William r barham (9 resultados)

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.…

Condición: Fair. 1935. Fourth Edition. 152 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and visible foxing to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Heavy sunning to spine, which has notable crushing and tearing to ends. Large water stains to boards.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 56 pages. R E Jones "Population And Agrarian Change In An Eighteenth Century Shropshire Parish" / William H Boorman "Estimates of Population Size: Hearth Tax" (SL#131).

Couverture souple. Condición: Bon. Les publications des editions "recto verso" ont réédité sous l'impulsion de Bernard Goorden, divers récits fantastiques, étranges ou de science fiction. Ce sont des publications artisanales, pas très bien imprimées avec des couvertures bricolées, chaque tirage est très faible, un maximum de 60 exemplaires, c'est dire la confidentialité de cette maion d'édition consacré à l'ETRANGE en littérature. A découvrir donc.…

Broché. In-4 (16 x 24 cm), broché, 147 pages, ce volume contient 'Prescience' de William Wilkie Collins - 'La Catastrophe de Mr Higginbotham' et 'Le Jeune Maître Brown' de Nathaniel Hawthorne - 'Histoire de l'oncle du Commis-Voyageur' par Charles Dickens - 'Le Spectre de Tappington' par R. H. Barham - 'Le Récit de Willie' par Walter Scott ; pliures au dos de biais et sur les bords des plats, rousseurs sur les plats et le dos, ex-libris manuscrit, en l'état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande.…

30 juin 1945, in-8 broché, 148pp - très bon état.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ex library. 670 pages plus author's catalogue. Original dark green cloth- font cover slight traces of removed label. 8ov.

Hardcover. Condición: g to vg. First edition. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8"). xvi, 384pp (Vol. 1); xvi, 384pp (Vol. 2). Original 3/4 crushed morocco over burgundy cloth, with gold lettering and tooling to spines. Raised bands. Etched frontispiece in each volume. Splendidly illustrated throughout with numerous full-page and in-text wood-engravings, this 2-volume set contains a selection of old and new British ballads illustrated by some of the best illustrators of the their times. Moderate rubbing along joints. Covers slightly darkened / soiled. Some foxing to very first pages of both volumes. Bindings in overall good, interior in good+ to very good condition.…

LeatherBound. Condición: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1897 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 816 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 816 Language: English.…