Elek books ltd (369 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Condición: Good. Good condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning. DJ with light wear.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Hardcover with jacket. Condition: near fine/G. Cover shows almost no wear; foredge of text block foxed. Jacket has shelf wear head and tail of spine; small crease head of front panel; corners rubbed; stains on interior surface. Octavo: 189 pp. Dark brown cloth cover; gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with 22 b/w glossy plates. Text includes Notes and Bibliography. *** From Chap. 1: "It is not our task to give an account of life in ancient Pompeii, or to provide yet another description of the typical Roman house, or to enumerate the frescoes and mosaics which brightened many of these edifices. Our concern is not with the archaeological reality of Pompeii, but with the impact of the city's strange fate on the writers who visited it afterwards.". …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. First ediiton. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Gift message to ffep. Good DJ with some edge wear and sun fading.

paperback. Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Elek Books Ltd. / G.P. Putnam's Sons, London, UK / New York. 1960. Hardcover. First UK and US printings of the translated 1954 French edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; slight shelfwear and bumping to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped but price is inked over; chipping to head and tail; edge bumping to DJ; missing small pieces at head, tail, and top of front panel.Tipped-in folding color frontispiece. 234 pp 4to. 10 tipped-in folding color plates and 100+ B&W photographs. This book brings vividly to life the civilization of the ancient Mayan people, their language, environment, and way of life. The Mayan Empire was founded in the 4th Century AD and lasted over 1000 years in Guatemala and into Mexico. With a passion for building, they left behind cities, frescoes, pyramids, temples, carved stelae, and elaborate calendrical system and records written in pictographs. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.…

hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Text is clean, clear and bright throughout. Previous owner's name is written on FEP. Cover is slightly marked and discoloured. Previous owner's name is written on FEP.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No dust jacket. Dark beautiful turquoise cover on this hardbound book. Silver titling on the spine. Book is in excellent condition. Text by Marcel Brion. Photographs by Edwin Smith. Translated by John Rosenberg. Gift inscription on ink on the front end paper. (PM) "B"rion. Smith, Edwin (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First GB Edition. Sl knock with tiny slit to middle of top edge of upper panel, wear to spine ends, corners and upper cover at bottom edge adjacent to tail of spine, price-clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 203 pages.

Condición: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in poor condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0236154486.…

Condición: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. 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:0236176447.…

Condición: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Dust jacket in poor condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1400grams, ISBN:0236400517.…

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:0236154486. …

Hardcover. First Ed UK, so stated. First Ed UK, so stated. Very Good: shows light wear to extremities; slight spine lean; faint soil; foxing at endpapers and outside edges; pages lightly tanned, due to aging. Binding secure; text clean. Pages tanned. Despite these flaws, remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 292pp. Hardback: Lacks DJ.…

Hardcover. 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.

1st ed. An Ibex thriller. Tody copy in tight binding; neat dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust-jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust-jacket.

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil 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,400grams, ISBN:023631002X.…

hardcover. Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. June 15, 1972, the 43-foot schooner "Lucette", sailed by a Scottish ex-farmer and his family was attacked by killer whales in the Pacific and sank in 60 seconds. This is the harrowing story of their ordeal and eventual rescue. Illustrated. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Hardcover with jacket. Good condition. The jacket is worn, lightly marked and scored, with a small tear to the front upper edge. Minor fading to the hardcover edges. Foxing on the page block and a few pages. Previous owner's name penned on FEP. The binding is sound; all text and images are clear. CM. Used.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First edition. Hardcover with one minor crease on spine. Price-clipped and slightly scuffed, scratched and grubby dust jacket with significantly faded spine, lightly creased and worn upper and lower edges and lightly worn leading corners. Minor age spotting to page block, edges of pages are slightly affected. Foot of page block has slight grubby marks. Small age stain on inside front cover. Gift-note penned on FEP. Text remains clear, and binding is tight throughout. T. Used. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. 191pp. An English translation of a book first written in Norwegian that takes a humourous look at Love. The book is in clean and sound condition but with a neat previous owner's name on the front free end paper. The dust wrapper is worn with tears and areas of loss. All orders processed promptly and shipped from the UK. 6"x8.5".…

Condición: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. 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:0236176587.…

Condición: Good. 1st edition. Paperback, dj, VG/VG. 208pp, 35 colour & 49 b/w illustrations, 33 b/w text figs, 2 b/w maps, index, dustjacket with a little loss at the head of the spine. Publisher's Making of History series. Well illustrated history of Rome under Augustus Caesar ( Octavian as a young man ), the founder of the Roman Empire. Covers the period 27 BC - AD 14. 1100 grams.…

Condición: Good. 1967. No Edition Stated. 476 pages. Black pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Clipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

hardcover. Condición: Very Good Condition. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair (now in mylar sleeve). 1st edition. 6 x 9", 263 pages, B/W photos throughout. London/New York. In sixty years. The author has crammed into his life a variety of thrilling experiences. He sailed around the Horn in a windjammer, fought in a revolution, walked across the Andes. and rescued Jews from the clutches of Hitler.…

broschiert. Condición: Gut. 112 S. guter Zustand, engl. sprachig, Titel unten mit kl. Knick, Schnitt leicht stockfleckig LIEFERZEITEN / DELIVERY TIMES: DEUTSCHLAND 5 - 14 Tage EUROPA/EUROPE: 7 - 30 Tage/Days USA/WELTWEIT/WORLDWIDE: 14 - 60 Tage/Days (!!!) +++ Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 600.

First Edition. 1975 1st edition with B&W illustrations; tightly bound in speckled yellow cloth with gilt lettering to spine; light wear to bottom edge. Dust jacket price-clipped with light wear to edges and corners and a little foxing on inner surface. Yellowing and pale foxing to page fore-edges. Internally, scattered foxing to outer pages; edges of pages yellowed; a few discolouration spots to pages; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. 1st Edition. Good tight binding, very slight edge and corner wear. Smalll price sticker on half title page, no other markings. DJ has quite a bit of wear and tears and chips. See photos.

Condición: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0236154141.…