Some of this personal history is outlined in a short but lovely preface, replete with vintage black-and-white pictures.

According to a short preface, the text had been taken from a folio edition, undated.

The 1639 quarto includes a short preface, apparently written by the bookseller.

The Creed, or a Philosophy, 1893, with a short autobiographical preface.

With this short preface I shall turn to my notes of what proved to be a strange, though a peculiarly terrible, chain of events.

The acquaintance adds a short preface of his own and then has the manuscript published.

The book itself, as well as each of the stories, has a short preface by the editors.

Apart from a short preface, it contains no new material.

In addition, there is a short preface by the actor Brian Stokes Mitchell.

Kierkegaard begins this book with a short preface.