Croft peter j (7 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Near Fine. Limited Edition. Two volumes each about new in crisp clean dust jackets; both housed in a sturdy cloth covered slipcase. Numbered edition limited to 1500 copies. Impressive collection of poems of famous poets in the original handwriting of the poet. 146 poets / 197 plates. …

Limited edition of 1,500 copies. Fine cloth copies in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 2 v. ([400]p.) : facsims ; 35cm. Subjects; Manuscripts, English Facsimiles. English poetry. Poets, English Autographs Facsimiles. 4 Kg. …

Limited edition of 1,500 copies. Fine cloth copies in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 2 v. ([400]p.) : facsims ; 35cm. Subjects; Manuscripts, English Facsimiles. English poetry. Poets, English Autographs Facsimiles. 4 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. We have both volumes of this Limited Edition two-volume set (1500 copies only were printed), enclosed in the original stout card slipcase. Both volumes are in Fine condition and appear unused. The dustjackets are Very Good or better with very slight sunning to spines, otherwise Near Fine. And the slipcase - this is in Good to Very Good condition with slight shelfwear to base only, and a little grubby overall. Buyers outside UK please note this is a heavy item and will require extra postage - please enquire BEFORE purchasing; we WILL cancel your order without further notice if you do not do this. Thank you. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover illustrations vary, and unless the image accompanying the listing is marked 'Bookseller Image', it is an Abebooks Stock Image, NOT our own). BUYERS OUTSIDE UK please also note the following: 1. shipping rates apply to packets of 750g and under, and should the packed weight of an item exceed this we reserve the right to ship via 'Economy', or request extra postage prior to fulfilling the order, or cancel 2. many countries apply import or other taxes - these are the buyers responsibility; we may ask for extra payment to cover any taxes which we have to pay 'up front' on the buyer's behalf.…

pp. xxiii, (iii), 93 plates with explanatory text, (i) Index, (i) blank; vii, (i), plates 94-197, (i) Index, (i) blank [TOTAL pp. 448]. Dust wrappers both slightly torn at the head of the spines, cloth-backed boards, presentation inscription from the author to MICHAEL [?HALLS, librarian at King's College, Cambridge] and MARK, 1982, very good copies of a lavish production. WITH 23 folio leaves of Croft's original ms. for the text of this work, WITH the Prospectus in paper wrappers. *This fine set was issued some fifty years ago for the price of £30.00 - this is equivalent thus : real price of that commodity is £386.00: labour value of that commodity is £587.90 : income value of that commodity is £695.00 : economic share of that commodity is £832.60, in 2021.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. 124 pages. Features: Peter Whalley's cover illustrations depict the many phases of deer hunting; Editorial laments the 'sickness' of TV giveaway shows; How Iron Man Sir Anthony Eden Made Good; Half-page Wawanesa Insurance ad features photo of 1948 Olympic Champion Barbara Ann Scott figure skating; Great two-page colour ad for a white on red 1956 Plymouth Belvedere V-8 Four-door hardtop; The New Wonder Drugs That Fight Insanity - photo-illustrated article on Chlorpromazine and reserpine; Buck Crump's Love Affair with the CPR - photo-illustrated article on the rise of Buck Crump from machinist's apprentice to 51-year-old president of the Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR); The Cooney's and their seven adopted children - photo-illustrated article on the family of Lillian and Joe Cooney of Toronto; St. Boniface (Manitoba) is Nobody's Suburb - photo-illustrated article on the largest French-Canadian settlement outside Quebec; Where to buy an ancestor cheap - Ben Ward-Price runs Canada's busiest auction gallery, Ward-Price Ltd. - photo-illustrated article; Uncle Charley's Secret Treasure (short story); The Unconquered warriors of Ohsweken - photo-illustrated article on the Iroquois and their unknown 'republic' in the heart of Ontario; How the Highlanders Took Nova Scotia - they are making the place more Scottish than Scotland - photo-illustrated article; Flashback article on the September 15, 1885 tragic death of Jumbo the elephant at St. Thomas, Ontario; God's Little Fleet - Rev. John Antle and the Columbia Coast Mission visit the raft villages of B.C.'s coastal loggers - nice photo-illustrated article; Two Hunters (arctic short story); Want a Moose in Your Parlor? - photo-illustrated article on taxidermist Clifford McCutcheon and his Oliver Spanner & Co. Ltd. of Toronto; What's Your Day to Shine?; One-page colour-photo ad for NCR (National Cash Register Company) shows lady working adding machine; Nice one-page colour ad for the 1956 Ford Fairlane Victoria (white on salmon colour); Nice Sylvania TV ad; One-page photo-ad for Ronson lighters; Bright two-page colour ad for the 1956 Dodge Mayfair 4-dr hardtop (black on yellow); Beautiful two-page colour ad for the new 1956 De Soto Fireflite 4-door hardtop (white on blue); Colour Seabreeze ad shows eight of their record players; Rare one-page two-colour illustrated ad for McCulloch chain saws shows lady cutting log; Fantastic One-page illustrated Dunlop Tire ad explains how hero Edward Chipman of the Elmhurst Dairy in Montreal entered a burning home three times to save children on the Caughnawaga Indian Reservation just before Christmas 1954; Half-page Canadian Pacific ad features photo of their new Empress of Britain; Molson's Golden ale ad features colour illustration of 'Goldie' the lion playing checkers; Colour ad for Moirs Pot of Gold chocolates; Admiral TV ad features their 'Regina', 'Manitoba' and 'Collingwood' models; Canadian Wine Institute colour ad features M. Andre Vaucher and Mlle. Micheline Dubois, both of France; Nice colour ad for the Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington shows its huge banquet room; Barrett Company ad includes photos of F.E. Shaw, Tim Kier, George Goddard, L.O. Heron and John Hawthorne; Labatt's IPA ale ad includes photo of Toronto crane operator Leo Maltais; Interesting 1/3-page piece on artist Simpkins and his cartoon bear Jasper; Canadian Anecdote - When B.C. Had a Navy; Caterpillar ad inside back cover shows terribly muddy backroad and explains how the state of Kansas has performed major upgrades to its roads; Nice colour-photo Coke ad on back cover has one-inch stain at top; and more. Discrete clear archival-tape repairs to coverfold, otherwise average wear. Unmarked. A pleasing vintage copy of this nice issue. Whalley, Peter (cover art); Macpherson, Duncan; Anderson, Don; (ilustrador).…

Condición: Gut. XXX, 197 S. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Autograph Poetry in the English Language is a unique work. Its two volumes cover ihe period from the fourteenth century' to Dylan. Thomas in the twentieth, and represent 146 poets on ] 97 chronologically-arranged plates reproducing complete pages of manuscript. The volumes contain much exciting material that has never been published before. The only known poem in Sir Philip Sidney's hand has escaped the notice of his editors and is-reproduced here for the first time. Mr. Croft has identified : a notebook containing an entirely new corpus of Elizabethan poetry in the hand of Sir Philip Sidney's brother Robert, a man eminent in his day as a soldier and statesman but not previously known as a poet. One sonnet, from Robert Sidney's notebook is reproduced here, the first known publication of any of his poetry. The volume?: also include hitherto un-known poems by Herrick, Gay, and Crabbe, a charming new Songe by the Cavalier general William Cavendish, and the original draft of Byron's most famous lyric 'She walks in Beauty', showing the poem in che process of composition and breaking off poignantly with an unfinished Stanza which Byron was to suppress and which has riot been published before. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Originalhalbleinen mit Schutzumschlag in Schuber.…