Search Results: Authors starting with S from Ramblingsid's Books

Faber & Faber, 1935 Faber and Faber, London, 1935, hb no d/w, 1st ed, blue cloth boards with gilt titles in a red decorative box to the spine, corners and head and foot of spine are a little bumped and rubbed, pages lightly tanned with age but remain clean and bright, a good secure binding {B2144}[Box 48]

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1948 Oxford at the Clarendon Press, London, 1948, hb no d/w, blue cloth boards with blue titles to spine, a little bumped and rubbed at the corners and head and foot of spine else few signs of wear, pages a little tanned with age, a piece of the front end paper has been neatly removed, a nice tight binding, overall a good copy [Box 16]

London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1950 Edward Arnold & Co, London, 1950, hb no d/w, reprint of 2nd edition, tan cloth boards with black titles to spine, corners and head and foot of spine a little bumped and rubbed, some marking to the covers, pages tanned with age, some light spotting to the edges of the covers, a good secure binding [B3056][Box 37]

Merehurst Press, 1989 Merehurst Press, London, 1989, hb with d/w, grey cloth boards with silver gilt titles to spine, few if any signs of wear, pages are clean and bright with a secure tight binding, a near fine copy that does not appear to have been read in a near fine d/w [Box 17]

Oxford University Press, 1950 hb with d/w, second edition, fourth impression, blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration showing a woman holding a lyre to the front cover, spine a little faded and some slight bumping to the extremities else few signs of wear, pages yellowing with age a little, d/w wrapper very tatty and in pieces [Box 46]

BT Batsford, 1960 hb no d/w, red/orange boards with gilt lettering, spine a little faded else a nice clean intact copy, internally clean and bright [Box 6]

Avon Books, 1996 Avon Books, New York, 1996, pb, 1st printing thus January 1996 (number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1), no creasing to spine, only very light wear to the covers, pages clean and bright, a good tight secure binding, a near fine copy {B2268}[Box 48]

Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1968 hb no d/w, 1st UK ed, red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine, corners and head and foot of spine a little bumped, gift inscription to front fep, pages a little yellowed with age, else a vg copy. SBN 297764650 [Box 23]

Oxford University Press, 1939 Oxford University Press, New York, 1939, Oxford German Series, hb no d/w, A GERMAN LANGUAGE BOOK, blue cloth boards with black titles to spine, corners and head and foot of spine bumped and worn, covers marked, pages lightly tanned with age, spotting to the edges of the pages and the endpapers, a good secure binding, reading copy only [BW2052][Box 31]

Oxford University Press, 1960 5th impression, hb with d/w, maroon cloth boards with gilt titles to spine, very slight bumping and rubbing to corners and head and foot of spine, pages slightly yellowing with age, in a vg unclipped d/w with some rubbing to the top edge [Box 24]

C F Peters nd, NOT AN EX-LIBRARY COPY, red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and front cover, corners and head and foot of spine lightly bumped and rubbed else few signs of wear, pages lightly tanned with age but remain clean and bright, ownership inscription on front free endpaper, a good secure binding [Box 42]

Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1953 hb with d/w, 1st ed, green cloth boards with faded gilt titles to spine, edges and corners of covers and head and foot of spine are bumped, worn and faded, pages are tanned with age, a secure binding, in a d/w that has not been price clipped and is covered in a clear non-adhesive plastic wrapper is rather tatty and grubby being worn and chipped at the edges, reading copy only [Box 43]

B T Batsford Ltd, 1931 B T Batsford Ltd, London, 1931, hb no d/w, 1st ed, red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and blind-stamped titles to front cover, corners and head and foot of spine a little bumped and worn, spine and a small part of covers faded, there is a bookplate on the front pastedown, pages tanned with age but remain clean and bright, a good secure binding [Box 27]

B T Batsford Ltd, 1931 B T Batsford Ltd, London, 1931, hb no d/w, 1st ed, green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and blind-stamped titles to front cover, corners and head and foot of spine a little bumped and worn, spine faded, some light marking to covers, there is a bookplate on the front pastedown, pages tanned with age but remain clean and bright, a good secure binding [Box 27]

A & C Black, 1892 A & C Black, London & Edinburgh, 1892, hb no d/w, 2 vols., green cloth boards with gilt titlles and decoration to spine and gilt decoration to front cover, corners and head and foot of spine a little bumped and worn else few signs of wear, pages tanned with age but remain clean and bright, enpapers and prelims are more tanned and have some foxing also, nice tight secure bindings, very good copies for their age [Box 46]

Leipzig: Ernst Eulenburg Ernst Eulenburg, Leipzig, nd (foreword dated 1934), pb, creasing to spine, covers a little worn at the edges and a little grubby with handiing, there is a "For Review" stamp on the front cover, pages lightly tanned with age, there is the stamp of Goodwin & Tabb Ltd (Eulenburd's agent in the UK) on the title page. a good secure binding [B3210][Box 95]

MacDonald Orbis, 1989 MacDonald Orbis, London, 1989, hb with d/w, blacl cloth boards with silver gilt titles to spine, corners and head and foot of spine a little bumped and rubbed, pages lightly tanned but remain clean and bright, a secure binding, in a d/w that has not been price clipped and has only a little wear at the edges [Box 63]

Pan Books, 1959 Pan Books, London, 1959, pb, illustrated with 12 line drawings and 33 b&w plates, spine creased and cover rubbed at the edges, small tear at the foot of the spine, pages tanned with age, a good secure binding [Box 57]

Guild Publishing, 1980 Guild Publishing (the Original Publications department of Book Club Associates), London, 1980, hb with d/w, dark brown paper boards with gilt titles to spine, illustrated endpapers, corners and head and foot of spine a little bumped else few signs of wear, internally nice and bright, very nice tight and secure binding, in a vg d/w that has some minimal rubbing at the top edge, overall a very good clean copy [Box 36]

W Foulsham & Co Ltd nd, hb no d/w, maroon cloth boards with black titles to spine and front cover, corners and head, foot and edges of spine a little bumped and worn, pages tanned and foxed with age as expected with a book of this age. [Box 10]