Published anonymously (42 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. 16mo. 96pp. Red cloth boards missing paper spine label. Very good with previous owner's signature on the front free endpaper with rubbing, foxing, and bumped spine ends and corners. Poems about World War I and its affect on the author.

Zustand: Poor. Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Medium 8vo with marbled boards and black leather half binding. Raised bands, gilt decoration and gilt lettering within two brown leather panels on backstrip. Some shelf wear including bumped corners. and an inch long tear in backstrip seam. Top of backstrip peeling away with some chipping. Marbled edges and end papers. Interior is secure, clean and clear save for some foxing. A few pages have some minor chipping. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near fine condition, small octavo, printed title and device of the Woodland Press (by Reginald Hallward) on grey boards, plain tan canvas spine, original tissue wrapper, title page also bears Woodland Press device, printed on hand made paper, errata slip present, foxing to outer edges, 44 pages. Early work published anonymously by the Woodland Press with later attributed works by Reginald Hallward. [Hallward gave Oscar Wilde the idea for Dorian Grey]. [GENERAL INFORMATION: Photographs available - please specify. Postage and packaging at cost based on average size book and surface post outside UK. Sets and heavy items may require additional postage charges: please contact us before ordering.]. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. 35pp. Illustrated with photographs. Stapled pictorial wrappers, the staples rusted, and the wrappers fractionally dust soiled, and with a little chafing to the natural fold. A very good copy. Prepared by Bates whilst he was serving at the Directorate of Public Relations at the Air Ministry. Eads A49. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 415pp. Blue cloth lettered and decorated in gold at the spine and with a blind-stamped vignette to the upper board. Tip of one corner knocked and the cloth at the backstrip and board margins a little tanned. Some spotting to the endpapers and occasional text leaf margins. Quite a bright copy, lacking the dust wrapper. A roman à clef of the thirties featuring thinly disguised versions of T. E. Lawrence (as 'G. B. Everest' ["my work was Snowdon to his Everest" - Williamson]), C. R. W. Nevinson ('Cahnnerson'), D. H. Lawrence ('David Torrence'), Siegfried Sassoon ('Sherston Savage'), Aldous Huxley ('Adolf Stucley'), T. S. Eliot ('P. S. Etiol)', John Galsworthy ('Holsworthy'), H. G. Wells ('Springs') and J. B. Priestley ('P. B. Bradford' - Priestley took considerable umbrage to his portrayal, taking his revenge in a review: "a great oozing slab of self-pity, bearing the wet trade-mark of Henry Williamson").…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. In excellent condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Very good condition, sextodecimo, rebound in full blue leather, four raised bands and titles stamped in gilt across spine, all edges gilt, new end papers, 273 pages. [neat penciled note on foot of table of contents re authorship.] [QP].

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Very good condition, medium octavo, red cloth blocked in black and gilt, light wear to spine extremities, top edges gilt, 282 pages. [QP.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Medium octavo, brown embossed cloth, wear to corners and spine extremities, title in gilt across spine, authorship on spine incorrectly attributed to Warburton, this edition was published anonymously, light water stain on each leaf, otherwise good,French bookseller's label on front end paper, x plus 232 pages. [QP].…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st edition. 8" x 5". iv + 382pp + [2] pp pub cat. Bookplate of previous owner on paste down fep. Sporadic foxing, else, very good hardback in publishers original blind and gilt stamped brown cloth.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Presumed First Edition. No stated date c1868. Presumed first edition. 160pp., frontispiece and 3 other black and white illustrations, and header and footer vignettes to each chapter. This is a story for the older child, set in France. The author is not stated but it is known to be Mary Elizabeth Gellie (1838-1919). She was born in Oxford, the daughter of chief clerk for the Admiralty John Marlett Boddy, and in 1877 she married Scottish landowner William Gellie. Before and after her marriage, Gellie wrote several novels aimed at young adult readers. The book is bound in the original green cloth covered boards with titling against a gold background and black designs on the spine and black titling and designs with a gold illustration on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and light soiling to the boards and bumping to the spine ends and top corners. There is a light dent near the top of the front board and the spine is very slightly cocked. The contents are tight and clean apart from some scattered small marks and stains from finger smudges, etc., and a few more noticeable small stains on pages 9 to 11. The back of the frontispiece, last page and the free endpapers are browned and there are remains of a partly removed school prize label on the front fixed endpaper. There is some partial splitting down the spine gutter of the endpapers.