Search Results: Titles starting with S from AJ Scruffles

New Tork: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2002. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Some mild shelf-wear and creasing to edges. Contents clean and tight. Very good.

London: Hurst & Blackett, 1948. Hardcover. Good. Practical, authoritative guide to horse riding, fully illustrated in b/w throughout. With Dust-jacket. Very light foxing to page edges. Previous owner's note to front pastedown. DJ is sunned on spine, marked, with small rips and nicks to edges and spine with minimal loss. Good overall.

Oxford: Oxford Publishing Co., 1981. Soft cover. Good. History of the saffron walden line, with numerous b/w images. Some general shelf-wear to covers. Clean and tight. Good.

London: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. With b/w images. DJ has some rubbing and bumping to edges. With sunning to spine. Light tanning to page edges but volume is clean and prim. Very good in a good DJ.

London: Penguin, 1988. Soft cover. Good. Some Shelfwear but clean and tight. Good+ overall.

Paris: Editions Jean-Claude Lattes, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. English translation of this lavishly illustrated history of Saint-Gobain, who started as glass and mirror manufacturers in the 17th century, expanding into a international materials company. With a presentational card to front pastdown, made out to Robert Thomas by the economist Albert Merlin, who worked for Saint Gobain. 4to. Dust jacket has some light shelfwear and small nick to spine. But contents crisp and clean. Very good overall.

London: Mansell with Sotherby Parke Bernet Publications, 1971. Hardcover. Good/Good. Facsimiles of the sales catalogues of the libraries of various eminent scholars including George Vertue, Thomas Hearne and William Stukeley. With auctioneers notes showing the buyers and prices realised. Each auction introduced by Piggott. Brown cloth. Decorated end-papers. small 4to. Sunning to spine of Dj. Foxing to top edge and few instances of spotting to DJs. Contents clean and tight. Good+

London: Chapman & Hall, 1907. Hardcover. Good. Pleasant volume containing Carlyle's complex novel. An early example of meta-fiction in which a reviewer grapples with a curious philosophical text. Together with his essays of heroes and heroism. Red cloth with gilt decoration. Printed on fine paper. Previous owner's name to ffep. Toning to spine and rear cover. Light buping to edges. contents clean and tight. Good+

Antwerp: Christophori Plantini (Christophe Plantin), 1565. Hardcover. Good. The five books of Juvenal's Satires and book one of Persius' satires, with annotations by Theodore Pulman. Printed by christophe Plantin. Text in Latin, annotations in latin to margin. Decorated initials, Plantin's device to title page. Later 17th/18th century leather binding. Small 12mo. 160pp. Boards somewhat bowed. Rubbing to edges, markings to covers. Underlining to portion of Juvenal Book I. Very light spotting to final few pages, else contents clean and binding sound. Good/very good.

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. , 1900. Hardcover. Good. From the Kingston Library series. With colour illustrations. No date but c. 1900. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Toning and fading to spine. Light foxing to page edges. Binding sound and contents clean. Good

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930. Hardcover. Good. Short story collection, drawing on the author's experiences in world war one. Spine cocked. Rubbing to edges, Previous owner's name to ffep. Contents sound. Good.

London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1959. Soft cover. Near Fine. Small Picture Book no. 47. Nice booklet featuring an introductory essay and 28 b/w images of silverware. Inifinitesimal foxing to top edge and light shelf wear, else crisp and clean. Near fine.

London: The Folio Society, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. Handsome Folio Society reissue of Stendhal's great novel. With b/w illustrations by Frank Martin. Complete with slipcase. Mild sunning to spine. Contents clean and prim. Very good.

London: W. Nicholson & Sons, 1920. Hardcover. Good/Fair. The final book in Watson christian themed trilogy concerning the near return of Christ to Earth. Dust jacket is rubbed and marked with tear to spine and rear flap, but without loss. Foxing to page edges. Previous owner's signature to ffep. Binding sound. Good.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1933. Hardcover. Fair. 'Fatherly' guide for Huntsmen and women aspiring to become a master of fox hounds. With numerous b/w and colour illustrations. 4to. Rubbing and wear to top of spine. Marking and staining to covers. Spotting to end-papers, occasional spotting within, otherwise clean and binding sound. Fair+

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1932. Hardcover. Good. Library edition. Yellow cloth boards are various marked and rubbed. Sunning to spine. Light foxing to half title and title. Light marking to page edges but contents clean and binding sound. Good overall.

London: Gresham, 1900. Hardcover. Good. Handsome cloth bound edition of Hawthorne's historical novel together with The House with the Seven Gables. With a design by Talwyn Morris. With b/w illustrations by John H. Bacon. 8vo. Slight sunning to spine. Foxing to fore-edge and end-papers. Tear to page in preface, Contents otherwise clean and sound. Good.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. Poetry. Light shelfwear. Otherwise crisp and clean. Very good condition.

London: Gresham, 1900. Hardcover. Good. Chris Hammond. Handsome special quarter leather edition of Eliot's first published work, a series of stories on a clerical theme, featuring Talwyn Morris's iconic art deco floral design in gilt to spine. With b/w illustrations by Chris Hammond and an introduction by William Keith Leask. No date but c.1900. 8vo. ( 200x145mm) [xxix] 398pp. Rubbing and splitting to top of spine with some loss. Mild foxing to fore-edge. But contents clean and tight. Good overall.

London: Atheneum, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Toning and fading to spine. Contents clean and tight. Very good.