Seller: Leabeck Books, Steventon, OXON, United Kingdom
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. (Oxford Paparbacks). xvii[i]+365[1]p. With illustrations by the author. Paper tanned, but internally very good with no marks, bound in bright and clean card covers illustrated in colour.
Published by Folio Society 1998, 1998
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Super octavo hardcover (near FINE) in slipcase (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by The Folio Society 1989, 1989
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in slipcase (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Language: English
Published by The Cresset Press, London., 1949
Seller: Colophon Books (UK), Leek, STAFF, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 33.27
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Thus. 410 pages inc index, dark blue buckram with gilt titles, faint fade line at top of front board and spine, small ink inscription on FFEP ""T. Wrigley from George Mitchell 12-7-54" contents very good+, small octavo. NOTE* Brief Lives is a collection of short biographies written by John Aubrey (1626-1697) in the last decades of the 17th century. His scurrilous bald, funny pithy and lively comments about the great and good with descriptions such as this on one Lord. The Earl of Oxforde when presenting himself again at court after 7 years self exile for farting when bending to honour the Queen and then leaving the country in shame, was greeted after the incident 7 years later with the words "Most Welcome Sir, we have forgotten the fart".
First Edition
US$ 38.81
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 0434001635 Pages: 320 Fine in fine dust jacket.
Language: English
Published by The Folio Society, London, 1990
Seller: Stirling Books, Stirling, United Kingdom
US$ 40.86
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Llewellyn Thomas (illustrator). Hardback: Good+ Condition. Slipcase: Good+ Condition. Pages Bright, Clean And Unmarked. "Can You Forgive Her" Has Staining Along Leaf-Edges And On Boards From Tinted Top Leaf-Edge, Possibly From Water-Damage. Binding Tight And Secure. Boards Show Light Wear. Slipcase Shows Some Corner Denting. Photograph Is Added By Selling Site And Not Ours, Therefore May Not Reflect This Edition Or Condition.
Published by The Folio Society, London,, 1993
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Reprint: octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with decorated papered boards and gilt spine titles and decorations on black labels; 631pp., top edges dyed sage, with a monochrome frontispiece and 14 plates likewise. Minimal wear; fine in a like slipcase. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.
Published by Folio Society, London, 2006
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Fine -- illus. front cover, lacking dustjacket (as issued). "Three novels in one volume' - i.e. first three in the sequence. Introduction by William Trevor. 496 pp. With colour illustrations.