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Hard Cover. Condición: Near Fine. Near Fine. 4th Printing. 4th printing (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1140). Includes publisher's slipcase. Fine book in near fine slipcase. Slipcase faintly scuffed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. 288 pp. A collection of humorous vignettes by various authors, with contributions by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Winston S. Churchill, the Queen of England, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, etc., etc. Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge. The best speakers are natural story-tellers - Gerard Hoffnung, reading a selection of letters from continental hoteliers: 'There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects'; John Mortimer telling the woeful tale of a man's numerous unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife: 'At no time did Mrs Scott feel that the magic had gone out of their marriage' - and in this collection of post-prandial treasures you will find the very best of them, from Groucho Marx on how to resist a femme fatale, to Ralph Steadman surreally addressing the Lewis Carroll Centenary Dinner. 'Goodness', said a friend on greeting Mae West, 'where did you get those beautiful pearls?' 'Goodness', replied Mae, 'had nothing to do with it.' Shaggy dog stories, practical jokes, sporting anecdotes, rousing toasts, travellers' tales and risque reminiscences rub shoulders in this essential collection with real-life revelations and moments of history. Among the guests are Peter Ustinov, Jilly Cooper, Brian Johnstone, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Robertson Davies, Henry Grady and A.P. Herbert. There is food and drink in abundance. There is gentle reflection and endearing charm as well as defiant frivolity. Above all there are stories for every occasion - witty, absurd, momentous, philosophical, fascinating, poignant, and forever entertaining.…

Softback. Condición: Very Good. Book 3 in series 70 pages. Blue. Book.

Condición: Bueno. : Esta emocionante antología reúne en un solo volumen muchas de las mejores historias de guerra jamás escritas, tanto reales como ficticias. Desde la grandeza romántica de la época napoleónica hasta los horrores deshumanizadores de las dos guerras mundiales, desde Europa hasta África, la colección abarca dos siglos e incluso se extiende hacia el futuro. Incluye relatos de escritores de guerra famosos como Nicholas Monsarrat y Alistair MacLean, junto con autores más conocidos en otras áreas, como la aterradora imagen de H. G. Wells de Inglaterra bajo la amenaza de la invasión marciana y el misterio inquietante de Ambrose Bierce sobre la Guerra Civil estadounidense. La panorámica vista de los ejércitos enfrentados de Rusia y Francia en Borodino es descrita gráficamente por Tolstoi. En contraste, se presenta el drama personal de la historia de amor de H.E. Bates, Fair Stood the Wind For France, y la salvaje manía de la novela de realismo bélico, The Naked and the Dead de Norman Mailer. Esta variada y entretenida selección de historias y extractos, que reflejan la amplitud y profundidad de la experiencia humana en tiempos de guerra, proporciona una lectura estimulante y satisfactoria. EAN: 9781850513186 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Historia Título: Heroic War Stories Autor: Alistair MacLean| Robert Graves| Richard Hillary| Erich Maria Remarque| H. G. Wells| Cecil Woodham Smith| Airey Neave| David Niven| Joseph Conrad| Larry Forrester| Norman Mailer| Ambrose Bierce| P. C. Wren| Nicholas Monsarrat| William Makepeace Thackeray| Guy Gibson| Frederic Manning| H.E. Bates| Arthur Conan Doyle| Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoy| Joseph Heller| Richard Alexander Hough Idioma: eng Páginas: 343 Formato: tapa dura.…

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:0333253329.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Revised Edition. Pink and gilt marbled covers with half-leather with banded spine and corners, gilt lining, matching marbled end-papers, gilt lettering to spine. Limited edition with two hundred and fifty copies printed, this volume is copy no. 136. Clean covers, leather is lightly rubbed over external joints, sound binding, uncut (untrimmed) pages are a little darkened but are otherwise clean,some page edges are a little ragged. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Black and white frontis (full page illustration facing title-page) and black and white illustrations and/or figures. No dust jacket, as published. Previous owner's bookplate "Ex Libris Emmeline Garnett" at the front. Illustrator: William Makepeace Thackeray; Richard Doyle, Mrs Butler; George Du Maurier; John Collier; H Furniss; G G Kilburne; M Fitzgerald, J P Atkins. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10123031006. All our books are sent by tracked mail. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations. William Makepeace Thackeray; Richard Doyle, Mrs Butler; George Du Maurier; John Collier; H Furniss; G G Kilburne; M Fitzgerald, J P Atkins (ilustrador). …

