Ernest benn edition (129 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. New edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. fourth. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. 11th Revised edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. 4th Revised edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. 6th. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Octavo, hardcover, near fine in lightly edgeworn and rubbed glold and white pictorial dj. 176 pages-100's of clocks illustrated on 54 photographic plates, glossary & index-a popular handbook by a well known horological & technological scholar. Discusses Some early continental clocks; Lantern and Bracket or Mantel Clocks; Long Case Clocks; Dials and Back plates, etc. Book. …

Paperback. Condición: Fair. New ed. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Original cloth with dustjacket. Dustjacket a bit discolored on the spine, some foxing on the top edge, minor traces of use, else a good copy. Text in English. Please see description or ask for photos.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition hardcover no dust jacket green cloth with gold embossed borders and spine . light wear . Chip gone to top spine end. light scuffs to rear cover. Woodblock illustrations Maud Reed.

Condición: Good. 1931. First Edition. 276 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Front endpaper has been signed by the Author and not dedicated. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed with light tanning.…

Cloth, small 8vo, xvi, 17-244 pp, 30 plates, ills. From the blurb : "The reader of this book is invited to take part in a real adventure of detection. Instead of looking for the misprint on page 33 and the other minutiae of the first-edition collector, he is sent on a quest for the true reason for a book's existence. Solid though the print may appear to be, the investigator quickly finds that nothing is certain in the history of any individual book. Being the product of many different hands - writers, publishers, paper-makers, printers, binders, etc. - books have been the victim of the most remarkable accidents, closely connected with the political, religious, or social history of their times. Words are twisted, passages withdrawn or altered, illustrations wrongly attributed, authors' and publishers names concealed, bindings transferred, and paper and print subjected to a hundred curious turns. Mr. Collison closely examines the possible reasons for these accidents and suggests a method for each stage of the investigation. He shows how book-collecting can be a fascinating pursuit - and by no means an expensive one - that grows more rewarding as skill is acquired in a hobby calling on all the knowledge that can be accumulated in a lifetime. Fully illustrated." Bookplate of Roy A. Gillespie on front pastedown endpaper, an ex-library copy with a large library blindstamp on the rear board, number on the spine, tape-marks on the endpapers, stamps and accession marks on the prelims and stamps on the plates, covers slightly rubbed and spine slightly faded.…

Cloth, small 8vo, xvi, 17-244 pp, 30 plates, ills. From the blurb : "The reader of this book is invited to take part in a real adventure of detection. Instead of looking for the misprint on page 33 and the other minutiae of the first-edition collector, he is sent on a quest for the true reason for a book's existence. Solid though the print may appear to be, the investigator quickly finds that nothing is certain in the history of any individual book. Being the product of many different hands - writers, publishers, paper-makers, printers, binders, etc. - books have been the victim of the most remarkable accidents, closely connected with the political, religious, or social history of their times. Words are twisted, passages withdrawn or altered, illustrations wrongly attributed, authors' and publishers names concealed, bindings transferred, and paper and print subjected to a hundred curious turns. Mr. Collison closely examines the possible reasons for these accidents and suggests a method for each stage of the investigation. He shows how book-collecting can be a fascinating pursuit - and by no means an expensive one - that grows more rewarding as skill is acquired in a hobby calling on all the knowledge that can be accumulated in a lifetime. Fully illustrated." Very Good in slightly used dustwrapper.…

Cloth, small 8vo, xvi, 17-244 pp, 30 plates, ills. From the blurb : "The reader of this book is invited to take part in a real adventure of detection. Instead of looking for the misprint on page 33 and the other minutiae of the first-edition collector, he is sent on a quest for the true reason for a book's existence. Solid though the print may appear to be, the investigator quickly finds that nothing is certain in the history of any individual book. Being the product of many different hands - writers, publishers, paper-makers, printers, binders, etc. - books have been the victim of the most remarkable accidents, closely connected with the political, religious, or social history of their times. Words are twisted, passages withdrawn or altered, illustrations wrongly attributed, authors' and publishers names concealed, bindings transferred, and paper and print subjected to a hundred curious turns. Mr. Collison closely examines the possible reasons for these accidents and suggests a method for each stage of the investigation. He shows how book-collecting can be a fascinating pursuit - and by no means an expensive one - that grows more rewarding as skill is acquired in a hobby calling on all the knowledge that can be accumulated in a lifetime. Fully illustrated." Bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, otherwise Very Good in Very Good price-clipped dustwrapper.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, 119pp, owners' names on endpaper, signed by the author on limitation page, text clean and tight, fawn quarter-cloth, covers brownbed and slightly marked, Good / no dustwrapper.

238 pages, large folding map, illustrations : a long-tern resident of Kenya writes of the country's early & recent history and discusses colonial rule, Mau Mau, independence, Kenyatta; hardback, FINE vg dw kenya east africa kenyatta politics african independence mau mau kenyan history uhuru.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. hardback, 8vo, xviii,437pp, 32 illustrations, scattered light foxing, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, green cloth, spine browning, Good condition / no dustwrappers.

