Ralph Straus (443 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with a small tear on spine top edge. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Gray cloth, blue lettering, no dj, lightly rubbed, ex-lib. England; 25685.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Carriages & Coaches: Their History & Their Evolution. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Robert M. McBride & Company, New York; Chapman & Hall, Ltd., London. Published date: 1928. Hardcover, xxvi, 256 pp; 23 cm. Series: Eighteenth Century Diversions, Vol. I. Frontispiece and plates. In very good condition / NO dust jacket. Beige cloth boards with red cloth spine and gilt trim. Gilt lettering to spine now dulled. Boards show light overall soiling and mild edge wear. Spine cloth slightly darkened with faint rubbing; ends gently bumped. Binding sound. Textblock clean overall with light age toning. Previous owner's name, city and date (Dec. 26, 1936) in ink in top corner of front free endpaper, together with two small red stamps at the lower corner of the same page. Interior pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. "This edition is limited to one thousand copies for England and America" as stated on the limitation page. Contents include: Introduction; Tricks of the town laid open (1747); A trip through the town (1735); A trip from St. James' to the Royal Exchange (1744). This is a compilation of three popular eighteenth-century London satirical tracts that expose the manners, vices, amusements, and social customs of Georgian urban life. Edited and introduced by Ralph Straus, the volume places these pamphlets within their historical and literary context, tracing their role in the tradition of social satire aimed at revealing the tricks, cheats, and follies of the metropolis. Illustrated with eight plates after eighteenth-century views of London, the book offers a vivid contemporary portrait of everyday life, entertainment, and moral commentary in the capital during the mid-eighteenth century.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. b/w illustrations (illustrator). 1st Edition. green c w/gilt decorations/titles, lite wear at extremities; ; lite toning of end papers; 240 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hutchinson, London, no date. Hard cover. Light brown boards. Book condition : Good, clean text. Pages browned. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #SUN022276.

Condition: Good. 1942. First Edition. 309 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Binding remains firm. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Moderate tanning and creasing, with rubbing and marking.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardcover, black cloth, lacking dust-jacket. 292 pages, with 16 pages of publisher's ads appended. Index. Illustrated with 16 full page plates. Published (1937), [from copyright page], no other dates extant. A history of the famous London insurance house. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Head and heel of spine chipped, affecting title (upper) and publisher (lower). A sound, internally clean and tight copy. Good reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint Edition. Reprint of 1927 edition.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Spine is slightly faded due to sunning. Pages are clean, unmarked and firmly bound. Elegant private library label on the back of the front flysheet. This book is in near fine to fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Some darkening to the dust jacket that has some chipping to the edges. Date unknown. Tanned pages.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No jacket. Pages showing some age toning. Otherwise a good copy. Pasadena's premier new and used bookstore.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. hardback, octavo, paper somewhat brittle and markedly age-toned. Binders crease to the leading margin of the last three leaves, a tightly bound copy in a rubbed and markedly age-toned dust jacket, 280pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No DJ. Light wear to covers. Prev. owner's bookplate (Times-Mirror Company) inside front cover. Content pages are clean and unmarked.

hard cover, inch and a half tear in the top of the spine cover, 340 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 1st edition, good book condition, no dust jacket, non-fiction,

Condition: Fair. 1936. 1st thus. 240 pages. Orange pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking. Notable forward lean to text block. Boards are slightly bowed. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Pages tonned with some spotting. DJ is toned with little wear.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. Second Printing. Hardcover, dark blue cloth, no dust-jacket. 309 pages. Appendix of a Bibliography of Sala's works, Index. Illustrated with a frontispiece in color and 16 plates of illustrations and others in text. Second impression, published one month after first printing. Evidence of bookplate removal on front free end-paper. Biography of the writer, journalist, dramatist, and painter [George Augustus Sala], who, along with his family, was closely tied to Charles Dickens. Sala's works were often mistaken for those of Dickens. No previous ownership marks but for slight glue residue from bookplate. Spine lettering worn but readable. A clean, square, copy with no underlining, marking or writing. Near very good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Fair. 1936. Reissued. 272 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Lighter cracking to hinges. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

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

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. A history of the international Insurance company. b&w Illustrations, 327 pages. Light wear to covers. Endpapers soiled. Else a clean, tight copy. Record # 75254.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Carriages and Coaches: Their History and Their Evolution, Fully Illustrated With Reproductions From old Prints, Contemporary Drawings and Photographs. Book.