Grieve C M (114 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

PAPERBACK BLUE. Full Title Page: A Modern Herbal, The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation, and Folk-Lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi Shrubs and Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses In Two Volumes, Vol. II General wear, creased cover corner, vertical creases running down spine, contains BW illustrations DATE PUBLISHED: 1981 EDITION: 902.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

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

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 286 pages, a very good hardback in a very good dust-jacket [0900362642]. (Published for The David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies).

Hardcover. 344pp. Slight shelfwear with age-toned pages, else very good sound condition with text clean / no dust jacket.

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

1st Printing. vi, 7 - 30 pp. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-1/2" Worn & soiled, with front cover beginning to detach. A Good copy. White paper covers, printed in black, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.

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

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 161pp. (white spine) 8vo. sized. 1983 reprint. A very good, clean, tight copy in similar jacket. Black boards - silver embossed to the spine and black endpapers. No inscriptions. A light bump to the head of the spine. The jacket has not been price-clipped and has a short tear about 1.2cm in length to the head of the rear flap. A very good copy.…

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

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

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc., 1971, Good, Soft Cover, ISBN: 0-486-22798-7, cover chips. Book.

First Edition. With a new introduction by Alan Bold. Fine in fine dustjacket.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4" x 6-3/8", 95pp incl. prelims + 18pp publisher's advertising. Printed in acidic paper and bound in signatures in brown paper-covered boards with printed title plate applied to front panel. Binding is split the length of the book along the front spine fold. Otherwise, moderate reading / shelf wear, minor soiling to cover. Original bookseller's sticker (Thacker, Spinks & Co., Calcutta) affixed to foot of back paste down. Binding is square and tight. Pages are gently age toned but clean and unmarked. …

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 130pp; [2] ads. Previous owner's stamp on front pastedown, ink gift inscription on front free endpaper, boards a bit foxed and rubbed, else very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Previous owner's stamp on front pastedown, ink gift inscription on front free endpaper, boards a bit foxed and rubbed, else very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 165 pages, fine condition with dust-wrapper (not price clipped). with presentation inscription from Valda Grieve to Hugh MacDiarmid's cousin Jean White ("For/Jean/with affection./Valda/Common Riding 1983-29/7/83").

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. CM Grieve was better known by his pen-name, Hugh MacDiarmid, and was a leading figure in the Scottish Renaissance of the early to mid-20th century. This book is a follow-up to the collection published a year earlier and collects poems by 19 contemporary poets, including Grieve himself. Intermittently paginated (!) but around 140 pages. Bound in grey paper-covered boards with black lettering and a blue cloth spine and gold lettering. The pages are uncut. The extremities are rubbed and the top corners bumped. The boards are lightly stained. Bright internally.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. CM Grieve was better known by his pen-name, Hugh MacDiarmid, and was a leading figure in the Scottish Renaissance of the early to mid-20th century. The book collects poems by 11 contemporary poets, viz., John Buchan, Violet Jacob, Neil Munro, Will Ogilvie, TS Cairncross, CM Grieve, Joseph Lee, John Ferguson, AG Grieve, Donald A Mackenzie and Roderick Watson Kerr. Intermittently paginated (!) but around 140 pages. Bound grey paper-covered boards with black lettering and a blue cloth spine and gold lettering. The pages are uncut. The extremities are rubbed and the top corners bumped. The boards have patchy fading. Bright internally.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. British edition, first printing, 1983. First thus. Originally published in 1923 with a second edition published in 1930. With original unclipped jacket (£6.50). Introduction by Alan Bold. Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, a couple of small (approx. 5mms) tears, little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and to corners, the odd very small mark and minor browning to spine. Boards are near fine with minor pushing/bumping to corners and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. Pages are slightly tanned. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition thus. 8vo. 161 pp. + [3] pp. A Last Song. Original black cloth binding. This is a tight, near fine book in a near fine DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic, and Economic Properties, Cultivation, and Folklore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs, and Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses. Cultivation, and Folklore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs, and Trees with All Their Modern Scientific 912 pages, Index, List of 96 Plates, Revised edition from 1931 publications "If you're wondering how Golden Rod, Ragwort, and Devil's Bit got their names, how Dandelion can be used to treat liver disorders, or how Horseradish staves off scurvy, look no further than A Modern Herbal. This modern reboot of the medieval herbal improves upon its predecessors with meticulously researched scientific support and pages of recorded folklore about each entry. Building on the traditional herbal, which combines folklore about the plants, their medicinal properties, anatomies, and botanical classification, Mrs. Greives has compiled a one-of-a-kind encyclopedia of more than 800 varieties of plants. The entries are neatly and thoroughly filled with seemingly boundless amounts of information on cultivation methods, chemical constituents, dosages, preparations of extracts, tinctures, and foods, as well as cosmetic properties, and beautiful, detailed illustrations. Also included are hundreds of recipes for lotions, ointments, sauces, wines, vinegars, brandies, and prescriptions for tonics and liniments to combat just about any ailment. ""There is not one page of this enchanting book which doe »s not contain something to interest the common reader as well as the serious student.regarded simply as a history of flowers, it adds to the joys of the country.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, a clean unmarked copy in the dust wrapper, a bit dulled, some offsetting to the end papers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. VG- first edition of what later became known as the first series of this anthology of Scots poetry. Light grey paper-covered boards with black lettering and thistle device. Blue cloth spine with gold lettering. Outer and lower edges untrimmed. Corners bumped and rubbed and there is a small damp stain on the rear near the foot of the spine. The spine is rubbed at the ends with some wear at the head and the rear hinge has split a little at the top. Internally bright and clean with a name on the front fly-leaf. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION THUS : Solid clean book, tight, square, pages excellent; in the complete dust jacket, light fade spine, light extremity rubs only. 107 pages ; 21 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 'The first collected work by Hugh MacDiamid'; 15 page introduction by Alan Bold; Chapter headings and dustwrapper illustration from a lithograph by William Johnstone; Hardback: black cloth lettered in silver on spine, black end-papers, decorated title-page; Near fine in slightly dirtied dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …