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By: Amis, Kingsley
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz: 1960
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 005255
Red hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Spine has a small mud splash just under title. Some browning to endpapers from dustjacket flaps. Previous owners name and address written in pencil on front endpaper. Binding sound. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light shelfwear and light soiling. Light sunning to spine and top edge of rear of jacket. Not price-clipped. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Ashford, Daisy
Price: £8.00
Publisher: London, Rupert Hart-Davis: 1966
Seller ID: 004181
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
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson: 1981
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 005581
Black hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with very slight lean to spine and very light shelfwear to covers. Signed by author and dated May 1981 on front endpaper. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear. Not price-clipped.192pp. View more info
Price: £22.00
Publisher: Bristol, Quest Publications: 1946
Seller ID: 004797
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: Cawte, E.C., Helm, Alex and Peacock, N.
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, The Folk-Lore Society c/o University College, London: 1967
Seller ID: 005181
Brown cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 132pp. This geographical index of the English folk-play is divided into five sections; method, discussion, list of places, texts and list of sources. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Delafield, E.M.
Price: £25.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A.Knopf: 1918
Seller ID: 004839
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
Price: £85.00
Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 005263
Dark red/black hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good to very good, with light shelfwear to covers, hint of browning to endpapers and previous owners name in pencil on front endpaper. A few light spots of foxing to fore-edge of textblock. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally shelfworn with soiling and a couple of small repaired tears. Some sunning to spine which has a half-inch chip missing to top. Not price-clipped. 216pp. Jacket design by Quentin Blake... View more info
By: Eliot, T.S
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1950
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002775
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: £9.00
Publisher: London, John Murray: 1930
Seller ID: 002305
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 water... View more info
By: Gay, John
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, 1838
Seller ID: 001826
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: Harman, Claire
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1989
Seller ID: 005667
Brown hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light sunning to spine. 358pp. 22 b/w photographic plates. Best remembered for her novels and short stories, including her first novel, Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) also wrote a highly praised biography of T.H.White. View more info
By: Huxley, Elspeth
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus & the Book Society Ltd.: 1948
Seller ID: 005331
Red cloth with title in silver on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Light bumping to head and tail of spine and cover corners and centre of lower edge of front cover. Some browning to endpapers together wth foxing to endpapers and textblock edges. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light shelfear and light sunning to spine. Not price-clipped. 319pp. Dustjacke design by Edward Bawden. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Irving, John
Price: £19.00
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1985
Seller ID: 004205
Black hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Pageblock lightly browned throughout. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear. Not price-clipped. 560pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Keneally, Thomas
Price: £17.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stougton: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004467
Black hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Slight lean to spine. Light foxing to textblock edges. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light sunning to spine. Not price-clipped. 432pp. This book is an account of the history of Oskar Schindler, based partly on interviews with fifty Schindler survivors.and also includes a visit to some of the locations which feature prominently in... View more info
Price: £14.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan and Company Ltd.: 1938
Seller ID: 004532
Third reprint of the 1924 single volume edition. Maroon cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers.Light browning to endpapers. Light foxing to fore-edge of textblock. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear, and a couple of small tears. 544pp. B/w frontispiece portrait of Dorothy Wordsworth. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1986
Seller ID: 005279
Green hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light shelfwear. 309pp. This volume gathers together some of Leavis's earliest work with the things he wsa working on before his death, as well a a representative sample of pieces reflecting the concerns he developed throughout his writing life. Early studies of T.S.Eliot and D.H.Lawrence accompany studies of the same authors written... View more info
By: Linklater, Eric
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Rupert Hart-Davis: 1950
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003542
Red cloth with titles in black on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally shelfworn with sunning to spine. Not price-clipped. Jacket design by Edward Bawden. 168pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Mankowitz, Wolf
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Andre Deutsch: 1952
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 003999
Dark yellow hardcover with title in blue on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to cover, small area of sunning to front cover where chip is missing from top of dustjacket (see image). Endpapers lighltly browned, Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally sunned and lightly shelfworn with small chip missing to top of front of jacket. 108pp. Illustrated with b/w line drawings by Leonard Rosoman. This first novel by Wolf Mankowitz, an an... View more info
By: Mitford, Nancy
Price: £110.00
Publisher: London, Thornton Butterworth: 1932
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 005404
Pink textured cloth with title in blue on front cover and spine. Condition: Fair, covers are generally lightly shelfworn with some bumping to cover corners, particularly lower right corner of front cover. Times Book Club label and some pencil notes to inside of rear cover. The spine is sunned with some light fraying of cloth to head and tail, and a little fraying beginning to the cloth of the spine itself. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown with the date London... View more info
By: Moore, Thomas
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans: 1854
Seller ID: 004229
Maroon leather with elaborate gilt decoration and title in gilt on spine, which has five raised bands and gilt decoration within the compartments. All edges gilt. Blue silk bookmark. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Light foxing to endpapers. No inscriptions. 287pp. Engraved illustration to title page, no other illustrations. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View more info
