chas goss (5 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fine-. 1st ed. dec.e ndpapers/pastedowns, f/piece (t.p. of a 1677 dated directory)+xi+147, slipped in publisher's note regarding availability of copies of the French print of a view of London before the Great Fire used to decorate both ends. No significant faults - a few tanning spots to edges and top edge seems to be dark tinted rather than dusty, Brown cloth covers clean, bright and unmarked, unclipped jacket has a number of small tanning spots and other small marks, darkened spine with chip across top, remains well above average for jacket of this age however and will add protective sleeve when ordered. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condición: Acceptable. No Jacket. First Edition. From a university library with the usual stamps and labels. Top and tail of spine rather frayed but binding tight and contents clean. A00000786.

8°, lxxxii, 118 S., 1 Bl., Guter Zustand, Schnitt, u. einige Blatt vorne u. hinten stockfleckig. Holyoake war der letzte Engländer, der für das Meinungsdelikt "Atheismus" eine Haftstrafe verbüßen musste. Nach seiner Freilassung prägte Holyoake den Ausdruck 'secularism' um seine Auffassungen zu bezeichnen und vertrat sie in den dreißig Jahrgängen der von ihm 1846 gegründeten Zeitschrift The Reasoner. Ein gegen ihn von der Regierung anhängig gemachter Prozess führte zur Abschaffung des Zeitungsstempels in England; auch war Holyoake wesentlich an der Verabschiedung jenes Gesetzes beteiligt, (Evidence amendment act von 1869), welches der bürgerlichen Versicherung gleiche Rechtskraft wie dem christlichen Eid gewährte (Wikipedia). --- Charles William Frederick Goss (18641946) was an English librarian, polemicist and cataloguing innovator. He worked in English public libraries . and was prominent among opponents of open access libraries in the UK (Wikipedia). Leinenband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small 4to, gilt stamped vellum backed boards, slight soil traces, ffep ink inscribed "To my old friend & colleague | Andrew Keogh Esq. | From the Author | 2 July 09," half-title with limitation statement (#46 of 50 numbered copies, signed by Goss), [lxxxii], 118pp. Top Edge Gilt. Nearly a Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. This book is number 33 of edition limited to 50. Signed by author. He gave us the word 'jingoism'. Includes Title and Subject Index to Bibliography. lxxxii, 118 pages. Top page edges gilt. Inscription by previous owner on front free endpaper. Front and back endpapers browned. Light foxing to spine and small white mark on front cover. Size: 250mm Tall, 4to. Signed by Author(s). Book.