Laughing Philosopher (41 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First UK Edition. BW3 - A hard cover library rebound withdrawn ex-library book in good+ condition with no dust jacket. The words FIRST PUBLISHED and the year appear on the copyright page with no additional printings indicated. A tight, clean, sound copy in plastic laminated purple and white paper covered boards with minor overall shelf wear with some light yellowing of the outside paper edges plus there are two closed tears (about 0.75" and 0.5") on pages 175/176 plus there are the usual library stamps and label on the top outside paper edges, the front free endpaper, the title page, and the last page. Illustrated with black and white reproductins. A biography of an important French humanist scholar and writer. Bibliography, indexed, 210p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Condition very good in rust cloth boards, hinge shows a small crack at ffp, but not broken, slight shelf wear top and bottom edges. Clean tight and square with No markings and neat black and white illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. 1st Edition. Orange-red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Bright copy. Slighly bumped. No markings. Dust jacket with light chipping at the spine tips. rubbing along the hinges and a couple other slight nicks.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo, 282 pgs., bound in green cloth, very good and wrapped in a very good dust jacket. light edge wear, otherwise a good copy.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Like New. In unused condition, may show some slight shelf wear, but otherwise unread. This title was digitally scanned from a rare, out of print edition, and will have some visual artifacts from that process.

Condition: Good. 1933. First Edition. 253 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning, particularly to spine. Book has slight forward lean.…

Hardcover. 206pp. Bookplate else very good, clean and sound condition in a good but chipped dust jacket.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dustwrapper rubbed and shelfworn with fading to spine and edges and some small tears and crease to edges. Toning to front endpapers and small stain to gutter of rear endpapers. Book otherwise solid, clean and content bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 4 x 6 in. 108 pp. Calf and paper boards. Condition is FAIR ; missing ffep and title pg, pssible a contents pg. All text is present otherwise. Covers worn, binding solid, text moderately foxed. Rare. Stax.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co., 1889. 329 pages plus ads, hardbound. Ex-library, o/w good, sound and clean with light exterior soil.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. London, 1976; green cloth covered boards; mild spine edge wear; green jacket with mild wear, housed in a Bro-Dart like cover; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; top edges of text block dusty; interior is clean and unmarked; 282 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. 282 pages in green boards. Dust jacket in Acceptable condition with some tears and chipping to the edges. Has a protective sleeve. Interior text block is straight and clean, firm to the spine. Binding is solid. The back corner edge has a significant bump that has carried in through the last 100 pages as a bend to the top corner.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Measuring 4.25 x 5" [12] pp. including covers. A xerox reprint of Johnston's work, featuring a selection from the 1826 text. Epigraphs and jokes about such vital topics as Spinsters, Old things, and Obeying orders. Saddle-stapled wraps. Light shelfwear. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. The book is Good+ with some spotting to pages and a roll to spine. The jacket has some spotting and some chipping to top of spine, but is Good overall. Book.

HB GREEN CLOTH SMALL BOOKPLATE ELSE FINE PP282 DW FINE 8V0 Twenty-one essays on Books, Booksellers and Book Collecting.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 282pp. Green cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Rubbed corners and spine ends, slightly cocked. Three pen marks on top text block edge, all edges just starting to tan. Front free endpaper missing, lender's stamps and markings on front endpapers and copyright page, volume a little loose. Otherwise internally neat, clean and bright. Dust jacket spine sun-faded, protected in a Brodart-style sleeve (slightly torn), has very light shelf wear, shelf number label on spine, not price clipped.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. A very good copy in black cloth lettered and decorated in yellow. Dated inscription - June 22, 1933 - "V.C.C from D.C.C You cannot buy peace, it must be in your heart." V.C.C was, I think, the author's wife. 353 pages. Newspaper review of the book from 1933, describing it as a "riot of explosive humour and subtle wit" loosely laid in. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Condition: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 382 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Leather. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. A very rare volume - reading copy only. Significant wear: scuffs, soils, worn edges and exposed corners, scrapes on leather, front board mostly loose, dark dampstaining throughout interior, with other foxing marks and soils; lacks front pages, opens to title page; lacks several pages throughout; else a nice copy. 108 pages. Embellished with Several Engravings (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 8vo, pictorial gold-stamped cloth, a bit soiled with inner hinge cracking else VG+, 140 b&w illus by Crowquill (h25-3).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket 8vo. pp 253. Original publisher's red cloth lettered and decorated black on spine and cover. Very slight fading, very slight rubbing otherwise VG+ in attractive illustrated near VG dust jacket with chips at head of spine, slight wear at lower hinge and slight marks. Front panel of jacket in good order showing a man about to kiss a woman carrying large tea pot.…

First Edition. Pp. 282, appendices, index; demy 8vo; dark green boards, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards occasionally a trifle bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; Villiers Publications, London, 1976. First edition. *Essays on Thomas Love Peacock, Gilbert White, Charles Lamb, Edward Thomas, amongst others.…