chilman eric (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. 64pp. Grey cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on front. Lightly bumped spine ends. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges starting to fox. Bookplate on front paste down. Free endpapers tanning. Previous owner's name bookplate on front pastedown. Signed and inscribed by author on half- title page 'To my friend W.H. Langwell binder and preserver of books, with kindest regards Eric Chilman July 1950'. Number in blue ink on rear pastedown. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has internal tape repair to 6cm closed tear at spine head, several smaller closed tears, shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. A collection of poems whose theme is the English countryside.

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (chipped and head of spine with partial loss - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 64 (no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Internally clean. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-worn and dust-dulled dw, now mylar sleeved. Remains overall quite well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Scans and additional detail on request. ; 64 pages; Physical desc. : 64 p. ; 24 cm. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Appleton, Honor C (illustrator). xviii, 524pp, with colour plate frontispiece and seven further colour plates, all by Honor C Appleton. In illustrated and decorated green cloth boards with gilt titles and extensive decorations, tipped in illustration on front panel. Boards a little rubbed and rounded at spine tips and extreme corners, remarkably bright and fresh. Front free endpaper absent, and old water damage affecting the base of the half-title page and frontispiece, (not affecting text or image), frontispiece rubbed along fore-edge, else internally neat, clean, and tight with just a hint of spotting on a few early and late pages. In its original dust jacket, with tipped on illustration matching that on the book (jacket is rubbed and lightly chipped at edges and folds, with minor loss at spine ends, short flat tear running from spine head along fold). Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart-style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. A really lovely, vintage volume of poetry and verse selected for younger readers, including works by Frank Dempster Sherman, Charles Kingsley, Marion St John Webb, Isaac Watts, Hilda Conkling, John Masefield, Walter Scott, Lord Tennyson, Lucy Larcom, Longfellow, William Cowper, Kipling, Browning, Keats, Chilman, Alice Meynell, Yeats, Lovelace, William Morris, Robert Burns, Matthew Arnold and many, many more. Appleton, Honor C Poetry, Verse, Vintage Books, Anthologies.