2000, ISBN: 9780786707072

Scolar Press, London, first edition, 1977. Cloth, 8vo,. xiii, 241 pp, ills. Munby was a great bookman but had other talents. He drove an old Bugatti which developed gasket problems - Mu… More...

Scolar Press, London, first edition, 1977. Cloth, 8vo,. xiii, 241 pp, ills. Munby was a great bookman but had other talents. He drove an old Bugatti which developed gasket problems - Munby finally crafted the perfect replacement gasket from some vellum taken from an ancient and completely wrecked manuscript. Thereafter, in answer to the inevitable "Lovely car. How old is it?", Munby was able to respond "Well, parts of it date from the 15th century". Contents: Some Caricatures of Book-Collectors (1948); John Maynard Keynes: the Book-Collector (1949); Notes on King's College Library in the Fifteenth Century (1951); Floreat Bibliomania (1952); The Distribution of the First Edition of Newton's Principia (1952); Charles Geoffrey des Graz (1953); The Library of George Thackeray (1957); The Acquisition of Manuscripts by Institutional Libraries (1960); Did Mr. Cavendish Burn his Caxtons (with M. Pollard, 1963); The Libraries of English Men of Letters (1964); Macaulay's Library (1965); Three Opportunities (1966); The Case of the 'Caxton' Manuscript of Ovid (1968); The Earl and the Thief (1968); The Triumph of Delisle: a Sequel to 'The Earl and the Thief' (1969); Arthur Cole (1968); Book Collecting in the 1930s (1973); Father and Son: the Rev. Reginald Heber's Vain Attempt to Stern the Rising Tide of his Son Richard's Bibliomania (1976); List of Writings by A. N. L. Munby. Very Good in a dustwrapper which has a closed tear to the rear panel, tape-repaired on the inside., Scolar Press, London, first edition, 1977, 1977, 3, Scolar Press, London, first edition, 1977. Cloth, 8vo,. xiii, 241 pp, ills. Munby was a great bookman but had other talents. He drove an old Bugatti which developed gasket problems - Munby finally crafted the perfect replacement gasket from some vellum taken from an ancient and completely wrecked manuscript. Thereafter, in answer to the inevitable "Lovely car. How old is it?", Munby was able to respond "Well, parts of it date from the 15th century". Contents: Some Caricatures of Book-Collectors (1948); John Maynard Keynes: the Book-Collector (1949); Notes on King's College Library in the Fifteenth Century (1951); Floreat Bibliomania (1952); The Distribution of the First Edition of Newton's Principia (1952); Charles Geoffrey des Graz (1953); The Library of George Thackeray (1957); The Acquisition of Manuscripts by Institutional Libraries (1960); Did Mr. Cavendish Burn his Caxtons (with M. Pollard, 1963); The Libraries of English Men of Letters (1964); Macaulay's Library (1965); Three Opportunities (1966); The Case of the 'Caxton' Manuscript of Ovid (1968); The Earl and the Thief (1968); The Triumph of Delisle: a Sequel to 'The Earl and the Thief' (1969); Arthur Cole (1968); Book Collecting in the 1930s (1973); Father and Son: the Rev. Reginald Heber's Vain Attempt to Stern the Rising Tide of his Son Richard's Bibliomania (1976); List of Writings by A. N. L. Munby. Small label with name and date on front free endpaper, otherwise Very Good in a used dustwrapper which has a tape repair on its reverse., Scolar Press, London, first edition, 1977, 1977, 3, Hardback. New. Beginning with the arrival of the company founder from Germany, this book tells the story of the early years, the rescue of the brand name by the Standard Motor Company following the Second World War and the inspired idea to use the Triumph name on a new sports car - the TR. It also includes a complete description of all models., 6, New York New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000. first Caroline Graff edition 2000. Hardcover. Good +. ex-library would be glossy plastic covering to check the book jacket which peers to be in fairly good shape underneath the plastic covering there are some stickers from the book from the branch of from the withdrawn stamp on the first page again cover the spine is good there is also a stamp from the public library the top of the book on the edge edges of the pages the right-hand pages have a wonderful ruffling that you find with uneven pages that gives the book some depth that you read it there are some pages that have been dealt you here and there overall the book is not in bad shape... I read it actually really enjoyed it...about the book... They meet by chance in 1940 -- the debonair gastronome Norman Douglas and a stylish, slightly haughty, well-bred Elizabeth Gwynne -- at a street market in the South of France. He lectures her on the marvels of tarragon, and in that seminal moment in Antibes begins the epicurean tutelage of the woman who became Elizabeth David, England's premier writer on continental cuisine, and who reeducated the palate of the English-speaking world with the robust flavors of Mediterranean living. In that moment, too, Elizabeth David enters the enchanted circle of Norman Douglas's friends, among them Graham Greene, Gracie Fields, Nancy Cunard, and, less famously but more significantly, Eric Walton, the man who has known him as Uncle Norman since 1910, when a boyish scrape during a fireworks display at Crystal Palace introduced a working-class kid from North London to the intriguing, worldly gentleman who would take him to the sun-drenched shores of southern Italy. From idyllic Mediterranean days in Calabria before World War I through the hardships and tensions of Vichy France to the drudgery of England's recovery from World War II and finally the affluence of high-living contemporary London, this evocative novel artfully charts a journey that ends with a perfect -- and long-haunting -- lunch on the island of Capri..about the author, Roger Williams was born in 1940. Aircraft became his first love and he joined the de Havilland Aircraft Company where he quickly added motor cars to his list of prime interests. During the ensuing six years he not only completed his apprenticeship & studies, but built two Ford-based "specials." Family & career interests took pride of place for the next few years but in 1986 he started his own consultancy business which allowed him to restore numerous MGBs, a Triumph TR6 & a Triumph Stag & to write two MGB books.--Lunch with Elizabeth David Title Lunch with Elizabeth David: A Novel Author Roger Williams Publisher Carroll & Graf, 2000 ISBN 0786707070, 9780786707072 Length 342 pages Subjects Fiction Historical ... The book would be Shipped Media mail via USPS it comes from the Los Angeles Area at whatever PO is closest to my errands or my life that day since I carefully pack your book then have to hop on the Vespa and visit the PO to have it placed in our mail system...Ruth Reaser LAX Vespa..., Carroll & Graf, 2000, 2.5<

2000, ISBN: 0786707070

[EAN: 9780786707072], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 8.35], [PU: Carroll & Graf Pub], Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins … More...

[EAN: 9780786707072], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 8.35], [PU: Carroll & Graf Pub], Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s)., Books<

2000, ISBN: 0786707070

[EAN: 9780786707072], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Carroll & Graf Pub], Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affectin… More...

[EAN: 9780786707072], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Carroll & Graf Pub], Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s)., Books<

2000, ISBN: 0786707070

[EAN: 9780786707072], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 41.76], [PU: Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York], ENGLISHLITERATURE NOISBN, Jacket, Reprint. Faint foxing on page edges, else fine in… More...

[EAN: 9780786707072], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 41.76], [PU: Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York], ENGLISHLITERATURE NOISBN, Jacket, Reprint. Faint foxing on page edges, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with spine lightly sunned. A novel., Books<