Cambridge a Living Tradition Tapa dura - 1987

Hyperion Books. Very Good/Very Good. 1988. Hard Cover. Sm 4to 0907115454 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 192pp. 2 colour frontis, 100 colour photographs by Ernest Frankl, 1 map. The glories and treasures of Cambridge - some famous, others much less well-known than they should be - are so extraordinary that they need to be presented and assessed afresh for each successive generation. Indeed the ever-continuing creation of new colleges, buildings and institutions means that each generation, including very notably our own, has something novel to see and admire. It is the purpose of Michael Grant, formerly a Fellow of Trinity College, to show how the University and its various organisms have developed from their beginnings until now, and how people at Cambridge have lived and worked and been stimulated by what they saw around them. The same point is made by Ernest Frankl's photographs; no one who sees them can… Leer más

Pevensey Press. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Cambridge: Pevensey Press, 1988. Third edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near fine. Third edition, 1988, hardcover with green cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto, 192pp., illustrated in color. Book near fine with handsome boards and tight binding, previous owner's inscription to half-title page, otherwise text clean bright and unmarked. DJ near fine with mild rubbing, front flap price-clipped.

Pevensey Press, Cambridge, 1988. Third Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). As New/As New. Illustrator: Ernest Frankl (photo's.). end-papers decorated with green marbled pattern; The glories and treasures of Cambridge - some famous, others much less well-known than they should be - are so extraordinary that they need to be presented and assessed afresh for each successive generation. Indeed the ever­continuing creation of new colleges, buildings and institutions means that each generation, including very notably our own, has something novel to see and admire. It is the purpose of Michael Grant, formerly a Fellow of Trinity College, to show how the University and its various organisms have developed from their beginnings until now, and how people at Cambridge have lived and worked and been stimulated by what they saw around them. The same point is made by Ernest Frankl's photographs; no one who sees them can fail to appreciate that Cambridge, in addition to all its other gifts… Leer más

CAMBRIDGE: THE PEVENSEY PRESS, 1988 Green Boards with gilt titles to spine, 275 x 210 mm approx. 192 pp. Illustrated with over 100 Colour photos and a Map by Ernest Frankl the Photographer for all The Pevensey Press colour souvenir guide books. First published by Weidenfeld in 1969 the copy offered is a first printing 1988 of the Third Edition- revised, updated and re-illustrated and Inscribed "Best Wishes" and Signed by Michael Grant to the title page in ink. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/VG (Book - some uneven fading to boards, mild shelf wear to bottom edges, previous owner book plate to front paste down - Sir John and Lady Barnes - Sir John was late British Ambassador to the Netherlands and previously Israel. Dust Jacket- some uneven sun fading, no other defects to book or jacket the latter being non price clipped- cover £25 and supplied in a removable proprietary protective sleeve).

Cambridge, England: The Pevensy Press, 1988. Third edition: revised, updated and reillustrated. Hardcover. VG- (Front cover of binding has faded in conjunction with the dj; otherwise clear.). Olive cloth, gilt letters on spine, yellow & color illus. dust jacket, illus. flyleaves, 192 pp., 100+ color illus., map. "The glories and treasures of Cambridge -- some famous, others much less well-known than they should be -- are so extraordinary that they need to be presented and assessed afresh for each successive generation. Indeed the ever-continuing creation of new colleges, buildings and institutions means that each generation, including very notably our own, has something novel to see and admire. It is the purpose of [this book] to show how the University and its various organisms have developed from their beginnings until now, and how people at Cambridge have lived and worked and been stimulated by what they saw around them." (dj).

Cambridge: Pevensey Press, 1988. 3d Edition. Photographs by Ernest Frankl. 192p., many colored illus., dj, quarto format.