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. First Thus. First thus. Small hardback, two volumes (complete). Rebound in plain publisher's cloth with gilt titling to spines. Each 15.5 × 11cm, 302pp + 302pp. The first novel from Eleanor Frances Poynter, the daughter of architect Ambrose Poynter, and sister of translator Clara Bell (1834-1927), painter Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919), and author Harrietta May Poynter. Condition: A good reading copy. The cloth is faded and bumped a little to the corners with some light fraying to the joints. Internally, the pages are tanned with a little marginal loss to the first few pages but not affecting text. The inner binding is secure. Previous owner's nameplate to both books (John Foster; but I don't know if this is the John Foster who was a literary critic, close friend of Charles Dickens, and owner of a large library.).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: n No Jacket. n New Edition. London: Chapman & Hall, 1876. Book. Poor. Half Bound in Blue Leather. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Novel. Blue leather spine and corners over marbled boards, marbled endpapers and page edges. Five raised bands to spine with gilt design. Gilt title on red labels to segments 2 & 3. 432pp. Boards detached. Rubbing to spine, edges and corners, bottom section of backstrip detached and two sections loose. Text block good, uninscribed copy, but binding poor. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: n No Jacket. n New Edition. London: Smith Elder & Co, 1872. Book. Poor. Half Bound in Blue Leather. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Collection of stories by the author of 'John Halifax, Gentleman', Blue leather spine and corners over marbled boards, marbled endpapers and page edges. Five raised bands to spine with gilt design. Gilt title on red labels to segments 2 & 3. 382pp. Boards detached. Rubbing to spine, edges and corners. Text block good, uninscribed copy, but binding poor. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 415pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped decoration, repeated in blind to the upper board. Edges and endpapers spotted and with a little further spotting to a dozen preliminary and concluding leaves, and to occasional leaves throughout. A good copy in spotted, toned, torn and nicked price-clipped dust wrapper, split into two parts at the rear panel-spine panel join and, an inch of loss from the head of the front panel and several smaller areas of loss. A celebrated roman à clef of the thirties, with the added frisson of anonymity. Featuring thinly disguised versions of T. E. Lawrence (as 'G. B. Everest' ["my work was Snowdon to his Everest" - Williamson]), C. R. W. Nevinson, D. H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Aldous Huxley, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, Thomas Washington Metcalfe and J. B. Priestley. (Priestley took considerable umbrage to his portrayal, taking his revenge in a review: "a great oozing slab of self-pity, bearing the wet trade-mark of Henry Williamson").…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of this anonymous collection of Great War poems by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland, author and journalist more widely known now for the small role he played in events following Oscar Wilde's trial and imprisonment (with Lord Alfred Douglas he persecuted Robbie Ross in the civil courts in a variety of actions and the two unsuccessfully sued Arthur Ransome for libelling Douglas in his 1912 book on Wilde). Small 8vo. 95pp. Red cloth with a tanned and just a little chipped paper spine label. Cloth chafed, dust marked and a little soiled, but, bar some tanning to the half-title and final text leaf, a nice crisp copy internally. Forty-two poems, several of which originally appeared in newspapers and periodicals with the remainder printed here for the first time. Reilly p. 100.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. An early edition (originally issued in 1833). viii + 563pp. Original publisher's brown embossed cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to the backstrip. With a hand-colour lithographic frontispiece, a tinted title page decoration and numerous black and white vignettes throughout. A dusty copy, quite nicked at the spine ends, the hinges tender but secure and with some quite severe foxing to the preliminary leaves, otherwise really quite bright internally. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. 1838. Two titles bound and published as one. Third thousand (Three Experiments) and possible first UK edition (Elinor Fulton). 106pp. plus a 2-page catalogue; 116pp. (each work has its own title-page). Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (1780-1865) was an American author, best known for her 1837 novelette 'Three Experiments of Living' which was published in more than 30 editions in the United States, and 10 in England. It was soon followed by the sequel 'Elinor Fulton'. Three Experiments of Living explores three different approaches to living: living within the means, living up to the means, and living beyond the means. Lee presents these three experiments as a way of examining the different ways people approach their lives and their finances. In the first experiment, living within the means, the author advocates for a simple and frugal lifestyle. This means living within one's financial limits and avoiding unnecessary expenses. The second experiment, living up to the means, involves a more moderate approach. This means living comfortably but not extravagantly, and making sure to save for the future. The third experiment, living beyond the means, is a cautionary tale about the dangers of overspending and living beyond one's financial limits. Lee provides examples and anecdotes to illustrate each of these three experiments. She also offers practical advice on budgeting, saving, and managing money. The book is bound in the original green cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with expected shelf wear and some soiling to the boards. The bottom corners and spine ends are bumped. The contents are tight and clean with a handwritten school presentation inscription, dated 1885, on the front free endpaper.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 415pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped decoration, repeated in blind to the upper board. Top edge lightly dust soiled and with a tiny area of spotting to the fore edge. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown. Very good indeed non-price-clipped dust wrapper, split into two parts at the rear panel-spine panel fold, considerably tanned at the spine panel, and with some nicking and several slivers of edge-loss. A celebrated roman à clef of the thirties, with the added frisson of anonymity. Featuring thinly disguised versions of T. E. Lawrence (as 'G. B. Everest' ["my work was Snowdon to his Everest" - Williamson]), C. R. W. Nevinson, D. H. Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Aldous Huxley, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, Thomas Washington Metcalfe and J. B. Priestley. (Priestley took considerable umbrage to his portrayal, taking his revenge in a review: "a great oozing slab of self-pity, bearing the wet trade-mark of Henry Williamson").…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: n No Jacket. n. London: Hurst & Blackett, Publishers Book. Illus. by W Small. Fair. Half Bound in Blue Leather. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Novel, undated edition. Blue leather spine and corners over marbled boards, marbled endpapers and page edges. Five raised bands to spine with gilt design. 359pp illustrated with engraving of Edna and Letty, attributed to W Small, to frontis. Rubbing to spine, edges and corners, title rubbed off, minor loss to tail of backstrip and evidence of damp damage to early pages, otherwise fair uninscribed copy. W Small (illustrator). Book.…

Calf. Zustand: Very Good. Eighth Edition. 211 pages, beautifully bound in green calf, blind-stamping decoration with black lining and ornamentation to boards, spine with raised bands, black design and title in gilt, gilt decoration to inner dentelles, all edges gilt with dicing, a very neat pleasing binding, early gift inscription to first free endpaper.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition of his anonymous Great War story, probably his third book. This copy inscribed by the author at the head of the half-title and dated 1918 (the name of the recipient partially erased). Small 8vo. 108pp + [xvi] publisher's advertisements at the rear. Card wrappers, lettered in red and black at the upper wrapper and title page. With a frontispiece drawing by Jean Lefort. The first gathering a little tender and some tears to the fore edges where they have been inexpertly cut. Paperstock a little tanned. A nice bright example of a fragile production, handsomely enhanced by Géraldy's near-contemporary signature. Text in French. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good - See Description. Presumed First Edition. 1755. Presumed first edition. [vi] (no half-title), xx, 296pp. The author of this book is not stated on the title-page but we understand it to be Robert Keith (1681-1757), a Scottish Episcopal bishop and historian. In this book he details the Bishops of the Sees of Scotland up to the year 1688. These include St. Andrews, Edinburgh, Dunkeld, Aberdeen, Moray, Brechin, Dunblane, Ross, Caithness, Glasgow, and the Isles. There is also an alphabetical Table of the parishes in Scotland, with the names of the shire, etc. At the end of the book is An Account of all the religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation, with its own title-page. The book is bound in later (probably mid to late 20th century) dark blue cloth covered boards with a brown leather spine and gold titling on a leather label on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with light shelf wear to the boards and some damp marking on up to about 2" of the fore edge of the front board and about 3/4" of the fore edge of the rear board. There is a dark stain on the top of the spine and a smaller stain just above the title label. The contents are tight and clean apart from a few expected scattered small marks and a larger stain near the fore edge of pages 62 to 66. The first and last few pages are foxed, including the title-page. The title-page also has some soiling and traces of old erased names near the top edge and there is a crease running down most of the page near the spine edge.…

