Purves d laing (47 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. No Jacket. Reprint. 351 pp printed in double columns, engraved frontispiece, publisher's catalogue at rear, bound in brown cloth with black grey and gilt titles and decorations, brown endpapers, Salford Central Mission prize label in front dated 1910. Cloth a little rubbed, fore edge spotted otherwise…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Reprint. 615 pp + 16 page publisher's list frontispiece portrait, main text in double columns, green cloth with gilt title and decoration to spine, gilt top , grey endpapers. Spine ends and corners scuffed, front hinge cracked, endpapers marked, pages tanned - a reading copy. Over 1Kg Outside UK may nee…

Hard Cover. Zustand: Fair to Good. No Jacket. 624 pages plus advertsing pages with catalogue of popular and standard books published by William P. Nimmo, Edinburgh. "Edited for popular perusal with current illustrations and explanatory notes by D. Laing Purves." Gilt top edge. Heavy green cloth over bevel-edged boards. Corners a…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Published w/out dj. Later edition. Edinburgh, Scotland: Nimmo, 1873. Later edition, printing unknown, VG+ Rebound in dark yellow, full leather binding with gilt trim, five raised bands, black leather label with gilt lettering, gilt designs on spine, all edges gilt. Gen…

Zustand: Fair. 1899. No Edition Stated. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Red pictorial cloth. Two parts in one book, thus unpaginated. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends ar…

Zustand: Fair. 608 p., immaculate and unmarked--not ex-lib., no former owner's name; frontis. engraved portrait of Dr. Swift, with tissue guard; paper only mildly age-toned but some chiping at edges of front matter; text block firm (royal 8vo), but front board detached.red boards unfaded but smudged and bumped in places, black l…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Lacks front free endpaper. Brown boards with gold titling and lovely colorful gradient illustration to front panel and spine. Good with moderate edge wear, some scuffing and scrapes to either panel. Spine squared. Binding cracked between end of Cook's Voyages and 2nd title page [after p. 351] else intac…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. authentically oldEdinburgh: Nimmo, 1873. 1st edition, later printing (preface is dated 1868), NF/. Book has soiling to preliminary pages (front & rear), extending (and gradually lessening) to a few pages in at both ends. Double-columned text (with footnotes) covers all his m…

Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration/illus to spine, black lettering & illus to front board, patterned eps, frontispiece, 288pp + 16pp catalogue to rear, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling/discolouration to spine & boards, moderate soiling & tanning to page edges, light foxing to eps, moderate foxing…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First printing of the first single volume edition of "The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift". With a finely engraved steel-engraving full-page portrait of Jonathan Swift to the front free endpaper, with a tissue-guard protecting this engraving, and also the title…

Edited, with notes, sec, by D. Laing Purves. Pp. 288, mostly printed double column, frontispiece; small cr. 8vo; school prize binding in navy calf, lettered and decorated in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed, fore-corners slightly bruised, the spine slightly faded; marbled edges and matching endpapers; large prize bookplate…