Search Results: the desire to please a story by nicolson harold

London: Constable & Company Ltd.. Good with no dust jacket. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine has cracked at front endpaper, and title page. Covers have some creasing, and wear around edges. Spine is beginning to chip. .

Constable & Co., 1943. Hardcover. Good. 1943. First Published. 206 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Full title: The Desire to Please: A Story of Hamilton Rowan and the United Irishmen. Contains black and white photographic and illustrated plates. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Marking to rear board.

London: Constable, 1943 Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. blue cloth rubbed, occasional foxing in text, school library stamps.. First Edition. Hardcover.

London: Constable & Co. Ltd.. Book: With black and white images. Some shelf wear to cloth covered boards: rubbed on edges,corners , top and base of spine. Page edges have scattered foxing . and light discolouration. A tight copy with scattered foxing to fep, end paper and end paper and paste down.Contents clean. . Good. Hardcover.

Harcourt Brace, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo. Photographs. Out of print and uncommon Irish history. In a Mylar jacket cover. Small edge chips on dj.

London: Constable and Co Ltd, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: ix. p.206. Notes: Includes table of contents, list of illustration and index. Includes plates. Subjects: Ireland. Hamilton Rowan. Irish Studies. Ireland, 1751-1805. Genre: Biography. Irish Studies.

London : Constable, 1943. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copy with illustrated end-papers in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 206 pages; Physical description. : ix, 206 p. , [4] leaves of plates : ill. , ports. ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subject: Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834. Society of United Irishmen. United Irishmen. Irish question. Ireland - History - 1760-1820. Series: In search of the past, II.

Constable & Company Ltd., 1943. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Name of previous owner on front endpaper.

London : Constable & Co., 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; ix, 206 p., [7] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Rowan, Archibald Hamilton 1751-1834. United Irishmen. Ireland History 1760-1820. Irish history; descriptions.

Constable, London., 1943. First edition. Octavo. pp x, 206. Illustrated. Endpaper genealogies. The second volume in the series In Search of the Past. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the half-title page: ''For Channon from Harold June 30 1943''. The recipient is Henry ''Chips'' Channon who was along with Nicolson one of the great political diarists of the twentieth century. Both were bisexual, Members of Parliament, although for different parties, and appear frequently in each other's diaries. One of their main bones of contention was the appeasement of Hitler for whom Channon had a great admiration.Covers slightly marked. Very good indeed in very good indeed, slightly marked dustwrapper with a few nicks.