Edited by Guy Pocock (20 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Previous owner's ink inscription. 1941 printing. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Firmly bound, green cloth boards. A little scuffing on the edges of the spine. A few small ink marks on back cover. No jacket, 'Book Belongs To' panel completed in ink.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Slim blue covers with embossed Three Lions on bottom corner and titles on front corner; Illust.map of England on end boards with full page b/w pen ink illusts throughout; Overall sound a couple of little white spotty stains on back; Covers the early arrival of James I and new translation of the Bible, literature of the day and sciences and explorations. Constance E. Rowlands (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. Reprint. 192 pages. No dustjacket. Age-dulled mid-green hardback binding with some wear/rubs to boards' edges, corners and spine-ends. Dulled gilt-coloured titles to spine. Page-edges yellowed, 'Book Belongs to" box on front paste-down not been filled in, light foxing to both sets of endpapers, school stamp to flyleaf o/w pages clean and tidy. …

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Reprint. 1967 Reprint. Size 16mo, 255 pages. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, no dust jacket. Condition fair, covers are rubbed and grubby, corners bumped, gilt on spine rubbed, hinges loose, pages are clean inside. The Minotaur, The Pygmies, The Dragon's Teeth, Circe's Palace, The Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece, Questions and Suggestions. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair(pages browned). No Jacket. Reprint.

Green Cloth. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. Reprint 1929. The Kings Treasuries of Literature.Annotations/Underlining throughout.POSTED FULLY INSURED AT OUR STANDARD RATES (UK ONLY).Please EMAIL for FURTHER DETAILS! Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾". Frontispiece Line Drawing (which Has Been Coloured in) (illustrator). Signed By a "Zita Tilley.".…

Green Cloth. Condition: GOOD (BELOW AVERAGE). No Jacket. Reprint 1928. Repaired spine , very stained boards.Contents Very Good.Please Email for further details Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾". Not Illustrated (illustrator). Signed By a "J E Hunnybun 1928.

Hard Back. Condition: Good. Blue boards with bright gilt title to the spine. 157 firm pages. Play. neat name ti inner board. rubbed out price to ffep. Size: 6in x 4.5in. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. An everyman library paperback NEW.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Everyman's Library 957 Essays & Belles-Lettres. '60s cover design by Lathey. Pp xiii, 370 + 4 pages publisher's lists. A tight, clean copy with smooth covers having only light wear; slight spine lean and a few foxspots along leading edge; all contents bright and clean - no previous names, marks etc. Image/further information available upon request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Some light wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little worn, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but yellowing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. The Temple Press 1941 reprint small hardback gilt titles tp blue cloth 191 pages, rubbing and old stains to boards 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: Fine. No Jacket. Green cloth board with gilting to the spine. Still a very good, clean and tight copy.1928 publication. A note and stamp to the front endpaper. Reprint of first edition. Part of a series: the volumes (including Fort Amity and The Adventures of Harry Revel) in this series. The series was published from c. 1920 until at least 1959 by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. of London and Toronto and co-published by E. P. Dutton of New York. J. M. Dent's address in 1937 was 10-13 Bedford Street, London W.C.2. and in 1954 was Aldine House, Bedford House, London. In 1937 the volumes books in this series were being printed at The Temple Press, Letchworth, Herts., England, and in 1954 they were being printed at: The Aldine House, Letchworth, Herts. Each volume was a small-sized cloth-bound hardcover book (approximately 15cm tall x 11cm wide). Different titles were bound in different cloth colours (burgundy/brick red, maroon/brown, light blue, dark blue, light green, dark green). The cloth binding were lettered and decorated in gilt (that is, gold) on the spine. The lower section of the front cover featured a small blind stamped (that is, embossed) of a female head (classical Greek or Roman style) in profile. Each volume had an illustrated frontispiece (often a portrait of the book's author) and a decorated title page. Both the frontispiece and the title pages featured wood engraved flower and leaf borders and sometimes included other decorated elements, such as a globe of the world. The left side front endpaper featured a cartouche (decorative box) with the words "This Book Belongs To ___". The right side front endpaper featured another cartouche with the following quotation: "A Good Book is the Precious Life-Blood of a Master Spirit - Milton". Many volumes included, in addition to the main text, an introduction, commentaries, a short biography, and questions and exercises for students. Some also had a glossary, publisher's advertisements (included a selective listing of other volumes.…

Hardback. Reprint. 12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. The DJ has chips to upper corner, spine ends and upper rear panel. Faint cup marks to DJ face. Gift inscription to front pastedown (hidden by flap). Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xiii, 370, 16 pages. 'A nosegay of contemporary wit.' Reprinted in the same year as the 1st edition. …

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Hardback. Underlining and notes in margin in pencil to some pages. Previous owners name and date to inside cover. Foxing to edge. Slight wear to edges and corners of cloth. Couple of slight marks to cloth. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: England. The Call of the Sea. The Call of the Country. Animals. The Great War. Fancy. Life and death. Free Verse. A Note on Futurist Poetry.192 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). …

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Everyman's Library No. 957 in their 'Essays & Belles-Lettres' catagory; blind-stamped publisher's device to front cover; patterned end-papers by Eric Ravilious; an anthology of comic essays; poems; anecdotes and literary pastiches with a list of contents to the front & a 16-page list of Everyman's Library titles to the rear. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 170 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's signature in ink to fep. Gilt titles spine. orange cloth. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Humour; Anthologies; Essays; Literature; Humour. Inventory No: 3871.…

Green cloth with gilt spine titles. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Dust jacket has toned with rubbing particularly along the spine, minor loss on the spine tips, now in a protective Mylar sleeve. Bookplate of Philip James Bergan. Later printing. A Very Good Hardcover in a Good Dust Jacket, Very Good Hardcover in a Good Dust Jacket.…

In 16º XIV-370 pp. Prose, rime e dialoghi umoristici. Tutta tela editoriale, titolo oro, taglio superiore colorato. Ottimo stato. All books are in stock in fine condition or described meticulously. Very safe packaging ***Books dated over 70 years old: ONLY SHIPPING WITHIN ITALY - please do not order if locaded abroad***.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket WITH SMALL CHIP TOP SPINE DJ . 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, with "first published in this edition 1936" statement ON COPYRIGHT PG. An Everyman's Library edition. With index of authors at rear of book.n. , . --- In Everyman's Library binding style 3 with full light embossed blue cloth and gilt-stamped spine titling; blindstamped Eric Ravilious-designed 'shell' to cover and brown topstain. Orange jacket features EL design on Ravilious 'knot' to cover. --- A clean, unmarked, tightly-bound copy, though with mild sunning to spine. Jacket with a few chips & tears to spine ends, otherwise remaining mostly intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xi, 418, 16 (ads) pages . , presenting a collection of stories taken from literature of ancient Greece through 20th century British writings. Includes fairy tales, legends, adventure stories, and "tales of sheer fun." Odysseus & Circe, the Flood from Bible, FORTUNATUS, THE CANDLE, BATTLE OF FROGS & MICE. AN ODD FREAK, sir lancelot , Tales of Sheer Fun, Descent into Maelstrom by Edgar Poe ETC.…