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 159 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. ; ISBN: 0810918420; 9780810918429; LCCN: 85-23024 ; OCLC: 12722417 ; white cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: Johann Wolfgang Goethe -- William Blake -- Victor Hugo -- Prosper Mérimée -- George Sand -- Alfred de Musset -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- John Ruskin -- Mikhail Lermontov -- Charlotte Brontë -- Emily Brontë -- Edward Lear -- Charles Baudelaire -- Alexandre Dumas fils -- Henrik Ibsen -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Oscar Wilde -- Arnold Bennett -- Thomas Hardy -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Paul Verlaine -- August Strindberg -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rabindranath Tagore -- O. Henry -- Rudyard Kipling -- George Russell "AE" -- Ernst Barlach -- Max Beerbohm -- G.K. Chesterton -- Sherwood Anderson -- Winston Churchill -- Max Jacob -- John Masefield -- Guillaume Apollinaire -- Vachel Lindsay -- Kahlil Gibran -- T.S. Eliot -- T.E. Lawrence -- D.H. Lawrence -- Wyndham Lewis -- Jean Cocteau -- Henry Miller -- Djuna Barnes -- Pearl Buck -- e.e. cummings -- James Thurber -- André Breton -- John Dos Passos -- William Faulkner -- Hart Crane -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- Federico García Lorca -- James Agee -- Evelyn Waugh -- T.H. White -- James Michener -- Hermann Hesse -- Lawrence Durrell -- Dylan Thomas -- Tennessee Williams -- Allen Ginsberg -- Günter Grass -- Anne Sexton -- John Updike -- Colleen McCullough -- Fernando Del Paso. ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Condición: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original russet paper covered boards, worn gilt title and author lettering to the brown cloth spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 7''. Contains 323 printed pages of framed text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Mottling to the cloth spine, lower corners rubbed, foxing to the end papers and in Good condition, no dust wrapper Member of the P.B.F.A. NINETEENTH CENTURY.…

Paperback. Condición: Like New. LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:0333253329. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond, The Book of Snobs, Ballads, Christmas Books.356 unmarked pages turning brown from age.214 small engravings, in text, by various artists: by the author, Richard Doyle, Mrs. Butler, George Du Maurier, John Collier, H. Furniss, G.G. Kilburne, M. Fitzgerald, J.P. Atkinson and W.J. Webb.The Book of Snobs is a collection of satirical works by William Makepeace Thackeray published in book form in 1848, the same year as his more famous Vanity Fair. The pieces first appeared in fifty-three weekly pieces from February 28, 1846 to February 27, 1847, as "The Snobs of England, by one of themselves", in the satirical magazine Punch. 356 pp. Brown decorative embossed cloth Past owner's bookplate showing ownership by a cement co. in NJ corners bumped. Richard Doyle, Mrs. Butler, George Du Maurier, John Collier, H. Furniss, G.G. (ilustrador). …

, 18 matching volumes, 188 black and white plates as well as numerous in text illustrations, most volumes have 12 plates, a three have a folding frontispiece and only 7 plates, and volumes for 1848 and 1849 are a smaller format with fewer plates, some volumes are bound with blanks at front and rear First Editions , light wear to spines, joints and corners, spines sunned, missing the volume for 1851, bookplate to front pastedowns, light foxing, very good condition , half red morocco and marbled boards, gilt title and décor to spine, marbled endpapers, gilt top edges , small quarto, 17 cm x 11 cm Hardback ISBN.…