Blakey dorothy (30 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Light wear. Stapled book of 31 pages. Two copies available.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. xlii, 373 p. 24 cm. B&w illustrated section in middle. Burgundy cloth in dustjacket. Jacket has small tears to edges. Ink signature on front endpaper. Signed by editor on title and inscribed by her on half title. Light soiling to text block edge. Intro by W. Kaye Lamb.…

xlii+374pp. 8vo. Original cloth in pictorial dustwrapper, slightly edgeworn with a few chips. Previous owners name in ink to ffe. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. BORN AND BROUGHT UP IN WHITECHAPEL, JOHN SEBASTIAN HELMCKEN WORKED HIS WAY THROUGH APPRENTISHIPS AS A CHEMIST AND MEDICAL PUPIL BEFORE GAINING ADMISSION TO GUY'S HOSPITAL TO COMPLETE HIS TRAINING. THE ACCOUNTS HE GIVES OF WORKING CLASS FAMILY LIFE AND OF THE GREAT ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DISADVANTAGES HE HAD TO CONFRONT IN ORDER TO BECOME A DOCTOR MAKE THIS VOLUME NOT ONLY A VALUABLE HISTORICAL DOCUMENT, BUT ALSO AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY WITH CONSIDERABLE HUMAN INTEREST. TIGHT FIRM COMPLETE COPY WITH 24 ILLUSTRATIONS. BROWN CLOTH HARD COVER WITH SLIGHT MARKS/STAINS FROM WATER (?) DAMAGE TO JACKET. JACKET IS FRAYED ALONG BOTTOM EDGE BUT OTHERWISE IS COMPLETE. CLEAN INTERNALLY.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Number 230 of a limited edition of 500 copies. Designed, set by hand, and printed by Wil Hudson. 10" x 6.5", 56 pp, illustrated, bound in orange cloth. Fine copy in a clear mylar cover, with errata slip laid in. Sir James Douglas was a Canadian fur trader and politician who became the first Governor of the Colony of British Columbia. He traveled to California in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company to get permission from the Mexican governor to create a trading post in Yerba Buena (modern San Francisco).…

Leather. Condición: Very Good+. Limited Edition. 4to. Pp. xxvi, [4], 56. Introduction and notes by the editor, Dorothy Blakey Smith. Illustrated with a portrait of James Douglas. No. 3 of an edition limited to 500 copies. Errata laid in. Bound in brown leather with gilt lettering stamped on cover and spine. A trifle sunning to spine. Douglas was a vital figure in the development of the west, securing rights from the Mexican viceroy for business activity of the Hudson's Bay Company. He later served as the first Governor of British Columbia (1858-1864). Indeed he's known as the Father of British Columbia. A bright, fresh copy.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Nice book, tight and square with bright covers, clean unmarked interior. Joints starting to split a bit but interior hinges are strong, not cracked, sturdy binding. Spine moderately sunned.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Tall 8vo. 56pp. No.33 in an edition of 500; full calf binding is a bit sunned along spine with some heavy surface abrasions on back cover. Previous owner's name in ink on ffep. Errata slip tipped in. Published under the auspices of the Vancouver Public Library Endowment Fund. Printed by Wil Hudson for the Library's Press and bound at the Library's Bindery.…

Condición: very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. 8vo pp.373, previous owners name on FEP. book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book measures 23x18cm, 339pp, Bound in original publishers cloth, quarter-Bound Brown on Grey boards with gilt titles to the spine. Binding with minor shelf wear, scuffed corners, Binding in good clean condition. Internally pages clean, near fine. A very good clean copy.…

First Edition (& 1st printing). Tall octavo, original light brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front panel. 56 pp. Issued in a limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies, this being copy No 112. Printed on fine laid paper, the book was designed and the type set by hand by Wil Hudson, Printer for the Library's Press, and bound by the Library's Bindery in Vancouver, BC. The book was composed in the types of Frederick W. Goudy, and composition was begun on the 8th of March, 1965, being the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth. Errata slip laid in, as issued. Ink name and date (1966) on front free endpaper, one small stain to upper cover; else a fine copy without dust jacket, as issued. Unedited transcription of Douglas's journal of his trip to California in 1841, made from the original journal held in the Provincial Archives of British Columbia. The journal is preceded by an excellent Introduction by the Dorothy Blakey Smith, with extensive Notes.…

1965, limited edition. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. xxvi, 56+. 4to. 500 copies were printed, of which this copy is number 253. Brown-orange boards, with gilt titles to front and spine. Tiny stains to front board; internally is well-bound, clean and bright. Errata pasted in.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. "Helmcken's is a unique account of the way social and economic conditions were actually felt and experienced in B.C. at the time of Confederation. The memoirs are the most complete and intimate record available of how Canada secured a foothold on the Pacific." - dust jacket. "John Sebastian Helmcken (June 5, 1824 September 1, 1920) was a British Columbia physician who played a prominent role in bringing the province into Canadian Confederation. He was also the founding president of the British Columbia Medical Association." - Wikipedia. 373 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Tight and unmarked with light wear to original dark mauve cloth. Light soiling to edges. Average wear to dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A quality example. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Reminiscences of Doctor John Sebastian Helmcken British Columbia History.…

Hardcover. Condición: VG+. Limited Ediiton. Limited Edition; # 265/500. xxvi + 56 pages in excellent condition. Errata sheet pasted in. Orange cloth, gilt titles. Corners very lightly bumped. Four tiny stains on the upper cover. VG+. Book.

