Civilization on Trial by Arnold J. Toynbee - 1948

SECOND PRINTING. Oxford, 1949. HARDCOVER. Dust jacket, now in a clear plastic archival cover, is tattered with a large open tear at the bottom of the spine and many smaller ones elsewhere (see photo). Price clipped from the inside flap. Boards are edge worn. Page ends are soiled and foxed. End pages are foxed. Text is unmarked. A separation in the spine at page 184, but the binding is still strong. Spine is a little cocked, out of square. NOT ex-library.

Oxford University Press, 1953. hardcover. Good/None. 8x5x1. The pages are clean and unmarked with an exlibris sticker on the front endpaper. The page edges have mild soiling. The cover has some mild bumping and wear to the corners. The edges have mild soiling and discoloration to the cover.

Oxford, 1991. 371pp. Complete illustrated dustjacket. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's bookplate to the flyleaf, otherwise a very clean copy. A biography of James Harris, the author of treatises on aesthetic theory, MP, organizer of a music festival in Salisbury, secretary to the Queen and friend of Dr Johnson, Handel, Fielding, J C Bach and Dr Charles Burney, whom he assisted in compiling the General History of Music. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine.

Oxford, 1948. First edition, first printing. Near fine.. Grey cloth, stamped in red and black, lacking dust jacket.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1948. Thirteen essays examine the history of civilizations, their rise and fall, and which factors offer hope for the future. Gently bumped, spine slightly darkened.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Oxford Uni Press, 1948. First. . Hard Cover/No Jacket. Near Fine. pp.263 clean tight copy with tanning to text pages and endpapers grey cloth covers show some sunning to spine and some crimping to top/bottom spines some sunning to boardedges Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall