Van Laun H (31 results)

Red Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, lightly shelf worn, former owner's inscription in ink on the ffep, overall a very clean used first edition! Inscription is dated 1900 so I am assuming this copy is from around the…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No publication date. Books: Volume 1: 651 pages, Volume 2: 695 pages; both Very Good+, intact, clean, tight to the spine hinge, and unmarked pages. Part leather and marbleized paper boards and endpapers; a small surface stain on top edge of Volume 2. Top part of spine covering on Volume 1…

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Imperial Edition. Blue marbled boards with brown leather corners and spinecover, leather on spine is missing, edges rubbed. Blue marbled endpages, uncut sheet edges. Pages are clean with only slight foxing, no markings in text, binding is sound. Set #190 of 500. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Edition limited to 500 copies, of which this is No. 55 (Imperial Edition). Blue cloth with white lettering to spine. 165 x 220 x 35mm. 238pp. High-grade paper with slight texture; 8 full-page monochrome portraits, each with tissue guard. Ex-library, with number to spine, and stickers t…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Edition limited to 500 copies, of which this is No. 55 (Imperial Edition). Blue cloth with white lettering to spine. 165 x 220 x 35mm. 250pp. High-grade paper with slight texture; 8 full-page monochrome portraits, each with tissue guard. Ex-library, with number to spine, and stickers t…

Hard back binding in publisher's original maroon cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains [viii] 550 printed pages of text. Age spotting to the page edges and end papers, crossed out name to the front free end paper, spine very slightly sun darkened, small damp mark to the bottom of th…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2001 Newcomen Society hardcover edition. Some reading wear, lean to spine else good condition. Contents: (1) Introduction, (2) Keynote address, Sir Neil Cossons, (3) Railways in the Greek and Roman world, (4) A rediscovered early rail waggon, (5) Pre-1840 trackways in south Wales, (6) Transitional tec…

Condition: Fair. Volume 1-2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Two volumes, 8vo, re-bound with a small portion of original backstrip featuring titles retained. Vol. 1 is bound in red cloth…

Condition: Fair. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Re-bound by library. Library sticker on front cover.Larger 8vo. Black cloth, half leather binding. Gilt lettering and raised bands on backstrip…

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO60070096: Non daté. In-8. Relié. Etat passable, Couv. défraîchie, Dos fané, Quelques rousseurs. 338 pages. Gravure en noir et blanc en frontispice. Illustré de quelques gravures en noir et blanc hors texte. Tranche de tête dorée. 2e plat très fortement défraîchi. Vignette illustrée encollée a…

Leather. Condition: Good Only. A classic of literary criticism by this influential French proponent of naturalism, who is remembered for his three-pronged approach of considering "race, millieu, and moment." Taine was hugely influential in the direction French literature into the 20th century. The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as…

3: Cloth/Embossed Hardcover. Condition: A: Book: Good or Better Cond. Dust Jacket Condition: A:This Book Has No Dust Jacket. ohn Wurtele Lovell, New York, 1879. Complete in one volume. Translated from the French by Henri Van Laun, one of the masters at the Edinburgh Academy. New edition, with a preface dated 1873. Embossed cloth…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Language: English. History of English literature, Revised Edition, Volume III Translated from the French by Henry Van Laun, with a special introduction by J. Scott Clark The World's Great Classics, University Collection, limited to One Thousand Sets of which this is number 230 Editorial light green cloth,…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Language: English. History of English literature, Revised Edition, Volume II Translated from the French by Henry Van Laun, with a special introduction by J. Scott Clark The World's Great Classics, University Collection, limited to One Thousand Sets of which this is number 230 Editorial light green cloth,…

Leather. Condition: Fair. A study of the history of English literature from French author and critic H. A. Taine. Hippolyte Taine was one of the first practitioners of 'historicist criticism', a literary approach that utilises the historical period, geographical location and culture in which a text was written in order to explor…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. new edition; Later Printing. 4 volumes complete. Tan leather spine and tips, marbled boards, endpapers, and page edges. Former owner's name on first blank. Edge rubbed, with minor stripping of the leather corners, wear on spine bands. Spine has gil…

Connoisseur Edition. One of 25 sets, numbered and specially bound, this being no.8. Eight octavo volumes (23.75cm); full black crushed morocco, spines in six compartments, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spines, and triple gilt-ruled border on covers; marbled endpapers; top edges gilt; xiv,225,[5]; xiii,226-433,[…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine l…