Gr.-8°. 6 Bl., 339 S., 2 Bl. Mit 9 Tafeln. OHLn. (Exlibris auf Innendeckel).

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 200 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.46 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. First Edition. Established by William Lane at No 33 Leadenhall Street in London, Minerva Press is notable for creating a lucrative market in sentimental and Gothic fiction. Many of Lane's regular writers were women, including Regina Maria Roche, Eliza Parsons, E.M. Foster, and Eleanor Sleath. From the library of philanthropist and book collector Carrie Estelle Doheny, with her bookplate to the front pastedown. Octavo: [viii], 339, [1, blank] pp. with 9 collotype plates. Original paper-covered boards over a linen spine with black-stamped titling. Largely unopened. Some toning along the extremities; else very good or better. …

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Condición: Very Good. Condition Notes: Superficial marks to the boards which are slightly toned at the margins. Insignificant age-toning to the edges of the text block. Minor age-toning to the lining papers. The contents complete, clean and tight; Hardback. Quarter-Bound Brown on Grey boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9" x 7" (1.3 kg); pp 339; In the Bibliographical Society Publication series; Includes: Index of titles; Index of authors; Black & white plates; Black & white drawings; Appendices (4); || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #202350 ||.…

Condición: Good. No dustjacket. Larger 8vo pp. 339, binding a little loose, with some cracking to the front hinge, internally very good. "An important study of signally interesting contribution to book trade history. William Lane, founder of the Minerva Press, was no book lover although he is significant in print culture history for his habit of founding circulating libraries in fashionable. book.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Large squarish 8vo; (viii) 339pages; linen backed gray paper boards, lettered in black on spine, text block untrimmed. First edition. Illustrated with nine collotype plates of title pages, one being a double page image of a Minerva Press catalogue cover of circa 1790. The Minerva Press was founded by William Lane in 1780, though it didn't adopt the name "Minerva" until 1790. It was the largest publisher of popular fiction for three decades around the turn of the 19th century. Its speciality was the Gothic novel, publishing Gothic Tales by the dozens, most of them written by female authors. A near fine copy. With the book labels of A. N. L. Munby and my own label designed by Sebastian Carter. Munby was librarian of King's College, Cambridge, and author of The Phillipps Studies and the classic ghost story The Alabaster Hand.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. First edition. 22.5 x 18 cm. 339pp. Bound in publisher's boards backed in linen. 9 plates. Contents: William Lane: his life and activities, 1745?-1814 -- Printing and publishing at the Minerva, 1773-1859 -- Forgotten favourites, 1790-1820 -- Book production at the Minerva, 1790-1820 -- The circulating library -- Appendix I. Chronological list of publications, 1773-1820 -- Appendix II. Chronological list of novels -- Appendix III. Supplementary list of publications -- Appendix IV. A Minerva prospectus of 1798 -- Index of titles -- Index of authors.…

Small 4to. [viii], 339[1]pp, 9 plates (one double-page), text illustrations. Original ¼ cream cloth lettered in black, grey paper boards, uncut. Spine extremes rubbed with slight wear. Ex-library with all internal evidence neatly removed, externally the remains of a label to spine tail.

1" tear in spine. A very good, tight copy. 1st edition. Binding is Cloth/boards.

FIRST EDITION, VERY GOOD IN GREY BOARDS, FAWN SPINE. SCARCE.

FIRST EDITION, VERY GOOD IN GREY BOARDS, FAWN SPINE. WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF JOHN CARTER. SCARCE.

Large octavo. [8], 339 pp. Natural linen over light brown cloth boards, spine stamped in black. Light offsetting to endpapers. minor discoloration to boards. A very good copy. Bookplate. First edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Illus. with b.w. reproductions, incl. 9 plates. Large 8vo. orig. bds. Spine and bds. a little discoloured and faded, else v.g.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 339. 9 plates (1 double-page). several text illus. indexes. quarter cloth (extremities little frayed). untrimmed & partly unopened. First Edition.

Condición: good. Gebunden. Sofortversand aus Deutschland. Artikel wiegt maximal 1000g. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Stempel und Kleber. 339 Seiten. Englisches Exemplar. Privateinband. Seiten- und Fußschnitt unregelmäßig. Ecken und Kanten bestoßen. Vorsatz mit Aufkleber und leichten Verfärbungen. Buchblock gebrochen. …