Nellie kirkham (11 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Good condition first edition hardback with dust jacket. Light wear and minor loss to jacket with wear to boards. Foxing to textblock with neat inscription to front endpapers with main text in good clean condition.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Zustand: Good. 1948. First Published. 101 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to half-title page. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Dent to bottom edge of front board.…

Zustand: Good. 1949. Reprint. 101 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Inscription to front endpaper. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. The clipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Front flap is missing, considerable loss to spine.…

Zustand: Good. 1968. First Edition. 132 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Light creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Light crushing to spine ends. Minor marks to boards. Clipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Noticeable sunning to spine. Minor rubbing to surfaces.…

Hardcover. Zustand: VG. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG-. 1st. Important history of the Derbyshire lead mines. 132pp, illustrated. VG copy in slightly faded dust wraper.

Reprint. Facsimile copy of 1949 booklet; not dated but appears recent. Stains on cover actually copies of original booklet, not actual marks! Staples fast; pages white and clean. 24 pages. Used - Very Good. VG stapled paperback.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Dust jacket is price clipped and covered in clear protective plastic. Foxing/tanning to end papers and page edges. Previous owners name on front end paper.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy cloth covers, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains [vi] 132 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with sun fading of the red to the spine, not price clipped 30s. Dust wrapper without any tears or chips and supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MINING & GEOLOGY.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Four illustrated volumes from the Vision of England series, including Black Country, Derbyshire, Isle of Wight & Sussex. Black Country by Walter Allen, 1946 Illustrated with drawings, watercolour and photographs, some of which are in colour. With fold out map to the rear. Collated complete. A guide to the Black Country and Birmingham. Written by Walter Allen, an English literary critic and novelist and one of the Birmingham Group of authors. Derbyshire by Nellie Kirkham, 1947 Illustrated with drawings, watercolour and photographs, some of which are in colour. With fold out map to the rear. Collated complete. A guide to Derbyshire and its towns and industries. Written by Nellie Kirkham. Isle of Wight by Aubrey de Selincourt, 1948 Illustrated with drawings and photographs, some of which are in colour. With fold out map to the rear. Collated complete. A guide to the Isle of Wight, its divisions, and coasts. Written by Aubrey de Selincourt, an English writer, classical scholar, and translator. Sussex by Reginald Turner, 1957 Illustrated with drawings and photographs, some of which are in colour. With fold out map to the rear. Collated complete. A guide to Sussex the "most English" of counties. Written by Reginald Turner, an English author, an aesthete and a member of the circle of Oscar Wilde. In the original paper covered card bindings. Externally, smart with light shelf wear only. Original unclipped dust wrappers also smart with light shelf wear and minor chipping. The Isle of Wight volume has more wear and the odd closed tear. Internally, firmly bound. All volume pages are bright and clean with light age toning to the end papers. Very Good. None (illustrator). book. …

FIRST EDITION, some text printed in brown (see below), pp. x, 263, crown 8vo, original green cloth, lettered in white to backstrip and upper board, lean to spine, 'transmatic' dustjacket with a design printed in cream to the glassine of front panel (see below), the printed paper flaps including the blurb by Edmund Blunden (see below), a little chipped to backstrip panel, publisher's letter regarding this book laid in (citing Blunden and C.E.M. Joad), very good. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, at time of publication: 'To Sylva and Edmund, with much love and deep gratitude, for their friendship and unfailing encouragement, from Nellie, March 1935'. The recipients were Sylva Norman and her husband Edmund Blunden, whose endorsement of this, Kirkham's debut novel, occupies the rear flap. Kirkham was a Derbyshire author and illustrator; this is an ambitious work, set in her home county, which uses J.W. Dunne's 'Experiment with Time' as the basis of its narrative - the coevalness of present and past represented by the printing of the text in black and brown for the respective time periods. The printed 'transmatic' jacket, an experiment that the publisher explored for a few books around this time, carries a wood-engraved design that is not signed - other examples from Cresset featured the work of Gertrude Hermes and John Farleigh, and the fore-grounding of the hand in the cover-illustration of this novel may encourage attribution to the former.…