John maugham editor (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: VERY GOOD. First US printing. A collection of 66 pieces of writing spanning his entire career, including plays, fiction, essays, journalism, prefaces, and tributes to friends Color frontispiece portrait of Maugham. Appendices, 275 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder dot).

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First US Edition; First Printing. First American edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in alike dust-jacket with edgewear. Sticker residue to front end paper; This anthology of Maugham's shorter works includes both fiction and non-fiction, covering a wide range of topics from love to travel to the art of writing. It provides a unique opportunity to see the author's thoughts on a variety of topics over a period of nearly fifty years.; 8vo; 275 pages.…

Zustand: FINE. First US printing. A collection of 66 pieces of writing spanning his entire career, including plays, fiction, essays, journalism, prefaces, and tributes to friends Color frontispiece portrait of Maugham. Appendices, 275 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (as new, but with a remainder dot).…

Card Covers. Zustand: Very Good. None. Reprint. Learn by Drawing: Ocean Liners. One of a series designed to stimulate interest and creative ability. The user is expected to carefully copy out onto the blank graph pages, a square by square drawing of the illustration on the opposite page. All the pictures can be coloured with paint or coloured crayons. It is also possible to trace each illustration. The subjects chosen for this series touch upon the sidelines of history and geography usually encountered during school education. Ten plates to copy and the graph pages are still blank. Illustrated card covers. John Maugham (illustrator).…

Zustand: Good. Original stapled wrappers, softcover, b/w illustrations, unpaged, 4to.

First Edition. [Anthology of spy stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Elegantly hand-bound in half black calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands. Contents clean, edges a little dusty/toned. Exterior as new. Near fine, in an attractive recent leather binding. Contains an excerpt from Ian Fleming's James Bond novel 'Live and Let Die'. Fleming is also discussed at length within the introduction. This copy was specially bound for Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert (pencil ownership within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert, Jon. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, A2a, page 81.…