tompkins george (7 Ergebnisse)

8vo., cloth covered boards, hardcover, foreword by Selwyn Image, 87 pages; 21 color plates, lightly soiled and edgeworn covers otherwise a very good clean tight copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good +. Second edition. 9 x 12 in. Blue cloth boards with silver spine titles. B&W photos and facsimile letters. Condition is VERY GOOD ; no shelf ear, faint spot on front. Binding tight and text unmarked, with gift message on ffep. DJ is GOOD+ ; price-clipped, edges worn with chips and tears, overall faintly foxed. Letters. Stax.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 4to, 192pp, illustrated, clean and sound, no inscriptions, green cloth, spine faded, otherwise Very Good / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Frontispiece (illustrator). 1st Edition. Xov, 459 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. First Edition. Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant, No Marks.

unknown_binding. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Very good condition 1928 Tanning to edge of pages Appears unread, may have minor superficial marking. Next day dispatch from the UK (Mon-Fri). Please contact us with any queries.

Zustand: Good. First Edition. Eight leaves, title on page 1; last page blank. Old sewing on left blank margin; edges slightly frayed; page 1 lightly soiled; old signature of E.S. Metcalf.

First separate edition following its publication in Blackwood's Magazine. 8vo. 171x114mm. pp. 64, 8pp adverts. Original publisher's purple wrappers, somewhat faded and with tears to spine and the bottom outer corner torn from the lower cover. Some foxing but otherwise very good internally. Although not the first example of imaginary invasion literature (see previous item for that), The Battle of Dorking is the best known and was the most successful. It is "a short story about an imaginary invasion of the British Isles that had alarmed the nation, astonished Europe, pleased many readers in the United States, and established the tale of the war-to-come as a favourite means of presenting arguments for - or against - changes in the naval, military, or political arrangements of a country during the years from 1871 to 1914". (I.F.Clarke, The Battle of Dorking, 1871-1914 in Victorian Studies, Vol. 8, No 4 June 1965). As Clarke says, it was the "first hot story in the first cold war".