Laurence Town (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear. Previous owners name on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Revised edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Minor creasing to the dust jacket; dust jacket is price clipped. Moderate wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Second Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 297 p : illus., table ; 22 cm. Subjects: Bookbinding Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Bookbinding; Craft workers. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Second Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 297 p : illus., table ; 22 cm. Subjects: Bookbinding Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Bookbinding; Craft workers. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Tape reinforcement to small area of wear at head of jacket spine.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The postcard, with stamp printed on it, has the typed address: 'The Rev. A. H. Sayers, / Orchard Close, / Monmouth'. Aged and worn, with a dog-eared corner and minor rust spotting from a paperclip. Stylised signature. Reads: 'Many thanks for your offer to send a car to meet me at Severn Tunnel Junction, on November 20th. I will look out for it. / Yours / L Housman'. From the Sayers papers, with other material indicating that Housman was giving a talk for the Union. See image.

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition. 281 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. In English. Dimensions: 22cm x 14.5cm x 3cm. Full green leather with blocked gilt lettering and decorative lining. Top edge also gilt. Has been rebound by St. Mary's College, Southampton. It contains numerous black and white diagrams throughout, showing the various processes surrounding bookbinding. Pages remain clean and bright, with firm binding. Occasional small pencil annotations. Fold out table at the back has a small tear at the end of a fold, otherwise is good. Minor foxing and tanning mainly to page edges and margins. College stamps to endpapers and some other pages, with a library ticket sleeve on the rear paste down. Boards are very nice, with minor wear to the edges. Some heavy tanning to the spine and areas around the board edges. There are a few marks and scratches, with a small dewy code written on the spine, but overall this book is an excellent example of the books own subject.

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Bookbinding, Crafts) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. All three letters 1p, 8vo. The third letter in good condition, lightly aged; the first two in fair condition, on creased and chipping cartridge paper, with a few spots of rust from a paperclip. All three folded for postage. All three signed 'Laurence Housman'. ONE (3 November 1936): Begins: 'Dear Mr. Sayers, / I am rather perturbed to find that the meeting I am asked to speak at is the Annual of the League of Nations Union. The request for me to speak came from the Peace Pledge Union, and no indication was given that it was not a Peace Pledge meeting. / I take the position of an absolute pacifist, and I am not in agreement with a good deal of the League of Nation's policy, nor am I any longer an accredited speaker.' If he does speak to the Monmouth Town LNU, 'I must speak as a full pacifist; on those terms I am quite willing to come, and you can explain the position to your meeting'. The letter has an autograph postscript: 'P.S. "The Price of Peace" could be my title. I have no photo-block for publication.' TWO (5 November 1936): '[A]s you are prepared to put up with what I shall say on Peace, I am willing to keep the engagement'. He proceeds to discuss transport arrangements, and ends by asking Sayers to 'thank Miss MacDonald for her kind offer of hospitality'. THREE (22 February 1937): He is glad that his book 'The Unexpected Years' has given Sayers pleasure. 'In spite of the many knocks I received in the course of them, I also managed to get pleasure out of them, and hope to continue to do so.'.