marston j e (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [good solid copy, internally very clean, light shelfwear to bottom edge, slight fading to spine cloth, minor soiling to top edge, faint bookseller's stamp on front pastedown]. Novel about a London family just before, during, and after World War I.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Spine a little faded, and worn at foot. With the (discursive) bookplate of Darwin Edward Noel; ticket of Foyles, Charing Cross Road. "In the days when circumstances decreed that I should live in a battered cottage in the parish of Neuve Chapelle in company with three subalterns whose average age was nineteen years and seven months, and whose ideas - outside the theory and practice of gunnery - corresponded to their age, the arrival of Verney was in the nature of a mental tonic. He was twenty-seven, and but for the war would have been starting his career as a dilettante in the architect's profession, with means of his own and the leisure to enjoy them. The fact that he had put on uniform had not made him look like a soldier, still less feel like one. His hair was long but fluffy - not brushed back and greased according to the military fashion of the era - and he had a habit of running his fingers through it in such a way as to accentuate its fluffiness. He took no interest in the cut of his breeches, nor in the shade of polish his servant saw fit to use on his boots. He had a quiet voice, and a vague and rather wistful expression; he never swore, and he refrained from calling the enemy 'Huns' . . ." ("A Lost Soul"). Major Jeffery Eardley Marston (1887-1945) DSO MC, Royal Artillery, was also author as Jeffery E. Jeffery of Servants of the Guns (1917), Breaking Point (1921) and Escape (1922), among other titles. Darwin Edward Noel (1891-1972), during the war a captain in the Royal Artillery, was a second cousin twice removed of the author of On the Origin of Species.

8pp., 12mo. Two bifoliums, one loosely inserted in the other. Printed in red. In fair condition, on aged and lightly-stained paper. A tasteful Italianate design, with thick decorative borders containing flowers, birds, a cherub and a monkey. The last page ends with commendatory quotations from the Spectator and Times.

Hardcover. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition, Colonial issue (lightly stamped as such on the spine of the jacket). Faint name stamp of a noted collector on the front fly, small bookstore stamp, corners a bit bumped and scattered foxing, but still a very good or better copy in a lovely, near fine dustwrapper with minor wear. A novel by a former British officer of Welsh birth. Very scarce, especially in jacket.