Pope Florence (13 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. NICE as pictured, later printing, a good condition soft cover, gently read clean, 381 pages. worn spine short gift note.

Stapled Paper Covers. Condition: Fair. three copies of this book. no date but circa 1950. 48 pages per book. each book has been used in the teaching of drama, voice, speech, but all pages are clean and firm. The covers have shelf wear, but there is a lot of use left in each book. poetry pieces, short plays for children and litery extracts for speech. price is for the three books. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, surface of covers a little grubby, corners bumped and worn, edges a little dented and worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Few bubbles in front cover, otherwise text clean and tight; no dust jacket; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 196 pages.

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Literary Extracts.Dramatic Pieces,Poems & Jingles from the Golden Voice.Pupils practise book 1. Internally very clean some slight browning to covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Rubinstein, Ruth Olitzky (illustrator). Near fine condition red linen boards with gold spine lettering contained in a good condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Foreword by Leona C. Gabel, Smith College, June 1958; Notes on the Illustrations; Introduction; Preface to the COmmentaries and Index. Translation by Dr. Florence A. Gragg, Professor Emeritus of Latin of Smith College, following the Vatican manuscript. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates, black-and-white maps and map illustrated front and rear endpapers. Some small internal dust jacket closed tear repairs. "About the Book: In 1464, a German cleric in ROme was commissioned to make a copy of a manuscript. The copy made, he signed his name, John Gobellinus, and thereby unwittingly furnished the basis for a long-lived misunderstanding concerning the authoriship of the work. The error was perpetuated by Francesco Bandinin de Piccolomini, Archbishop of Siena, who had a printed edition of the manuscript. The Commentiries of Pius II, printed in 1584, and asserted Bobellinus was the author and that his own manuscript ws uniquely authentic. Thus the Commentaries appeared in printed for in a vesion incomplete and differing from the original. A second printing in Rome in 1589 and in Frankfurt in 1614 gave that version a practically difinitive character. But as early as 1630 the assumed authorship of the COmmentaries was questioned and belief was expressed that the author was indeed Pope Pius II. In the late 19th century, Pastory, the eminent historian, discovered the Vatican Codex Reginensis 1995, which he recognized as the true original Commentaries written partly in the hand of Pius himself, the rest dictated by him to his secretary." - excerpt from the rear outer jacket. "The only autobiography ever left by a pope, The Commentaries of Pius II constitute one of the revealing documents of the Renaissance. Its author was statesman, poet, humanist, incorrigible traveler and nature-lover, and, like its author, the work fits into no category, combining autobiography, memoir, diary and history. This abridgment preserves unimpaired the qualities which make the Commentiaries a vital human document setting forth the history of an era and portrait of one of its most eloquent spokesmen. FOur major themes wind their way through the Commentaries. There is first of all the kaleidoscopic Italian scene dominated by two conflicts, the Pope's protracted struggle with the vicious Sigismondo Malatesta of Rimini to recover lands wrested from the Church, and the exhausting war, astoundingly mercenary in character, waged with the aid of Francesco Sforza to support Ferrante of Naples against a French rival. The second major theme moves into the wider European arena and the diplomatic contest with that wiliest of fifteenth-century monarchs, Louis XI, over the crown of Naples and the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges. A third theme concerns the amorphous Holy Roman Empire whose disintegration poses problems serous to Eperor and Pope alike. The fourth theme is the one which Pius regars as pivotal for his whole pontificate - a crusade against the Turk in defense of Christendom. Struggling against European indifference to Pope and Turk alike, in the end only one course remained - to lead a crusade singlehanded, which, sick and disillusioned, he prepared to do. The volume is a vital human document, setting forth the history of an era and the portrait of one of its most eloquent spokesmen." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. This the 1991 third printing of the 1988 edition. This book comes inside a protective cardboard box sleeve. The cover has a little wear. 373 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size E: 8"-9" Tall (204-227mm).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Cream-color hardback bound in full elephant hide wiith decorative blind-stamp on front cover, red leather paste-on titling label with gold-color lettering on spine, 373 pp., 10 plates, housed in a tan slipcase. Book and slipcase in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Warwick Reynolds; h m Brock; Alfred Leete; Alice b Woodward; Honor c Appleton; Florence Harrison; Harold Earnshaw; Frank Hart (illustrator). First Edition. 208 pages, many b/w and 22 colour illustrations. Corners bumped, otherwsie very good. 4 b/w illustrations are partially coloured in.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Harrison, Florence & Brisley, Nina K. & Jacobs, Helen & et al., (illustrator). Very good condition with no wrapper. Orange cloth,black titles to spine. 4 colour plates including 2 by Harrison (one with fairies!), numerous b/w illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Front free-endpaper neatly removed. Foxing else contents clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

1p, 8vo. In good condition, on lightly aged paper. Folded once. Salutation ('My dear Popey -') and valediction ('My love to you both - | Anna.') in her autograph; the rest typed. Good bold signature. Reads: 'It was so very kind of you to think of me on Saturday. The play has had a perfectly lovely reception so, now the first night is over, we shall be able really to enjoy ourselves!' The play she is referring to is Robert Nesbitt's 'The Glorious Days', which had a run of 476 performances at the Palace Theatre, and which was made into the 1954 film 'Lilacs in the Spring', in which she starred with Errol Flynn. See her entry, and Macqueen-Pope's, in the Oxford DNB.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Browne, Gordon & Stratton, Helen & Brock, H.M. & Harrison, Florence & et al., (illustrator). Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Red cloth spine with black titles and vignette, pictorial front cover shows boy tying skates on girl. Illustrated endpapers. Colour and b/w illustrations. 192 pages. Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Light scratch to front cover and a little rubbing. Rear cover is grubby and marked. Inscription dated 1915 to front pastedown. Two pictorial labels to verso of frontis. A few hinges cracked. Contents fingered. Odd margin tear. Heavy foxing to first and last pages with just a few fox spots to contents. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Browne, Gordon & Stratton, Helen & Brock, H.M. & Harrison, Florence & et al., (illustrator). circa 1913. Very good condition with no wrapper. Red cloth spine with black titles and vignette, pictorial front cover shows boy tying skates on girl. Illustrated endpapers. Colour and b/w illustrations. 192 pages. Spine bumped, worn and slightly darkened. Bumping and wear to corners and cover edges. Rear cover grubby. Rear joint just starting to crack. Ink inscription in belongs to box. Light foxing and a few marks to contents but most pages are clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!