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By: Ashford, Daisy
Price: £8.00
Publisher: London, Rupert Hart-Davis: 1966
Seller ID: 004181
Condition: Very Good
Blue hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good with light shelfwear and light sunning to spine. Price-clipped. 77pp. Beautifully illustrated with b/w drawings by Ralph Steadman. Daisy Ashford was twelve when she wrote this book, three years older than when she completed her most famous book, "The Young Visiters". Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View more info
By: Ayrton, Michael
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1967
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 006037
Condition: Good
Grey hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with some light suning to top edge of front cover. Binding sound. Boards are bowing very slightly. Front endpaper bears the signature in blue biro of the author Elspeth Huxley whose collection this book came from. Dustjacket condition: Good, jacket design is fresh and bright, with general light shelfwear. 282pp. In this book, Michael Ayrton (also an artist and sculptor) retells the myth of Daedalus and Icarus in a wider context. View more info
By: Barnes, William
Price: £285.00
Publisher: London, Whittaker and Co. (et al.): 1834
Seller ID: 006330
Condition: Very Good
Pale green paper wrappers with title printed in black on front cover. Condition: Very good with light shelfwear and very light soiling to covers. Light foxing to title page. Dedicated to Major Shrapnel (1761-1842), the inventor of the shrapnel shell. 23pp. View more info
By: Barnes, William
Price: £75.00
Publisher: Dorchester and London, M & E Case, Trubner & Co.: 1886
Seller ID: 006446
Condition: Good
Quarter-leather with marbled paper-covered boards. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear and light scuffing to spine and cover corners and boards. Internally in very good condition with light browning to endpapers. Previous owners neat reference number to base of front pastedown. 124pp plus one page index to grammar. View more info
By: Barnes, William
Price: £185.00
Publisher: London, John Russell Smith: 1859
Seller ID: 006510
Condition: Good
Ex-Library. Very dark navy cloth with blindstamped decoration and title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear and scuffing to covers. , and light bumping to head and tail of spine and cover corners. Front cover bears the label of a 19th century library, the McIntyre Ethical Library (see image). Front pastedown has the remains of an old paper label to top nad previous owners neat reference number to base. Front endpaper bears a presentation label to the library stating "This book was presented to the Ethical Library by Lavinia Bidlake in Memory of Jane Anne McIntyre", with a s... View more info
By: Barnes, William
Price: £20.00
Publisher: St.Peter Port, Guernsey via Britain, Stevens-Cox, The Toucan Press: 1970
Seller ID: 006659
Condition: Good
Second edition.Pale grey card covers with title in black on front cover. Softcover. Condition: Good, with light foxing and shelfwear to covers, including light creasing to top right corner of front cover. Some heavier foxing to endpapers and first and last few pages of text, and more faintly to textblock edges. Binding sound. 124pp. plus index. View more info
By: Barnes, William
Price: £85.00
Publisher: Berlin, Published for the Philological Society by A.Asher & Co.: 1863
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 006661
Condition: Good
Originally published in softcover, this copy has been recently rebound in blue paper covered boards with title in black on paper label on front cover, with the original paper covers having been removed. Pale brown endpapers. Some browning to title page and edges of text. 103pp. William Barnes was born in Bagber, near Sturminster Newton in Dorset in 1801. As well as poetry, Barnes also produced works about the phonology, grammar and vocabulary of the Dorset dialect: "A Grammar and Glossary of the Dorset Dialect", published in 1863 of which this is a copy, and a much expanded version, "A Glossa... View more info
Price: £22.00
Publisher: Bristol, Quest Publications: 1946
Seller ID: 004797
Condition: Very Good
Five issues of Facet magazine bound in a dark green library binding. Condition: Very good, the endpapers of the binding bear the stamp of Bristol Polytechnic Library Faculty of Art and Design, no other library marks. The five issues are in very good condition, having been protected by the binding, and issue no.1 includes a two page essay on Mervyn Peake by Quentin Crisp, together with two b/w images by Peake. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall View more info
By: Cobbett, William
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, The Nonesuch Press: 1927
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 006454
Condition: Good
Marbled paper-covered boards with title in gilt on black linen spine. Condition: Good, with general shelfwear to cover edges, and head and tail of spine. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Some browning to endpapers. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. 163pp. Colour frontispiece after the cartoon by Gillray is coloured through stencils by the Curwen Press, London. One of a limited edition of 1800 copies, this is no.99. View more info
By: Defoe, Daniel
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London and New York, John Lane the Bodley Head/Dodd, Mead and Company: 1929
Seller ID: 006215
Condition: Good
Black hardcover with title in gilt on sine and front cover. Condition: Good, covers are generally lightly shelfworn, with the fading to the gilt titling on the spine, but not the front cover. Endpapers are quite foxed. Text and illustrations within volume are clean and bright. Dustjacket condition: Good, with a small area of tiny paint splashes to front of the jacket, general light shelfwear, more so to head and tail of spine with some loss and chipping. 333pp. Beautifully illustrated by John Austen. View more info
By: Delafield, E.M.
