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The Man Behind: Essays in Understanding

Henry Van Dyke · 1929

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York; London, 1929. First Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author. Green leather covers are well-rubbed on edges and wear on spine with small area of loss near upper end, gilt lettering and decoration, sound binding, ...

In Praise of Folly, with Illustrations after Hans Holbein, Together with A Life of Erasmus and his Epistle addressed to Sir Thomas More

Desiderius Erasmus · 1937

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1937. Revised Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Fresh pale blue covers with black lettering on spine, tight binding, clean pages. Second Impression. No dust-jacket. Previous owner's name, architectural historian Kerry Downes,...

Six Days of the Week

Henry van Dyke · 1924

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,709)

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, London, 1924. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author. Small volume with dark blue covers with gilt lettering and simple decoration on the front cover, gilt lettering on the spine is much dulled, ligh...

Camp-Fires and Guide-Posts. A Book of Essays and Excursions

Henry Van Dyke. Cover design probably by Margaret Armstrong · 1921

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1921. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author. Inscribed and signed by author on front end-paper "To Agnes Rix with grateful wishes, Henry van Dyke, April 25 1921". Van Dyke was the US Minister to the...

Little Rivers, A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness

Henry Van Dyke. Cover design by Margaret Armstrong · 1914

£82.00 (€98.29 | $108.33 | ¥17,294)

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1914. Reprint, Hardcover, Illustrated by: From drawings by F V DuMond. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author. Second free front end-paper has a gift inscription " Miss Rix. With sincerest greetings , Marshall Langhorne Xmas ...

Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things

Henry Van Dyke. Cover design by Margaret Armstrong · 1913

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,981)

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1913. First Edition, Hardcover, Illustrated by: From drawings by F Walter Taylor. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author. Inscribed and signed on half-title-pager by author: "To Agnes Rix, faithful secretary, who has red thes...

Countryside Character

Compiled by Richard Harmon. Daphner du Maurier, Adrien Bell, A G Street Etc. · 1946

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Blandford Press, London, 1946. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Blue lightly marked covers, black lettering, edges are lightly rubbed. Sound binding, clean pages and inside covers. Contains colour plates (full page illustrations) and black and whit...

Selected English Essays

Chosed and arranged by W Peacock · 1908

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Henry Frowde Oxford University Press, London, New York, Toronto, 1908. Reprint, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. The World's Classics series, Volume XXXVII. Clean green covers with ornately decorated spine in gilt, sound binding, clean pages. No dust-jacket. Prev...

The Victorian Prophets, A Reader from Carlyle to Wells. Thomas Carlyle; John Stuart Mill; Karl Mark and Fredeick Engels; John Ruskin; Matthew Arnold; William Morris; H G Wells

edited and with Introduction by Peter Keating · 1981

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Fontana, 1981. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Light curl on upper corner of front cover, pages are lightly toned First softcover edition. Crisp clean covers, sound binding, clean pages and inside covers. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Ava...

Talking, Being one of a series of essays entitled: These Diversions

J B Priestley · 1926

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

Jarrolds, London, 1926. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean brown covers with gilt lettering on the spine, sound binding, foxing to end-papers, clean pages, colour frontis portrait. No dust-jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 ...

Sydney Smith's Essays

Sydney Smith · 1890

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,898)

Longmans Green and Co. London, 1890. Authorised Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Dark red covers, gilt lettering on lightly sunned spine, light wear at spine-ends, some splitting of paper covering internal front hinge but sound binding, book plate partially r...

Short Studies on Great Subjects

James Anthony Stoude, introduction by Hilaire Belloc · 1964

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,476)

Dent, Dutton, London; New York, 1964. Revised Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Everyman's Library No.13. Dust-jacket in non-adhesive clear protective sleeve. Ex-library, with library plate from Doncaster Reference Library. Library stamps and labels, sound bin...

Women's Writing in Stuart England : The Mother's Legacies of Dorothy Leigh, Elizabeth Joscelin and Elizabeth Richardson

Brown, Sylvia (ed) · 1999

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

Sutton, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1999. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 9780750918558 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Crisp clean covers, sound binding, clean pages and inside covers, corners are lightly rubbed. No dust jacket, as published. Quant...

Pamphlets and Sketches

Lytton, Right Hon. Lord · 1875

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

George Routledge, 1875. Later Edition, Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Lightly marked dark red covers with gilt lettering on sunned spine. Light wear to edges and bumped corners. Cloth beginning to split over lower front external joint. Small splits to spine-ends. Fr...

Appearances being Notes of Travel

G Lowes Dickinson · 1914

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

J M Dent and Sons Ltd; Doubleday Page & Co, London & Toronto; New York, 1914. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Dark covers with gilt lettering on spine, wear on spine ends, sound binding, darkened end-papers, clean pages. No dust-jacket. Quantity A...

Shaded Lights on Men and Books, Essays selected from "Peace of Mind" and "Serenity".

not given · 1923

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Andrew Melrose Lyd, London and New York, 1923. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean dark blue covers, dulled lettering on spine, bumped lower corners, sound binding, previous owner's bookplate and gift note at front, darkened end-papers, clean pa...

More Essays of To-Day

selected by F H Pritchard · 1928

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

George G Harrap & Co Ltd, London, Bombay, Sydney, 1928. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Dark brown covers with black lettering on front and spine. Bumped corners and light wear to spine ends. Light foxing to rear end-paper. Sound binding. Clean pa...

Miscellanies, the Fifth Volume

Dr Swift and others · 1751

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

C Davis and C Bathurst, London, 1751. Fifth Edition Corrected, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Rubbed brown leather covers with gilt lining, bumped corners, worn spine-ends, split in leather on front joint, front end-paper missing, bookplate on inside of front cover,...

The Double Garden

Maurice Maeterlinck, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos · 1914

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

George Allen & Company, London, 1914. Fifteenth Thousand, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Green covers with gilt decoration are rubbed at edges, paper is split on both inner hinges, end-papers are darkened, pages are clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: unde...

Proceso Y Contenido de la Novela Hispano-Americana. Biblioteca Romanica Hispanica II. Estudios Y EEnsayos

Luis Alberto Sanchez · 1968

£11.00 (€13.19 | $14.53 | ¥2,320)

Editorial Gredos, Madrid, 1968. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean cream covers, sound binding, clean uncut (untrimmed) pages, some have freckling at the extreme edges. Text is in Spanish. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Sh...