S thorne (7 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Good. Sandy Thorne, 2003. Softcover (15 x 21 cm), 248 pages. ISBN: 0975162705. Good condition. Bumped, scuffed. Rolled, creased at corners/edges. "The true story of a detention officer's experiences at Woomera and Curtin Illegal Immigrant Camps and at a Queensland Maximum Security Prison." Weight: 335g.…

88[4] pp, 42 full page coloured photographs, full page map. Original navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper.19 cm x 24 cm. Dustwrapper lightly soiled with some minor tape repairs to edges, faint marginal age browning to text.

Decorative Cloth. Etat : Good. Dedicatory page Dated 1792. Text arranged in Double Columns. Period dark Green cloth cover with blind-stamped Decoration on front, back and spine. Dedication and Preface + Main text of 150 p. pages + Contents page at the back. Some fading to cover. Closed tear to cloth down right side of spine (for about half the length and a closed tear across spine). Inscription on endpapers dated 1863. No other inscriptions. Hinges sound. Pages in nice, clean condition. Tiny bit of insect damage to rear board with a little hole in last few pages.…

Half Calf. Etat : Good Plus. Book measures 16.5x10.5.cm. 160pp. Bound in period half calf, marble boards, flat gilt bands. Binding rubbed, general wear. Internally, annotations in pen and pencil on endpapers, heavy browning to four pages. Pages in good condition. A good copy. Size: 12.mo.

Hardcover. Etat : Poor. 16mo. Pp, iv, 388. Full calf, gilt. Piece missing from top of spine. Lower hinge cracked. Some soiling and fingering.

Cloth. Etat : Good. First edition. The very scarce first edition of Methodist preacher William O'Bryan's account of his travels in New England and the wider United States. A very scarce first edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. The work of William O'Bryan, a Methodist preacher and founder of the Bible Christian movement. He provides an account of his travels in the United States, he travelled through Pennsylvania and spent some time in Ohio. Most of the edition was destroyed at a printer's fire and extremely hard ot find now. Last seen at auction in 1958. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Major losses to spine label. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Rear joint starting, with board firmly held. Front hinge strained but firmly held. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned, with light spotting and handling marks. Good. Not Stated (illustrateur). book.…

Reprint. In sludgy-green cloth, with brown title panel on spine. With line illustrations, numbered to 29, with 1-3 on first page, & lacking 6/8 & 10, which seem to have been mis-numbered by printer, as no pages are missing. Lacks front free end paper; print rather small; end papers a little browned. Margin of p.109/110 cut off (text not affected). Spine browned, with wear at head & foot; title panel badly worn, without text. Title continues: "and a key to the Phi Beta kappa, and also an account of the kidnapping and murder of William Morgan. by a traveller in the United States" Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback. …