Ronald Storrs (130 results)

Condition: Good. 391 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 391 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Top textblock edge dyed blue. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Visible wear and white marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 1st Edition. Appears early '50's. Spine, binding and cover all fine; contents very clean and no inscription. Spine faded. 147 pages.

paperback (scruffy); 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st ed. xii,147pp. Illus throughout. Boards sl. rubbed & faded. Occasional light fxg. Sound copy. Well illustrated brief history of the famous Birmingham based rubber company with particular emphasis on the effect of WW2 on the company & the part played in providing vital supplies for the war effort.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Penguin Biography Series .The contents of this book were originally published in ''Orientations' ( Ivor Nicholson and Watson) in 1937.This selection was first published in Penguin Books 1940,reprinted June 1941,November 1943. Used,reading wear,crease top right corner of front,some marks to spine,page edges tanned,contents clean.

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, xii,187pp, illustrate, edges browning, text clean and sound, no inscrptions, red cloth, patchily faded, spine dull and rubbed, Good / no dustwrapper;

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 238 Language: English.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Reprint. 8vo. Pp. viii, 362, plus seven pages of publisher's advertisements. Introduction by Robin Bidwell, Secretary of the Middle East Centre at Cambridge University. Frontis. portrait of King Abdulaziz ibn Saud, circa 1917. Index. Bound in tangerine cloth with gilt lettering stamped on cover and spine. In the dust jacket repeating the frontis. portrait of King Abdulaziz ibn Saud. Detailed profiles of figures who rose to prominence during a period of increasing independence from colonial powers and developing oil wealth. A handsome copy. Dust jacket is now preserved within a clear, removable archival sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. APPEARS UNREAD. No wear to hard back book/dust jacket. Still has price corner.Pages are clean, bright and tight.No name or inscription.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 314 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Black and white photographic plates. Minor thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking to gutters and hinges, slightly exposing netting, but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has slightly heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Unused postcard portraying a bust of Lawrence of Arabia, signed across the right side of the image by Lawrence associate Ronald Storrs. Signed "from Ronald Storrs" in black marker. Storrs served with Lawrence in the Arab Bureau in Cairo in World War I and was the principal pallbearer at Lawrence's funeral in 1935. In The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence called Storrs the most brilliant Englishman in the Middle East. Authenticity of autograph guaranteed. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the complete magazine containing the 2pp article by Sir Ronald Storrs, Doughty, Lawrence and the Near East. The text of a talk given by Storrs. Also contains the article by Granville Barker on Shakespeare.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ronald Storrs (illustrator). With inscription. Association with T.E. Lawrence.

Hardback. 145pp 32 plates 1946 Covers sl. mkd.

LACKS D/W, super octavo hardcover (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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. undated. boards are worn, chipped and knocked. thorough foxing and marks. loose binding and visible netting. mainly a reading copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: Fair. 1937. No Edition Remarks. 563 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic frontispiece, with other plates throughout. Maps to endpapers. Shaky binding due to cracked hinges, but all pages remain attached. Pages are moderately tanned, but text remains clear. Plates are bright. Sticker to front free endpaper. Mild marking to some pages throughout; text is not obscured. Boards have light shelf-wear, with minor corner bumping and minimal scuffing to edges. Spine is moderately tanned, with visible crushing and noticeable splitting to ends. Heavy rubbing and scuffing overall, most noticeable to spine. Label to rear board.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Covers & Spine: both front and back boards showing minor wear at the edges and corners, spine faded and showing a 3cm tear at top but remains solid, some bumping at ends. Binding: firm throughout. Pages & Markings: unstained, no markings, clean throughout. Dust Jacket is missing. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks.

Condition: New.

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. APPEARS UNREAD. Minimal wear to hard back book/dust jacket. Still has price corner.Pages are clean, bright and tight.No name or inscription.

First edition, first printing. Very good with paper labels to the front board and spine. Correspondence on the front free endpaper between Nina Cust and Ronald Storrs.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Black boards with gilt lettering. Cover bumped at the corners and along lower edge of front cover. Top and base of spine are rubbed. Binding tight. Pages clean but tanned especially around the edges. Pages 385 to 432 less tanned so may be different paper. Front end-paper map is foxed, rear map has a narrow red stain near the spine about one third its length.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback, no dust wrapper. First edition 1937. original blue cloth with gilt spine titles and circular motif to upper board. Maps to eps. 624pp inc. index, with frontispiece and 14 b&w plates, pen and ink drawing of a basilisk by Sir Philip Burn-Jones and a folding map. Small Australian bookseller label to fep. Gilt titles and motif bright. Blue both has some marks and there are white spots to lower board. Cloth a bit slack at spine, with a vertical crease and moderate crushing to spine ends. Mild bumping to corners. Neat ownership signature, else unmarked internally. Toning to paper and foxing to prelims and page edges. Tiny nick to top edge of first plate. Binding sound and overall in good condition. A heavy book which may require additional postage for overseas delivery.

Condition: New. [ak 7161].

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 364pp, VG (light bruising & fading to board edges/extrems, light tanning to spine, light chafing to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, prev. bookseller's sm label & ink stamp to rear pastedown, light foxing to pages throughout, light cracking to some gutters).