Search Results: homilies and recreations by buchan john

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

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.

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.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanned end paper, foxing to for-edges and minor bump to upper front corner. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased. with a little sunning and slight rubbing to some edges 313pp. The cream of the writing of John Buchan on literature and life.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good (-). 7 x 4.75 inches.

Nelson,, [1926]. 8vo., First Edition, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a near fine copy. Hillier & Ross A71.

Thomas Nelson, 1927. 1st edn 2nd imp. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth, top edge gilt (bright VG), dustwrapper (some light wear at edges - in protective wrapper). Pp. 383 (previous owner's faint pencil inscription on front endpaper).

London: Hodder & Stoughton 1939, 3rd edition. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 313pp. Index. There is a previous owner's name. Also writes as Lord Tweedsmuir. Article about Robert Burns & Walter Scott. (Ideas, Canadian Literature, Essays).

London, New York : T. Nelson and Sons, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscription from previous owner. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slight suggestion of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; vii, 9-383 pages 19 cm. First published September 1926. Includes index. Subjects; Sir Walter Scott. Edmund Burke. English literature History and criticism. English essays 20th century. Scottish literature History and criticism. Lord Balfour and English thought.

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Blanchard A71. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Touch of shelf wear at corners else a nice hardcover first printing in near fine condition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR'S SISTER, ANNA BUCHAN, Inscribed and signed in Oct. 1926 to an unnamed recipient in memory of a "happy visit". Anna Buchan was a nopvelist in her own rifght who published several works under the nom-de-plume O. Douglas. This work by her elder brother is a collection of essays,

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9. Signed by Author(s). Number 18 of two hundred copies, signed by the author, gray paper over cream cloth spine, brown leather title block to spine, 4to, 383 pages. Boards are tanned along extremities, bump to bottom front corner, title block on spine scuffed and chipped, brief gift inscription in front end paper dated 1955, internally clean and soung. John Buchan, or 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875 - 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and politician who served as Governor General of Canada, and is perhaps best remembered as the author of The 39 Steps. Buchan wrote dozens of books, both fiction and nonfiction.

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1926. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. No. 100 of 200 large paper copies signed by the author. A near fine copy in light grey- blue paper-covered boards with white cloth spine lettered in gilt on a green title-piece. The boards are now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. A nice clean copy with no ownership inscription or other internal marking. 383 pages. A book of essays.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd, [ 1926 ]. First, Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 383 pages, clothbacked boards, untrimmed, leather label nicked, partly unopened. Copy 90 of only 200 numbered Large Paper copies, signed by John Buchan. [ Wilmot, Checklist of Works by and about John Buchan in the John Buchan Collection Douglas Library Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 133; Blanchard A71]. Essays topics: Edmund Burke, Scotland, Walter Scott, Robert Burns, Catullus

London, Edinburgh, Paris, And New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd.. Near Fine. 1926. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A first printing of the first edition in near fine condition. There is a small amount of scuffing to the spine. The pages and interior of book are clean. The boards are green with gilt stamped spine and cover; This book is a collection of sermons and essays by John Buchan. It is an interesting read, and provides a glimpse into Buchan's life and thoughts.; 8vo; 383 pages .