Brian Hewson (17 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. FREE Delivery Confirmation and mailed inside a plastic sleeve for extra mailing protection.

Condition: Good. DJ may have small chips and tears. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some light edge wear. Gift message to endpaper.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Slight toning to pages with some spotting. DJ is toned with tears and some loss to edges.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content with light toning. Good DJ.

Condition: Good. 1962. First Published. 159 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Creasing to some pages. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Dent to top edge of rear board. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks overall.

Condition: Good. 1962. First Edition. 160 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. More pronounced to endpapers, pastedowns and text block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Unclipped dust jacket. Panels to dust jacket have noticeable edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Heavier foxing to reverse of jacket.

Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket.

First American edition. Price tag to the front dust jacket end flap, along with a tape repair to the spine outer top edge. Substantial foxing throughout. Very Good book in a Good dust jacket.

Octavo hardcover (VG) in 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

Book club edition; B&W illustrations. A tidy copy in firm binding Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Book Club ed. Pages slightly browned; binding tight; dust jacket spine yellowed. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket, Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket,

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback. Dust wrapper over red boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 8¼" x 5¼" (0.7 kg); pp 159; Index; Includes: Black & white photographs; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #193655 ||.

First Edition. 1962 1st edition with numerous B&W illustrations; tightly bound in brown cloth with white and blue lettering to spine; a few tiny marks to cover. page edges and endpapers slightly yellowed; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 159 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. One Of The Great Track Runners.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Signed to title page, 'To Lex, my very best wishes Brian Hewson'. Clean, sharp boards, free from previous owner's names or marking of any sort, pages age-toned, clean, free from foxing. Dust Jacket is lightly worn, very slight loss to top, rear panel, otherwise intact and free from marking or writing.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY STILES TO BRIAN CRAWFORD. First Edition. ix, 298 pp; figs. Original cloth, large 8vo. Very Good, without dust jacket. Reprints 12 papers and includes Stiles' introductory essay (pp. 1-34), which contains a good deal of historical information. 'Probably the greatest colour scientist of the 20th century, during his 36 years at NPL [National Physical Laboratory] Stiles made a lasting and fundamental contribution to the theory and practice of illumination engineering. He is chiefly remembered for his work on colour matching and vision - in which field the Stiles-Crawford effect bears his name' (NPL Web site). Signed by Author(s).