dobree charles thomas (3 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 56 pages. W R Inge "Jesus the Unknown" / Richard Hughes "The Unexpected" / John Collier "The Child of Queen Victoria" / Bonamy Dobree "Mr. Laurence Housman's Queen Victoria" / Clifford Bax "Leonardo da Vinci; The Artist" / J B Morton "Variety" / Tenax "Falling Leaves" / Max plowman "Blake's Secret" / Mary Agnes Hamilton "A Note on Merezhkovsky" / "Children's Books" by Louise Morgan / Storm Jameson "Phantom Lobster" / Charles M Doughty "Travels in Arabia Deserta" / Kate O'Brien "A Nest of Simple Folk" / Bertram Thomas "Ibn Sa'ud" / Hamish Miles "Marquis and Princess" / George Blake "The Celtic Strain" / John Hayward "As Their Friends Saw Them" / Paul Weston Edwards "Varieties of Time" / Edmund Blunden "Spiritual Growth" / Geoffrey West "Vital History" / J D Beresford "John Cowper Powys" / Edward Thompson "Birds and Gardens" / Cyrus brooks "The Kastner Family" / Herbert Read "Ourselves and the Elizabethans" / Friedrich Sieburg "The New Germany" / Geoffrey Winthrop Young "Lord Conway: Mountaineer" (BT#21).

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 184pp. Blue wrappers. Yapped edges bumped and nicked, spine lightly cocked and sunned, very good. Contributions by Joseph Frank, George Woodcock, Daniel G. Hoffman, Bonamy Dobree, Thomas Parkinson, Charles T. Harrison, Richard Tillinghast, Vernon Watkins, James Dickey, Robert Pack, Thomas E. Adams, Arthur Mizener, P.H. Hardacre, David Galler, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., and Russell Kirk.

First edition of this authoritative study, compiled as an aid to magistrates hearing cases on breaches of gaming and betting ordinances. Illustrated by 64 plates, the chapters address lotteries and games played with cards, dice, dominoes, and other paraphernalia. The author (1907-1995) was appointed as superintendent in the Malaya police in 1948 and, at the time of publication, was serving as assistant commissioner. Quarto. With 64 plates (14 colour). Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket designed by Liew Kim. Contemporary ink stamp of Singaporean businessman W. M. Edwards; recent ownership signature on rear pastedown; Cloth just a little marked, the odd spot internally; jacket price-clipped, some rubbing and chipping, tidemark and old adhesive tape repair at foot of spine: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.