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2021ref. 8146New York: HarperCollins 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiii 446pp. First edition with full number line indicating first printing. Very mild wear to unclipped dust jacket with light creasing to top edges and bumping to head of spine. Yellow paper over boards with spine lettered in guilt. Bumps to head and tail of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A very presentable first edition from the author of The Professor and the Madman. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The author of The Professor and the Madman The Map That Changed the World and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property-bought earned or received; in Europe Africa North America or the South Pacific-through human history how it has shaped us and what it will mean for our future. Land-whether meadow or mountainside desert or peat bog parkland or pasture suburb or city-is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything. Employing the keen intellect insatiable curiosity and narrative verve that are the foundations of his previous bestselling works Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing-and have done-with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet. Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World examines in depth how we acquire land how we steward it how and why we fight over it and finally how we can and on occasion do come to share it. Ultimately Winchester confronts the essential question: who actually owns the world's land-and why does it matterPublisher. HarperCollins hardcover books
2001ref. 90790New York: HarperCollins 2001. quarter cloth paper-covered boards dust jacket. 8vo. quarter cloth paper-covered boards dust jacket. xix iii 329 1 pages. William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology. First edition. Dust jacket unfolds into a 21" x 27 " map "that changed the world". Fine in fine jacket. HarperCollins unknown books
2001ref. 20599NY: Harpercollins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0060193611 . Fifth printing. Remainder mark on bottom edge else near fine in a near fine trace edge wear fold-out dust jacket. . Harpercollins hardcover books
2003ref. 24058NY: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0198607024 . First printing. About fine in a fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press hardcover books
2003ref. UWINMEA03fpOxford University Press 2003. Fine. Winchester Simon. Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003. 1st U.S. edition. 260pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Light rubbing to extremities. Oxford University Press hardcover books
2003ref. UWINMEA01MELOxford University Press 2003. Fine. Winchester Simon. Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003. 1st U.S. edition. 260pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Oxford University Press hardcover books
2003ref. UWINOUT00AFPenguin 2003. Very Good. Winchester Simon. Outposts: Journeys to the surviving relics of the British Empire. London: Penguin 2003. 362pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed wraps. Inscribed to former owner by Winchester on title page. Penguin paperback books
1999ref. 126812New YorK: HarperPerennial 1999. stiff paper wrappers. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xi iii 242 pages. Reprint of the 1998 edition A near fine copy. The story of the two men Professor James Murray and Dr. William Chester Minor who were at the heart of the Oxford English Dictionary. After twenty years of correspondence Murray decided to travel to meet Minor only to find that he was actually criminally insane. Illustrated. HarperPerennial unknown books
1998ref. 60978New York: Harper Collins Publishers 1998. paper-covered boards dust jacket. small 8vo. paper-covered boards dust jacket. xi iii 242 pages. First edition later printing. A fine copy in fine jacket. The story of the two men Professor James Murray and Dr. William Chester Minor who were at the heart of the Oxford English Dictionary. After twenty years of correspondence Murray decided to travel to meet Minor only to find that he was actually criminally insane. Illustrated. Harper Collins Publishers unknown books
1999ref. 622439New York: HarperCollins 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 255pp. Slightly cocked spine a remainder mark on the bottom page edges and foxing on the page edges thus very good in a fine dust jacket. HarperCollins hardcover books
2008ref. 9022211New York: Harper Collins 2008. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original brown cloth over boards. Decorated endpapers Frontispiece illustrations throughout and an index. Harper Collins hardcover books
2003ref. 2097754Aachen, Oxford u.a.: University Press 2003. XXVI, 260 Seiten. Mit einem Frontispiz und einigen schwarz-weißen Abbildungen sowie illustrierten Innendeckeln. 8° (22,5 x 15 cm). Orig.-Pappband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und illustriertem Orig.-Schutzumschlag. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
2003ref. 115295Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A Fine first printing of the first edition in alike dust-wrapper; From the dust jacket "Writing with marvelous brio Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language--"so vast so sprawling so wonderfully unwieldy"--and pays homage to the great dictionary makers from "the irredeemably famous" Samuel Johnson to the "short pale smug and boastful" schoolmaster from New Hartford Noah Webster. He then turns his unmatched talent for story-telling to the making of this most venerable of dictionaries. In this fast-paced narrative the reader will discover lively portraits of such key figures as the brilliant but tubercular first editor Herbert Coleridge grandson of the poet the colorful boisterous Frederick Furnivall who left the project in a shambles and James Augustus Henry Murray who spent a half-century bringing the project to fruition. Winchester lovingly describes the nuts-and-bolts of dictionary making--how unexpectedly tricky the dictionary entry for marzipan was or how fraternity turned out so much longer and monkey so much more ancient than anticipated--and how bondmaid was left out completely its slips found lurking under a pile of books long after the B-volume had gone to press. We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium--the Scrippy or the Shed as locals called it--and meet some of the legion of volunteers from Fitzedward Hall a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED to W. C. Minor whose story is one of dangerous madness ineluctable sadness and ultimate redemption."; 8vo; xxvi 260 pages; 6 . Oxford University Press hardcover books
1999ref. UWINPRO05fpHarper 1999. Very Good. Winchester Simon. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. New York: Harper 1999. 242pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Harper paperback books
1999ref. UWINPRO04fpHarper 1999. Very Good. Winchester Simon. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. New York: Harper 1999. 242pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Pages toned. Harper paperback books
1996ref. UWINRIV00MELMarian Wood/Owl Books 1996. Very Good. Winchester Simon. The River at the Center of the World: A Journey of the Yangtze and Back in Chinese Time. New York: Marian Wood/Owl Books 1996. 410pp. Indexed. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gently rubbed and bumped edges. Marian Wood/Owl Books paperback books
2014ref. 102348London:: Folio Society. Fine. 2014. Hardcover. Introduction by Will Self. First edition thus. Fine in a fine slipcase. . Folio Society, hardcover books
1982ref. 314859New York: Random House 1982. hardcover. near fine/very good. 281 pages. 8vo black and blue cloth-backed boards d.w. price-clipped several tiny tears. New York: Random House 1982. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. Random House unknown books
1982ref. UWINTHE00mfRandom House 1982. Very Good. Winchester Simon. Their Noble Lordships: Class and Power in Modern Britain. NY: Random House 1982. 281pp. Indexed. 8vo. 1/4 Cloth. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Price clipped. Random House hardcover books
2005ref. RO20272365FRANCE LOISIRS / JC LATTES. 2005. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 449 PAGES - couverture rempliée - tranche de pied légèrement tâchée. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
2003ref. RO60006209Penguin Books. 2003. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos fané, Intérieur bon état. 432 pages. Couverture illustrée en couleur.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
2005ref. R240046911FRANCE LOISIRS / LATTES. 2005. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 448 pages. Couverture contre pliée.. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
1999ref. R260194580LE GRAND LIVRE DU MOIS. 1999. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 300 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne
1988ref. RO60008450Sceptre. 1988. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 360 pages. Photos noir et blanc en pages centrales. Tampon de l'ancien propriétaire sur la page de titre.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
2001ref. RO60008370Harper Collins. 2001. In-12. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 320 pages.. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
