Edited by holbrook jackson (17 resultados)

Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 287 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly skewed spine. Carol Belanger (Cover Design) (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Missing jacket. The dust jacket of the book is missing.…

Paperback. Condición: GOOD. NONE. Previous owner signed name at top of first blank page but 288 Pages are clean, unmarked, and flat with a tight spine. The author is also the illustrator. Wear along all edges of covers heavy along spine.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Reprint . Name of the previous owner. Reprint, 1975. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 288 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and light foxing on the inner part of the jacket. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 4th Impression. 288pp. HARDCOVER Clean copy inside & out. No inscriptions. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 14th Impression. 288pp. HARDCOVER Very clean copy internally. No inscriptions. In protected VG d/w. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Fifth Impression MCML. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** No dust jacket, decorated cloth covered boards, small stain top edge, gift inscription in pencil front end page, pages lightly tanned, otherwise without flaw. 6 X 9" 288 pages, (1947), 5th impression. Contents : Introduction - Edward Lear: Laureate of Nonsense by Holbrook Jackson; A Book of Nonsense (1846); Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (1871); More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, Etc (1872); Laughable Lyrics, A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, Etc (1877); Nonsense Songs and Stories (1895). All delightfully illustrated by Edward Lear. Edward Lear (ilustrador). …

hardback, 8vo, xxx,288pp, slight browning and foxing on edges, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, printed boards, Very Good condition in rubbed and faded dustwrapper with taped repairs to rthe rear.

Hardback. Condición: Good. DJ; Price clipped; Heavy. DJ torn on spine. 288 pages.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. xxix, 288pp, bw ills. Decorative boards in jacket. Several very small chips to jacket, minor foxing to endpapers, prev owner name on front free endpaper. Published to celebrate the centenary of the publication of Lear's Book of Nonsense, this volume collects all of Lear's nonsense books in one book including A Book of Nonsense (1846); Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (1871); More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany etc (1872); Laughable Lyrics, A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, etc (1877) and Nonsense Songs and Stories (1895). Size: 8vo. Lear, Edward. (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear, Edited and with an Introduction by Holbrook Jackson, Hardcover, UK Edition, 8th Impression (November 1955). Book in very good condition, in a good unclipped dust jacket. The book has spine bumping and slight fading to the spine ends. The dust jacket shows general wear and ageing, including to the extremities and internally. It has small pieces missing to the spine ends, and a number of nicks and tears to the extremities. A very good copy for a book of this age. (See pictures).…

Illustr. Boards. 288pp. Ink dedication on Endpapers. Very Good. ISBN 057106440X.

Decorative Cloth. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Faber & Faber Edition. Hardcover. The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear. Two previous owner names to inside cover, one crossed out. Slight foxing to end inside covers. This collection of the Nonsense of Edward Lear forms a complete reproduction of the four volumes of nonsense published during the author's lifetime, together with a few hitherto unpublished pieces included in the selection called Nonsense Songs and Stories, edited by Sir Edward Strachey, in 1895. In this collectiin there appearwed for the first time the characteristic self-portrait in verse reproduced in the present volume. Illustrations throughout. 288 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).…

2005. (Hardcover in slipcase) Fine, no dust jackets. 548, 325, 586pp. Three volumes of marbled paper over black cloth with gilt lettering and decorations to the spine in near fine slipcase. Top edge stained red, tables, notes, glossary, index. The slipcase is lightly rubbed. "This book is very long. What's more, like the book Alice's sister was reading on that famous summer afternoon, it has no picures or conversation in it. To add to the drawbacks, parts of it are in Latin. And finally, as if that wasn't bad enough, it is founded on totally outdated notions of anatomy, physiology, psychology, cosmology, and just about every other -logy there ever was. So what on earth makes it worth reading today?" - from the Introduction. Edited by Holbrook Jackson. Introduction by Philip Pullman. (Sets, Depression, Emotions, Meaning--Philosophy, Medicine, Philosophers, Spirituality, Thought). …

Hardcover. Condición: As New. A stunning set of three first class hardback books. All three books come in a really nice black boxed, slipcase, with gorgeous gilt titles on the side of the box. The three books are in virtually brand new condition as they look like they have not been used or read. First published in 2005 by The Folio Society and these specific books are the second printing dated 2010. The First Partition has 548 pages, The Second Partition has 325 pages, The Third Partition has 586 pages. All three books have nice tight bindings, all pages, and text are in first class, clean, readable order. Typography by Bernard Roberts. Typeset in Founder's Caslon at the Folio Society. printed on Abbey Wove Paper by Memminger Mediencentrum AG, Memmingen, Germany, and bound by Lachenmair, Reutlingen, Germany in Buckram with marble paper sides. Introduction by Philip Pullman. Another fine set of Folio Books that would grace any stylish library. …

First Edition thus. Pictorial cover design by Barnett Freedman Fine copy in very slightly worn dust-wrapper.