Price: £22.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A.Knopf: 1918
Seller ID: 004839
Condition: Fair
Purple cloth with title in purple on paper label pasted on to spine. Top edge yellow. Condition: Fair to good, covers have general light shelfwear with some rubbing and bumping. the Paper title label on the spine is sunned with some rubbing and foxing. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 295pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View more info
By: Eliot, T.S
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1950
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002775
Condition: Good
Green cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers and light foxing and browning to endpapers. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally shelfworn with a few repaired tears to spine and cover edges. Some sunning to spine. Not price-clipped. Has the misprint of "here" for "her" at the top of p.29. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Oxford and London, Basil Blackwell in association with Andre Deutsch: 1984
Seller ID: 006297
ISBN: 0631136592
Condition: Very Good
Dark green hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good with light shelfwear. 387pp. Largely self-educated, Thomas Hardy drew his language from many different sources; from the dialect of his native Dorset, from his familiarity with the English Bible, his architectural training, his interest in the arts and his wide reading. He was especially interested, however, in the history of the English language, and he exploited this learning in his writing, reviving old and obsolete works and coining new ones. In this book ... View more info
Price: £70.00
Publisher: London, John Murray: 1984
Seller ID: 006177
ISBN: 0719533481
Condition: Very Good
Published in 1984, this is the fourth printing of the 1977 first edition. Blue hardcover with an image of a flying goose in gilt on front cover and title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light sunning to spine. Not price-clipped. 291pp. View more info
By: Forster, E.M.
Price: £825.00
Publisher: Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons: 1905
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 006540
Condition: Good
Blue cloth with title in black on front cover and in gilt on spine. Maroon endpapers. Condition: Good, with general shelfwear to covers, slightly more so to head and tail of spine and ocver corners. Sopme light soiling to spine. Previous owners name at top of half-title and first page of text. Binding is cracked internally in a couple of places but otherwise sound. Some occasional light foxing to text. The publisher's 32 page catalogue to rear is dated 10/05. 319pp. View more info
By: Gallico, Paul
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Michael Joseph: 1954
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 006048
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated paper-covered boards with title in bright blue on grey hardcover spine. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear to covers, a hint of sunning to top and bottom of spine.Previous owners name printed to top right of title page.Signed by Paul Gallico at top of half-title. Very light browning to endpapers from dustjacket flaps. Dustjacket condition: Very good with light shelfwear and a small chip missing to top left of front cover of jacket where it meets the spine. Small faint splashmark to rear of dustjacket. Not price-clipped. 103pp. Jacket and endpapers illustrated by David Knigh... View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Sinclair-Stevenson: 1994
Seller ID: 006458
ISBN: 1856193411
Condition: Very Good
Maroon hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with some very light browning to very edges of text throughout. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear. Not price-clipped. 246pp. David Garnett and Sylvia Townsend Warner established their reputations with their first novels, he with "Lady into Fox" (1922), and she with Lolly Willowes (1925). The correspondence between them records a friendship which began shortly before the publication of "Lady into Fox" and lasted until Sylvia's death fifty-six years la... View more info
Price: £9.00
Publisher: London, John Murray: 1930
Seller ID: 002305
Condition: Fair
1930 reprint of the 1925 first edition thus. Volume II of eight volumes in the Knutsford edtiion series, printed on thin India paper. Scarlet leather prize binding with the arms of the Royal Drawing Society and the authors monogram stamped in gilt on front cover, with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Fair, covers are generally shelfworn, with quite heavy rubbing to spine. Prize bookplate on front pastedown, dated 1942. Binding sound, text clean, apart from small waterstain to top edge of pages 272 to 549, with some associated light wrinkling. 549pp. plus publishers list. Good reading copy. ... View more info
By: Gay, John
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, 1838
Seller ID: 001826
Condition: Fair
Sixth edition. No publisher listed, but title page states " sold by all booksellers". Dark green textured cloth, with title in gilt on front cover. Condition: Fair, top and bottom of spine is chipped and worn, cover corners are bumped. Binding sound. Previous owners name in pencil on front pastedown. Fep has been removed. Text clean, although very lightly browned. 236pp. Sixty-eight woodcuts. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall View more info
By: Hardy, Thomas
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Edinburgh, The Tragara Press: 1979
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 006332
Condition: Very Good
Softcover. Marbled paper wrappers with title in black on cream label pasted onto front cover. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear to covers. One of a limited edition of 95 copies, this being no.60. Printed by hand on Barcham Green paper. 12pp. According to his biographer, R.L.Purdy, this is the only book review Hardy ever wrote. It was done at the request of C.Kegan Paul, the publisher of the New Quarterly Magazine, and appeared anonymously in the issue for October 1979. View more info
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