Introduction by john buchan (21 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

Condición: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condición: New. Brand New.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 108 pages. 7.75x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Condición: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 240 pages. 7.50x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Cloth w/DJ. Condición: VG/FR. New York NY: Literary Guild of America, Inc. VG/FR. (1941). . Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., xlix, 277pp., Dj torn and chipped; e/p's browned, ownership . Not Illustrated (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. No Jacket. VG+, Part of a set of uniform editions that include Precious Bane, The House in Dormer Forest, The Golden Arrow, Seven For a Secret, and The Spring of Joy. Dark red top stain to top edge of text block. Clean text and interior. Tight, square binding. Metallic green wraps over red cloth, since faded along spine panel. Gold gilt title on spine. Decorative end papers. Black and white illustrations throughout. I also have Precious Bane from this series. Color frontispiece. No date. (1924?) Uncommon edition of a readily available book. 0. Norman Hepple (ilustrador). …

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 240 pages. 7.50x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condición: Fair ++/Good. No Dustjacket. Presumed First Edition. 318 pages. No dustjacket. Light blue-mauve hardback binding which is colour-faded to about a third to fore-edge of front board and to spine and back spine-junction. Some wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Page-edges browned with some marks, ink name to flyleaf and pencil names to prelims o/w pages clean. …

Paperback. Condición: Very Good ++. Reprint. 672 pages. Light wear to spine-ends and covers' corners - light blue background covers. Pages very clean.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 214 pages. 7.50x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. F A selection of John Buchan's short stories which illustrate his mastery of a "sense of place". i-xxi, 1-358pp. Usual high quality Folio Society binding in illustrated grey cloth; maroon endpapers; colour frontispiece and 12 other black & white illustrations. Bright, clean and undamaged throughout.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VG- first edition. Blanchard C38. An anthology of Rossetti's poetry. 294pp Green leather; gold lettering and decoration; green endpapers; index ribbon; top edge gilt, Very bright internally and externally. There is slight wear and a couple of tiny splits at the head of the spine. There is slight damage to the front paste-down.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. 363 p. on strong unaged paper but with many pencil underlinings and occasional faint stains--a volume loved well but not wisely. Bindign is firm; and despite absence of d.j. dark blue boards with still-bright gilt lettering have minimal wear. 18mo.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 2nd Edition. First printing, second edition. "Privately printed 1919" and "First published in a general edition by Buchan & Enright, Publishers, Limited" stated. Near fine plus hardback in fine dust jacket (￡9.95 net). Book has light bump (1/2 inch by 1/2 inch) to lower corner of rear cover. Few if any other signs of previous use.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. A reprint of Blanchard C38. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering. It contains both poetry and prose from Rossetti's works. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering. The binding is rubbed in places and has some small sun-browned areas. Very bright internally. The illustrated dustwrapper has a few small pieces missing at the spine ends and around the edges.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Second Printing. Stiff to open and about new in gray illustrated cloth; in sturdy slipcase.; 358 pages. Illustrated by Nick Hardcastle. (ilustrador).

Condición: Very Good. Limp hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth over thin card boards, ruled and blocked lettered gilt back and front. 8vo. 8'' x 6½''. Contains (xx), 675 pp with many monochrome illustrations throughout. Ink name to the front free end paper dated 1923, light rubbing to the spine caps and corners and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Reprint. Spine of jacket a little tanned ; a 1 cm closed tear on top leading corner and a 5 mm one on top front edge. Internally owner's circular stamp on free front end paper; no other faults.

The Large-Paper edition of the complete works of Robert Burns. Royal octavo, ten volumes bound in three quarter contemporary dark blue crushed morocco by the Riverside Press with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, ribbons bound in, illustrated with tissue-guarded engravings, some in color, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Robert Burns after a painting by Alexander Nasmyth in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh to the first volume. One of seven hundred and fifty copies for the United States of America and fifty copies for Great Britain, this is copy number 24 of the American Issue. With An Essay on Burns's Life, Genius, and Achievement by W.E. Henley and an Introduction by John Buchan. Nautical bookplate to the pastedown of each volume. In near fine condition. A very nice set. Widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is in a "light Scots dialect" of English, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these writings his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement, and after his death he became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism, and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish diaspora around the world. …