edition. 5 x 7½" pp. iv + 332. Fair in red cloth with beveled edges to boards, with gilt stamped lettering on front and spine. Edges untrimmed. Boards grubby and stained. ffep and frontispiece missing so the first extant page is the title page which has a loss about ¾" square. Firm and tight; the contents are clean and bright with no stains, foxing, stamps or labels. No dustwrapper.…

242pp. A very good hardback copy frayed, clipped dustcover and B/w plates.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Signed by the editor. xii, 265 pp. Black hardcover with gilt lettering to the spine, in a green dustjacket. With a 1968 Claydon House National Trust booklet from 1968 loosely enclosed. Harry Verney's signature to the title page, alongside a note stating it was signed 'while at tea with him Sunday 30.8.70'. Jacket edgeworn with come creasing and rubbing to the covers. Internally Clean. The memoirs of the Verney family. 8vo. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st edition. 9" x 6". xv + 113pp + plates and foldg map. Signed by both authors on title page. Fine hardback in very good protected dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. 226 pages. Traces the origin and development of the various methods by which criminals were punished. Deals with corporal punishment, witchcraft and prostitution. Book very good, dust-jacket good with some wear and lifting of laminate.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. No jacket. This book does not have a publication date. It was not published in 1900. Boards and spine are marked. Spine is cocked. Spine ends and leading corners are a little bumped and worn. Sticker residue on reverse of FEP. Lower leading corner of title page is chipped. Foxing and a few pen marginalia in the volume. Several pages are dog-eared. Binding is intact, contents are clear. AM. Used.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st UK Edition. 113 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white plates throughout and a fold-out map. Page edges are lightly darkened. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles and black accent on the spine. White and black dustjacket in good condition with white and red titles. Smudged and lightly stained on the back of the jacket. Worn around the edges. 1ST UK EDITION. VG/G. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 8vo. Rebound in quarter leather with marbled boards lettered gilt with decoration at spine. pp 200. Published posthumously- Title page reads '.by the late Hugh Conway.' Slight rubbing; VG+.

Zustand: Good. 8vo. 332 pp., b&w frontis. Good in red cloth with beveled edges, spine slanted, covers somewhat soiled, some foxing throughout, provenance John Ruyle with his end paper notes in pencil, D. Oswald Beatson's book plate within, in a clear protective mylar jacket.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. A smart early edition of this work written by popular Victorian novelist H. Rider Haggard. Early edition, originally published 1885. With a frontispiece. The second novel from the author, written just prior to King Solomon's Mines. When a discovery of a box containing a well-preserved Saxon woman's head is made in a cemetery collapsing into the sea, the finders deem her to have been a witch. From this point on, things start to go wrong for those surrounding the discovery. Written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. Any misprints from previous editions have been corrected for this issue. In the original full red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing tot he extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. Front hinge just starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Light scattered spotting to the first and last few pages. Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Zustand: Good. First edition. The first edition of this novel in one volume by H. Rider Haggard. First edition in one volume. The first edition was 1884 in three volumes. With frontispiece. Inspired by "a singularly beautiful and pure-faced young lady" spotted during a church service, Haggard decided she should become the heroine of a novel. The debut novel of Sir Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer of adventure romances set in exotic locations. He is remembered as a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, sound with light bumping tot he extremities. Discolouration to the spine and tide marks to the boards. Internally, generally firmly bound with the odd loosening page. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark. Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Stereotyped edition in one vol. 8vo. pp 383. Calf spine over sand grained boards, title lable printed in gold lettering. 18th-century historical fiction novel written by the bestselling Victorian sensation novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, originally published in three volumes in 1886. Calf spine over sand grained boards, title lable printed in gold lettering. 18th-century historical fiction novel written by the bestselling Victorian sensation novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, originally published in three volumes in 1886. Book.…

1st ed. Undated, & with no edition stated, but appears to be the First series published in 1888. Bookplate on front pastedown; some foxing; edges of frontis worn & chipped; spine browned, with wear to cloth at head & foot. Used - Good. Good hardback in red cloth with black & gilt Used - Good. Good hardback in red cloth with black & gilt.…

Zustand: Gut. Sprache: Englisch, new Edition enlarged & modernised, 820 illustrated with upwards of two hundred new and orignal engravings, 557 S., illustrierter Leinen, goldgeprägt, Kanten etw. bestoßen, Einband leicht berieben sauber restauriert (jedoch 2 kaum nennenswerte kl. Fehlstellen), hint. Buchdeckel a.d. Rändern st. verblichen, das Buch von den ersten bis zur letzten Seiten rechts zunehemnd bräunlich, insges. jedoch vollständiges, neu restauriertes (new binding) und trotz der vielen Mängel noch anschauliches Ex.. …

