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World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since April 6, 2009
No edition remarks. 560 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Gilt edges to textblock. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clean. Binding remains firm. Cracking to hinges. Binding slightly loose. Dedication to title page. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning, particularly to spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Seller Inventory # 1736781199MEP
Title: The Poetical And Prose Works Of Oliver ...
Publisher: Gall & Inglis
Publication Date: 1111
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. The boards are marked and worn - not excessively so. The binding is a little loose. Some foxing. One presentation inscription. Late 19th century. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Seller Inventory # sf72
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: G W Jackson, St.Marys, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Good. This is a clean copy with the covers having edge wear. 560pp Digital photo available. Seller Inventory # CL2A44
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United Kingdom
Hard. Condition: Good. Illustrated with numerous tissue-guarded steel engravings (tissue-guards foxed). Incl` engraved frontispiece and half-title. (illustrator). Undated. c.1860. Good+. Exquisite fine binding of maroon full morocco, embossed with elaborate gilt tooling and bordering. Minor edge-wear, a couple of short cracks to leather of spine foot. Gilt dentelles and inner dentelles. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown and prev` owner name neatly penned to free front endpaper corner. Tissue-guards foxed, otherwise clean, bright and sound throughout. All edges gilt. A very nice, decorative little copy. 534pp. Seller Inventory # 004852
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Six Engravinge on Steel (illustrator). First Thus. In original red cloth; elaborate black and gilt decoration and titling; gilt edges; minor fading and wear to extremities; hinges starting; owner's name in ink. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 0705237
Seller: Samuel Lasenby Bookseller, Corona del Mar, CA, U.S.A.
Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Brown boards gilt title on front and spine [3]+iv-xv+560p,illus,cep,gilt. Seller Inventory # 006667
Seller: Buchpark, Trebbin, Germany
Condition: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 594 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar. Seller Inventory # 28099712/1
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Forgotten Books, London, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book is a seminal work in 18th-century English literature, demonstrating a shift in literary focus from the urban to the rural. The author, seeking solace in his birthplace, discovers its state of ruin, and laments the displacement of rural communities through the enclosure of common lands. The poem also explores the connection between wealth and desolation, revealing the economic and social injustices that ravaged the countryside, forcing its people to abandon their homes and traditional ways of life; themes that would become increasingly prominent in Romantic literature. While the specific village described in the book may be fictional, the events and emotions it depicts were representative of the broader social and economic changes occurring in 18th-century England. This book remains a poignant commentary on the devastating impact of unchecked capitalism and industrialization, and its insights into the relationship between humanity and nature continue to resonate today. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781334235283_0
Quantity: Over 20 available
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Hardback. Condition: Good. 2 p. l. , [iii]-xv, 560 p. 18 cm Undated c1859. With a frontispiece, engraved title page and six engravings on steel. Collated complete. Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 - 4 April 1774) was a well-known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, who is noted for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought by some to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765). ". Cover worn near the spine; some foxing to the end papers. 560 pages. Seller Inventory # 1573412
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 560 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrations throughout. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Medium crushing to spine ends with splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed. Mottling overall. Seller Inventory # 1716896629ADA
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Owl Books, County Leitrim, Ireland
Previous owner's inscription on ffep dated 1859. Eight Engravings on Steel. xv (Life of Oliver Goldsmith & Contents), 560 pp. Yellow eps. Spots of foxing intermittently in text. Hinges cracked - boards detaching. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on front board and spine. Top and bottom and egdges of spine rubbed. All edges gilt. Corners rubbed. Overall condition Good. Seller Inventory # 4219
Quantity: 1 available