Pottle Frederick a Introduction and Notes (9 results)

Good reading copy blue boards with light scuffing.

Paperback. Condition: Good +. 1st Penguin Edition. 400 pages. Moderate wear to edges and covers' corners to soft cover, bottom end of spine has an area of loss. Moderate browning to page-edges o/w clean and tidy pages.

Cloth. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. "Now first published from the original manuscript prepared for the press, with introduction and notes by Frederick A. Pottle." 370 Pages. Endpapers are maps. Gift inscription on reverse of half title page dated 1950. Pages in very good condition, slightly age darkened. Blue cloth cover. Gilt Falcon design and lettering to spine faded. Large, heavy book (just over 1 Kilo) so postage will be a little extra. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Hardback. Condition: VG+. VG- DW. Repinrt. Maroon cloth, gilt. Grey top edge. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Slight spotting to map pastedowns / end papers at front and rear of book. Dustwrapper/dustjacket spine is browned with minor chips and closed tears to edges.…

Cloth & Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763. Wear to corners of boards. Slight marks to cover. Blue boards, black cloth wirh gilt lettering. Contents: Preface by Christopher Morley. Introduction by Frederick A. Pottle. Text of Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763. Appendeix I. Appendix II. Index. List of Illustrations. Illustrated. 370 pp. Hand cut pages. (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 Educational Reference Literature.). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 370 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. No dj. Slightly bumped cover board corners.

William Heinemann, London. 1951. Reprint. Hardback NO DW. Large 8vo. Illustrated and with black and white frontis and fold out map. Full black morocco with gilt to spine and upper. Top edges gilt. Ribbon marker. Handwritten bookplate stuck to front end paper with selotape. A nice clean copy.

DE LUX EDITION IN FINE CONDITION, CONTAINED IN A BLACK SLIPCASE WHICH HAS SOME WEAR. 1,050 COPIES ONLY PRINTED THIS BEING NUMBER 415. GILT TO TOP PAGE EDGES.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A beautiful limited De-luxe Yale edition of the private papers of Boswell in slipcase with some provenance. Limited to 1050 copies, this copy is No. 726. Printed in Perpetua on deckle-edge antique laid paper with a rough-cut edge but gilt edge to the top. With a white vellum spine and leather label and buckram navy boards with a gilt coat of arms on the front. Frontispiece and 20 plates, including 2 maps and several facsimiles. Dent at top right corner. Bookplate of Fr. Sean O'Corcora, the former Maynooth University librarian on front endpaper. Very light foxing on ffep. Otherwise clean bright and tight. No pen marks or inscriptions. The black cardboard slipcase has edge wear to all corners. The original owner Fr. Seán O'Corcora (John Corkery) was a graduate of St. Patricks College, Maynooth. He held the post of Librarian to St. Patricks College, Maynooth from 1951-1973. During this time he developed the library and its permanent collections. He was a collector of books and pictures personally and an authority on the rare items within the Maynooth University collections on which he issued many publications. He was a priest of the diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise and was Parish Priest of Aughnacliffe in Co. Longford. Much of his collection related to book history, libraries, printers and travel magazines. He had an immense interest in libraries, travel, art, literature, architecture and the environment. He was highly regarded amongst authors and publishers worldwide and many of his personally owned books were received as gifts.…