Cloth, small 8vo, xvi, 17-244 pp, 30 plates, ills. From the blurb : "The reader of this book is invited to take part in a real adventure of detection. Instead of looking for the misprint on page 33 and the other minutiae of the first-edition collector, he is sent on a quest for the true reason for a book's existence. Solid though the print may appear to be, the investigator quickly finds that nothing is certain in the history of any individual book. Being the product of many different hands - writers, publishers, paper-makers, printers, binders, etc. - books have been the victim of the most remarkable accidents, closely connected with the political, religious, or social history of their times. Words are twisted, passages withdrawn or altered, illustrations wrongly attributed, authors' and publishers names concealed, bindings transferred, and paper and print subjected to a hundred curious turns. Mr. Collison closely examines the possible reasons for these accidents and suggests a method for each stage of the investigation. He shows how book-collecting can be a fascinating pursuit - and by no means an expensive one - that grows more rewarding as skill is acquired in a hobby calling on all the knowledge that can be accumulated in a lifetime. Fully illustrated." Good in used and slightly torn dustwrapper, top edge duststained.…

Cloth, small 8vo, xvi, 17-244 pp, 30 plates, ills. From the blurb : "The reader of this book is invited to take part in a real adventure of detection. Instead of looking for the misprint on page 33 and the other minutiae of the first-edition collector, he is sent on a quest for the true reason for a book's existence. Solid though the print may appear to be, the investigator quickly finds that nothing is certain in the history of any individual book. Being the product of many different hands - writers, publishers, paper-makers, printers, binders, etc. - books have been the victim of the most remarkable accidents, closely connected with the political, religious, or social history of their times. Words are twisted, passages withdrawn or altered, illustrations wrongly attributed, authors' and publishers names concealed, bindings transferred, and paper and print subjected to a hundred curious turns. Mr. Collison closely examines the possible reasons for these accidents and suggests a method for each stage of the investigation. He shows how book-collecting can be a fascinating pursuit - and by no means an expensive one - that grows more rewarding as skill is acquired in a hobby calling on all the knowledge that can be accumulated in a lifetime. Fully illustrated." Good in used and price-clipped dustwrapper.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. hardback, 8vo, 376pp, illustrated, minor foxing on edges and endpapers, text clean and sound, Very Good / Good dustwrapper ; wrapper edges frayed.

Hb In Dw 340pp , Frontisplate Biography Of Irish Politician Charles Stewart Parnell Small Ink Stamp To Title Page O/w A Vg/Vg Copy.

Hb In Original Red Cloth 384pp, Frontisplate, Studies from court life in the later years of Louis XIV Minor Sunning To Boards O/w A Vg Copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. "An anthology of Greek and Roman private letters from the fifth century before Christ to the fifth century of our era"; 16 pages of introductions and a "Biographical Index" by the editor; Hardback: green cloth lettered in gilt on spine, decorated title-page; Ex-Boots circulating library, covers marked, text clean.…

Cloth, 8vo, 22 cm, 342 pp (pp 65-336 are facsimiles). Four Centuries of Fine Printing holds a unique place in the literature of printing. While there are many books on the development of typography, this volume presents a wide historical survey, including many printers whose merits have not been hitherto recognized. The text and the 272 plates cover the typography of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy, the masterpieces of the early French Renaissance, the Lyons School, and the Imprimerie Royale, founded in 1640 at the instance of Richelieu, which initiated fashions that were followed at a 'a respectful distance by printers throughout Europe. The English eighteenth century is well represented and there are examples of modern, fine printing both in England and in the United States. In his text Mr. Morison gives brief biographies of the leading printers represented in the plates, and discusses their contributions to the art of printing. Developments of style in the roman letter are indicated in the plates which range in date from 1465 to our own time. Dent and nick to fore-edge of rear board, otherwise Good.…

8vo [25 x 16 cm]; 320 pp, index, bibliography. original navy blue cloth, gilt spine title lettering, small chip at upper spine, very good+ clean copy, sound and solid. A fascinating study of early movements and travels of people in Europe, the Near East, Americas, Polynesia, including the Nordic invasion of Polynesia, Maoris in New Zealand, ancient civilizations in Puebla, Mississippi valley, Mongolian settlement of Peru, relation to Incas, colonization of Santa Cruz and San Cristobal, etc. A picture of this book is available on request.…

Hb in Dw xv,288pp + 12 mono plates and description pages , illustration to text A FINE/FINE Copy.

8vo [21.5 x 14 cm]; 207 pp, illustrations from photos and drwgs, index. original cloth, spine title lettering, dj (worn, very chipped), small stain in outer edge, else very good in worn dj. With detailed information on glasshouse flower growing and marketing, the author presents still valuable information, including on flowering border plants, pot plants, annuals in pots, bulbs and corms, orchids, control of pests and diseases, greenhouse operations, cultivation, etc. A picture of this book is available on request.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 3rd edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.