Leather. Zustand: Good. First edition. A very scarce biography and collection of speeches of M. P. Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill, the father of Winston Churchill, compiled by Frank Banfield. First edition. Undated, dated using Jisc from a copy held at the British Library. Bound in half calf with paper-covered boards, with the gilt monogram of W. Allard. A biographical work and collection of speeches from Lord Randolph Churchill, Conservative M.P for Woodstock and chairman of the National Union of Conservative Associations. Notably, Lord Randolph was the father of Winston Churchill.Containing speeches given between 1874 and 1884.Edited by Frank Banfield. With a bookplate loosely inserted stating the book was part of the collection of Steve Forbes, an American publishing executive and politician, known for being the editor-in-chief of Forbes Magazine. Bound in half calf with paper-covered boards. Externally, generally smart, with light rubbing to the extremities and joints. Joints are cracked, heavier to the front. Front hinge is tender. Light spotting to endpapers and fore edge, with a stamp to the rear paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Zustand: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine. 8vo 266 pp. SIGNED by the author to title page. Fine in Fine dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover. Half-leather binding, with boards covered in brown and orange marbled paper. Spine covered in brown leather with gold stamping, and tooling on the leather over corners. Speckled page edges. No publication or copyright date. Circa 1885. 445 pages. Binding is strong and tight. There is wear to the edges of the boards and light chipping to the leather at the head and foot of the spine. The area of leather with the title of the novel is mostly worn off the spine. Binding is still quite attractive, with unmarked pages.…

Zustand: Very Good. Hardback. Octavo. xv, 252pp. Original illustrated boards. Some edge rubbing to covers, rebacked with pale brown cloth, slight tear to title page, otherwise very good.

Leather. Zustand: Good Only. A scarce undated copy of this collection of stories by M. E. Braddon. Author listed as 'The Author of Lady Audley's Secret, Vixen, Ishamel, Wyllard's Weird etc etc' Mary Elizabeth Braddon was an English popular novelist of the Victorian Era. A Prolific writer, Braddon produced more than 80 novels, particularly of supernatural and horror fiction. This little known collection contains ten new tales including the title story Under the Red Flag. In a quarter morocco binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and wear to extremities. Front joint cracked with hinge held by one cord only. Board likely to detach in transit. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages bright, with some light scattered spotting. Ink inscription dated 1887 to contents page. Good Only. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. no date but Copac gives 1885 and the code on the last page reads [83/6.85/G96] pp. 278 + 2 pages of adverts; b/w illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering and black decoration, fine with minimal wear, slightly marked, no fading. Contents clean and tight, original yellow-coated endpapers, no inscriptions, minimal spotting to page edges. A fine tight copy. Size: 8vo. Opper, F. (illustrator). Book.…

First edition, first printing. Original red cloth with black lettering and decorations to spine and front panel, with the title stamped in gold to the front panel. A very good copy, the cloth, lettering and ornament bright and clean. The binding is a little shaken, with one or two breaches visible between page gatherings. Mild toning/offsetting to free endpapers. Priced (1/6) to the lower spine edge. A nice copy of a scarce title. John Bloundelle-Burton (1850-1917), better known as a journalist at 'The Standard' wrote a number of novels at the end of the nineteenth century. 'The Silent Shore' (published in the USA as 'The Mystery of St. James' Park' two years later) was the author's first novel. The 1886 date provided by Hubin is confirmed by the tiny Roman numerals '[10/86]' printed at the foot of the final page. (Hubin). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Blue cloth covers with tooled and black ink decoration. Boards show some aging, bumps, dings, warping, edgewear. Corners are bumped and frayed, with exposed board. Spine is somewhat cocked. Gilt text label and tooling; spine is darkened, with crushed and frayed ends. Binding is intact but fragile, with first three leaves loose. Stitching visible at p. 128, p. 240. See photos. Pastedowns and feps have moderate staining; owner's mark on front pastedown, bookseller notations at rear feps. See photos. Frontispiece is present. Interior is age-toned. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.** PS2023.0201** 343 pages. 4.5 x 7 inches** From the popular and prolific 19th century author Mrs. John Kent Spender, a novel couched in the form of reminiscences by a retired medical doctor. Prompted by the author's questions (or "editor", as she styled herself), the doctor recounted stories from his fifty years of medical practice, while she wrote them down in shorthand.** No date, but thought to be 1887. See photos for edition and printers marks.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #009614"**. …