Selected by david hughes (8 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good.

Hardback. Zustand: Fine. 1st thus. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Fine condition in Near Fine slipcase. Full-page Colour and in-text black & white illustrations by Paul Cox xiv, 290 pages. 22 short stories with contributions from Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Stella Gibbons, P.G. Wodehouse, Richmal Crompton, Dorothy Parker, Saki, O.Henry, Oscar Wilde, Damon Runyon, James Thurber, Elizabeth Bowen, Evelyn Waugh, Kingsley Amis, Murial Spark, Henry Lawson, Somerville and Ross, V.S. Pritchett, Stephen Leacock & W.W. Jacobs. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Quarterbound in navy blue cloth, hardback book, with marbled paper sides. No jacket or slipcase included. This lovely book is in excellent condition, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. It looks like the book has never been read or used. 445 pages all intact, all pages, text and illustrations are in excellent, clean readable order. Set in "Monotype" Baskerville by Gloucester Typesetting Services, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire. Printed in Great Britain, Frome by Butler & Tanner Ltd, on Corvo Laid paper and bound by them in quarter buckram with paper sides marbled by Ann Muir. Another truly wonderful book from The Folio Society.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Book Club Edition. SHORT STORIES BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY: FOLIO SOCIETY BOOK 1986, EIGHT PRINTING 1999, PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN. ERNEST HEMINGWAY: SELECTED AND WITH INTRODUCTION BY DAVID HUGHES, ILLUSTRATIONS BY IAN BECK. Quarter-bound in black coloured cloth, with decorative papers sides, comes with nice, clean red coloured boxed slipcase. Hardback book with gilt titles running along the spine, in excellent condition, it looks like the book has never been read or used. Normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. 273 pages all intact and nice tight binding. Set in twelve point Monotype Perpetua by Gloucester Typesetting Services, and printed by The Bath Press, Bath on Hamilton Wove Paper. Bound by The Bath Press in quarter cloth and paper sides printed with a design by Ian Beck. A fine book, from The Folio Society, that would grace any stylish library. IAN BECK (illustrator). …

Cloth & Decorative Boards. Zustand: Fine. 3rd Printing. Hardback.Introduction Brief Biographies with nice clean slipcase. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Folio Edition. Theses stories were first published by Jonathan cape Ltd 1986 this Folio Society was reprinted by kind permission also in 1986. The boards are quarter bound in cloth and paper sider printed with a designed by Ian Black., the text block is clean, square and tight. the slipcase has no blemishes and is intact. Book price includes 2nd class parcel post in UK only. Ian Beck. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Octavo, 65 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine red with black and white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$1.95." Heavy closed tearing with minor open tearing along edges of dust jacket. Rubbing to hinges. Adhesive residue on front cover. Light age toning and scuffing to dust jacket. Heavy bumping to top edge of front board. Textblock clean. Shelved in Case 3. Robert and Ann Doyle met Langston Hughes when Robert was at the Chicago Tribune's radio station WGN and he hosted Hughes for a broadcast hour. Robert Doyle served as the Time Shanghai bureau chief in 1948. One of the last evacuees from Nanking, he then established a bureau office in Hong Kong. He was killed in Java in April of 1950, and Hughes' was the first cable to arrive in Hong Kong for Ann. "Two Americans Are Found Slain On Jeep Journey in Central Java; One Victim Is R.J. Doyle of Time Magazine The Other Is Believed to Be Professor Raymond Kennedy of Yale" THE NEW YORK TIMES April 29, 1950, Page 3. 1419193. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. …