Happened by Squire (20 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

PF. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 6-7 days from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Poor. Light scratches to the jacket, faded edges & spine with wear to the edges. Leaning spine, light wear to the board edges & bumps to the corners. Lightly tanned & foxed textblock, more so to the outer edges & pages. Content is in good condition.

Condition: Fair. 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. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:028397821X.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Bound in the publisher's original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. The cloth lightly discoloured and soiled, the corners bumped and frayed and the spine ends similarly, a few marks to the boards. Remainder mark to the bottom edge; a few spots to the closed page edges. Front hinge strained, with BBC property stamp struck through. Some damp spotting along thegutter, the binding a smidge delicate on occasion. A bright first edition copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First American Edition. Ox, 379 Pp. Cream Cloth, Spine Gilt On Brown, Plum Cloth Boards. First American Edition, 1931 Dates On Title And Copyright Pages, Three Uk Reviews On Rear Panel Of Dj , Published Previously In 1931 By Longmans, London, As "If It Had Happened Otherwise. Lapses Into Imaginary History" . The First London And New York Printings Are Both Very Scarce In Dust Jacket. Book Near Fine, Bright Except For Some Browning To Spine Cloth Where Dust Jacket Above Was Chipped, And Slight Browning To Endpapers. Dj Price Clipped, Worn, Browned, Chipped, Particularly A Large Loss Of Almost 1/3 Of Bottom Of Spine, And Spine Panel Detached From Front Panel. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book plate indicated from the library of Randolph S. Churchill, Winston Churchill's son. If It Had Happened Otherwise: Lapses into Imaginary History. Published in 1931 by Longmans, Green and Co. Collection of writings from Winston Churchill, Ronald Knox, Emil Ludwig, H. A. L Fisher, Andre Maurois, J. C. Squire, G. K. Chesterson, Hilaire Belloc, Harold Nicolson, Philliph Guedalla, Milton Waldman. Edited by J. C. Squire. Hard cover, no dust jacket. See photos for condition. Hard cover boards have light surface scratching and scuffing on front and back fabric. Spine sunned. Corners curling in, moreso on front board. Fabric starting to fray on a few corners. Some mild bumping on bottom and fore edges. Rip in fabric on bottom of spine. Front hinge has small (< 1 in) cracks on top and bottom; back hinge has one on top. Front hinge has a 2 other small rips along gutter paper. Front and back hinges are a bit tender, but overall feel firm and robust and far from separating - no webbing visible. Postage stamp and pencil on ffep. Foxing spots near gutter on half title page. Small scratches on bottom of text block. Some foxing spots on text block edges. Foxing spots on back and front pasted down endpages. Some slight minor warping to top edge of first ~50 pages of textblock. Widening in the gutters in a few spots. Otherwise, pages appear clean and clear of highlighting, writing, markings, underlining, or other notable damage or staining.…

Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] 1 [2] 3-289 [290: printer's imprint] [291-192: blank], publisher's maroon cloth, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. The first alternate history anthology. "An excellent series of essays in alternate history inspired by G. M. Trevelyan's essay 'If Napoleon Had Won the Battle of Waterloo' (1907). The contributors include G. K. Chesterton, Andre Maurois, and Hilaire Belloc, but the star of the collection is the double-twist account by Winston Churchill, 'If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg.'" - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-118. Published later the same year in the U.S. as IF OR HISTORY REWRITTEN. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 2-97 and (1987) 2-108. Bleiler (1978), p. 184. Reginald 13508. Gift inscription dated 19 April 1931 on the front free endpaper. Light wear to edges, some marks and scuffs to cloth, endpapers lightly foxed, a sound, good copy. (#178824). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good; signs of wetting to spine and to top edge of pages near spine, which doesn't extend to surface of pages; minor rubbing/bumping to extremities; fading to spine and top & fore edges of covers; minor stain/soil to cloth; front hinge starting, but just barely; tanning to endpapers; owner name to first free page. Spine straight, pages clean and bright except as noted. No dust jacket. Dated 1931 on title page, but lacking any indication of a FE on the copyright page. May require increased shipping price for priority and international orders. Book.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1931 Longmans Green first edition on red cloth with date to end paper.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. An early influential collection of alternative histories, featuring Winston Churchill, G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, speculating how the world's defining events might have unfolded differently. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. First published in 1931, this is a new impression. Complete with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. A celebrated collection of speculative historical essays, exploring how seemingly minor changes to pivotal events might have altered the course of world history. Contributions include Churchill's "If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg," imagining an alternative outcome to the American Civil War; Milton Waldman's "If Booth Had Missed Lincoln," and H. A. L. Fisher's "If Napoleon Had Escaped to America," among others. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Externally, very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Previous bookseller's label to front paste down. Light offsetting and spotting to endpapers.Dust wrapper, smart. Clipped. Slight loss to head. Slight sunning to spine and extremities. Slight edge wear resulting in the odd small chip, closed tear, and crease to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots; scattered spotting to first and last few leaves, heavier to fore edge. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Squire, J. C., editor. If it had happened otherwise : lapses into imaginary history / by Winston Churchill ; Emil Ludwig ; Andre Maurois ; G. K. Chesterton ; Harold Nicolson ; Ronald Knox ; H. A. L. Fisher ; J. C. Squire ; Hilaire Belloc ; Philip Guedalla ; Milton Waldman. New impression. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1932. Hardback, Good, no dustjacket. Green cloth, the front bowed out, bumped to corners, rubbed to spine edges, with dent to spine and a few small marks and blemishes. Gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong. Light foxing to endpapers and prelims. vii, 289pp. Contents clean and bright. If It Had Happened Otherwise is a 1931 collection of essays of considered alternate history or counterfactual history, a few written by leading historians of the period and one by Winston Churchill. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. …

