Bacon Alban (87 results)

Hard cover. 190 p. Introduction by Christopher Morley. Decorative paper over boards binding. Green spine strip is darkened and splotchy. Interior is clean and unmarked, binding is tight. No slipcase. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.

Condition: New. pp. 251.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. pp. 251.

Original Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Brown buckram, lettered in gilt. Spine panel slightly sunned, light shelf wear, typical toning to text block edges. Firm binding, clean and unmarked interior beyond former owner's signature on upper front pastedown (inside front cover). 380 pp., illus. w/ 75 plates, 41 illus. in text. Undated, ca. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. pp. 251.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Leather. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Collector's Edition. Collector's edition of this classic from The Easton Press. Gilt decorated binding, all edges gilt, satin ribbon page marker, silk moire endpapers. From The Easton Press' "The 100 Greatest Books Every Written" series. Book.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bound in full brown leather. Stamped with 22kt gold gilt design on cover front, back and spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire fabric end papers. Satin ribbon place holder. Fine binding and cover. Blind stamp to title page. For more than 30 years, the Easton Press has been the standard for finely bound, profusely gilt classic leather bindings.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

hardcover. Condition: Good. **HARDBACK** No stamps or inscriptions; clean condition; light foxing throughout; no dustjacket.

PF. Condition: New.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 11 Pages, 1 colour plate. Illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 17 x 25 cms. Category: Badminton Magazine; Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 12 Pages, 1 colour plate. Illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 17 x 25 cms. Category: Badminton Magazine; Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

THIS VOL ONLY, LACKS D/W, octavo hardcover (VG) boards stained; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Philip Allan & Co., 1924. Hardcover pastedown title to spine with black boards viii 254 pages, minor wear to boards and ex libris label to fep but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 367 pages plus indexes (complete). A passive copy. The boards are grubby. They retain a weary elegance. There handling and storage marks and wear all about. They are sure. The contents are very clean, clear, benign, confident, authoritative. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Seeley, Service & Co., London, 1926. Illustrated with b&w photographs. 5.5" x 8.75". Decorated tan cloth, endpapers darkened, foxed throughout. 217 pp + 14 pp book ads. Sport in England, Wales and Scotland, including fishing for salmon, trout, sea trout; shooting grouse, pigeon, partridge, waterfowl and woodcock; duck and gamebird shooting in India; and a chapter on gamekeepers. Very good.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Minimal wear. Undated.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Bruce Rogers (illustrator). The Heritage Press edition of "The Essayes, or Counsels Civill & Morall" by Francis Bacon, remains one of the most beautiful modern editions of Bacon's Essays ever printed. With the book's Introduction written by Christopher Morley, and its physical aspects designed by renowned Typographer and Book Designer Bruce Rogers, this is a volume to seriously read and cherish through the years. The book is bound in a handsome deep, rich brown imitation leather (a bonded leather fabric) with title, etc. lettered in gold gilt on the spine and front board. The title page is rubricated and displays Bacon's heraldic shield. The text is handsomely printed in Janson typeface with decorative rubricated initials. It's a a lovely book. "The Essays of Francis Bacon", comprising fifty-eight pieces, was published in 1625, just before his death. These Essays are considered by many, to be among the three most beautiful works written in the English language, and they have exerted an influence which pervades almost every corner of modern thought. - Excerpted from The Publisher, speaking in the "Sandglass" TITLE : The Essayes or, Counsels Civill & Morall AUTHOR : Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban (1561 - 1597) INTRODUCTION : Christopher Morley POSTSCRIPT : A. S. W. Rosenbach TYPEFACE & DESIGN : Bruce Rogers IMPRINT : Heritage Press PLACE : Norfolk, Connecticut DATE : (© 1972) EDITION : Reprint, published for the members of the Heritage Club STATUS : This edition OP. PHYSICAL DETAILS : Hardcover published for members of the Heritage Club; The book contains an Introduction; Rubricated title page and chapter initials; [xiv] + 190 pages; approximately 6 7/8" x 10 5/8" ; bound in rich brown bonded leather fabric (imitation leather); housed in a slip-case. Still present is the Heritage Club "Sandglass" , No. IX-R: 44. CONDITION -- NEAR FINE -- This is a previously owned book which remains in exceptional condition, with the following particulars noted :: BOARDS : Clean, bright and presentable - title bright SPINE : Clean, bright and presentable - gilt title is bright TEXT-BLOCK EDGES : Clean BINDING : Solid END PAPERS : Clean and unmarked INTERIOR : Clean and presentable - exceptional all around. SLIP-CASE : A bit of surface rub and slight scuffing, else solid, clean and with no splitting.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good tight clean hardback.1922,1st edition.230pp,with illustrations.

hardcover octavo (VG+), d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. H.F. and G. Witherby, London, 1922. Illustrated with b&w photographs. 6" x 9". 231 pp. Faded red cloth. A First World War military memoir, with service in India, Baluchistan, Egypt, Sinai, Palestine, France and Germany. Three chapters contain duck, snipe and chukor partridge shooting in India and Baluchistan. Very good.

Hard with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very good in like dust jacket. With 250 illustrations; plates and within text, from photographs, diagrams, fly examples, in colour and b/w. (illustrator). Presumed first printing. Undated. c.1931. Very good in like dust jacket. DJ lightly dust marked. Minor foxing to endpapers. 448pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 380 pp. Light foxing of the fore-edges and also a smattering in the prelims. Mostly clean. A tight and handsome copy.

Hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, faded blocked and lettered gilt back. 18mo. 6½'' x 4¼''. Contains (vii)-1, 159 pp. Marks and soiling to the boards, contents in clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE.