Translated Iris Urwin (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Dust jacket is slightly browned.

Tan Cloth. Condition: Good+. 323 Plates (illustrator). No date of publication; Christmas, 1956 gift inscription on front free endpaper; Textblock very clean and tight; Lightly edge-scuffed and worn, faded cloth binding; Lacks dust jacket; 38 pages of text, 323 plates in both color and duotone black and white, plus index. Features instruments from around the world, exhibited by the National Museum and City Museum in Prague, Czechoslovakia; Plus paintings, engravings, tapestries, etchings and other forms which document the development of musical instruments through recorded history. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hardcover.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Victor Ambrus (illustrator). First Edition stated. [125]pp [corner of front jacket flap clipped, but original printed price still there; some light chipping and fraying to jacket] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First US Edition. Prague: Orbis, 1957. In English. Published 1957. Includes: The Silent Barricade; The Glow; Faithful Service; A Mother Speaks. Off-white cloth, 129 pages, attached off-white cord bookmark, illustrated dustjacket with portraits of the four authors on the inner flaps. Minimal shelfwear, good hinges, firm binding, very clean pages free from names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket has some light soil and edge rubbing, a few tiny chips, little paper loss. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 33 cm x 26 cm. Contents clean, tight, textually unmarked. No library stamps. Owner's name written on front blank endpaper. Includes 323 b/w and color plates. First published 1958; Third Impression.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good (-). Dust Jacket Condition: VG (-). 50 numbered pp +1 +224 sepia and color plates; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, decorative eps, color photo frontis; a.e. lt tanned, med scuff title p. Cover: blindstamped front/back, gilt artwork front/spine, gilt titles spine; lt shelfwear, front joint lt bumped and wrinkly, dampstain front. DJ: unclipped in Brodart, gray, color photos front/back, reverse titles front, back titles spine, black/gray text back; moderate edge/shelfwear, rubbed, back has 1" scuff, sm chips b.e.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. very clean 1960 hardcove with jacket. no marks. clean text. solid binding. light age and edge wear to dj. Fast service with confirmation, no international or priority orders over 4lbs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 9 x 12 in. Natural buckram boards with a beetle on the cover. Lavish full-pg. sepia photos. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; no shelf wear, covers very clean with a hint of toning. Binding tight and text spotless. DJ is VERY GOOD ; edges worn with chips, small open and closed tears to spine, overall rubbed with spine a bit toned. Nature. Stax.

Brown Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. xv, 42pp text followed by 323 illustrations in black & white and some colour, 1p index to illustrations, slight foxing to endpapers, prelims and index, light brown cloth, gilt spine lettering. NB THIS IS A LARGE HEAVY BOOK WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE COSTS FOR AN OVERSEAS BUYER. Size: Quarto. Music.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little bumped and worn, top of spine bumped and worn, bottom of spine repaired, appears to have been ripped on both sides of join with front and back covers 12 cm each and then stuck back down to surface of spine, surface of covers grubby, water mark stain on top edges of cover and edge of spine on back cover, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, small water mark stain on top edge of the first 40 pages 1 cm at most on the first few pages, going down to a few mm on the last few.

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: G/VG. Color, Black & White Illus. (illustrator). London, UK: Batchworth Press Limited. G/VG. (1961). . Cloth w/DJ. Folio, 333 pp., rubbed, frayed, torn, faded, bookplate .

Cloth in dust jacket. Condition: Very good. 109;(73) Pp. 52 illustrations in the text;73 colour plates at rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The boards are tan hessian with gilt lettering on the spine and an illustration on the front board. The jacket is covered with a clear plastic wrapper, and has only very minor edge ware, with a few minor losses at the top on the back cover. The inside pages are in a very good condition.There are 38 pages of written detail, then a few tables of musical information, and to finish there are 323 items featured in colour and black and white. There is a white cloth page finder that remains in a very good condition. The book comes inside a sleeve which has shelf / edge ware bumping and nicks, but is still in a very good condition to protect the book and jacket. It has had minor repairs. Overall, I class this as in a very good condition, especially with it still having the sleeve with it.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mirko Hanak (illustrator). Stated First Edition. (1966), [1971]. 102 pgs. Beige cloth, foxing to covers, previous owner's bookplate, name and note on endpaper, otherwise clean; color pictorial dust jacket with edge wear and small tears, original price intact ($4.95). The original Czech version was awarded the Carole Prize at the International Children's Book Fair in Bologna, Italy. The story of Ryn and his owner Old Jakub, their exile and how they eventually find a new home. Illustrated in color throughout. Size: Square 8vo.

Softcover with dustjacket. Ist Edition. The Siren is the chronicle of four generations of the Hudets family, Kladno workers. In fascinating form it tells the story of the development of this industrial region from the second half othe the 19th century up to the end of the first world war. The book is in very good condition.The dustjacket has some small tears on edges and some repair on the top on spine. There is a single name inscribed on the fly leaf.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. B/w Photographs and Illustrations with Music Scores (illustrator). First Edition. Very good to inside with small printed address label to top right corner of page facing inside front board. Thereafter in very good condition with no marks. Profusely illustrated throughout. Black boards with gilt design to front which is slightly faded to the top edge; spine and back top and right edge faded. POSTAGE OVERSEAS is by AIR and extra will be requested (weighs just under 2kg). Broadleaf Books is a second hand independent bookshop in Abergavenny, South Wales. Enquiries and visits are very welcome. hst ms.

Small 4to., pp.61(text),60, glossy pictorial hardcover, 60 b/w and colour plates; slight wear to edges, a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HARDBACK BOOK IN NEAR FINE CONDITION,CLEAR DUST WRAPPER IS VERY GOOD WITH ONE TEAR NEAR TOP OF SPINE,APPEARS TO BE FIRST EDITION OF THE TRANSLATION.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Spring Books, London, no date. Cloth. Condition: VG. No Jacket. 42 pp text + 323 plate illus. Translated by Iris Urwin. Complete with 323 full page plates, many in color and an historical table. A finely produced record with great reference value. brown cloth with gilt image on cover and gilt titles to spine, white ribon bookmark attached, spine and edges sunned, owner's bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A barely shelfworn Edition in Fine condition housed in a dust-jacket that is Near Fine and has a tear to the upper corner edge and other mild shelfwear, volume is in a generally worn slipcase ; This book covers a wide range of musical instruments from antiquity to the present day. It includes descriptions of instruments from all over the world, as well as explanations of their construction and use.; Folio.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Several small chips and tears, discoloration to jacket. All corners of flaps are slightly clipped, not price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.