Clair Hare (81 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Warren, L D (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 142 Pages Illus., Fold Out Map.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Seventh edition revised, publisher's black flex binding with red ruling and gilt lettering, 12mo, pp. 217 plus List of Venetian Architect-Sculptors plus Ads for hotels and tourism-related shops and services, pp. 1-11 + [1]. Illustrations. Affectionate note to previous owner from a traveling companion, commemorating "a day in Venice 11th Dec 1918." FAIR condition only. Front hinge is cracking. Old staple holes at the four corners of the black free front endpaper. Please note also that among the List of Illustrations in the Table of Contents, a "Plan of Canals" and a "Plan of S. Marco" are called for. The San Marco illustration is present but the Plan of Canals is NOT present.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. covers have heavy edge wear and rubbing with minor fraying, corners and ends of spine bumped and frayed, binding tight, 310 pages + ads, travel guide for Florence before World War 1 with a color map and lots of history, things to see and what to do, bw illustrations Size: 4.5 x 6.5. …

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cover shows some soiling. Interior clean. Black and white illustrations by L. D. Warren Pictures on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no jacket, as issued. Twentieth edition. Much shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges; previous owner's inscription; page 111-112 loose, bit of the front endpaper torn out. Black, red and gilt binding. Another of Hare's delightful wanderings around a European city.This time he is in Rome, the Eternal City. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Tracking number and estimated delivery date always provided. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997.…

Condition: New. Warren, L D (illustrator).

Revised seventh edition. x, 228, 12 pages. Rigid black cloth covers (hardcover): H 16.75cm x L 11.5cm. Some rubbing to covers with scuffing along edges; spine ends chipped with fraying along front joint; slender splitting at bottom of rear joint with small surface chip to cloth. Dark top edge; muted red fore-edge and bottom edge. Past owner's personal bookplate on front pastedown. A few scattered pencil marks in page margins. Binding is firm. A good copy. With color map of Venice canals on pages viii-ix, b/w illustrations, Index, and concluding twelve page section of advertisements for hotels, etc.…

Condition: New.

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Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1st Edition, hardcover in rust cloth-covered boards, with a basketball themed illustration. Spine ends are lightly brushed, tips still sharp. 92pp text. Sample room publisher stamp on FEP, moderate soil on the back of the title page, but text still visible, some fingerprint soil, no other markings, highlighting or soil inside. Light foxing on the preliminaries. Original dj clipped with price present, Age-toned with some chipping, rubbing, and an illegible title on sunned spine but displays okay in new mylar. Here, at last, is a story book, but a competitive book on basketball for boys from six to ten that will teach them, in easily understood terms, how to play the game. The basic rules and techniques of how to play basketball.…

HARDBACK BLACK. Condition: VG. General wear, contains foldout maps, good gilt on cover, red edges, rubbed cover, contains BW plates DATE PUBLISHED: 1913 EDITION: 709.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + - Price Clipped. Second Printing. Bound in red, illustrated cloth, stamped in black in matching dust jacket. A "How to Play" book. 90 pp. The dust jacket is price clipped. A most acceptable copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. L. D. Warren (illustrator). …

Condition: Good. Some dedications on verso front cover and endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Very good condition book in Good+ condition price-clipped dustjacket. [jfa7]. L. D. Warren (illustrator).

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Publisher's original black cloth boards, gilt titles to spine (a little faded) and to front board (bright). 24 plates and three maps, one folding. xxxi + 237pp. Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good++. No Jacket. Fifth Edition. 4 fold-out maps. 310 pages, including index, no stamps or writing. Binding split - not separated - between pages 96/97. Black cover with red bands top and bottom, gilt temple front cover, gilt lettering on spine. Red edges. Light rubbing rear cover. Size: 6 3/4" X 4 1/2". Illustrated with Photos & Maps. (illustrator). Book.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Eighth edition (revised). Eighth (revised) Edition; the first was printed 1884. Hard cover, 12mo, bound in black leather-covered (flexible) boards with double rules of red horizontally across the boards and spine, between which are titles blocked in gold. Curved corners to boards. Text block edges are stained red, with glazed black end papers, and illustrated with some black and white illustrations and many halftone photo reproductions, and a foldout color map frontispiece of the city center. Printed at Ballantyne Hanson & Co., Edinburgh, upon smooth coated paper. Price Three Shillings and sixpence net. Advertising appears on the front endpapers. viii, [1]-320pp., plus 2 pp. ads. **CONDITION: Very Good. Light edge wear seen at head and foot of spine, rear board, and along joints. Hinges in order. A few dog eared pages. Lightly toned pages. A former owner's signature in old ink to the Half title, dated 1922.**The city's historical and artistic highlights are referenced at-a-glance with handy Medici family genealogy, lists of Renaissance painters, sculptors and architects, as well as plans of some of Florence's most famous museums, the Pitti and the Uffizi Galleries. Motor travel routes are mapped. A guide to day-excursions from the city center forms the basis of the text, along with highlights to be found of the art in so many of Florence's churches, chapels and cathedral. A useful guide to the visitor. **English travel book innovator AUTHOR Augustus J.C. Hare (1834-1903) wrote a number of popular travel books, many of Italian origin, during a varied career as an Author and successful artist. He came from a family of writers and artists. He was born in Rome, although educated in England, first near the ancestral family seat in Herstmonceux, East Sussex and later at Oxford. The Joseph Hare Society shares a number of ghost stories collected during his travels, taken from his journals and letters. Co-Author Welbore St Clair Baddersley, (1856-1945), a good friend of the artist J.M. Whistler, edited the later editions, which due to their popularity, were updated on a regular basis. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Guidebook. vi, 142 pages frontispiece, plates, folding colour map : 17 cm. owner's name in pen.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex Library, Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners bumped and worn, boards starting to show, top and bottom of spine chipped and worn, back board cracked, paper cracked on rear paste down, library marks on spine, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, but slightly yellowing, rear map present and in good condition, rip above hinge 3.5 cm onto map, small rip on first vertical fold, and another on above the first horizontal fold, all neatly repaired on underside, library plate on front paste down.…

Other. Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood, no dust jacket. Publ in London, 1905. Seventeenth edition, with plans and maps present. Prior owner's name in ink on Content page; ink stamp on half-title page verso. Wear to cover with rubbing and light fray at edges. Head of spine torn. 16mo. 709pp. …

8th edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: [8], 310 p., frontis. map (fold., col.) ; 8vo. Notes: Eighth revised edition of the 1904 ed. With map and ground-plans of the galleries and thirty-eight illustrations. Publisher's advertisements on endpapers. Subjects: Florence (Italy); Guidebooks; Travel Books; Travel Guides; Italia; Europe; Firenze. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. First edition, G. P. Putnam's Sons 1947. Near fine hardcover in a very good plus Brodart protected dust jacket. Binding clean, square and firm. No writings. Book.