Tw chance (8 Ergebnisse)

hardback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, purple cloth lettered gilt. Faded to the spine, the binding tight, minor foxing, the contents free of markings. 228pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, Hardback with No Dust Jacket, (228pp), Top & Bottom of Spine & Corners Bumped, Cloth to Spine Faded with Some Chipping to Top & Bottom, Inscription to Rear of Front Board, Front & Rear End Papers Spotted, Some Faults but Overall Still A Good Copy.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. The Life of Principal Edwards (1934) by T. W. Chance ? Priory Press There are biographies of kings, generals, explorers and people who discovered something important by accident. And then there are biographies of principals. Which suggests a different sort of courage entirely. The Life of Principal Edwards , written by T. W. Chance and published by Priory Press in 1934, is a period biography of a man whose life and work were considered significant enough to deserve a proper printed account at a time when being described as a ?Principal? generally implied rather more dignity, gravity and paperwork than it does today. This is very much a book from the age of serious biography. No sensational subtitle. No ?the untold story? No promise of scandal, betrayal or shocking revelations on page 147. Just a life, carefully considered. Principal Edwards belonged to a world in which education, public service, religion and intellectual life carried a certain formal weight. Institutions mattered. Character mattered. Duty mattered. People wrote letters with proper punctuation and occasionally used the word ?thereupon? without irony. Chance?s account reflects that atmosphere. It is the sort of biography that expects the reader to take an interest in a person?s work, principles, relationships and contribution rather than merely asking whether they once had an embarrassing incident in a hotel. There is something rather appealing about that. Older biographies often have a confidence modern books rarely possess. They do not feel compelled to make every chapter explosive. They simply proceed through a life, recording achievements, struggles, influences and the kind of steady work that rarely gets adapted into a six-part television drama. And yet books like this are often valuable precisely because they preserve people who might otherwise drift into obscurity. Institutions survive. Names on plaques survive. Old photographs survive. But the actual person behind them can easily become little more than a line in an archive. A biography stops that happening. Published in 1934, this volume also carries the particular flavour of interwar publishing: solid, restrained and entirely uninterested in looking fashionable. Which, nearly a century later, makes it rather charming. This is the kind of book that looks as though it belongs in a study with dark furniture, a ticking clock and somebody quietly reading correspondence at a desk. This copy is in Good condition , with fading to the outer parts, including the covers and spine . The fading is noticeable but cosmetic and gives the book exactly the sort of gently weathered appearance one might reasonably expect from a volume now around ninety years old. It has, in other words, aged more visibly on the outside than on the inside. A common human problem. Ideal for collectors of older biographies, institutional history, educational history, religious or social history, or anyone who enjoys rescuing serious old books from the period before every biography needed celebrity endorsement. Also suitable for readers who appreciate the quiet dignity of a book about a life that once mattered deeply to the people who knew it, even if the modern world has mostly moved on. Sold by Crappy Old Books , where distinguished principals, faded spines and forgotten lives are all granted another term. ISBN: None Condition: Good Notes: Fading to the outer parts, including the covers and spine.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 1934. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Blue cloth. B/w photos. 228 pages. Spine browned. Covers unevenly faded. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Fine. Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers and spine, appears new and unread. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 293 pages with b&w photos throughout. Chapter headings list the subject "London" with the following: Railway, Institute, Toilet, Drapers, Music-Hall, Hooligan, Hotel, Lighting, Sidewhow, Bar and Saloon, christening, Servant, Lunatic, Criminal, Afflicted, Pilice life German, Water, Burying, Tower of, etc.; each chapter having a new author. Keywords: Railway, Institute, Toilet, Drapers, Music-Hall, Hooligan, Hotel, Lighting, Sidewhow, Bar and Saloon, Christening, Servant, Lunatic, Criminal, Afflicted, Pilice life German, Water, Burying, Tower of, London. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. original blue cloth hardcover, illustrated, 228 pages, spine faded, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition without jacket on blue cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable.

Zustand: Fair. First edition. HB. Blue cloth, gilt title, no dustjacket. pp228. With 8 b&w photos and illustrations in plates. Various authors contribute to a biography of the Welsh teacher and educator. Foreword by David Lloyd George. Fair: would be Good but for old damp stain to back cover cloth which has frayed cloth (some losses); stain on back endpaper but not on pages themselves, which are largely clean. Spine cloth faded.…