Henry thomas illus (14 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Boards and pages soiled. Rear endpage torn. (Franco-Prussian War, satire).

Zustand: Good. 1941. Reprinted. 252 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning and tape to spine and edges. Wear marks overall.…

Second Edition. Good copy in the original red title-blocked cloth, somewhat dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Hinges starting. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 256 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Notes; First published 1948. Subjects; William (Fictitious character from Crompton) Juvenile fiction. Children's stories, English 20th century. Humorous stories, English. Boys England Juvenile fiction. Schools Juvenile fiction. Adventure stories. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 208. Original publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering at spine, pages bright and clear throughout. A fine copy. ISBN: 9780954680275 Fine.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Provenance: bookplate of Frances Cook. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; x, 162 pages : illustrations. Subjects; Warren, C. Henry. Country life England East Anglia History 20th century. Farm life England East Anglia History 20th century. Working class England East Anglia History 20th century. East Anglia (England) Social life and customs 20th century. 1 Kg. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good+. First Edition. First Printing. First edition, first pinting. 8vo. Softcover. A very good+ copy with some light edgewear. A short closed tear to front cover. Internally clean and complete with no inscriptions. No loose or missing leaves.

First Edition thus. Good copy in contemporary gilt-blocked green cloth boards, now lightly scuffed and spotted. Corners bumped, with joints and endbands torn in places (no loss). Reader gift inscription (1928) to front free endpaper. Text block remains sound and clean; colour plates retain their letterpress tissue-guards. A well-preserved example overall. Provenance; bookplate of Thomas Picton Rose-Richards. Physical description; xxv, [1], 234 pages : frontispiece (colour), [19] colour plates ; 27 cm. Notes; Date conjectural. Engraved title page. "By Nimrod," i.e. Charles James Apperley. "Reprinted (with considerable additions) from the New Sporting Magazine." Subjects; Mytton, John (1796-1834). Hunting. Shooting. Driving. Racing. Eccentrics. 19th century. Shropshire. England. Biography. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. First Printing. Small 8vo. Red boards with black titles. Rare original dustwrapper. A very good+ copy with clean boards. No marks to boards. Internally complete with neat ink name to endpaper. The good dustwrappe has edgewear to extemities & has old tape strengthening to inner spine hinge. Oriignal price of 2/6net to spine. First edition rare in dustwrapper.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 256 pages (complete). In general fair condition. This book is accompanied by a very good photocopied coloured jacket. The board cover has been much handled. There is scuffing, marking and wear. However, it is pugnaciously resilient and reliable. The spine has wear to the head, foot and seams and has marking. It is secure and very sure. Inside, the pages are relaxed, affable, amiable, clear. There are some annotations and markings in an infantile hand (e.g. pg 13). The contents are firm to the binding, confident, assured and comfortable. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

1st Edition in this form. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked dark green cloth with unique Thomas Hardy gilt insignia to front board. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Previous owner's ownership plate to front pastedown.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 337 pages; Physical desc.: vii, 337 p. front , tissue guard; map. 20 cm. Subject: Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. Mothers and daughters -- Fiction -- Wessex. Sculptors -- Fiction. Summary: This novel is set in London and Portland, and follows the life of Jocelyn Pierston, a talented sculptor who has an obsession to find the perfect woman. Unfortunately this proves impossible in his eyes. Series: Thomas Hardy's Works The Wessex Novels volume xvii. Notes: Imprint and date from title-page verso. With a half-title page. Title vignette. Other names: Macbeth-Raeburn, H. (Henry), 1860-1947. 1 Kg.…

Poor copy bound in half aniline calf over marble boards. Wear and tear as with age (with the spine band loosely attached). Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Provenance; from the library of A.S.T. Fisher with the owner's bookplate and signature. Physical description; xxviii, 1116 p. : frontis. port., plates ; 24 cm. Notes; Frontispiece portrait engraved by Samuel Freeman. Printed in London by W. Clowes and Sons. Text printed i double columns. Subjects; Fielding, Henry (1707-1754). Genre; Illustrated. 2 Kg. New edition, illustrated by George Cruikshank.…

Hardcover. Zustand: vg to near fine. Quarto. Unpaginated. 46 pages. Half brown cloth over period chromolithographic illustrated paper boards. Illustrated title page. A collection of short stories and verse for children, illustrated throughout with numerous engraved full-page b/w images. No authors or illustrators are credited, although many of the engraved images contain artists initials in the frame. These include images by Henry Fitzcook (b.1824), J. Gadsby (John Gadsby, 1808-1889?), B. Fleming (Benjamin Fleming), T. Cobb, A. T. Elwes (Alfred Thomas Elwes, 1841-1917) and many others. Publisher's advertisements on the back cover. The publication date is not given, but based on the back cover, it seems to have been published some time around 1883. Binding with light rubbing to extremities. A few light scratches to the front cover, otherwise still quite clean an vibrant. back cover with a small stain near the top edge. Interior extremely clean save for a few instances of the most minor smudges to the margins of a few pages. Book block tight. Binding in very good, interior in near fine condition overall. Protected in modern mylar. Quite scarce.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Reprint. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 252. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered black on spine. Signed presentation, in pencil, from the author on the front endpaper, "with best wishes, Richmal Crompton." This book was bought from Nancy and Jill Anne Bowder, friends and correspondents of Richmal Crompton (they worked at Cyril Beaumont's Bookshop at 75 Charing Cross where R C was a customer) Some rubbing to lettering at spine, with spine skillfully rebacked and some wear and staining to covers, overall a used, sound, very good minus copy. Signedes. …

Zustand: Very Good-. New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., 1876. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xxxii,[33]-504pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Boards rather scuffed at extremities, fairly ubiquitous soil throughout textblock, stock uniformly toned; a Good to Very Good, sound example. Complete humoristic tales and vignettes by the American author and pal of Mark Twain's. …