Homilies and Recreations by Buchan John - 1926

Hodder & Stoughton, 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1939. Third Edition. 313 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth boards with lettering. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Pen markings to free endpapers. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Lettering is bright and clear. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1939. Third Edition. 313 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Front free endpaper appears to have been removed. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Occasional thumb-marking present. Minor pencil inscription to half-title page. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Book is slightly forward leaning. Clipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Foxed marking to rear panel.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London/ Boston: Thomas Nelson & Sons/ Houghton Mifflin, 1926. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 24928 shelf. Solid. Gold-stamped dark green cloth, minor corner wear, spine slightly dulled. No names, clean text. No dust jacket. Collection of essays: Sir Walter Scott, Edmund Burke, Robert Burns, Catullus, et al. Index.

London, Edinburgh, Paris, and New York. Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd. Hardcover. 1926. 18.5cm, 383p., gilt titles, green cloth, fine.

Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd. / Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. Book. Very Good (Book condition). Hardcover. First American Edition. A very nice copy bound in green buckram. Light shelfwear. Softening to extremities of spine. Text clean, binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.].

Thomas Nelson And Sons Ltd., 1926-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. First edition without jacket on green cloth + owners signature will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable

Books for Libraries Press, 1969. hardcover in very good condition. Hardcover. Very Good.

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1926. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Hardcover, covers rubbed otherwise Good without dustjacket.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. First edition in this form (Black Jacket). 313pp, index. Prelims, endpages and page edges foxed. Cloth boards in dust-jacket which has a closed tear from the upper edge of the front panel. This collection of Buchan's writing on literature and life covers Sir Walter Scott; The old and the new in literature; Lord Balfour and English thought; Two ordeals of Democracy; Literature and topography; The Victorian Chancellors; Style and journalism; Certain poets: Scots vernacular poetry, Morris and Rossetti, and Robert Burns; the novel and the fairy tale; Thoughts on a distant prospect of Oxford; and The interpreter's house.. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.