Zustand: VG/--. Small 8vo. 335+(4 publisher's ads.) pp. With a few wood-engr. plts./ills. (incl. frontisp.). Hardcover. Or. blind-stamped dark brown cloth, gilt decor. spine. (Spine ends & corners sl. dam.; lib. label (1872) on pastedown with stamp "released 1967", few scattered stamps).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: n No Jacket. y 21st Edition. London: Hurst & Blackett, Publishers Book. Illus. by J E Millais. Fair. Half Bound in Blue Leather. 21st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Novel, first published in 1857. Undated edition. Blue leather spine and corners over marbled boards, marbled endpapers and page edges. Five raised bands to spine with gilt design. 430pp illustrated with engraving of Ursula March, attributed to Millais, to frontis. Rubbing to spine, edges and corners, title rubbed off and minior loss to head and tail of backstrip, otherwise fair/good uninscribed copy. J E Millais (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. London: The Bazaar Office, 1873. Undated, gift notation dated 1873, likely first edition. Illustrated with engravings. royal blue cloth printed in black, frontis engraving of a Screw Cutting and General Lathe, 120 page plus engraving of the Clarendon Lathe, three pages of advertisements. Covers rubbed, especially at the extremities, with fraying to spine ends, front hinge partially internally cracked but very secure, text block sound, endpapers unevenly age-toned, gift notation from 1873 on front free endpaper, more modern names stamps inside front cover, pages clean and otherwise unmarked. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Two volumes, complete in four parts bound together (Vols. 1-2 and 3-4). Small Octavo / Duodecimo format (approx. 17 cm x 10 cm / 6.75" x 4"). Bound in a classic 19th-century utility half-binding configuration: smooth dark calf/sheepskin leather spines over beautifully vibrant multicolored marbled or mottled paper-covered boards. Spines feature elegant horizontal gilt rule bands and bright, crisp gilt-stamped lettering reading "CAROLINE DE LICHTEFIELD" [sic] along with part indicators (1=2 and 3=4). An incredibly early, exceptionally well-preserved contemporary edition of Baronne de Montolieu's milestone epistolary romance novel. First appearing in Lausanne earlier that same year, the book was an immediate pan-European sensation, frequently printed under the moniker "Publié par le Traducteur de Werther" to capitalize on the massive popularity of Goethe's style. A highly collectible presentation of an influential piece of late 18th-century French-language romantic literature. An excellent, tight, and highly legible text block printed on sturdy 18th-century cream paper stock. Includes a fine woodcut vignette to the title pages of each part, structural woodcut headpieces, and decorative drop-cap initials introducing the narrative text. Notably includes the foundational Voltaire epigraph ("Idole d'un cœur juste.") from Mélanges de Poésie facing the opening leaf of the novel. An authentic contemporary ink signature ("Naudo") resides neatly on the title page of the parts. Interior leaves show occasional localized, gentle browning and very light scattered foxing or minor spotting. All images are photographed in natural light, no lights used to enhance colour or diminish shadows. Registered postage. Tracking details will be forwarded to the purchaser.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page and dated 1942. 8vo. xv, 363pp. Reddy-brown cloth with a paper spine label (and a spare tipped-in at the rear). The cloth lightly faded at the backstrip, and with a small enclosed split to the head of the upper joint, which just impacts the spine label. Top edge lightly dust soiled, and the free endpapers very lightly toned and spotted. A very good copy in lightly dust soiled price-clipped dust wrapper, with several centimetres of corresponding loss to the head of the front panel-spine panel join, and a little accompanying creasing. The author's second book, the humorous fictional diary of a west end draper, presumably inspired by his own experiences managing the family draper business. The format of the present work is not dissimilar to the author's first book, 'The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller' (1931). The rear panel of this present dust wrapper includes some reviews of his previous effort, my personal favourite being "Badly presented, poorly edited.the outpourings of a genius". Sir William Young Darling (1885-1962) was the Unionist Member of Parliament in the House of Commons for the Edinburgh South constituency from 1945 to 1957, and also director of the Royal Bank of Scotland over roughly the same period. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. Pp. 192. Attractive woodcut vignette on titlepage of the iron bridge, contemporary marbled calf. Lacking spine label, hinges split, extremities rubbed, owner's name on front pastedown. The book consists of a miscellany of short pieces. Those lettered "B" have been attributed to Robert Barnard, the editor also refers to passages lettered "J.M" as being original contributions by "an author the public well knows how to appreciate". This is probably James Montgomery. Binding is hardcover.…

hardcover. Zustand: very good(+). 353 pages, 12mo, full mottled calf, ornately gilt spine, red edges. Amsterdam, 1749. A very good(+) copy.