david syme life de sayers (7 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. This book has wear around the edges, darkening to the pages, light foxing to the top edge, otherwise it is in good condition, pages are free from markings and the binding is solid. The dust jacket has wear around the edges, darkening; otherwise it is in good condition and now in a protective mylar cover.

Etat : Good. 1965. First Edition. 311 pages. Black dust jacket with white lettering over red cloth. B&W photographs throughout. Clean pages with firm binding. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and soiling to boards. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Minor staining and soiling to DJ.

viii+312pp. 8vo. Original cloth in lightly rubbed dustwrapper. Black and white illustrations, including portrait frontis. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. "David Syme was the strongest individual force in newspaper publishing and editing in nineteenth century Australia." Hard covers with dust wrapper. Boards are a little rubbed at the corners and edges. Scuff marks and discolouration and some light foxing front and back. Binding is neat and tidy. Otherwise, this book is in good condition. Dust wrapper bears the odd scuff and gentle thumbing. Price clipped. This dust wrapper is in good condition. *We try to describe the faults of our books meticulously - they often present better than they sound.

1st ed. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), few black & white photos (including frontispiece), top & bottom edges covers & spine rubbed, pages lightly toned, faint foxing edges, light toning & foxing reverse side jacket (edge tears, slight loss top corners, light foxing flap edges), non-author written name free flyleaf. 311 pp. This biography by C. E. Sayers is about David Syme, who was the strongest individual force as newspaper editor and publisher in 19th century Australia (The Age newspaper, Melbourne). This biography tells his story from the time of his arrival in Melbourne, 1852, until his death February 1908, a span of more than 50 years. First edition.

HB PURPLE CLOTH FINE PP311 DW FINE 8V0 Australia and newspapers in the 19th century.

Pp. viii+312(last blank), frontispiece portrait, plus l6 plates, appendices, notes, index; med. 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, slightly foxed, edges lightly rubbed and split, two small surface grazes near bottom edge of back panel; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers faintly offset, lower hinge starting at foot, edges of leaves slightly foxed; Cheshire, Melbourne, 1965. First edition. *'David Syme was the strongest individual force in newspaper publishing and editing in nineteenth century Australia. This Life of the man tells his story from the time of his arrival in Melbourne, 1852, until his death, February 1908' [wrapper blurb].