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the first state dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm with just a little bumping at the spine tips, the cloth and gilt are bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked, price-clipped dustwrapper that is a touch darkened to the spine and folds and otherwise without loss or tears. An exceptional example, scarce thus. A counter-factual collection of essays by leading historians and authors covering important events in history and speculating on what might have happened if their outcomes had been different. Winston Churchill contributes "If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg". Both the book and the dustwrapper are in the primary state. Some copies in a reduce sized 'variant' binding of green cloth are known to have been bound with trimmed first edition sheets, and issued in a newly designed dustwrapper, which is identical to that of the 1932 re-issue. (Woods B18; Cohen B43.1.a). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Hardcover. First edition. This the first edition, first printing of the first volume appearance of Churchill's engaging speculative history essay "If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg". This copy is rendered doubly compelling by being an elusive binding variant and retaining the rare and striking dust jacket.This jacketed copy the only we have offered - is very good plus in a very good plus dust jacket. The green cloth binding is square and tight with bright spine gilt and sharp corners. We note only light soiling to extremities. The contents remain bright with a crisp feel and no previous ownership marks. Differential toning to the endpapers corresponds to the bright yellow dust jacket flaps, confirming that this copy has spent life jacketed. Spotting is heavy to the top edge, lighter to the fore and bottom edges, occasionally intruding into the blank inner margins. The distinctive dust jacket, printed in green and black on yellow stock, is complete apart from fractional loss to the spine head and unclipped, retaining the original lower front flap price. The spine shows only slight toning and minor wear is substantially confined to extremities. The dust jacket is protected beneath a removable, clear, archival cover. Churchill's intriguing piece first appeared in Scribner's Magazine in December 1930 as part of a series of "What If" articles by eminent authors of the time. In 1931, Longmans published this book-length work on the same theme, including Churchill's piece at pp. 173-196. This British first edition preceded an American counterpart and, oddly, we find it scarcer than copies of the original magazine publication. It becomes genuinely rare thus, in the original dust jacket, and is rendered an elusive prize when found in this variant binding of the British first edition, first printing. Per Churchill's bibliographer, Ronald I. Cohen, this variant binding is "Bound in moderate bluish green embossed calico-texture cloth" (as opposed to red cloth) and slightly reduced page size (from 235 x 151.2 mm to 217 x 140.7 mm). Churchill's essay herein displays the commanding grasp of history and the facility for extrapolation that made him so formidable as both a statesman and a writer. Moreover, his interest in America's great struggle was quite serious; Churchill toured Virginia battlefields with the great Civil War historian Douglas Southall Freeman and toured Gettysburg with none other than Dwight Eisenhower. Thirty years later, Churchill would publish a book on the subject, The American Civil War (1961), excerpted from his epic A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. Reference: Cohen B43.1.b, Woods B18.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. there is some foxing and the owners bookplate of Hugh Dormer.He had a distinguished career in the army and died in Normandy in 1944. He was awarded the DSO.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, viii,289pp, pencilled owner's name on endpaper, slight browning, front inner hinge slightly cracked after title page, otherwise clean and sound, red cloth, gilt titles, rubbed and slightly frayd at spine ends, scratches on front board, board corners slightly bumped, Good condition, no dustwrapper.…

Half leather. First edition. This is the first edition, first printing of the first volume appearance of Winston S. Churchill's engaging speculative history essay "If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg". Churchill's intriguing piece first appeared in Scribner's Magazine in December 1930 as part of a series of "What If" articles by eminent authors of the time. In 1931, Longmans published this book-length work on the same theme, including Churchill's piece at pp. 173-196. We commissioned this magnificent binding in half red Morocco goatskin over marbled paper-covered boards. The hubbed spine features gilt tooling on and framing the raised spine bands, as well as twin dark brown spine labels. The covers feature gilt rule transitions between the Morocco spine and corners and the marbled-paper sides. The contents are bound with matching marbled endpapers, silk head and foot bands, and gilt top edge. The newly commissioned binding is flawless. The contents are crisp and clean with no previous ownership marks. The only appreciable soiling is a small stain to the upper fore edges (that does not intrude on the contents within), as well as an incidental hint of spotting confined to the fore edges. This British first edition preceded an American counterpart and, oddly, we find it scarcer even than copies of the original magazine publication. Churchill's essay herein displays the commanding grasp of history and the facility for extrapolation that made him so formidable as both a statesman and a writer. Moreover, his interest in America's great struggle was quite serious; Churchill toured Virginia battlefields with the great Civil War historian Douglas Southall Freeman and toured Gettysburg with none other than Dwight Eisenhower. Thirty years later, Churchill would publish a book on the subject, The American Civil War (1961), excerpted from his epic A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. Reference: Cohen B43.1.a, Woods B18.…