Search Results: Authors starting with I from AJ Scruffles

London: Methuen & Co. , 1948. Hardcover. Good. Engaging essays on a variety of topics and authors including Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Huxley, Joyce and D. H. Lawrence. Some sunning to spine. Very light foxing to fore-edge. Contents clean and tight. Good.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1950. Soft cover. Good/Good. Pocket encyclopedia of Music. With b/w images. Dust jacket has some rubbing and slight tearing to bottom of spine. Foxing to top edge. Contents clean and tight. Good+

Octopus, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. With 70 illustrations in colour and 122 in b/w. Sunning to spine of DJ. Foxing to top edge. Contents clean and tight. Good+

London: Routledge. Hardcover. Good. Handsome and compact edition of Ingelow's poems. Padded leather with gilt to page edge and rounded corners. Gilt dentelles to inner boards. Wear to spine and some cracking to gutters. Owner's inscription. Contents are clean and unmarked. Good overall. 0

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. Hardcover. Good. Sumptuously illustrated account of Belgium's medieval and gothic past with 20 tipped in colour images by Bruckman. No date but c. 1910. Toning to spine. Foxing to fore-edge. Contents tight and sound. Good+

London: Hutchinson University Library, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good. Collection of papers, introduced and annotated by Inikori that seeks to elucidate the real effects of slavery on African societies, culturally and economically. Some toning to covers. Mild shelf-wear. Contents clean and tight. Very good.

London: Collins, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Generously illustrated account of the golden age of sail with numerous colour images and full page cut-aways of notable ships. DJ has some mild bumping. Contents crisp and clean. Very good+

London: T. T. & J.Tegg, 1835. Hardcover. Fair. Pleasant cloth edition of Irving's pioneering satirical history of New York, that came on the back of a bizarre marketing strategy. With frontispiece. All edges gilt. Blind stamped decoration to cover. Previous owner's related newspaper clipping to ffep. Rubbing and wear to covers. Cracking to inner hinge. Binding starting. Contents sound. Fair+

London: Macmillan & Co., 1882. Hardcover. Very Good. R. Caldecott. Green cloth/cranford style edition of Irving's follow-up to his wildly popular The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. Bracebridge Hall employs a similar format, consisting of loosely connected stories from his pseudonym Crayon who has installed himself at an English Country House. With tissue guarded frontispiece and b/w illustrations throughout. All edges gilt. Slight cocking to spine. Mild rubbing and bumping to edges. Contents prim and binding tight. Very good.

London: John Murray, 1824. Hardcover. Good. Pleasant half leather binding of the first edition of Irving's Tales of a Traveller, a collection of essays and short stories written by his Geoffrey Crayon persona - responsible for the Sketch Book and Bracebridge Hall. Less well received than his previous works, it nevertheless Contains Kidd the Pirate and the influential The Devil and Tom Walker. Blind-stamped design to spine. Marbled boards. Marbling to page edges. 8vo. Rubbing and wear to leather, with slight loss at top rear corners. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Contents otherwise clean and tight. Good overall.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1915. Hardcover. Fair. Everyman edition. Fading to gilt on spine. Mild foxing to fore-edge. Contents clean and binding sound. Fair/good.

Paris: A. & W. Galignani, 1829. Hardcover. Good. Early edition of Irving's sometimes imaginative (though less so than in his biography of Columbus) history of conquest of Granada that saw Ferdinand II defeat Abu Abdallah Muhammad, conquering the last muslim stronghold in Spain in 1491. Irving traveled to Spain in 1826 at the behest of the American Minister and took advantage of the consular archives and newly released manuscripts relating to the 15th century to produce his great romantic account of Columbus and this history of Conquests of Granada. Written with reference to a fictitious monk and his manuscript, Irving nevertheless drew from numerous bona fide sources to produce a genuine, important and rather lively history. Irving had intended to use Fray Antonio Agapida as a pseudonym but was overruled by John Murray, publisher of the first english edition. This edition appeared at the same time and although the Galignanis were notorious pirates, owing to Irving's good… Read More

London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1930. Hardcover. Good. Revised editon of Beeton's Every-day Cookery, adapted from her great Household management and Everyday Cookery volumes to be more concise and practical for smaller households. As in the Dictionary, contains numerous recipes in alphabetical order. With about 2500 practical recipes and additions sections on Laundry etc. With colour spreads and numerous b/w illustrations within the text. Numerous advertisements for related products including Oxo and Lea and Perrins. No date but c. 1930. Some rubbing and bumping to top and tail of spine. Prize plate to ffep, covering an advert. Contents clean and tight. Good+

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Good. Ex-technical library with stamps, tags and paperclip imprint. Contents otherwise clean and tight. Light shelf-wear and toning to covers. Good.