editor 1850 1905 (2 resultados)

Poor condition. i-ii, [lacks iii-vi], vii-viii, 1-504 pages. Hardcover: H 24.5cm x L 18.5cm. Half-leather binding but with spine leather mostly perished leaving quire folds and underlying chipped paper backstrip exposed lengthwise save for some leather at heel which retains gilt stamped name "Ed. L. Milne" (probably person for whom book was bound). Leather board corners well worn; rubbing and light staining to pebbled cloth boards which are tenuously attached to text block. Title leaf (i.e. pages i-ii) present but lacks pages iii-vi of Contents with final vii-viii still present; initial leaves from ffep inclusive to pages 1-2 detached and now laid-in; past owner's ink stamp on front and rear free endpapers; pencil signature on ffep too; last two leaves (pages 503-504 and rfep) detached with latter having large loss at its top corner. Some toning as well as scattered soiling and staining to interior leaves. Text block stressed at several points. Rear pastedown's bottom right corner features bookbinder ticket: "C.W. Staehle | Book Binder | 45 | Bluff St. | Joliet. | Ill." November 1881 Volume IX-No. 1 on pages 1-88; December 1881 Volume IX-No. 2 on pages 89-184; January 1882 Volume IX-No.3 on pages 185-264; February 1882 - Volume IX-No. 4 on pages 265-344; March 1882 - Volume IX-No.5 on pages 345-424; April 1882 - Volume IX-No. 6 on pages 425-504. Please note that this book has an approximate shipping weight of 3.5 pounds (1.58 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. McNEILL Angus Ilustrador. 1st Edition. First edition, first issue, two volumes in the original publishers gilt pictorial blue cloth. Spines, gilt tooling & titles, edges lightly bumped. Internally: Vol 1, half title, frontis, [7], (viii-xxii), [2], [1], 2-462 pp, 33 illustrations, 18 maps & plans (some folding), bound without the advert catalogue. Vol 2, half title, frontis, [5], (vi-x), [3], [1], 2-499 pp, 25 illustrations, 16 maps & plans. Some pages uncut, light spotting to endpages, evidence of removed bookplates to fpds. un-restored. With coloured maps and illustrations, not present in the abridged versions issued later, and regarded by many critics as one of the finest books Churchill ever wrote. (229*153 mm). (Cohen. Woods). The River War is a detailed account of the re-conquest of the Soudan from 1896-1898 by a mixed contingent of British and Egyptian troops under the command of Major-General Sir Herbert Kitchener. In writing the River War, Churchill records that he "affected a combination of the styles of Macaulay and Gibbon" and later wrote that "nothing like the battle of Omdurman will ever be seen again. It was the last link in the long chain of those spectacular conflicts whose vivid and majestic splendour has done so much to invest war with glamour".