ARTHUR DIGBY BESANT (15 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Acceptable. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. An account of the first 100 years of the Clerical, Medical & General Life Assurance Society. First edition and printing. In fine bright red leather, with intricate gilt tooling and titles with gilt image of building to front. The covers are clean, tight and straight and excellent for age. Pale tan and white floral patterned end papers are unmarked.Gilt top cut edge; the fore and tail edges are very white. The text block paper is bright and glossy, unmarked and tightly bound, with b/w plates and a fold-out of a policy. No dedications or annotations. Fine condition and looks unused. Without jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Used, some light marks on white boards, but still well bound & interior in nice clean condition.

Softcover. Condición: New. Pages: 536 Reprinted from 1930 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. The content of this print on demand book has not been changed. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this reprint is from very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.

Hardback Leather binding with gilt decorations. Covers are rubbed at corners with a quarter inch sections missing at bottom and top of spine and 3.5 inch split at edge of spine. Illus with B & W plates. Wt 324 pages Wt 0.7 Kg Reading copy.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original cloth-backed boards. 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: 32 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Gallio Club (London, England). Life insurance, Societies, Great Britain. Social history. Risk management. 1 Kg.

Hardback. Being the history of the first 100 years of the Clerical, Medical & General Life Assurance Society, 1824-1924. 352pp ills., full leather 1924. Spine sl.worn.

Paperback. Condición: New. Language: English. Brand new Book. 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 is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: NO. First. 1922 1st Edition. With members signatures to first blank page. Good condition, wear to leather with some stains, gilt to all edges. Illustrated folding illustration. Tanned edge paper. U5B2.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original cloth-backed boards. 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: 32 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Gallio Club (London, England). Life insurance, Societies, Great Britain. Social history. Risk management. 1 Kg.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original elaborate gilt decorated full brick red leather covered boards, blocked and lettered in gilt back, top edge gilt. 8vo. 7'' x 4½''. Contains (x)-2, 342 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout, one fold-our plate. Small rub to the top front corner and in Very Good clean and bright condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ECONOMICS & COMMERCE.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 342 pp. Red leather cover with gilt decoration. Light browning to page edges. Biro number and two small black marks on first page. Inscription on third page signed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

For more about O'Neill (son of the Victorian artist George Bernard O'Neill) see his obituary in The Times, 15 June 1946. LETTER: 4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Begins: 'My dear Hay, | Will you honour the humble author by accepting the enclosed copy of "Clerical Verses"?' Regarding the poems he writes: 'You will at any rate be amused at the Vanity which threw them into type and bound them in cloth.' The book is, he continues, 'strictly limited to Clericals in its circulation', but he is making an exception in the case of 'an old Clerical such as you, for you have always encouraged my Muse'. He has 'only printed "proper" verses, but you'll find one improper one on a loose sheet'. He concludes: 'All the verses are strictly founded on facts.' BOOK: 31pp., 8vo, with the 'loose leaf' mentioned in the letter to Hay tipped in at the end, carrying a poem titled 'A Moment', with explanatory text. In blue cloth binding with title in gilt on front cover. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper, shaken in worn binding. The poems are humorous, and many are preceded by explanatory texts, the first, for example, to a poem titled '76 pro 27', reading: 'The following verses were sent to me, when Leeds Branch Manager, by Mr. Besant, in return for an acceptance letter rating a man of 27 up to age 76. The life in question, now a distinguished member of the Colonial Civil Service, would be "office age 91" to-day (1911) if he had been fool enough to complete.' Laid down on the front pastedown is a reproduction of a cartoon. The volume is excessively scarce, with no copy traced on either COPAC or OCLC WorldCat. The volume contains 29 inserts, including two Autograph Letters Signed from A. D. Besant (son of Annie Besant), General Manager of the Clerical, Medical and General, to 'Raynes'. Both are on the letterhead of 9 Hampstead Hill Gardens, NW3, and they date from 28 February and 2 March 1953. In the first Besant mentions, among other matters, 'O'Neill's verses': 'I have various odd ones stored away somewhere and if I can dig them out I will send you copies.' In the second he states that he is sending 'the poem by O'Neill on which I could not put my hand when I wrote to you last week. He dashed it off, impromptu'. The poem referred to appears to be present among the other 28 inserts, in O'Neill's autograph and titled 'Impromptu' and beginning 'When the Bobby's on his beat'. The other inserts include four more leaves carrying manuscript compositions, one of them a holograph 'Copy' of a twenty-line poem (1p., 8vo) by O'Neill, dated at the end 'H. D. O'N. | 24.12.12.' The poem is untitled and begins: 'This is the Saga of Digby | The Saga of Digby and Christmas | Tells how he carried the parcels, | Numerous brown-paper parcels | Tied up with string by a lady, | [.]'. Also present are a manuscript prose text headed 'The late George Gould Churchward, and 21 cuttings of poems, extracted from the Post Magazine and Insurance Monitor, from 1927 and 1928 and one from 1931. Nineteen of the poems are by O'Neill, and the other two are addressed to him, one from 'L. H.' and the other from 'I. B.'.