Chesterton Preface (23 results)

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

100th anniversary edition of the famous innovative locked room mystery. softcovers, Near Fine.

Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. VERY GOOD+. SLIGHT WEAR TO CLEAN, GRAY BOARDS AND SPINE. MINOR BUMPING TO CORNERS. INTERIOR CLEAN AND TIGHT. NO DUST JACKET.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hbk, xvii, 111p. London: George Harrap & Co / Warsaw: Ksiaznica Polska, [1924]. Neat embossed stamp on t.p., foxing to edges and endpapers o/w a clean unmarked copy in very good condition. Blue cloth binding with lettering in gilt on spine. g764.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. illustrated (illustrator). Revised Edition. Firmly bound, red cloth boards, black titles, cover is quite heavily marked, internally good with some pencil underlining, some general handling wear. No publication date indicated, but the preface is dated 1895, which is probably also the publication date.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. This book comes with a letter from the publisher statingbthanthe book would be published April 1st 1974 .It also come with the review card.(1812-1870). G.K. Chesterton (introduction) and B.W. Matz (preface)Dustjacket has a closed tear at the top left corner plus the inside flap has been creased but not priced clipped. Stated First American Edition. This book resulted from a prolonged visit to Genoa, where Dickens took his family to stay in 1844. His acute eye, his dynamic powers of description and his ever ready sense of humor were brought to bear on what he saw--on the scenery, the customs and the institutions of Italy, as well as on the Italians themselves. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Facsimile Documents (illustrator). The American first publication of these early works by Jane Austen, with a preface by G K Chesterton; 174 clean, unmarked pages; illustrated end papers; gray-blue buckram w/black titles; sunned spine w/ label faded, moderate shelf rubbing; lite toning of end papers; tissue-protected frontispiece shows a section of the original manuscript;

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-Libris with usual library matter. Slight wear on all edges of text. Cover slightly worn along spine. Otherwise VG 65 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Full gray cloth boards with title embossed in black on front and spine. End papers have oval watercolor illustrations depicting Kings and Queens of England, by Jane's older sister, Cassandra Austen. Frontispiece is a reproduction in half size of a page from the original manuscript for The History of England. Original tissue guard is intact. Front and back free end papers have toning on a strip next to the spine, otherwise the text is clean and the binding is tight. Unclipped dust jacket protected by archival mylar.

Hardcover. 8vo. Pp: xiv, 86. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Red buckram boards with black lettering to front and spine. Illustrated with black and white photos. A very good copy in good boards with faded spine, soiled at corners and creases to front.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. AS PICTURED : First Edition, Second Impression, 1922. Small quarter-bound 8vo; red cloth boards stamped with elaborate floral design gilt over red linen spine with titles stamped gilt. Eps and pastedowns front and rear with coloured encircled images of monarchs. Eps only browned. 140pp + 4 (unopened) on laid paper, some with edge chips from being opened. Top edge smooth, dyed red - other edges irregularly cut and untrimmed. Frontis with clean tissue-guard - " Reproduction, about half size, from a page of the ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT" ( i.e. from 'The History of England', included here). Also included : 'Love and Freindship', 'Lesley Castle', 'Collection of Letters', and 'Scraps'. Pages tight, bright and clean, with no markings or inscriptions other than an original owner's neat ink name and date (1924) to first blank. A very nice copy. FREE P&P IN UK. Shipping quoted for non-UK customers prior to purchasing. (25% proceeds to the Motor Neurone Disease Association).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. SECOND PRINTING, CLOSED TEAR TO THE DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1922, 1st. Octavo. xv, 140pp. Illustrated end papers. Original quarter cloth, papered sides with elaborate gilt decoration. Spine slightly faded, minor bumps to corners. Former owner's neat signature and date to reverse of first blank. Text-block a little spotted. Overall a 'Very Good' copy.

Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. First American Edition. xi, [3], 212 pp. 16mo, royal blue cloth, orange stamped title to spine and front cover. Tips a bit rubbed, very slight spine lean, small stain to tail edge, Rorschach blot to gutter of 200-201. Sound, attractive copy otherwise. Serendipity Books invoice signed by Peter Howard. Barzun & Taylor 2450.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Special Edition. Full leather bound edition. Raised bands on spine with gilt lettering. Gilt page edges and cover design. Ribbon page marker. Marble design endpapers. Book is new and sealed in publishers shrinkwrap. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. The second ediiton of this reprint of Cobbett's 1820s book on home economy with Chesterton's introduction. With a plate from the original redesigned by Eric Gill. xi, 220 pages. A very good to near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light chipping to the edges of the jacket and several tears. The jacket has a three shillings & sixpence price slip pasted to the front panel of the jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Charles E. Lauriat Co. Published facsimile editions of A Christmas Carol in the 1920s and 30s. 4 color illustrations and 4 woodcuts by John Leech. Very nice rust cloth boards decorated in gold on front board and spine. Gilt edges. Text pages are clean. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First published by Chatto & Windus in 1922, and this 'Phoenix' edition followed in 1929; this copy is a 1929 reprint of the Phoenix edition, hardback in jacket, 140 pages (no illustrations) | sound copy shows moderate general wear, foxing to text block edges; previous sellers' labels to reverse front board, otherwise free of name, notes etc; jacket is intact, with darkened spine and some wear along edges; jacket reverse shows heavy foxing; it has been price clipped | carefully packaged and dispatched from UK within two working days.

Hb original pink cloth spine / maroon gilt floral boards contained in the original light brown & red paper Dw xv,140pp decorative illustrated end papers , frontisplate of the original manuscript. A Very Good copy in the Original chipped Dustwrapper which has a 2 inch loss to head of spine and sporadic chipping elsewhere Thus G+ Uncommon.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. xv, 140pp. Numbered, limited edition. Pink cloth binding with tan leather title label. Top edge gilt with edges uncut. Boards clean with some sunning to the spine and edges. A reproduction of the original manuscript. Binding firm and internally fresh and bright. Some darkening to the decorated endpapers, rather comical colour illustrations of the Tudor and Stuart houses, by [Cassandra] C. E. Austen. Also includes a reproduction, about half size, from a page of the original mansuscript: Austen's introductory note to 'A History of England', also in the book. Number 73 of a limted run of 260, in a charming deluxe binding. 8vo sized and bound in 4s. Very good to Near Fine condition. 8vo. Limited Edition.

First Edition. Uncommon collection of parodies to be found in original dustjacket (which features an unpublished photograph of Whitman). Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, dime sized chip at lower spine end, square inch of loss at top rear panel.