A W Kinglake (395 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Name to front free endpaper. Introduction by V.S. Pritchett.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Concerns the author's 1834 Grand Tour to Turkey through what is now Eastern Europe. This book avoids the well-trodden routes that take in ruins and artworks and instead offers the exotic sights and smells of the East, spiced with real or imagined dangers. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Hardback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Condition: as new. Wie neu/Like new.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Support Small Business by buying this book! Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours. Pages are clean with no apparent marks. Binding is tight and square. Light shelf wear to cover.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. LIGHT WEAR TO COVERS- LIGHTLY AGE TANNED INTERIOR O/W VERY GOOD.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Eothen This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: G- dj.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (middle east, travel, history) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Marbled boards [5]+vi-xii+308p,dep Owners book plate on fep Gilt title on spine with date and dentelle.

Softcover. Condition: Bon. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Salissures sur la tranche. Couverture différente. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Stains on the edge. Different cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.…

HRD. Condition: Used - Very Good. Used - Like New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright with no markings, 287pp. Good unclipped DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. As New in As New jacket 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. pp.282. In 1834 the author set out for a grand tour jof the Near East where he visited all the exotic sights and smells of the East spiced and with real or imagined danger. This book records his impressions. clean tight unread copy Picador Travel classics.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear, faded spine and clipped.

HRD. Condition: Used - Very Good. Used - Like New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Reprint. 12mo. Ex-library with usual labels and markings. Blue cloth cover with some bumping to corners and barely readable lettering on faded spine. Rear inner hinge slightly loosening. Internally clean. Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.

Condition: Good. 1948. First Edition Thus. 240 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is darkened. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Tanning to jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good to Very Good. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Has DJ.

Condition: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. trade paperback in near fine condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 357 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Pencil annotations and marginalia to a few pages. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Gilt lettering is darkened.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Published by Century. Partial fading on cover. Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Very Good. Unmarked. First Thus. 1982. Century Publishing, London, in association w/ Gentry Books. Paperback. Pictorial paper covers w/ John Frederick Lewis artwork, bright color retention, covers lie flat, small corner crease & small scuff to upper right front corner, light edge shelf wear & rubbing. Pictorial paper spine w/ light vertical reading crease, minor rubbing to ends. Binding tight, solid & square. Endpapers clean & unmarked. Light even tanning to text block edges & interior pages. Kinglake's 1844 account of an overland journey through the Ottoman Empire, Syria, Palestine & Egypt, reissued in the Century Travellers series w/ an introduction by Jonathan Raban. Ships in a box, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Alexander William Kinglake's Victorian travel classic Eothen captures an overland expedition through the Ottoman Empire, Syria, Palestine and Egypt during the 1830s. Subverting the conventional nineteenth-century guidebook, the narrative emphasizes subjective psychological impressions, atmospheric desert encounters, and intimate character portraits over antiquarian survey. Published as part of The Century Travellers series by Century Publishing in association with Gentry Books, the volume carries wraparound cover artwork reproducing nineteenth-century orientalist paintings by John Frederick Lewis. Framing Kinglake's prose is a contemporary introduction contributed by travel author Jonathan Raban, analyzing the stylistic modernity and ironic wit of Kinglake's voice. First issued in 1844 by the London publisher John Ollivier, the work is regarded as a milestone of nineteenth-century British travel literature, and its influence runs through the narrative travel writing of the following century.…