The Complete Farmer: or, A General Dictionary of Husbandry, in all its branches Containing the various Methods of Cultivating and Improving every Species of Land, According to the Precepts of both the Old and New Husbandry. Comprising every Thing valuable in the best Writers on this Subject, viz. Linnaeus, Chateauvieux, the Marquis of Turbilly, Platt, Evelyn, Worlidge, Mortimer, Tull, Ellis, Miller, Hale, Lisle, Roque, Mills, Young, &c. Together with A Great Variety of New Discoveries and Improvements. Also The Whole Business of Breeding, Managing, and Fattening Cattle of all Kinds; and the most approved Methods of curing the various Diseases to which they are subject. Together with the Method of raising BEES, and of acquiring large Quantit

London: Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington, S. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, and R. Baldwin, 1777. 0. Hardcover. Large quarto. Unpaginated. [740], 111, [v]pp. Third edition, corrected and improved. Includes index. In two parts: the dictionary is unpaginated; 'The gardener's kalendar' has a divisional title-page and separate pagination and register. Contemporary calf, rebacked. With a penny-sized mark on the upper cover. Corners slightly worn. With a frontispiece and 27 folding plates, for a total of 28 plates. With the armorial bookplate of I. Green Wilkinson. ESTC T117986; Wilkinson's bookplate referenced in: Franks, Franks Bequest, Volume III, No. 31805. With a few small and scattered stains; overall a very good copy. Very Good.

Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 003257

The Great Writers: Geoffrey Chaucer

Marshall Cavendish, 1988. Paperback. Part 48 Volume 4. Covers a little worn. Good.

The Childrens BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 85794

Catalogue: Children's Literature

Keywords: Art

One Hundred Great Lives Revealing Biographies of Scientists and Inventors, Leaders and Reformers, Writers and Poets, Artists and Musicians, Discoverers and Explorers, Soldiers and Statesmen, Great Women

London, Odhams Press, 1956. Hardcover. ND. c.1956. Perhaps more diverse than might be expected in terms of nationality, but only seven women make the cut in this somewhat arbitrary compendium of the Great. Deeply unfashionable, but highly readable. All in VG internal order. Blue cloth rather worn to edges and a little marked to rear, with bright silver titling to lightly faded spine. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. viii, 760pp . Good/No Jacket.

Dodman BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 106292

Catalogue: Biography

MENDELE MOYKHER-SFORIM, SHOLEM-ALEYKHEM AND I.L. PERETZ.

The Three Great Classic Writers of Modern Yiddish Literature: Selected Works - 3 Volumes Complete

Joseph Simon / Pangloss Press. 1996. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, 1996, Very Good Condition, 3 Vols, Hardcover + Dustjacket, 430, 492, 485pp + Illustrations Volume 1: Selected Works of Mendele Moykher-Sforim Here, for the first time, translated and collected in one volume, are several of the most celebrated works of Mendele. Two complete novels are presented, one of which, The Little Man, published in Yiddish in 1864, is considered the book that started the modern Yiddish literary renaissance. Also presented for the first time in its entirety in English translation is Mendele's Notes for My Biography, as well as selections from three of Mendele's greatest novels, a complete short story, a scholarly introduction including a biography, chronology, bibliography and glossary. Volume 2: Selected Works of Sholem-Aleykhem: This anthology gathers together the most complete translation published to date of Sholem-Aleykhem's Tevye stories - on which Fiddler on the Roof is based - as well as another complete Sholem-Aleykhem novel, called Stempenyu, about a Jewish klezmer. There are selections from seven other novels and from Sholem-Aleykhem's charming autobiography. Also included are two popular songs he penned; a humorous personal letter to the great poet, Byalik; and an essay, "Why Do the Jews Need a Land of Their Own?" Volume 3: Selected Works of I. L. Peretz: An anthology of fiction, plays, poetry, letters, memoirs, and speeches by the father of modern Yiddish literature. Includes an introduction on his role in Yiddish literature and Jewish culture and the political culture of his times, essays by friends and associates, a chronology, a biographical sketch, b&w photos and illustrations, and a glossary. Very Good/Very Good.

P.A. GallagherPrivate seller

Book number: 015855

Catalogue: Literature

Anon

One Hundred Great Lives Revealing biographies of scientists and inventors, leaders and reformers, writers and poets, artists and musicians, discoverers and explorers, soldiers and statesmen, great women

London, Odhams Press, 1948. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. Ex-library with usual stamps and labels. Library rebind in red cloth with minor roll to spine, wear/scuffing to spine cover edges and spine top and tail and to corners. A very few pencil marks internally, otherwise good. Immediate despatch from the UK. G-.

The Victoria BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: AB5307

Keywords: MALE BIOGRAPHY

[Baker, David Erskine].

The Companion to the Play-House: Or, An Historical Account of all the Dramatic Writers (and their Works) that have appeared in Great Britain and Ireland, from the Commencement of our Theatrical Exhibition, down to the Present Years 1764.

London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, in the Strand; C. Henderson at the Royal-Exchange; and T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, 1764. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Two volumes. No pagination. I: A6, b6-c6, d3, []2, B6-Z6, Aa6-Ee6; II: A6-Z6, Aa6-Hh6, Ii4 [last leaf is blank]. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, repaired. From the libraries of John H. Burgh, Esq. and J.A. Fuller Maitland, with their bookplates in both volumes. John Alexander Fuller Maitland (7 April 1856 - 30 March 1936) was an influential British music critic and scholar from the 1880s to the 1920s. He encouraged the rediscovery of English music of the 16th and 17th centuries, particularly Henry Purcell's music and English virginal music. Good.

Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 134

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Theater

Bradbury, Malcolm

The Modern World _ Ten Great Writers

London, Secker & Warburg, 1988. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. black cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 294 pp owner's name and date written on the title page Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Very good/very good.

San Francisco Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 103623

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: History

Bradbury, Malcolm

The Modern World - Ten Great Writers

Secker & Warburg, 1988. Druk: first. Binding: Hardcover. 294pp. library book, in transparent protective binding, flyleaf missing, note and library stamp to first page, number stamp to colophon page, another stamp to next page, shelf code to spine, light wear, a stamp and soiling to foot, good

Le Flaneur AmsterdamProfessional seller

Book number: 7474

Catalogue: literature - General

Keywords: english0, dostoyevsky, ibsen, conrad, mann, proust, joyce, eliot, pirandello, woolf, kafka

BURNS, Robert and others

Great writers and poets in ten volumes

Grange Books, 2007. Used - Very Good. VG hardbacks in drop-front case . Bound in red faux-leather, with gilt spine titles, ribbon page markers, & gilt page edges. Appear unread & unopened. In red faux-leather presentation box. Writers are: Burns, Byron, Emily Dickenson, Donne, Keats, Longfellow, Poe, Shelley ('Shelly' on spine!), Walt Whitman & Wordsworth. This is a heavy set (about 2kgs packed) and extra shipping may be required Photo:. ISBN: 0755439716

Cotswold Internet BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS173905I

CARSON, SUSANNAH (Editor).

A Truth Universally Acknowledged - 33 Great Writers on why we Read Jane Austen.

New York City. Random House. 2009. Boards. Dustwrapper. 295,(7)pp. With a Foreword by Harold Bloom. Gr.-8°. Dustwrapper slightly soiled. Slightly used. ISBN 9781400068050.

Worpsweder AntiquariatProfessional seller

Book number: 555370

Catalogue: Literaturgeschichte

CARSON, SUSANNAH (EDITED BY); HAROLD BLOOM (FOREWORD)

A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen

New York, Random House. 2009, First Edition. (ISBN: 9781400068050). Paper covered boards, 8vo. 295 pages. Commentary by Eudora Welty, E.M. Forster, Lionel Trilling, Martin Amis, Rebecca Mead, Anna Quindlen, C.S. Lewis, Harold Bloom and others of the 33. Red dot remainder mark. Otherwise clean throughout; tight binding. Fine/Fine.

Ultramarine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 004340

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Jane Austen English Literature 9781400068050

Carson, Susannah (eds); Bloom, Harold (foreword); et al (text)

A Truth Universally Acknowledged _ 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen

New York, Random House, 2009. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. grey papered boards, gilt lettering, cream papered boards, dust jacket, 295 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Very good/very good.

San Francisco Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 89519

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Roger Rapoport and Marguerita Castanera, Editors

I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of Great Writers (Travel Literature Series)

RDR Books, 1995. Sixth Printing. Soft cover. 1571430148. pp.256 clean tight copy with minuscule corner wear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Near Fine.

Judith Patton BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 020537

Catalogue: TRAVEL LITERATURE

Keywords: 1571430148

Lord Chesterfield; Philip Dormer Stanhope

Characters by Lord Chesterfield Contrasted with Characters of the Same Great Personages by Other Respectable Writers. Also Letters to Alderman George Faulkner, Dr. Madden, Mr. Sexton, Mr. Derrick, and the Earl of Arran

London, Edward and Charles Dilly, 1778. Leather. A very scarce enlarged edition of the biographical sketches of the Earl of Chesterfield, relating his personal opinions on various eminent figures of his day. A very scarce volume of biographical sketches on eminent people of his own time by the Earl of Chesterfield, an enlarged edition.ESTC citation number T161338. Portraits in this work include George I, George II, Queen Caroline (who hated Stanhope), Lord Townshend, Alexander Pope, Lord Bolingbroke, Robert Walpole, Lord Granville, William Pitt, and more.Each biographical sketch is accompanied by quotes of other eminent people of the time, expressing their personal opinions. This volume also included a choice collection of fifteen letters from Chesterfield to Alderman George Faulkner, Dr. Madden, Mr. Sexton, Mr. Derrick, and the Earl of Arran.Philip Dormer Stanhope was a statesman, diplomat, and man of letters, this work not published until after his death. In a quarter calf binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, a little rubbed, with a small amount of loss to the rear joint and head of the spine. Light marks and spots to the boards. Minor bumping to the extremities. Spots to the endpapers. A small patch of worming to the head of the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very lightly age-toned and clean with the occasional scattered spot. Puncture marks to the gutter. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 854P29

Catalogue: History & Culture

Keywords: Characters By Lord Chesterfield chesterfield lord chesterfield philip dormer stanhope chesterfield None

GREAT WRITERS ON THE CITY

San Francisco Stories: Great Writers on the City

San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Chronicle Books Llc. 1990. (ISBN: 0877016690). Soft Cover. PB/Gd. condition/299 pages - San Francisco Stories, by great writers on the city. (65KHT4). Good.

Mike Long BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 65K

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: short stories american fiction collections 0877016690