rev b d johns (3 résultats)

Etat : Fair. 1889. No Edition Remarks. 198 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout and to hinges, with exposed netting. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean, with light sunning overall.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. School prize binding, presented by the author. Two-page prefatory note by the author written at S. John's College, Oxford, S. Catherine's Day, 1899. ***Very good in black full-leather boards with gilt floral decorative tooled borders, edges and inner borders, and gilt decorative tooled compartmented spine with gilt titles to red leather label to second compartment of spine. Armorial gilt shield embossed to front board. All edges of text-block colour-marbled. Colour-marbled front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. School Prize book plate to front board: Burford Grammar School , Christmas 1901 Scripture Prize presented by the Rev. W. H Hutton presented to H. J. Edmond by Henry J. Piggot, Headmaster. ***Corners and head and tail of boards slightly rubbed. Boards slightly rubbed. Small scuffs to leather of rear board. Boards clean. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***174 mm x 124mm. 3xi prelim-pages including prefatory note by the author and contents to the fore plus 300 pages including index to the rear. ***Chapters: I. The Church Before the Norman Conquest; II. The Church in the Middle Ages; III. The Reformation; IV. The Church Under The Stewarts; V. The Church in the Eighteenth Century; VI. The Nineteenth Century; Chronological Table of Important Events, Affecting the History of the Church in Great Britain; English Kings, Archbishops, and Bishops of London; Index. ***First printing of the true first edition, extremely hard to find especially in original full-leather gilt decorative bordered boards. A handsome full leather School Prize gilt binding. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Single Issue Magazine. Etat : Good. First Edition. Features: Robert Frost - Poet of New England; Are Federal Offices for Sale? - Patronage bartered in Mississippi; In Defense of College Athletics; What of the Filipinos? - They Say We Don't Understand Them - photo-illustrated article; War Veteran Vice-President elected on tiny campaign budget; What Dieting Did For Bill; Mr. Ford's Page; Editorials; The Futility of Birth Control; Rough And Ready's Legacy to California - An Old Mining camp of the 49ers Which Inspired Bret Harte; The Alcotts As I Knew Them; Tornado Facts; The Passing of the Porridge Pot; Church Gems of Italy; and more. 32 pages. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.; 4to.